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Unheard Cuts from Teilhard de Chardin's 'Planetary Mind' and Our Spiritual Evolution

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Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender.

This is Krista Tippett's complete, unabridged interview with Ms. Brown.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928

[Unedited] Brené Brown with Krista Tippett (Dec 5, 2013)

This unedited conversation with Eckhart Tolle comes from our produced show "Eckhart Tolle on the Power of Now."

One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair — suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind. He also explicates his view of what he calls "the pain body" — the accumulated emotional pain that may influence us and our relationships in negative ways. And Tolle talks about spirit and God, and what those concepts mean to him.


See more at www.onbeing.org/program/power-eckhart-tolles-now/217

[Unedited] Eckhart Tolle with Krista Tippett

In this program we revisit a 2007 conversation with evangelical leaders Rick and Kay Warren — exploring where they came from and what motivates them. Rick Warren hosted the first post-primary joint appearance of Barack Obama and John McCain at his Saddleback Church in southern California, one of the largest churches in the U.S. This two hour event, broadcast live on CNN, is just one sign of the cross-cultural authority he and Kay have achieved in a handful of years. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/rick-and-kay-warren-saddleback/167

[Unedited] Rick And Kay Warren with Krista Tippett

One of the world's leading experts on torture, Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali discusses, in particular, how democracies change torture and are changed by it. In the wake of Wikileaks revelations about torture in U.S.-occupied Iraq, we explore how his knowledge might deepen our public discourse about such practices -- and inform our collective reckoning with consequences yet to unfold.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/long-shadow-torture/206

[Unedited] Darius Rejali with Krista Tippett

Social psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional studies have long suggested what brain science is now revealing: our experiences are formed by the words and ideas we attach to them. Naming something play rather than work, or exercise rather than labor, can mean the difference between delight and drudgery, fatigue or weight loss. One of the earliest pioneers in drawing a connection between mindlessness and unhappiness, and between mindfulness and health — along with figures like Jon Kabat-Zinn and Herbert Benson — she describes mindfulness as achievable without meditation or yoga — as “the simple act of actively noticing things.”

Learn more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-langer-the-simple-act-of-noticing/6332.

[Unedited] Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness

RETREAT WITH THE MYSTICS : Living in the Divine Milieu Led by Prof Ursula King
Saturday 9 July 2016
The Meditatio Centre London
Ursula King is Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol. Educated in Germany, France, India and England, she has lectured all over the world. Her publications include Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015), Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern Religions: Spirituality and Mysticism in an Evolutionary World (2011) and Christian Mystics (2004). 

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Teilhard de Chardin: Living in the Divine Milieu - Part 2

Teilhard de Chardin: Living in the Divine Milieu - Part 1

We'll delve into the world and meaning of the approaching Jewish High Holy Days -- ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur's rituals of atonement. Sharon Brous, a young rabbi in L.A., is one voice in a Jewish spiritual renaissance that is taking many forms across the U.S. The vast majority of her congregation are people in their 20s and 30s, who, she says, are making life-giving connections between ritual, personal transformation, and relevance in the world.

In this unedited conversation, Krista interviewed Sharon Brous, a Conservative rabbi in Los Angeles who is part of a Jewish spiritual renaissance. 

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/days-awe/82





[Unedited] Sharon Brous with Krista Tippett

Four Jesuits in history have had asteroids named after them. Our guests are the two living astronomers with that distinction. Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father George Coyne study the composition of meteorites and the life and death of stars. They share their observations of life, faith, friendship, and the universe from their seats in the Vatican Observatory.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/asteroids-stars-and-love-god/68

Guy Consolmagno and George Coyne — Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God (Mar 10, 2011)

Could a Yiddish text from the Middle Ages serve as a guide to living now? Book composer and typographer Scott-Martin Kosofsky revives unlikely sources of customs for leading a modern life and marking sacred time. For Hanukkah and all the seasons upon us.

Scott-Martin Kosofsky — Legends To Live By (Dec 15, 2011)

Michael McCullough describes science that helps us comprehend how revenge came to have a purpose in human life. At the same time, he stresses, science is also revealing that human beings are more instinctively equipped for forgiveness than we've perhaps given ourselves credit for. Knowing this suggests ways to calm the revenge instinct in ourselves and others and embolden the forgiveness intuition.


Krista's unedited conversation with Michael McCullough, author of "Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct." Krista spoke with him on August 29, 2008 from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota, and he was in the studios of WLRN in Miami, Florida. This interview is included in our program "Getting Revenge and Forgiveness." 

http://www.onbeing.org/program/getting-revenge-and-forgiveness/104

[Unedited] Michael McCullough with Krista Tippett

Dr. King recites 10 stanzas from Teilhard de Chardin's "Hymn to Matter" and then expounds on what they may mean.

Ursula King Recites Hymn to Matter and Explains Stanzas

The coming stage of evolution, Teilhard de Chardin said, won't be driven by physical adaptation but by human consciousness, creativity, and spirit. We visit with his biographer Ursula King, and we experience his ideas energizing New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/teilhard-de-chardins-planetary-mind-and-our-spiritual-evolution/4965

Ursula King, Andrew Revkin + David Sloan Wilson — Teilhard de Chardin's Planetary Mind

The coming stage of evolution, Teilhard de Chardin said, won't be driven by physical adaptation but by human consciousness, creativity, and spirit. We visit with his biographer Ursula King, and we experience his ideas energizing New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/teilhard-de-chardins-planetary-mind-and-our-spiritual-evolution/4965

[Unedited] David Sloan Wilson with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Ursula King with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Andrew Revkin with Krista Tippett

A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. Now a conservationist of tigers and jaguars, an explorer of the world's last wild places, he has extraordinary insight into both animals and the human condition. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/voice-animals/60

Alan Rabinowitz — A Voice for the Animals (April 18, 2013)

One of the values of science is to make us uncomfortable says Lawrence Krauss. The particle physicist explains why we should all care about dark energy and the Higgs Boson particle. Science literacy matters, and, more importantly, he suggests we should take joy in science — just as we cultivate enjoyment of arts we may not completely comprehend.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/our-origins-and-the-weight-of-space-with-lawrence-krauss/5216


Lawrence Krauss — Our Origins and the Weight of Space

New York poet laureate Marie Howe reads her poem "The Meadow" during an interview with Krista Tippett. This poem is included in On Being's show "The Poetry of Ordinary Time." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

"The Meadow" by Marie Howe

http://www.onbeing.org/program/creativity-and-everyday-brain/1879

With new techniques of brain imaging, neuroscientist Rex Jung and his colleagues are gaining a whole new view of the differences and the interactions between intelligence, creativity, and personality: 

"With intelligence, there's the analogy I've used is there's this superhighway in the brain that allows you to get from point A to point B. With creativity, it's a slower, more meandering process where you want to take the side roads and even the dirt roads to get there."

How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? Rex Jung unsettles some old assumptions, and suggests some new connections between creativity and family life, creativity and aging, creativity and purpose.

Rex Jung — Creativity and the Everyday Brain (May 2, 2013)

For Mother's Day, the celebrated Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, mother, and grandmother: Sylvia Boorstein. The best way to nurture children's inner lives, she says, is by taking care of our own inner selves for their sake. At a public event in suburban Detroit, Krista Tippett draws out the warmth and wisdom of Ms. Boorstein, and, in a light-hearted moment that is an audience pleaser, Ms. Boorstein shares what GPS might teach us about "recalculating" and our own inner equanimity.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/what-we-nurture-with-sylvia-boorstein/242

Sylvia Boorstein — What We Nurture (May 9, 2013)

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.

[Unedited] Andrew Revkin with Krista Tippett

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