Monday, March 28, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #15 - 26MAR11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream
This week's podcast features:
  • The illusion of self; Buddhism and the Brain; Divided Minds, Specious Souls; and Being No One.
  • Work of the Week: The Doctrine of Multiple 'I's
  • A discussion with Dean Radin. Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. For over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and several Silicon Valley think-tanks, including Interval Research Corporation and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government.

    He is author or coauthor of over 200 technical and popular articles, a dozen book chapters, and several books including the bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997) and Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006). His technical articles have appeared in journals ranging from Foundations of Physics to Psychological Bulletin, he was featured in a New York Times Magazine article, and he has appeared on television shows ranging from the BBC’s Horizon and PBS's Closer to Truth to Oprah and Larry King Live. He has presented over a hundred invited lectures at universities including Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Virginia Tech, and University of California at Davis, at industrial facilities including Google headquarters, and for US government organizations including DARPA and the US Navy. In 2010, he spent a month lecturing in India as the National Visiting Professor of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, a program in the Indian government's Ministry of Human Resource Development.
More information about Dean Radin's work and interests can be found at:
More information on the articles and books discussed in the Illusion of Self segment can be found at:

Monday, March 21, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #14 - 19MAR11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream
This week's podcast features:
  • What happens when evangelicals stop believing in hell?
  • Work of the Week: Bringing your Spiritual Work into the daily workplace
  • A discussion with Rick Lewis. Rick Lewis, Professional Misbehaver, has been performing profesionally since the age of eight. Rick has combined his comedic and theatric skills with his strong interest in personal growth to build a personal development coaching program that inspires participants to achieve greater clarity, professionalism, and satisfaction in their business and personal lives. He is the author of three books on personal growth and spiritual practice, including most recently "7 Rules You Were Born to Break."
More information about Rick Lewis' work and interests can be found at:

Friday, March 18, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #13 - 12MAR11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream
This week's podcast features:
  • Work of the Week: Imagination and the Walking Participation Form
  • A discussion with Gail Hayssen. Over the years, Gail Hayssen has developed unique relationships with native people and shamans from other cultures including: the Huichol of the mountains of Mexico, the Haida of Alaska, and shamans of Mongolia, where she was invited to speak at the International Shaman Symposium in Mongolia.

    In the late 1990s Gail began to participate in experiments with Dean Radin, Russell Targ, Ed May and others at Interval Research and has continued work with Dean Radin at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Targ says about her, "Gail has collaborated with me in various psychic endeavors for more than a decade. She showed her remarkable abilities in formal studies of clairvoyance and precognition in our work."
More information about Gail Hayssen's work and interests can be found at:

Sunday, March 6, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #12 - 05MAR11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream
This week's podcast features:
  • Work of the Week: The Centrum of Gravity Question 
  • A discussion with Myosho Virginia Matthews. Myosho Virginia Matthews finds her life's support in the three pillars of family; spiritual practice; and her work as a dancer/choreographer and teacher. She has been a student of Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Roshi for 37 years taking lay ordination in 2000 at her home temple of Myoko Ni Sorin, a women's meditation and practice center.
More information about Myosho Virginia Matthews' work and the work of Sasaki Roshi can be found at:

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #11 - 26FEB11

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream
This week's podcast features:
  • Discussion on Death & Dying
  • Word of the Week: Transit
  • A discussion with Patricia Elizabeth, expert in the field of Death & Dying. She has worked with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and E.J. Gold, and is recognized in her own right on at least two continents for her skill in guiding voyagers who are dying, who are traumatized, who are in critical transitions.
More information about Patricia Elizabeth's work and the Work of IDHHB can be found at: