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Do You Need a Guru?
Understanding the Student-Teacher Relationship in an Era of False Prophets
In the 21st century, Mariana Caplan predicts, there will be a shift back to the student-teacher relationship as we realise the limitations of trying to "do it on our own". However, this teacher-student relationship will have to be created anew to reflect our new awareness.
- Publications Books
- September 25, 2002
- 304 pages
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The Invisible School
The Art of Cultural Mentoring
For this master tracker, nauturalist, and teacher, the greatest adventures and deepest satisfactions will emerge from discovering our "indigenous" awareness.
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2005
- 5 pages
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness as an “inner technology” can heal the social body, writes meditation teacher Kabat-Zinn.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2004
- 1 page
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Sensing Fields
What is the feeling of the field? A physician, a teacher, and a musician share first-person perspectives on experiencing the power of fields.
- Publications Articles
- December 2004 - February 2005
- 6 pages
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A Quiet Revolution
An Interview with Adyashanti
Spiritual teacher Adyashanti, who began his public teachings in 1996, shares his wisdom on the nature of awakening consciousness. "The most powerful impediments to awakening are our beliefs about it ...
- Publications Articles
- Spring 2009
- 6 pages
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Living Deeply Practice: "Wholeness" with Baba Harihar Ramji
Baba Harihar Ramji is a bridge between the ancient and modern world. Continuing the mystical lineage of the Aghor Seat of Varanasi, India, Babaji’s teachings are deeply rooted in ancient wisdom, yet practical for this day and age. He is the spiritual teacher at two ashrams: in Sonoma, California and in India.
- Audio Experientials
- 2008-07-07
- 00:02:23
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Living Deeply Practice: "Morning Prayer" with Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man
Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man is a writer, religious guide, spiritual counselor and founder of Metivta: a center for contemplative Judaism. For more than 25 years he lived in Jerusalem, where he worked and studied with some of the greatest contemporary Jewish teachers.
- Audio Experientials
- 2008-07-07
- 00:04:24
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I to We
The Role of Consciousness Transformation in Compassion and Altruism
It is clear that human consciousness can be transformed through spiritual experiences and practices. Little is known, however, about what the predictors, mediators, and outcomes are of such transformations in consciousness. In-depth structured interviews were conducted with forty-seven teachers and scholars from religious and spiritual traditions and modern transformative movements to identify factors common to the transformative process across traditions.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- 2006
- 17 pages
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Living Deeply Practices
To help you deepen your practice of Living Deeply, we’ve created these Living Deeply Practice audios, designed for you to drink from the well of wisdom and spirit, featuring ...
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"Waking" with Matthew Sanford (excerpt)
Matthew Sanford, a yoga teacher who is also paralyzed, reveals his unique insights on the mind-body dynamic and its relationship to consciousness. In this compelling interview, he also discusses subtle energy, existential philosophy, trauma, health care reform, true healing, and the relavance of mind-body science to business.
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-11-29
- 00:10:57
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Great Shift Dialogue: Andrew Harvey and Shiva Rea (excerpt)
Mystic scholar Andrew Harvey and renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea come together to illuminate a path towards sacred embodiment and activism while exploring the initiations that humanity must face: radical heartbreak, death, and rebirth. In this process, two great fires need to be married in the human heart: the passion for justice and the passion for Spirit.
- Audio Shorts
- 2008-01-22
- 00:02:46
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Great Shift Dialogue: Michael Gelb and Marcia Wieder (excerpt)
A leading teacher of innovation, Michael Gelb, and the leader of a "dream movement," Marcia Wieder, explore what our future might look like if dreamed up by bold visionaries. Both are adept at helping people create bolder visions of their own potential and translating that into substantial change.
- Audio Shorts
- 2008-02-10
- 00:02:50
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The Wise Heart
A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism’s transformational psychology ever published in the West.
- Publications Books
- April 29, 2008
- 448 pages
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"Practical Visionary" with Corinne McLaughlin
8 Keys to Spiritual Growth and Social Change
Activist and spiritual teacher Corinne McLaughlin discusses her new book and how you can change yourself and change the world at the same time. Discover 8 keys to the New World within you and and all around you, with surprising solutions to our toughest problems and tools for your spiritual growth.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-03-18
- 00:53:36
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Great Shift Dialogue: Bill Plotkin and David Abram (part 1 of 2)
Author, depth psychologist and ecotherapist, Bill Plotkin explores the needed great shifts on the planet with cultural ecologist, philosopher and spiritual teacher David Abrams. Their in-depth discussion examines our western culture’s disconnect from nature, the consequences of that disconnection and potential solutions to reconnect not only to nature but to our authentic selves.
- Audio Interviews
- 2008-03-12
- 00:49:09
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Great Shift Dialogue: Bill Plotkin and David Abram (part 2 of 2)
Author, depth psychologist and ecotherapist, Bill Plotkin explores the needed great shifts on the planet with cultural ecologist, philosopher and spiritual teacher David Abrams. Their in-depth discussion examines our western culture’s disconnect from nature, the consequences of that disconnection and potential solutions to reconnect not only to nature but to our authentic selves.
- Audio Interviews
- 2008-03-12
- 00:32:53
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"Optimal Health and Human Flourishing" with Elliott Dacher (class 7 of 8)
The Alchemy of Adversity
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Week 7 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.
How can we turn adverse circumstances into opportunities for practice? Session 7 brings life's unavoidable difficulties into perspective, so that adversity will become a powerful teacher on the path to larger life and health.
- Audio Optimal Health
- 2011-11-09
- 01:55:00
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Walking on Water
Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Walking on Water is a startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity, and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization.
- Publications Books
- February 2004
- 232 pages
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"The Buddha's Brain" with Rick Hanson
The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were all born with a brain built essentially like anyone else’s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-07-14
- 01:06:50