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Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time — from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/opening-our-lives/138

Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives and a Science of Mindfulness (Dec 27, 2012)

MDMAddicted

Few features of humanity are more fascinating than creativity; and few fields are more dynamic now than neuroscience. Rex Jung is a neuropsychologist who puts the two together. He's working on a cutting edge of science, exploring the differences and interplay between intelligence and creativity. He and his colleagues unsettle long-held beliefs about who is creative and who is not. And they're seeing practical, often common-sense connections between creativity and family life, aging, and purpose.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/creativity-and-everyday-brain/1879

Rex Jung — Creativity And The Everyday Brain

The wise linguist and anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson explores the matter of life as an improvisational art, at every age. As the daughter of the iconic anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, she’s had an ability to move through the world as both an original observer and a joyful participant. She’s composed a life that is far more settled but always in dialogue with the memory of her brilliant, globe-trotting, unconventionally-coupled parents.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mary-catherine-bateson-composing-a-life/7968

Mary Catherine Bateson — Composing a Life

The Reverend Dr. Lucy A. Forster-Smith's sermon on the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, October 25, 2015, in the Memorial Church.

The Rev. Dr. Lucy A. Forster-Smith — Finding Our Way Home | Memorial Church

Morning Prayers service with speaker Alanna Copenhaver, Ministry Fellow in the Memorial Church, Harvard University, on Saturday, October 24, 2015.

Dorothy Villarreal '15 — Monday, October 26, 2015 | Morning Prayers

Morning Prayers service with speaker Dorothy Villarreal '15, Executive Assistant to the Dean of Student Life, Office of Student Life, Harvard College, on Monday, October 26, 2015.

Alanna Copenhaver — Saturday, October 24, 2015 | Morning Prayers

Morning Prayers service with speaker Eva Shang ’17, student at Harvard College, on Friday, October 23, 2015.

Eva Shang  17 — Friday, October 23, 2015 | Morning Prayers

Morning Prayers service with speaker Getzel Davis, Associate Rabbi and Jewish Educator at Harvard Hillel and Harvard Chaplain, on Wednesday, October 21, 2015.

Getzel Davis — Wednesday, October 21, 2015 | Morning Prayers

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/adam-gopnik-practicing-doubt-redrawing-faith/8087

Adam Gopnik — Secular Ritual

Adam Gopnik — Parenting and the Core of Human Existence

Adam Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He is the author of several books, including "Paris to the Moon" and "Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life." He wrote the foreword for "The Good Book," edited by Andrew Blauner. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith." Find more at onbeing.org.

[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista Tippett

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/adam-gopnik-practicing-doubt-redrawing-faith/8087

Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith

From the album The Black Light, out November 23 via EXILE. 

Buy: http://www.junodownload.com/products/johannes-heil-the-black-light/2916618-02/

Johannes Heil - Scene Eight

“Our world is rich,” Lisa Randall has written, “so rich that two of the most important questions particle physicists ask are: Why this richness? How is all the matter that I see related?” As one of the most influential theoretical physicists working today, she's increasingly interested in the interconnectedness between fields that have previously operated more autonomously: astronomy, biology, and paleontology. She’s pursuing a theory that “dark matter” might have created the cosmic event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs — and hence humanity’s rise as a species. We explore what she’s discovering, as well as the human questions and takeaways her work throws into relief.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/lisa-randall-dark-matter-and-the-astounding-interconnectedness-of-everything/8100

Lisa Randall — Dark Matter and the Astounding Interconnectedness of Everything

"RAISE & REVOLT"
November 28th, 2015
Tickets & info: http://raiseandrevolt.com

The Game

A transformation of medicine is underway — a transition from a science of treating disease to a science of health. Mark Hyman is a family physician and a pioneer in the new discipline of Functional Medicine. James Gordon is an expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma. Penny George became a philanthropist of integrative medicine after she experienced cancer in mid-life. With Krista, before a live audience at the University of Minnesota, they discuss the challenge and promise of aligning medicine with a twenty-first century understanding of human wholeness.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mark-hyman-james-gordon-and-penny-george-the-evolution-of-medicine/8183

James Gordon — Soft Belly Breathing Meditation

Penny George, Mark Hyman, and James Gordon — The Evolution of Medicine

Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, philosopher, and historian. Her books include "Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It," "Doubt: A History," and "Who Said." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves." Find more at onbeing.org.

[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett

Stay. That’s the message that philosopher, poet, and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht puts at the center of her unusual writing about suicide. She’s traced how the history of Western civilization has, at times, demonized those who commit suicide, and, at times, celebrated it as a moral freedom. She has struggled with suicidal places in her life and lost friends to it. As a scholar, she’s now proposing a new cultural reckoning with suicide, based not on morality or on rights but on our essential need for each other.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/jennifer-michael-hecht-suicide-and-hope-for-our-future-selves/6187

Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves

Actor Martin Sheen as you've never heard him before. He has appeared in over 100 films, including Apocalypse Now. He’s best known on television as President Bartlet in seven seasons of The West Wing. But Martin Sheen, born and still legally named Ramón Estévez, has had another lesser-known life as a spiritual seeker and activist. He returned to a deep and joyful Catholic faith after a crisis at the height of his fame in in mid-life. He’s been arrested over 60 times in vigils and protests. "Piety is something you do alone," he says. "True freedom, spirituality, can only be achieved in community."

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/martin-sheen-spirituality-of-imagination/8257

Martin Sheen — Spirituality of Imagination

The Irish poet and The New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon has won the Pulitzer Prize, written for other media from radio to song, and plays in a rock band. He visited us for a magical day at the On Being studios on Loring Park in Minneapolis, including a dinner salon and reading from his work.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/paul-muldoon-a-conversation-with-verse/8276

"At Least They Weren't Speaking French" by Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon — A Conversation with Verse

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Adam Gopnik — Secular Ritual

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