Spirit Matters

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  • Never before has the spiritual landscape been as diverse and abundant as it is today. The opportunities for learning and growth are enormous, and spiritual counselor, author, meditation teacher, and speaker Philip Goldberg will help you make sense of it all and apply it to your life. Here you’ll meet teachers, scholars, and other experts from a broad range of traditions (and some from no tradition). Some of our guests are well known; others should be well known. They all have wisdom and practical guidance to impart. The aim is to help you expand and deepen your spiritual practices and speed your progress on your chosen path.
    Philip Goldberg
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Episodes
  • The Yamas and Niyamas with Professor Christopher Chapple

    The Yamas and Niyamas with Professor Christopher Chapple
    Dec 5 2024
    Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and comparative theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and the founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at the same school. He’s a specialist in the religions of India and the author of more than twenty books, most recently Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas and The Samkhya System: Accounting for the Real. He serves as an advisor to multiple organizations including the Forum on Religion and Ecology, the Ahimsa Center, the Dharma Academy of North America, the South Asian Studies Association, and the International School for Jain Studies. Our conversation centered around the five yamas and five niyamas of Classical Yoga. These are essential guidelines for living a profoundly ethical and deeply spiritual life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Discovering Indian Philosophy With Dr. Jeffery Long

    Discovering Indian Philosophy With Dr. Jeffery Long
    Nov 25 2024
    Jeffery D. Long is a professor of religion, philosophy, and Asian studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2000. Both a practitioner and a scholar of Hinduism, his work focuses primarily on the religions and philosophies of India and themes such as nonviolence, pluralism, religion and popular culture, and the concept of rebirth. He has spoken three times at the United Nations and appears in documentaries for PBS and the History Channel. He is also the author, editor, or co-editor of twelve books, including A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism; The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism; and the award-winning Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds. His latest book is Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Thought. Find Jeffrey Long on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Trans-Traditional Marriage with Tadd and Carol Allman-Morton

    Trans-Traditional Marriage with Tadd and Carol Allman-Morton
    Nov 11 2024
    Rev. Carol Allman-Morton is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire, and her husband, Rev. Tadd Allman-Morton, is the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Great Barrington, United Church of Christ. They met at Andover Newton Theological School, where Carol was awarded the James Luther Adams Award for excellence in the study of liberal theology” and Tadd was a member of the Jonathan Edwards Honors Society. We talked about their early spiritual experiences, their motivation for seeking ordination, the decline in church participation and doctrinal belief, and what the marriage of ministers of different theological orientations is like. Read this article in the Berkshire Edge about Rev. Tad Allman-Morton Find out more about Philip Goldberg here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 9 mins

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