Saturday, November 30, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #135 - 30NOV13

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 Max Strom, author of A Life Worth Breathing: A Yoga Master’s Handbook of Strength, Grace, and Healing, and his latest book which carries the wonderful title There Is No App for Happiness: How to Avoid a Near-Life Experience. Teacher, speaker, and author, Max Strom is known for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students and readers and has become a new voice of personal transformation worldwide. Due to an ever-increasing demand for his teachings, Max travels extensively, teaching and lecturing on personal transformation, spirituality, and yoga. His system guides us to live the daily experience of a meaningful life. Max has taught tens of thousands of students and trained several hundred teachers across the globe.

    Max Strom has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences and forums. Among his 2011 and 2012 speaking appearances were two TEDx events, and a keynote speech on ethics in business at a Fortune 500 management conference. His articles and interviews have appeared in The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Utne Reader, Whole Living, Yoga Journal, That's Beijing, and other printed, online media, and radio around the globe. He was director/founder of the top-rated yoga center in Los Angeles, Sacred Movement Yoga.
More information about Max Strom's work and interests can be found at:

Saturday, November 23, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #134 - 23NOV13

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 Beth Winegarner. Beth is a Sonoma County native and San Francisco author with a new book coming out in December called The Columbine Effect: How five teen pastimes got caught in the crossfire and why teens are taking them back. Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold weren’t goth kids who played more Doom than their classmates. But after news outlets reported they were, teen goths and gamers felt the backlash for years. As police and journalists have rushed to explain other unthinkable massacres, heavy metal music, paganism, Satanism, occult practices and role-playing games have unfairly gotten caught in the crossfire.

    Adolescents’ brains may still be developing, but they recognize the rich benefits of pastimes adults have deemed dangerous. The Columbine Effect is filled with teens’ stories of self-discovery and healing – and the research to back them up. It reveals how we arrived at such gross misunderstandings of common but controversial interests. The Columbine Effect is the book that will make us stop blaming teen violence on the wrong things – and help us understand how Slayer, Satanism and Grand Theft Auto can be a healthy part of growing up.
More information about Beth Winegarner's work and interests can be found at: