Inner Life

“..relate to others and once you feel them, you can consider them.”  Nazli Rahmanian is a physicist, storyteller, and musician who was born and raised in Iran.  She came to America in  2000 to go to university and reclaim a life away from an oppressive regime. She currently works for Intel and lives in Portland with her husband.

“How do radical changes in life happen?” Tim Marvil grew up in New Jersey and attended Brown University to earn a degree in biochemistry. He then secured a position at Ames Rubber Corporation and eventually became CEO.  His life drastically changed in 2008 when he decided to attend Seminary School. Now he is the Pastor of Allen Park Presbyterian Church in Michigan. https://www.allenparkpres.org/

“How did you get there?” Jomon Martin is originally from a suburb of St. Louis. Her ancestors were Puritans but she grew up “generically  protestant” even though she attended a fairly fundamentalist Christian church. She is now a Lay Zen Buddhist Teacher at the Great Vow Zen Monastery, in Clatskanie, Oregon.

“Nature Opens Us” Chris Eagon, local artist, studied painting, photography, arts & craft and graphic design at different colleges in the area. Her work includes imagery from nature walks, beach combing, sky & bird watching. At 28 she had a unique experience in the forest that deepened her spirituality and became the essence of her work.

“My body is not separate from the universe.” From a small-town Ohio, Dylan Tweney lives in the San Francisco area and is the father of two. He spent twenty-plus years as a journalist covering technology revolutions as a senior editor at WIRED and editor-in-chief at VentureBeat. A writing coach, a content consultant and poet he writes about creativity, writing, and presence at https://dylan.tweney....

“Love is still Here.” Katy is my neighbor and friend… She has lived in Astoria for 10 years and is married with 3 children. She works in public service for the  Clatsop County District Attorney’s Office. She is originally from a small, rural town in Oregon. She shares with us her transformational journey to the heart of the matter through a crippling and unidentified illness.

“Holding the Sacred Inside” a conversation with Cliff Taylor, a member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska who is a writer, poet and storyteller. He has written several books about his direct experience with the sacred in life and the almost forgotten ways humans relate to the living universe. He is a great-grandson of Chief Standing Bear.

“Asking from an Authentic Place” a conversation with Annalisa Derr whose inner life began in her late twenties when she experienced deep inner call to discover what it means to be a woman beyond her patriarchal conditioning. She has a PhD in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology and is about to publish her first book on the goddess Inanna which is currently under contract with Inner Traditions...