Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #115 - 27APR13

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 Gus diZerega, Ph.D. Gus diZerega is a Third Degree Elder in Gardnerian Wicca. He studied closely with Timothy White who later founded Shaman’s Drum magazine, and also studied Brazilian Umbanda for six years under Antonio Costa e Silva.

    Dr. diZerega has published widely on the social sciences in the academic press as well as on spirituality. His second book Pagans and Christians: The Personal Spiritual Experience won the Best Nonfiction of 2001 award from The Coalition of Visionary Resources. His third, co-authored with Philip Johnson, is Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and a Christian in Dialogue. His art frequently appeared in Shaman’s Drum, and the ecological journals Wild Earth, and The Trumpeter. He blogs and writes for many online publications on wicca, environmental issues, and politics.

    DiZerega combines a formal academic training in Political Science with decades of work in Wicca and shamanic healing.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #114 - 20APR13

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 Rev. Dr. John Mabry. John R. Mabry is a pastor, teacher, musician and writer. He holds a master’s degree in Creation Spirituality from Holy Names College and a doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies. John has served as editor for Creation Spirituality magazine and Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, and as managing editor for the Episcopal Diocese of California's Pacific Church News.

    John currently serves as pastor of Grace North Church in Berkeley, Calif., an Anglican-rite Congregational parish. John is the Director of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate Program at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministry, where he also teaches world religions and interfaith theology.

    John is the author of numerous books on spirituality and spiritual guidance, including Growing Into God: A Beginner’s Guide to Christian Mysticism, Faith Styles: Ways People Believe, Noticing the Divine: An Introduction to Interfaith Spiritual Guidance and The Way of Thomas: Nine Insights for Enlightened Living from the Secret Sayings of Jesus.

    He also writes fiction, poetry, and music. John lives in Oakland, Calif.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #113 - 13APR13

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. Robert Schmidt, spiritual director of Tayu Meditation Center. Rob Schmidt met and began intensive, 24-hour study with Tayu Meditation Center founder Robert Daniel Ennis in 1977. After five remarkable training years, he received ordination as a minister of Tayu, and co-taught with his teacher until Mr. Ennis’ death in 1998. His work with Mr. Ennis included co-writing and publishing a book entitled God Is Gay: An Evolutionary Spiritual Work. Rob succeeded Mr. Ennis as Tayu spiritual director, a post he still holds, in collaboration with yours truly. With Stuart Goodnick and Jim Wilson he co-founded Many Rivers Books & Tea in Sebastopol in Sebastopol, CA, in 2002.

    Currently he’s collaborating with practitioners of many spiritual traditions to create     The Festival of Conscious Parenting, a community event scheduled for 2014 in Santa Rosa, CA. Along the way, Rob completed a Ph.D. in anthropological archaeology at UC Berkeley, where he was co-editor with his grad student colleague Barbara Voss of the award-winning Archaeologies of Sexuality, the first academic edited volume to examine the phenomenon of sexuality as a object of knowledge in archaeological contexts.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #112 - 06APR13

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 Lodro Rinzler, a practitioner and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. He began meditating as a child and sat retreats as a teenager, even going as far as attending a silent month-long retreat during which he shaved his head and took monastic robes and vows.

    When he left for college he received two heirlooms from his parents: from his father, a mala which he had used to recite mantras; from his mother, her father’s flask. He utilized both greatly in the four years ahead. During that time Lodro became a Vajrayana student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He also established Buddhist House, an eighteen person dorm at Wesleyan University which hosts a large meditation room. He began teaching meditation at that time.

    After leaving college he was recruited to the position of the Executive Director of the Boston Shambhala Center. He began leading numerous workshops at meditation centers and college campuses throughout the United States. Lodro served as the Head of Development for Shambhala internationally before founding his own non-profit, an authentic leadership training and job placement organization.

    His column, What Would Sid Do, appears regularly on The Huffington Post and The Interdependence Project and his writing has appeared in Shape Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, The Shambhala Sun, Buddhadharma, and The Good Men Project. He is the author of two books: The Buddha Walks into a Bar and Walk Like a Buddha. Lodro writes from his apartment in New York City, which he shares with his dog Tillie and his cat, Justin Bieber.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #111 - 30MAR13

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 Russell Delman. Russell began his study of body/mind perspectives and human potential in 1969 as a student of psychology. His lifelong commitment to awareness and freedom began consciously at this time along with his practice of Zen meditation. Through workshops at The Esalen Institute (1971), living at the Gestalt Institute of Canada (1972), travels in the jungles of South America (1973), being trained as a yoga teacher (1974) and studying Gestalt therapy with Dr Robert Hall (1975-1978), he deepened his self-knowledge. His training and deep personal relationship with Moshe Feldenkrais began in 1975, during the first professional training program offered in the U.S. In 1984, Russell became one of the first people in the world authorized to lead Feldenkrais® Professional training programs. Since that time he has taught in more than 40 of these programs internationally and directed or designed 10. Russell has helped in the training of more than 2500 Feldenkrais teachers. In addition, he maintains a private practice at his home in northern California and teaches public workshops throughout the world.

    Along with his wife Linda, also a Feldenkrais trainer, he created the Feldenkrais-India Project that brought the method to India for the first time. Through work at Mother Teresa's Missions, particularly in Calcutta, the Delmans taught the "Sisters of Charity" to work with brain-injured children. During this time they were blessed and influenced by numerous private meetings with Mother Teresa.

    In addition to all the above, perhaps the strongest influences on Russell's life are his more than 30 years of relationship with Linda and the journey of fathering his daughter, Lily. The formation of “The Embodied Life™ School” and “The Mentorship Program” is the fruition of a life-long trajectory.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #110 - 23MAR13

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 Dale Borglum. Founder and Executive Director of The Living/Dying Project, Dale is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United States, The Dying Center. He has taught and lectured extensively on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, on caregiving as a spiritual practice, and on healing at the edge, the edge of illness, of death, of loss, of crisis.

    Dale has a BS from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Stanford University. He is the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook and has taught meditation for the past 35 years, after studying practices of devotion, meditation, and contemplative prayer with many of the greatest masters of the last century, including Neem Karoli Baba, Suzuki Roshi, Ananda Mayee Ma, Kalu Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse, Mahasi Sayadaw, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche, Goenka, Dudjom Rinpoche and HH the Dalai Lama. Dale has taught with Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Rev. Wayne Muller, and many others. His life’s work and passion has been and continues to be the healing of our individual and collective relationship with death and also using our mortality as an inspiration for spiritual awakening.
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Saturday, March 9, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #109 - 09MAR13

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 Sky Nelson (with co-host Dr. Nicholas Egan). Sky Nelson is a singer-songwriter, physicist and speaker with a unique vision. He teaches people about the physics of synchronicity, encouraging people to worry less, trust more, and keep our awareness open to the opportunities that are in constant motion around us. He provides a scientific model for understanding synchronicity that can lead to a new level of problem resolution. The model focuses upon an idea called “selfless confidence”, which is relevant if you are working in business, problem-solving in politics, or relating to family, as well as accomplishing your own personal goals.

    Sky speaks at Sunday services and afternoon workshops for Centers for Spiritual Living and Unity Centers around the country, as well as scientific conferences and business meetings. His peer reviewed articles have appeared in the Journal for Scientific Exploration, and The Conference Proceedings for American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He has presented his work investigating quantum theory, special relativity and synchronicity at the Society for Scientific Exploration Annual Meeting (2010, 2012), Towards a Science of Consciousness (2010, 2012), SAND (2010, 2011, 2012) and the AAAS (2011). Sky’s popular writings have been published in Science of Mind Magazine and New Thought Magazine. Sky received a nomination in 2012 for the coveted "Positive Music Award" for his song Live in Love. His album of original music “The World Ocean” and his brand-new eBook Coincidence: The Physics of Unexpected Opportunities are available for sale, and he is launching a one-of-a-kind 6 session online eClass with the same title beginning in March 2013.
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Saturday, March 2, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #108 - 02MAR13

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:
  • Hour 1: a conversation with Qigong Master Mingtong Gu, who teaches Wisdom Healing Qigong, which is focused on health and wellness, especially for specific health conditions. He received his master training at the largest Qigong Center China, where he worked effectively with patients with Parkinson's, stress, cancer and many other conditions. Master Gu was named Qigong Master of the Year by the World Congress on Qigong in 2011. Mingtong Gu is also the founder of The Chi Center, based at the EarthRise Retreat Center of the Institute of Noetic Science in Petaluma, CA. On March 3, Master Gu will host a large "Open Your Heart Qi Summit", where Master Gu will teach Qigong movements that open the heart during stress and illness. This event is also calling on attendees to open their hearts to more hope and good works in their daily lives. A recording of the event is available on The Chi Center website.

  • Hour 2: a conversation with Elliott Freed. Elliott Freed has been involved in healing since 1988. In 1999 he began cultivating under the guidance of Master Fu Wei Zhong. Master Fu is the 13th lineage holder of a Ch’an healing lineage from the Golden Summit Monastery on Mount E Mei (Uh May) in the borderlands between Tibet and China. Since 2004 Elliott has practiced Chinese medicine. He has worked with well over 1000 individuals, and taught classes to hundreds more.

More information about Master Mingtong Gu's work can be found at:
For more information about Elliott Freed's work, contact him at: fireattheroot @ yahoo.com
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #107 - 23FEB13

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 Lama Tsultrim Allione, international Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons. She is the founder and spiritual director of Tara Mandala. In 2009, Lama Tsultrim received the International Outstanding Woman in Buddhism Award given in Bangkok, Thailand.

    Born Joan Rousmaniere Ewing in 1947 to a family of considerable accomplishment in New England, the young woman who would become Lama Tsultrim Allione began a lifelong study of Tibetan Buddhism at the age of 19 after encountering it during a long trip to India and Nepal. Among other teachers she studied with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, and at the age of 22 was ordained a nun by His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, who became her root guru. After several years of study and training in both Asia and America with many wonderful teachers, she made the difficult decision to return her monastic vows, married, and moved with her new husband to Puget Sound. There she gave birth to two daughters, and both she and her husband continued their Buddhist studies. The family moved to Colorado to work with Chogyam Trungpa, where Tsultrim separated from her first husband and later married Italian filmmaker Costanzo Allione. They had two children, one of whom died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Her Buddhist studies which helped her come to terms with this death were the foundation of her first book Women of Wisdom.

    She met her third husband David Petit in 1988. This marriage was a true partnership, and the couple collaborated in the creation of Tara Mandala near Pagosa Springs, Colorado in the early 1990s. For many years, Lama Tsultrim has focused her teachings on the lineage of Machig Labdrön, the 11th century Tibetan yogini who founded the Chöd lineage. In 2007 she was recognized and acknowledged as an emanation of Machig Labdrön, by the resident lama and lineage-holder at the monastery in Tibet where Machig Labdrön lived most of her long life. In 2008 she published the national bestseller Feeding Your Demons – Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict.
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #106 - 16FEB13

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 Kenneth "Bear Hawk" Cohen, author of the critically acclaimed classic, Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing. He is a health educator, a traditional healer, and scholar of indigenous medicine. Bear Hawk is the recipient of the Alyce and Elmer Green Award for Innovation and Lifetime Achievement in Energy Medicine. Although best known for his pioneering work in Chinese healing arts (qigong), he has followed the "red road" of Native American wisdom as his personal spiritual path for more than thirty-five years.

    Of Russian Jewish ancestry, Bear Hawk is an adopted member of a Cree family from Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Canada and teaches with the blessings and support of traditional elders of many Nations. He is an initiate of the Red Cedar Circle and various medicine societies. Bear Hawk was an apprentice to Cherokee spiritual teacher Keetoowah Christie, from 1977-87. He also trained with elders from the Northeast, Northwest, and Northern Plains.

    In his quest for the common root of healing, Bear Hawk was initiated into Filipino oracion, prayer healing and psychic surgery, after a five year course of study. He studied African medicine with the Zulu sangoma, Ingwe, in the lineage of the Holy Man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, and is a keeper of the sacred "bones" used in divination. Bear Hawk was one of four North American students of a master healer of the Igbo Tribe, Nigeria, and is an initiated dibia (priest/diviner).

    In addition to writing Honoring the Medicine, Bear Hawk is the author of "Native American Medicine" in Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This was the first work on Native American medicine to be included in a U.S. medical school textbook. He is also the author of Native Wisdom: 7 Keys to Health and Happiness (Sounds True, audio CD) and more than 200 journal articles on health and spirituality.
More information about Ken "Bear Hawk" Cohen's work can be found at:
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Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #105 - 09FEB13

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 Eric Edelmann, a teacher in the lineage of the great French spiritual teacher Arnaud Desjardins, who died in 2011. Founded by Desjardins over twenty years ago, Eric and his wife Sophie have operated Ashram Mangalam in Quebec for many years. Eric Edelmann is the author three books, regrettably not yet translated from French into English, Swami Prajnanpad and Lying, Jesus Spoke Aramaic, and Mangalam: A Journey from Arnaud Desjardins. While English speakers can get access to Desjardins’ teachings from his two books published in English, The Jump into Life, and Toward the Fullness of Life, we particularly appreciate our conversation with Eric Edelmann as an opportunity to deepen our understanding, and to share with our listeners, this deep teaching, which Desjardins himself received from his Indian teacher Swami Prajnanpad.

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #104 - 02FEB13

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 Zachiah Murray, author of the new book from Parallax Press entitled Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt. A Registered Landscape Architect and Masters of Divinity graduate from Meru Interfaith Seminary at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment located in San Jose, California, she regularly teaches meditation classes for the community and outreach programs. She also teaches 9 to 12 year-old children the martial art of Aikido, whose goal is the harmonious resolution of conflict. In addition to being a graduate of Meru Interfaith Seminary, she is also a member of the Order of Interbeing in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh (Thich Nhat Hanh provides the Foreward to Zachiah’s book). She lives in Santa Cruz.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #103 - 26JAN13

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 Zoketsu Norman Fischer, poet, author and Zen Buddhist priest. For many years he has taught at the San Francisco Zen Center, the oldest and largest of the new Buddhist organizations in the West, where he served as Co-abbot from 1995-2000. He is presently a Senior Dharma Teacher there as well as the founder and spiritual director of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization dedicated to adapting Zen Buddhist teachings to Western culture.

    A person of unusually wide-ranging interests, his Zen teaching is known for its eclecticism, openness, warmth, and common sense, and for his willingness to let go of everything, including Zen. His chief interests in addition to poetry and traditional Zen and Buddhist teachings, are the adaptation of Zen meditation and understanding to the worlds of business, law, conflict resolution, interreligious dialog (he works especially with Jewish meditation and Catholic inter-monastic dialog), care of the dying (he has for many years been a teacher with and is emeritus chair of the board of the Zen Hospice Project), the world of technology, and anything else he can think of. He’s the author of many books of poetry and prose, including his latest book, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the practice of Lojong.


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Saturday, January 19, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #102 - 19JAN13

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 Kriyananda Kanda, aka Dr. Calen Daniel, DC. Dr. Daniel is a groundbreaking leader in the field of Whole Nutrition, and Holistic Health. After experiencing, in depth, the benefits of a Sattvic lifestyle and being a direct disciple of the brahmin, Dr. Keshaba Bhat, Dr. Daniel promotes the use of food as medicine and Yoga Therapy. His work consolidates modern science and the most ancient Vedic philosophy. Dr. Daniel works closely with his clients on ongoing goals providing cooking workshops and nutritional consultations. His work includes a wide range of functional and practical lifestyle assessments and health research for serious health problems.


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Saturday, January 5, 2013

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #101 - 05JAN13

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:
  • Hosts Stuart Goodnick and Dr. Robert Schmidt reflect on two years of broadcasting of The Mystical Positivist on KOWS-LP and the art of conversation. Conversation is a two way dance and when guests on our show embody the fluidity to participate in a real give and take, we acheive something remarkable in the exchange. We realize the possibility of all participants in the conversation growing and exploring new perspectives on the subject at hand.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #100 - 29DEC12

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 is our one hundredth episode of The Mystical Positivist and for this show we play excerpts from two of the most frequently downloaded podcasts from our two year run. In the first hour we play an excerpt from an interview with did with Dr. Peter Russell, author of From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness, which was first aired on May 12, 2012. In our second hour, we play an excerpt from an interview with did with Dr. Dean Radin, author of Entangled Minds, which first aired on March 28, 2011.

The full interviews with Peter Russell and Dean Radin,as well as details on their work, can be found at:
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #99 - 22DEC12

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 Ruah Bull, Director of Contemplative Programs at the Journey Center. Ruah Bull, Ph.D. is a spiritual director who specializes in working with helping professionals, people on non-traditional spiritual paths, and those who are entering the contemplative journey. She has a private practice in Petaluma, CA, and works in a variety of medical settings. Ruah's passion is to bring people from different traditions and practices together to share and explore God's call to community, conversation and contemplation. Ruah is the co-author of two books on Subtle Aromatherapy: Aromatherapy & Subtle Energy Techniques: Compassionate Healing With Essential Oils and Aromatherapy Anointing Oils: Spiritual Blessings, Ceremonies, and Affirmations. The Journey Center is a safe, welcoming and helpful place for all who are spiritually thirsty, no matter what path they have chosen at this point in their journey. It offers resources (online and local), events, gatherings and opportunities that are both Christ-centered and respectful of all spiritual paths.

    Topics in this lively conversation include discernment in encounters with spiritual beings, the transcendent energy of Jesus, spiritual discipline, modes of spiritual teaching, and poetry as spiritual practice.

More information about Ruah Bull's work can be found at:
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #98- 15DEC12

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:
  • Hour 1: A conversation with David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T. David Richo (davericho.com) is a 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. His books and workshops include attention to Buddhist practices. He is the best-selling author of more than a dozen volumes, including How to Be an Adult, How to Be an Adult in Relationships, How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality, and The Five Things You Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find By Embracing Them.

  • Hour 2: A conversation with hosts Stuart Goodnick and Robert Schmidt. Stuart and Rob continue the conversation on the themes of the child and the adult in spiritual practice, the source of Mystery in spiritual practice, and the distinctions and similarities between spiritual practice and psychological work.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #97 - 08DEC12

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 Kenneth S. Cohen. Ken Cohen (Gao Han) is the Executive Director and founder of The Qigong Research & Practice Center. He is a world renowned health educator, China scholar, and Qigong Master with more than forty years experience. A former collaborator with Alan Watts, he is the author of the internationally acclaimed book The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing (Ballantine), best-selling self-healing audio and video courses from publisher Sounds True, and more than 200 journal articles. In 2003 Ken Cohen won the leading international award in energy medicine, The Alyce and Elmer Green Award for Innovation and Lifetime Achievement. In addition to his work with Chinese medicine, Ken has also written an award-winning book on Native American healing practices titled Honoring the Medicine.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #96 - 01DEC12

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 Daniel Terragno, Roshi. Daniel Terragno founded and runs Rocks and Clouds Zendo in downtown Sebastopol. A native of Chile, Daniel Terragno is a teacher in the koan tradition of the Diamond Sangha, which was founded by Robert Aitken Roshi. Daniel is the dharma heir of John Tarrant Roshi of The Pacific Zen Institute. Daniel started his spiritual practice in 1967 studying the Gurdjieff Work with W.A. Nyland before taking up Zen. He received authorization to teach Zen in 1995, and in 2001 received dharma transmission from Tarrant Roshi. In addition to running Rocks and Clouds Zendo in Sebastopol, Daniel also teaches and leads sesshin in Ohio with Yellow Springs Dharma Center and Zen on High in Columbus, Ohio, and with Grupo Zen Viento del Sur (Southern Wind) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also in Santiago, Chile. We are joined by guest host Nick Egan for this discussion.
More information about Daniel Terrangno Roshi's work and interests can be found at:
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