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In this episode of WE Earth Radio, Michael shares a recording of a talk he recently offered, 'Why Can't We Just Get Along: How to Reconnect When Soul Loss Keeps Us Separate', during the recent 2023 Shamanic Wisdom Summit on The Shift Network.

Throughout time, shamanic practitioners have performed journeys and ceremonies that guide us to use the portal of our dreams to activate healings on multiple levels, including resolving generational trauma and tapping into the healing power of nature to access the deep wisdom of our ancestral heritage.

They can also help us confront our personal, collective, and ancestral wounds, using transformational energy rituals to recognize the medicine within so we can turn limitations, traumas, and fears into light and energy to use for our growth.

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation to experience deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life.
He has been teaching and leading embodied experiential events, classes, teleseminars, and workshops on organizational development, embodied shamanism, moving meditation, personal growth, and spiritual fulfillment for over 50 years.

This interview is part of the Shamanic Wisdom Summit a free online event. For more information, please visit theshiftnetwork.com/s/shamanism. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.

Thank you for listening!

with love and gratitude,
Michael

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In this episode of WE Earth Radio, Michael shares a recording of a live talk he recently offered, titled, Being Peace.

Being Peace - Transforming Pain & Suffering

'We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.' -Michael Franti

In the past week, I have spoken with, consoled, counseled, cried with, and held many of you in my heart as we experienced the overwhelming pain, violence, suffering, fear, and anxiety of the current global madness and disruption together. How do we meet this escalation and interruption of life and still maintain a sense of peaceful groundedness? How do we keep from shutting down our sense of humanity and caring? Most of all, what can we do to use the current disruption to open our hearts and heal our woundedness?

I don't profess to know the answers to these questions, but I know that healing happens when we come together in mutual, authentic, transparent exploration and common unity.
The focus of this recorded talk was on how to meet the current challenges and find ways to empower ourselves and our families as we meet the escalating separation, alienation, and divisiveness of our times.

This is not a time to "go it alone" or stuff our feelings and suppress our anger, sadness, and grief. It is a time to come together, feel, reflect, digest, and integrate our personal and collective pain. To heal, we have to feel! Suppressing our emotions and bodily responses only causes dis-ease, stress, tension, anxiety, reaction, and separation.

'The moment I react, I have no future; I become bound only to physical, mental, and emotional habits belonging to the past!
-Thomas Hübl

Thank you for listening!

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Michael

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In this episode of We Earth Radio, Michael shares a conversation with Christina Donnell, Ph.D.

Christina is a clinical psychologist, author, and spiritual teacher who studied Eastern traditions as well as the shamanic energy practices of the Q'ero Indians of Peru for nearly three decades. She is the founding Director of the Winds of Change Association, founded in 1996, a Minneapolis-based educational organization that offers programs that cultivate humankind’s evolving consciousness.

Christina's award-winning first book, Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into our Human Potential, a foray into the quantum nature of the human body, chronicles spiritual awakening through a form of dreaming that expands consciousness.
Her most recent book which she and Michael are discussing in this episode, Encounters with Living Language: Surrendering to the Power of Words, awakens readers to the intrinsic energy of language that can connect us to the Oneness that underlies all of life.
Christina maintains a consultation practice, teaches, and speaks worldwide, her lyrical prose fused with transmissions of the unseen, captivating audiences of all ages.
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In this episode of WE Earth Radio Conversations, Michael and Stephanie speak about trauma, transformation, healing, and much more, including Stephanie's book, Becoming Fierce.

Stephanie James is a dynamic presenter, author, film producer, 'When Sparks Ignite', transformational coach, and psychotherapist with 30 years in the mental health field. She has gathered wisdom from some of the most amazing minds and serving hearts on the planet and has synthesized their wisdom with her own knowledge and experience to help her audience expand their vision of themselves and ignite their purpose. She aims to bring as much love and healing to the world as possible and she understands that when each person lives their greatest version of themselves, they illuminate the way for others to do the same.
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In this episode of WE Earth Conversations, Michael & Courtney Wren-Mabbutt share a conversation about The Healing Power of Family Constellations.

Courtney Wren-Mabbutt, MSW RSW, is a medicine woman, experiential mystic, & therapist with her masters in social work. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, has training in Pre & Perinatal Work, is a Family Constellations Facilitator, and has training in shamanism, energy work, ceremony & ritual. She creates spaces for transformational experiences of embodied relational healing with life & the divine. Courtney lives in the Slocan Valley BC in conscious partnership & motherhood. She loves the wilderness, connection, and play.
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In this episode of WE Earth Radio, Michael shares a conversation with Lynne Twist and speak about her book, Living A Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself.

Lynne Twist is a global visionary and activist committed to creating a future that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just. She is the co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, the founder of the Soul of Money Institute, and the author of the bestselling book, The Soul of Money. Over the past forty years, she has worked in fifty countries with over 100,000 people as well as with many organizations and companies, inspiring them to expand how they see themselves and empowering them to express their commitment and creativity to secure the future of all life.
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In this session of WE Earth Radio, Michael has a lively and spiritually inspiring conversation with Mystic writer, teacher, and founder of Sacred Activism, Andrew Harvey. They discuss Andrew's new book, Engoldenment: A Year with Kabir, focusing on the life and writings of Kabir and why his poetry is so relevant to the challenges of today's fragmented world. In exploring the timeless wisdom of Kabir they look at the direct path to spiritual awakening that is available to each of us, as we deepen our own inner world and can be accelerated by reading sacred spiritual texts such as the work of Rumi and Kabir.

Andrew Harvey is one of the world’s most honored mystics and spiritual teachers and a leading translator of Rumi and Kabir, history’s most renowned mystical poets. An Oxford trained religious scholar and founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism, he is the author of more than 40 books and maintains an active teaching schedule both in the US and abroad. www.andrewharvey.net/

'Kabir is, I believe, the Everest of mystics, the greatest, the most reverent, most radical prophet that the world has ever seen and one absolutely vital to us now as we go through the greatest evolutionary ordeal in human history'. ~Andrew Harvey

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.

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In this inspiring episode, Michael speaks with Shelly Tygielski, founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. They talk about Shelly’s journey from a traditional Jewish family in Israel, to coming to NY, becoming a successful corporate executive, to teaching meditation to thousands of people weekly, and then creating a global movement that has reached and served tens of thousands of people around the world. This is an episode showing that you, all of us, can make a difference in the world.

Shelley's upcoming book: Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change The World

Shelly Tygielski is a trauma-informed mindfulness teacher, self-care activist, and the founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. Her work has been featured in over one hundred media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New Your Times, and The Washington Post. A Garrison Institute fellow, she has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful.org and teaches self-care and resilience at organizations and to audiences around the world. www.shellytygielski

'The secret to life is to show up!' ~Shelly Tygielski

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In this episode, Michael Stone shares about his upcoming 7-week course on Relational Intimacy, The Magic and Mystery of Authentic Relationships, which begins Tuesday, May 17th - June 28 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm PST.

Relational Intimacy is a process of deepening and evolving our sense of relatedness to ourselves, each other, and our natural world. This is an experiential and mystical workshop designed to heal the wounds of the trauma-induced adaptive child and tap into the natural genius and interdependency of the wise adult. Come, discover the magic and mystery of relational intimacy.

If you find yourself in repetitive and habitual arguments, challenges, and difficulties in your personal, familial, or work relationships, feel you are not being heard or seen by the most important people in your life, or experience frustration in having your voice be heard and your most important projects manifested, this is a course for you. We will also learn the alchemy of living relationally and interdependently which will create a new paradigm for living a thriving life.

The topics Michael will be exploring include, Establishing Trust and Safety, The Art of Presencing, Your Relation to Self, Healing the Mother Wound, Healing the Father Wound, Developing and Belonging, and Relational Intimacy Practices.

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.
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In this episode, Michael interviews Dr. Alberto Villoldo about his new book, The Wisdom Wheel: The Mythic Journey through the Four Directions. In this conversation, they discuss the medicine and challenges of each of the directions and how we can participate in the evolution of humanity to homo luminous, a new species of human ready to live harmoniously with the earth and each other. We think you will enjoy the journey into these shamanic teachings.

Alberto Villoldo, Ph. D. has trained as a psychologist and medical anthropologist and has studied the healing practices of the Amazon and the Andean shamans. Dr. Villoldo directs The Four Winds Society, where he trains individuals in the US and Europe in the practices of shamanic energy medicine. Dr. Villoldo has written more than 20 best selling books including Shaman Healer Sage, Grow A New Body, and Power Up Your Brain. Today we are going to be talking about this latest book, The Wisdom Wheel: The Mythic Journey through the Four Directions. thefourwinds.com/

'When we heal the earth, we feel the repercussions in our own life!' ~Alberto Villoldo

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In this episode, Michael speaks with visionary Duane Elgin about his latest book, Choosing Earth, about the future that awaits us as we continue to disregard the callings from the Earth herself. They look at the initiation or rites of passage that we are all going through and three probable outcomes or options for the future that we face; extinction, authoritarianism or transformation. The key question being, what will we choose now that collapse is inevitable. They also discuss the importance of grief in transcending our egoic and individualistic belief in separation. Don’t miss this very important conversation for the future of life itself.

Duane Elgin, is an internationally recognized author, speaker and media activist. He is the co-director of the Choosing Earth Project. His books include: Choosing Earth, The Living Universe, Promise Ahead, Voluntary Simplicity, and Awakening Earth. He received the Peace Prize of Japan—the Goi Award—in Tokyo in 2006 in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” His personal website is: www.DuaneElgin.com and project website is: www.ChoosingEarth.Org

'Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.' ~Duane Elgin

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In this episode, Michael has a conversation with Dan Millman about his new book, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit, an autobiography that looks at the life and evolution of Dan’s journey in discovering his own sense of worth, meaning, connection, and purpose. In this book, he shares about his teachers and mentors; the Professor, the Guru, the Warrior-Priest, and the Sage. This is a beautiful and inspirational conversation with a wise and humble elder.

Dan Millman teaches “the peaceful warrior’s way” in the United States and around the world. Author of eighteen books published in twenty-nine languages, Millman is a former world-champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. His bestseller Way of the Peaceful Warrior was adapted to a feature film starring Nick Nolte. His new book, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit. www.PeacefulWarrior.com

“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.” ~Dan Millman

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.

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In this episode, Michael has an inspiring conversation with the founder of the Relational Life Institute, Terry Real about his new book, Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship. They addressed many issues, strategies, and practices for having your relationship be an opportunity for healing, deepening, and thriving in our relationships.

Terry Real is an internationally recognized Family Therapist, Speaker, and Author. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples, individuals, and parents around the country along with a professional training program for clinicians wanting to learn his RLT (Relational Life Therapy) methodology. A family therapist and teacher for more than twenty-five years, Terry is the best-selling author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women (Scribner, 2002), The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work, and his latest book, Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship.
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“Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.” ~Terry Real

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.

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In this episode, Michael shares his recent Peace Talk from his new weekly online global meditation gatherings.
The theme this week is global social witnessing, being present to whatever is arising in our lives and in the world.

Michael invited everyone to look at the idea of the relationship between our inner peacefulness and the outer world and how everything that manifests in the world begins with imagining.  Michael invites you to join the weekly global family where we look at the ‘war' inside of ourselves, regaining our inner peace to affect outer peace.
We explore new possibilities for igniting and integrating the peace that can only be found and experienced from our inner sanctuary. The stillness where everything waits to be born!
Thank you for listening, being peace in the world, and just being you.

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.

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In this episode, Michael and Mel Schwartz discuss his book, The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live and Love which illuminates a radical new way of thinking enabling you to thrive in your life.

Mel Schwartz is a psychotherapist, marriage counselor, author, 2xTEDx speaker, podcaster, and leadership consultant. He earned his MSW from Columbia University in NYC and Master of Philosophy from Lancaster University in England.
Mel is one of the first contemporary practicing psychotherapists to distill the basic principles of quantum theory into therapeutic approaches, which enable people to overcome their challenges and live to their fullest potential.

Mel has enjoyed several defining moments in his life. In mid-life, in business and with two young children, Mel had been living the life he had planned. Yet, he felt a desire for deeper fulfillment, longing for a calling with far deeper purpose. In one of his defining moments, Mel chose to welcome the uncertainty that lay ahead as he embarked on an entirely new path. He closed his business, applied to, and enrolled in graduate school to follow his emerging passion–serving others as a psychotherapist. Mel became excited by new ways of thinking that propelled him to transcend the limiting protocols taught in graduate school. He began to immerse himself in emergent ways of thinking coming from quantum physics, philosophy, and other areas beyond the field of psychology. This evolving perspective enabled him to forge a singular new therapeutic approach from which to assist his clients.

Mel’s first book, The Art of Intimacy, The Pleasure of Passion, broke new ground in illuminating the path to joyful relationships and has benefitted countless people.
Mel is a member of the International Society for Consciousness Studies and has been interviewed extensively on TV, print, radio and podcasts. melschwartz.com/
“In a participatory universe, the creative potential is the new mantra that supplants inert “thingness.” ~Mel Schwartz

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.

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In this episode, Michael and author of Trauma as Medicine, Sarah Salter Kelly discuss their own trauma loss and how they learned, to not only cope with their loss but how to turn it into medicine for others.

Sarah Salter Kelly is a talented writer, healer, and speaker. She utilizes the raw compounded teachings of her life experience to uplift, empower and guide others. Her wisdom is authentic, embodied, and hard-won – generated through years of integrating the tragic homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator – alongside 30 years of studying personal growth, mysticism, restorative justice, and earth-based healing traditions. Over the past 14 years she has run a private healing practice, facilitated retreats in Canada and in Peru, taught trauma-focused and shamanic healing workshops, and presented at conferences/public events.

Sarah is a mother, wife, and lover of organic gardening, as well as an avid outdoor enthusiast. Her spare time is spent exploring the edges of the wild for solace, connection and the challenge of physical endurance. She resides in Grand Forks, B.C., with her family. sarahsalterkelly.com/

"Our ability to feel powerful, confident and capable is linked to how we have resolved the deeply painful experiences in our lives.” ~Sarah Salter Kelly

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Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Personal Growth, and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years.
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In this episode, Michael speaks with psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Tim Read about his latest book, Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Expanded States. Together they explore the latest findings in the rapidly growing therapeutic use of psychedelic substances especially in treating trauma. They also explore how these substances can support the healing and integration of early attachment wounding and how plant medicine and psychedelics can help break the unconscious and habitual patterns that result from attachment wounding.

Tim Read, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, with degrees in neuroscience and medicine. After heading the services for psychiatric emergencies and crisis intervention at the Royal London Hospital for 20 years, he is now involved in clinical research at King's College and Imperial College, London University, on the therapeutic use of psychedelics. He has completed training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and transpersonal psychology with Stanislav Grof and is a certified holotropic breathwork facilitator. The author of Walking Shadows and co-author of Breaking Open, he lives in London.

Maria Papaspyrou, MSc, is an integrative psychotherapist, supervisor, and family constellations facilitator. She has given talks and published articles on entheogens' sacramental and healing properties, supporting their re-introduction in psychotherapy. The co-editor of Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine, she lives in Brighton, England. Together, the authors are co-directors of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy in the UK.

'It’s the relationship that heals as opposed to the specific therapeutic technique, and it’s what we bring from our personal depths to that relationship that makes all the difference.' ~Tim Read

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In this session, Michael talks with Shirley Blancke about her new book, The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo, a book about the shamanic teaching of Ecuadorian yachak don Alberto Taxo who recently passed away.
Michael and Shirley discuss the Andean shamanic wisdom taught by this celebrated spiritual elder, shaman, and healer of the pre-Inca Atik (Kichwa) people from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. They look at the importance of our connection to the elements and dropping down from the head into the heart.

Shirley Blancke is an archeologist and anthropologist, who for 40 years has been reconstructing the 10,000-year-old Native history of Concord, Massachusetts, with help from Massachusetts Native Americans. She has also learned traditional sacred dance from a Hawaiian kahuna and hosted a ceremony for an Oglala Lakota medicine man. Shirley studied shamanic traditions with Hank Wesselman for 10 years and has worked with Ecuadorian yachak don Alberto Taxo for seven years. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

'The normal thing for indigenous people would be to not want to give more of anything because many injustices still exist and will exist for my people. Injustice however isn’t ended by injustice. Hate doesn’t end hate. Darkness is ended by light and hate by love.' ~don Alberto Taxo

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In this episode, Michael and Emma Farrell discuss her new book, Journeys with Plant Spirits: Plant Consciousness Healing & Natural Magic Practices. Together they explore our quest for conscious spiritual evolution, how plant spirit medicine can help move us to greater balance, harmony, healing, and wholeness, and the tools for deeper connection and interdependence with the natural world.

Emma Farrell is a plant spirit healer, geomancer, shamanic teacher, and the co-founder with her husband, Davyd, of the groundbreaking London event Plant Consciousness. She is a lineage holder of the White Serpent teachings and has been initiated into ancient magical practices of the British Isles. Emma currently runs a school of warrior healers and an apothecary of plant spirit medicine. She lives in South West England. www.plantconsciousness.com/
'The plant spirits are more evolved than us, having awakened their eternal self, and it is the awareness of this aspect of plant consciousness that can assist our own advancement.' ~Emma Farrell

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In this episode, Michael and Lee Adams share a conversation about Lee's new book, 'A Visionary Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Methods for Working with the Deep Dream State'.

Lee Adams has been actively researching, practicing, and teaching lucid dreaming for more than 20 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He runs the podcast Cosmic Echo as well as the dreamer community taileaters.com.  Lee lives in Port Orchard, Washington. taileaters.com/

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In this session, Michael speaks with Sally M. Ornstein, co-author with her husband Robert Ornstein about their book, God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God". They discuss perception and higher consciousness, the need to disconnect from “normal consciousness” to have a transcendent experience of higher consciousness, and the importance of tapping into these higher states of awareness to meet the challenges of our time.

Robert Ornstein, considered one of the foremost experts on the brain, was an internationally renowned psychologist and author of more than 20 books on the nature of the human mind and brain and their relationship to thought, health, and individual and social consciousness. He was perhaps best known for his pioneering research on the bilateral specialization of the brain, continually emphasizing the necessity of “conscious evolution” to meet the challenges of the 21st century. He taught at Stanford University, Harvard University, and the University of California, San Francisco. His books have sold over six million copies worldwide, have been translated into dozens of languages, and used in more than 20,000 university classes. He founded the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK) in 1969 and served as its president until his death in December of 2018.

'This was the first book we planned and wrote together. Now that Bob is no longer with us, I am privileged to see it come to light as he had wished and I had promised.' ~Sally Ornstein

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In this episode, Michael and Thomas Hübl talk about the impact of individual and collective trauma and our society and the planet. Thomas's new book, Healing Collective Trauma is just out and in this lively conversation, they look at how we have normalized so many ways of being that are actually trauma responses. They also look at the possibility for the future that the exploration of collective trauma presents for healing and a thriving world.

Thomas Hübl is a teacher, author, and founder of the Academy of Inner Science. Thomas’ work combines somatic awareness practices, advanced meditative practices, and transformational processes that address both individual and collective trauma, opening the potential for growth and healing. Thomas has worked with tens of thousands of people worldwide through workshops, multi-year training programs, and online courses.
He is also the founder of the nonprofit Pocket Project, which aims to increase awareness and understanding of collective trauma and reduce its effects.
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In this episode, Michael and Betsy Polatin explore the “expanded self” and how embodiment practices and awareness can connect us to the deep natural healing capacity of our bodies' innate wisdom. They also discuss ways to deepen their safety and belonging through body exploration and how to connect with the natural design of the human body, by connecting with the earth and social bodies.

Betsy Polatin, MFA is an internationally recognized breathing and movement specialist, who has been teaching for more than forty years and is currently a Master Lecturer at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Betsy’s work is greatly influenced by The Alexander Technique, Somatic Experiencing, Breathing Coordination, and the teachings of Spiritual and Meditation Masters. She currently co-teaches an ongoing traveling workshop, Trauma in the Public Eye, with Peter A Levine, and teaches Returning to Ourselves, the Wisdom of Trauma, with Dr. Gabor Maté. As a well-known educator, she has had numerous articles published in the Huffington Post and is the author of The Actor’s Secret. Her latest book, Humanual(A Manual for Being Human) An Epic Journey to Your Expanded Self, is a best-selling manual for being human. humanual.com/
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"Each of us has an everyday self that we assume our self to be. But what if there is more to us than meets the eye? What if there is an expanded version of our self that includes not only the habitual patterns, the lost parts, and the innate organization but also a connection to the grand, scintillating space of the universe and the possibilities it offers us?" ~Betsy Polatin

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In this episode, Michael speaks with Arawana Hayashi about her new book, Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move. In this discussion, they talked about the importance of being embodied and how movement helps us to deepen our connection with others and create a more interconnected, just, and humane society. Arawana defined Social Presencing Theater as a set of embodied activities and reflections that support personal transformation, social creativity and systems change.

Arawana Hayashi is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, trained in both Japanese and Western art forms. From her career’s inception, her work as an artist and meditation practitioner has been intertwined with innovations in community building and education. Since the 1970s her focus has been on using non-verbal collaborative improvisation methods to increase personal presence and group performance. Arawana is a founding member of the Presencing Institute (www.presencing.com). To find out more about her book and work go to: arawanahayashi.com

“Social Presencing Theater invites us to tap into our natural creativity and ability to fully embody the ‘performance’ of being human.”~Arawana Hayashi

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In this episode, Michael & Karen O'Brien discuss her recent book, You Matter More Than you Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World. Karen O'Brien Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and human geography at the University of Oslo. She is an internationally recognized expert on climate change and society, focusing on themes such as climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation including how climate change interacts with globalization processes and the implications for human security.

Karen O'Brien is interested in how transdisciplinary and integral approaches to global change research can contribute to a better understanding of how societies both create and respond to change, and particularly the role of beliefs, values, and worldview in transformations to sustainability. She is passionate about what potential there is in quantum social theory and the implications for climate change responses. www.climateone.org/people/karen-obrien
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'It’s important to recognize that there’s not one solution to climate change... It has to happen at all levels. Each of us has a circle of influence... we are agents of change... we can create an alternative future.' ~Karen O’Brien

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