Saturday, June 30, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #74 - 30JUN12

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 conversation with Dr. Gene Nathan MD and Oksana Yufa. Dr. Gene Nathan founded and practices at Gene Nathan M.D.Consults. He trained at the University of Rochester and UCSD, and practiced general pediatrics in Chula Vista and with Scripps Clinic for nearly 30 years. He helped to establish two level II intensive care nurseries in Chula Vista, and was President of the local chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics for four years. He served as medical director for the Center for Healthier Communities at Rady Children’s Hospital until 2002, and helped establish the Healthy Developmental Services program for First Five San Diego. In addition to traditional Western medical approaches, Dr. Nathan has studied herbs, nutrition, cranio-sacral therapy and body work, and various complementary medical healing traditions.

    Oksana Yufa was born in Moscow, Russia into a family of physicians and healers. Oksana came to the healing professions from her personal journey and work with Toltec master healers and shamans, both here in America and in Mexico. Specifically, she has studied with don Miguel Ruiz (author of the Four Agreements) in the four year curriculum of Toltec Dreaming, and is active in the Cirlce of Teachers in this Toltec lineage. Oksana also trained with Mother Sarita, a curandera (faith healer), where she was prepared as a seer and a medicine woman.
More information about Dr. Gene Nathan and Oksana Yufa's work can be found at:

Saturday, June 23, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #73 - 23JUN12

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 talk given by Robert Tindall at Many Rivers Books & Tea in Sebastopol, CA, on May 10, 2012. Robert Tindall is a writer, classical guitarist, and inveterate traveler who has lived in England, Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. With his wife, Susana Bustos, he leads groups into the Amazon rain forest to encounter the indigenous healing traditions there. He and Susana have recently left Northern California for an extended stay in Peru. His book, The Jaguar the Roams the Mind - An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey, is a journey into the vanishing world of Amazonian shamanism - an adventure of initiation and return - that explores the unique reality at the heart of the Amazonian healing system.
More information about Robert Tindall's work can be found at:

Saturday, June 9, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #72 - 09JUN12

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 Adam Dietz, Ph.D. with Mystical Positivist co-host, Nick Egan, Ph.D. Adam Dietz completed his PhD in Asian and Comparative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies after living and teaching in Hunan, China. Adam's focus is in Chinese Philosophy; Confucianism, Taoism and Ch'an (aka Zen Buddhism), as well as Chinese Language and the philosophy and practice of Tai Chi Chuan. Adam recently published An Introduction to Confucianism: the Self-Cultivation and Personality of the Superior Person. He currently lives in Petaluma with his wife and four year old son.
More information about Dr. Dietz's work can be found at: