Authentic Living

Marianne Williamson made a second visit to the Authentic Living show not so long ago, to talk to us about her book, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles. And today we get to hear this amazing interview again. Most of us already know several of Marianne's other books, including A Return to Love, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Sou...

So, you are going through life making choices all day every day. But have you ever tried to discover all of the myriad "What ifs" plaguing your backroom brain-committee meetings? Well today, author Betsy Thompson is here to help us both discover and come to terms with some of these what ifs. Betsy is the author of recently released "What Happens if I?" as well as,Walking Through Illusion, The Mirr...

Anger is a much despised emotion, considered by most to bring us all too close to the edge of that precipice over which we dare not fall, lest we have to consider ourselves to be bad or even evil people. For most religions, anger itself is thought of as a sin. Many New Age or even New Thought practitioners tell us of the dangers of being angry—dangers that range anywhere from anger's power to make...

Part of the problem with our concept of heaven, and one of the primary reasons why we don't live in heaven right now on planet earth, is because we suffer. The Buddha told us that we suffer because we are attached to things, people, places, circumstances, etc. That if we could relinquish attachment we would no longer suffer. Some resent that idea because it seems to give the gods of fortune their...

The concept of heaven has been distorted with so many of our fantasies about avoidance of struggle, suffering and pain. And since most of us can't imagine a place on earth in which there is no struggle, suffering or pain, we've put heaven up there, out there, down there, anywhere, but here, on planet earth. What you are about to learn about heaven will change your thinking on this entirely. Heaven...

Our biggest problem isn't fear. It is shame. Shame defines us deep down in the recesses of our sense of ourselves. It informs us of our identity. It makes our choices for us and interacts with others through us. It dictates what we repress and what we accept. In fact, it is shame that creates our fear. And the truth is that if we really knew who we truly are, shame would simply dissolve. But we li...

There's a lot of information "out there" right now about how to lower your stress, raise your joy level, increase your abundance and live from what some call the Higher Self—which of course means that we must do something with the lower self. There's also other talk that tells us all about what it will be like in heaven after we die. The problem with all of this talk is that we don't seem to reali...

Don't miss today's clip of the upcoming Supersoul Sunday, in which we get the bigger picture on today's top global headlines from Oprah, Rev. Ed Bacon, Elizabeth Lesser & Mark Nepo. And for our discussion today: There are many names for the divine including, the Jewish tetragrammaton YHVY; 'elohiym, 'el and Jehovah; the Hindu Brahman, the Islamic Allah; the Bahá'í Baha; the Zoroastrian Ahura Mazda...

Not only are we going to get to hear another clip from Oprah's 2-part SuperSoul Sunday interview with Maya Angelou today, but we are going to answer one of the pressing questions asked by today's seeker: How do we move from the personal mind to higher mind? Oprah tells us that it's not enough to know that you should do a thing, you must also know how to do it. Well today is a "how to" kind of day....

This week, the Authentic Living Show exclusively announces Oprah's new Supersoul Sunday series, beginning with Mother's Day and her interview with Maya Angelou. Listen for clips of that show on Authentic Living this week. And this week, we'll also be talking about how we walk in this world and still maintain our walk in the world of the soul? How can we deal with issues of survival, relationships,...

If we were to set about to deliberately design a path that would bring us to our deepest essential self, could we do any better than the design of the soul on our lives? What does the mysterious journey of living really mean? What fierceness drives us deeper into ourselves? And what do we find there when we arrive? What persistent longing serves to write the poetry of our lives? When does the soul...

We get a lot of double-speak when it comes to the past. Some tell us to forget about it: The past is over and done with, just don't go there. Others tell us that the past is the key to the present. Which one is it? Or is it either? Most of us know that dwelling in the past is not very conducive to a happy life—but then we do it anyway. And most of us know that trying not to think about it is prett...

Have you heard about the river that runs under the city? Yeah. It's there. It's a true story. You have to be willing to spelunk down into the darkness to find it, but it carries the whole city. It runs through the dark caverns of shadowed soul and it comes from and leads to the exact same place. Everybody talks about it here. It's story has been passed down from one generation to the next for cent...

For the third time, we are interviewing the gentle and powerful poet and author, Joyce Rupp. She is well known for her work as a writer, a spiritual "midwife, and a retreat and conference speaker—having led retreats throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She is a member of the Servites (the Servants of Mary) community and the author of several books, inclu...

Taoism teaches that it is the natural in us that is our power. And yet our society teaches that the natural in us is to be feared, for it is wild, untamed energy that will get us and others into heaps of trouble. But as we talk about the differentiated aspects of the psyche, the ego and the soul, what we discover is that that natural self turns out also to be mystically united with the transcenden...

So many of us, who consider ourselves to be more or less spiritual beings; so many of us, who consider ourselves to be Christian, or Muslim, or Buddhist, or Taoist, or any other religion, believe that being good means helping and healing others. In fact helping and healing others is a defining characteristic of a good person regardless or religion or spiritual path. What will we do when we really...

So, we've spent the past 2 shows talking about the reality of real life in a dualistic world with its darkness and its blindness. Today we're focusing on that elusive bliss—evidence for many of enlightenment. Bliss, joy, ecstasy—these largely synonymous terms have not historically been used much in any secular way. Yet, in today's social world we hear them used to either mock or poke fun at the bl...

Must we have the dark to see the light? Is that the only purpose of darkness? Must we have the evil to see the good? What is the point? During this show we are going to explore the purpose of life from the perspective of darkness: The silence of the ethers when you are screaming for an answer; death that comes when life is what was wanted; the essential ingredient necessary to evil. These are the...

My mother used to have a saying. She had a lot of those. But one she used to say a lot was: She/he wouldn't know truth if it flew up and hit her/him in the face. And you know, sometimes she was right. Truth is, as they say, relative. But is it, really? Is there an absolute truth? Or, do we have enough light to just see the truth that is relative to the moment—ready ever to let that go for a higher...

Okay, now that I have your attention—let's talk about intimacy. Real intimacy—of which sex is but a small, though important, part. Primary relationships—these are those had between a husband and wife, or two partners, whether of the same or opposite sex. Primary relationships work when intimacy is the primary endeavor of the relationship. They work less well or stop working altogether, when intima...

Marianne Williamson is coming back to the Authentic Living show for the second time this week to talk to us about her latest book, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles. Most of us already know several of Marianne's other books, including A Return to Love, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America and The Gift of Change, for...

Sophy Burnham, otherwise known as the "angel lady" comes to the authentic living show today to talk to us about one of her favorite topics, and the title of her latest book: The Art of Intuition. From one of the world's profound mystics today, you can learn about how to cultivate your inner wisdom. Sophy is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and nonfiction writer. Three of her books appeared o...

Why don't we have wings? I mean, think about it. We can do just about everything else, but we can't fly, I mean, not without an airplane. Why not? Well, it could be because we are meant to grow our own set. And the kind of wings I'm talking about are inner-wings. They are the wings that allow us to assume our own empowerment, to fly into the heights of beingness, into the fullness of presence, int...

The problem with all of our talk about manifesting, is that we don't ever consider asking what it is within us that manifests. Jesus once said "I can do nothing of my own initiative." And yet with all the talk out there about how to manifest, we much more often hear about all the things we should initiate, all of the exercises we can do to elicit from ourselves the essential ingredients to the ini...

How do people deliberately create the life they want—without creating it out of the intention of duality? Duality resides within us as a force, an energy to which we've given a lot of power. It tells us what to do based on the agenda that we are separate from the divine and each other. So, when we create on purpose, which part of us is creating? Can we just think that we want something and maintai...