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Dr. Sherwin Nuland died this week at the age of 83. He became well-known for his first book, How We Die, which won the National Book Award. For him, pondering death was a way of wondering at life — and the infinite variety of processes that maintain human life moment to moment. He reflects on the meaning of life by way of scrupulous and elegant detail about human physiology.

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About the image: Zoe Middleton poses behind an artwork entitled 'My Soul' by Katharine Dawson, which consists of a laser etched lead chrystal glass formation in the shape of a brain, and was created using the artists own MRI Scan, from an exhibit at the Wellcome Collection in London. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.

Sherwin Nuland — The Biology of the Spirit (Mar 6, 2014)

Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. Much of her writing offers emotional and spiritual tools for preparing for living in a post-industrial world. Carolyn’s latest book is Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. Her other books include Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse, Coming Out From Christian Fundamentalism: Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and The Sacred, U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You and The Journey of Forgiveness. http://www.carolynbaker.net

Carolyn Baker - Navigating the Coming Chaos: Part 1

Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. Much of her writing offers emotional and spiritual tools for preparing for living in a post-industrial world. Carolyn's latest book is Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. Her other books include Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse, Coming Out From Christian Fundamentalism: Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and The Sacred, U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You and The Journey of Forgiveness.
http://www.carolynbaker.net

Carolyn Baker - Navigating the Coming Chaos: Part 3

Arkan Lushwala was born in Arequipa, Peru and since young age trained to be a healer and to lead sacred ceremonies. Arkan moved to North America to learn the spiritual path of the Lakota. Now he have permission to conduct Lakota ceremonies as well as ceremonies from the Andes, one of his elders being from the K'ero nation. During the last 8 years he been fully dedicated to doing ceremonies around the world for the healing of Mother Earth, and sharing with people of all cultures the wisdom of his ancestors in order to contribute to all humanity recovering the memory of how to live healthy and in peace on this planet. Last year Arkan published, The Time of the Black Jaguar.

Arkan Lushwala - The Time of the Black Jaguar

Joanna is a Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. 
http://www.joannamacy.net

Joanna Macy - The Great Turning

Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. Joanna addresses the reasons for the grief, fear, sadness, uncertainty, and numbness that prevail in modern life and keeps bringing attention back to what is sacred and true: the wondrously interconnected and intelligent web of life. For more go to 
http://www.joannamacy.net


Joanna Macy - World As Lover, World As Self

Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He is the author of numerous books including A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation which has just been updated and renamed Morphic Resonance. 
http://www.sheldrake.org

Rupert Sheldrake - Morphic Resonance

David Whyte, Poet, Author, Lecturer holds a degree in Marine Zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalaya. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures and workshops. http://www.davidwhyte.com

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David Whyte - The Three Marriages

Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma. One of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West, he is author of many books, which have sold more than 1 million copies. They include The Wise Heart, A Path With Heart, and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry. 

http://www.jackkornfield.com

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. - A Lamp in the Darkness

Background, transcript, and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/02/sherwin-nuland-what-everybody-needs/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/sherwin-nuland-the-biology-of

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Sherwin Nuland on what everybody needs

Martín Prechtel is an author, painter, musician and educator. Raised on a Pueblo Indian reservation in New Mexico, Prechtel traveled to Guatemala and made his home in the village of Santiago Atitlán, where he was trained in the Tzutujil shamanic tradition. He is the author of The Smell of Rain on Dust, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, Long Life, Honey in the Heart, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, Stealing Benefacio's Roses and The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic, and runs the international school Bolad's Kitchen. www.floweringmountain.com

Martín Prechtel: Making Medicine Out of Poison

Stephen Jenkinson and Carolyn discuss grief, his new book Die Wise, and the deeper meaning of the word “catastrophe.” Stephen Jenkinson - 20150828 Lifeboat Interview With Carolyn Baker. Original podcast: http://prn.fm/lifeboat-hour-08-28-15/

2015 August - Lifeboat, Carolyn Baker interviews Stephen Jenkinson

CaroCarolyn Bakerlyn Baker, Ph.D. is the author of Love In The Age Of Ecological Apocalypse: The Relationships We Need To Thrive and Extinction Dialogs: How To Live With Death In Mind. Her previous books include Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths For Turbulent Times (2013); Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition (2011) and Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path Of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse (2009). A former psychotherapist and professor of psychology and history, Carolyn supports people to live more resiliently in the present as they prepare for the future. Her radio show, the Lifeboat Hour, airs on Progressive Radio Network every week. www.carolynbaker.net

Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.

 
Frederic Laloux works is a writer, adviser, coach, and facilitator with corporate leaders who feel called to explore fundamentally new ways of organizing. He is the author of the just released Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness. Frederic Laloux demonstrates how the currently emerging, new form of consciousness is bringing forth a radically more soulful, purposeful, and productive organizational model. He lives in Brussels, Belgium, with his wife, Hélène, and their two children. www.reinventingorganizations.com

Frederic Laloux: Reinventing Organizations

Frank Ostaseski, Founder Metta Institute talk on Compassion & Attunement given at the Insight Meditation Center in 2013, Redwood City, CA.

Compassion and Attunement

What does it take to “Die Wise”? How can we start the conversation in our death-avoidant culture? Stephen Jenkinson, the author of Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, has a lot to say on the topic. He joined me for a special extended conversation on A Good Goodbye Radio in advance of his appearances in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. In this 33-minute interview, we discuss the death avoidance prevalent in the dominant North American culture, the drawbacks of having More Time as a hospice or palliative care patient, the consequences of being hopeful when dying, and ways to change language and to change behaviors related to death and dying. Originally published on http://agoodgoodbye.com/a-good-goodbye-radio/speaking-with-stephen-jenkinson-author-of-die-wise/

2016 - Gail Rubin interviews Stephen Jenkinson

This podcast is a recording of a second conversation between me and Rupert Sheldrake, one of my favorite renegade scientists and the number one target of the defenders of scientific orthodoxy. He hardly needs any introduction, but I'll say he is prolific author and researcher with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cambridge University.  I see him as an elder or a pioneer in the liberating of science from its metaphysical dogmas of reductionism and mechanistic materialism, and a true practitioner of the Scientific Method in its original humble spirit. I hope you'll enjoy the intellect and refinement of this man as much as I did.

In Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake (E16)- A New and Ancient Story

Ken Rose interviews Stephen Jenkinson in a series of sessions about death and dying and Stephen's work at his Orphan Wisdom School. (http://orphanwisdom.com).

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Jozo Novak