Khyati Y. Joshi YouTube Interview & Discussion Khyati Y. Joshi Audio Interview & Discussion Spirit Matters Talk · Khyati Joshi Interview Khyati Y. Joshi is a Professor of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a social science researcher whose work informs policy-makers, educators, and everyday people about race, religion, and immigration in 21st century America. …
Andrew Harvey YouTube Interview & Discussion Andrew Harvey Audio Interview & Discussion Spirit Matters Talk · Andrew Harvey Interview 2 Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, teacher, and the author of more than 40 books, including the critically acclaimed The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism, The Direct Path, and his latest, …
Bruce McGraw YouTube Interview & Discussion Bruce McGraw Audio Interview & Discussion Spirit Matters Talk · Bruce Mcgraw Interview Bruce McGraw has taught college courses in philosophy, religious studies, humanities, and mythology for over 20 years. His academic interest is finding the core essence or wisdom behind the ideas of all the great philosophers and …
Spirit Matters Talk · Fred Stella Fred Stella has served as President of the Interfaith Dialogue Association in Michigan for 23 years. In this capacity he hosts the radio program, Common Threads, which airs over local NPR affiliate, WGVU-FM. He is also a weekly contributor to the Grand Rapids Press column “Ethics and Religion.” A …
Spirit Matters Talk · Rev. Prem Anjali Rev. Prem Anjali, Ph.D., has been a student of Swami Satchidananda and Integral Yoga since 1974 and served as Satchidananda’s personal and traveling assistant for 24 years. An Integral Yoga interfaith minister, Rev. Prem is the editor of Integral Yoga Magazine, editorial director of Integral Yoga Publications & …
Spirit Matters Talk · Clyde Ford Clyde Ford is a software engineer, a chiropractor, and a psychotherapist. A long-time yoga and Buddhist practitioner, he’s the award-winning author of more than a dozen books, including We CAN All Get Along: 50 Steps You Can Take To Help End Racism and The Long Mile, for which he …
Spirit Matters Talk · Ananta Govinda Ananta Govinda is a musician, author, and multimedia producer. As a practitioner of Vedic sciences and bhakti-yoga for more than 25 years, his presentations blend artistic expression with human values. Ananta was born and raised in post-communist Russia and moved to the US as a young man, spending time …
Spirit Matters Talk · Justine Willis Toms Justine Willis Toms has been exploring personal, social, and spiritual transformation since 1973 as an electronic journalist, editor, and writer. She is the co-founder (with her late husband, Michael Toms), host, and creative producer of New Dimensions Radio/Media, a listener-supported service that has been conducting and disseminating leading-edge …
Spirit Matters Talk · Robert Thurman Robert Thurman served as the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University for 30 years, until 2020. A talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings, he is a popular speaker and the author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics …
Spirit Matters Talk · Kalyan Viswanathan Kalyan Viswanathan is currently serving as the President of Hindu University of America (HUA) and is guiding its renewal and revitalization. For more than 20 years, he was a student of Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, which was established in the Advaita Vedanta lineage and has …
Spirit Matters Talk · Karen Brailsford Karen Brailsford is an author, a spiritual guide, and a licensed spiritual practitioner with the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, where she now lives. An experienced journalist, she has worked on staff at Newsweek, Elle, People, In Touch, and E! Entertainment, covering arts and culture, Hollywood, fashion, …
Spirit Matters Talk · Vikram Zutshi and Debashish Banerji Vikram Zutshi and Debashish Banerji return to Spirit Matters, this time together, to discuss their film “Darshan: The Living Art of India,” a documentary about India’s folk art traditions. Vikram is a filmmaker, journalist and independent scholar who divides his time between the US, Mexico, and …
Spirit Matters Talk · Kim Harris Kim Harris is the Assistant Professor of African American Thought and Practice in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. In addition to teaching courses on Black liberation and Womanist theologies, Dr. Harris leads music in a variety of liturgical and academic settings. She earned a PhD …
Spirit Matters Talk · Philip Goldberg This is the second interview with Spirit Matters cohost Philip Goldberg about his new book, Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times; Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity and Courage, which was just released as a paperback and audiobook. Phil has been studying the world’s spiritual traditions for 50 years, as …
Spirit Matters Talk · Jeffery Martin Jeffery Martin is the founder of the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness and co-founder of the Transformative Technology lab in Silicon Valley. A serial entrepreneur and a social scientist who researches personal transformation and the highest forms of human wellbeing, for the last 15 years he has …
Spirit Matters Talk · Jac O’Keeffe Jac O’Keeffe is a spiritual teacher whose teachings cultivate wisdom, honesty and integrity. She exposes taboos that are usually avoided in spiritual circles and encourages conversations around issues fundamental to human experience, such as money, sex, and power. She emphasizes the need to make spirituality relevant and applicable to …
Spirit Matters Talk · Rita Sherma 2 Rita D. Sherma is founding Director and Associate Professor at the Mira & Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies; Core Doctoral Faculty; and Co-Chair of the Sustainability 360 Initiative at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. Formerly, she was the Swami Vivekananda Visiting Professor in Hindu Studies at …
Spirit Matters Talk · Jai Uttal Jai Uttal is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Hailed as a world music pioneer, his powerful voice and panoramic musical vision have been at the core of the yoga community’s embrace of kirtan—India’s traditional call-and-response devotional chanting. Having studied for years with the sarod master Ali Akbar Khan, Jai’s …
Spirit Matters Talk · 07 May 2020 11:00 Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist and senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. A New York Times bestselling author, his books have sold more than 900,000 copies in English and have been published in 28 languages. They include Resilient; Hardwiring Happiness; Just …
Spirit Matters Talk · Christopher Stevenson Christopher Stevenson has a bachelor’s degree in applied physics and masters degrees in teaching physics and agricultural engineering. He taught high school math and physics and was a systems engineer and scientist for the Navy and the Department of Homeland Security. Since 2004, he has helped build an R&D …
Spirit Matters Talk · 28 Apr 2020 10:00 Mark Nepo is the author of 18 books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. He has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” Mark has appeared several times on Oprah …
Miranda Macpherson is a spiritual teacher, modern mystic and author. Originally from Australia and now living in Northern California, she is internationally recognized as a guide into direct experience of the Sacred. Miranda’s holistic approach to spiritual surrender and non-dual realization is based on the practice of Ego Relaxation. She invites others to become more …
Spirit Matters Talk · Barbara DeAngelis 2 interview Dr. Barbara De Angelis is a best-selling author, popular TV personality and sought-after motivational speaker who has inspired tens of millions of people over more than 35 years. The author of 16 books that have sold more than ten million copies in 25 languages, her expertise in …
Swami B.V. Tripurari is a lifelong monk and practitioner of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a Hindu tradition that advocates the path of devotion to God (bhakti yoga). Since the 1970s, Swami has traveled the world as a simple renunciate, learning deeply from elders on the path, and inspiring others to cultivate nonviolence and devotion. He is the …
This is a special interview with Spirit Matters cohost Philip Goldberg, about his new book, Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times; Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity and Courage. Phil has been studying the world’s spiritual traditions for 50 years, as a practitioner, teacher, and writer. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including …
Isha Das (Craig Bullock) is an accomplished teacher, writer, lecturer, and practicing psychotherapist. The co-founder and spiritual director of The Assisi Institute in Rochester, New York, he holds graduate degrees in Religious Studies from the University of Notre Dame and Clinical Psychology from the University of Duquesne. His education includes extensive study in psychology, spirituality, …
John Prendergast is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a psychotherapy practice in San Rafael, CA. A Bay Area native, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he served as adjunct professor of psychology. His long-time commitment to spiritual growth as both a practitioner and teacher began …
Mirabai Starr writes creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature, especially the Spanish mystics. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. …
Raghu Markus has been involved in music and transformational media since the early 1970s when he was program director of CKGM-FM in Montreal. He spent two years in India with Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass, and in 1974 collaborated with Ram Dass on the box set Love Serve Remember. (This interview is mainly an …
Stephan Bodian offers webinars, retreats, videos, books, and spiritual counseling that make profound spiritual teachings and practices accessible to a global audience. His ground-breaking guidebook Meditation for Dummies helped bring mindfulness to the mainstream, and Wake Up Now offered a road map of the journey to spiritual awakening. His other books include Everyday Mindfulness and …
Micah Mortali holds a master’s degree from Goddard College and is the author of the book Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature, published by Sounds True. Micah’s life’s work is about reconnecting modern people with the restorative powers of the living earth through mindfulness, yoga and rewilding practices. His writing and teaching …
Judith Teitelman has straddled the worlds of arts, literature and business since she was a teenager, and worked her first job as a salesperson at a B.Dalton/Pickwick Bookstore. Life’s journeys took her from bookstores to commercial fine art galleries to the nonprofit arts and cultural sector, in which she has worked as staff, consultant and …
Spring Washam is a well-known meditation teacher and author based in California and Peru. Considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities, she is one of the founders and core teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center in downtown Oakland, CA. She received extensive training by Jack Kornfield, is a member of …