The Freedom of Real Apologies, by On Being
TIPPETT, HOST: A single voice of integrity can be a window into many worlds. Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. And I had no idea, until I discovered Layli Long Soldier that the U.S. government offered an official apology to Native peoples in 2009. But it was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Now, Standing Rock is in our midst as a new shorthand for layers of history we scarcely know how to talk about. Layli Long Soldier’s lyrical first book,&n... posted on May 12 2017 (6,437 reads)

7 Simple Ways to Cultivate Comfort, by Colette Lafia
comfort can be found in the context of daily living. It is a grace. We just need to open our arms and receive it. Comfort is a shelter, a warm blanket, a refuge. Fortunately, we do not need to do anything extraordinary to produce comfort, because it is something that already exists within each of us and all around us. Real comfort can be found in the context of daily living. It is a grace. We just need to open our arms and receive it. We just need to open our arms and give it. Recently, on a warm Sunday afternoon, my husband and I were spending time in our garden, pruning plants, watering flowers, and sweeping up dry leaves. We began talking about my mother and father, who had... posted on Feb 25 2018 (33,492 reads)

Skateboard Parks and the Power of Relationship, by Awakin Call Editors
following is the edited transcript of an Awakin Call with Ulrike Reinhard. You can listen to the full recording of the call here. Preeta Bansal: It's my pleasure to welcome Ulrike Reinhard as our guest this week! Ulrike Reinhard: Yeah, thanks a lot and hello to everyone out there! Preeta: Ulrike is a German publisher, author, a Futurist and she's been involved in a lot of global development efforts throughout her lifetime. Currently, she lives mostly in India, in rural India, where she is the woman behind a skateboard park, that’s in a village; the park has been upending notions of caste and gender, and empowering a community economically. She's been also ... posted on May 18 2019 (3,647 reads)

The Spirit of Restorative Justice: An Interview with Sujatha Baliga , by Sebastian Robins
Baliga found herself sitting in a room with a murderer and his victim’s parents, who had come seeking something more than punishment for their child’s killer. Sujatha, and the process of Restorative Justice, was uniquely positioned to help. She came to that meeting through rigorous academic training, and also through harrowing personal experience. She grew up in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania where she experienced ongoing sexual abuse by her father. As an adult, after several emotional breakdowns related to the early childhood traumas, she decided to travel to Dharamsala, India to visit the Dalai Lama. Through slim odds, she was granted an audience with the exiled leader. Aft... posted on Mar 5 2018 (18,817 reads)

What Borders Are Really About, by On Being
follows is the transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Luis Alberto Urrea KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that “we miss each other.” We have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is the warmest and wisest — the most helpful person with whom I’ve pondered the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them. The Mexican-American border, as he likes to say, ran straight through his parents’ Mexican-American marriage and divorce. He was Luis to his Tijuan... posted on Jul 15 2018 (9,091 reads)

Unity and the Power of Love, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
holds the essential vision that we are one living, interconnected ecosystem—a living Earth that supports and nourishes all of its inhabitants. If we acknowledge and honor this simple reality, we can begin to participate in the vital work of healing our fractured and divisive world and embrace a consciousness of oneness that is our human heritage. This is the opportunity that is being offered to us, even as its dark twin is constellating the dynamics of nationalism, tribalism, isolationism, and all the other regressive forces that express ‘me’ rather than ‘we.’ Oneness is not a metaphysical idea but something essential and ordinary. It is in every breath... posted on Nov 7 2018 (9,105 reads)

Daring to Dream: Religion and the Future of the Earth, by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim
is a dawning realization from many quarters that the changes humans are making on the planet are comparable to the changes of a major geological era. The scientific evidence says we are damaging life systems on Earth and causing species extinction (20,000 species lost annually) at such a rate as to bring about the end of our current period, the Cenozoic era. No such mass extinction has occurred since the dinosaurs were eliminated 65 million years ago by an asteroid. Our period is considered to be the sixth major extinction in Earth’s 4.7 billion-year history, and in this case humans are the primary cause. Having grown from two billion to six billion people in the twentieth cen... posted on Dec 17 2018 (6,738 reads)

The Geography of Sorrow, by Tim Mckee
a man who specializes in grief and sorrow, psychotherapist Francis Weller certainly seems joyful. When I arrived at his cabin in Forestville, California, he emerged with a smile and embraced me. His wife, Judith, headed off to garden while Francis led me into their home among the redwoods to talk. I had wanted to interview Weller ever since the publisher I work for, North Atlantic Books, had agreed to publish his new book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. Over the previous few years my father, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, and sister-in-law had all died, and I’d also moved across the country and was missing the friends and... posted on Feb 26 2019 (62,089 reads)

At-One-Ment: In Conversation with Rabbi Michael Lerner, by Leslee Goodman
Michael Lerner has been synthesizing his spiritual and social justice yearnings since adolescence, when he found a mentor and guide in Abraham Joshua Heschel, of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Lerner began his own legacy of political activism in 1964 when, as a student at UC Berkeley pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy, he served on the Executive Committee of the Free Speech Movement, advocating for civil rights and an end to the war in Vietnam. Eventually, however, the shortcomings of the activist movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s inspired him to earn a second Ph.D., in psychology, from the Wright Institute, to gain a deeper understanding of the motivations underlying American societ... posted on Mar 30 2019 (9,039 reads)

Working for Peace in a Violent World, by Matthew Legge
eats life.” — Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell studied spiritual traditions from around the world and found that the violence inherent in life is one of the uncomfortable truths they all grapple with. Life eats life. Our world is perpetually destructive and creative. Can peace be consistent with such a violent world, or is it a total fantasy? In his article “On Staying Sane in a Suicidal Culture,” Dahr Jamail describes his personal struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder after working as a war correspondent in Iraq: “I was unable to go any deeper emotionally than my rage and numbness. I stood precariously atop my self-righteous anger about... posted on Aug 5 2019 (6,681 reads)

Falling in Love With the Earth, by Kristi Nelson
natural world is one of the most resplendent and consistent sources of generosity in our lives — whether we experience it directly moment-to-moment or not. When we allow ourselves to tune in and pay attention, our Earth is perpetually nourishing and providing for us, sustaining life and offering its abundant gifts with a breathtaking and consistent flourish. We are fed, literally and figuratively, by the Earth’s offerings every day. All manner of things born of the Earth can awaken us to perspective. All manner of moments in Nature can offer us gratitude for life’s preciousness and remind us of our fragile and powerful bonds of connection. Amidst oceans, fields, rain, t... posted on Nov 25 2019 (6,696 reads)

Finding Beauty in a Broken World, by Terry Tempest Williams
Simon: So you are here at Sounds True, Terry, recording an original audio abridgment of Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and I am curious just to begin, when you approached the book, how did you consider how to abridge it? Your recording here is 1/3 of the book, something like that? Terry Tempest Williams: Right. I love editing. And I also love reworking material, so it has been a great gift and privilege to be able to take these three sections of Finding Beauty in a Broken World--the mosaic section, the prairie dog section, and the Rwanda section—and condense each section into an hour. So in many ways it has forced me to be much clearer, to be sharper on the co... posted on Apr 12 2020 (7,649 reads)

Climate in the Boardroom, by Rebecca Henderson
Online September 22, 2020 How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution almost certainly requires a profoundly moral response, but talk of morality in the boardroom is often regarded with profound suspicion. Reconciling these tensions has forced me to navigate between worlds in an ongoing attempt to persuade businesspeople that solving climate change is both an economic and a moral necessity, and that the purpose of business is not only to make money but also to su... posted on Oct 27 2020 (5,491 reads)

Tara Brach: True Refuge, by Tami Simon
Simon: You’re listening to “Insights at the Edge.” Today I speak with Tara Brach. Tara is an author, clinical psychologist, and the founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She’s the author of the Sounds True audio learning programs Radical Self-Acceptance: A Buddhist Guide to Freeing Yourself from Shame and Meditations for Emotional Healing: Finding Freedom in the Face of Difficulty. On this episode of “Insights at the Edge,” Tara and I spoke about why it’s hard to be compassionate toward ourselves, and what Tara calls the Trance of Unworthiness. We also spoke about how to find a true ... posted on Jan 5 2021 (6,107 reads)

Health & Justice: The Path of Liberation Through Medicine, by Rupa Marya
is the transcript of the 2018 keynote speech at Bioneers, where I was introduced by my friend and conspirator, Black liberationist Cat Brooks, director of Anti Police-Terror Project. May this talk help people understand this uprising for justice so they can join the movement for health and wellness for all people. We cannot reform structures built on racism and violence. We must uproot them, compost them, heal the wounds and build anew. I want to first acknowledge the Coastal Miwok and the beings on whose land we are meeting today. To acknowledge all the indigenous people who have trusted me, shared deep conversation with me and influenced my understanding of what it mean... posted on Oct 11 2021 (3,850 reads)

Trauma, the Body and 2021, by On Being
follows is the syndicated transcript of an OnBeing interview between Krista Tippett and Bessel van der Kolk. You can listen to the full interview here. Krista Tippett: When I interviewed the psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk for the first time, his book The Body Keeps the Score was about to be published. And I described him as “an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming experiences on people and society” — what we call trauma, when we encounter it in life and in the news. So I have needed to catch up with him in a time unlike any other in my life, in which we are living through one vast, overwhelming experience after the other, and The Body K... posted on Feb 10 2022 (7,493 reads)

You Are Not Alone Across Time, by https://onbeing.org/programs/bryan-doerries-you-are-not-alone-across-time/
follows is the syndicated transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Bryan Doerries. You can listen to the audio of the interview here. Krista Tippett, host: “Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say, in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room, and you are not alone across time.” He is activating an old alchemy for our young century. Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings, and callings that we aren’t able to muster in our official places now. Performances of his public health project, Theater of War,... posted on Feb 27 2022 (3,204 reads)

Healing Wealth In The Time Of Collapse, by Alnoor Ladha, Lynn Murphy
following is excerpted from Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse, by Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy. Co-publisher: Transition Resource Circle.  “In the dark theopoetics of the cloud, might the very fold between our non-knowing and our non-separability begin to appear [as] possibility itself, posse ipsum?” -- Catherine Keller Post capitalist philanthropy is a paradox in terms. A paradox is the appropriate starting place for the complex, entangled, messy context we find ourselves in as a species. Those of us who are embedded in the muddled sub-sect of humans working in the sector known as philanthropy find ourselves pushed even furt... posted on Sep 20 2022 (4,785 reads)

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Michael F. Shaughnessy, Cynthia Kleyn-Kennedy, Betty Edwards
10, 2016 Interview conducted by Michael F. Shaughnessy, Eastern New Mexico University, and Cynthia Kleyn-Kennedy, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Betty Edwards is Professor Emeritus in Art, California State University, Long Beach.   She has been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Intuition Magazine and has been a guest speaker at art school, universities, and major corporations, including IBM, General Electric, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Disney Corporation, UCLA Graduate Dental School, Steelcase, and McKinsey & Company. She holds a doctorate in Art from California State University in Long Beac... posted on Jul 9 2023 (2,697 reads)

Lissa Rankin: Sacred Medicine & The Mysteries of Healing, by Awakin Call Editors
follows is the edited transcript of Lissa Rankin's Awakin Call, hosted by Kristin Von Kundra and moderated by Cynthia Li. Cynthia Li: It is my pleasure to introduce to you, Dr. Lissa Rankin, who is an inspiration and a friend to me. Lissa is a doctor, speaker, educator, and author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestseller, Mind Over Medicine and her new book, Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing. She's the founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute, which supports doctors and healthcare professionals to bring forth more holistic care of their patients and also themselves. She also fo... posted on Aug 28 2023 (3,699 reads)