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61) Peaceful Warrior
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As the founder of the Mo Tzu Project, Bob Fuller travels the planet as a citizen diplomat, searching out the roots of conflict in the hope of learning what can be done to make peace a reality, not just a dream. He has the rare ability to cut through the usual rhetoric we hear, and reveal, clearly and concisely, perspectives that often are so basic and simple we cannot imagine why they aren't more widely accepted.
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Lane drew a circle on a map that represented a one-mile radius from his home and explored every facet of the place including the topography, history, ancient and current citizenry, and industry. This exploration sharpened his sense of place and serves as a model for how we might look at our own homes, terrain, and communities.
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Some highly gifted children are labeled as "learning disabled" by schools that value only left-brain performance. But the best learning occurs, says neurophysiologist Hannaford, when the entire brain, body and emotional self are involved. Here she sheds revealing light on the realities of human intelligence and how we can nurture them in our children and ourselves.
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Charlie Hess has made a profession of thinking outside the box. Instead of relying only on evidence directly related to the issue at hand, he gathers data from a network of resources in seemingly unrelated fields. He mixes all the information with a healthy dose of discipline and a measure of intuition and helps decision-makers in all walks of life anticipate shifting tides in business, politics, technology, and social change.
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Part two of two. Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics-poetry and writing, Mexico and The South, family and relationship, Buddhism and spiritual teachers, power and greed, politics and social change, death and transformations, and much more-Walker addresses these challenging times and how to live in balance.
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The science of consciousness and how it is changing, is explored in this dialogue with Charles Tart, a scientist and pioneer in the fields of psychology, parapsychology, dreams and meditation. He discusses Eastern wisdom in a way the Western mind readily comprehends. The nature of consciousness lies at the heart of it all, for "if we don't understand our consciousness, we don't understand anything," says Tart.
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John Seed travels the world in service to the earth. As a founding father of the Deep Ecology movement, he's noticed that "we speak of 'the environment,' which makes it sound as though this is something that's far away from us. But if we hold our breath for a few minutes while we consider the matter, we quickly realize that 'the environment' is constantly cycling through us through the air we breathe, through the water we drink, through the food we...
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This is an inspiring, engrossing tale of one man's odyssey from physics professor and college president to citizen diplomat, searching for "a better game than war." Fresh, candid, and compassionate, he challenges us all in new ways to find our passion and respond to it, to think about our values and the nature of change and risk.
70) Deep to the Bone
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Woodman shares her story of "dying into life" through cancer. These quiet years allowed Woodman to delve deeper into her "bones" and gain insight into concepts of co-dependence, life transitions, addiction, spiritual practice, and surrendering. "I no longer waste my time with people who are into judgement and blame...their game is power, and my game is love."
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Mark Gerzon invites you to join a campaign--not Republican, Democratic or Independent-- but American. Describing the different ideologies contending for the soul of America today, Gerzon provides a useful guide for leading us back to the principles upon which this country was founded.
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A skilled explorer of the possibilities of healing through unconventional methods, Barbara Brennan is gifted with the ability to see and affect energy colors and patterns in and around the body, an ability she says everyone potentially has. Deep and thorough healing occurs, she explains, through the honoring of subtle energies on physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual levels.
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Jensen notes: a principal problem with Western thought is that it views the natural world as a metaphor and nature as a commodity. He argues that the key to change and life-sustaining action is rooted in seeing nature as sentient, a being worthy and deserving of personal relationship.
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(A special "live" presentation with some listener call-ins.) One of the country's most intrepid, informed and articulate anti-war activist’s returns for an update on his travels and recent developments in the militarization of the planet. Ellsberg's words can be chilling yet empowering, sobering yet heartening - and always thought-provoking. Required listening for anyone interested in moving beyond Cold-War myths.
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There is much spiritual content found in movies and we can all name quite a few of these. However, Dean Sluyter doesn't go for the obvious; rather he takes us on a metaphorical enlightenment journey through some surprising films. He is a master teacher helping us look with new eyes at films.
76) Life Before Life
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The psychologist and author of Reliving Past Lives talk about her exciting research into the nature of reincarnation through hypnotic regression.
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In a culture where one can find virtually any physical or mental sensation the imagination can conjure up, why do we remain unsatisfied? Thomas Moore declares that we are actually afraid of sex, afraid of our own vitality. He believes that what we need is the courage to live sensuously, to ease up on the maddening work ethic, and to give pleasure its due.
78) Images of Tibet
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Adventurer, award-winning photographer and collaborator with the Dalai Lama on the book My Tibet (University of California Press 1990), Galen Rowell speaks of the environmental and cultural devastation brought upon Tibet by Communist Chinese occupation. He shares his adventures in mountaineering, and what is needed for true nature conservation.
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This dialogue embraces such questions as: Can a mind survive the death of the brain? How does consciousness interact with matter? How is a reality created and formed? Quantum theory is allowing Western science to take a new look at questions that formerly resided solely in the realm of spiritual philosophy, and the implications are vast.
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There are many avenues of personal empowerment available in today's world, but none of them mean anything unless we put our abilities into service for other people. This teacher of powerful medicine ways shares his insights about the power of making ourselves available to people, and the path of humanity toward service and compassion.