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Carter interviews cohost teZa about her early history and mental "reset" when she was professionally involved with the studies and experimentation of plant medicines. At Harvard U. she drew plants and assisted botanists as they explored how indigenous people throughout the world have used psychotropic plants since time immemorial to facilitate touching "the Divine." Featured are recollections of R...

Part 3 of our "no-labels" discussion (see previous episodes) cohost Carter and teZa share how many listeners are writing, reacting, and still need clarity to this most interesting of subjects. Again, talking about our spirituality is often hard using words, in general, but when we insist of sticking to the labels so necessary to function in everyday society, that's where hindrances happen. Hopeful...

Following the thread of ZLORD's two previous episodes about Oneness, cohosts teZa and Carter Lord share about the reasons why Oneness ought be as much a part of life, as mainstream as sharing on social media. Unity consciousness is that important to a fulfilling, contented life, making the worse hardships bearable. Examples are given of those who do, and those who don't ascribe to this state of mi...

Part 2 of the previous episode's discussion of why life is so much better "without labels." Cohosts teZa and Carter differentiate between cultural adjectives, that are often needed to function in society--and the deeper connection with our eternal soul that has no reason or need to be labeled. They encourage everyone to listen to Hannah Gadsby's stunning Netflix show "Nanette" to more clearly unde...

Everyone's tired of the divisiveness and animosity in our social interactions and political leanings. In this episode cohosts teZa and Carter Lord notice a distinct swing among their circles toward tiring of arguing and more inclined to healing the divide. The discussion points out drawbacks of using "labels" of any sort, whether for our own multi-layered lives or in reference to people holding di...

Often coming from two different perspectives, cohosts teZa and Carter Lord always agree on one thing: they both love Spirit. In this episode they unravel the meaning of Oneness, because both have different definitions for it. But in the end, they both agree: Oneness IS Spirit. Just another name for it. see tezalord.com and carterlord.com for more about these two lovers, and lovers of Spirit.

Every person alive, sooner or later, meets with hard times, challenges, situations. Here cohosts teZa and Carter discuss methods they use, individually and sometimes together, to help become more aware, more accepting of what might not be in their power to change--and then, and only then--taking action to alleviate stress becomes possible and inner peace is ours. Even with seemingly impossible tim...

Going solo this episode, teZa hopes she's going to convince her good friend Dori to join her for a spontaneously planned conversation as they share woman-to-woman time on a beach date. Well, as often happens, things do not work out as we like to think they will. But everything happens for a bigger purpose than we alone can imagine, as happens when Dori says, "I'm too shy!" But  this leads teZa int...

Have you ever wished you could get some help from God, our Spiritual source? Your Higher Self? Your guardian angel? No matter what you call this "energy"--this week teZa and Carter Lord talk about how they "use it." Learn how they approach the Divine when they're seeking answers they need help with. Step by step, each shares how s/he does this; and how anyone can do the same whenever they need ext...

teZa and Carter Lord, cohosts and life partners of 3 decades, are freshly back from two weeks of van camping in Southeast Arizona. They're really excited about the conservation message so beautifully given by scientist Diana Beresford-Kroeger in her most recent book: To Speak for the TREES. Join their enthusiasm as they discuss how every conversation needs to focus on Spirit. Then, everything chan...

Recorded in the Wild on April 24 but uploaded a few days later when we found an internet connection. Cohosts teZa and Carter Lord discuss, sitting at their early morning campfire in Southeast Arizona, how, with the proper approach, one can feel connected  to Nature, to  'the Wild'  no matter where, when, or how our surroundings may be. See tezalord.com for her books on Oneness, and visit carterlor...

This episode was recorded on EARTH DAY as cohost teZa and Carter Lord camp in the WILD of Southeast Arizona. Due to no internet connection, the next two conversations on ZLORD podcast are being presented simultaneously as ... internet is only now possible. We record using only an simple iPhone, and then, to present our various episodes, not only an internet connection but a desktop computer is nec...

teZa and Carter are freshly back from a multiday reunion with old school chums, many of whom hold opposing views about the way the world is. Bonded by a mutual love, having known each other since childhood, it's important to the group to find common ground rather than continue arguing about such things as politics, economics, and general "grown-up" topics that never mattered when they became fast...

Cohosts teZa and Carter Lord talk about how being "in tune" with higher levels of consciousness is a choice each of us gets to make, over and over, each day, each moment in the day. They share some of the tools they use to stay in this "river of consciousness" ... and some of the ways in which it's easy to forget. teZaLord.com for more info of her nonfiction books and carterlord.com for carter's f...

In our fast-paced world of today, misunderstanding is easy, especially using texts and emails as our method of communication. We don't get to hear the nuances of a voice, or see a person's body language. Words have powerful energy! Often ours are misunderstood. In this episode Carter and teZa, cohosts of ZLORD, discuss how to give other people the "benefit of the doubt" when there's been a misunde...

No matter what it is, any negative emotion can be turned around to serve our lives' fulfillment, and not be the source of pain, depression, anxiety, sadness, or any other form of negativity. In this episode cohosts teZa and Carter Lord give real-life examples of how they work the awareness, acceptance, action 3-step process of transforming negatives into, if not positives, at least just stepping-s...

During cohosts teZa and Carter Lord's lifetimes things have never felt so filled with things beyond their control. World events are catastrophic. Putin's Russia invading Ukraine has thrown the entire globe into a frightening tailspin. Never before has a nuclear threat loomed as REAL as we are experiencing right now. Today. So what can we do to ease the stress? Especially helping our young children...

Many in the free world feel imperiled right now. Upon this past week's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Putin's Russian military forces and the subsequent loss of life and river of refugees during a harsh winter, our conversation's mood is solemn. The fragile balance of world power hangs precariously in the hands of an apparent greedy madman What can we do to help? In this week's episode teZa and...

Carter and teZa Lord discuss how accessible real happiness is for every person alive--if they're willing to do "the work." No one can deny: life is hard. Many happiness "experts" are offering ways to grasp fulfillment because we are a more "mindful" culture in the West. In this week's conversation, as always, the ZLORD cohosts present personal anecdotes and true-life experiences of how these two l...

Carter and teZa Lord talk about a useful exercise they're doing: making a spiritual inventory of their assets as well as their deficits. Why do such a thing? Isn't being spiritual mindful enough? Well, we all can improve, right? By writing these self-reflexive things about ourself down (privately, but written down not just contemplated) they become tangible to us. Then we really know what we have...

Everyone's sick and tired of "them vs. us" vitriolic arguing. Nothing much gets done with this leak of psychic energy in society. This week's discussion has cohosts teZa and Carter Lord offering reasonable, workable solutions for helping to transform the divisiveness in our global society.  First, a person decides to be more aware in their own lives. Then they can influence others in their circle...

In this episode of ZLORD, Carter and teZa Lord, married for 30 years, discuss the different ways they use to stay focused in the moment, and experience greater peace as a result. Sometimes they have similar techniques, with different words to describe it. Whether they agree or not, the love they share is the true spirit of their honest conversations. That, and wishing to share with others what wor...

teZa and Carter, cohosts of ZLORD continue their spiritual-mental-physical discussion about many aspects of healing the body-mind-soul. Especially teZa's recent leg fracture. See tezalord.com for more

Carter and teZa Lord discuss how physical challenges are the same and effect us similarly as emotional, psychological, racial, economic, and spiritual hurdles we all get challenged by in life. Carter was blessed to have known Sidney Poitier during both men's early film careers. Here, Carter gives insights how Sidney overcame his lowly, impoverished beginnings to become the giant, the icon that he...

Happy 2022 means something entirely different to teZa now, who broke her right leg 10 days ago in a freak home accident! Carter and she discuss how so-called "accidents" can be catalysts for great change -- or not. Depending on how we regard such opportunities we meet as freak occurrences, dis-eases, pandemics, chance encounters--numerous ways accidents might be defined--they can effect our desire...