Deep Transformation

Ep. 187 (Part 1 of 2) | Dr. Sally Adnams Jones  has pioneered the field of art therapy as an agent of transformation and healing, choosing to work particularly with people living with no economic infrastructure: refugees, and victims of natural disasters, genocide, war, pandemics, and more. What Sally has found is that creating art within a community works miracles for the dispossessed and tr...

Ep. 186 (Part 2 of 2) | In this lively, mind and heart-opening conversation, Miranda Macpherson, contemporary spiritual teacher and author, shares the extraordinary wisdom she has gained from experience—both from the initial life-changing transmission of boundless love she received in Ramana Maharshi’s cave, and from the subsequent need for integration of the deeper truths that were revealed upon...

Ep. 185 (Part 1 of 2) | In this lively, mind and heart-opening conversation,  Miranda Macpherson,  contemporary spiritual teacher and author, shares the extraordinary wisdom she has gained from experience—both from the initial life-changing transmission of boundless love she received in Ramana Maharshi’s cave, and from the subsequent need for integration of the deeper truths that were re...

Ep. 184 (Part 2 of 2) | In the tenth dialogue of the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series,  Hameed Ali  addresses what co-host Roger Walsh calls perhaps  Inner Journey Home ’s most profound chapter of all, the chapter on True Nature, as well as subjects he writes about in his autobiographical fragment,  Luminous Night’s Journey . In the second turning of the Diamond Approach teachi...

Ep. 183 (Part 1 of 2) | In the tenth dialogue of the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series,  Hameed Ali  addresses what co-host Roger Walsh calls perhaps  Inner Journey Home ’s most profound chapter of all, the chapter on True Nature, as well as subjects he writes about in his autobiographical fragment,  Luminous Night’s Journey . In the second turning of the Diamond Approach teachi...

Ep. 182 (Part 2 of 2) | Robert Lawrence Kuhn , producer of the popular PBS series  Closer to Truth , which explores consciousness, the mystery of existence, and related topics with an open-minded approach, recently authored a remarkable article: “A Landscape of Consciousness,” in which he surveyed over 200 theories about what consciousness is. Robert tells how he inhabited each theory for a f...

Ep. 181 (Part 1 of 2) | Robert Lawrence Kuhn , producer of the popular PBS series  Closer to Truth , which explores consciousness, the mystery of existence, and related topics with an open-minded approach, recently authored a remarkable article: “A Landscape of Consciousness,” in which he surveyed over 200 theories about what consciousness is. Robert tells how he inhabited each theory for a f...

Ep. 180 (Part 2 of 2) | In this podcast,  John Prendergast,  spiritual teacher, depth psychotherapist (retired), and prolific author, eloquently lays out the territory we encounter on the spiritual path as we move towards opening to our deepest ground. John defines deepest ground as “ungraspable and unfathomable, something we can know intimately as a quality of awareness, unbounded and o...

Ep. 179 (Part 1 of 2) | In this podcast,  John Prendergast,  spiritual teacher, depth psychotherapist (retired), and prolific author, eloquently lays out the territory we encounter on the spiritual path as we move towards opening to our deepest ground. John defines deepest ground as “ungraspable and unfathomable, something we can know intimately as a quality of awareness, unbounded and o...

Ep. 178 (Part 2 of 2) | In the ninth dialogue of the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series ,  Hameed  gives a fascinating account of how four distinctly different wisdom teachings came to him in succession, directly from true nature, embodied in the form of diamonds. “In the beginning, I didn’t know…what the hell were these? Is it my imagination?” Hameed laughs. But then his colleagues and st...

Ep. 177 (Part 1 of 2) | In the ninth dialogue of the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series ,  Hameed  gives a fascinating account of how four distinctly different wisdom teachings came to him in succession, directly from true nature, embodied in the form of diamonds. “In the beginning, I didn’t know…what the hell were these? Is it my imagination?” Hameed laughs. But then his colleagues and st...

Ep. 176 (Part 3 of 3) | Longtime spiritual practitioner, gifted teacher, Tibetan Buddhist lama, and developmental psychology specialist  Kimberley Lafferty  integrates contemporary psychology and wisdom tradition in this lively, luminous conversation about the process of awakening, the evolution of ethics, and the extraordinary capacities that come online as we mature into later stages o...

Ep. 175 (Part 2 of 3) | Longtime spiritual practitioner, gifted teacher, Tibetan Buddhist lama, and developmental psychology specialist  Kimberley Lafferty  integrates contemporary psychology and wisdom tradition in this lively, luminous conversation about the process of awakening, the evolution of ethics, and the extraordinary capacities that come online as we mature into later stages o...

Ep. 174 (Part 1 of 3) | Longtime spiritual practitioner, gifted teacher, Tibetan Buddhist lama, and developmental psychology specialist  Kimberley Lafferty  integrates contemporary psychology and wisdom tradition in this lively, luminous conversation about the process of awakening, the evolution of ethics, and the extraordinary capacities that come online as we mature into later stages o...

Ep. 173 (Part 2 of 2) | In this 8th dialogue in the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series ,  Hameed Ali  gives a clear, colorful description of the three stages we go through on the spiritual path: the journey to presence, the journey with presence, and the journey in presence. “There’s much more to the journey than just being free of suffering,” he says, “in the journey with presence, there’...

Ep. 172 (Part 1 of 2) | In this 8th dialogue in the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series ,  Hameed Ali  gives a clear, colorful description of the three stages we go through on the spiritual path: the journey to presence, the journey with presence, and the journey in presence. “There’s much more to the journey than just being free of suffering,” he says, “in the journey with presence, there’...

Ep. 171 (Part 2 of 2) | An emotionally powerful and deeply inspiring conversation with renowned embodiment and trauma educator  Mark Walsh  from the U.K. and Ukrainian psychologist and trauma trainer  Kristina Obluchynska , where we learn about effective ways of treating trauma in the middle of an ongoing war, what trauma therapists are left holding, and how beautiful is the human s...

Ep. 170 (Part 1 of 2) | An emotionally powerful and deeply inspiring conversation with renowned embodiment and trauma educator  Mark Walsh  from the U.K. and Ukrainian psychologist and trauma trainer  Kristina Obluchynska , where we learn about effective ways of treating trauma in the middle of an ongoing war, what trauma therapists are left holding, and how beautiful is the human s...

Ep. 169 (Part 2 of 2) | Integral psychologist  Keith Witt  can’t get enough of the magic and beauty that happens in relationships as people begin to develop what he calls “a post-issue consciousness.” He explains that when our executive self, our wise self or witness, kicks in and forges a caring connection with the places where we hold our hurt and our traumas, then integration and heal...

Ep. 168 (Part 1 of 2) | Integral psychologist  Keith Witt  can’t get enough of the magic and beauty that happens in relationships as people begin to develop what he calls “a post-issue consciousness.” He explains that when our executive self, our wise self or witness, kicks in and forges a caring connection with the places where we hold our hurt and our traumas, then integration and heal...

Ep. 167 (Part 2 of 2) | In the 7th dialogue of the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series ,  Hameed Ali  enlightens us as to the nature of presence. Our path begins with the recognition that spirit is presence, he explains, an insight which all spiritual traditions share; this is where most of their focus lies. But this is not the end of the story, Hameed tells us—discovering spirit is only ha...

Ep. 166 (Part 1 of 2) | In the 7th dialogue of the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series ,  Hameed Ali  enlightens us as to the nature of presence. Our path begins with the recognition that spirit is presence, he explains, an insight which all spiritual traditions share; this is where most of their focus lies. But this is not the end of the story, Hameed tells us—discovering spirit is only ha...

Ep. 165 (Part 2 of 2) | Tami Simon , founder of the highly regarded multimedia publishing company Sounds True, covers a lot of inspiring ground in this heartening, lively, candid conversation. She tells the extraordinary story of how she came to devote herself to disseminating spiritual wisdom; about finding the edges and growing into them on her own path of awakening; the spiritual teachers she h...

Ep. 164 (Part 1 of 2) | Tami Simon , founder of the highly regarded multimedia publishing company Sounds True, covers a lot of inspiring ground in this heartening, lively, candid conversation. She tells the extraordinary story of how she came to devote herself to disseminating spiritual wisdom; about finding the edges and growing into them on her own path of awakening; the spiritual teachers she h...

Ep. 163 (Part 2 of 2) | In the sixth dialogue of the  A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series ,  Hameed Ali  tells us that whereas pure consciousness is already perfect and does not change or grow, individual consciousness is an impressionable organism—alive, changing, moving, developing. Hameed explains that because the soul is impressionable, the impacts of experience are imprinted upon it, sh...