Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose & Bill Maher. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1. The mega best seller A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Marianne is the founder of Sister Giant, an annual conference dedicated to forging a deeper conversation about what is happening in America today – and what we can do to change it. Speakers have included Senator Bernie Sanders, Thom Hartmann, Jean Houston, Robert Thurman, and many more. The event is livestreamed.

Marianne’s other books include:

• The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
• Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
• Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
• A Woman’s Worth
• Illuminata: A Return to Prayer
• Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens
• A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever
• The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life
• A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections
• Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. To date, Project Angel Food has served over 10 million meals.  Marianne also co-founded the Peace Alliance. And she serves on the Board of Directors of the RESULTS organization, working to end the worst ravages of hunger and poverty throughout the world.

According to Time magazine, “Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity.”

Website: marianne.com

Marianne gives weekly talks in New York City, based on A Course in Miracles … every Tuesday night at 7:30pm, at Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue and West 29th Street. The talks are Live Streamed and so are available to everyone, everywhere. Register at marianne.com.

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Interview recorded January 7, 2017

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YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:02:59 – Marianne’s View on Politics and Spirituality
• 00:05:50 – The Symbolic Three Days and Forty Years
• 00:08:30 – Addressing the Suffering of Other Sentient Beings
• 00:11:12 – The Path of the Heart
• 00:13:30 – Correlation of Spirituality with Politics
• 00:16:02 – The Mistake Hillary Made
• 00:18:42 – Navigating the Dark Night of the Soul
• 00:21:03 – The Spiritual Responsibility to Heal the Nation and the World
• 00:23:43 – The Need for Change and Persistence
• 00:26:13 – The Impact of the Healing Crisis
• 00:28:31 – Love and Leadership in the Spiritual Community
• 00:31:06 – The Power of Love and Political Activism
• 00:33:36 – Inner Work and Public Engagement
• 00:36:17 – Collaboration and the Great Resistance
• 00:38:44 – The Game of Economic Disparity
• 00:41:44 – The Desire for Entrepreneurship and Capitalism Among College Students
• 00:44:20 – Tapping into Our Inner Resource
• 00:46:51 – Emotional Discipline in Great Athletes
• 00:49:41 – Hope and Optimism in a Troubled World
• 00:52:06 – The Fall of Empires and Depletion of Resources
• 00:54:50 – The Possibility of Bernie Winning
• 00:57:24 – The Transition to an Enlightened Society
• 01:00:01 – Responding to Exxon and the Need for Action
• 01:02:49 – Psychotherapy’s Failure to Provide Comfort and Inspiration
• 01:05:30 – The Desensitization to Suffering
• 01:07:59 – Connecting with Inner Happiness through Meditation
• 01:10:33 – The Power of Meditation and Eclectic Practices
• 01:13:10 – Dwelling within the Darkness
• 01:15:43 – Embracing the Possibility
• 01:18:14 – J.P. Sears and Ultra-Spirituality

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Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.

Andrew Harvey has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as at various spiritual centers throughout the U.S. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic and appears also in Rumi Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness Of The Christ: Reclaiming Jesus for a New Humanity. He has also worked with the great Iranian Sufi dancer, Banafsheh Sayyad, in producing a film, In the Fire of Grace, which marries Sufi inspired dances to the stages of Rumi’s understanding of the path of Divine love.

He has written and edited over 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.

Website: andrewharvey.net

Some of Andrew’s many books:

• Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe
• The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism
• Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action
• Light the Flame: 365 Days of Prayer

Movie referred to during the interview: A Human Search: The Life of Father Bede Griffiths (1993)

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 1/25/2016

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction and Welcome
• 00:04:48 – Returning to the Sources of My Childhood
• 00:08:24 – Mystical Experiences and Life Changes
• 00:11:34 – The Purpose of Our Souls’ Work
• 00:14:54 – The Transforming Power of Love
• 00:18:22 – The Dark Night: A Process of Divinization
• 00:21:27 – Embracing the Depths of the Shadow
• 00:24:44 – The Urgency of Preparing for Evolutionary Shattering
• 00:29:39 – The Marriage of Opposites
• 00:35:12 – The Marriage of Mission and Heart
• 00:39:34 – The Power of Love in the World
• 00:43:37 – Networks of Grace and Radical Social Work
• 00:48:43 – The Paradigm of Deep Cooperation and Collaboration
• 00:53:56 – Creating an Alternate Reality
• 00:59:03 – The Transformation of Birthing the Divine in the Human
• 01:03:43 – The Power of Unconditional Forgiveness
• 01:08:24 – Changing the World Through Collective Action
• 01:13:20 – The Process of Transformation through Divine Self
• 01:18:55 – The Price of Spiritual Awakening
• 01:23:36 – Gratitude and Appreciation for a Difficult Breakup
• 01:27:46 – Abusive Power in Spiritual Circles
• 01:31:08 – The Modulation of Softness and Flexibility
• 01:34:36 – Mystical Christianity and Hinduism-Buddhism Integration
• 01:38:21 – Finding Grace in Everyday Joys
• 01:42:23 – The Endless Evolution of Enlightenment
• 01:46:38 – Enlightenment and the Sacrifice of Ramana Maharshi
• 01:49:30 – Cultivating Humility through Practices
• 01:53:00 – The Dance Between Light and Dark
• 01:56:39 – The Primordial Love Relationship
• 01:59:24 – Life well-lived in progress
• 02:02:28 – Free resources and ongoing project

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Adam Bucko is an activist, spiritual director to many of New York City’s homeless youth, and co-author of a new award-winning book called “Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation (Sacred Activism)“.

He grew up in Poland during the totalitarian regime and spent his early years exploring the anarchist youth movement as a force for social and political change. At the age of 17, Adam immigrated to America where his desire to find his path towards a meaningful life led him to monasteries in the US and India. His life-defining experience took place in India, where on his way to a Himalayan hermitage, he met a homeless child who lived on the streets of Delhi. This brief encounter led him to the “Ashram of the Poor” where he began his work with homeless youth. After returning to the US, he worked on the streets of various American cities with young people struggling against homelessness and prostitution. He eventually co-founded The Reciprocity Foundation, an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of New York City’s homeless youth.

In addition to his work with homeless youth, Adam established HAB, an ecumenical and inter-spiritual “new monastic” fellowship for young people which offers formation in radical spirituality and sacred activism.

He collaborates with spiritual leaders across religious traditions and mentors young people, helping them discover a spiritual life in the 21st century and how to live deeply from the heart in service of compassion and justice.

Adam is a recipient of several awards and his work has been featured by ABC News, CBS, NBC, New York Daily News, National Catholic Reporter, Ode Magazine, Yoga International Magazine and Sojourner Magazine.

Huffington Post Articles by Adam

Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded 10/23/2015 at the Science and Nonduality Conference.

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YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump interview
• 00:02:20 – Spiritual Activism and the “Gandhis” of Poland
• 00:04:08 – Building an Altar at Home
• 00:05:50 – The Peaceful Revolution in Poland
• 00:07:54 – Finding Solace in an Ashram
• 00:09:24 – Spiritual Practice in India
• 00:10:41 – Combining Contemplative Practice with Social Justice
• 00:12:29 – Falling in Love with Life for Spiritual Awakening
• 00:14:04 – The Illusion of the World
• 00:15:33 – The Framework of the Spiritual Journey
• 00:17:07 – Responsibility to Help the World
• 00:18:45 – The value of service and surrender
• 00:20:45 – The Benefit of Serving Others
• 00:22:33 – Being an Instrument of the Divine in Helping the Poor
• 00:24:25 – Being Present in a State of Curious Not-Knowing
• 00:26:19 – Restructuring Life and Developing a Rule of Life
• 00:28:12 – Remembering True Nature and Creating a Loving Space
• 00:29:43 – “Church” and the Transformation of Homelessness
• 00:31:41 – The Starfish Story
• 00:32:40 – Letting go of the Need for Results
• 00:34:30 – The Teachings on Service
• 00:36:04 – The Center as a Family
• 00:37:44 – The Plight of Homeless Youth and Funding Challenges
• 00:39:23 – Praying and the Metamorphosis
• 00:41:47 – Seeing God in Others
• 00:43:59 – Serving as an instrument of the Divine
• 00:45:28 – Working with Homeless Kids and the New Monasticism
• 00:47:20 – The Primary Spiritual Question for Young People
• 00:48:53 – Hope and Movement
• 00:50:13 – Rescheduling due to a power outage caused by a squirrel
• 00:51:35 – Next Interview and Donation Button

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