The New School at Commonweal

Stephan Schwartz Trends That Affect Your Future and Consciousness Research Join Michael Lerner for a conversation with Stephan Schwartz, the creator of the free daily on-line Schwartz Report: Trends That Will Affect Your Future. Stephen tracks significant social trends while postulating the reality of non-local consciousness. Integrating tough-minded social trend analysis with a deep knowledge of...

Tom Cheetham, PhD Spiritual Imagination in the Work of Henry Corbin, CG Jung and James Hillman Tom Cheetham makes a presention on Henry Corbin’s work and the links with Jungian psychology, and has a conversation with Dr. Michael Lerner on aspects of this topic. Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was a visionary Protestant theologian and a ground-breaking scholar and translator of Islamic mysticism. His unde...

Rebecca Katz, MS The Longevity Kitchen: the Top 16 Age-Busting Power Foods Despite America’s anti-aging obsession and numerous medical advances, for the first time in recorded history, life spans are actually shortening because of what people eat. But it doesn’t have to be so. The scientific community has come to recognize the extraordinary power good culinary choices have over our bodies. Taking...

Michael Lerner, PhD Wounds of the Self, Wounds of the Earth This is a talk Michael gave on April 4, 2013, to graduate students and faculty at Sophia University in Palo Alto. Sophia University was previously called the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. Michael says, “Most of the students had a working knowledge of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and Roberto Assagioli, as well as of eco-psychology....

Michael Lerner, PhD Pilgrims of the Way: Integral Yoga and Archetypal Psychology Integral Yoga and archetypal psychology offer complementary ways of understanding ourselves and other people. The triadic relationship between love, wisdom, and will is found in both traditions. Useful readings include the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras, and any of the works of archetypal psychologists James Hillman a...

Michael Lerner, PhD Archetypal Psychology: The Role of Soul in Daily Life Join Michael Lerner in this discussion about his studies and journey with archetypal psychology. James Hillman, a Jungian analyst, founded archetypal psychology to explore the power of archetypes and the place of soul in our psyches and daily lives. Thomas Moore popularized Hillman’s sometimes obscure writings. We’ll trace t...

Jeff Vander Clute Compassionate Action: New Stories, Healing, and Thriving Communities Join us for this conversation between Commonweal’s Michael Lerner and Jeff Vander Clute, executive director of New Stories — an educational organization serving as a resource center, creative collaboratory and project incubator in support of emerging new stories for who we are as humanity, what we are becoming,...

BJ Miller, MD Dying: Exploring the Terrain BJ Miller, MD, talks with Michael Lerner about his life, his disability, and his role as executive director at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. The Zen Hospice Project works to bridge medical and social models of care in effort to provide the finest palliative care available. This necessitates a broader multi-disciplinary approach to caregiving a...

Fritz Hull IONA Vision: the Founding of the Whidbey Institute New School at Commonweal host Michael Lerner explores Fritz Hull’s spiritual biography in this three-part series. Fritz Hull Fritz has been leading programs with his wife, Vivienne, since 1972 when they founded the Chinook Learning Center on Whidbey Island. A native of Seattle and Whidbey Island, he is a graduate of the University of Wa...

Fritz Hull IONA Vision: the Founding of the Whidbey Institute New School at Commonweal host Michael Lerner explores Fritz Hull’s spiritual biography in this three-part series. Fritz Hull Fritz has been leading programs with his wife, Vivienne, since 1972 when they founded the Chinook Learning Center on Whidbey Island. A native of Seattle and Whidbey Island, he is a graduate of the University of Wa...

Fritz Hull IONA Vision: the Founding of the Whidbey Institute New School at Commonweal host Michael Lerner explores Fritz Hull’s spiritual biography in this three-part series. Fritz Hull Fritz has been leading programs with his wife, Vivienne, since 1972 when they founded the Chinook Learning Center on Whidbey Island. A native of Seattle and Whidbey Island, he is a graduate of the University of Wa...

Sister Miriam MacGillis Opening the Christian Mysteries to the New Cosmology ~Co-sponsored with Point Reyes Books~ In response to the global crisis, Sister Miriam MacGillis — and her community at their biodynamic Genesis Farm in New Jersey — focus on connections between the health of Earth and of human communities within particular bioregions. From the Genesis Farm website: Genesis Farm is rooted...

Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop Presented by Eric Karpeles and Melissa Smith The embrace of Elizabeth Bishop’s modest but exacting body of work into the canon of English literature continues unimpeded. In her lifetime (1911-1979) she was admired and celebrated, acclaimed by fellow poet John Ashbery as “a writer’s writer’s writer,” but it is only since her death that her influence on the literary arts...

Richard T LeGates Chinese Cities: Their Amazing Rise and Possible Futures Since China’s “reform and opening up” beginning in the late 1970s, China has had double-digit gross domestic product (GDP) growth almost every year, including close to a 50% increase in GDP since the global economic crisis began in 2007. From an impoverished rural country where more than 80% of the population engaged in near...

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD Science Set Free: Ten Paths to New Discovery Join Michael Lerner for a discussion with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake about his life, his views, and his new book: Science Set Free — Ten Paths to New Discovery. In his book, Rupert discusses his views on the ways science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting...

Stephanie Sugars What Do I Have to Offer before I Leave My Body? In this podcast, long-time alumna of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program Stephanie Sugars talks with Michael Lerner about her journey with illness, treatments, and healing–and the insights that come from living on the “edge of life.” Stephanie Sugars Stephanie is a human being, a friend to life and death, and a passionate participant...

Francis Weller, MFT Entering the Healing Ground: Grief, Ritual, and the Soul of the World Join Michael Lerner in conversation with author and soul activist Francis Weller, about his work with people living with cancer, and his studies and experience with the grief rituals and ceremonies of indigenous cultures. Carried privately, sorrow lingers in the soul, slowly pulling us below the surface of li...

Walter and Aggie Murch The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte ~Co-presented by KWMR and Point Reyes Books~ Join us for a reading and conversation between Walter and Aggie Murch about Walter’s recently published book, The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte. Walter Murch Working within the growing Bay Area film community, Murc...

Bob Holman Sing This One Back to Me: The Spoken Word Bob Holman studied poetry at Columbia University in the 1970s (where he now teaches), but considers his “major poetry schooling” to be his time on the Lower East Side in New York with Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anne Waldman, Miguel Piñero, Hettie Jones, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Pedro Pietri, David Henderson, Steve...

Julie McIntyre Wild Earth, Wild Plants, Wild Woman Join us for a conversation with Julie McIntyre and The New School’s Kyra Epstein exploring Julie’s life as an herbalist treating Lyme disease with a successful herbal protocol, an Earth ceremonialist, and the author of a new book: Sex and the Intelligence of the Heart; Nature, Intimacy and Sexual Energy. Julie McIntyre Julie is an Earth ceremonial...

Tu-2 and Angela Oh Insight: Seeing the Inner Self Join us for a preview of the show “108 Bodhisattvas,” as well as a conversation with artist Tu-2 (Tu Ying-ming) and meditation teacher and lawyer Angela E. Oh. The full body of work, 108 Bodhisattvas, will be premiered in fall of 2013 at a workshop and show in Commonweal Gallery. Tu Ying-ming (Tu-2) Tu-2 is a visual fine artist who focuses on paint...

Mark Renneker, MD, Michael Lerner, and Others Clinical Advocacy Public Forum As part of the first clinical advocacy conference at Commonweal October 11-14, this public forum brought ideas, experiences, and findings of the conference to a discussion with the larger New School and Commonweal community. This was a special day of presentations and discussions on clinical advocacy — bringing together c...

Mark Renneker, MD, Michael Lerner, and Others Clinical Advocacy Public Forum As part of the first clinical advocacy conference at Commonweal October 11-14, this public forum brought ideas, experiences, and findings of the conference to a discussion with the larger New School and Commonweal community. This was a special day of presentations and discussions on clinical advocacy — bringing together c...

Mark Renneker, MD, Michael Lerner, and Others Clinical Advocacy Public Forum As part of the first clinical advocacy conference at Commonweal October 11-14, this public forum brought ideas, experiences, and findings of the conference to a discussion with the larger New School and Commonweal community. This was a special day of presentations and discussions on clinical advocacy — bringing together c...

erry Mander The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System Join Michael Lerner in a conversation with Jerry Mander about his new book, in which he researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problem of capitalism—in the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable...