A leading visionary thinker, Barbara Marx Hubbard suggests that we are in a unique evolutionary phase in which the universe is coming to understand itself through the vehicle of human consciousness. She argues that the spiritual attainments of the great religious founders and avatars are now beco...

A leading visionary thinker, Barbara Marx Hubbard suggests that we are in a unique evolutionary phase in which the universe is coming to understand itself through the vehicle of human consciousness. She argues that the spiritual attainments of the great religious founders and avatars are now beco...

The late Christina Grof describes her own struggle to overcome alcoholism and suggests that the impulse that leads to addictive behavior stems from our yearning for spiritual union. Crises of spiritual opening, she says, may often look like episodes of acute psychosis and are often difficult and ...

Fred Wolf presents an enlightening survey of the human notion of the Soul from ancient wisdom to modern physics, including the view that there is but on Soul in the universe--the universal consciousness of which we all partake.

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., received the American Book Award in science f...

The path to understanding the soul is through the heart, not the mind. In Part One of this two-part program, Gary Zukav maintains that the process of spiritual growth is one of aligning the personality with the soul. He also suggests that an understanding of the soul necessitates a nonjudgmental ...

Most western psychologies do not recognize the essence, although it is central to the primordial traditions of humanity. In part one of this two part program, Hameed Ali defines our essence as that part of us which is unconditioned by our personal life history. As opposed to our personality, the ...

Spiritual teacher IsanaMada maintains that many people today are experiencing an awakening, but that the isolation of the ego keep us from awareness of the fullness of our possibilities. She also describes the process of surrender as essential to spiritual work. This process is opposed by the ten...

We are living at a unique historical moment when the cultures of the entire world are available to us, and we are challenged as we have never before been. In Part One of this two-part program, Dr. Jean Houston describes the range of human capacities that are found in different cultures. She focus...

Jungian analysis focuses on unconscious archetypes that operate beneath our cultural conditioning. Transformation, says June Singer, must emerge from within, apart from any preconceptions of the analyst. In this revealing two-part program, Dr. Singer presents the theory and practice of Carl G. Ju...

Underneath the apparent separation of individuals there is a level of unity and interconnectedness. True liberation, suggests Kathleen Speeth, involves attaining an awareness of this level. In Part I of this program, Dr. Speeth enters into an intensive dialogue on the nature and meaning of libera...

Margo Anand describes the "anti-ecstatic conspiracy" in modern life. We often forget the potential of our perceptual and emotional systems to create states of bliss. She discusses Hindu "tantra" as the art of expanding consciousness through an appreciation of the senses and the body. She takes is...

In Part One of this three-part program, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi discusses the results of over thirty years researching the lives of highly creative individuals. He points out that creativity involves a lifelong commitment that begins with one's personal life and moves beyond to the larger cultural...