Humans on the Verge

Kelly opens up about her spiritual path and how vanity - the fear of not looking the way folks expect her to be - keeps her from sharing the depths of that with the world. She’s been a life long seeker of esoteric knowledge, paths and walked many of them, and with the way the world is today, she just can’t compartmentalize herself anymore. She hopes that by openly wrestling with this stuff he...

In this month’s Ponderama, I dive into change. Leaping off from my last episode with Rich Logis conversation where we talked about what it takes to make a big scary change in our lives, I share a story from my life when I had to take a big leap.    If this podcast has got you thinking and wondering, and you want to explore the topics I covered in more depth, I invite you to join me in my...

I am thrilled for you to learn more about my guest for this episode, Rich Logis, founder of the non-profit  Leaving MAGA .  As you know, I am fascinated with change – individual and collective change.  What does it take to really change our direction in life? How do we learn to see the beliefs and sense of identity that keeps us from changing? How are we living into our values, what...

My guest on this episode is Craig Chalquist PhD, is a former psychotherapist, professor, scholar, and lecturer, who teaches and writes at the intersection of consciousness, place, story, and imagination.  He’s published multiple non-fiction books mostly focusing on Terrapsychology, Ecotherapy and exploring ones’ personal myth, but he’s also a fiction writer and has a serie...

If this podcast has got you thinking and wondering, and you want to explore the topics I covered in more depth,  I invite you to join me in my monthly online call where I and others dig into things more deeply.   We call this space The Humans on the Verge Podcast Soul Tribe.   JOIN HERE   In the Soul Tribe, we have a 90-minute monthly call where I contextualize the topic f...

I am thrilled about my guest today, Kim Hermanson, Ph. D . , who is known for her ability to shift people out of the thinking mind and into the right hemisphere of the brain, where they can access what she calls the Knowing Field—an intelligence that offers clarity, creativity, and deep guidance. Her work opens powerful portals of transformation through metaphoric images, helping people tap into a...

If this podcast has got you thinking and wondering, and you want to explore the topics I covered in more depth,  I invite you to join me in my monthly online call where I and others dig into things more deeply.   We call this space The Humans on the Verge Podcast Soul Tribe.   JOIN HERE   In the Soul Tribe, we have a 90-minute monthly call where I contextualize the topic f...

If these days you feel like a Human on the Verge and are wondering how to stay focused on living a meaningful/purposeful life in a world that borders on a shit show? I invite you to join my private, online community, The Village  HERE . The Village is a haven (no trolls or doom scrolling) with access to The Daily Practice - a M-F, hour long online co-creating session you can use to stay...

In this episode, Kelly deepens the discussion started in ep. 5 with Stephen Aizenstat about the deep imagination, and the process known as The Dig. She explores the metaphor of the horizontal and vertical planes of living, knowing and consciousness, and shares what she discovered in her own Dig recently that helped her bring forward a new perspective about how to stay present during the current ch...

Episode 5 Stephen Aizenstat -The Imagination Matrix My guest today, Stephen Aizenstat, Ph. D., founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute, center for the study of the human experience through depth psychology, mythology, and the humanities, and the pioneer of the revolutionary, process Dream Tending that allows access to limitless creativity and innovation, improved relationships, and ultima...

In this episode, Kelly unpacks the developmental politics concepts from her conversation with her guest in episode three - Steve McIntosh, the author of Developmental Politics. With the chaos of the moment we are living in, she points all of to stay focused on what we can control while remaining vigilant about what we need to protect. And because the personal, and now the collective shadow, h...

My guest today, Steve McIntosh, has a way of looking at what looks like the current chaotic mess of American Politics and unpacking it so that you can actually understand what the hell is going on in this country.  If you too are confused, frustrated and in disbelief, my and Steve’s hope is that we can give you a very unique, and for me a satisfying big picture perspective.   ...

Kelly’s Ponderama episode - The Shadow In this month’s Ponderama, I take the themes from my conversation with Genpo Roshi in my last episode (ep.1), and unpack the concept of the psychological shadow, what lives in my personal shadow, and how you can work with yours.  And if you are curious about working on your personal shadow, I recommend Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind or the book Internal Family S...

My first guest is Genpo Roshi. The reason I wanted to have Roshi as a guest today is twofold - he was my first guest of my old podcast Waking from the American Dream - I love full circle things like that, but also I wanted my first three guests to be folks that have helped me build the foundation of my world view and my daily practice for the last twenty years.  Genpo Roshi was born in Califo...

Humans on the Verge with Kelly Carlin-McCall explores how individuals and American culture change, evolve, move from one stage of life, or one state of mind, to another. It is born from Kelly’s curiosity about the strange and miraculous opportunity to be conscious, sentient beings, aka humans, in these interesting times we find ourselves in at the beginning of the 21st century.   Each mo...