The Cosmic Lovers

The Cosmic Lovers

Christopher M. Bache has been a professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University for almost 30 years as well as an intermittent adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. From 2000-2002 he was Director of Transformative Learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is an award winning teacher, international speaker, and author of “The Living Classroom”, “Dark Night Early Dawn”, and...
Innate Kindness

Innate Kindness

This is a new episode in our monthly podcast series, Upaya Conversations, a collaboration with Upaya Zen Center.  Richard J. Davidson received his Ph.D. in Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychophysiology from Harvard University. He is currently Director for the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience as well as the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is focused on cortical and subcortical...
Awakening Kundalini: The Evolving Human

Awakening Kundalini: The Evolving Human

Penny Kelly is an author, teacher, speaker, publisher, personal and spiritual consultant, and Naturopathic physician. In 1979 she experienced a full, spontaneous awakening of kundalini that completely changed her life. She returned to school to study the brain, consciousness, perception, cognition, intelligence and intuition. This was followed by over a dozen years of work as an educational consultant specializing in the brain-compatible and accelerative teaching...
A Vast Sense of Belonging

A Vast Sense of Belonging

Richard Doyle earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He was the Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in History and Social Science of the Life Sciences at MIT in 1993. Professor of Rhetoric, Doyle holds appointments in English, Science Technology & Society and the College of Information Science and Technology at Penn State University and was Visiting Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric in 2003. Doyle teaches courses in the history and...
Naked Mind

Naked Mind

Sarah Barab has been a practitioner in the Tibetan tradition for 20 years, and also teaches yoga and meditation and is a professional astrologer. She founded Naked Mind Productions in 2006, as a non-profit dedicated to making Dharma-inspired film. After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, and later Naropa, Sarah went on to earn an MFA in theater. She worked as an actress for many years in physical theater companies such as Imago...