John’s tells Joanna about his first experience with the Organic Light.

 Organic Light talk 1 [28:26m]: Download

Ruth Gendler is an artist, writer, and teacher committed to the transformational potential of the arts. Her experience with the rhythms of creativity is evidenced by a diverse background in art, writing, publishing, teaching, and lecturing. She is the author of The Book of Qualities and Notes on the Need for Beauty and the editor of Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day. The Book of Qualities, now in its 40th printing, has been adapted as a two act theater piece and translated into German, Japanese, and Chinese, as well as being widely excerpted in literary, psychological and educational publications.

 Interview with Ruth Gendler [43:08m]: Download

Cynthia Jurs is an authorized Buddhist teacher (dharmacharya) who has practiced in the Tibetan Vajrayana and Zen Buddhist traditions for almost 30
years. In 1994 she received formal transmission from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh to teach engaged Buddhism and now directs the Open Way Sangha in Santa Fe, New Mexico, teaching an approach to living in awareness through practice, ceremony, retreat, and pilgrimage. Cynthia also teaches meditation to environmental activists at the Center for Whole Communities in Vermont. In 1990 she met Charok Rinpoche, a 106-year-old lama living in a cave in Nepal, and received a Tibetan practice to bring healing and protection to the Earth. The practice involves filling earth treasure vases and burying them in places of need around the world. As a filmmaker, she recently directed and produced the film, Turning Prayer Into Action: Indigenous Grandmothers Meet the Bioneers. Her next film will document the pilgrimages of the earth treasure vases in order to share the story and practice more widely.

 Interview with Cynthia Jurs [47:57m]: Download

Ellen Tadd is a nationally recognized clairvoyant practitioner, counselor, lecturer and instructor. Ellen works with businesses, religious and educational organizations throughout the U.S. and frequently lectures on how to actualize spiritual potential in every day life. She is the author of Death and Letting Go, a guide for understanding death as a continuation of life.

 Interview with Ellen Tadd [38:05m]: Download

Michael Brownstein is a poet, teacher and the author of three novels: Country Cousins, Self-Reliance, and The Touch. As a result of his involvement in the anti-globalization movement he wrote World on Fire, from which he has read widely at conferences and universities, including at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in South Africa and the World Social Forum in Brazil. His web site, Healing Dick, is dedicated to healing the heart of Dick Cheney, because “Dick is America, America is Dick.”

 Interview with Michael Brownstein [58:12m]: Download

Rick Allen is the drummer for Def Leppard and co-founder of Raven Drum Foundation - a nonprofit organization providing free educational programs to inspire personal growth during times of adversity. Lauren Monroe is a practitioner and teacher of energy healing and massage and the other co-founder of Raven Drum.

 Interview with Rick Allen and Lauren Monroe [44:38m]: Download

Talk given at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe on May 25. Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism.

 Brief talk by Joan Halifax Roshi [15:23m]: Download

Dr. Larry Dossey is a physician, lecturer, author and internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. His books include. among others, Space, Time & Medicine, Reinventing Medicine and The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things.

 Interview with Dr. Larry Dossey [41:11m]: Download

Bradford Keeney Ph.D. is recognized as an elder shaman and spiritual teacher in cultures throughout the world. He is the author of Profiles of Healing, an eleven-volume encyclopedia of the world’s healing practices and an autobiography entitled Bushman Shaman as well as several classics in the field of psychotherapy and numerous titles for the popular press. With his website Shaking Medicine he invites us to go beyond modernity to the oldest culture on Earth to find true magic and power.

 Interview with Bradford Keeney Ph.D [44:45m]: Download

Also known as Mountain Girl, Carolyn was a Merry Prankster and the wife of Jerry Garcia. In 1964 she met Neal Cassady who introduced her to Ken Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name "Mountain Girl". She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and was romantically involved with Kesey. She later met and married Jerry Garcia.

 Interview with Carolyn Garcia [44:03m]: Download