Saturday, December 17, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #50 - 17DEC11

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 Laura Duggan, author of An Inquiring Life: Weekly Contemplations. Laura is the founder of Nicasio Press, was the head of the Muktabodha Institute that translates sacred Indian texts into English, was a student of both Muktananda and Chidvilasananda, and now studies with Tibetan Nyingma lineage teacher, Anam Thubten, in Richmond, CA.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #49 - 10DEC11

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 Steve Volk, author of Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable—and Couldn’t, published by HarperOne, and available now in bookstores and online. Steve Volk is a longtime staff writer and regular contributor to Philadelphia magazine. His work has been published in Rolling Stone, Vibe, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The New Republic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The St. Petersburg Times. Volk has received dozens of state and local journalism awards, and he has appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He lives in Philadelphia.

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #48 - 03DEC11

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 reads a chapter, "Krishnamurti versus Gurdjieff," from his upcoming book.
  • A Discussion with Jim Wilson. Jim has a background in East Asian Buddhist studies, is a member of a local Quaker Meeting, has been a Prison Chaplain, and spends much of his free time these days writing poetry. In this segment, we discuss one of the original non-dualists of the Christian tradition, writing long before non-dualism was cool: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, was a Christian theologian and philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, the author of the Corpus Areopagiticum (before 532). His surviving works include Divine Names, Celestial Hierarchy, Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and various epistles.

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #47 - 26NOV11

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 Rob Schmidt discuss a variety of topics:
    • Is Landmark Education a spiritual practice, service to humanity, or something beyond?
    • Work of the Week: The Time Lord Exercise
    • Intention and Spiritual Practice
    • Reading from Rob's upcoming book, "Passion for the Great Vigil of Living and Dying"

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #46 - 19NOV11

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 reads excerpts from his upcoming book and other sources:
    • A Parable
    • Why the English Cannot Awaken
    • Rackets
    • Discipleship and Vulnerability

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #45 - 12NOV11

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 Rob Schmidt discuss the concept of Integrity as elaborated in the Landmark Education system.
  • A Discussion with Brindivan Callahan. Brindivan Callahan has been a devotee and disciple of the late, great spiritual teacher Lee Lozowick for twenty years. Brinda has been responsible for the operation of the Hohm Community ashram in France, Ferme de Jutreau, since 1996. She conducts seminars on conscious parenting, and other topics. Before moving with her then-husband and two children to Arizona to work with Mr. Lozowick, Brinda studied with E.J. Gold, Robert Daniel Ennis, and Mike McDonnell here in California.

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Saturday, November 5, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #44 - 05NOV11

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 focuses on "Steadfastness and Faithfulness in Spiritual Practice" with readings from:
    • The Parrot Jataka Tale
    • Wild White Goose - the diary of female Zen Master Jiyu-Kennett Roshi on her training in Japan
    • Sufi Tales as recorded by Idries Shah
    • Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment Mariana Caplan

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #38 - 24SEP11

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 and Stuart Goodnick discuss the distinction between religion and spirituality.

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #37 - 17SEP11

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 reads his 1998 article, The Death of Robert Daniel Ennis. Robert Ennis was the founder of Tayu Meditation Center and the treatment of his death was inspired by the work of today's guest.
  • A discussion with Jerrigrace Lyons. Jerrigrace Lyons is the Director of Final Passages, a model project offering education for personal and legal rights concerning home or family-directed funerals and final disposition (burial and cremation). She has a long history in alternative health care. Jerrigrace Lyons, a Reiki Master, Certified Trager Practioner, and founder of the project, is a Minister who also directs Home Funeral Ministry. She has been interviewed and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Mother Earth News, SF Magazine, KRON 4, CNN Headline News to name a few and now featured in a new PBS documentary “A family Undertaking” aired nationally in 2004.

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #36 - 10SEP11

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 reads/discusses his essay "The Practice of Patriotism" originally written after 9/11/2001.
  • Robert Schmidt reads/discusses an interview of Ram Dass by Mariana Caplan from her book, The Guru Question, in which they discuss the relationship with the guru.
  • Robert Schmidt reads/discusses Chapters 1 and 2 of E.J. Gold's The Hidden Work.

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #35 - 03SEP11

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 Kevin Griffin. Kevin Griffin is the author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps and A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery. A longtime Buddhist practitioner and 12 Step participant, he is a leader in the mindful recovery movement and one of the founders of the Buddhist Recovery Network. Kevin teaches internationally in Buddhist centers, treatment centers, professional conferences, and academic settings.

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #34 - 27AUG11

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 reads E.J. Gold's "The Carousel" from Autobiography of a Sufi with musical accompaniment by Daniel Kelly (Part 2).
  • Robert Schmidt reads Lee Lozowick's "Non-Dualism and the Spiritual Path" from Lozowick's book Enlightened Duality.
  • A discussion with Robert Schmidt, Stuart Goodnick, and Daniel Kelly on "Non-Dualism and the Spiritual Path".

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Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #33 - 20AUG11

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 reads E.J. Gold's "The Carousel" from Autobiography of a Sufi with musical accompaniment by Daniel Kelly (Part 1).
  • A Discussion with Regina Sara Ryan. Regina Sara Ryan, a professional writer and editor, is a graduate advisor in the fields of Theology and Psychology at Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona. She is the author of numerous books in the fields of spirituality and natural health, including: Igniting the Inner Life; Praying Dangerously; and The Woman Awake. As a wellness consultant, she also co-authored (with John W. Travis, M.D.) the classic Wellness Workbook, a standard of holistic health education since 1980. As a proponent of natural health, Ryan has long been an advocate of breastfeeding as the natural and the healthiest means of feeding our babies. Ryan’s work in spirituality evolves from her more than thirty-year study of contemplation and mysticism. In 1995 she met the South Indian saint, Yogi Ramsuratkumar and spent five weeks at his ashram in Tiruvannamalai, India. She lives in Paulden, Arizona.

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #32 - 13AUG11

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:
  • Discussion with Stuart Goodnick and Rob Schmidt
  • Reading and discussion of Lee Lozowick's Conscious Parenting, Chapter 2.
  • Reading and discussion of E.J. Gold's Practical Work on Self, Chapter 2: The Pond (cont'd)

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Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #31 - 06AUG11

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:
  • Discussion with Stuart Goodnick and Rob Schmidt
  • Reading and discussion of Lee Lozowick's Conscious Parenting, Chapter 2.
  • Reading and discussion of E.J. Gold's Practical Work on Self, Chapter 1: The Pond

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