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Spirit Matters Talk
by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
The spiritual landscape has never been more diverse, more eclectic, more individualized or more internally focused. Spirit matters, and in our open-source world, matters of the spirit are complex and endlessly fascinating. The Spirit Matters podcast aims to help listeners make sense of it all.
Episodes
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Dennis and Phil -- The Grand Finale
This is the Spirit Matters Grand Finale. Dennis and Phil reminisce about their seven years and reflect on the 300 or so interviews they've conducted about spirituality with teachers, leaders, scholars, scientists and experts of various kinds - all wise and all happy to share their insights and...
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Paul J. Mills Interview 2
Paul J. Mills is Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine and the Director of the Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health. A clinical researcher with a focus on integrative medicine and spiritual practice, his former positions include: President of the American...
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Henry Yampolsky Interview
Henry Yampolsky is a lawyer, a mediator, an educator, a public speaker, and an author. He serves as the Assistant Director for Education, Outreach, and Conflict Resolution at Virginia Tech's Office for Equity and Accessibility and teaches conflict resolution, mediation, and peace building through...
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Machiel Klerk Interview
Machiel Klerk is a social entrepreneur, a licensed mental health therapist, an international speaker, and a dream worker. Trained as a Jungian psychologist and an expert in the spiritual and therapeutic value of dreams, he has traveled the world studying the healing and dream technologies of many...
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Stephen Post Interview 2
Stephen G. Post is the founding director of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York. A public speaker and an opinion leader in medicine,...
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Robert A. Jonas Interview 2
Robert A. Jonas, is an author, musician, environmental activist, and retreat leader, and the founder and director of the Empty Bell, a contemplative sanctuary in Northampton, MA, with an emphasis on Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the arts. A Christian in the Carmelite tradition, he has also...
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Acharya Shunya Interview 2
Acharya Shunya is the first female head of a 2,000-year-old spiritual lineage from northern India. An award-winning and internationally renowned spiritual teacher, scholar of Advaita (nondual) Vedanta, and a classically-trained master of Yoga and Ayurveda, she is the founder of The Awakened Self...
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Mark Nepo Interview 3
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, his numerous award-winning books—including The Book of Awakening, More…
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Jim Blake Interview
Jim Blake is the CEO of Unity World Headquarters, the nonprofit organization that oversees the facilities of Unity, which helps people of all faiths and cultures apply positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. He previously served Unity as chief information officer and vice president of...
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Sally Kempton - Unity Online Radio Episode
Spirit Matters continues its brief hiatus. Meanwhile, here is another offering from the special series of interviews Phil did for Unity Online Radio in the spring of 2021, under the title of his book Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times. In this episode, "Living in the Heart with Sally Kempton,"…
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Rabbi Rami Shapiro - Unity Online Radio Episode
Spirit Matters continues its brief hiatus. Meanwhile, here is another offering from the special series of interviews Phil did for Unity Online Radio in the spring of 2021, under the title of his book Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times. In this episode, “Being a Holy Rascal with Rabbi Rami…
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Barbara DeAngelis - Unity Online Radio Episode
Spirit Matters continues its brief hiatus. Meanwhile, here is another offering from the special series of interviews Phil did for Unity Online Radio in the spring of 2021, under the title of his book Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times. In this episode, Choosing Love with Barbara De Angelis, the...
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Mirabai Starr - Unity Online Radio Episode
Spirit Matters continues its brief hiatus. Meanwhile, here is another offering from the special series of interviews Phil did for Unity Online Radio in the spring of 2021, under the title of his book Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times. In this episode, "Entering the Interior Castle with Mirabai...
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Rev Michael Beckwith - Unity Online Radio Episode
Spirit Matters continues its brief hiatus. Meanwhile, here is another offering from the special series of interviews Phil did for Unity Online Radio in the spring of 2021, under the title of his book Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times. In this episode, “Life Visioning and Soul Guidance with Rev....
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Andrew Harvey - Unity Online Radio Episode
Spirit Matters is on a brief hiatus. Until we record new shows, we are posting a special series of interviews Phil did for Unity Online Radio in the spring of 2021, under the title of his book Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times. In this opening episode, “Regeneration and Sacred Activism,” Andrew...
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Anneke Lucas Interview 2
Anneke Lucas is an author, speaker, advocate for child sex trafficking victims, and creator of the Unconditional Model, a mindfulness modality. Her work is based on the personal experience of a 30-year healing journey after surviving being sold by her family as a child sex slave to a pedophile...
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Roger Walsh Interview
Roger Walsh MD, Ph.D. DHL, is professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology at the University of California. His research focuses on topics such as meditation, psychological wellbeing, wisdom, and our global crises. An early pioneer in the field of Transpersonal Psychology, he is a…
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Roger Walsh Discussion
Roger Walsh Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Arthur Aghajanian Interview
Arthur Aghajanian is a Christian contemplative, essayist, and educator whose work explores visual culture through a spiritual lens. After many years of study and practice in Eastern traditions, he found his way back to Christianity with his discovery of the mystical tradition. His work, which...
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Arthur Aghajanian Discussion
Arthur Aghajanian Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Stephen Cope Interview
Stephen Cope is a best-selling author and scholar who specializes in the relationship between the Eastern contemplative traditions and Western depth psychology. Among his seminal works in this area are: Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, The Wisdom of Yoga, The Great Work of Your Life. Deep...
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Stephen Cope Discussion
Stephen Cope Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Paul Muller - Ortega 2 Interview
Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized meditation teacher, and a highly respected academic scholar in the field of Indian Religion and Hindu Tantra. A long-time student of the Kashmir Shaiva tradition with a PhD from the University of California, Paul is the founder of Blue...
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Paul Muller 2 - Ortega Discussion
Paul Muller 2 - Ortega Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Paul Roach 2 Interview
Paul John Roach is a longtime Unity minister and host of the weekly show World Spirituality on Unity Online Radio. A native of Wales and a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford University, he has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and a postgraduate degree in education from the University of...
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Paul Roach 2 Discussion
Paul Roach 2 Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Dean Sluyter
Dean Sluyter is the award-winning author of several books, including Natural Meditation, Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies, Fear Less, and his latest, The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics. A grateful student of Eastern and Western sages...
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Dean Sluyter Discussion
Dean Sluyter Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Sara Critchfield Interview
Sara Critchfield is Vice President, Movement Building for the Fetzer Institute, a foundation whose mission statement is “Helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.” At Fetzer, she serves as “a strategist and innovator for inspiring, revealing, and serving the emergence of a…
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Sara Critchfield Discussion
Sara Critchfield Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Matthew Fox 2 Interview
Matthew Fox is a spiritual theologian, an Episcopal priest, and an activist for gender justice and eco-justice. Originally a Catholic priest, he was silenced for a year and then expelled from the Dominican order by Cardinal Ratzinger for teaching liberation theology and creation spirituality. His...
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Matthew Fox 2 Discussion
Matthew Fox 2 Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Willa Blythe Baker Interview
Willa Blythe Baker, Ph.D. is the Founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, and its retreat center, Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, in Springfield, New Hampshire. She was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder of Tibetan Buddhism after twelve years of monastic training and two...
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Willa Blythe Baker Discussion
Willa Blythe Baker Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Mas Vidal Interview
s Vidal is a teacher of Yoga and a practitioner of both Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology. He offers lectures, workshops, and unique certification training programs internationally. He also maintains a counseling practice that embraces Vedanta, Ayurveda, and Vedic Astrology. As the founder of Dancing...
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Mas Vidal Discussion
Mas Vidal Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Amy Edelstein Interview
Amy Edelstein is the founder and Executive Director of Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that supports youth development. Its innovative teen mindfulness and systems-thinking program has empowered 17,000 high school students in under-resourced schools in Philadelphia. The...
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Amy Edelstein Discussion
Amy Edelstein Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Thom Kystofiac Interview
Thom Krystofiak holds a B.A. from Harvard (magna cum laude) and an M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was a Knox Fellow. A trained teacher of Transcendental Meditation, in 1983 he joined an intentional community in Fairfield, Iowa, where he and his wife continue to live. He calls himself “a...
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Thom Krystofiac Discussion
Thom Krystofiac Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Amanda Lucia 2 Interview
Amanda Lucia is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her research engages the global exportation, appropriation, and circulation of Hinduism, with designated attention to global guru movements. On her previous visit to Spirit Matters we discussed her book…
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Amanda Lucia 2 Discussion
Amanda Lucia 2 Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Dana Sawyer Interview
Dana Sawyer is professor emeritus of philosophy and world religions at the Maine College of Art. His primary expertise is in Hinduism and Buddhism, but for more than twenty years his work has focused on comparative mysticism, theories of the “perennial philosophy,” and the value of psychedelic...
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Dana Sawyer Discussion
Dana Sawyer Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Jon Kolkin Interview
Dr. Jon Kolkin is an internationally recognized photographer as well as a physician, educator, humanitarian, and public speaker. His award-wining images have been widely published, exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and have drawn the attention of private and corporate clients...
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Jon Kolkin Discussion
Jon Kolkin Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Paul Denniston Interview
Paul Denniston is a well-known yoga teacher based in Los Angeles. Certified in Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Kundalini Yoga, Laughter Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Let Your Yoga Dance, he is the founder of Grief Yoga®, which combines various forms of yoga, movement, breath, and sound to release pain…
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Paul Denniston Discussion
Paul Denniston Discussion by Discussion by Dennis and Phil
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Clare Goldsberry Interview
Clare Goldsberry is a professional writer whose has been engaged in the study of religion and spiritual traditions since childhood. Her path has taken her from Protestant Christianity (at one time her ambition was to become a minister), to Mormonism (she wrote the book A Stranger in Zion: A...
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Clare Goldsberry Discussion
Clare Goldsberry is a professional writer whose has been engaged in the study of religion and spiritual traditions since childhood. Her path has taken her from Protestant Christianity (at one time her ambition was to become a minister), to Mormonism (she wrote the book A Stranger in Zion: A...
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The spiritual landscape has never been more diverse, more eclectic, more individualized or more internally focused. Spirit matters, and in our open-source world, matters of the spirit are complex and endlessly fascinating. The Spirit Matters podcast aims to help listeners make sense of it all.
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