A top international science-focused podcast about health, psychology, human nature and more with André Sturesson. Listen to explore, learn and affect your life in a positive way.
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The good news is, it's under 22 minutes long. The better news is, it seems even faster. The good news is, it's hosted by Jonathan Richard Cring. The better news is, he's not a stick. The good news is, the human race is not lost. The better news is, so life doesn't suck.
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Interviews with Spiritual Practitioners about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/spiritual-practice-and-mindfulness
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Audiovisual soundhealing series & sessions. Thematic episodes called Feminine Leadership Philosophy (’Lillit2Pod’) in interviews ; Engaging and informal conversations with business-leaders and coaches on leadership types, masculinity/femininity in macro business, micro business, management and societal equity. Interactive Storytelling : Audio & cinematic script series / Wattpad community based on a visual novel adaptation of a book with co-writing opportunity, snippets and chapters of the fi ...
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Ellie Laks, "Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between" (New World Library, 2024)
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In Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between (New World Library, 2024), Ellie Laks recounts the extraordinary journey that started with her first teacher, Buddha -- not the religious figure, but a rescued miniature Hereford cow. One evening Buddha wrapped her neck around an exhausted …
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy Episode #Reproduction #AI vs #Reality Part 4
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy - LILLIT2POD: #Reproduction vs #Reality part4 from Blue Space. Aspiring author Alison Figueroa from NY (USA) shares the importance of staying true to self. Ep includes donation-button and all items in store https://bluespaceart.company.site donate #msf https://youtube.com/@bluespacevideocast…
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Blue Space Character Soundtracks - Avalyn's Theme (Skinrays) . Supports charity #MSF
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Blue Space fiction-series: 'Skinrays' is the theme sound of scifi novel-character Avalyn, composed by Iselin Fergestad, 2024. 'Avalyn's Theme' introduces Avalyn and the mysterious character Maatja. Future ebook (TBA). SUPPORTS CHARITY: Donate to Doctors Without BordersBy Iselin Rolvsjord Fergestad
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Beth Kurland, "You Don't Have to Change to Change Everything" (Health Communications, 2024)
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One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unpleasant, often daily inner experiences (mind-body energies) and so we tend to push them away, ignore them, or become unwittingly overwhelmed by them. Yet how we meet and greet these difficult emotions ha…
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The Enlightenment of the Body, with Naomi Worth
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In this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Naomi Worth, a scholar and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism’s postural yoga tradition. We dive into Naomi's experiences in yogic retreats, highlight the vigorous movement and intense visual elements of the practice, and explore yoga’s role in the Nyingma contemplative path. Naomi also shares how sh…
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy Episode #Reproduction #AI #WritersVSChatgpt Part 3
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy - LILLIT2POD: #Reproduction (gone wrong) part3 from Blue Space. A chat with award-winning author Ruth Johaningsmeir from Marco Island, Florida (USA). She is an award-winning speaker and author mostly under the name Ruth J Princess and a frequent writer for Kindle. She shares how her real-life thrillers turned into aut…
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Why Feminine Leadership #shorts from Ep 2 #trailer #snippet #newpodcast #podcastseries
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Audio snippet as trailer from Episode 2 of series Feminine Leadership Philosophy. Season brief. #selfdetermination #femininemanagement #autonomy #feminineempowerment #embodiment #womenempowerment #organizationalculture #transformation #recognizinginjustice #equality #equityBy Iselin Rolvsjord Fergestad
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy Episode #Reproduction #AI #HumanNature Part 2
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy - LILLIT2POD: #Reproduction (gone wrong) part2 from Blue Space. A chat with Christopher Weber-Fürst from Norway who has been coaching business for 40 years and women all around the world. Chris says #artificialintelligence is built on #patriarchy and #humannature has more of space. Blue Space Videocast: https://youtub…
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Reiki and the Subtle Body, with Justin B. Stein
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Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Justin B. Stein, a specialist in modern Japanese religion and the preeminent historian of Reiki. We discuss Justin’s new book, Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific (U Hawaii Press, 2023), about the transnational origins of Reiki, and also get into his perspective as a both …
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy Episode #Reproduction #AI Part 1
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy - LILLIT2POD: #Reproduction (gone wrong) part1 from Blue Space. A chat with Christopher Weber-Fürst from Norway who has been coaching business for over 40 years and women all around the world. Chris tells #artificialintelligence is built on patriarchal organizations. Pt2 coming. Blue Space Videocast: https://youtube.c…
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Blue Space Character Theme Soundtracks - Adis Theme (The Last Norwegian)
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Blue Space fiction-series: 'The Last Norwegian' is the theme soundtrack of scifi novel-character Adi , composed by Iselin Fergestad, 2024. 'Adis Theme' is as he meets an online Oracle, Pseudonymous, offering him advice to accomplish his Phd with an in-depth encyclopedia of the human evil, which is what Adi tries to source. In the middle of this com…
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Holly Woods, "The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life" (New Degree Press, 2020)
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Purpose serves as your GPS, guiding your life trajectory, whether you listen or not. It can help you reach for the seemingly unattainable and stop compromising who you are and were meant to be. The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life (New Degree Press, 2020) demonstrates, through hard data alongside expert and client sto…
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Making Sense of Yogacara with William Waldron
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Professor William Waldron teaches courses on the South Asian religious traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, Tibetan religion and history, comparative psychologies and philosophies of mind, and theory and method in the study of religion at Middlebury College. His publications focus on the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism and its dialogue with mode…
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Anna Dako, "Dances with Sheep: On RePairing the HumanNature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing" (Intellect Books, 2023)
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Anna Dako,'s book Dances with Sheep: On RePairing the HumanNature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing (Intellect Books, 2023) presents the methodology of Felt Thinking in Movement as an eco-somatic practice inspired by re-thinking nature of being human, as well as contextualises it within wider frameworks of cultural, philosophi…
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy Episode #Selfdetermination Part 2
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy - LILLIT2POD: #Selfdetermination part2 from Blue Space. A café-meetup with Social Justice Advocate and Embodiment coach-in-progress Rafaela Camassa from Cyprus. About how to recognize and inhabit autonomy paving your path in a landscape where ways are already given and not driven by women. Newtuber videos: https://you…
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy Episode #Selfdetermination Part 1
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Feminine Leadership Philosophy - LILLIT2POD: #Selfdetermination part1 from Blue Space. A chat with architect and business-entrepreneur Iro Micheli from Voula, Greece. About how to recognize and inhabit autonomy when paving your path in a landscape where ways are already given and not driven by women. Video Podcast on Youtube for Blue Space: https:/…
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Nate Klemp, "Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World" (Sounds True, 2024)
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With the avalanche of information we get every day, closing down our minds and hearts seems to be the only way to survive. We close down to our inner experience by compulsively checking our devices. We close down to others by getting caught in echo chambers of outrage. But what if there's another way? What if being more open to life is actually wha…
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Seth Zuiho Segall, "The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism" (Equinox, 2023)
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The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonationalists, and economic populists. At the same time, liberal democracies are failing at cultivating and transmitting the values, wisdom, and virtues that are the prerequisites for individual and collecti…
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Tara Brach, "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha" (Random House, 2004)
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It can be so easy to feel like we’re not enough or that we’re somehow insufficient. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, this feeling of unworthiness is fundamentally a disease of separation, as it alienates us from ourselves and the people around us. For Brach, one way to free ourselves from this trance of unworthiness is the practice of ra…
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New Year’s Special : Breakfast at Iselin’s (more than a podcast!)
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In this pre-episode before Season 1 begins, the project concept is drafted at the breakfast table at my place into the New Year. Starting the new year 2024 with a thematically envisioned, interactive podcast- series where main topics include Feminine management theory, soundhealing audiovisual design, audiovisual storytelling, interactivity and phi…
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Vignette soundtrack - Blue Space State of Mind
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Full music track of the vignette Blue Space State of Mind to podcast series Blue Space (1:40) Produced by: Iselin Fergestad, 2024 all rights reserved.By Iselin Rolvsjord Fergestad
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Oren Jay Sofer, "Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love" (Shambhala, 2023)
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What is the role of contemplative practice in times of crisis? And how can meditation actually support us in meeting the greatest challenges of our time? Oren Jay Sofer takes up these questions in his new book, Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love (Shambhala, 2023). As…
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David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
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If anything, the Imperfect Buddha Podcast has been a rallying cry for the disruption of the myths that abound in the world of Buddhism and meditation. David L. McMahan professor of religion at Franklin and Marshall College, has been something of a crusader himself, writing a much needed correction to many of the myths in western adoption of Buddhis…
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Lama Rod Owens, "The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors" (Sounds True, 2023)
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Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized lama in the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. In his new book, The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors (Sounds True, 2023), he draws from the bodhisattva tradition to rethink the relationship between social liberation and ultimate freedom, putting forth the notion of the N…
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Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
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In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold. Now, she takes up the question of how to find space for silence when we feel like we don’t have enough time to spend. In her new book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (Random House, 2…
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Ross Gay, "The Book of (More) Delights: Essays" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
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In 2016, poet Ross Gay set out to document a delight each day for a year. After he published The Book of Delights, his friend asked him if he planned to continue his practice. Five years later, he began The Book of (More) Delights (Algonquin Books, 2023) demonstrating that the sources of delight are indeed endless—and that they multiply when attend…
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Patrick Laude, "Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi's Message for the Present" (Hurst, 2021)
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The Indian sage Ramana Maharshi (1879- 1950) is perhaps the most widely known Indian spiritual figure of the last century, second only to Gandhi. Patrick Laude's book Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi's Message for the Present (Hurst, 2021) offers a fresh introduction to the Maharshi's life and teachings, intending to situate him within the…
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Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found …
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Anne Klein, "Being Human and a Buddha Too: Longchenpa's Seven Trainings for a Sunlit Sky" (Wisdom Publications, 2023)
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When Anne C. Klein (Rigzin Drolma) first read that everyone, including her, was already a buddha, she was so shocked that she put down the book she was reading. Now, as a professor of religious studies at Rice University and a teacher at Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism in Houston, she continues to grapple with the relationship between our…
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Meditating Three Minutes a Day: A Conversation with Richard Dixey
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After a month or two of absence, the podcast returns for a new season, beginning with an unexpectedly wide ranging conversation with Dr. Richard Dixey. Richard holds a Ph.D. from London University, an M.A. with distinction in the history and philosophy of science from London University, and a B.A. Hons from Oxford. He has been a student of Buddhism…
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Tony Nader, "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness: Simple Answers to the Big Questions of Life" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
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Tony Nader, MD, PhD, a medical doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in neuroscience) and globally recognized expert in the science of consciousness and human development. His training includes internal medicine, psychiatry, and neurology. He's the successor to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the head of the …
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