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The Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom hour celebrates Jack’s ability to mash up his long established Buddhist practices with many other mystical traditions, revealing the poignancy of life’s predicaments and the path to finding freedom from self-interest, self-judgment and unhappiness.
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Welcome to the MMTCP Podcast. This special podcast series is exclusively available to MMTCP trainees, offering timeless wisdom teachings from Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and our guest teachers from previous years of the teacher training. Each episode offers a unique opportunity to expand upon what’s covered in the curriculum, guiding you to explore the various styles and applications for offering mindfulness in the world.
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Susan Stiffelman is a family therapist, parent coach, and one of the country's premiere parenting experts, and the author of Parenting Without Power Struggles and Parenting With Presence (an Eckhart Tolle edition.) Susan's podcasts feature conversations with guests including Dr. Dan Siegel, Janet Lansbury, Dr. Kristen Neff, Dr. Mona Delahooke, Glennon Doyle, Dr. Jane Goodall, Jack Kornfield, Martha Beck, and many others.
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Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. His depth of insight, classical training, and creative expression all combine in a wi ...
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Welcome to ”Holding It Lightly,” where comedians and spiritual seekers Brad Stuart and Lauren Douglass share their transformative journey through life’s darkest depths to the light. Drawing inspiration from wisdom teachers like Richard Rohr, Liz Gilbert, and Jack Kornfield, the hosts discuss how these teachers have helped them release attachments and discover their own inner ‘Enoughness’. This isn’t a Christian podcast; it’s a candid exploration of what most holds us back from happiness, a d ...
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Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India. He leads backpacking retreats, natu ...
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Kimberly Johnson was mentored by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She loves sharing her experience of working through the tough things that come her way in life. She hopes you enjoy these vulnerable and honest accounts of life and dealing with life. If you want to reach Kimberly you can @ kimberlyallysejohnson@gmail.com
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Enlighten your life with Lama Tsultirm Allione, an iconic woman in Buddhism and champion of the Sacred Feminine. Her fascinating life story and deep well of compassion and wisdom informs her interviews with myriad of guests including: Deva Premal, Jack Kornfield, Robert Thurman, and more.
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Listen to one of our many guest speakers on the stage at C3 West Michigan's Inclusive Spiritual Community.
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I Should Be Meditating with Alan Klima: Guided Mindfulness Meditation and Discussion
Meditation and mindfulness daily practice to remain interested in, and remember, being present in every day life and living
Sit down with Alan for guided mindfulness Meditation, talks, and questions answered to keep up a constant connection and reminder to be present. Each meditation contains tips, tweaks, new and surprising approaches to how we can pay attention, with many new takes on familiar practices like breath meditation, body awareness, loving kindness, and spiritual inquiry. It is perfect for a meditator looking to pick up new tools to investigate their experience so that we stay interested and inquiring ...
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"Voices of Esalen" features provocative, in-depth interviews with the dynamic leaders, teachers, and thinkers who reflect the mission of the Esalen Institute. For more about the Esalen Institute, head to esalen.org Follow Esalen on Facebook and Twitter
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The teachings of the Buddha (Dharma) and the practices of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and loving-kindness meditation (metta) are at the heart of all the programs we offer at Spirit Rock. Practicing Insight Meditation develops mindfulness, the capacity to pay attention to each moment of life and to see clearly the truth of our experience. Studying the Dharma provides insights into the conditions that define and limit our experience of life. And cultivating an attitude of loving-kindness al ...
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Zencast is a weekly podcast of inspiring Buddhist Dharma talks for all people. Keywords: Zen, Buddhism, Buddhist, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, Mindfulness, Meditation, Wisdom, Love, Peace, Stillness,Compassion.
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I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet. I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, ac ...
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My greatest joy is giving the gift of love and hope through the dharma, knowing it is possible for humans to transform their hearts. These dharma gifts include paying attention, practicing clarity and kindness and addressing the suffering of the world--which, of course, includes ourselves. Right now I'm most enthusiastic about the first gift, paying attention, because it makes every part of our lives better. Paying attention allows us to become more clear, and each moment of clarity is a gif ...
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Sometimes piano, sometimes guitar, sometimes spoken meditation. Thanks for listening. If you have questions, comments, or feedback of any kind, email darkoindex at gmail dot com. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jonah-hall/support
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Sometimes deep, often amusing, therapeutic chats touching on philosophy, spirituality, religion, consciousness, culture, music, dating, and life. Join Sam, Joe and Ali as they discuss the 10,000 illusions that make up “reality”. Musical theme by Ehsan Gelsi - Ephemera (Live at Melbourne Town Hall)
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Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.
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Join Pat Croce and his guests as together they explore how a healthy lifestyle, mindfulness, and a strong community can make all the difference for individual on the cancer continuum. Each episode features guests who discuss their cancer journeys either as survivors or caregivers. In this new limited series podcast, Pat is also joined by American Cancer Society CEO Karen Knudsen for a mission moment to discuss topics such as prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivorship. Together ...
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Ep. 260 – Creating a Sacred Container for Practice
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Jack guides us in creating a sacred container for spiritual practice—a space where, like a garden, our inner life can be nurtured, allowing us to transform life’s challenges into paths of awakening and growth. Open the Heart of Forgiveness with Jack Kornfield: A Journey of Redemption, Reconciliation and Renewal beginning Oct 21. Learn more and sign…
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Jack Kornfield's 1983 Talk at Esalen: My Dharma Journey
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This episode captures Jack Kornfield's lecture/ Dharma talk at Esalen on September 15th, 1983. Kornfield, one of the most articulate and compassionate voices in modern Western Buddhism, is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, …
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)By Jack Kornfield
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The Heart of Your Teaching with Jack Kornfield
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This episode was recorded in November 2022 featuring Jack Kornfield discussing the heart of your teaching.By Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield
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Guest Teacher Sarah Kornfield visits this week and adds Surrender to the list of What the World Needs Now. Her teaching title is Men Don’t Retreat: Masculinity and Sovereignty in White Evangelicalism.By C3 Spiritual Community
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Pascal Auclair: Quelques subtilités concernant le plaisir
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(Moulin de Chaves) Quelques enseignements sur la tonalité du ressenti (vedana) et sur la conscience qui en fait l’expérienceBy Pascal Auclair
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Pascal Auclair: Éteindre le feu qui nous brûle
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(Moulin de Chaves)By Pascal Auclair
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(Moulin de Chaves) Enseignement et meditation guidéeBy Pascal Auclair
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with 30m meditation & is followed by a Dharma Talk. (Group discussion has been removed)By Grace Fisher
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Pascal Auclair: Elles sont 4 et se soutiennent, les qualités du cœur
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(Moulin de Chaves) Enseignement et meditation guidée sur le thème de l’équanimitéBy Pascal Auclair
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Pascal Auclair: La nature du paysage intérieur
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(Moulin de Chaves)By Pascal Auclair
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Heidi Bourne : The Courage to Look Deeply Starts with Intention
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation, dharma talk & selected Q/ABy Heidi Bourne
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Pascal Auclair: Une autre relation aux choses
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(Moulin de Chaves)By Pascal Auclair
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Pascal Auclair: Les deux intentions qui créent la pleine conscience
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(Moulin de Chaves)By Pascal Auclair
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Devon Hase: Cittanupassana: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation on the first three foundations of mindfulness: kayanupassana, vedananupassana, and cittanupassana. Emphasis on working skillfully with mind states and heart states.By Devon Hase
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Devon Hase: There Are No Footprints in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Talk on how letting go leads to Emptiness. Many ways to talk about freedom: nonproliferation, absence of clinging, bare awareness, laying our burdens down.By Devon Hase
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Bonnie Duran: Indigenous People's Day
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Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia as well as the author of the excellent new memoir, “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.” Suzanne is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas …
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Chef Elle Simone on Cuisine and America's Culture: How Flavor Shapes a Nation
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Chef Elle Simone is a well-known American chef, culinary producer, test cook, and food stylist. In 2013, after realizing that women and persons of color were underrepresented among chefs, she founded SheChef, a mentoring and networking organization for women of color in the culinary field. She can be seen on PBS on America’s Test Kitchen and is the…
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Louie Schwartzberg is the filmmaker behind "Fantastic Fungi" - he's back now with a follow up film: "Gratitude Revealed." Louie has created and worked on a score of films in his life, including his own features like Mysteries of the Unseen World and Wings of Life, as well as the Netflix series Moving Art. Over the process of his career, it's fair t…
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Adam Bramlage is Founder and /CEO of Flow State Micro, a functional mushroom company and microdosing education platform. Adam has helped hundreds of people, from professional athletes to people suffering from addiction and depression, achieve results through microdosing in his private practice. This interview gives the basics of microdosing; it's a…
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The Psychedelic Moment, Pt. 7: Laura Mae Northrup on Healing Sexual Trauma with Psychedelics
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Laura Mae Northrup is a somatic psychotherapist and podcast creator. Her remarkable show, Inside Eyes, focuses on the use of psychedelics and entheogens to heal from sexual trauma, drawing largely on personal stories from survivors of sexual violence and exploring the ways they have used these medicines to heal. Laura's work focuses on defining sex…
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Darnell Walker is Esalen's artist in residence for Spring 2021. Darnell is a writer and creator of children’s media, as well as a powerful documentary filmmaker - his efforts include 2015’s Seeking Asylum, which explored Black Americans’ desires to escape American tyranny and widespread police violence for safer lands, Outside the House, which focu…
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Akuyoe Graham is founder of the Spirit Awakening Foundation, an arts based non-profit dedicated to helping underserved youth in the juvenile justice system. Since 1995, SA has been a pioneer in developing restorative, trauma-informed prevention and intervention programs to incarcerated and systems-involved young people in Los Angeles County. Using …
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Esselen Tribe of Monterey County in Dialogue with Esalen Institute
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Today we’re sharing a conversation that took place in October, 2022, between members of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County and the Esalen Institute. Representing the Esselen tribe are Jana Nason and Stephen Vicente Arevalo. Jana Nason is an Esselen and Rumsen descendant, and an enrolled tribal member of the ETMC. She is the nonprofit secretary, a…
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Justin Michael Williams is an author, speaker and musician who works at the intersection of social justice, mindfulness, and personal growth. Justin has become a pioneering voice of color for the new healing movement. His mission is to make sure that all people, of all backgrounds, have access to the information they need to change their lives. Tog…
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Encore Presentation: Jeffrey Kripal on the Cultural History of Esalen
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Jeff Kripal is a historian of religions - his work includes the study of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from gnosticism to New Age religions. He’s also the author of the book "Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion" - a …
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A glimpse under the hood at Voices of Esalen. Host Sam Stern interviews himself, entertaining questions such as How and why did you start Voices of Esalen - What was the first episode of the show and what was it about ? - Were the first episodes popular ? How many people listened to them? - What are your favorite podcasts and who are your favorite …
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Shayla Love: The High-Stakes Game of Psychedelic Capitalism
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“All of these sort of regular things that biotech companies do, like snapping up patents so that they can get investor dollars moving forward, they’re intersecting with this culture in the psychedelics world, which is sort of anti-ownership. These forces will clash. They oppose with one another.” - Shayla Love, Vice Media Shayla Love is a senior st…
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Reverend Erika Allison: Gay the Pray Away - Healing from LGBT Conversion Therapy
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Reverend Erika Allison is a queer interfaith minister and the author of the memoir "Gay the Pray Away: Healing your Life, Love, and Relationships from the Harms of LBGT Conversion Therapy." We spoke about her personal journey of healing after being sent to conversion therapy as a teenager in Texas, the coping strategies she developed after experien…
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Asian American Feminist Collective on Intersectionality, Sexuality, Reproductive Rights, and Justice
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Senti Sojwal and Tiffany Diane Tso are founding members of the Asian American Feminist Collective, a grassroots racial and gender justice group that works to interrogate and dismantle systems of racism, patriarchy, and capitalism, telling their stories through various modes of feminist media while providing spaces for identity exploration, politica…
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Encore Presentation: Michael Pollan at Esalen Psychedelic Integration Conference, 2019
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Today our episode is an encore presentation of Michael Pollan’s keynote presentation at the 2019 Psychedelic Integration Conference at the Esalen Institute. Pollan is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including 2018’s “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depress…
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Justin Michael Williams is an author, activist, meditation teacher and musician. His book Stay Woke established him as a pioneering millennial voice for diversity and inclusion in wellness. His work has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Grammy.com, Yoga Journal, Billboard, Wanderlust, and South by Southwest. Justin was the artist in residen…
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Laura Mae Northrup is a somatic psychotherapist, educator, podcaster, and author. Laura has been a guest on this show before, in 2020, when we discussed her podcast "Inside Eyes", a one-season tour de force that focuses on people using entheogens and psychedelics to heal from sexual trauma. She is now the author of a new book, "Radical Healership: …
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Albert Hoffman: Stan Grof Interviews Hoffman at Esalen, 1984
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Today we celebrate Bicycle Day, a modern semi-holiday (unrecognized by official governmental agencies yet observed by psychedelic enthusiasts across the globe) that commemorates Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman’s bike ride home from his lab on April 19th, 1943, after ingesting 250 micrograms of lysergic acid diethlymide, and in the process creating the…
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Mary Sanders on the People of Color Psychedelic Collective and Healing Transgenerational Trauma
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Mary Sanders is a founding board member of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective, an organization that provides psychedelic education to historically marginalized communities in order to foster empowerment and healing. She is a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in exploring the depths of transgenerational trauma and, in her words, peeli…
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Xochitl Ashe on Ancestors, Generational Trauma, and Indigenous Perspectives on Psychedelic Healing
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Xochitl Ashe is a Medicine Woman in the Peruvian Andean tradition and has worked with sacred plant medicines since the time of her initiation. At 16 years old, she became the first female of five generations of men to be initiated into the healing traditions of her Peruvian ancestral lineage. Xochitl is the founder of an Indigenous women owned retr…
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Deborah Egerton on Using the Enneagram for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism
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Dr. Deborah Egerton is a psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, author, coach, and spiritual teacher. She brings a focus of inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism to her enneagram work and uses that focus to help individuals and organizations release false historical narratives and open their minds and hearts to a more compassionate and connect…
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Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman: Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred
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Welcome to a Voices of Esalen archive edition. Our featured lecture was delivered at Esalen as a part of a weeklong training in 2018, by wise teachers Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. Jack Kornfield is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India…
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Encore Presentation: Akuyoe Graham on Spirit Awakening Foundation and Esalen
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Akuyoe Graham is founder of the Spirit Awakening Foundation, an arts based non-profit dedicated to helping underserved youth in the juvenile justice system. Since its inception in 1995, SAF has been a pioneer in developing and offering restorative, trauma-informed, prevention and intervention programs to underserved, incarcerated and systems-involv…
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Brian Pace & Neşe Devenot: Right-Wing Psychedelia, or, Lucy in the Sky With Nazis
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Dr. Brian Pace is a lecturer who teaches Psychedelic Studies at The Ohio State University. He is trained as an evolutionary ecologist, specializing in phytochemistry, ethnobotany, and ecophysiology. He believes in grassroots drug decriminalization efforts and hopes to find alternative policies to the imperial drug war. For more than a decade, Brian…
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Mirrored Fatality: Non-Binary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim Duo on Healing Noise Punk
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✧༺mirrored fatality is the nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art duo of Mango and Samar, artists in residence at Esalen during the summer of 2021. Together we discuss the difference between non-binary and trans, how they share their rituals, altars, and medicine through DIT (Do It Together) experimental and healing noi…
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What the World Needs Now is Humility with Daryl Van Tongeren
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Daryl Van Tongeren, Ph. D is the Professor of Psychology and Director of the Frost Center for Social Science Research at Hope College. His contribution to our series What the World Needs Now is Humility.By C3 Spiritual Community
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Keith Thompson on early Esalen, the Center For Theory and Research, and Paranormal Human Potential
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Keith Thompson is an author, independent journalist, talk radio host, and former U.S. Senate staff member. Keith’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle. He’s the author of the new book, The UFO Paradox: The Celestial and Symbolic World of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, in which he reveals how the UFO phen…
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Devon Hase: Body Scan for Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation for settling, arriving, becoming available for the body.By Devon Hase
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Grace Fisher: Forgiveness, Patience and Freedom
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with 30m meditation & is followed by a Dharma Talk. (Group discussion has been removed)By Grace Fisher
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Heidi Bourne : The Courage to Look Deeply
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation, dharma talk and some group discussionBy Heidi Bourne
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Ep. 259 – Cycles of Dharma: The Stream of Interbeing
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Guiding us through the ever-changing cycles of life, Jack uncovers the profound truth of our interconnectedness as boundless and unique expressions of the Dharma. This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/heartwisdom and get on your way to being your best self. “We see that there isn’t one way to prac…
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(True North Insight) Quelques mots sur la joie, la compassion, l’équanimité et la bienveillance et une pratique guidée sur quelques unes d’entre elles.By Pascal Auclair
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Pascal Auclair: 4 choses découvertes lors d'une longue retraite
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(True North Insight)By Pascal Auclair
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