The New Dimensions Café

Zachiah Murray is a landscape architect and member of the Order of Interbeing in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the author of Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging In the Dirt. Interview Date: 1/12/2013          Tags: MP3, Zachiah Murray, mindfulness, gardening, breath, meditation, nature, trees, taking a shower, water, weeding the garden, pests, Meditat...

Patricia Sun graduated Phi Beta Kappa at the top two percent of her class in 3-1/2 years from the University of California, Berkeley with two degrees, one in Social Sciences: Psychology and the other in Conservation and Natural Resources. She began her work as a family counselor. Her work today concentrates directly on creative solutions: “re-creating” thought patterns and “re-perceiving” experien...

Steve McIntosh is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and is a co-founder of the think tank, The Institute for Cultural Evolution. His books include Integral Consciousness: The Future of Evolution (Paragon House 2011) and Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (Select Books 2012) Interview Date: 9/18/2012        Tags: MP3...

Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has the unusual ability to tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and connect them into the stories we are living today. Michael is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He is the author of The World Behind the World (GreenFire Press 2006), The Water of Life: Initiation...

A former innovative farmer, James Olson is a philosopher whose studies have included business, engineering, art, Eastern and Western religion, yoga, qigong, psychology, language, neuro-linguistic programming, sacred geometry, and brain science. For many years, he’s investigated the effects of brain perspective on government, corporate life, war, and our personal lives. He’s the author of The Whole...

Robert J. Wicks, Ph. D. is a clinical psychologist and serves as a professor in the graduate programs in pastoral counseling at Loyola University, Maryland.  In 1994 he was responsible for the psychological debriefing of relief workers evacuated from Rwanda during their bloody civil war. In 2006, he delivered a presentation on self-care to health care professionals responsible for Iraqi war v...

Azarm Ghareman, Ph. D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, and holds advanced degrees in chemistry and business administration, and has conducted many professional training workshops. She is the author of Longing for a Land: The Story of a Persian Woman's Individuation in America (Mazda Connections 2005) and Six Life Secrets of Content Women: a Guide for Emotional Self-Care (Mazda Connections 201...

Thomas Huebl is a spiritual teacher and workshop presenter who has dedicated his life to the task of exploring consciousness and supporting people worldwide in this exploration. He founded The Celebrate Life Festival and The Academy of Inner Science. He resides in Germany. Interview Date: 4/1/2012   Tags: Thomas Hübl,Thomas Huebl, being awake, transparent communication, competency of sil...

Lama Surya Das, a renowned Western Buddhist meditation teacher and scholar, teaches and lectures around the world, conducting dozens of meditation retreats and workshops each year. He is the founder and spiritual director of the Dzogchen Foundation, and founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network. He is the author of many books, including Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the We...

Sheldon Norberg received his training at the Academy of Intuition Medicine and has developed an extensive practice in meditation and energetic space healing. He became an adjunct faculty member at the Academy of Intuition Medicine while earning his B.A. in Psycho-Spiritual Healing at San Francisco State University. He is a Certified Practitioner of Chi Nei Tsan (Chinese Organ Massage), a Certified...

Elson Haas, M.D. is an integrative medicine practitioner with more than four decades of experience. He’s the Founder and Director of Haas Health Online and the Preventative Medical Center of Marin ( PMCM). He is the author of Staying Healthy with the Seasons (Celestial Arts 2003) , Staying Healthy Shopper’s Guide (Celestial Arts, 1999) , The False Fat Diet: The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Los...

Margaret Wheatley is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher.  She began caring about the world's peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in postwar Korea. She is co-founder and President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world who strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their pe...

Pilar Jennings, Ph. D. is a writer and researcher who has focused on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She received her Ph. D. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary, and has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2004. Dr. Jennings is also a researcher at the Columbia University Center for Study and Scie...

Linda Graham, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and meditation teacher in full-time practice in the San Francisco Bay area. She integrates her passion for neuroscience, mindfulness, and relational psychology through trainings, workshops, and conferences. She publishes a monthly e-newsletter entitled Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness and weekly e-quotes on resources for recovering...

Dan Millman teaches worldwide, speaking to women and men from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, and the arts. He is the author of many books including: Way of the Peaceful Warrior (H.J. Kramer 1994) (adapted into a major film starring Nick Nolte and Amy Smart) and The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meanin...

Jacques Vallee, Ph. D. is one of today's most widely respected researchers of unexplained aerial phenomena. He earned a Masters Degree in Astrophysics while living in France and holds a Ph. D. in computer science from Northwestern University. His life experience was the model portrayed by François Truffaut in the Steven Spielberg award winning film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He is the au...

Don Lattin is a journalist covering alternative and mainstream religious movements. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazine and newspapers. He's been a commentator on many television news programs. He is the author of many books including Jesus Freaks; A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge (HarperOne 2008), Following Our Bliss: How Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shap...

Cathy Hawk is founding director of Get Clarity International. She along with her partner, Gary Hawk are experts in human energy systems and have mentored and consulted with thousands of individuals and business leaders to turn human energy into peak experience and peak performance. They are the co-authors of Creating the Rest of Your Life: An Atlas for Manifesting Success and Excellence in Life an...

Jane Hirshfield is a poet, translator, and essayist and is the author of many collections of poetry and other books, including three collections of women poets from the past. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, the California Book Award, The Poetry Center Book...

Robert Augustus Masters holds a doctorate in psychology and is an experienced psychotherapist, trainer of psychotherapists, and teacher of spiritual deepening. His integral, intuitive work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, authenticity, deep shadow work, emotional openness and literacy, and the development of relational maturity. His books include Di...

Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph. D. is the daughter of Margaret Meade and Gregory Bateson and is a cultural anthropologist. She served as the Clarence J. Robinson’s Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University from 1987 to 2002, when she became Professor Emerita. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Aging and Workplace Flexibility at Boston College, and, until recently, was Pr...

Cathy Hawk is founding director of Get Clarity International and Gary Hawk is Managing Director. They are experts in human energy systems and have mentored and consulted with thousands of individuals and business leaders to turn human energy into peak experience and peak performance. Cathy and Gary do this by helping their clients gain clarity of purpose, a refreshed vitality and a riveting focus...

Alan Briskin is a pioneer in the field of organizational learning and cofounder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative. His books include: Stirring of Soul in the Workplace (Berrett-Koehler 1998), The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly (co-authors, Sheryl Erickson, Tom Callanan, and John Ott)(Berrett-Koehler 2009), Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excell...

Fr. Mathew Fox is a wisdom elder, a theologian, an Episcopal priest, and author of 35 books on spiritualty and culture, including: Original Blessing and Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times .  Skylar Wilson is a Rites of Passage guide who has worked as a mentor for both teenagers and adults. As a relatively younger person in his 30s, he’s been training leaders in gatherings of inte...

Stewart Levine is the founder of ResolutionWorks, a consulting service dedicated to conflict resolution for businesses and individuals. His clients include NASA, American Express, Oracle, General Motors, and the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict Into Collaboration 2nd Edition (Berrett-Koehler 2009).