Stephen Parker, Ph D. is a Jungian and Cardiac psychologist and stone mason.  He lives with his partner, Dr. Kornelia Grabinska, a Jungian analyst, in a birch forest overlooking Fairbanks, Alaska.  In said forest, he creates various Jungian alchemical and manual handiworks including but not limited to:  a Stone Sanctuary (view here), a Labyrinth (view here), a fire altar, red egg, cave,  and perhaps Philosopher's Stone:-) in the Alaskan wilderness.  He also produced a series of indoor works...

Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a dedicated Doctor of Ayurveda and an acclaimed author of 14-best selling books.  Sweta holds a Master's degree in Strategic Communications from Columbia University and wholeheartedly dedicates herself to promoting and teaching a holistic approach to creativity, productivity, health, and nutrition. In her new release, The Loss that Binds Us, Sweta follows the principles of her Ayurvedic practice, which illuminates the existence of 108 crucial "Marma points"...

Maja D'Aoust is a professional astrologer with more than 20 years' experience integrating her master's degree in transformational psychology into the interpretation of thousands of natal charts.  A practicing witch and scholar of alchemy and occult lore, she is the author of Familiars in Witchcraft, The Occult I Ching (which was the subject of End of the Road Podcast #98), A Witch's Bestiary, co-author of The Secret Source, and creator of a tarot deck, The White Witch Tarot.  In this podcast,...

Vickie Dodd M.A. has been a sound healing therapist, bodyworker, workshop leader, musician, and internationally recognized pioneer of healing through sound for more than 50 years.   She has collaborated with Don Campbell and is an adjunct faculity member at the Globe Institute in San Francisco. This podcast will focus on her wonderful new book Healing through Sound:  Awakening You Audible Body (2024) and the closing track is from her CD Rest Assured:  Parasympathetic Resonance with James...

Dr. James Maffie is senior lecturer in the Department of American Studies and an affiliate of the Departments of Philosophy and History and Religious and Latin American Studies Programs at the University of Maryland.  He is the author of Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion, which is the subject of this podcast, and numerous articles examining various aspects of conquest era Mexica (Aztec) philosophical thought.  He argues that the conquest-era Mexica advanced a highly...

Dr. Bache is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training.   Dr. Bache is the author of numerous books, including The Living Classroom:  Teaching and the Collective Consciousness, Dark Night, Early Dawn, Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life, and Diamonds...

This podcast features two artists and focuses on the relationship between the Sacred and Words, Symbols, Images, and the Alchemical process of Poetry. Dylan Webster is the author of Dislocated, a collection of poetry.  His poetry and fiction can be found in Quillkeepers Press anthologies, the Neon Sunrise Publishing anthology Love//Lost, the Dillydoun Review and the Cannon's Mouth.  He is currently working on his first novel.  Connect with him at: @phoenicianpoet. Andres Colon is an author,...

Oren teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and communication internationally.  He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Say What You Mean:  A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication (2018) and his latest work, Your Heart Was Made for This:  Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love (2023) which is the focus of this podcast. Lama Rod Owens states that Oren's work "offers a beautiful and poignant invitation to meet the...

Co-founder and co-spiritual director of the Spiritual Arts Institute (a nonprofit), Dimitri has been instrumental in bringing the Spiritual Arts Institute to the place it is today as a premier metaphysical school.  With Barbara Martin, he co-authored Change Your Aura, Change Your Life (2000), Communing With the Divine (2021), Karma and Reincarnation (2021), The Healing Power of Your Aura (2020) and their newest book Heaven and Your Spiritual Evolution (2021).   Barbara Y. Martin (known...

Diana Zaheer is a counselor and teacher of healing and wisdom traditions with more than 30 years experience.  In Over the Counter Meditations, she teams up with Grammy nominated musician Lincoln Parish, founding member and original lead guitarist of Cage the Elephant to produce an "extraordinary" piece of spoken word poetry and song.  Over the Counter Meditations is a "spoken word LP with a metaphysical purpose for positive transformation and reliable support during pivotal moments in...

Stephanie Banks is an intuitive and conscious channel, mentor and guide who helps people connect on the soul level.  She is the author of Joining Joanie--Staying Connected to Your Loved One Through Dementia and Beyond (2017) and is currently working on her second book.   Her TEDx talk "I am an Intuitive Channel" can be viewed here:  https://soulinsight.com/large-media/stephanies-tedx-talk Connection and communication are the common themes in all of Stephanie's professional endeavors as...

Dr. Moore has been a senior teacher in the Shambhala community for the past 40 years and is the co-founder of Karuna Training, a certification in Contemplative Psychology offered since 1996 in eight countries.  In addition to her Buddhist teaching, Melissa has held many positions in the field of mental health, most recently as the founding director of the Felton Institute in San Francisico. This podcast will focus on her wonderful book The Diamonds Within Us:  Uncovering Brilliant Sanity...

My friend Dave comes back on the podcast for some serious holiday season mischief and merrymaking.  Dave, despite being raised on an intellectually processed diet of reductionist cognitive science, engineering and bastardized East-West spirituality, somehow managed to liberate himself circa June 19th, 2000.  On this solemn day "an Oprah Winfrey level Eckhart Tolle somebody became an absolute nobody."  He who laughs last laughs longest.    Dave now has Enlightenment Transmission:...

Shannon Duncan is an author, seeker, entrepreneur, and advocate for those looking to heal from trauma.  This podcast will focus on his two books:  Coming Full Circle:  Healing Trauma Using Psychedelics (2023) and Present Moment Awareness (2001 and 2023).  The latter book is also accompanied by the free app:  The Focus Tool which Shannon developed and is available on most platforms. For more information about Shannon, his work, and his programs, please see:  https://shannonduncan.com/ IG and...

Jacob L. Cooper, LCSW, is the author of Life After Breath (2020) and The Wisdom of Jacob's Ladder (2023) , the ladder:-) being the focus of this podcast.  Jacob is a sought-after speaker on grief, wisdom, and consciousness, offering meditation and mindfulness seminars to help others find purpose and overcome fears of life after death. He is also a Certified Hypnotherapist specializing in Past Life Regression and hosts a weekly podcast "The Wisdom of Jacob's Ladder."   For more information...

Michael Stuart Ani is a writer, musician, director and explorer.  In the 1960s and 1970s, he lived in Mazateca's remote cloud forest and became the only outsider who was ever allowed to collect the sacred mushroom species of the region.  In the 1980s, he resided with the Yanomami people of the Amazon Rainforest, later co-founding the Amazonia Foundation in 1991.  With this foundation, he was instrumental in fighting the epidemics among the Yanomami.  This work was subsequently featured in the...

Donna Wallace is the founder and CEO of the House of Orion, (Melbourne, Australia), dedicated to supporting the ascension process of of Mother Earth, her habitats, and her inhabitants.  In this podcast, we open portals to dive into meditation practices, engage boundaries and undermine intuition in a mischievous manner that continues to bring a smile to my face when I think about it.  Donna has created a process to help people "switch on their lights" through energy healing work...

In this podcast, we focus on Brian's new work Masks of Origin: Regression in the Service of Omnipotence which was recently published by Untimely Books.  Brian's work invites the reader on a journey beyond the normal categories of space, time, and narrative structure, toward a further shore of multidimensional and transcendent experience--and who doesn't want a little of that? Other forthcoming titles in this collection will include To Akasha: An Incantation for the Crossing of an Ocean; and...

The legendary teletai of Orpheus were not simply "hymns"--they were initiatic poems for meditation and ritual, magical, and ceremonial use, each one addressed to a specific diety or virtue.  In The Magic of the Orphic Hymns, Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac recapture the magical vitality of the teletai that inspired mystery cults, Western esotericism, art, music and countercultures throughout Western history.  Ronnie joins us in this interview to provide a survey of the historical landscape of...

Marlene is an oil painter, writer, and teacher who has spent more than 20 years exploring esoteric and spiritual traditions, including Hermeticism, alchemy, surrealism, symbolism, tarot, psychology, magic, astrology, shamanism and mythology. Her work Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy (2022) was featured on episode 247 (link below). This podcast focuses on her new work, The Hermetic Marriage of Art & Alchemy--Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work (2023).  For more...

Eva Marquez is a spiritual consultant, soul healer, guide, teacher and writer with a Pleiadian starseed lineage. She has authored five books, and recently appeared on on Gaia TV's "Beyond Belief."  She works alongside her guides, the Lights of the Universe, a group of light beings from different star nations, including the Pleiades.  In her spiritual practice, she draws on Pleiadian energy, the Language of Light, and other ancient soul memories. Eva and her team help starseeds remember their...

Steven Martyn, M.A. has spent over 30 years living co-creatively with the Earth, "where the Earth herself is our teacher, where we reside in the company of Gods and where we live surrounded by the reassurance of Her divinity, in all of Nature."  Steven is the co-founder of the Sacred Gardener School (link below) and is the author of three books, The Roundhouse: A Meditation and Guide to Building A Handmade House with Local Materials (2022), Sacred Gardening (2017) and The Story of the...

Alexander Titov is a producer and founder of 108Records--Russia's first all mantra/all kirtan record label.  108Records honors these Ancient Vedic practices with a modern style that resonates with Western concert going audiences.  Indeed, it is Alexander's passion to bring this music which has transformed his life into traditional western music venues in Europe, Asia, and North America. For more information about 108Records, and their many programs, please see:  https://108records.com The...