Authentic Living

Today we are very fortunate to get an opportunity to talk to bestselling author Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. He is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts. His latest NY Times bestselling book, and the subject of our interview today, entitled Far from th...

We've been talking about differentness, and how we might begin to celebrate rather than condemn it. One of the areas of most contentious difference is in the area of religion—supposedly a place in which we find our deepest spiritual roots. What started out as a pathway to the divine turned into a place of rules, in which everyone was supposed to the same. Those who didn't follow our rules became a...

Last week we talked to Andrew Solomon about differences. We are going to continue that topic today as we explore what it means to an individual to be different. One of the complaints clinicians commonly hear from clients is this feeling they carry of being alien in their families of origin. This would not be true it their differences were accepted, even celebrated, by family. Unfortunately, not on...

There has been much said over the past several years, particular among teachers of spirituality, about so-called "negative" feelings. Most of what we hear tells us that we should be thinking and feeling "positive" thoughts and feelings. Some offer us dire warnings that if we have these negative feelings we are going to attract "negative" events and relationships into our lives. Still others have t...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to "real life." The Honeymoon Effect is a sta...

Alright, so we've heard that it's possible for a person to experience heaven right here on earth, but how? How does a person stand fully inside him or her Self and live from that central organizing essence? Well, it's a process. And this week we are going to talk about some specific case studies, that demonstrate how we can do this. Do we have to have a Near Death Experience? Do we have to have so...

What does it mean to have power? Where in our lives can we find it, where in our bodies and our minds? Do we know we have power when others cater to our needs and desires? Are we powerful finally when we are famous? What do we do with power and how do we do it? Today we are going to answer some of those questions in an interview with Rev. Raymont Anderson. Raymont is Holistic Transformational Life...

…how would we manage our behavior? Won't we just fall apart? Become the evil we always suspected we were? How will we keep ourselves from hurting others, from sabotaging ourselves, from being unkind, unloving, uncertain…from becoming the worst we imagine of ourselves? Won't we need something else, like guilt or remorse, or fear to keep us in line? Well, what if you knew that there was someone livi...

We live in a world where failure occurs every day. Where we fail, others fail us, and life itself seems to fail. We live in a world in which we may pray for salvation, for sustenance, for safety and security, for love and relationship, but our prayers seem to fail at the doors to the gods. And what about God—has the Western version of God failed to bring about good results from his judgment, his m...

If we really can live in heaven here on earth, where is it? Where do we find that illusive peace and bliss for which we so long? And where do we even find the door to such a place, much less build a home there? Heaven has been hidden in the unconscious, so it is there that we must travel to find it. But the point of the unconscious is to keep hidden in safety what we are not ready to approach. Yet...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to "real life." The Honeymoon Effect is a sta...

When we consider the possibility that we can inhabit heaven here on earth, the first thing we typically think of is bliss. When we think of a heaven which can only be inhabited after we die—we also think of bliss—the comfort and joy of meeting again with those loved ones we've lost. So, either way heaven must be bliss, right? So, if we can have heaven on earth, this means that we will have everyth...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to "real life." The Honeymoon Effect is a sta...

One of our master teachers in the fine art of tuning in is Sonia Choquette. And she is here with us this week to talk to us about that very subject. Sonia is the author of 19 international bestselling books on intuitive awakening, personal growth, creativity, and transformational leadership including the New York Times bestseller "The Answer is Simple." An expert on the six senses, she is inspirin...

Many of our New Thought or New Age or Human Potential Movement leaders are telling us that it is ego that keeps us from inhabiting heaven NOW. Others are telling us that it is fear. And still others are telling us that it is our thoughts. Traditional Western religions tell us that we are not inhabiting heaven now, because that is an impossibility. Heaven is a place far away from earth in some rare...

The simple fact of life is that we cannot have true change, lasting change without doing the deep work. Our guest today, Dr. Richard Moss, is here to tell us about how we can become the most balanced, awake, alive and loving persons we can be. We all talk about having wholeness, but we often look for the quick fixes, even in our spirituality. It takes real work, real psychological and spiritual wo...

This show begins a series of shows in which we will start the countdown to Heaven—which will occur on December 13th of this year. Yes, that's right. December 13th is Heaven's coming out party on earth. On that day, the book, Inhabiting Heaven NOW: The Answer to Every Moral Dilemma Ever Posed, will be released, and the next phase of our spiritual evolution will begin. That next phase begins as we s...

Partners cheating on partners, friends gossiping about your most vulnerable and private information, paparazzi endangering lives to get that hot shot, parents betraying the bond of parenthood in a multitude of ways. These and other betrayals run rampant throughout our culture. In the face of this, it is even practical to invest in a relationship? After we've been so betrayed, how do we go about bu...

Most of us have been taught that fear is a problem to be overcome. Especially in the some of the spiritual community, fear is basically the F-word. It is the enemy. It keeps us from having what we want. It makes us live from what's called the "lower self" rather than the so-called "higher self." But fear, like all of our other emotions, just has a message to deliver. And in some cases that message...

What is it really like to hear from the Universe or the divine? What can we look for in terms of knowing when it is a communique from the Universe? How do we determine the difference between a message from the divine and a message from our own confused emotions? Simran Singh comes to us today with a clear mastery of universal law and divine principle that reveals the soulful wisdom behind these co...

Somewhere along the way, those of us in the New Thought world—who don't really believe in a devil or "his" purposes—transposed the face of that demonic force onto the ego. The ego is now considered to be the enemy—one that can possess us. When we are so possessed—it is thought—we think and feel so-called "negative" thoughts and feelings, and we act out negative behaviors. So, it seems we've change...

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 are so excited today to be able to talk to well-known astrologer, author and teacher Steven Forrest about how we might use astrology to help us discover, challenge and encourage our own authenticity. Forrest is the author of several astrological bestsellers, including THE INNER SKY, THE CHANGING SKY, THE BOOK OF PLUTO, THE NIGHT SPEAKS, and the astrology classic YESTERDAY'S SKY. His most recent...

Most people would answer that they would be set free then to do all the monstrous things from which they currently hold themselves back in the name of civilized and moral behavior. We could do whatever we want, and what we want is definitely something that would otherwise get us in trouble. Right? But what if under all of our codes and constraints there is a person who knows peace, who understands...

We are so excited today to be able to talk to well-known astrologer, author and teacher Steven Forrest about how we might use astrology to help us discover, challenge and encourage our own authenticity. Forrest is the author of several astrological bestsellers, including THE INNER SKY, THE CHANGING SKY, THE BOOK OF PLUTO, THE NIGHT SPEAKS, and the astrology classic YESTERDAY'S SKY. His most recent...