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In this episode, Michael and Arkan Lushwala talk about how indigenous wisdom can help us to be more resilient and connected in this time of great upheaval. They spoke about how the elders saw this as a time of shifting from a path of competition to one of cooperation and community. Arkan also spoke of the importance of the empowerment of women and how to find balance between the feminine and masculine energies to help guide us through this time of evolutionary transformation.

Arkan, is an Andean ceremonial leader and a devoted servant of the Earth.  He powerfully presents us with the wisdom of his ancestors in order to address the compelling questions of our times. In his books, Deer & Thunder and The Time of the Black Jaguar, Arkan shares profound indigenous wisdom, and offers us a way to stop the destruction of our planet, Pachamama, making particular emphasis on the healing of her waters. 

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In this episode, Michael and Jhaimy discuss Sumaq Causay, Living in a good way /in harmony with all existence. They discuss the current Pachacuti (time/space) era we are in and how that opens up new, unimaginable possibilities for humanity and all of life. Jhaimy also shares practical tools that can support feeling grounded in our growth and evolution and bring forth the healing needed during this time. www.childrenofthe7rays.com

Jhaimy Alvarez-Acosta is a Traditional Wisdomkeeper and Curandero (healer) from Cusco, Peru, and a featured guest speaker at conferences throughout the world. Guiding groups and "once-in-a-lifetime" spiritual journeys to Peru is a passion for Jhaimy who is best known for his heart-centered approach to ceremony and healing, supporting liberation from limitations and connecting to heart and purpose. www.childrenofthe7rays.com and www.tamtoursperu.com

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In this episode, Michael has a conversation with Mark Nepo about returning to what really matters… They discuss how to stay close to that which is sacred, how to meet the world with an inner life, and the practice of mature compassion that honors our differences. They also discuss being joyful in the face of the sorrows of the world with truth and kindness that restores the heart.

With over a million copies sold, Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Awakening.  Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." His work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.  A bestselling author, he has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects. 

The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters
explores our struggle to inhabit the soul on Earth through a messy human life, and how underneath our differences, we can be who we are everywhere and create a path to what matters.
I love the Questions to walk with after each section!

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In this episode, Michael and Kyle Cease talk about fear and how to embrace and grow from it, especially in these times of COVID-19. They also talk about the illusions of money and how we treat our money is related to how we treat ourselves and others. They shared about their meditation practices and the healing opportunities of cultivating stillness.

After over 20 years of achieving what he thought were his dreams of being a headlining touring comedian and actor, Kyle Cease suddenly discovered that the belief “When something happens, I will be happy” is a complete lie. Following the calling of his heart, he decided to quit his stand-up career at its peak, and now—as a transformational comedian and New York Times bestselling author of I Hope I Screw This Up and The Illusion of Money —he brings his one-of-a-kind wisdom to sold-out audiences around the world and reaches millions online. www.kylecease.com  
The Illusion of Money: Why Chasing Money is Stopping You From Receiving It

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In this episode, Michael talks with Daniel Goodenough about the differences between purpose, vision, and mission. They discussed the myth of separation and how inquiry is an important tool for discovering your essential purpose. Exploring questions like, “What do you love? What do you find beautiful, and what do you long for…?”

Daniel Goodenough co-founded The Way of the Heart in 1988 to help people live more fulfilled, purposeful lives. Daniel has authored fourteen life-mission courses and trained thousands internationally.

His background as a professional musician, scientist, fine artist, and designer has contributed to his deep understanding of, and profound commitment to, empowering others to manifest their life missions - and to do so artfully, skillfully, and sacredly.
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Book: The Caravan of Remembering: A Road map for Experiencing the Awakening of Your Life's Mission

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

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​In this episode, Michael interviews himself and talks about the value and importance of using this time of the COVID 19 quarantine to cultivate a deeper presence and capacity to hold the challenges of our time. He points out the phases or steps of dealing with fear, and personal challenges and how we can heal into wholeness through cultivating a meditation practice.

Michael Stone is a Shamanic Practitioner, Teacher, Mentor, Journalist, and the Host and Producer of The Shift Network Shamanism Global Summit and KVMR’s Conversations. He interviews leading-edge thinkers, authors and activists in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice, and Spiritual Fulfillment. Michael spent most of his vocational life as a corporate Organizational Development Consultant, Communications Specialist, and Leadership Trainer.

Michael has extensive training in somatic movement as a student of Gabrielle Roth since the 70’s, is a certified trainer in 5Rhythms, Trance Dance, and Soul Motion, and is a graduate of Sandra Ingerman’s Shamanic teachers' program and worked with many other shamanic teachers around the world. Michael has been teaching and leading classes, teleseminars and workshops on Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.

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In this episode Michael & John Lockley discuss cultural appropriation. 

John Lockley is a senior Sangoma in the Xhosa lineage from South Africa. He is also known as a traditional healer, diviner or spirit doctor. Sangomas are traditional African Shamans, who are called by the ancestors to apprentice under another Sangoma to receive transmission or the gift of healing.
John is founder of 'The Way of the Leopard' teachings; a unique teaching system to help people from non shamanic cultures to reconnect to their inner wilderness, bones (ancestors), dreams and the natural world. trained in both the mystical African arts of divination, herbal medicine and dreaming, as well as contemporary Psychology, Buddhism and Yoga.

John trained with Zen Masters from the young age of 19 in South Korea; and, following his Sangoma calling, proceeded to train, apprentice and mentor with some of Southern Africa’s top Sangomas and traditional healers. www.johnlockley.com

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In this episode Michael and John Lockley discuss cultural appropriation.

John Lockley is a senior sangoma in the Xhosa lineage from South Africa. He is also known as a traditional healer, diviner or spirit doctor. Sangomas are traditional African Shamans, who are called by the ancestors to apprentice under another sangoma to receive transmission or the gift of healing. John is founder of 'The Way of the Leopard' teachings; a unique teaching system to help people from non-shamanic cultures to reconnect to their inner wilderness, bones (ancestors), dreams and the natural world. www.johnlockley.com

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In this episode, Michael and Dr. Emmett Miller discuss ways we can meet the challenges of the COVID-19 virus, and how to reduce the fear, anxiety, and stress that is gripping so many people at this time. They also address the possible positive outcomes and how important it is to plant seeds of love, compassion, and kindness in the gardens of our own and the collective heart.

Emmett Miller MD practices Mind-Body Medicine and Life Coaching. One of the fathers of Holistic Medicine, creator of Guided Imagery and the first guided imagery tapes, he offers self-healing experiential CDs, DVDs and MP3downloads at Shop.DrMiller.com, and at his DrMiller.com/covid, offers a plethora of free audio and video healing meditations for healing through this pandemic.

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In this episode, Michael talks with Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan about the need for tribe and the importance of transcending the myth of separation. Our system is broken and we need each other to come together in common-unity. Bill and Zoe have amazing training, developed over many years, that supports people in stepping out of their adult aloneness and fragmentation and into the world of Tribe.

Bill and Zoe are the founders of Time for Tribe global community and authors of We Need Each Other. They have been teaching tribe-building together around the world for more than a decade, and have sparked the creation of many tribes across the planet.

Bill Kauth co-founded the New Warrior Training Adventure and the ManKind Project (MKP), which has initiated 80,000 men into healthy masculinity all around the world. He is the author of A Circle of Men, originally published by St. Martin’s Press. In his role as “Visionary-at-Large” with MKP, Bill studies the state of the world and sees the profound need for human reconnection.

Zoe Alowan Kauth lived in community and has been deeply engaged in sacred art for decades. As an artist, singer and healer, she weaves people together with authenticity and wisdom. She facilitates with humor and insight, co-honoring the divine feminine and masculine. She was one of the founders of Awakening Women and a local Threshold Choir.

7-week online course -- Time for Tribe: Creating Your Personal Community of Deep Belonging.  April 14th www.Timefortribecourse.com

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In this episode, Michael and Anita Moorjani talk about their common near-death experiences. As both have had an NDE it provided a lively and provocative discussion about dealing with fear, doubt, scarcity, guilt, joy and meeting death with an open heart. They also talk about the gift of the current virus and how people can use it for healing past wounding...

Anita Moorjani was born in Singapore of Indian parents, moved to Hong Kong at the age of two, and lived in Hong Kong for most of her life. Because of her background and British education, she is multilingual and grew up speaking English, Cantonese, and an Indian dialect simultaneously; she later learned French at school. Anita had been working in the corporate world for many years before being diagnosed with cancer in April 2002. Her fascinating and moving near-death experience in early 2006 tremendously changed her perspective on life, and her work is now ingrained with the depths and insights she gained while in the other realm. Anita's story has been captivating audiences ever since. https://anitamoorjani.com 

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In this episode, Michael has a conversation with a spiritual teacher, Matt Kahn about using our guilt, shame and regret as an access to our growth and realizing that nothing is wrong. They focus on awakening to unconditional love towards ourselves and the world and embracing uncertainty as an access to our creativity.

Matt Kahn is the top-selling author of Whatever Arises, Love That and Everything Is Here to Help You - today we are going to be talking about his latest book, The Universe Always Has A Plan. Matt is a spiritual teacher, and highly attuned empathic healer who has become a YouTube sensation with his healing and often humorous videos. His more than 15 million YouTube channel viewers are finding the support they seek to feel more loved, awakened, and opened to the greatest possibilities in life through the invitation. https://mattkahn.org/

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In this episode, Michael speaks with internationally renowned systems scientist Peter Senge, whose book The Fifth Discipline transformed the way we look at organizations and organizational change. Peter Introduced the idea of the Learning Organizations and has been a pioneer in Awareness Based Systems Change. These kinds of social system change are important for, not only people in leadership positions but to every person who longs for a better world.

Dr. Peter Senge is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. Dr. Senge is the author of The Fifth Discipline, which brought the concept of the learning organization mainstream. His current work focuses on a shared understanding of complex problems such as global food systems, climate change, education systems, and regenerative economics. www.systemsawareness.org
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​In this episode, Michael and Otto Scharmer talk about Consciousness Based Systems Change and the shift in leadership from an outward change perspective to exploring the interior realms of consciousness as an essential part of large scale social change. They also look at how to apply Otto’s Theory U principles to global climate change by attending to and applying these transformative processes to our economic, democratic, and learning infrastructures.

Dr. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P. Senge et al). He is co-author of Leading from the Emerging Future, which outlines eight acupuncture points for transforming capitalism. His most recent book, The Essentials of Theory U, outlines the core principles and applications of awareness-based systems change. www.ottoscharmer.com
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​In this episode, Michael and Albert Flynn DeSilver talk about writing and journaling as a path to awakening. On the one hand, it is a book about learning to write, on the other it's about learning about yourself and how to find your deepest calling through journaling. This is a brilliant interview for anyone interested in discovering their own immense depth and the wisdom of their own heart.

Albert Flynn DeSilver is an internationally published poet, memoirist, and novelist. His writing has appeared in over 100 literary journals worldwide. In addition to his book, WRITING AS A PATH TO AWAKENING, Albert has published several books of poetry and the memoir Beamish Boy. Albert teaches at the Omega Institute, Esalen, Spirit Rock, and writing conferences nationally. www.albertflynndesilver.com

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In this episode, Michael and HeatherAsh Amara talk about a powerful process for stepping out of our story of separation and suffering and into a more deeply interconnected way of being with ourselves and the world. They discussed ways to untangle our emotions from our debilitating stories and habitual patterns, making way for realizing our soul’s intention in action.

HeatherAsh Amara is the author of numerous books including the Warrior Goddess Training series. She brings an openhearted, inclusive worldview to her writing and teachings, which are a rich blend of Toltec wisdom, European Shamanism, Buddhism, and Native American Ceremony. www.heatherashamara.com  
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In this episode Michael & Thomas Hübl discuss the personal and social impact of trauma and how it can become a portal for our spiritual, mental, physical and emotional health and growth. Recorded at the Wisdom 2.0 conference in SF, CA.

Thomas Hübl is a modern mystic, a spiritual teacher whose work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions with the discoveries of contemporary science, illuminating both with his profound understanding. Thomas’s teachings offer a unique approach for living as a mystic in the “marketplace” of human activity. thomashuebl.com

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In this episode, Michael and Sandra Ingerman discuss Shamanic Journeying and the basics of the practice. Towards the end of the recording Sandra takes us on a very positive journey into the middle world and explains how to get the most out of having a shamanic practice. www.sandraingerman.com
Sandra Ingerman, MA, is an award winning author of twelve books, including Shamanic Journeying, Medicine for the Earth, Walking in Light and The Book of Ceremony. She is a world renowned teacher of shamanism and has been teaching for more than 40 years. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. www.sandraingerman.com

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In this episode of Conversations, Michael and Loren Swift talk about shifting the paradigm from the mechanistic deterministic separation to the new quantum perspective of deep interconnectivity and common unity. This heartfelt conversation is a powerful exploration of what it means to be a human in these times of great change, chaos and upheaval in the world. Listen in and experience dropping from the head to deeply into the heart of hearts...
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Loren Swift, was a Licensed Psychotherapist working in the field of addictions-recovery and dissociative disorders in Santa Fe, NM. She left psychotherapy because she found it too limiting, and focused on her work as a Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer and coach for the past 2 decades; supporting couples, families and groups in building mutual understanding and collaboration.
Her new book, The Earth Keeper’s Handbook: Assuming Leadership in A New World is written to support the awakening to our innate connectedness with all of life. lorenswift.com

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In this episode, Michael and Dr. Vandana Shiva discuss Regenerative Agricultural, the chemical agra-business death cartel, ecofeminism, how governments use food as a weapon of control and the relationship of women to our seeds. One of the most brilliant and powerful physicists, activists and authors on the planet Dr. Vandana Shiva shows us how our relationship to food can save the world and solve the climate crisis...

Time magazine called her an “Environmental Hero”, Forbes Magazine said that she is one of the seven most powerful women on the globe. Vandana Shiva is an internationally acclaimed author, and one of the world’s most dynamic and provocative thinkers on food sovereignty. Trained as a quantum physicist, with a lifetime of ecological activism, Dr. Vandana Shiva has spent the last 35 years applying her knowledge of non-separation and interconnectedness to help create healthier food and agriculture systems across the globe. www.vandanashiva.com
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In this episode of Conversations, Michael and Alexander Wendt discuss what a Social Science based in a Quantum perspective would look like in comparison to the current mechanistic paradigm that serves as its foundation. They explore the “Hard Problem” of understanding how something material can have consciousness and what it would look like if our worldview shifted from a Newtonian perspective to a quantum view.

Alexander Wendt, PhD is Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Wendt is interested in philosophical aspects of social science, with special reference to international relations. His recent book, Quantum Mind and Social Science, explores the implications for social science of the possibility that consciousness is a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon – in effect, that human beings are walking wave functions. https://www.alexanderwendt.org

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In this episode, Michael and Michael Namkung discuss how the creative process merges with the spiritual journey. They look at how our self-judgements stop us from fully expressing our own creativity and finding our natural flow, which everyone was born with and has blocked through the stories we tell ourselves. They also talk about why it’s particularly hard for men to express their vulnerability, which is at the heart of the creative flow process.
Michael Namkung is what happens when Bob Ross becomes an Olympic athlete. Michael is a father, poet, artist and multiple world champion. Michael mentors men in expanding their self-expression and working with the power of their emotions, and leads creativity retreats to help people access the depth of their creative power. Michael debuts his new performance SEEING THE INVISIBLE – INTERACTIVE on January 3, 2020 at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, OR.
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In this episode which was recorded when Ram Dass was turning 80, Michael and Ram Dass talk about love as a spiritual connection to the one heart, and how at a certain level of consciousness it's all love... They distinguish egoic love from soul love as a recurring incarnated manifestation of Spirit, which offers a possibility of even loving our political leaders! Ram Dass talks about the epidemic of self hatred and how the ego keeps us bound to fear and suffering...

​Ram Dass is one of America’s most beloved spiritual figures. He has made his mark on the world giving teachings and promoting loving service, harmonious business practices, and conscious care for the dying. His spirit has been a guiding light for four generations, carrying millions along on the journey, helping free them from their bonds as he has worked his way through his own. Ram Dass left his body Dec 22nd 2019.
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