Authentic Living

Are you a healer? Do you have a life-goal of becoming a healer? Do you see yourself healing others? Do you carry with you the healer-archetype? Are you a Chiron—Wounded Healer? The healer archetype has thrust itself again through the curtains of the collective unconscious and has basically become a buzz word for the New Age/New Thought book sellers and marketing gurus. The healer archetype present...

Julia Cameron comes back to the Authentic Living Show this week for the second time, to talk to us about her upcoming online Artist's Way Course, which will be filmed from her own Santa Fe living room, and the surrounding artist community. Though for centuries it has been thought that creativity was reserved for those elected special few who were gifted with some rare talent, we are now beginning...

Okay, so we've spent a lot of time here on the Authentic Living Show talking about the Authentic Self, how to access and live out of it. But we've spent less time talking about relationships, particularly authentic relationships. Well, the time and the book have arrived, allowing us to really explore what it means to attract, achieve and maintain an authentic relationship. Our guest today is Sarah...

Have you ever experienced a deep longing of which the manifestation just seemed to keep eluding you? In this day and age in which many of us are vision boarding and affirming our little hind ends off trying to manifest these longings, we tend to judge ourselves for our inability to come home to these seeming soul desires. But understanding a soul desire and distinguishing it from all the other thi...

Once upon a time Therapy and Religion were considered to be separate compartments of the human experience. But now, more and more, we are beginning to see a mixing and blending of religion/spirituality and therapy. Our guest this week has much to share with us about this phenomenon particularly as it relates to two things: 1) the power of relationship and 2) psychoanalysis and Buddhism. Pilar Jenn...

The Anxiety Disorders Association of America estimates that more than 4 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 54 suffer from chronic anxiety. And according to London's "The Independent," in an 11 year period between 1993 and 2002, prescriptions for antidepressants rose by over 15 million. Further, we know that stress caused by worry contributes if not causes many of our known medical issues...

Those are words taken from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, and are the title of Joyce Rupp's latest book, a book that draws on a rich variety of faith traditions to provide meditations on God's names for every day of the year. One of the hardest things for us to wrap our minds around seems to be this idea of a God of multiple names—a God who isn't God, but an unnamable Beingness. It is always so int...

Several years ago, we learned of an energetic push/pull called the law of attraction. We understood this law to mean that if we thought positive and maintained a positive attitude, then positive things would come our way. So, we tried that for a while, until we ran into shadow material. To work with "blocking shadow material" we created vision boards, and turned affirmations into mantras, to elimi...

April is National Stress Awareness Month, according to the American Psychological Association, and we are going to begin our month by talking to a stress expert, Martin Boroson, author of One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go. Two complaints people have about meditation: 1) They don't have time, and 2) they don't know how to do it. Yet 75% of adults report experiencing high levels...

Somewhere along the way, as we evolved as a species, we developed a concept of worthiness. We decided then that we could be measured as either worthy or unworthy based on our actions, thoughts and emotions. Because we'd made that decision, we devised moral codes to align ourselves with or against, as the measuring stick we would use to determine our worthiness or unworthiness. We needed this measu...

Right this second there are millions of us living in fear of making a mistake, or of what might happen next. This fear is the source of our strategizing, plotting and planning for how we might survive, how we might make things go "right," even how we might outwit our own fears. Yet even as we are doing this, the soul is on a journey of its own. And it is using these very strategies and fears to br...

It's sad but true that most of the agreements we make with ourselves and our worlds are made unconsciously. And because this is so, we must begin to look internally to find out what those agreements were and make new agreements. Don Miguel Ruiz is the bestselling author of The Four Agreements, which has transformed the lives of millions around the world by teaching its readers how to break the tho...

We are so excited this week to have Marianne Williamson on the Authentic Living Show to talk to us about her latest NY Times Bestseller, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever. Most of us already know several of Marianne's other books, including The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America and The Gift of...

In 1995 and 1996 The Celestine Prophecy was the #1 American book in the world, and the #1 international bestseller of 1996. This phenomenal novel spent over 3 years on the New York Times best sellers list. The book's author James Redfield continued the story with the sequels The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision and The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight. And now the long-await...

It's one thing to have a vision. It's another to manifest that vision. Our guest this week is Corinne McLaughlin, co-author of The Practical Visionary, Spiritual Politics (Foreword by the Dalai Lama), and Builders of the Dawn. She comes to increase our consciousness about bringing vision to earth consciousness—into the practical, even the mundane. Corinne is co-founder of The Center for Visionary...

Dr. Marilyn Schlitz is the President and CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, IONS, which is also the current sponsor of the Authentic Living show, who through her work as a clinical research scientist, medical anthropologist, writer, speaker, and thought leader has pioneered clinical and field-based research in the area of human transformation, consciousness studies, worldview literacy and cu...

'Tis the season of love again, listeners, and if you are single, this show is for you. It's time to re-visit all of your dreams for finding that special soulmate. Arielle Ford, our guest for today, helped launch the careers of such giants as Deepak Chopra and Neale Donald Walsch, to name a few, and handled publicity for Wayne Dyer, Gary Zukav, Marianne Williamson, and other notables, eleven of who...

One of the most important aspects of personal responsibility is that which we take by exploring our emotional reactions and responses. And one of the most important aspects of that exploration is confronting our emotional illusions. Betsy Otter Thompson, author of several other books, has written an emotional biography in which she challenges herself and her readers to consider various aspects of...

Though it has been maligned over centuries of thought as either "flesh," the source of all evil, idiot, unnecessary or just objective biology—the body is actually the physical organ of the soul. There is no division between matter and soul—though we have lived entire lifetimes, have planned our politics, our religions and our families around the notion that there is. The body is a wonderful instru...

We've been handed so much information about relationship. Generations ago we were taught that we should accept whatever is presented—which amounted to accepting the unacceptable and tolerating the intolerable in many cases. Now we are being told to just "not put up with it." Laura Munson has a different story—one that is not meant to fit for everyone—but definitely a transformative journey based t...

According to Daniel Clark, we are sometimes gifted with an invitation "to see beyond the limits of our own religious ideologies and beliefs—to see God, the world and people like we've never seen them before." And that is what we are going to be doing this week as we peer over the edge of the cliff of the end of 2010 into 2011. Dan's very popular book "Life After Religion" is subtitled "Freedom fro...

Sometimes what's going on just has the capacity to deflate us, doesn't it? We lose our inspiration to just keep on keeping on. Well, today we are going to be talking to Dr. Jonathan Ellerby, coming back to the show for a second time today to teach us how to be inspired or re-inspired. This is not your crack-of-dawn rise and shine speech; nor is it your rah-rah motivational sales pitch. No, this is...

Sara Wiseman returns to the Authentic Living Show this week to talk to us about raising the psychic child. In this day and age where intuition is becoming more and more of the norm, the intuition of our children can be warmly and supportively received, rather than, as it was in the past, shunned and dismissed. Sara's latest book, "Your Psychic Child" teaches parents and others how to do just that....

Consciousness. The "Law of Attraction." Clearing blocks. Shadow work. These are the terms we hear. But what do they really mean? Is consciousness the same as "getting rid of ego?" Does the law of attraction mean that we should always master our thoughts and our words? Does clearing blocks mean that we are to purify ourselves? Does shadow work mean that we clean out the shadow of all of its "negati...

Staying present is one of the hardest things we must learn to do if we are to integrate body, mind and soul. As David Ord, our guest for today puts it, "A lot of us have moments when we are present, but we can't sustain it throughout our workday and time with our family. We either drift into thought or we become emotionally reactive to something that upsets us." Sustaining that presence is what Mi...