Michael Toms

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 contemporary wisdom giants-including Thomas Merton and the Dalai Lama-and believes in the eternal mystery of life, cautioning against our "tendency to reduce the Divine to where it is easily manageable

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Murphy is a cartographer for the unexplored territory of the body. In the same vein as William James and Abraham Maslow, Murphy extends the mapping to movement abilities, extraordinary vitality, changes in body structure, and miraculous healings, to name a few.

Since 1973, New Dimensions Radio has presented an ongoing history of the future. As we enter the new millennium, and in celebration of twenty-seven years of consistent quality in broadcasting, we bring you an interview conducted by visionary philosopher, Jean Houston with Michael Toms, co-founder, executive producer, and acclaimed host of New Dimensions.

This is part 2 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998.

How can mindfulness allow us to by-pass reactivity? How do we cultivate a sense of spaciousness? Buddhist teacher and author Bodhipaksa helps us find a sense of oneness, stillness, and perfectness.

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.

This is for everyone who has ever felt that mystical awareness and inner contentment are impossible given their current life situations. Mystical traditions, on the contrary, widely agree that ordinary experience is where we find the key to deep involvement in life.

In case you're wondering why the world is in such a chaotic state, it is because the human race is in the midst of an evolutionary leap, says Patricia Sun. Sun, a world-renowned communications expert and lecturer has been a keen observer of this planetary unfolding for the past thirty years.

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, who was Professor of English and Creative Arts at San Jose State University. In her book Writing the Natural Way, Rico says flatly, "If you can speak, form letters on the page, take a telephone message, or write a thank-you...

What are the six main archetypes of the Hero's journey? Pearson provides a map to chart and examine the heroic archetypes that exist in all of us, enabling us to better understand our own quest.