As most of you know, my dear partner of 41 years, Michael, passed away on Jan 24th peacefully in his sleep. He had been experiencing a slow but steady decline in his health for some time due to diabetes. On Wednesday January 30th I, along with some close friends attended his cremation. It was poignant and powerful. Five of my circle sisters joined me to drum Michael into the ethers. They included Alexandra Hart, Suzette Burrous, [...]
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Michael Toms
Michael Toms, co-founder of New Dimensions, passed at 5:45 AM Thursday, January 24th. Michael was 72 years old. Please see Justine’s announcement and more information about Michael here.
Creating The New Dream And The Future Of The Earth with Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.
We are facing three simultaneous crises in the world today: a crisis in energy, economy, and climate. These add up to the greatest challenge in all human history. Biologist Sahtouris is optimistic about the future and points to biology saying, “Life gets creative in a time of crisis.” She explains how the survival of bacteria, which has been on the planet for over four billion years, has given us a model of how we may evolve into a [...]
Principles Design Based On The Laws Of Nature with William McDonough
McDonough is committed to helping humankind remake how we make things so as to not pollute the environment and therefore ourselves. He’s convinced that we can live a healthy and sustainable life on the planet if we start asking ourselves the right questions. He speaks about how we need to look closely at nature where nothing is thrown away. Everything in the natural world is used and reused over and over. This is what he means [...]
Crossing The Murky Moral Terrain Of Ethics with Mark Matousek
Are there universal human ethics? Are we moving toward a more ethical future? Mark Matousek has interviewed and researched the subject of ethical wisdom with social scientists, spiritual leaders, ex-cons, altruists and philosophers. He’s examined morality from all angles and suggests that ethics just may be a minefield of opposing ideologies, special interests, and temperamental proclivities. The good news is that humans are hardwired to care for one another, we have a sense of justice and [...]
Difficulties Give Rise To Something Good with Patricia Sun
Ms. Sun shows us that the difficulties of the times are contrivances to free us to take a bigger view. We are reminded to relax and trust there is something good emerging and that there is a frequency that runs the universe we can tune in to. What Patricia has called the “New Style of Thinking” is extraordinary in its power to depolarize people. She inspires us to go for creative solutions, as we “re-create” and “re-perceive” our thought patterns. She [...]
Integral Philosophy And Evolution with Steve McIntosh
Integral philosopher McIntosh says the way to approach truth is threefold: science, philosophy, and spirituality. He says, “[W]e know that the scientific, the philosophical, and the spiritual are three authentic and irreducible approaches to truth because there are three kinds of human experience. There’s the sensory experience, upon which science is based. There’s the experience of relationships and meanings that we come to through philosophy, and then there’s the spiritual experience which can’t be reduced to [...]
Questing for New Dimensions
Like a German shepherd playing with a ragdoll, an insight grabbed my heart and mind and powerfully shook me from side to side. Over the Christmas holidays I realized I’m holding New Dimensions in trust for all who may be served by the wisdom, inspiration, and hope in these weekly broadcasts. New Dimensions has grown beyond its visionary founder, Michael Toms. It belongs to you and you’ve entrusted me to keep it healthy, strong, and viable. With [...]
The Power Of The Grimm Brothers’ Collection Of Folktales with Allan G. Hunter, Ph.D.
Fairytales have given pleasure and delight for centuries, and ultimately many of them have been a source of wisdom for generations of people, who had no psychology textbooks to reference, and no certified therapists to consult. However, in recent decades we’ve “Disneyfied” them and assimilated commercialized versions, while the real tales full of wisdom remain unread. The collection of tales by the Grimm brothers deal with some very murky human passions, and they hold the possibility of a [...]
Food Is The Earth’s Most Potent Medicine with Kara Kroeger
In her late teens, Kroeger traveled to Central America and discovered her life’s passion of herbs, food, and nutrition. She says, “I really began to use foods more like medicine in the same way that I had learned to use herbs. . . people love food and food is easy and it’s available everywhere.” She also encourages us to avoid refined foods and, for the most part, when shopping for foods go for the ones that you’ll find in the [...]
Finding Happiness, Purpose, And Joy with Dan Millman
Earth is a perfect school and it provides us with a core curriculum of required courses. Millman has studied and polled many people and has come up with four purposes to life which answer such questions as: Why am I here? What am I meant to do? What is my purpose? Within the four purposes he has found twelve required courses in the school of life that each of us are taking. These are: Self Worth, [...]
The Science, Philosophy, And Spirituality Of Our Evolving Planet: Part 2 with Carter Phipps
We can appreciate the time tested and scientifically verified idea that evolution is happening at the level of the gene but is it also happening in culture and spirituality? Does the theory of evolution jump from the silo of science and dance with other disciplines? If so, how does it change our sense of ourselves, our concept of God, of consciousness, of technology, information and the world. Carter Phipps speaks to these questions and says, “Evolution [...]
Running The Rapids Of Difficulties
On the Monday before Halloween, I set off on a road trip with my truck and trailer and little doggie Layla. As we were crossing the Navajo Nation, I hit a very rough spot on the road. The trailer began bouncing, fish-tailing, and at times jack-knifing. I fought very hard to keep us on the road because there was a very steep 50-60’ drop on the left. Finally we slowed down, but we were headed toward [...]
The Science, Philosophy, And Spirituality Of Our Evolving Planet: Part 1 with Carter Phipps
Carter Phipps says, “Evolution is about more than genes and DNA and selection and adaptation or even cultural stages and spirals. It is also about the vast ocean of the cosmos. It is about awe and amazement, humility and perspective. It is not just about our connection to the earth, it is also about our spiritual connection to this immeasurable universe out of which we have emerged.” We are part of a moving process and the ground underneath [...]
The Journey Of Losing A Soulmate To Cancer with Carla Malden
When you lose someone well-meaning people give you books full of supposedly uplifting platitudes: “time heals all wounds;” “there is a purpose to this;” “you will find closure.” But, as non-religious baby-boomer, Carla Malden says, she found them useless. She shares the highs and lows, sparing nothing in her truth-telling. You will be inspired by her candor and clarity as she speaks about her experience of living through the debilitating disease and death of her husband and [...]
Re-Creating The World with Michael Meade
Once again Meade reminds us of the larger story in which life is unfolding. In his masterful way he weaves the Native American story of the Old Woman in the Cave and the ancient Vedic myth of Manu who saves a fish and establishes our interconnection with all life and the natural world. He points out that these myths are re-creation stories as opposed to simply creation myths. He also reminds us that we are narrative beings and part of [...]
A Wild And Laughing God with Tessa Bielecki
Have you ever imagined Jesus laughing? Tessa Bielecki has. She also reminds us that he was the one who made sure there was plenty of wine at that wedding party we’ve heard so much about. A lifelong Christian monastic who now lives in a cabin in the desert, she loves to share her vision of the wildness in Jesus, God, and spirituality in general, and will inspire you to bring a fresh, playful, spacious approach to [...]
Stop Working On Yourself And Start Living with Ariel & Shya Kane
The Kanes spent many years and all their savings working hard on themselves to bring about positive change. Exhausted by it all they discovered that “working on themselves doesn’t work.” They have found that transformation can happen in the instant. Shya Kane tells us, “transformation happens when you notice how you’re being without judging yourself and it’s over. It happens in an instant, outside of time. Transformation happens exponentially in all areas of your life, not just in those areas [...]
Living In The Landscape Of Enthusiasm
In a recent newsletter from Clarity International by Gary and Cathy Hawk a comment grabbed by attention, “When does anxiety seem to have more power over enthusiasm?” I pondered that question because my friends describe me as a normally enthusiastic person, easily excited by life. And, for the most part, it is true. However, if I find myself setting up house in the village of anxiety, worry, and distress then I know it is time for [...]
Digging A Deep Well To Our Spiritual Waters with Mirabai Starr
Delving into many different spiritual paths can be thought of as digging many shallow wells with the hope of reaching water. However, Starr’s experience tells her that she is using many different tools to dig a single deep well Following the interspiritual path goes beyond simply understanding another’s religion: Rather it means, “Embracing the sacred in multiple traditions with discipline and passion.” She speaks of going through the “dark night of the soul” when we no longer feel a connectedness [...]
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New 1-hour program every Wednesday!
- May 8 - 14
Forgiveness Is The Path
with Ronita Johnson - May 15 - 21
Designing Products Toward Sustainability
with Tom Darden - May 22 - 28
Genuine Sustainable Abundance
with Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne - May 29 - June 4
The Quakers, Forging America’s Identity
with Susan Sachs Goldman - June 5 - 11
The Power Of Stories To Heal
with Terry Laszlo-Gopadze - June 12 - 18
Dealing With Chronic Pain
with David Hanscom, M.D. - June 19 - 25
Dialogue: A Habit Of The Heart
with John Backman - June 26 - July 2
Two Cultural Cycles: Logos And Mythos
with Joe McHugh
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