Deep Transformation

Ep. 119 (Part 1 of 2) | Many time award-winning poet  Jane Hirshfield  has spent her life steeped in poetry and spiritual practice. Here, we feel almost as if we’ve been invited into her kitchen to talk about life, love, and especially about poems and how they offer us various answers to the abiding questions: who are we, what are we, what is our relationship to each other, what must we...

Ep. 118 | Psychologist and non-violent communications trainer  Kateryna Yasko  and her husband,  Vytautas Bučiūnas , Integral Master Coach and leadership development expert, relate what it’s like to live in war-torn Ukraine, two years since the Russian invasion began. They share why they chose to return to Kyiv from the safe haven of Lithuania, and describe a “special form of happin...

Ep. 117 (Part 3 of 3) | Brad Reynolds , author of  Embracing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber  and  Where’s Wilber At? Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision in the New Millennium , gives us a beautiful distillation of Ken Wilber’s work, starting from the beginning and spanning decades. Not only does Brad elegantly relate the major themes of Ken’s work, he also makes clear the value...

Ep. 116 (Part 2 of 3) | Brad Reynolds , author of  Embracing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber  and  Where’s Wilber At? Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision in the New Millennium , gives us a beautiful distillation of Ken Wilber’s work, starting from the beginning and spanning decades. Not only does Brad elegantly relate the major themes of Ken’s work, he also makes clear the value...

Ep. 115 (Part 1 of 3) | Brad Reynolds , author of  Embracing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber  and  Where’s Wilber At? Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision in the New Millennium , gives us a beautiful distillation of Ken Wilber’s work, starting from the beginning and spanning decades. Not only does Brad elegantly relate the major themes of Ken’s work, he also makes clear the value...

Ep. 114 | Presidential candidate  Marianne Williamson  is astonishing in her openness, authenticity, and candor in this moving conversation that enlightens on a spiritual level as well as a political one. First, we learn why she is running for president, and how she thinks she can help America. As Marianne explains it, her talent lies in translating what is happening so people can grasp...

Ep. 113 (Part 2 of 2) | Bruce Alderman , poet, mystic, and spiritual explorer, is also an integral scholar and pioneer of the emerging field of metatheory, looking at how to put our disparate fields of information—spiritual, psychological, philosophical, environmental, scientific—together and integrate them into a useful whole. Here Bruce tells the tale of how he was drawn into an experiential exp...

Ep. 112 (Part 1 of 2) | Bruce Alderman , poet, mystic, and spiritual explorer, is also an integral scholar and pioneer of the emerging field of metatheory, looking at how to put our disparate fields of information—spiritual, psychological, philosophical, environmental, scientific—together and integrate them into a useful whole. Here Bruce tells the tale of how he was drawn into an experiential exp...

Ep. 111 (Part 2 of 2) | Colette Baron-Reid and Dr. Bob Weathers  shine a bright light on the big picture state of addiction in our fragmented culture today—how people have become addicted to disconnection, dissociation, and identifying as victims in addition to substance use and other more traditional addictions—as well as sharing the essential elements and practices that have made their sust...

Ep. 110 (Part 1 of 2) | Colette Baron-Reid and Dr. Bob Weathers  shine a bright light on the big picture state of addiction in our fragmented culture today—how people have become addicted to disconnection, dissociation, and identifying as victims in addition to substance use and other more traditional addictions—as well as sharing the essential elements and practices that have made their sust...

Ep. 109 (Part 2 of 2) | Dr. James Finley , clinical psychologist, trauma specialist, scholar, poet, and author of the powerful memoir,  The Healing Path , has an extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding about trauma and the alchemical effects of adding a depth dimension to therapy. Here, he shares about his own experience of trauma and healing, the therapeutic effects of introducing t...

Ep. 108 (Part 1 of 2) | Dr. James Finley , clinical psychologist, trauma specialist, scholar, poet, and author of the powerful memoir,  The Healing Path , has an extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding about trauma and the alchemical effects of adding a depth dimension to therapy. Here, he shares about his own experience of trauma and healing, the therapeutic effects of introducing t...

Ep. 107 (Part 2 of 2) | Dr. Mamphela Ramphele , global thought leader, author, medical doctor, scholar, anti-apartheid activist, and co-founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa has lived her extraordinary life guided by the knowing that every one of us is part of an inextricably linked system, and to live life as an authentic human being means assuming responsibility for oneself...

Ep. 106 (Part 1 of 2) | Dr. Mamphela Ramphele , global thought leader, author, medical doctor, scholar, anti-apartheid activist, and co-founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa has lived her extraordinary life guided by the knowing that every one of us is part of an inextricably linked system, and to live life as an authentic human being means assuming responsibility for oneself...

Ep. 105 (Part 2 of 2) | Shachar Erez , longtime spiritual practitioner and integrally informed therapist in Israel, opens his heart, sharing his pain and overwhelming grief since the outbreak of war with Hamas and revealing another dimension of what’s going on than what we see in the news. It is a profound experience listening to a sensitive, compassionate person openly, honestly, courageously sha...

Ep. 104 (Part 1 of 2) | Shachar Erez , longtime spiritual practitioner and integrally informed therapist in Israel, opens his heart, sharing his pain and overwhelming grief since the outbreak of war with Hamas and revealing another dimension of what’s going on than what we see in the news. It is a profound experience listening to a sensitive, compassionate person openly, honestly, courageously sha...

Ep. 103 (Part 2 of 2) | “What if I lean into the pain and come out the other side and survive it—and what if I take you with me, as the reader, and together we deal with our pain?” asks  Tyson Yunkaporta , author, senior research fellow, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab. Tyson embodies this era of metacrisis, actively working with the global issues of our time in his...

Ep. 102 (Part 1 of 2) | “What if I lean into the pain and come out the other side and survive it—and what if I take you with me, as the reader, and together we deal with our pain?” asks  Tyson Yunkaporta ,   author, senior research fellow, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab .  Tyson embodies this era of metacrisis, actively working with the global issues of our time in...

Ep. 101 (Part 2 of 2) | With extraordinary joyfulness and verve, Native American shaman  Charles Lawrence  tells the inspiring and fascinating tale of how as a young man, he left psychology, religion, and the white man’s domesticated world in the dust when he became initiated on his journey by mythologist Joseph Campbell, and a paranormal world opened its doors. “If you have a destiny, y...

Ep. 100 (Part 1 of 2) | With extraordinary joyfulness and verve, Native American shaman  Charles Lawrence  tells the inspiring and fascinating tale of how as a young man, he left psychology, religion, and the white man’s domesticated world in the dust when he became initiated on his journey by mythologist Joseph Campbell, and a paranormal world opened its doors. “If you have a destiny, y...

Ep. 99 (Part 2 of 2) | In this riveting, disturbing, and hopeful conversation, addiction expert and recovery coach  Dr. Bob Weathers  explains the enormous difference it makes when we apply the Integral Model to addiction and recovery. It helps us cover all the bases in our understanding of addiction, from the neuroscientific to the spiritual, and offers a map for recovery in the form of...

Ep. 98 (Part 1 of 2) | In this riveting, disturbing, and hopeful conversation, addiction expert and recovery coach  Dr. Bob Weathers  explains the enormous difference it makes when we apply the Integral Model to addiction and recovery. It helps us cover all the bases in our understanding of addiction, from the neuroscientific to the spiritual, and offers a map for recovery in the form of...

Ep. 97 (Part 2 of 2) | In this moving, illuminating, and impassioned discussion, retired  Police Lt. Chris Orrey  and  San Bruno Police Chief Ryan Johansen  open our eyes as to the realities of policing in today’s world and offer solutions as to how the entire institution of police work could be transformed to become more effective and sustainable, both for police officers and...

Ep. 96 (Part 1 of 2) | In this moving, illuminating, and impassioned discussion, retired  Police Lt. Chris Orrey  and  San Bruno Police Chief Ryan Johansen  open our eyes as to the realities of policing in today’s world and offer solutions as to how the entire institution of police work could be transformed to become more effective and sustainable, both for police officers and...

Ep. 95 (Part 2 of 2) | Author, activist, and humorist  Steve Bhaerman  (aka  Swami Beyondananda ) realized the power of humor as well as his talent for making people laugh early on, when his schoolmates would laugh so hard, milk would come out of their nose. Steve’s spiritual and psychological wisdom, his deep love and concern for humanity, and his clever, refreshing humor come toge...