Saturday, August 25, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #82 - 25AUG12

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 Aviva Snyder. Aviva Snyder has tasted from many cups in life. Born in Boston, she became a successful business owner in Marin County, living the Marin lifestyle, practicing martial arts and living in a classic Marin house. After a divorce, she worked in the corporate world, gave that up to live in exotic Ajijic, Mexico for one year, and later dealt Black Jack at Indian casinos in California. Throughout it all, her psychic sensitivities remained a constant in her life. For years she struggled to come to terms with her psychic gifts. With help from training at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, and other help, she came to be able to use her sensitivities to assist others, by giving psychic readings, healings, and other interventions.
More information about the Psychic Schools mention in the program can be found at:

Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #81 - 18AUG12

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:
  • In the first hour of the program, hosts Stuart Goodnick and Rob Schmidt, discuss action in the world, the role of contemplation, whether one can simultaneously hold a space for both action and contemplation, and the role of silence in spiritual awakening. In the second hour of the program we listen to an audio version of a best-selling Russian book on transformation called Reality Transurfing: Vol. 1: The Space of Variations, by Vadim Zeland. In this book, the author presents a series of techniques of a mental and metaphysical nature. Zeland supports these techniques by presenting a model of the universe that combines the elements of quantum physics with the idea of parallel worlds.
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More information about Reality Transurfing: Vol. 1: The Space of Variations can be found at:

Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #80 - 11AUG12

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 Iven Lourie. Iven Lourie is editor of Gateway Books and Tapes and adjunct professor in English at Sierra College in Rocklin, California. Originally from Harrisburg, PA, Iven attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate work, and the MFA program in English and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. Iven is a short story writer and poet, and a practitioner of the work of spiritual polymath E.J. Gold.
More information about Iven Lourie's work can be found at:

Saturday, August 4, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #79 - 04AUG12

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 Carol E. Goodnick, RN, Nurse Clinician, University of Missouri Palliative Care Program. In her 30+ years in the nursing and medical field Carol has worked in a variety of areas including neuro-trauma and intensive care. Throughout her career she has developed an uncommon ability to hold a space for patients facing end of life choices and especially for their families. Now as part of the Palliative Care Program at MU, Carol's work is explicitly focused on providing relief and end of life care for patients and providing clarity to families about the choices available in such situations. In addition to her long career in nursing, Carol has been a long time contributor to public radio station KOPN in Columbia, MO, with a Celtic music show called Strike the Gay Harp and a Jazz show called Hepcat's Holiday. In this wide ranging conversation we discuss, among other things, the holding of a larger context for patients and family in end of life care.
More information about Carol Goodnick's work can be found at: