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Who knew that the architect behind St. Paul's Cathedral was also an anatomist who diagrammed the human brain? Today, scientists of the brain are learning why our sensory experience in a place like a cathedral — the incense, the soaring music, the stained glass, and the light — is physiologically good for us:

    "What is it about beautiful vistas of mountains, about the infinite horizon of the ocean, about a cathedral? There are certainly physiological and neuroscientific bases to that feeling, and I am convinced — I know — that these things can be measured. And that's the exciting new frontier for me, to ask exactly that question."

Esther Sternberg is an immunologist and a pioneer on this new frontier that's giving rise to disciplines like neuroimmunology and environmental psychology. Architects are working with scientists to imbue the spaces we move through — the sights, sounds, and smells of them — with active healing properties. And Esther Sternberg says all of us can create surroundings and even portable sensations to manage stress and tap our brain's own internal pharmacies.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/the-science-of-healing-places/4856

Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places

Pema Chodron audio clip. This was a public talk called When Things Fall Apart, about how to work with the "falling apart" quality of one's life, and the inseparability of groundlessness and warmth. Recorded in Ojai, CA, 1998. Available as audio CD or mp3 download - in the search box in the upper right hand corner of our website, search for either 75CD (audio CD) or 75DL (mp3 download). www.pemachodrontapes.com

When Things Fall Apart-Public Talk.WAV

"The soul is contained in the voice."

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and Krista Tippett have an intimate conversation about their shared love of listening — and the importance of creating spaces to tell our stories to each other. For him, the spaces where two people ask the questions they’ve always wanted to ask of each other are sacred. Listening, he’s learned, is an act of love. Eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/dave-isay-the-everyday-art-of-listening/6268

David Isay — The Everyday Art of Listening (April 17, 2014)

Sculptural artist Dario Robleto is famous for spinning and shaping unconventional materials — from dinosaur fossils to pulverized vintage records, from swamp root to cramp bark. He joins words and objects in a way that distills meaning at once social, poetic, and scientific. He reveals how objects can become meditations on love, war, and healing.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/dario-robleto-sculptor-of-memory/6640

Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Memory

We live in a world that is recreating itself one life and one digital connection at a time. On this landscape for which there are no maps, Seth Godin is a singular thought leader and innovator in what he describes as our post-industrial "connection economy." Rather than merely tolerate change, he says, we are all called now to rise to it. We are invited and stretched in whatever we do to be artists — to create in ways that matter to other people.

See more www.onbeing.org/program/seth-godin-on-the-art-of-noticing-and-then-creating/5000

Seth Godin — The Art of Noticing, and Then Creating

Two legendary teachers shine a Buddhist light on a classic Christian teaching: love of enemies. Robert Thurman and Sharon Salzberg are working together on how we relate to that which makes us feel embattled from without, and from within.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/embracing-our-enemies

Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman — Embracing Our Enemies and Our Suffering



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.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928

Brené Brown — Brave and Afraid at the Same Time

What is an emotion? Is an emotion the same as a mood? What part should the emotions play in our life and in our understanding of what it is to be human? Sabine Döring discusses these questions with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Philosophy Bites.

On Emotion: Interview with Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Bites (English)

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual — the visible and the invisible — intertwine in human experience. His voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/john-o-donohue-the-inner-landscape-beauty/203

John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

Eckhart Tolle Reads from his own Book: Practicing the Power of Now 

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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

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

B.J. Miller is executive director of the Zen Hospice Project, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and an attending specialist for the Symptom Management Service of the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "B.J. Miller — Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don't Control." Find more at onbeing.org 

[Unedited] B.J. Miller with Krista Tippett

"Are we human beings who are in community, do we call to each other? Do we heed each other? Do we want to know each other?" Poet Elizabeth Alexander speaks of our need for language to understand our neighbors.

Find more at onbeing.org/becoming-wise

The Desire to Know Each Other | Elizabeth Alexander [Becoming Wise]

"The more we can learn these lessons, the more we will not be running towards our death, but opening to our lives." Mindfulness researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn on the physiological and spiritual potential of being present to every moment of daily life.

Find more at onbeing.org/becoming-wise

Present to Life, Moment by Moment | Jon Kabat-Zinn [Becoming Wise]

The American experience of stress has spawned a multi-billion dollar self-help industry. Wary of this, Esther Sternberg says that, until recently, modern science did not have the tools or the inclination to take emotional stress seriously. She shares fascinating new scientific insight into the molecular level of the mind-body connection.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/stress-and-balance-within/179

Esther Sternberg — Stress and the Balance Within (Sep 4, 2008)

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

Eckhart Tolle — The Power of Now (Oct 8, 2009)

http://www.onbeing.org/program/meredith-monks-voice/1398

Singer and composer Meredith Monk is a kind of archeologist of the human voice. She says that "the voice could be like the body" — flexible and fluid with practice. Through music as through meditation, the longtime Buddhist practitioner pushes the boundaries of what we can do without words.

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