Podsongs

Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer . She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer wit...

ECHO is a mobile library helping refugees in Greece. Around 80,000 displaced people in Greece are currently stuck in isolated camps that lack basic facilities, let alone a library. ECHO is a grassroots project organised through a community network between Athens and eleven camps and community centres in mainland Greece. I speak to Laura Naude and Esther ten Zijthoff, two of the founders. Listen to...

A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.

As a meditation teacher and host of the global ZEN commuter Meditation Podcast Thom has taught meditation to thousands of people wanting to live a calmer, fuller life. He began a meditation practice back in 1980, when he was eighteen years old, and considers it to be the most impactful skill learned in his life. "Through the years, and up to now, I have kept my meditation practice alive, practicin...

Karen Salmansohn is a best selling self-help book author and award-winning designer with about 2 million books sold nationally and internationally. She is the founder of notsalmon.com , a popular personal development site, which offers books and video courses on topics including anxiety, toxic people, emotional eating, relationships, meditation, and happiness. Her website also includes many of her...

Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes ( YourGeniusGene.com ) was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression.  Mind to Matter , ( MindToMatter.com ) showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality.” Bliss Brain ( BlissBrain.com ) demonstrates that peak menta...

Richard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa, which is the oldest UFO contacts organizations in Britain, and possibly the world. He is also a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. Richard has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997) - founder of the Society - with whom he co-authored Contacts with the...

Brian D Smith is a life coach and grief counsellor, and the host of Grief 2 Growth Podcast. "After 57 years of experience and almost that much time helping and leading people informally, I decided to make it official, obtain my life coaching certification, and seek to help people more formally.  I’ve had a career as an engineer, in corporate tech sales, and as a small business owner of a busi...

Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph. D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph. D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Phil...

Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. What Doesn’t Kill Us was a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in...

Triggered by her own spiritual experiences, Lynn Russell went on a journey to study Near Death Experiences - 2,500 of them!  Today, Lynn is a recognized NDE expert, and has collated her research into her new book: The Wonder of You: What the Near-Death Experience Tells You about Yourself.  Her research has uncovered messages about our lives, reality, and why we exist.  This episode...

Dr. Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn’s Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over th...

Dr. Siegel , who prefers to be called Bernie, not Dr. Siegel, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of...

Steven C. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relationa...

Carlos Tanner is the founder of The Ayahuasca Foundation in Peru. After living and studying with a curandero for over four years, Carlos worked to provide a safe and effective way for people to not only receive treatment in the healing tradition of the Amazon but also to study the tradition, the way he had with his maestro. The idea for the Ayahuasca Foundation was born from a desire to spread the...

Jack Stafford has always been a documentary songwriter—a modern-day troubadour—writing non-fiction songs always with a goal to either instruct, educate or maintain a historical record. Now with Podsongs—his new podcast project—he is taking this a step further. Twice a week he interviews inspirational people and creates a song based on their story and their work.