Ancient cultures cultivated a sensitivity to the environment, to the body and to the inner workings of the mind which is often lost in modern life. Gay Gaer Luce, Ph.D., is author of Body Time and founder/ director of the Nine Gates Mystery School. Today, she says, we have an unparalleled opportu...

In other cultures we can find models in which old age is a time for great spiritual opening. Gay Gaer Luce, Ph.D., is author of Longer Life, More Joy. She proposes that the aging process need not occur in the manner prescribed by cultural stereotypes.

The science of artificial intelligence is a program to accomplish the Socratic injunction, "Know Thyself." The late John McCarthy, Ph.D., invented LISP, the major language today used for artificial intelligence. Here he discusses the history of artificial intelligence and the future role which no...

Do UFOs originate as psychic projections from our own minds? The late Terence McKenna, a leading thinker in the area of alternative realities, suggests that regardless of their origin and material existence, UFOs seem to challenge the authority of science, and that their chief function may be to ...

The late Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., was well known as a consciousness explorer. Here he stresses the importance of metaphor in guiding and understanding human development, focussing on the metaphors of transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly, of the journey, and of death and rebirth. Dr. Metz...

Donald Michael, Ph.D., is a former policy analyst for the National Science Foundation and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and author of The Next Generation and The Uncertain Society. He suggests that we are frequently misled by the certainties offered by politicians and social reformers. He also takes ...

When we acknowledge the existential realities of our uncertainty, our need for community and our isolation in the face of death, we are led to a position of compassion from which genuine long-range social planning may proceed. Donald Michael, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor in psychology and in p...

Jean Millay, Ph.D., has combined biofeedback studies with psychic testing. An artist and filmmaker, she designed a unique brainwave biofeedback device to synchronize the brain's two hemispheres and to synchronize brainwaves between two people. Dr. Millay discusses the relationship between brainwa...

Innovation is possible at every level of the corporate structure. William C. Miller, management consultant and author of The Creative Edge, delineates different styles of creativity and suggests the role of each within the corporation. Every individual, says Miller, has the capacity to overcome c...

Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., an innovative psychological theorist and therapist, discusses the unique methods he has developed for working with individuals in comatose states. Using the techniques of "process psychology" he is able to find channels into the minds of comatose individuals that allow him ...

Conscious intelligence may be viewed as a computer system composed of many smaller parallel processing programs. The late Marvin Minsky, Ph.D., was one of the acknowledged founders of the mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He argues that understanding the i...

The original gospel is one of loving kindness and forgiveness. Stephen Mitchell is a poet, translator and scholar. He compares the core teachings of Jesus to the perennial spiritual traditions of humanity -- particularly those found in Buddhism.

Those of us whose childhoods have been painful often develop a heightened sensitivity and compassion for the pain of others. Wayne Muller is author of Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood. He suggests we can learn to let go of blaming others for our pain or even tr...

Michael Murphy has spent years cataloging the ways in which human abilities can be transcended and the human body transformed. Here he describes how humans may consciously control their physical evolution through religious and athletic disciplines, biofeedback and medicine.

Michael Murphy is fou...

The qualitative and cyclical nature of time is the subject of this fascinating interview with the late mathematician, physicist and philosopher Charles Muses, Ph.D., author of Destiny and Control in Human Systems and The Lion Path. Drawing on quantum physics and geometry, Dr. Muses shows how thes...

A true teacher communicates non-verbally, by setting an example. Claudio Naranjo, M.D., is a noted psychiatrist and seminal figure in the human potential movement. Here he suggests that inner knowledge, or spiritual wisdom, cannot be communicated simply with words.

There are striking parallels between western psychotherapeutic methods such as the gestalt therapy of Fritz Perls and the approaches of Sufism and Buddhism. In this revealing interview, Claudio Naranjo, M.D., noted psychiatrist and author of The One Quest and The Healing Journey, also describes h...

The essential tension between our material and spiritual natures is often forgotten as we pursue contemporary concerns. Jacob Needleman, Ph.D., author of The Heart of Philosophy and The New Religions, points to Socrates as the ideal philosopher who, through his questioning, brought people to an a...

The essential tension between our material and spiritual natures is often forgotten as we pursue contemporary concerns. Jacob Needleman, Ph.D., author of The Heart of Philosophy and The New Religions, points to Socrates as the ideal philosopher who, through his questioning, brought people to an a...

The Tibetan lamas are specialists in understanding the "bardo" planes of the afterlife. Ole Nydahl is among the first westerners to be trained as a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master. Philosopher and author of Entering the Diamond Way, Nydahl describes the mind as a pure, limitless field where ou...

Ole Nydahl a trained Tibetan Buddhist meditation master in the Kagyupa tradition, takes us step by step through the teaching--first quieting the mind, then focusing on four motivations for meditation, and finally taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. He also discusses the signif...

Business training techniques often focus mindlessly on "positive thinking," glossing over the need for executives to engage in soul-searching and self-renewal. John O'Neil, former president of the California School of Professional Psychology, discusses the unfortunate trend in business to treat "...

Business training techniques often focus mindlessly on "positive thinking," glossing over the need for executives to engage in soul-searching and self-renewal. John O'Neil, former president of the California School of Professional Psychology, discusses the unfortunate trend in business to treat "...

Robert Ornstein, author of The Psychology of Consciousness, The Psychology of Meditation and The Evolution of Consciousness, points out that our brains evolved in a world very different from the civilization that we have created. Our minds are not well-equipped to deal with the slowly accumulatin...