Conversation 4 Exploration. Laura Lee Show, Cuyamungue Institute

Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today--governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the "biogra...

Diagnosed with ovarian cancer at twenty-three, Bri. Maya was given two months to live. Her doctors' advice: die painlessly with heavy dosages of morphine. Instead, in the middle of winter, she left her career as a popular fashion designer in New York City and began several months of intensive meditation and holistic nutrition alone in a remote Vermont cabin. By Spring, her health and vitality...

One of the greatest gifts as a human is the ability to choose how to live your life. "Living on purpose" means doing what truly matters to you in alignment with your values and beliefs. We need practical ways to transform daily challenges into vehicles of spiritual growth,   Dan Millman, author of "The Peaceful Warrior," applies timeless principles to questions about metaphysic...

A fresh look from Egyptian cosmological concepts to our modern understanding of the nature of the universe, creation, science, and philosophy. Understanding the Egyptian concept of the universal energy matrix, how the social and political structures were a reflection of the universe. Moustafa Gadalla is an Egyptian-American independent Egyptologist who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1944. He holds a...

Lucid dreams are when you know that you’re dreaming while you’re asleep.  You’re aware that the events flashing through your brain aren’t really happening. But the dream feels vivid and real. You may even be able to control how the action unfolds, as if you’re directing a movie in your sleep.  Studies suggest that about half of people may have had at least one lucid dream. Dr Keith Hearne is a Bri...

 Groundbreaking  evidence of the connection between health and an array of spiritual beliefs and practices, including prayer, attending religious services, meditation, and faith in God. Drawing on his own and other published studies, Dr. Levin shows how religion's emphasis on healthy behaviors and supportive relationships influences one's overall health and how the optimism and hopefulne...

In a personal sense, a paradigm shift defines a fundamental change in how you see the world . Changing a personal paradigm opens up a range of new lifelines for your personal and professional growth, presenting you with more opportunities than before. Interaction with other people that have different ideas and skilled ways to communicate those ideas is the only way to get a paradigm shift, by the...

In this interview Sun Bear addresses how we have abused the earth and what he sees as the consequences of that abuse will be. He shares prophecies, some may seem rather far out but many have already happened , and he advises us all to be prepared - for this is the beginning of the significant earth changes. Whether you perceive his vision as mythology, story telling or prophecy he provides a compe...

Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. But sixty-six years later, he learns by chance that the cause was a gunshot wound. Investigating the circumstances, he soon finds himself peeling away the layers of a suppressed nightmare chapter of American history: driven by the greed for oil. .The Deaths o...

Astronomer summarizes  exoplanet (any planet beyond our solar system) that have been detected orbiting distant stars. Guillermo Gonzalez explains how planets are detected through photometry astronomy and spectroscopy and the characteristics of host stars, and detail the planets and their orbits. Guillermo Gonzalez is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He...

All of the ancient stonecraft seen in Incan and Egyptian monuments and stoneware show smooth and slick surfaces, which means the rock was not processed in the manner that previously thought. A geologist  describes the nature of these ancient stone artifacts, Professor Ivan Watkins, assigned at the Department of Earth Sciences, at St. Cloud University in Minnesota, says that the primary indicator o...

Plant Spirits present themselves to us everywhere.  Eliot Cowan invites us to discover the healing power of plants―not merely their physical medicinal properties, but the deeper wisdom and gifts that they offer. “Plant spirit medicine works partially because it has broad perspective. It does not look only through the eyes of physics and chemistry; it sees human beings as expressions of divine natu...

From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions. Bernd Heinrich, is a professor emeritus in the biology depart...

Native American storytellers use the oral tradition to teach life lessons, tribal histories, and the nuance of languages. Such stories are an essential tool in passing knowledge from one generation to the next. Here we sit down with Gene Tagaban who joins us in studio for two hours of storytelling, song, and inspiration. Gene Tagaban, “One Crazy Raven” is an influential storyteller, trainer, speak...

With dowser Hamish Miller, Paul Broadhurst mapped straight lines of earth energy across England and Europe. Caves, cracks or fissures in the living rock, holy wells and other natural features where the earth energies are strong were all hallowed by thousands of years of use as centres where people could experience direct knowledge of the unseen. They were places where, quite literally, the Earth s...

The universe around us is literally alive and conscious. This worldview restores a sense of the sacred to modern lives that have too long insisted that mind, spirit, and consciousness must be divorced from body, nature, and matter.  By recognizing that matter feels, one can more closely relate to our bodies, planet, and cosmic environment as magnificent creations brimming with spirit and meaning....

Life lived as artistic expression and a quest for true liberation.  Alan Clements was one of the first Westerners to become a Buddhist monk in Burma. For Clements, freedom is rooted in real life experience, in holding life's complexities in balance with its wondrous gifts, and in the transformational power of relationships with other people and with the world. Exploring the nature of consciou...

A major revolution is sweeping astronomy, as lone amateur astronomers, in global networks linked by the Internet, make important discoveries that are the envy of the professionals. Our guest is well known for his ability to describe the wonders of the universe and his enthusiasm for this subject is irresistible. Timothy Ferris,  Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Timothy'...

Draw inspiration from the classical texts of Yoga and timeless scriptural sources, helps us  understand and appreciate the wisdom of this ancient practice.  Here we focus not only on the physical postures but also on how they evolved—the origins of the practices in yoga’s ancient sacred texts and five-thousand-year-old traditions. Sharon Gannon is a  world-renowned yogini, perhaps best known as th...

 Conversation about the universal female archetypes that characterize most women.  The Gods and Goddesses of ancient Greece,  says our guest, is a "myth that never was but is always happening", meaning that the personalities of the ancient Gods and Goddesses summarize the fundamental archetypes through which humans think and act, even if they are not conscious of it.   Jean Shinoda Bolen...

We all strive to understand the moments that touch and transform our lives.  Let's explores the inter-relationship between these meaningful coincidences and our intuitive sense that we are part of some deep oneness with the universe. By relating the concepts of Tao and synchronicity, Dr. Bolen reveals important links between psychology and mysticism, right brain and left, the individual and t...

Every minute several huge "snowballs" break up as they approach the Earth and deposit a large cloud of water vapor in Earth's upper atmosphere according to our Guest Dr. Louis Frank.   He calculated that about 20 comets enter the atmosphere each minute. At that rate, the steady stream of comets would have added about one inch of water to the Earth's oceans every 20,000 years --...

Here we are challenged to reopen the playground inside yourself, to rediscover the spontaneous, natural flow of sound and voice that you’ve been carrying within all this time, even before you produced your first sounds. Let’s engage the power of sound and open ourselves to our authentic voice. Alexandru Anton graduated with a degree in Psychology and then pursued training in shamanic techniques an...

Journalist Paul Williams Roberts visits the Middle East to trace the Magi's legendary journey through Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Jordan to Bethlehem. Chasing clues from Marco Polo's Travels and the Dead Sea Scrolls to the stories of King Solomon and the Crusader Knights, Roberts seeks the historical truth behind Matthew's account in the New Testament. He shares  eclectic characters, fro...

Laura Lee & Brian Tucker co-host this conversation with two Catholic Nuns: Margie Abbott, author of Cosmic Sparks, and Margaret O’Rourke, author of A Harvest of Memories. Stepping beyond their order to find new ways to express and embody spirituality, both vowed religious women reflect on the common Source inspiring spontaneous rituals and embodied spirituality, the gifts of Nature and life wi...