Mirabai Bush teaches contemplative practices and develops organizational programs based on contemplative principles and values. Among other contributions, she was a co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society; a founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization; and a co-developer of the curriculum for Google’s Search …
Dean Sluyter has taught natural meditation throughout the U.S. and beyond for over 40 years, from the Guatemalan rain forest to New Jersey prisons. He is the author of five books, including Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice, which won the 2015 Nautilus Gold Prize for best book on mind, body, and spirit …
Rev. Tiffany Barsotti is a spiritual and medical intuition counselor, a master clinical past lives therapist, and researcher at Heal and Thrive in Encinitas, California. Her clinical work focuses on subtle energy, biofield therapies, and energy psychologies. With her spiritual and intuitive guidance, she serves as an integrative practitioner, working alongside medical doctors, naturopaths, osteopaths, …
Rev. Diane Berke is the Founder and Spiritual Director of One Spirit Learning Alliance and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. Ordained as an interfaith minister in 1988, she is a widely respected pioneer in interfaith and interspiritual ministry education. Diane is on the faculty of Andrew Harvey’s Institute for Sacred Activism, a …
Rev. Micah Bucey is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, currently serving at Judson Memorial Church of New York City, a congregation committed to curiously seeking the intersections of spirituality, justice, and creativity. A graduate of Fordham University and Union Theological Seminary, Micah founded and continues to spearhead Judson Arts Wednesdays (JAW), …
Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the award-winning author of ten books, including Grounded: Finding God in the World—A Spiritual Revolution, Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a …
Martin Rutte is a management consultant and president of Livelihood, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has worked with clients such as SONY Pictures, Virgin Music, and Southern California Edison, helping them developing their vision for the future of their businesses. Martin has spoken at Harvard Business School four times. He was the co-founder and …
Kamlesh D. Patel, aka Daaji, was a practicing pharmacist in New York City for over three decades before being named the successor in a century-old lineage of spiritual masters. The fourth guru in the Heartfulness lineage, he travels widely, teaching his Heartfulness Meditation and extending his support to spiritual seekers everywhere. He devotes much of …
Connie Zweig has been a pioneer in the fields of shadow work and meditation practice for more than 30 years. The founder of the Center for Shadow Work and Spiritual Counseling, she received her doctorate in depth psychology and trained at the Los Angeles Jung Institute. She has been in private practice in LA for …
Arielle Ford has been a leading figure in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement for the past 30 years. A celebrated love and relationship expert and the co-creator and co-host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love series, she has been promoting consciousness through all forms of media. Arielle is the author of eleven books, …
Mariana Caplan is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and the author of numerous magazine articles and books in the fields of psychology and spirituality, including Eyes Wide Open: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path; Halfway Up the Mountain: the Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment; and The Guru Question: The Perils and Rewards of Choosing a …
Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. An authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order (the Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “the American Lama”), he is a leading spokesperson for contemporary spirituality as well as a translator, poet, meditation master, chant master, and spiritual activist. He is the …
Chris Grosso is a youth mental health and healing group facilitator with Newport Academy. A public speaker, writer, and author, his books include Indie Spiritualist: A No Bullshit Exploration of Spirituality; Everything Mind; and most recently Dead Set On Living: Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F#*cking Up to Waking Up. He has spoken …
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He has spent nearly twenty years in the Greater China region, as a student and a newspaper correspondent. He works out of Beijing, where he writes features and essays for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New …
Roy Eugene Davis is the founder and Director of the Center for Spiritual Awareness. One of the few remaining direct disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda, he grew up in a farming community in Ohio and, at age 18, read Yogananda’s iconic Autobiography of a Yogi in a public library. Sensing a spiritual connection with Yogananda and …
This is the third in our series of shows about Paramahansa Yogananda. Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi are the Spiritual Directors of Ananda Worldwide, which traces its lineage to Yogananda and his line of gurus and has spiritual communities, centers, and meditation groups in several countries. The couple travel the world sharing Yogananda’s teachings and instructing …
This is the 2nd in our series on Paramahansa Yogananda. Brother Prafullananda has been a monk of the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) monastic community since 1983. Born in North Carolina and raised in Gainesville, Florida, he earned undergraduate and Masters degrees in music education and performance from Lawrence University in Wisconsin and Florida State University, respectively. …
This is the first in a series of interviews about Paramahansa Yogananda in advance of Philip Goldberg’s new biography, The Life of Yogananda: The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru (info on free gift for pre-orders here). The cohost of Spirit Matters, Phil has been studying India’s spiritual traditions for almost 50 …
Valerie Gangas is the author of Enlightenment Is Sexy: Every Woman’s Guide to a Magical Life. A popular motivational speaker whose core message is “Living life from the inside out is the only way to roll,” she has gone from being a self-proclaimed “wild child” and a suicidal depressive to a person of whom Oprah …
Joseph Bharat Cornell is an internationally renowned author and founder of the widely respected nature awareness program Sharing Nature Worldwide. His first book, Sharing Nature with Children, has been published in twenty languages and sold half a million copies. That book led to his Sharing Nature Book Series, which is used by millions of parents, …
Ira Israel is the author of the 2017 book How to Survive Your Childhood Now That You’re an Adult: A Path to Authenticity and Awakening. Previously, he was the creator of these video series: A Beginner’s Guide to Happiness; A Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness Meditation; Mindfulness for Anxiety; and Mindfulness for Depression. A Licensed Professional …
Ken Wilber has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of this era. His more than two dozen highly influential books—including The Spectrum of Consciousness; A Brief History of Everything; No Boundary; and Sex, Ecology, Spirituality—have been translated into some 30 languages. His latest publication is The Religion of Tomorrow. The originator of Integral …
Betty and Noel Stookey, who have been married for over 50 years, together founded “One Light, Many Candles.” They produce and perform multifaith presentations combining spoken word and music—both Noel’s original compositions and indigenous music from various cultures. Betty is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and served as chaplain at Northfield …
Matthew Fox is an internationally acclaimed theologian and spiritual maverick who has spent the last 40 years advocating for a creation-centered spirituality of compassion, justice and re-sacralizing the earth. He has written more than 30 books, including Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, and Christian Mystics. His books have been translated into 49 …
Reza Aslan is an internationally renowned writer, commentator, professor, producer, and scholar of religions. His books include: the international bestseller No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam; Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age; and the #1 New York Times bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of …
Isabella Price, MA, is an international speaker and author of the book series “One Truth, Many Paths.” That series, on the world’s wisdom traditions, includes her most recent book Goddess Power: Awakening the Wisdom of the Divine Feminine in Your Life. Isabella teaches World Spirituality courses at JFK University and has also been teaching classes …
Francis (Fran) Bennett was a Trappist monk for a number of years, served as a pastoral care provider in hospitals and hospices, and is now a leading teacher of nonduality under the auspices of Finding Grace at the Center. This is our second interview with Francis. In the first we used masculine pronouns. We now …
Gabrielle Earnshaw is the founding archivist of the Henri J M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection in Toronto, Canada. She has been the adviser to the Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust for sixteen years and is consulted throughout the world on Nouwen and his literary legacy. The coeditor of Turning the Wheel: Henri Nouwen and Our …
Swami Asokananda became a monk in 1973 under the tutelage of his guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda, whom he met at age 19. One of Integral Yoga’s foremost teachers, he is known for his warmth, intelligence, and good humor. While he enjoys sharing the practical wisdom of yogic philosophy (especially that of the Bhagavad Gita), he …
Elizabeth Dabney Hochman is the Founding Editor and Executive Director of KidSpirit, a non-profit magazine and online community by and for youth around the world. KidSpirit enables 11-17 year-olds to explore life’s big questions in an open and inclusive context. It provides an outlet for diverse teenagers to discover the essential humanity transcending divergent points …
Dr. Anna Yusim is an award-winning psychiatrist, speaker, and author with a private practice in New York City. Dr. Yusim has published over 60 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts and book reviews, and has received numerous professional awards. After working as a neurobiology researcher and completing her studies at Stanford, Yale Medical School, and …
Danny Goldberg is the author of the books Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Bumping Into Geniuses, and his latest, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea. He also co-edited and wrote the introduction to the anthology It’s A Free Country: Civil Liberties After 9/11. A longtime music business executive, Danny ran …
Mark Nepo is the author of 18 books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” His books have been translated into more than …