Into the Magic Shop

How do we live longer, healthier, happier lives? That is the question David DeSteno, psychology professor at Northeastern University, explores in his new book - How God Works: the science behind the benefit of religion .  In this latest episode of Into The Magic Shop, David shows how inextricably linked religion and psychology is, and the rewards that a religious life can bring:  “Religions tell p...

The world that we know is dying, says Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author, spiritual leader, political activist, and presidential nominee for the 2020 election.  So how courageous are we willing to be? How blunt are we willing to be? How serious are we willing to be? How much truth telling are we willing to tell?  Now is the time to say the quiet part out loud.  Marianne recalls...

Where does our experience of self fit in with our experience of consciousness?  “I can notice a sound, and notice that consciousness is prior to that sound and not reducible to it, not merely identical to it. The fact that I can notice a sound from outside the sound itself, proves to me that I'm not the sound. The sound is an object from the point of view of consciousness, so too with the sens...

If you suffer from an illness, either mental illness or physical illness, take a moment and think back to your childhood - was it ‘a happy childhood’?  Dr. Gabor Maté has dedicated his life to exploring the nature not only of addiction but of trauma too. He’s discovered that diseases don’t just come along randomly, out of the blue - they reflect the course of a person’s life, beginning in childhoo...

Everyone has questioned who they are and what their purpose is at one point or another, but very few of us have left our spouse and four children behind to head West and go look for some answers.  But then not many of us are comparable to Werner Erhard, developer of Erhard Seminar Training (EST), later Landmark Forum. “What motivated me was to discover something that actually made a difference. An...

How can diet and lifestyle decrease stress and anxiety in your life? In this latest episode, Dr. Dean Ornish, considered by many to be the father of the fastest growing trend in medicine today: lifestyle medicine, discusses the connection between mind, body and spirit. “Science, love, spirituality and meaning are what everything is really about. It's the basis of healing. It's the basis of...

Many of us have significant struggles with addiction, and while they may not be completely private, not many of us have had to address our personal failings in such a public forum as Hunter Biden, second son of US President Joe Biden.  “So many families or individuals get lost in hiding the reality of their own addiction. And the problem, the more you hide from the light, the darker it gets.” In t...

Introducing Into the Magic Shop, launching October 2021.