Cup of Tao - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times. This podcast incorporates Taoist philosophy, modern contextual psychology principles, and a bit of stoicism, which are presented as skills for living in today's uncertain times. A podcast for those who have an interest in philosophy, self-help, and mindfulness-based skills. Podcast by Chris L McClish, who has held many roles in life including a past lengthy career as a psychotherapist, as well as having served as an author, clinical supervisor, J ...
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I’ve spent the majority of my life traveling the globe in search of extraordinary masters of martial arts, energy medicine, and traditional healing and I’ve got amazing stories to tell. Many of you know me through my many books and articles. These were highly focused publications. But on Transformations I’m going to go deeper and really examine the transformative nature of experience. Not only will I share my own stories, I will also feature guests to share their transformative experiences. ...
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Is self development actually a 'real thing'? Or is it just a bunch of scam gurus out to make a fast buck? It certainly is true that things are not always quite as the marketing suggests, but... In these rapidly changing times where our personal ability to adapt (and adapt fast) has become key, this is something we ALL really need to know. Join us, James Tripp and Alex Crowe as we discuss how to get more of what you want from life by combining neuroscience, Hypnosis, guerilla psychology, NLP ...
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Cup of Tao Season 7 Episode 2 - My way or the highway Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to revisit the topic of expectations. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find links to contact, contribute, and to learn more about me. Social Media: I'm on X @coa…
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Cup of Tao Season 7 Episode 4 - Humble yourself Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to talk more about humiltity. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find links to contact, contribute, and to learn more about me. Social Media: I'm on X @coachcmc. This po…
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Cup of Tao Season 7 Episode 1 - Things come and goHosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to talk about how things enter and then they pass.Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find links to contact, contribute, and to learn more about me. Social Media: I'm on…
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Cup of Tao Season 7 Episode 3 - Discontentment Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to revisit the topic of discontentment including touching on things like attachments and overidentifications with things. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find links to c…
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Sifu Hal Mosher | Tai Chi's Internal Power Essense - Peng Jin
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Tai Chi teacher Hal Mosher discusses his journey in studying Tai Chi, including his time with Robert Smith and his experiences in Taiwan. He shares insights into his conversations with Robert Smith about the CIA and the importance of not trusting everything on TV. Mosher also highlights the evolution of his training methods and the emphasis on song…
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Dr. Anthony Feinstein| Emotional Trauma, Mental Illness, Impaired Cognition Among Frontline Journalist and MS Patients
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Dr. Anthony Feinstein is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a neuropsychiatrist. His research and clinical work focus on people with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury and Conversion Disorder. He has undertaken a number of studies investigating how front-line journalists are affected by their work covering war and ma…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 11 - Gripping too tightly Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I address clinging on to things too tightly, to the extent that losing these things, skills, roles, income, etc. set us into despair if we lose them. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website,…
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Josh Paynter and Jack Schaefer | Taoist Philosophy, Medicine, Talismans, and Rituals
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Josh Paynter and Jack Shaefer are both ordained 22nd generation Daoist Priest in the Quanzhen, Longmen tradition at the Jian Fu Gong on Qingcheng Mountain, and ordained 25th generation Daoist Priest in the Quanzhen, Longmen tradition at the Qingyun Daoguan. Jack and Josh are the Co-abbots of Parting Clouds, a formally recognized as a temple organiz…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 10 - Best version of yourself Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to talk about virtue and integrity, in other words, being the best version of yourself. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find links to contact, contribute, an…
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Lily Sanders | Overcoming Suffering, Embracing Change, and Cocreating a New Humanity
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Lily Sanders is an author, manifestation coach, actress, and changemaker has been impacting hundreds of millions with her expertise on major media TV. Her award-winning book Truth to Triumph continues to transform lives. Lily myth busts the global beliefs about domestic abuse and human trafficking to bring insight, education, and reason to humanize…
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Robert J. Coons | Internal Alchemy, Taoist School and Masters, Qigong and Tai Chi
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Robert Coons is a resident of Toronto where he teaches Tai Chi, Meditation, and Tea Ceremony. He studied with secular Taoist disciple Hai Yang, and various teachers in China such as Yin Qin (Yang Style Taiji), He Caitong (Taiwan Cha Dao), Yu Jiang (Xin Yi Liu He Quan), and others. He is the author of Internal Elixir Cultivation: The Nature of Daois…
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Dr. Jeff Skolnick | Conquering Trauma and Distress with the SatoriWest Method
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Dr. Jeff Skolnick is a Psychiatrist in Washington who has been practicing since 1988. Besides neuropsychiatric assessment and treatment, Dr. Skolnick has created a new approach to psychotherapy and advanced ("spiritual") development called the SatoriWest Method. The subject of two books, it has been trialed in two psychiatric facilities with hundre…
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Robin Young Interview | Paramedicine, Role of Failure, Kung-fu Disciple, Self-Image | Ep.33
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Robin Young is a global medic who has carried out humanitarian work in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Morocco, and other war-torn and food insecure countries around the world. He was a paramedic and taught paramedicine at university level and is a kung-fu master, who has practiced since 1968. In this podcast we discuss his humanitarian work, the shift …
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Coach Fran Sands | Forging Spirits and Mentoring Youth with Holistic Amateur Boxing
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Fran Sands is an amateur boxing coach and mentor to kids and teens in the Northeast of England. His involvement in amateur boxing began in 1978, when at the age of six he entered his first boxing gym. Over the next 13 years he competed in 60 amateur contests, winning regional titles, reaching national semi-finals and finals, and representing Englan…
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Deng Ming-Dao Interview (#2) | Why Taoism? Gender Identity, Naturalism, Purpose, Cultivation
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Sifu Deng Ming-Dao is a Chinese American author, artist, philosopher, teacher, and martial artist who, from a young age, has studied Taoist internal arts such as Qigong and Kung-Fu. He is the author of nearly a dozen books, including Lunar Tao, The Living I Ching, 365 Tao, Scholar Warrior, and Chronicles of Tao. he studied qigong, philosophy, medit…
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Dr. Dale Dugas | Shrinking Cancer Naturally, Chinese Herbal Tonics, Iron Palm Training
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Dr. Dale Dugas is an Acupuncture Physician, Chinese herbalist, martial art master, and author. His interest in Asian medicinal practices arose in his early teens and throughout the late 1980s, while he was living in Iwate Prefecture, in Northern Japan. Dale is a much sought-after brewer of Dit Da Jow – the transdermal herbal liniments used for pain…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 9 - Mindfulness revisited Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to revisit the topic of mindfulness. I believe this to be a very important practice and component of change. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find links to contac…
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Stuart Alve Olson | Tai Chi, Taoist Alchemy, Buddhist Chanting, and a Bowing Pilgrimage
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For over 40 years, Stuart Alve Olson has been studying Taoist and Buddhist philosophy and Chinese language while practicing Taoist meditation and ceremony, Qigong, Taijiquan, Praying Mantis Kung Fu, and Internal Alchemy. He is the founder, director, and head teacher of the Sanctuary of Tao. Born in the year of the White Tiger (1950) in Minnesota, h…
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Dr. David Kutzik Interview | Artificial Intelligence, Social Media Isolation, Surveillance Capitalism
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In this conversation, Mark V. Wiley and David Kutzik discuss various topics including social media, the impact of technology, the decline of social interaction, and the nature of intelligence. They explore the addictive nature of social media and the control exerted by corporations. They also delve into the role of artificial intelligence and the i…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 8 - Dealing with criticism Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I talk about dealing with criticism. Lao Tzu tells us to be yielding like water. Yet resilient enough to handle what life throws at us. Criticism is something that we can learn and grow from. It is hard to take, yet it can be something we can learn fr…
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David Verdesi (pt. 2) | Avoiding the Traps of Misguided Spirituality and How to Evolve
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This podcast is Part 2 of 4 in my discussion with David Verdesi. You can watch Pat 1 here. David Verdesi had daily mystic vision as a child. At 14, he left home in search of their meaning and travelled all over the world for 30 years, researching and comparing his own experiences with those of 120 mystics, yogis, cave-dwellers, saints and genuine e…
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Dr. Vijayendra Pratap Interview | Yoga Science, Jesus in India, Swami Miracles
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Dr. Vijayendra Pratap, a student of Swami Kuvalayananda, is the Founder/Director of SKY Foundation, President of the Yoga Research Society, Director of the Yoga program at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and author of A Teacher’s Guide to Beginning Yoga, Yoga Vision, Secrets of Hatha…
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David Verdesi Interview (Part 1) | Pursuing Traditions of Inner Power | Ep. 25
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David Verdesi had daily mystic vision as a child. At 14, he left home in search of their meaning and travelled all over the world for 30 years, researching and comparing his own experiences with those of 120 mystics, yogis, cave-dwellers, saints and genuine enlightened beings, Siddhas from the mountains and jungles of India and Xian immortals from …
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Dr. Douglas Porpora Interview | Religion, War, God, Truth, and Morality | Ep. 24
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Dr. Douglas V. Porpora is a professor of sociology in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University. His books include How Holocausts Happen: The United States in Central America, Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life, Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secula…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 7 - The art of letting go Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to have a listener on, Spencer S. He is excited to be on the show and we are going to talk about how he has put principles from Taoism and the podcast into his life, specifically learning to practice "letting go". Cup of Tao is a production …
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Dr. Robert Chuckrow | The Physics of Qi, Tai Chi, and Expansive Force | Ep. 23
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Dr. Robert Chuckrow (born in 1936) received his Doctorate in Experimental Physics from NYU, and has taught physics at NYU, The Cooper Union, Fieldston, and other schools for over four decades. Since 1970, he has studied Taiji, Qigong, and other movement and healing arts under masters such as Cheng Man-Ching, William C.C. Chen, Elaine Summers, Alice…
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Bob Clark | Embracing Violence and Testing Skills to Protect Americans and Improve Himself | Ep.22
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Bob Clark has dedicated his life to protecting Americans and developing himself to the highest levels. Our discussion landed on Bob's transformative experience growing up with a father who taught him wrestling, boxing and karate, joining the NAVY, becomes a police officer, after 911 serving in an infantry reconnaissance platoon in Iraq, then return…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 6 - Toxic People Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I am going to talk about people in our lives who are toxic. They may or may not be "good people", but nevertheless, are toxic to our well-being. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC . Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find …
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Lori O'Connell | Life of a Passionate Omega Woman | Ep.21
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It's impossible to pin Lori O’Connell down to a single title. Her interests and inclinations have taken her across the map, both figuratively and literally. She has, however, settled into a few roles that combine her natural talents and trained skills. In our discussion Lori shared her transformative experiences in fencing, jiu-jitsu, living in Jap…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 5 - Not Good Enough Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I talk about something that all of us share (well, most of us anyway), and that is, the "not good enough" belief that often pops into our head. We may find ourselves feeling like we don't measure up, fell short on life's accomplishments, feel like a phony, o…
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Dan Anderson | The Hey Day of American Karate, Passion for FMA, Scientology Techniques | Ep.20
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“Super Dan” Anderson is the founder of American Freestyle Karate, a uniquely American martial art as well as the author of the bestselling book, American Freestyle Karate: A Guide to Sparring, which has been in print for 40 years. He has a 10th Degree Black Belt in Karate, a 6th Degree Black Belt (Senior Master) in Filipino Modern Arnis, and an 9th…
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Karlin Chan | The Changing Face of Chinatown, AAPI Hate Crimes, Community Activism | Ep.19
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Karlin Chan is a staple of the NY Chinatown community. During the COVID 19 pandemic, when Asian hate crimes surfaced again, he created a neighborhood community patrol to keep everyone safe. Additionally, Chan created the Chinatown Mural Project, is a busy Chinatown community activist and advocate, and is the elder of the Hung Ching Association. 0:0…
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Dan Medina | FMA Eskrima Masters, Training, Teaching | Ep.18
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Grandmaster Dan Medina was first introduced to martial arts with a combination of Judo and the Navy Seal Quick-Kill method. In 1978, he was stationed in Baguio in the Philippines and joined the Black Masters Sphinx Karate Clan of the Philippines and discovered the art of Arnis 63 Generals. He also joined Philippine Martial Arts Studio and studied w…
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 4 - Prepare for the worst? Some StoicismHosted by Chris L McClishIn this episode: I talk about whether or not we should take a cue from the Stoics and "prepare for the worst"?Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC .Visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, you will find links to contact, contribute, a…
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Dr. Henry McCann | Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Okinawan Karate, Tai Chi, QiGong | Ep.17
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Henry McCann is a licensed acupuncturist and doctor of East Asian (Chinese) Medicine with a private practice in Madison, NJ. He finished a BA and BM at Oberlin College following which he studied at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan as a Fulbright fellow. He then attended the New England School of Acupuncture, after which he completed …
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Cup of Tao Season 6 Episode 3 - Appreciation Hosted by Chris L McClish In this episode: I talk about not taking things for granted. To cherish, show appreciation, and to keep the people and things that you value close to your heart. Cup of Tao is a production of CoachCMC LLC – visit my new website: https://mcclish.me. On my website, there are link…
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Gene Ching | Shaolin, Fencing, Tai Chi, Rock Medicine, Journalism | Ep.16
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Gene Ching is a 32nd generation layman disciple of the original Shaolin Temple of China and was the publisher of Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine until it ceased in May 2020. He is a staff writer for YMAA Publication Center, has been writing professionally since 1991, has authored hundreds of martial arts articles, and over a hundred scripts for martial ar…
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