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Updating Ancient Teachings for Our Time Summary: This conversation explores the role of direct experience, humility, and honest inquiry in spiritual life. It also looks at the value of living teachers, small groups, and updating ancient teachings...

504. Kate Gustin

Psychologists/Therapists

No-Self, Trauma, and the Illusion of Self Summary: This conversation explores how spiritual insight and psychological practice can illuminate the illusion of self. It also looks at trauma, attention, compassion, and the practical ways a no-self...

503. Kylea Taylor

Ethics

InnerEthics, Harm Reduction, and Spiritual Integrity Summary: This conversation explores ethics in spiritual and therapeutic work, especially when people are in vulnerable or non-ordinary states of consciousness. It also looks at harm reduction,...

502. Michael Pollan and Chris Bache

Psychedelics/Entheogens

Psychedelics, Collective Consciousness, and the Future Human Summary: This conversation explores psychedelics as catalysts for healing, insight, and profound changes in consciousness. It also looks at the relationship between mystical experience,...

501. Daniel Schmidt

Kundalini Awakening, No-Self, and Samadhi Summary: This conversation explores a powerful kundalini awakening, the fear and transformation that can accompany ego dissolution, and the role meditation plays in stabilizing Questions This Interview...

500. Dani Antman

Tantra/Kundalini

Kundalini Awakening, Kabbalah, and the Subtle Body Summary: This conversation explores a gradual spiritual awakening shaped by Kundalini, Kabbalah, and deep work with the subtle body. It also looks at trauma healing, discernment with spiritual...

499. Giovanni Dienstmann

Creative Artists/Musicians

Meditation Practice, Neo-Advaita, and Discernment Summary: This conversation explores the value of meditation practice, comparing different spiritual paths, and the importance of discernment in choosing teachings. It also examines neo-Advaita,...

498. Nancy Neithercut

Awakening, No Self, and the Illusion of Separation Summary: A conversation about a sudden awakening that dissolved the sense of separation, self, and even “thingness.” The discussion also explores the long period of seeking that preceded it, and...

497. Peter Panagore

NDE/Other Side

Rev. Peter Panagore, M.Div (Yale) has had two near-death experiences, the first while ice climbing in 1980 and the second in 2015 due to a heart attack. He recounts these in his book Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the...

495. Anna Breytenbach

Animal Communicators

Anna Breytenbach is a South African-based professional animal communicator who has received advanced training through the Assisi International Animal Institute in California, USA. She’s been practicing for 18 years in South Africa, Europe and the...

494. Damien Echols

Damien Echols is an artist and New York Times bestselling author of "Life After Death". In 2018, he published his first book on ceremonial magick: "High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row". He has been a...

493. Rev. Bill McDonald

Devotional, Divine Mother, Heart-based

Rev. Bill’s life has been a spiritual journey, spanning slightly over 7 decades. His whole life has been a mystical trip in search of gurus, the paranormal, and self-discovery. He has written about his many spiritually transformative experiences...

492. Tina Rasmussen

Buddhist/Zen/Mindfulness

After 20+ years of Buddhist and non-dual practice, in 2003 Tina Rasmussen, Ph.D., undertook a year-long solo retreat during which awakening occurred. She later ordained as a Buddhist nun with a world-renowned meditation master, became the first...

491. Mark Gober

Scientists/Research

Mark Gober is a best-selling author, a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, a former investment banker with UBS in New York, and former captain of the Princeton tennis team. His worldview was turned upside down in late 2016 when...

490. Prasannan

Hindu/Vedic

Prasannan had a fascination for Astronomy from an early age, having built his own telescope, and spent his teenage years studying the stars and planets. He was the president of the Astronomy, and Photography Clubs in high school. He always...

489. Miranda Macpherson, 2nd Interview

Miranda Macpherson began her spiritual journey at the age of thirteen when, amidst a period of clinical depression, she was spontaneously opened into a profound state of boundless love. That experience initiated a lifelong dedication to spiritual...

488. Judy Cohen

Judy Cohen is a former clinical psychologist, former serial entrepreneur, former depressed, anxious, anti-depressant-taking, suicidal despairer. She used to be a seeker of Self Improvement. She used to be a Certified Facilitator of The Work of...

487. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian

Hindu/Vedic

Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian is a meditation teacher, an award-winning poet, writer, and the spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment—a Kriya Yoga Meditation Center with headquarters in San Jose, California. She has taught...

486. Myree Morsi

Creative Artists/Musicians

Myree Morsi (MA) is a spiritual and energetic healer, counselor and coach who specializes in supporting people with Kundalini, awakening and the embodiment of consciousness. Myree was psychic and naturally shamanic since early childhood. She...

485. Courtney Amundson

Courtney began her path as a seeker at a young age, progressing to the point that these teachings began to flow through her, effortlessly and with complete love and joy, starting at age 16. In the beginning, the wisdom was received for her own...

484. Ishtar (Thomas Howell)

Ishtar (Thomas Howell) is a meditation teacher, Ishaya monk, gardener, writer, and intuitive astrologer. A sense of himself as Presence was a pronounced feature of his life until about age 7. At age 13, he was in a car accident that took his...

483. Thomas Hübl, 2nd Interview

Rick Speaking or Being Interviewed

Thomas Hübl is a modern mystic, spiritual teacher, author, and systems-thinker. His work integrates the essence of the great wisdom traditions, scientific knowledge, and his own personal experience. Thomas offers a unique approach to life as a...

482.2 Ethics and Spiritual Teaching Panel

Ethics

With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer Questioning whether higher consciousness and ethical behavior are tightly correlated. The founding of the Association for Spiritual Integrity (formerly the Association of...

482.1 The Ethics of Teacher-Student Romantic Relationships

Ethics

With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer The Association for Spiritual Integrity does not have a moralistic, judgmental orientation. It’s a community endeavor. We don’t agree among ourselves on certain points. We’re...

481. David Buckland, 2nd Interview

Awakening / Self-Inquiry

David grew up on the SW coast of Canada. He began witnessing full time during a 6-month retreat in the mid-'70s then the lights came on and celestial perception began. It soon became clear that Self was awake within but had not woken up to Itself...

480. Sean Webb

Scientists/Research

As the author of a book that was used to influence millions of voters in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election through social media disinformation campaigns (without his knowledge), Sean Webb probably knows the human mind as well as anyone can....

479. Rick Archer SAND Conference Q&A & Shakti Caterina Maggi Interviews Rick

This video contains my Question and Answer session at the 2018 Science and Nonduality conference. and also an interview of me by Shakti Caterina Maggi, an Italian spiritual teacher who used to be a journalist. My SAND Q&A includes the...

478. Sandra Ingerman

Shamanic/Indigenous

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is an award-winning author of twelve books, including: Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins, Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a...

477. Rupert Sheldrake

Scientists/Research

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 12 books, including Science Set Free and Science and Spiritual Practices. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Know Fellow at...

476. Leanne Whitney

Devotional, Divine Mother, Heart-based

Leanne Whitney Ph.D. is an independent scholar in the fields of depth psychology and consciousness studies. She specializes in the intersection of Western psychology and the Eastern liberatory traditions. For over twenty-five years Leanne has...

475. Maury Lee

Nonduality

Maury Lee was raised on three continents. He was the oldest son of Baptist missionaries. The oldest son since the sixteenth century had been a minister. Maury Lee turned out to be the black sheep. Even as a small child he felt that something was...

474. Bonnie Greenwell, 2nd Interview

Tantra/Kundalini

Bonnie Greenwell Ph.D. is a transpersonal psychotherapist and non-dual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti. After her kundalini awakening in graduate school, she wrote a dissertation and book on the kundalini process. In 2003 she met Adyashanti...

473. John Butler

Awakening / Self-Inquiry

Childhood accustomed me to nature, solitude - a sense of God which needed no explaining. Stillness, beauty, depths of love called my heart back home where it belonged. But life grew out into the world, became possessed and lost the way. After a...

472. Steve Briggs

As a teenager, Steve Briggs met his guru at a meditation retreat in the Swiss Alps. After studying English Literature at the University of Arizona on a tennis scholarship, the author received an MBA and a Ph.D. in Vedic Studies and traveled...

471. Rob Schwartz

NDE/Other Side

Rob Schwartz is a hypnotist who offers Spiritual Guidance Sessions, Past Life Soul Regressions, Contact a Deceased Loved One Regressions, and Between Lives Soul Regressions to help you heal and discover your life plan - a plan you yourself...

470. Sarah Taylor

Sarah Taylor is an awakening trail guide, intuitive energy healer, and creative mystic who began her search as an anxious insomniac simply hoping to sleep. But really, she was a truth seeker. Through a dedicated Buddhist meditation practice, a...

469. Jean Houston

Dr. Jean Houston, Ph.D., is a scholar, philosopher, educator and a recognized pioneer of the Human Potential Movement. Widely recognized as a visionary leader and multi-cultural expert, Houston is the author of over 30 books exploring human...

468. Suzanne B. Stryker, Ph.D.

Healers

Suzanne B. Stryker, Ph.D. is an intuitive healer, artist, writer and teacher. She has always tended to have profound spiritual experiences. For over 45 years Suzanne has experienced unity, with divine and Vedic perceptions. Yet she does not claim...

467. Steve McIntosh

Integral Philosophy

Steve McIntosh is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and author of three books on spiritual evolution: The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, Evolution's Purpose: An Integral...

466. Karlene Stange, DVM

Animal Communicators

As a child, Karlene Stange, DVM wanted to be an "animal doctor" before she knew the word "veterinarian". Her spiritual journey began as she drove her pickup loaded with medical supplies to attend to animals throughout southwestern Colorado. As an...

465. Paul Levy

A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He is the author of Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science...

464. William Meader

Spiritual Activism/Service

An influential and respected teacher of The Esoteric Philosophy, William Meader has established an international reputation for his gift as a communicator of this spiritual philosophy. His extensive teaching program includes a diverse array of...

463. Kosi, 2nd Interview

Ramana-based

Kosi is a Direct Path Advaita Vedanta Satsang Teacher in the Śiva Kaśyapa Lineage. This teaching is powerful support for a dynamic shift in your consciousness from the fear, sadness, anger, anxiety, and frustration of your mind to the...

462. Dena Merriam

Dena Merriam has been working in the interfaith field for 20 years and founded the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) in 2002. Initially, the organization was designed to provide a global platform for women spiritual leaders to organize and...

460. James O’Dea

Spiritual Activism/Service

James O’Dea is the award-winning author of The Conscious Activist, Cultivating Peace, Soul Awakening Practice, and other works. James is a former President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Washington office director of Amnesty International,...

459. Pamela Eakins