Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #43 - 29OCT11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.

This week's podcast features:
  • A discussion with Joko Dave Haselwood. Joko Dave Haselwood is a Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher of Empty Bowl Sangha in Cotati, California. A Dharma heir of Jisho Warner, Haselwood is also an Associate Teacher at Warner’s Stone Creek Zen Center. Additionally, Dave counts among his teachers Shunryu Suzuki, Philip Whalen and Jakusho Kwong. He is also a member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of North America.
More information about Joko Dave Haselwood's work can be found at:

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #42 - 22OCT11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.

This week's podcast features:
  • Robert Schmidt reads from E.J. Gold's The Creation Story Verbatim.
  • Robert Schmidt reads/discusses his essay, The Miracle of Conscious Co-Creation..
  • Stuart Goodnick reads/discusses his essay Reflections on a Shakuhachi Lesson and performs some Shakuhachi pieces written by his teacher, Masayuki Koga.
  • Stuart Goodnick reads/discusses "The Organic Body of Man" from E.J. Gold's The Seven Bodies of Man.

More information about Tayu Meditation Center can be found at:

Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #41 - 15OCT11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.

This week's podcast features:
  • A discussion with Dr. Peter Davis, director of The California Classroom. Dr. Peter Davis has been motivating others to reach their highest achievement since his early twenties. He teaches that humans can awaken their full powers for good and evolve themselves intentionally and consciously. He is founder of the science of Energy Field Psychology. Peter Davis began his career as a group organizer, artist and teacher at the Free University Of Berkeley, in Berkeley, CA. He subsequently studied tai chi chuan and the Chinese Internal System principally with Grandmaster T.R. Chung and Master Xu Guo Ming; as well as with Wang Hao Da, Ye Xiao Long and Qian Zhao Hong, all acknowledged grandmasters. Peter was also deeply inspired by the work of several esoteric traditions including the work and dances of G.I.Gurdjieff, the Vedantic yoga masters, and Tibetan Buddhism. He traveled widely in search of and found authentic repesenations of these, and other great traditions. He has been a devoted practitioner of meditation and kindred thoughts for decades. Dr. Davis is a natural synthesizer of many sciences, philosophies, disciplines and therapeutic methods, from which he distills his own unique teachings.

More information about Dr. Peter Davis' work can be found at:

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #40 - 08OCT11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.

This week's podcast features:
  • Stuart Goodnick and Robert Schmidt read/discuss excerpts from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's, I Am That.
  • A discussion with Kenny Johnson, founder of This Sacred Space. Kenny spent over twenty years in prison and has been out of prison since 1997. He is a spiritual teacher and consultant to families and to those who have been out of prison and may be going to jail. He also just published his acclaimed book, The Last Hustle, chronicling his years as a criminal and how he was transformed while incarcerated. Kenny has one passion and that is sharing the message that “God’s Grace Is Here Now.” Kenny’s spiritual awareness and other spiritual teachers' insights have been published in the book, The Awakening West, by John Lumiere-Wins and Lynn Marie Lumiere.

More information about Kenny Johnson's work can be found at:

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #39 - 01OCT11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.

This week's podcast features:
  • Robert Schmidt reads/discusses readings from Regina Sara Ryan's Praying Dangerously.
  • Robert Schmidt reads/discusses readings from The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life by John Michael Talbot and Steve Rabey.
  • Robert Schmidt reads/discusses more from Praying Dangerously on G. I. Gurdjieff's perspective on prayer; Stuart Goodnick joins the conversation from his hospital bed via telephone.

More information about Tayu Meditation Center can be found at: