Over a span of 12 years (1975 to 1987), New Dimensions Radio host Michael Toms recorded conversations between the late Joseph Campbell (author of The Power of Myth) and himself, during which time they developed a close friendship. In these stimulating conversations, central questions in the search for understanding and knowledge of the spiritual universe in which we live are explored.

The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell

In this thought-provoking dialogue, author Gary Zukav and New Dimensions Radio host Michael Toms probe the possibilities that open when Spirit becomes a real and ever-present force in our lives. Zukav explains how we create the events in our lives wi...

Authentic Power

This dialogue reviews Sheldrake's theory of "morphic resonance," which challenges some fundamental assumptions of established science. Sheldrake offers a revolutionary alternative to the mechanistic worldview, and points toward a new understanding of...

The Past Is Present

From Carlos Castaneda's first book, The Teachings of Don Juan to The Power of Silence, millions of readers have long enjoyed the fantastic teachings of don Juan Matus, the Yaqui shaman from northern Mexico. Here, Victor Sanchez offers practical techn...

The Teachings of Don Carlos

This stimulating discussion with Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox, two visionary pioneers of modern science and theology, will transform how you think about the most popular of all spiritual beings. Study of the Christian mystics led Fox and Sheldrak...

Angels

One of the foremost theoretical physicists in the world, the late David Bohm, tells why science has become specialized and fragmented at the cost of its soul. He describes his theory of the "implicate order" and goes on to explore its implications fo...

Creativity, Natural Philosophy, and Science

Do you want to change your life but don't know how? Wayne Dyer has discovered that it is possible to manifest exactly what you want in your life, and his positive enthusiasm is both intellectually sound and spiritually authentic. "We can do a somersa...

How to Create Your Life the Way You Want It

Acknowledged as one of the greatest religious teachers of this or any other age, the late J. Krishnamurti was a visionary whose ideas are still ahead of his time. New Dimensions host Michael Toms was fortunate to capture this philosopher's penetratin...

Meditation Mastery

Stripping away the known and seeing reality for what it is, rather than for what our thoughts represent it to be, provides the theme for this compelling conversation. The late theoretical physicist David Bohm addresses the nature of thought and think...

Essential Reality

"You don't make a boy into a man simply by feeding him a certain kind of food," says Bly, as he describes the three necessary and sequential life phases symbolized by three colors - the "red, white and black," in the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "Iron ...

The Masculine Road

In this discussion, Bly talks of four sources of shame, including shame inherited from parents, grandparents, and ancestors, and shame over our bodily and creative instincts. It opens with a Russian fairy story on the Frog Princess and the shame we f...

The Power of Shame

Best-selling motivational author and lecturer Wayne Dyer ignites your inspiration to be all you can be. "The danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them, but that they are too low and you do."  Bringing advice from sages thr...

You Can Do Anything

One of the world's most renowned physicists presents a radical new vision of science. Here the late David Bohm describes scientific theory as the myth that drives our culture, and points out the fallacy of our belief system. He also presents his alternative for addressing the world's mega-problems through engaging in a new level of "dialogue" among small groups of people. His views are both challenging and profound.

Towards Wholeness

This internationally known physicist has developed a theory of quantum physics which addresses the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole. The late Bohm's concept of "implicate order" provides a basis for bridging science to the realm of spirit. For two decades he explored this possibility with J. Krishnamurti, the famed religious teacher.

Parts of a Whole

"The whole job of learning how to produce miracles for yourself is to convince yourself that you already have this power," says Wayne Dyer. He describes the "real magic" available in every life as the undeveloped powers existing within each of us. We...

Living a Magical Life

According to poet and men's workshop facilitator Robert Bly, leaving naivete behind may open up the wilder regions of maleness, where men can wrestle with their demons and, in time, reach maturity and balance. This is a fascinating dialogue which exp...

Male Naivete and Giving the Gold Away

Angeles Arrien has gathered wisdom from an enormous variety of indigenous cultures around the world, distilling it into four paths to wise, effective action - "showing up, paying attention, telling the truth and being unattached to the outcome." Thes...

Walking the Four-Fold Way

Ever get that eerie feeling that your cat or dog knows what you're thinking? They just might! Scientist Rupert Sheldrake brings you five years of extensive research on animal behavior, challenging traditional scientific assumptions that pets do not w...

Human Mind/Animal Mind

There are no limits to your ability to think, according to psychologist Dyer, who suggests that you can imagine yourself doing anything. The power of the mind is limitless. He encourages us to put our consciousness on what we are for rather than what we are against. This conversation is filled with personal anecdotes to support his views on awakening the mind and creative thinking.

Living Your Bliss

"As a man is, so he sees." These words of mystical poet and artist William Blake are just as relevant now as they were when they were written in 1802 - perhaps more so. Throughout his life, Blake undertook a voyage beyond rationality and materialism ...

William Blake and Beyond

A latter-day apostle of happiness and fulfillment, Wayne Dyer has written several best sellers encouraging people to de-program themselves from negative thought patterns and get on with the joyous task of living a "no limits" life. His books, includi...

Just Imagine!

This key figure in the American men's movement long ago brought our attention to our failure to initiate young people into adult society. "We're substituting Prozac for depth psychology," Bly warns. Characterized by petty rivalries, self-indulgence a...

A Society of Siblings

An extraordinary visit with one of America's leading poets provides a unique exploration of the mystery of maleness. Bly uses fairy tales to illuminate the dark recesses of the psyche, and the result is a powerful intimation of the male experience an...

Into the Deep

Full of high energy and zest for life, psychologist and best-selling author Dyer suggests a myriad of methods for becoming more conscious parents and living life more fully. As the author of the best-selling book of the 1970s, Your Erroneous Zones, D...

Winning Ways

Join us for an hour of stirring and straightforward wisdom from one of the most highly respected of modern American writers and poets. Using words like "affection", "satisfaction", "care", and "joy", Berry calls for a re-evaluation of the basic value...

Natural Gifts

How does a body of poetry written in a remote part of the world find its way to best seller lists published in leading newspapers in the U.S. over 700 years later? What is the compelling quality inherent in great literature that resonates throughout ...

The Ecstatic Soul

When the late J. Krishnamurti was heralded as a vehicle for leading humanity into a new age, he repudiated the notion, saying, "Truth is a pathless land, you can't approach it by any religion or sect. You are accustomed to being told how far you have...

Truth Is a Pathless Land

This gifted storyteller poignantly shares the memories of those mentors and teachers who profoundly influenced her life. She speaks of her voluntary muteness as a child. Even in this silence, "Mama" (Angelou's grandmother) spoke prophetically to the ...

Making Magic in the World

The combination of the latest brain research with the new image of the shape of reality emerging from quantum physics challenges us to see ourselves anew, according to Pearce, who provides a wealth of knowledge about how we develop, learn, create and...

Natural Intelligence and the Heart

Farmer, ecologist, and writer Berry provides some rich and fertile ground for recreating life and culture. He speaks of enduring values, the wholeness of life and the interdependence of all creatures, especially humankind. Berry's self-discipline, et...

Daily Bread

Here, the author of the million-copy bestseller Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain tells how to use drawing to tap into the unique powers of the dual brain function for enhancing creativity, imagination, problem solving, and more. She shares how ...

The Art of Creativity

There is probably no one more qualified to illuminate the life and work of Jalaluddin Rumi, the great 13th-century Sufi mystic and poet, than Andrew Harvey, who possesses the very eloquence and passion he admires in Rumi's work. Harvey likens Rumi to...

Rumi

Drunk with the Divine, Rumi wrote 20,000 poems of mystical, ineffable love of God. "There is a ferocity in his longing that maybe we don't understand," says Barks. Listen in and understand a little better. A wondrous, exhilarating look at the exultan...

From Descartes and Newton to Einstein and Bohr, Capra takes us on a journey through the past four centuries of the scientific revolution and leads us to the birth of a new worldview in response to the escalating world crises. He reveals the difficult...

Mindwalk

One of the oldest tools for revealing the territory of the unconscious, the Tarot has been used for centuries to tap deep levels of self-knowledge. Here, Arrien, a native Basque and anthropologist, speaks of universal archetypes in the Tarot, and how...

The Tarot and You

The awesome potential of the human brain can only be tapped by providing the best possible learning environment at the earliest possible age. Scientific research has shown that television damages the full neural development of children's brains, crip...

Evolution, Intelligence, and the Future

A new scientific understanding of life at all levels of living systems is currently evolving. At its heart is the awareness that everything is interconnected and interrelated. Out of this awareness comes the greatest challenge of our times--creating ...

Living Systems

In today's workplace, managers must be able to accept accountability for the overall well-being of the company, yet also be able to give up the need to control or be controlled by others. Author Peter Block discusses ways to create a new kind of work...

Stewardship

A Christian monk who lived in India for over 30 years, the late Father Griffiths shares some remarkable insights about the contemplative life. He builds a bridge linking the Gnostic tradition of early Christianity and the mystical tradition streaming down through the centuries with the ancient philosophies of Vedanta and Buddhism. The results are fascinating and profound.

East and West

Capra relates his personal journey of meeting and interacting with some of the leading contemporary thinkers and visionaries. What emerges is a wisdom-packed dialogue about new ways of thinking and being. From Krishnamurti's spiritual insight to Greg...

Quantum Odyssey

The oldest human quest serves as the central focus for this wonderful exploration into how truth is revealed. Learning to listen to the inner voice, living in relationship, suffering and liberation, finding providential help along the way and much mo...

Seeking Wisdom

The life of Huston Smith reads like an adventure novel. One of the foremost religious scholars in the world today, Smith has lived in a missionary household in China, monasteries in Japan, and a sweat lodge in North America. Smith has engaged many of...

The Wisdom of Huston Smith

In addition to his own credentials as a writer, poet, teacher and mystic, Andrew Harvey became a dedicated friend and follower of the late Father Bede Griffiths, a scholarly, saintly Benedictine monk who founded and lived for decades in a Hindu-Chris...

Father Bede Griffiths Remembered

This discussion with a remarkable Benedictine monk who founded an ashram in South India is a beautiful, stirring exploration of human spirituality. In a rare synthesis of Christian, Hindu, and modern scientific thought, the late Father Bede discusses...

Return to the Sacred

Each day you face the highs and lows of your own state of mind, as well as the onslaught of external threats from terrorist alerts, earthquake warnings, and economic downturns. Your mind is in a constant state of arousal, and your happiness and your ...

A Brain That Knows How to Be Happy

In this interview, Dan Millman explores such questions as: Why am I here? What am I meant to do? What is my purpose? Dan has found through his research that there are four purposes and 12 required courses in the school of life that each of us are tak...

Finding Happiness, Purpose, and Joy

In this interview, Richard Moss says that there are two basic mistakes we make in this stage of the evolution of consciousness: we identify with our thoughts, and we flee from our feelings. He describes the four ways your thinking can affect you, how...

The Doorway to Being Present to Life

Father Dom Bede Griffiths was a much revered mystic who grew beyond his Christian traditions to embrace and embody the philosophical grounding of eastern thought. His gift of unconditional love and the divine presence he brought to this world were tr...

Bede Griffiths

Our culture is bent on avoiding aging. There's a problem with that: Every one of us is aging every day. Of course, there are enormous gifts in growing older and wiser, and Angeles Arrien is working to help bring that awareness to our culture at large...

Aging and Saging

An interview with Father Bede and two musician friends becomes a profoundly moving musical excursion through the deep truths and feelings of the various spiritual traditions represented in their South Indian Christian-Hindu ashram. Through the musica...

Sacred Music

Have you ever harbored dreams of being a writer? You're far from alone. Have you wrestled time and again with a seeming inability to write? You've got even more company there. Now help is on the way, in the person of Gabriele Rico, professor of Engli...

Unleashing the Inner Writer

As the founder of the Mo Tzu Project, Bob Fuller travels the planet as a citizen diplomat, searching out the roots of conflict in the hope of learning what can be done to make peace a reality, not just a dream. He has the rare ability to cut through ...

Peaceful Warrior

The courage to live and embrace love may make the difference between living and dying. In this exhilarating dialogue, Siegel displays a remarkable reliance on the natural capacity of people to manifest self-healing. He speaks of music in the operatin...

Clear Mind, Clear Medicine

Eastern philosophy tells us that the only constant in life is change. Often there is no warning. We engage in our activities each day feeling secure about the future. Then, suddenly, we are faced with a catastrophe. A new world is born, and our lives...

The Infinite Field of Possibilities

We all want to "be somebody". But often, those who become somebody become statues, trapped in an identity that doesn't allow them to change or grow. Robert Fuller talks about his own struggle with being a nobody between periods of high recognition an...

Full Heart/No Self

"The age of the leaders has come and gone. Every person must be their own leader now. You must remove your projection, and contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature, because to go the old way and follow your leader is a form...

A Time for Choices

The parallels between science and mysticism are explored as Mansfield, a professor of physics and astronomy at Colgate University, speaks of how he as a physicist has been influenced by exposure to eastern philosophical systems, especially Buddhism. ...

Astrophysics and the Middle Way

A Basque native, Arrien is at the forefront of those who see the common threads that unite us while honoring our differences. She speaks of the importance of myth and symbol in everyday life and combines the two disciplines of anthropology and psycho...

Myths, Symbols, Stories

If you're looking for ways to live more fully and abundantly, you'll want to listen closely to psychologist Ross, as she describes her own path to prosperity. Numerous insights and practical steps are revealed in the course of the conversation.

Prosperity Principles

Feeling weighed down by all your responsibilities and the constant pressures of your personal and professional life? Well, there's no time like the present to lighten your load. Let Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro show you how to let go of exc...

Repacking Your Bags

Rank-based abuse, or rankism, is as old as time, and takes its toll on everyone, some much more than others. In personal relationships, rankism takes the form of disrespect, disregard, insult and humiliation.  When one nation pulls rank on another, d...

Breaking Ranks

It's impossible to be happy without being true to yourself; and it requires a spiritual form of intelligence to discover your true nature. Intuitive knowing, gut feelings, inspired thought - these are all forms of spiritual intelligence. There is a v...

Being Authentic

If you have found U.S. history boring in the past, this program is a must! Jacob Needleman, internationally acclaimed author and philosopher, takes us on a journey back to the beginning of America, re-telling the story of the country in a way that in...

The Soul of America

Michael explains what neuroplasticity means, and provides some low cost ways (including optimism!) to improve our brain power and resilience, and possibly prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Michael explains what neuroplasticity means, a...

Unleash Your Brain Power As You Age

Living your dream and following your heart are possible for anyone willing to engage life with passion, according to Sinetar, an organizational psychologist, who has studied many people who have become successful doing what they love. Self-esteem, ov...

Right Living and Making Money Too!

It has been said that when things are at their worst, Americans are at their best. American democracy has existed for more than 200 years, surviving bloody wars, challenges, betrayals, bashing, and most recently, the tragic attacks of September 11, 2...

Rediscovering America's Founding Principles

Rank has legitimate rights. When rank has been earned and signifies excellence, then it's generally accepted, and rightfully so. But the power of rank is often abused. The abuse of rank, or of power, is rankism. Treating others as invisible, as "nobo...

Beyond Rankism

What makes power tick, and how does it become entrenched and abused? Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, so the saying goes. What lies beneath power? Understanding the nature of power can help us move toward a world of freedom, jus...

The Ecology of Power

The capacity to change one's life for the better is inherent within the individual, according to Lester Levenson, creator of the Sedona Method, a self-help program designed to remove blocks to personal growth and foster self-realization. Here Virgini...

Choosing Life

What happens when one spouse intimidates his or her partner day after day after day? What impact does it have if an employee's dignity is stripped away by abusive corporate policies? When a powerful government flexes its muscle against weaker nations...

Pulling Rank

This is an inspiring, engrossing tale of one man's odyssey from physics professor and college president to citizen diplomat, a search for "a better game than war". Fresh, candid, and compassionate, he challenges us all in new ways to find our passion...

From Physics to Peace

Using the Hansel and Gretel myth as a metaphor for life, psychologist and writer Sinetar speaks to those who are attempting to live their deepest calling in the midst of a seductive world. Happiness begins on the inside and does not depend on externa...

Don't Worry/Be Happy

Formulas for ending war are as old as war itself; yet war continues. What is the missing realization, the breakthrough that will lay to rest, once and for all, humanity's war-mongering impulse? Perhaps it is the awareness of our own fascination with ...

A Better Game Than War

Do you ever find yourself a little mumblemouthed? Or do you go to the dictionary to look up a word, only to get sidetracked when other, more interesting words catch your eye? If so, you share Phil Cousineau’s dynamic relationship with words. For him ...

Magical, Combustible Words

Making a living while following one's bliss is too often seen as an impossible dream, too idealistic, and pragmatically unattainable. Not so, according to Nancy Anderson, who provides a wealth of wisdom and myriad ways to discover your passion and fo...

Doing What You Love And Making Money Too!

All of us have access to mystical and spiritual knowledge, according to Leah Garfield, who was trained by Pomo Indian shamaness Essie Parrish. In this conversation she speaks of how we can tap into our own deep wisdom source and enhance our self-know...

Spiritual Warrior

Everyone experiences personal crisis of one form or another. In this dialogue, Stearns, a clinical psychologist, tells how new growth can occur through pain, grief and trauma. Turning losses into victories underscores the conversation, as she describ...

Beyond Crisis

The Afghan-Soviet War could be called an "invisible war", since it is largely unnoticed in the West. Yet more than five million Afghans are refugees, and estimates of the dead range from one to two million. Here two principals of the Mo Tzu Project, ...

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