Best Angelo John Lewis Podcasts (2024)

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Lucas Johnson on the Power of Nonviolence and Spiritual Activism 59:02

9M ago59:02

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Host Angelo John Lewis and guest Lucas Johnson engage in a powerful conversation about spirituality and social justice. Lucas Johnson, an ordained minister and Executive Vice President for Social Healing for the On Being Project, shares his deep global experience in conflict resolution and community organizing. Drawing from his global experience, J…

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Spirituality and Social Justice Symposium 1:04:39

9M ago1:04:39

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This Spirituality and Social Justice Symposium explores the intersection of spirituality and activism. Host Angelo John Lewis engages in a dynamic discussion with guests Shariff Abdullah, Lucas Johnson, and Cat Zavis about their experiences in social activism and successful projects. The panelists highlighted the significance of inner work and pers…

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The Intersection of Faith and Activism: Cat Zavis on Spirituality and Social Justice 38:53

9M ago38:53

38:53

Cat Zavis discusses her personal journey and insights on integrating spiritualism and activism. Zavis is Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives Cat and her colleague, Rabbi Michael Lerner, have worked tirelessly to build a Religious left movement in Israel, countering the religious right movement. They recognize the trauma and …

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"Art as a Sacred Calling": An Interview with Tasleem Jamila Firdausee 50:49

9M ago50:49

50:49

Tasleem Jamila Firdausee, the executive director of Art as a Sacred Intiative, here talks about her Baptist upbringing, her immersion into mystical Islam, and her academic scholarship into the role of women in Sufism. She shares of her spiritual journey and the teachers she's encountered along the way, and illustrates them with readings from her tw…

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Talismans and Lucid Dreaming 22:45

11M ago22:45

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Dream Researcher Ryan Hurd talks about lucid dreaming and the secret history of using talismans to elicit lucid dreams. He defines lucid dreaming and its benefits, explores liminality and dreaming, and how to use talismans to facilitate lucid dreaming. Ryan Hurd is a dream researcher and life-long lucid dreamer. He edits the website DreamStudies.or…

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"What it means to be human": an interview with Bob Dunham 1:00:04

1y ago1:00:04

1:00:04

For leadership authority Robert "Bob" Dunham, there's a fundmantal difference between machines -- even complex computers that mimic logical thinking -- and humans. Before we even begin to talk about effective leadership, Dunham says, we need to get clear on this difference. The capacity of “caring,” Dunham says, is the fundamental aspect of what it…

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Sleep Medicine: the Practice of Yoga Nidra 1:26:39

1+ y ago1:26:39

1:26:39

Restorative yoga practioner Jennifer Piercy explains the philosophy of yoga nidra, leads participants through a yoga nidra session, and answers questions about dreams, sleep and rest. This is a recording of the 11/19/22 Sacred Inclusion Network Managing Dark Spaces exploration. The yoga nidra practice starts about 16:14, goes for approximately a ha…

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Restoration, Dreams and Navigating Dark Spaces 40:03

1+ y ago40:03

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Integrative restoration and dream educator, and yoga facilitator Jennifer Piercy here talks about yoga nidra, the importance of sleep and restoration practice, and the "wake-centric" bias of contemporary culture. Rather than view sleep as a necessary evil, Piercy suggests approaching it as a kind of spiritual practice and an invitation to explore t…

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Activating Egyptian Spirituality (Excerpt) 11:40

2y ago11:40

11:40

Marques Redd on African spirituality, the lure of Egypt, and what to expect during the 10/15 Sacred Inclusion Network exploration. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/BHlxqvV6iac Marcus Redd's site Sacred Inclusion NetworkBy Angelo John Lewis

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Activating Egyptian Spirituality 41:04

2y ago41:04

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African cosmologist, independent scholar and multimedia artist Marques Redd discusses African spirituality, the legacy of Egypt, and the tradition of the gatekeepers. Redd here explains he first became interested in African spiritualty, his academic studies on the influence of ancient Egypt on Plato's philosphy and 19th century literature, and how …

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Archiving the Impossible 41:28

2+ y ago41:28

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Within the halls of academia, the exploration of paranormal activity is for the most part off-limits to serious scientific inquiry. There are a variety of reasons for this, says religious scholar Jeffrey J. Kripal: the rise of behaviorism; the belief that the brain is in essence a biological computer; and the concurrent belief in physicalism - that…

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Bridging Together Indigenous and Modern Science 1:05:31

2+ y ago1:05:31

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The sacred pipe, the Raven, and a peyote ritual were three touchstones of the path of Dr. Apela Colorado, traditional cultural practitioner and indigenous scientist of French and Oneida descent. In this podcast, she shares stories of how each of these elements formed an essential part of her journey, from growing up as a mixed-race child in rural w…

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When Spiritual Practice Gets Messy 52:59

2+ y ago52:59

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Author, teacher and coach Raphael Cushnir learned from hard experience that the results of spiritual practice aren't always warm and fuzzy or particularly pleasurable. In his case, they included kriyas, or very intense involuntary movements, sometimes accompanied by rapid breathing and non-nonsensical speech. These were challenging enough to handle…

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"Matrix Man": An Interview with Whitley Strieber 1:09:35

2+ y ago1:09:35

1:09:35

In 1985, a strange incident occurred that would totally transform the life of Whitley Strieber, at the time best known as a writer of horror novels, including The Wolfen and The Hunger. As memorialized in his book, Communion and the movie of the same name, this was his abduction by a group he calls "the visitors." Communion and Strieber's subsequen…

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Inner Work and the Path of Leadership 57:37

2+ y ago57:37

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For Robert "Bob" Dunham, the art of effective leadership is as much as inner game as an outer one. It begins, he says, with the leader identifying what h/she cares about, what h/she'll will do to respond to that caring, and then engaging with others about shared meaning. When beginning his work with prospective leaders, Dunham often begins by askin…

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A New Look at American Spirituality 47:10

3+ y ago47:10

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Although the US is nominally a secular state, the majority of its citizens think of themselves as spiritual. That's one of the central findings of a recent major study of spirituality in the United States. "About three quarters of the respondents said that spirituality is either very important to them, or somewhat important," said Bob Boisture, the…

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Hack the Brain! 1:05:43

3+ y ago1:05:43

1:05:43

Contemporary neuroscience is an essential ingredient in our understanding of human development, including our capacity for greater happiness and wisdom. The past three decades have seen the study of the brain and its relationship to human experience move forward with more vigor and enthusiasm than any other scientific field. In this podcast, author…

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The Mystic, the Psychic, the Paranormal 58:18

3+ y ago58:18

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Jeffry J. Kripal is a bit of an iconoclast when it comes to the study of religion. He's more interested in anomalist phenomena -- the mystic, the psychic, the paranormal -- than he is in things like religious history or the philosophy of religion. A professor and Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University, Kripal began his publishing career in…

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Into the Mystic 55:18

4y ago55:18

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Author Paul Corson had two out-of-body experiences that have shaped his view of the world. Now 86, he's now on a mission to share what he's leaned. His principal vehicle is his new book, Regaining Paradise: Forming a New Worldview, Knowing God and Journeying into Eternity, "a guided journey into self-knowledge, identity, empowerment, and sublime un…

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The Sara Minkara Story 33:31

4y ago33:31

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Don't think of Sara Minkara as a blind person. Think of her as a person who is blind. Social activist, speaker, and a winner of multiple awards, the founder of the advocacy organization Empowerment for Integration (ETI) has never let used her absence of vision of an excuse or crutch. The slew of honors she's achieved are evidence of her accomplishm…

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"Touching the Jaguar" 48:52

4y ago48:52

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Author, activist and renegade economist John Perkins traces his journey from Peace Corps volunteer to co-founding the Pachamama Alliance, a non-profit devoted to establishing a world future generations will want to inherit. Best known for his best-selling book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Perkins describes how his life was irrevocably change…

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Digital Disruptor: The Internet's Impact on Religion and Spirituality 29:13

4y ago29:13

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Digital culture is transforming religious practice in multiple ways, says Texas A&M Professor of Communication Heidi A. Campbell. "Scholars of religion are finding that people practice 'lived religion.' They may say, 'I'm Jewish' or 'I'm Christian," but they draw on multiple sources to define what they mean. Religion is more personalized in a digit…

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Galvanizing Change in this Pandemic Moment 26:27

4y ago26:27

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Most of us progressive-minded folks are members of multiple communities, be they religious, spiritual, environmental or political. What unites us are our values, the foremost of which is an innate sense of our sacred interdependence, or reverence for both the entirety of the interconnected web and all of its connected parts. In this excerpt from th…

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Lucid Dreaming as a Pathway to the Divine 38:55

4+ y ago38:55

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Ryan Hurd's first experiences with lucid dreaming -- the experience of being awake while dreaming -- were the nightmares he experienced as a child. After watching the 1982 film Poltergeist, he'd have these repetitive dreams of tentacled monsters escaping from his television set and coming after him. Eventually, he learned to confront these monsters…

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Healing the Wounded Masculine 43:44

4+ y ago43:44

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Men who exhibit toxic "Me Two" behavior are not just predators, but victims, says leadership coach and spiritual teacher Wendy C. Williams. They are victims that unconsciously act out society's unacknowledged expectations for their gender. Because of these unspoken norms, they subjugate both women and the female aspect of themselves. They simply ha…

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Sound, Healing and Spirit 1:05:24

4+ y ago1:05:24

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Musician Jonathan Adams eight years ago was suddenly stricken with a crippling form of depression and anxiety. It was then he discovered a new way of experiencing music and sound. Instead of using these tools to entertain others, he used them instead to calm himself down. Over time, he realized that music and sound could became a gateway of transfo…

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Indigenous Spirituality, New Age Spirituality 55:34

4+ y ago55:34

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Is there anything in common between how indigenous people experience of esoteric, spiritual phenomena and the contemporary New Agers who presume to be their heirs? If anyone is qualified to begin to answer this question it's Michael F. Brown, a cultural anthropologist who's done a deep dive into both of these worlds. Back in the mid-1970s, Brown sp…

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A Transgender Journey 24:06

4+ y ago24:06

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Growing up in a traditional southern church, Christina King quickly learned that she wasn't accepted. That's because her church saw her and people like her as anathema: living embodiments of sin. King at an early age knew that she was a transgender woman. But to verbalize how she felt about herself wouldn't have been received kindly by her conserva…

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Sacred Inclusion Sampler: Volume One 46:37

4+ y ago46:37

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Selected excerpts from some of the best interviews in the first three seasons of the Sacred Inclusion Network podcast. > UK political activist and United Reformed Church Elder Mark Argent on the deeper meaning behind the rise of Donald Trump and Brexit. > Former Black Panther party leader and spiritual activist Ericka Huggins on learning to meditat…

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Spirituality and Earth-based Feminism 44:26

5y ago44:26

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Walking the conventional path was only briefly in the cards for Staci Boden, who these days proudly calls herself a "mama-bear, life-guide energy teacher." While in law school 25 years ago, it didn't take long for Bodin to realize that she was less interested in legalism, then following in the footsteps of people like Starhawk, a pioneer of the god…

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Finding Spirituality in Business 49:27

5y ago49:27

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Clients of business trainer and consultant Mark Silver seek to achieve business success by integrating spiritual principles in their pursuit of profit. They want to change the paradigm of business so that it doesn't incorporate the negative aspects of extreme capitalism, such as the disregarding of social consequences, income inequality, and exploi…

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The Wounded Leader 45:24

5y ago45:24

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Ten years ago, Laura Tucker participated in the now infamous Spiritual Warrior retreat in which three people died. These deaths lead to the conviction of the retreat’s leader, James Arthur Ray, of three counts of negligent homicide, and became a case study of the excesses of charismatic leadership. The story of that infamous event is chronicled in …

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Healer, playwright and activist 15:48

5y ago15:48

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Peruvian Miguel Angel Pimentel is a theater director, a playwright and human writes activist, who is also a traditional Andean healer, or “paco.” In this podcast, he shares the thread that unites these pursuits, explains how he views play and creativity as part of his spiritual path and expands on the importance of theater as a means of creating co…

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An Atheist's Conversion 50:34

5y ago50:34

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When he was young, Jess Lederman was an atheist and thought people who believed in God were fools. But one day, his wife heard a radio interview with Francis Collins, the eminent geneticist and devout Christian who like the Ledermans spent the earlier part of his life as a nonbeliever. Lederman in some respects followed the same path that Collins w…

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Religion in an Increasingly Secular World 39:23

5+ y ago39:23

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What does society lose when religion no longer is a safe topic for discussion in public spaces? How has the role of religion changed in parts of the world that are increasingly secular? What are the unexpected consequences of laws designed to prevent discrimination based on religious preferences? These questions are explored by Coreene Archer and M…

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Teaching diversity as Miss North Dakota (and beyond) 42:44

5+ y ago42:44

42:44

Rosie Nestingin is an African-American woman who grew up in North Dakota, one of the whitest states in the U.S. Because she grew up in a multiracial household, and went to daycare with international children, she was shocked to discover that hers was one of the only black faces in her elementary school. As a result of this, she began at an early ag…

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"What Color is Your Soul?" 57:14

5+ y ago57:14

57:14

Cultural Agility Strategist Niambi Jaha-Echols talks about the roots of racism, why it's historically been difficult to dismantle, and the role of ancestral healing in curing its wounds. Racism, Jaha-Echols says, is a sickness that can't be cured by that operating on the same vibrational level of its cause. Eradicating it requires understanding its…

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How Millennials Find Meaning 42:05

5+ y ago42:05

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When Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston began their research on their fellow Millennials in 2014, they discovered there were a lot of people who were just like them. Like many of the people they interviewed, neither were affiliated with traditional houses of worship. ter Kuile was a former activist who'd grown up in a secular household, while Thur…

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The Dark Night of Soul 26:11

5+ y ago26:11

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Just before the Dark Night came calling, Fiona Robertson felt she was on top of the world. She was the co-founder of an award winning health project, had a charismatic new boyfriend, and felt more physically fit than any time in her life. Yet in quiet moments she felt that something wasn't quite right. The material success she'd achieved wasn't rea…

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Facing Death Without Religion 56:59

5+ y ago56:59

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How do non-religious people – which now comprise nearly 30% of the American population – face the coming of death? That’s the subject of Dr. Christel Manning’s John Templeton Foundation-funded research project. Although a fair amount is known about how religious people face the certainty of their demise, relatively little is known how non-religious…

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Improvisation and Spiritual Practice 49:25

5+ y ago49:25

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For Jules Munns, the art of improvisation he's devoted his life to is much more than simply a type of theatrical performance. Improv, he says, is as an activity that helps people uncover previously hidden aspects of their selves and thus become more fully human. Munns here explores the notion of improvisation as spiritual practice. Just as is the a…

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The Radically Inclusive Ministry of Yvette Flunder 46:58

6y ago46:58

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It was a gradual process that led the young Yvette Flunder to question the tenets of the United Church of Christ in which she was born and raised. She couldn't reconcile her emerging beliefs with her church's patriarchal orientation and its emphasis on preparing adherents for the next world rather than addressing the injustices and inadequacies of …

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Creating Communities of Choice 38:11

6y ago38:11

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Organization Development Consultant Robert Leventhal explains why there's a decline in synagogue and church attendance, how congregations can reverse this trend, and his thoughts on next generation engagement strategies. According to Leventhal, external force fields make it necessary for churches and synagogues to change to remain relevant to a new…

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Flame Wars in Spiritual Spaces 55:36

6y ago55:36

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During the summer of 2018, what happened behind the scenes of two online events exposed the painful fact that the wound of race is as present in the spiritual space as anywhere else. The run-up to both of these events sparked heated flame wars, contested on one side by white women with a history of promoting progressive causes and on the other side…

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The Poet, the Buddhist, the Trans Warrior 51:16

6y ago51:16

51:16

Esteemed poet Diana Goetsch talks about anti-gay and anti-trans attitudes within the American Buddhist community, how people fiercely protect the gender divide, and how her Vajrayāna practice sustained her during her transition. In between discussing these and other topics, she reads poetry from her eight collections, including the poem, Black Peop…

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More Than Just an Art Festival: Burning Man as Pilgrimage 38:26

6y ago38:26

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For some, it’s an art festival, for others, a networking event. For others, it's merely a time and place to get away from it all. But for Maria Lambert Bridge, the 7-day annual middle-of-nowhere Burning Man event in the desert of Nevada, is all of that, but much more. It’s a time of renewal, a pilgrimage: something akin to coming home to sacred gro…

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Christianity, Christian Denial, and the Future of the Men's Movement 43:04

6y ago43:04

43:04

It took a series of relationship failures to cause Dmitri Bilgere to embrace Christianity. Rather than giving the universe a kind of laundry list of what he wanted in a partner, he instead asked God to send him the right woman. This simple change of perspective brought him the love of his life, forms the basis of his personal faith, and is central …

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A Sufi Approach to Business 49:31

6y ago49:31

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Fourth generation entrepreneur Mark Silver is a pioneer in the integration of spirituality and business. He believes that commerce doesn’t need to involve hype or manipulation but instead can be based on transparency, integrity and heart. In this podcast, he describes how life circumstances led him to embrace the Sufi path, his belief that right bu…

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From Diversity 101 to Radical Inclusion 20:54

6y ago20:54

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One of the founders of the Diversity and Spirituality Network talks about the integration of diversity and spirituality; the need for diversity and inclusion work to evolve; and the role on inclusive, spiritually-oriented networks such as the Diversity and Spirituality Network in in an increasingly secular age. Show Notes: PEW Research Center on "s…

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New Religious Movements 38:43

6+ y ago38:43

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Pejoratively called "cults" by some, there are by some estimates more than 300 New Religious Movements in the United States and tens of thousands worldwide. These include offshoots of established religions, congregations with unique scriptures, and "New Age" churches that claim celestial origins. Some of these groups last less than a decade, wherea…

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