Saturday, February 21, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #177 - 21FEB15

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 Grace Kelly Rivera, artist, dancer, actress, entrepreneur, and author of the book Journey to the Heart of the Maker. In today's conversation we discuss the process of the creation of sacred art including Kelly's recently completed piece, The Suffering of the Absolute and the Alleviation of the Suffering of the Absolute.

    Grace Kelly Rivera was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and grew up in Maryland. After meeting her mentor E.J. Gold, her life-long interest in art's relationship to the spiritual was transformed as she came to understand different art forms as perceptual tools for the pursuit of self knowledge. She articulates some of these perspectives in her book Journey to the Heart of the Maker, based in part on her work on her online show on JustinTV/GorebaggTV called "Dear Oobe" in which she provides readings, discussion, and feedback to viewers about issues of concern to those who are serious in their wish to remain awake and alive in the real world.

    As a master perfumer, Kelly also operates "The Perfumerie" through which she offers intentionally created, alchemically balanced fragrances and essential oils, custom blended fragrances tuned to an individual's unique character, and training in the creation of atmospheres of intention.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #176 - 31JAN15

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:
  • This week we feature a pre-recorded conversation with Mari Angelon Young. Mari Angelon Young is a writer, adventurer, grandmother, and longtime student of the transformational path. She is the author of numerous books including an in-depth biography of the renowned south Indian saint, titled Yogi Ramsuratkumar—Under the Punnai Tree, as well as As It Is: A Year on the Road with a Tantric Teacher, and Spiritual Slavery, a biography of her spiritual teacher, Lee Lozowick. In her most recent book, The Baul Tradition – Sahaj Vision East & West, Angelon documents the Baul Path, a Tantric spiritual tradition, from its earliest roots in Bengal, to its transmission in the West in modern times.

    Since 1990, Angelon traveled extensively with her teacher, exploring spiritual traditions in India and Europe; she continues to travel and write while living at Triveni Ashram in the Desert Mountains of northern Arizona. She holds a master's degree in transpersonal psychology, has taught Jungian and archetypal studies at private colleges in the Southwest, and was the editor of Tawagoto, a quarterly journal of spirituality and personal transformation, for twenty-five years. She currently enjoys leading workshops in the U.S. and Europe in the bhakti and tantric traditions of India, dream yoga, writing as a spiritual practice, and the art of growing wise with dignity, empowerment, and grace.

More information about Mari Angelon Young's work and interests can be found at:
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Saturday, January 24, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #175 - 24JAN15

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:
  • This week we present an interview pre-recorded on Skype with Gil Fronsdal. Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council.

    In 2011 Gil founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. He has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a Ph.D in Religious Studies from Stanford University studying the earliest developments of the bodhisattva ideal. Gil is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; a book of original teaching stories called A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and he is the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications.

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Saturday, January 10, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #174 - 10JAN15

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:
  • This week we present an interview pre-recorded on Skype with Ocke de Boer, author of Higher Being Bodies - A Non-Dualistic Approach to the Fourth Way, with Hope. Ocke de Boer is the engine of a Work-group in Holland which has been in existence since 1990. He studied esotericism in Amsterdam for 4 years at a Raja Yoga School for Universal Thinking, which is non-dualistic thinking. Mr. de Boer has gained a general education in philosophy, religion and esoteric systems without getting lost in any of them. His center of gravity is in the Fourth Way, The Work, which he refuses to call the Gurdjieff Work. In his own words: Gurdjieff was and is a very big guy in the Fourth Way, but he did not invent it.
More information about Ocke de Boer's work and interests can be found at:
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Saturday, January 3, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #173 - 03JAN15

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 Red Hawk (Robert Moore, Ph.D.), author of seven collections of poetry, including his recent work Mother Guru: Savitri Love Poems (Hohm Press, 2014), from which he’ll read. He is also the author of Journey of the Medicine Man (August House, 1983; finalist, Walt Whitman Award); The Sioux Dog Dance (Cleveland State University, 1991; runner-up, Patterson Poetry Prize); The Way of Power (Hohm Press, 1996); The Art of Dying (Hohm Press, 1999); Wreckage With A Beating Heart (Hohm Press, 2005) and Raven’s Paradise (Bright Hill Press, 2010; Bright Hill Press National Poetry Book 2009 winner).

    In addition, Red Hawk is the author of Self-Observation: The Awakening of Conscience, an Owner’s Manual (Hohm Press, 2009), a prose contemplation on the practice of self-study. He was the Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University and is now professor of English at the University of Arkansas in Monticello.

    Red Hawk earned a bachelor’s degree in English and history, and a master’s degree in English, both from Illinois State University. He earned a doctorate in Contemporary American Literature from the University of Cincinnati. He has received several awards and grants, and had poetry readings with such luminaries as Allen Ginsburg and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Miller Williams, Tess Gallagher, and Coleman Barks, and more than 70 solo-readings in the U.S. More than 80 of his poems have been published in magazines such as The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Atlanta Review, Shenandoah, and many others.
More information about Red Hawk's work and interests can be found at:
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #172 - 27DEC14

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:
  • First Hour: A conversation with David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T., psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader, and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco California. He combines Jungian, poetic, and mythic perspectives in his work with the intention of integrating the psychological and the spiritual. He is the author of more than 15 books, including his most recent title The Power of Grace: Recognizing Unexpected Gifts on the Path, as well as How To Be An Adult in Love, Daring to Trust, Coming Home to Who You Are, How To Be An Adult in Faith and Spirituality, Being True to Life, When the Past Is Present, Mary Within Us, The Sacred Heart of the World, The Power of Coincidence, Shadow Dance, When Love Meets Fear, and How To Be An Adult.

  • Second Hour: Mystical Positivist co-hosts Stuart Goodnick and Robert Schmidt elaborate on the themes of Grace raised in the first part of the show, and they also reflect upon and discuss some of the most memorable Mystical Positivist interviews from 2014.
More information about Dave Richo's work and interests can be found at:
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #171 - 20DEC14

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 Stuart Perrin, an American spiritual master of Kundalini Yoga. Stuart Perrin has been quietly teaching small groups of students around the world for the last forty years, and he is a direct disciple of Swami Rudrananda, more commonly known as Rudi.

    Stuart’s training with Rudi was filled with profound and ancient teachings, “streetwise yoga”, humor, and more than a few sword strokes to the ego. After four years of intense training Stuart became a teacher in Rudi’s lineage in New York and eventually Denton, Texas. Besides the formal technique of deep inner work, a technique that uses the mind and breath to strengthen the chakra system and build a link between the spiritual practitioner and Higher Creative Energy in the Universe, Rudi taught Stuart the necessity of using spiritual work in everyday life.

    In February 1973, Stuart and Rudi were in a plane crash in the Catskill Mountains, a plane crash that took Rudi’s life. “I never feel he is gone,” Stuart wrote of his guru. “When I wish to be with him, to learn from him, I just open my heart. He is there, sitting, smiling, sharing his teachings. The moment he died, I felt his soul pass into me.”

    Stuart moved back to New York City in 1980 and continued his work as a spiritual teacher. He continues to train many more people, and has meditation centers in the U. S., Israel, and Brazil.

    A well-known and respected author, Stuart has published The Mystical Ferryboat (1983), Leah (1988), A Deeper Surrender: Notes on a Spiritual Life (2001), Moving On: Finding Happiness in a Changed World (2004), an essay for Kundalini Rising (2009), and most recently Rudi: The Final Moments (2011).

More information about Stuart Perrin's work and interests can be found at:
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #170 - 13DEC14

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 Traktung Yeshe Dorje. For 23 years Traktung Yeshe Dorje has transmitted the essence and methods of Tantric Buddhism’s science of transformation. During that period he has guided the Tsogyelgar spiritual community outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. Traktung’s root Lama was Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and he is considered a tulku of Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje. Traktung has started a school for yogis on the Tibet border in Guru Rinpoche’s hidden land of Pemakö and lends great support to an orphanage school in Varanasi, India.

    Traktung does not commercialize dharma by charging for teachings offering quick hit, drive through, workshop self help seminars as if the great questions of life can be bought and sold in the market place of spiritual materialism. Instead he teaches in the style of the ancient sages who simply offered teachings and example of living realization to those with a true thirst. He is willing to meet with, and discuss the spiritual process with, sincere, earnest people and he does offer two retreats a year. Traktung teaches from a combination of deep personal realization of the methods of the Nyingma lineage of Tantric Buddhism and a profound knowledge of the world’s spiritual traditions. He is the author of two books: Eye to Form Is Only Love: A Journal of 100 Days; and his most recent title, published in 2014, Original Innocence.

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #169 - 06DEC14

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 Swami Chetanananda. Born and raised in the Midwest, his life was transformed, in an instant, upon his first meeting with his guru, Swami Rudrananda (Rudi), in New York City in 1971. He studied with Rudi until Rudi’s death in 1973. At age 24, after Rudi’s passing and at Rudi’s direction, he became the head of the ashrams established by Rudi. Swami Chetanananda is now the abbot and spiritual director of The Movement Center, based in Portland, Oregon. Like Rudi, Swami Chetanananda works with students to awaken their creative energy and support them in the process of its unfolding. He teaches eyes-open meditation, a direct transmission practice in which teacher and student share the experience of the underlying unity of all things.

    In 1978, he took sannyas with Swami Muktananda, and took the name “Chetanananda,” meaning “the joy of consciousness.” In the course of his studies with Muktananda, he began to explore the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism. Recognizing that the treatises written by the practitioners of this tradition described much of his own experience, Swamiji studied Shaivism in depth. He has collaborated with scholars and sponsored translations of many Shaiva texts. He has also studied the Shije (Pacification of Suffering) teachings of Padampa Sangye because he came to understand that Padampa Sangye’s teachings and Shaivism shared a common origin. For the last 15 years, Swami Chetanananda has continued to study the tantric tradition in all its forms from the plains of North India to Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley and the steppes of Tibet. He has sought out adepts who preserve powerful lineages. With the experience he has gained, Swami Chetanananda has expanded and refined Rudi’s later teachings, which Rudi called his “tantric work.”

    The fundamental method he teaches uses the power of the breath to circulate the creative energy (kundalini) and intensify its flow so that tensions and obstacles are dissolved, leading to a more refined awareness. As Rudi did, Swami Chetanananda emphasizes the importance of working deeply over time.

    To complement his spiritual practices, Swami Chetanananda has a working knowledge of a range of healing systems and methodologies, from the time-honored traditions of hatha yoga and acupuncture to the more modern techniques of homeopathy and osteopathy. Swami Chetanananda is the author of several books on spirituality published by Rudra Press, including Dynamic Stillness, Vols. I & II ; The Breath of God; Open Heart, Open Mind; Choose to Be Happy; Will I Be the Hero of My Own Life? and There Is No Other.

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Saturday, November 29, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #168 - 29NOV14

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 Dojin Sarah Emerson and Korin Charlie Pokorny, head priests at Stone Creek Zen Center in Graton, California.

    Dojin Sarah Emerson trained at Tassajara Zen Mountain center and other sites of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1997-2007. She ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest with Abbot Gaelyn Godwin at the Houston Zen Center in 2007. She has worked in the fields of mental health and pastoral care. She is currently delighting in the practice of Dharma in family life with Korin and their two children in Northern California.

    Korin Charlie Pokorny was ordained as a priest by Reb Anderson in 1999. He practiced as a resident at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm for 12 years, including serving as tenzo and director at Tassajara. He holds a master’s degree from Stanford University in Religious Studies, and currently teaches at the Institute of Buddhist Studies.

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #167 - 22NOV14

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 noted author and teacher, Ravi Ravindra. Ravindra is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he served for many years as a Professor in the departments of Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and of Physics.

    He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, and the Founding Director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge. He was a member of the Board of Judges for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He is an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network and a Fellow of the Temenos Academy, England.

    Ravi's spiritual search has led him to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, G. I. Gurdjieff, Zen, Yoga, and a deep immersion in the mystical teachings of the Indian and Christian classical traditions. He is the author of several books on religion, science, mysticism, and spirituality, including his most recent The Pilgrim Soul: A Path to the Sacred Transcending World Religions, as well as Heart Without Measure, Spiritual Roots of Yoga, Centered Self without Being Self-Centered: Remembering Krishnamurti, Science and the Sacred, The Wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Yoga and the Teachings of Krishna, The Yoga of the Christ, also published as The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #166 - 08NOV14

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 Susan Feinbloom, author of the recently published book Clairvoyant Psychotherapy. Susan Feinbloom is a psychotherapist with a strong focus on spiritual and psychic abilities. For the last 30 years she has been weaving meditation and clairvoyance into her practice, looking beneath content, beyond stories to underlying truths revealed through spiritual anatomy. Her background includes hands-on healing, spiritual midwifery, cranial/sacral therapy, Shamanic techniques of healing and homeopathic consultations. In addition to her latest book, which we’ll focus on in this interview, she is the author of Unwinding the Soul, a book of poetry, and has produced two CDs: Heaven and Earth Meditations, and Meditations on the Chakras.

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #165 - 01NOV14

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 John Mann, Professor of Sociology Emeritus of the State University College of New York at Genesee. He is author or editor of some twenty books, including the recently released Before the Sun: Meeting Rudi that recounts his relationship with the remarkable American spiritual teacher Swami Rudrananda. Albert Rudolph, also known as Swami Rudrananda, affectionately known as Rudi, was a spiritual original, a maverick yogi whose teachings transformed the lives of thousands of emerging spiritual seekers. John Mann’s book Before The Sun chronicles the astounding day-to-day events of Rudi’s teaching by one of Rudi's first students.

    John managed to survive the rollercoaster ride of studying Kundalini yoga in the tumultuous 1960s of New York City under the tutelage of arguably one of the most profound and adept masters of inner work. The book represents Mr. Mann's experience as Rudi’s student and friend, taken as an indirect approach to the description of Rudi himself and what it was like to be in his presence. Before the Sun: Meeting Rudi is an expanded version of Mr. Mann's book that was originally published in 1987 as Rudi: 14 Years with my Teacher. But in the course of editing 14 Years about one-third of the first manuscript was eliminated for various reasons. This new edition might be called the author’s cut, reinstating big chunks of the book and adding many never-before-seen images.

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #164 - 25OCT14

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 Shinay Tredeau and Jesse Dean Smith. Shinay Tredeau, a third generation practitioner in the Hohm spiritual community, and Jesse Dean Smith, student of spiritual master Lee Lozowick, describe their journey in finding a spiritual path that answers the call of their hearts. Both Shinay and Jesse are students of body-centered spiritual practices including dance, yoga, and kaya sadhana. Shinay is currently collaborating with Regina Sara Ryan on a project called Women Against Self Hatred (WASH).
For more information about Shinay Tredeau's work, contact her at shinay.tredeau @ gmail.com
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #163 - 18OCT14

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 John Suslov about Russian Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets of the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Suslov holds an MA in Religion and Philosophy from Dominican University and is a former college instructor. He is interested in the revitalization of traditional Western forms of knowledge, culture and aesthetics. To that end, he has been involved in a long term cross-cultural project to reconstruct the symbolic language, concepts, and methods used by ancient societies and civilizations to encode their knowledge in the form of myth and initiatory text.
For more information about John Suslov's work, cantact him at johnsuslov @ yahoo.com
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #162 - 11OCT14

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 Regina Sara Ryan in advance of her recent workshop, Writing Your Way Home: Practical Steps in Navigating the Inner Life. Of the workshop, she writes: As we each make the journey through life, we frequently come to an interior boundary or edge — we sense that there is more to know, more to explore, more to love, and certainly more to let go of. We may speak of a desire to know myself, or to accept myself, or to take a new risk, or to express my life's purpose. Many of us long for guidance and clarity in taking that next step on the path. This workshop will use simple tools of journal writing (no experience necessary) to explore and celebrate our questions, our longings, and our intuitions for what's next, in an environment of safety, serenity, and creativity. Using quiet self-reflection, gentle awareness exercises, and journal writing, we will share the wisdom, the warmth and the good company of other pilgrims on the way.

    Regina Sara Ryan is a professional writer and book editor. She is the author of numerous books, including the classic Wellness Workbook; The Woman Awake; Igniting the Inner Life, and Praying Dangerously. Since 1985 her workshops in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe have been devoted to issues related to the inner life. For twenty-six years Regina worked closely with her spiritual teacher, the American Baul master Lee Lozowick.

More information about Regina Sara Ryan's work and interests can be found at:
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #161 - 04OCT14

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 Linda Mercadante, author of Belief Without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual But Not Religious. Linda Mercadante knows first-hand how it feels to live without a clear spiritual identity. Born into an immigrant, working class, mixed ethnic, non-religious household in the rough urban environment of Newark, NJ, she experienced prejudice, lack of acceptance, and the uncertainty that comes from not having a spiritual home. She went through years of searching, travel, and exploration in her quest for a spiritual identity. In the process, she earned a Ph.D. in theology from Princeton, became ordained, and found a vocation in seminary teaching. She is dedicated to helping others find a spiritual identity that can allow their spirits to come home.

    Her personal story is described in her book: Bloomfield Avenue: A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey [2006]. Dr. Mercadante is a prolific author of more than 50 articles and six books. She lectures internationally, conducts seminars to a wide variety of audiences, and teaches on such topics as addiction recovery, gender and theology, faith and film, and spiritual memoir writing.

    This year Dr. Mercadante was named a Luce Scholar for her work examining the beliefs and practices of today’s “Spiritual but not Religious,” the subject of her recently published book Belief Without Borders. The coveted Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology is awarded to only six scholars per year throughout the entire U.S. and Canada.

    Dr. Mercadante is B. Robert Straker Professor of Historical Theology at The Methodist Theological School in Ohio, and an active participant in many professional groups including The American Academy of Religion and The Workgroup on Constructive Theology. She is a Fellow of The Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton and The Ecumenical Institute at St. John’s University. In addition to the Luce award, she has received numerous grants from such groups as The Louisville Institute and The Association of Theological Schools. This year she was elected to the “Theologies of Religious Pluralism” project of the American Academy of Religion. She has also served as Visiting Scholar in Media & Theology at The University of Edinburgh (Scotland).

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #160 - 27SEP14

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:
  • During the first hour, hosts Stuart Goodnick and Dr. Robert Schmidt discuss the book The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander, which combines Benjamin Zander's experience as a conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talents as a teacher and communicator with Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for creating innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. Hosts Goodnick and Schmidt delve into related questions of how self help modalities relate to and contrast with spiritual practice. In the second hour of the program, they begin looking at the phenomenon of being Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR) in anticipation of next week's interview with Linda Mercadante, author of Belief Without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual But Not Religious.

    Stuart Goodnick and Rob Schmidt helped found and run Many Rivers Books & Tea in Sebastopol, CA. The store is a project of Tayu Meditation Center, where both Stuart and Rob were trained in the fiery alchemy of transformation over decades by Tayu founder Robert Daniel Ennis.
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #159 - 13SEP14

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 Ellen Tynan. Ellen Tynan creates opportunities for people to experience their true nature through exploration and contemplation in the wild (www.wildpresence.org). Ellen began exploring Zen and Tibetan Buddhism at a young age. For the past 10 years she has practiced Vipassana, or Insight Meditation and teaches with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC.

    For nearly 20 years, Ellen worked with the World Bank to guide developing countries in protecting the environment and preserving their natural resources. A published photographer, her current project documents traditional boats and boat-builders from across the globe. Ellen also practices contemplative Miksang photography (a Dharma Art teaching of Chogyam Trungpa) which focuses on revealing a pure perception of the world around us. Ellen holds an M.A. from Yale University, an A.B. from Vassar College, and a certificate in Marine Conservation from Duke University.

    She trained in tracking, traditional skills and awareness at the Roots School in northern Vermont, is a certified Wilderness First Responder and a licensed river guide in the state of Utah. Ellen is also an avid rock climber and practices yoga and a variety of Chinese martial arts. She is also a certified teacher of mindfulness for children and teens through the Mindfulness in Schools Project's curriculum.

More information about Ellen Tynan's work and interests can be found at:
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Saturday, August 9, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #158 - 09AUG14

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 Maurine Doerken, author of the recently released, award-winning book, Meditations of a Modern Mystic. Based in Northern California, Ms. Doerken is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and trained for three years as a Spiritual Director at Mt. St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles. She has also been involved with pastoral care for a number of years and is a Reiki Master Teacher. In her work, Ms. Doerken explores from personal experience the intimate connection between mind, body, and spirit.

More information about Maurine Doerken's work and interests can be found at:
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