Listen now (59 mins) | “One of the things about practices that I love is this notion of it's not perfect. I haven't got it mastered, just by the very word, it's implied that I'm working it into my..."

Listen now (62 mins) | “We are in a time where everything that we think we have taken for granted in terms of human achievement, human conscience, human goodness are being turned upside down..."

Listen now (61 mins) | “How do we center the voices that traditionally and historically we know existed, but were only marginalized in the tradition? And that does feel like holy work..."

Listen now (68 mins) | “There's a deep need for all of us to grow up, like we are now being handed tools of the gods, right? And so we have to grow up and we have to mature..."

Listen now (79 mins) | “Turquoise is looking for how do we bring back the village? How do we live in community again? Why are we living in these separate houses? We're not sharing resources...."

Listen now (52 min) | “Sometimes you can't see the full path. And so you don't even venture into the unknown, you know, you're unhappy..."

Listen now (44 mins) | "This is a point of evolution for you all and as a species you will have to adapt to what is new and people like yourself and your community have experience..."

Listen now (57 mins) | “So when we think about this, what is the aura? Many people have an idea of the aura as something that is around you and a lovely bubble or sphere of energy. Maybe you've..."

Listen now (62 mins) | “You said the important word there and that is the word grown up. To be grown up is what? To recognize, yes, I am accountable for what spills into the world through me..."

Listen now (45 mins) | "One of the things that we do on Yom Kippur is we read the story of Jonah, the prophet who ran away saying, no, no, I don't want to do this job, find somebody else to do it..."

Listen now (60 min) | “There are many places I'd love to see and I know I would learn from. But if I never see them, I won't be sorry. I mean I feel..."

Listen now (60 mins) | “Historically, there's no such thing as a pure tradition. And I also think as human beings, we transcend these religions and we transcend these cultures. And so..."

Listen now (45 mins) | “You want to find yourself? Give. We're not hungry for what we're not getting. We're hungry for what we're not giving. And then at the same time, you watch this old pattern..."

Listen now (58 mins) | “There are 12 questions that enable every person who's willing to, to answer them, to reevaluate their life and their legacy. Because what..."

Listen now (59 mins) | "What’s the danger? The danger of mysticism, I would say there’s two aspects. One is psychological, because the mystic is trying to melt into the divine..."

Listen now (57 mins) | "Other people are going to go, 'Wait, in the darkness, isn’t that the chaos where everything began? Can we not begin it again?' And then you get to the idea of the soul..."

Listen now (62 mins) | “ We know in clinical science, there is nothing that is a quarter as protective against suffering as spirituality."

Listen now (65 mins) | "I yearn to participate in and provide sacred initiation process for men. And what does that even mean? Well, it means to be initiated into yourself..."

Listen now (87 min) | Since she was a little girl, Carissa Schumacher has always seen and spoken to dead people. She pushed all of that aside, went to Brown University...

Listen now (66 mins) | "And that's what the deconstructionist always wants to do, thinks he or she is building something new. But the instinct to tear down, to dismiss, to deny..."

Listen now (52 mins) | “You're going to find a lot of people doing their best, revealing how beautiful and strange we are, and how remarkable we can be..."

Listen now (69 mins) | “We're aware that we're in an ecological crisis. We are destroying our own ecosystem. We're aware there's loss of biodiversity, these beautiful species going extinct and..."

This is probably my favorite category of book, and I’m inclined to read in every direction.