Category: Spirituality

Clarissa Pinkola Estés: The Dangerous Old Woman, Part...

Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, an internationally recognized scholar, award-winning poet, diplomat, senior Jungian psychoanalyst, and cantadora. “CPE” as Tami calls Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, or “Dr. E” to others, recorded Women Who Run With the Wolves with Sounds True in 1989, three years before the book ever reached bookstores. Now Dr. E is launching her masterwork over three decades in the making: The Dangerous Old Woman, launching as an online event series at SoundsTrue.com beginning April 6, 2010. In the second of a two-part conversation, CPE discusses The Dangerous Old Woman. (56 minutes)

Clarissa Pinkola Estés: The Dangerous Old Woman, Part...

Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, an internationally recognized scholar, award-winning poet, diplomat, senior Jungian psychoanalyst, and cantadora. “CPE” as Tami calls Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, or “Dr. E” to others, recorded Women Who Run With the Wolves with Sounds True in 1989, three years before the book ever reached bookstores. Now Dr. E is launching her masterwork over three decades in the making: The Dangerous Old Woman, launching as an online event series at SoundsTrue.com beginning April 6, 2010. In the first of a two-part conversation, CPE discusses The Dangerous Old Woman. (47 minutes)

Awakening Is Endless

Tami Simon speaks with Gangaji, an American-born spiritual teacher dedicated to sharing the path of freedom through simple and direct self-inquiry. This year marks her twentieth year of teaching and sharing the essential message she received from her guru, Papaji, on the banks of the Ganges in 1990. She is the author of the Sounds True book The Diamond in your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance. Gangaji discusses the challenge of working with difficult emotions, the power of humiliation, and the endless nature of spiritual awakening. (47 minutes)

Facing Death to Live Fully

Tami Simon speaks with Ed Bastian a Buddhist scholar, teacher, filmmaker, and president of the Spiritual Paths Foundation, an organization that provides retreats, classes and advanced programs on interfaith studies. He is also the coauthor of the Sounds True book Living Fully, Dying Well. Ed Discusses what he calls “the gift of death,” what science tells us about consciousness outside the body, and the transformation that occurs when we face death full on. (44 Minutes)

Undoing the Ego

Tami Simon speaks with Gary Renard who over the course of nine years, was visited by two beings named Pursah and Arten in a series of encounters. These “ascended beings,” as Gary refers to them, claimed to have been disciples of Jesus and, one claimed to be Gary himself from a future incarnation. Gary’s account of these conversations is recorded in his book The Disappearance of the Universe. He is the author of the Sounds True audio learning programs Secrets of the Immortal and The End of Reincarnation. Gary discusses the disappearance of the universe, the practice of putting the Holy Spirit in charge of your life, what forgiveness means to him, and what it means to undo the ego.(49 Minutes).

Father Thomas Keating: Inviting the Presence of the Di...

Tami Simon speaks with Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk in the Cistercian Order who has served as abbot of Saint Joseph’s Abbey Monastery in Spencer, MA, for 20 years. He now resides at Saint Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, CO. He is the author of 20 books, as well as the Sounds True audio-learning course The Contemplative Journey. Father Keating is one of the architects of the contemporary Centering Prayer movement. In the second of a two-part series, Father Keating discusses death, the afterlife, and the transformative process that occurs when one engages regularly with the practice of Centering Prayer. (28 minutes)

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