Authentic Living

Many of us have heard of terms like "the Book of Life" generally associated with some kind of eternal library that records our secret, shameful deeds, or even our more overt shameful deeds. But according to Linda Howe, our guest for today, the Akashic Records, also known as the Book of Life are filled with wisdom and energy that are inspirational and supportive for making the fundamental shift fro...

We talk about Oneness a lot. In fact, even in some circles where New Age/New Thought has not pervaded, there is mention from time to time about this idea that we are all one. But how do we bring Oneness into every living experience? Well, our guest today has come to tell us how to do just that. She is Charlene Proctor, PhD, an ordained minister of Spiritual Peacemaking and a deeksha facilitator tr...

We tend to think of wisdom in terms that are rather other-worldly. We tend to think that those who are wise are either those who have been taught by a guru or they are the guru. But really, even the guru will tell us that wisdom isn't taught. It's received. And it isn't received from any external teaching. It's received from some deep resonance within us. So what is the process of attaining wisdom...

Unfortunately, many of us are trying desperately to avoid having to really participate in the experience of living here on this planet, through many different means. In so doing we miss the growth experience—something our guest today calls "Earth School." She tells us that our emotions are leading us back to earth school—where we will learn more about life, about ourselves and about spirituality....

What is reality? Many teach that the goings-on of this world are but an illusion and anyone who pays much attention to it is going to end up losing his or her peace. Others teach that Satan is the ruler of this world and we should have a higher standard than that of the so-called "world" for ourselves. But what is it really to live in this world? How is it that we came to split ourselves off from...

There is so much said today about "being yourself" that we get really confused about who that really is. We bat around the word "hardwired" when we speak of being ourselves, as if we are more or less doomed to repeat this same dysfunctional patterns in our lives. But today we are talking with Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of the books, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind, and the topic...

What does it mean to live the mystic's life? Many say that the mystic is always kind, loving, and positive, even self-sacrificing. But these things do not represent the mystic's journey. The mystic's journey is an inward journey, one that might surprise us with its fierce and persistent longing to serve every single aspect of self as if it were a starving child. We tend to believe that those who a...

The word destiny gets thrown about quite a bit both in and out of the New Age/New Thought worlds. When we meet that special soulmate we tend to think it was fated. And we tend to think that destiny is a done deal that it is what it is and there's not much we can do to stop it from happening. And yet in our typically duplicitous way of thinking we also believe that if we work hard we can create the...

Is it bunk? Are we doing it wrong? Is there something wrong with us that we can't make it work? What's the problem? The simple answer is that life is just an illusion anyway, so what difference does it make. But life is not an illusion. Duality is an illusion. And the problem with the law of attraction may have something to do with the fact that we've come at our understanding of it from a dualist...

Dr. Brian Weiss comes to the Authentic Living Show this week to help us find new levels of healing with regard to past life regression. He'll be appearing at the upcoming I Can Do It Conference in Atlanta, GA to discuss this same topic and today we are fortunate to have him come here to give us a preview and to help us understand past-life regression and why it helps us heal and grow. Dr. Weiss is...

Robert Forman comes back to be with us today to talk about his ideas about Jazz in the Soul in which relationship becomes real and soulful. Robert is the author of "Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul" carries a profound awareness of what it is like to live life in touch with soul. When it comes to relationship, we tend to think that th...

Historically the body has been blamed for all of man's errors, his so-called "sins," and his weaknesses. It makes him sick and it eventually dies. It's rather like a ball and chain we drag around with us. And the soul is a distant relative, living so far away in heaven that we can't get to it until we die. And whether we still believe those things or not they are still rolling around in the uncons...

Dr. Brian Weiss comes to the Authentic Living Show this week to help us find new levels of healing with regard to past life regression. He'll be appearing at the upcoming I Can Do It Conference in Atlanta, GA to discuss this same topic and today we are fortunate to have him come here to give us a preview and to help us understand past-life regression and why it helps us heal and grow. Dr. Weiss is...

We welcome Dr. E back again to the Authentic Living show this week for the fourth time, this time to talk about her latest book, "Untie the Strong Woman." For many years, Dr. E has been sending a message to the world that the feminine aspect of humanity is powerful, beautiful and essential. The depth of her understanding of the feminine aspect of human (both male and female ) consciousness has fac...

Today we are so fortunate to be talking to the Director of blockbuster comedies such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty, Patch Adams, Accepted , and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and the winner of four people's choice awards, and one Golden Globe nomination. But, you might ask, why would Authentic Living be interested in comedies? Because due to hi...

Morals. Ethics. Spin. Money. Time. Culture. Place. Who would you be without all those things you use to define yourself? Do your morals define you? Your ethics? What is your spin on life here on planet earth—and how does it define you? What about money—how much or how little does it take to create a self-definition? What about time, or culture or place? And if all of that were gone—who would you b...

Before Eastern, particularly Indian philosophical and religious concepts were popularized in the West, there were not many allowable options for how a person might recognize the connection between mind and body, or how one might meditate and get in touch with deeper aspects of self. But even though the real explosion of the popularity of Vedic concepts occurred in the 1960's people like Ralph Wald...

We do need to know don't we! We need to think that we know, that we are certain, that we are sure. Most of our traditional faith is made up of that need to know. We've got it written down, and we've interpreted it literally and that is how we know. Science is equally an effort to know. History—though it is often told by the winners of the wars—is an attempt to know our past. And often we try to kn...

Death is one of the most frightening and awesome of life's mysteries. Because it is, we've developed all manner of mythology about it—including the myth that life is over when we die. But many have experienced, first hand, another reality. And while there are still many who still assert that death is death and life is life and never the twain shall meet; our guest today offers moving and profound...

Now there's a question you don't hear every day on the streets of downtown USA, Europe or Asia. But it's one that our hearts long to answer, whether or not we yet even understand the question. As Eastern philosophies are more and more accepted in the Western world, the terms, dharma and karma have been tossed about quite a bit. But really, do you know your dharma? Well, Lissa Coffey comes to the A...

What if you are not the sum total of all of your behaviors, thoughts, and emotions? What if you are not even the sum total of your experience? What if all of your wounds are but windows to your soul? What if all of your memory is but a shift in your alchemistry? What if what you see is only image? And what if what you don't see but can sense, feel and intuitively touch is the real essence of who y...

We've talked many times on the Authentic Living show about duality and it's insistence that we are separate from the divine and from each other and all things. Well today we are going to be talking about how to reunite consciousness with soul. Susann Taylor Shier is our guest today, and she's written a book called "Soul Reunion: The Return Home from Separation," in which she thoroughly explains bo...

You know we have many teachers and gurus out there telling us that nothing is impossible. But what do we really believe about that? Sometimes it turns out that when we are believing really hard—we are just doing what has come to be known as magical thinking. Sometimes when we are believing really hard, we're really just bargaining: IF I believe this, THEN I won't have to look at that. And sometime...

How many times in a single lifetime do we have to start over? Sometimes starting over is the only possible path to take. And sometimes each inhalation is a beginning again. Many of these kinds of beginnings start with a drastic and painful ending. But there are other kinds of beginnings. For example, most of us think of the New Year is a kind of beginning. But for many this means the making, and e...

'Tis the season for peace, is it not? For many, right this minute, it is far, far from a season of peace. Life does not stop its incessant requirements just because it's Christmas. And sometimes our worst fears arrive already unwrapped at our front door right at Christmas time. So, where can we go to find peace in the midst of the traumas and dramas of our lives—seasonal or otherwise? Is it possib...