World Spirituality: Spirit’s Next Move? Teleseries
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Terry Patten and Dr. Marc Gafni – May 4th
Terry sees world spirituality not just as the coming-together of the world’s spiritual traditions, but also as the emergence of a new level of spirituality, coming directly out of modern and postmodern consciousness. This new spirituality is truly evolutionary. And it is arriving just in time to do a big job — to enable us to forge what’s needed now — a whole new level of human consciousness and cooperation. Dr. Marc Gafni will talk with Terry about the vision of a World Spirituality and what it might mean for your life and the life of the planet.
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Sandra Maitri and Mariana Caplan – May 11th
Sandra Maitri is an author, a principle teacher in the Diamond Approach, and a bestselling author of books on the Enneagram. In this dialogue we will consider the following questions: Where are we in the overall unfolding of spirituality in a historical context? What are your views with respect with the question of whether people need to orient in one particular tradition or path, or whether there is spiritual benefit in partaking of multiple paths and traditions? How can one partake of multiple traditions without becoming a dilettante? What is the role of spirituality in addressing the ecological crisis? What is the role of the feminine in the unfolding of a World Spirituality? Does the enneagram have particular gifts to offer to this unfolding? And more. . .
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Frances Vaughan and Dr. Marc Gafni – May 18th
Join Frances Vaughan in dialogue with Dr. Marc Gafni on the possibilities of an emergent World Spirituality. Frances has been thinking and writing on the cutting- edge of the transpersonal psychology movement for decades.
She has practiced and studied intensely in a number of major traditions. Through her private practice, writing and teaching she has served as an important guide and voice for literally thousands of people. The issue of an emergent World Spirituality has been one that she has thought about deeply over the decades. Please join us to hear the important reflections and guidance of this seminal teacher as we work together in unfolding a vision towards a World Spirituality.
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Silvia Nakkach and Mariana Caplan – May 25th
Silvia Nakkach, is a pioneer in the field of sound, transformation of consciousness and music shamanism. She is an award-winning composer, an author, a voice-culturist, and a former psychologist in Argentina. As a recording artist she has released six CD-albums. She is the founding director of The Vox Mundi School, an international project devoted to teaching and preserving indigenous musical traditions and combining music, service and spiritual practice. She has contributed an extensive body of therapeutic vocal techniques that have become landmarks in the fields of sound healing and cross-cultural music therapy training.
Having traversed the world’s mystical traditions in search of the voice that unifies all voices, this dialogue will mine a firey and seasoned spiritual practitioner’s perspective on the importance of music and singing in the cultivation of a World’s Spirituality. We will also discover the common threads Nakkach has found in her immersion in the great spiritual traditions worldwide.
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Sofia Diaz and Dr. Marc Gafni – June 1st
In this dialog Sofia Diaz and Marc Gafni will discuss World Spirituality and the critical role yogic embodiment has to contribute to living as a Dual Citizen. Sofia Diaz is a hatha yoga master, a lineage holder in the Balasaraswati lineage of the South Indian temple arts and a recipient of numerous meditation empowerments in both Tibetan and Shakta Tantric traditions . She turns the body wisdom practices she is empowered in into accessible teachings and practices for the modern western mind. Being an inspired woman practitioner, the rigors of her practice have resulted in great clarity and expertise in the domain of Feminine Spiritual practice, which she has been generously teaching for 27 years. Sofia Diaz teaches extensively throughout the United States and abroad. For more information, please visit www.SofiaYoga.com
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Claudio Naranjo with Dr. Marc Gafni & Mariana Caplan
Tuesday, June 8th – 7-8:30pm PT
Join us this week for this groundbreaking dialogue with Claudio Naranjo, one of World Spirituality’s great grandfathers and revolutionaries. Claudio is a Chilean psychiatrist who is considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions. He is one of the three successors named by Fritz Perls, one of the pioneering developers of the Enneagram, and the founder of SAT (Seekers After Truth Institute), one of the most influential systems of psychospiritual transformation in Central and South America, and Spain. He is the author of numerous books, including Ennea-type Structures, The Way of Silence and The Talking Cure, Songs of Enlightenment, The End of Patriarchy, and the forthcoming, The Healing Journey: New Approaches to Consciousness.
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Stephen Dinan with Mariana Caplan
Tuesday, June 15th – 7-8:30pm PT
In this cutting-edge dialogue, we will explore with Stephen Dinan the vision of a World Spirituality based on his experience in a wide variety of visionary projects, and his integration of numerous psycho-spiritual processes and practices. Mariana and Steve will talk about what it might mean in your life to be a citizen of World Spirituality. What might be the core principles and practices of a World Spirituality? Through the prism of Steve and Mariana’s personal stories we will explore Spirit’s Next Move.
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Jai Uttal and Mariana Caplan
Tuesday, June 22nd – 7-8:30pm PT
Drawing on his rich exposure to world music, the mystics behind the traditions, his own deep and lifelong practice, and his love for his family, this interview will explore the theme of World Spirituality from one who has walked the path and sung the songs, including a special emphasis on the role of music in the creation and evolution of World Spirituality.
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Michael Murphy and Dr. Marc Gafni
Tuesday, June 29th – 7-8:30pm PT
In this rare dialogue with one of the great pioneers of the human potential movement, an important precursor to the emergence of World Spirituality, trailblazing spiritual teacher and author Marc Gafni will mine Michael Murphy’s great well of resources in order to articulate the great possibilities of Spirit’s Next Step, as well as the lessons hard won from Murphy’s four decades in the human potential movement. Together they will chart the critical tenants and practices that constitute a World Spirituality.
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Angeles Arrien and Mariana Caplan
Tuesday, July 6th – 7-8:30pm PT
Angeles is a passionate teacher of shamanism and world spiritual traditions, and offers a feminine and compassionate approach to these subjects. In this dialogue, we will consider what she has learned as an elder through her decades of immersion in world spiritual traditions, and consider what shamanism and shamanic practice offers to envisioning of a World Spirituality, as well as what the divine feminine, and elders, bring to this vision.
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Dr. Reginald Ray and Mariana Caplan
Tuesday, July 13th – 7-8:30pm PT
In this innovative dialogue, we will consider the application of Tibetan Buddhist practice for the Western practitioner of spirituality, and the benefits and challenges of applying Eastern practices to the Western psyche. We will also consider the importance of accessing consciousness within the body and integrating body-consciousness when envisioning a World Spirituality.
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Rabbi Avram Davis and Dr. Marc Gafni
Tuesday, July 27th, 7-8:30pm PT
What does Kabbalah have to contribute to a World Spirituality? Join the world renown meditation teacher and spiritual guide Avram Davis and World Spirituality Visionary Marc Gafni on a mind blowing tour of the core principles of Kabbalah and hebrew ethical practice, as the basis for a unique and compelling map of World Spirituality. Avram will teach a world spirituality meditation and outline the core principles and practices of what a Kabbalistically based World Spirituality might look like!
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Rabbi Michael Lerner and Dr. Marc Gafni
Tuesday, August 10th, 7-8:30pm PT
What does Emancipatory Spirituality mean for the Vision of a World Spirituality? Visionary Social Artist and Rabbi, Michael Lerner in Dialogue with World Spirituality Visionary Dr. Marc Gafni, will outline the core principles of Emancipatory Spirituality as a potential ground for the emergence of a trans-religious World Spirituality. Michael will drawn on his forty years as a social activist and public intellectual in seeking to draw for us an inspired but practical map of World Spirituality.
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