The Mystical Positivist

Podcast: This week's podcast features: This week on the show we converse by telephone with Shawinigan Ungaia (aka Guillaume Gauthereau), Shamanic healer and founder of The Sanctuary Healing Center in the Catskill Mountains of New York. In this conversation we cover Guillaume's unique spiritual path, shamanism, trauma & healing, and the depth of the calling when we feel our soul pushed for anot...

Podcast: This week's podcast features: This week on the show on the show we feature a pre-recorded conversation with Christopher Ives , a professor of religious studies at Stonehill College, and author of the recent title from Wisdom Press: Zen on the Trail: Hiking as Pilgrimage . In his teaching and writing he focuses on ethics in Zen Buddhism and Buddhist approaches to nature and environmental i...

Podcast: This week's podcast features: This week on the show on the show we feature a pre-recorded conversation with The Very Rev. Donald P. Richmond , Doctor of Divinity, a Priest-Oblate with the Reformed Episcopal Church and Order of Saint Benedict. He is a graduate of several colleges and seminaries as well as the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies and the Maryvale Ecclesiastical In...

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week we feature a pre-recorded talk that Mystical Positivists, Rob Schmidt and Stuart Goodnick , gave at Many Rivers Books & Tea on Thursday Jan. 3, entitled To Create and Sustain a Habit of Open-Heartedness . The pre-talk publicity describes the talk this way:  The meme of our time is obsession with human perfection. Focusing upon perfection,...

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show on the show we converse in the studio with Tibetan Buddhist nun Ani Samten Palmo . Ani Samten Palmo is a monastic at Lotus Mountain Gompa and a student of Lama Lena (aka Yeshe Kaytup) and Lama Wangdor Rinpoche of Tso Pema, India, both teachers of Direct Mind Perception Meditation and lineage holders of several Tibetan Buddhist tradition...

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show on the show we converse in the studio with Hal Blacker , founder of Real Dharma , an organization dedicated to helping people find inner freedom through directly recognizing their true nature. Hal teaches nondual wisdom and meditation and has until recently lead a meditation and study group in Marin County, California. Hal believes that...

Podcast :  This week's podcast features: This week we feature a pre-recorded conversation with Hokai Diego Sobol . Hokai started practice and study of Buddhism in 1985. After 10 years of exploring Buddhist thought and practicing martial arts, while broadly learning from sources Eastern and Western, mainstream and fringe, Hokai became a practitioner and eventually instructor in the Shingon eso...

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show we feature a pre-recorded conversation with spiritual teacher J. Jaye Gold , author of Justin Time: Autobiographical Stories from an American Spiritual Master , Another Heart in His Hand: A Spiritual Anomaly , and Highway of Diamonds . In his younger years, J. Jaye Gold studied at a 500-year-old experimental Naqshbandi Sufi school in no...

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show our subject is the recently published book, The Fragrance of Emptiness: A Commentary on the Heart Sutra . We replay an interview recorded two weeks ago with the author, Tibetan teacher Anam Thubten , and then we continue the discussion with a live interview in the studio with the editor of the book, Laura Duggan . Anam Thubten grew up i...