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The Buddha Pill – Highlighting the Shadow Side of Mindfulness and Meditation with Dr. Miguel Farias

Aired Thursday, 4 April 2019, 7:00 PM ET

Mindfulness and meditation are practiced by millions of people around the world and their benefits are being hailed by everyone from neuroscientists, doctors, and mental health professionals to parents and teachers. The popularity of mindfulness programs has exploded, and they’re being offered in schools and prisons, in workplaces and homes because, of course, everyone knows that mindfulness and meditation can transform our lives and make us happier, calmer, and better people… but is that always true?

While there’s little doubt that millions swear by meditation, which is often advocated as a “magic pill,” there’s also a darker side to these activities, for both meditation and mindfulness have been known to have seldom-discussed negative side effects.

In his book, The Buddha Pill – Can Meditation Change Us? Dr. Miguel Farias and his co-author Dr. Catherine Wikholm examine 40 years of clinical studies on the effects of Transcendental and Mindfulness and shares the results of their research on the effects of yoga meditation on inmates within UK prisons.

Dr. Farias joins Sandie this week to discuss his research on meditation and the science behind it, as well as some of the questions raised in his book about the myths and limitations of mindfulness and meditation. Topics include:

• What science can tell us about meditation and mindfulness – and how accurate are those glowing statistics?
• Why some clinical research has been found to be rife with problematic biases
• If meditation makes us nicer, more compassionate individuals why do some individuals, including advanced meditators, still behave like assholes?
• Do mindfulness and meditation work for everyone?
• The 7 myths and facts about meditation and mindfulness… and more

Dr. Miguel Farias is an experimental psychologist and Founding Diretor of the Brain, Belief & Behaviour Lab at Great Britain’s Coventry University. He has pioneered brain research on the pain alleviating effects of spirituality and the psychological benefits of yoga and meditation, and is the lead editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Meditation. His book, The Buddha Pill – Can Meditation Change Us? co-authored with Dr. Catherine Wikholm, which set the media and academic worlds alight when the first edition was published in 2015, has now been updated with the latest research.

Website: https://miguelfarias.co.uk

Synchronize Your Energies with Sandie Sedgbeer, Suzy Miller, and Lee Harris – March 2019

Aired Thursday, 28 March 2019, 7:00 PM ET

When your life and work revolve around tapping in to the unseen realms to support others in understanding their lives and experiences from an expanded perspective, what do you do in your down time? How do you stabilize YOUR energies? Where do you find the support YOU need? With whom do you share your rawest and most honest thoughts, feelings, and experiences wrought by the rapid evolutionary shifts in consciousness that are upgrading us all? When it comes to decompressing and stabilizing their energies, Sandie Sedgbeer, Lee Harris, and Suzy Miller’s regular off-the-record, no-holds-barred 3-way conversations have always been a useful way of gathering up the stand-out pieces of the month and extracting the juice from their personal observations, lessons and insights so they can navigate the month ahead with insight, equanimity, and purpose. Now they’re inviting you to join them too. But be warned, just like eavesdropping on a regular kick-off-your-shoes gathering between three good friends, the conversation’s completely unscripted, totally raw, and authentic, so, chances are you may hear some personal confidences you might never have expected to hear… But there’s wisdom in that too. And you’ll also get to benefit from a unique and powerful Synchronize Your Energies session with Suzy that’s designed to set you up to thrive, not just survive, these tumultuous times. Join us on the Last Thursday of every month, 7-8pm ET/4-5pm PT.

SANDIE SEDGBEER is a professional journalist who cut her teeth in the ultra-competitive world of British newspapers and magazines. A veteran Talk TV/Radio broadcaster, author, and media consultant, and host of OMTimes’ Magazine’s weekly flagship radio show, Sandie has interviewed some of the world’s leading thinkers, scientists, authors, educators, and spiritual teachers.

LEE HARRIS is an energy teacher, intuitive, channeler, artist, and musician. He began as a part-time healer in 2004, doing intuitive readings out of his home in England. His work currently reaches hundreds of thousands around the planet, through his videos, audio recordings, writings, workshops, and online events.

Now based in California, Lee manages an international team of creatives in his self-growth company Lee Harris Energy; a worldwide multi-media and event production house. Lee and his team are passionate about grounding creative spirituality into these challenging times. As a transformation guide and teacher for others, he is determined to see people experience impactful and abundant lives while supporting each other through community. https://www.leeharrisenergy.com/

A visionary speaker, author, telepathic communicator, and multidimensional seer, SUZY MILLER is the founder of the groundbreaking Awesomism Practitioner Process and The Journey Back to Love Series. While exploring the field of leading-edge consciousness, she has personally undertaken intense physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual inquiries which have grounded her work in a practical, accessible way.

Suzy has collaborated with professionals in a variety of fields from psychology, social work, mainstream education and medicine to leading-edge scientists, metaphysicians, healers and new thought leaders. She collaborated twice with Dr. William Tiller, Professor Emeritus Stanford University and featured physicist in the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” spearheading both The Autism Intention Healing Experiment as well as an experiment for the elevation of collective human consciousness. www.suzymiller.com

Healing Past Trauma and Illness with Color Homeopathy with Dr. Jacob Liberman

Aired Thursday, 14 March 2019, 7:00 PM ET

DR. JACOB LIBERMAN is a pioneer in the fields of light, vision and consciousness, and the author of numerous books, including Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight and Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living. Originally trained as an optometrist and vision scientist, Dr. Liberman’s life changed in 1976 after the miraculous healing of his eyesight, leading him to a deeper understanding of light and the science of life.

This week, Dr. Jacob Liberman joins Sandie to continue part two of their recent conversation on the science and the power of light. In this episode, Dr. Liberman will reveal the secrets of what he calls color homeopathy, sharing how we can heal past trauma and illness with the power of color.

DR. JACOB LIBERMAN is a pioneer in the fields of light, vision and consciousness, and the author of numerous books, including Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight and Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living.

Originally trained as an optometrist and vision scientist, Dr. Liberman’s life changed in 1976 after the miraculous healing of his eyesight, leading him to a deeper understanding of light and the science of life.

An internationally respected public speaker, he shares his scientific and spiritual discoveries about light as the divine spark that guides our life’s journey, entwining us with the unseen architect of all that is. He has addressed more than 2,000 live audiences worldwide and has been endorsed by award-winning artists, Hall of Fame athletes, and luminaries in science, spirituality and medicine.

The developer of the first FDA-cleared medical device for vision improvement, Dr. Liberman’s years of clinical research and direct experience have led him to a new philosophy of life that can be implemented by anyone at home, resulting in profound transformation that is rapid, significant, and permanent.

Website: www.JacobLiberman.org

Jim Self – 2019: What’s Happening, How We Got Here, Where We’re Going & How To Get There

Aired Thursday, 7 March 2019, 7:00 PM ET

Join Jim Self and Sandie Sedgbeer as they discuss the shifting sands of 2019, from what we’ve passed through, and how we got here, to where we’re heading and how to navigate your way there with ease and success. Topics include:

• How did we get here? Reviewing the unintended consequences of the decisions we’ve been making
• Drowning in the digital – why and how technology has restructured our minds and our society
• Where we’re heading – A tale of two strata
• Stepping into new landscapes – The importance of anchoring intentions and structuring strong platforms…
• and more…

About the Guest: Jim Self

JIM SELF is one of the few international teachers, authors and speakers actually working at the leading edge of the current planetary Shift of Consciousness. He provides solid, up-to-date information and practical energy tools to help us keep pace with the transition we are in. Since childhood he has had the ability to recall his experiences within the sleep state. This awareness has expanded into relationships with the Archangels, Ascended Masters and Teachers of Light.

For more info: www.masteringalchemy.com

Synchronize Your Energies with Sandie Sedgbeer, Suzy Miller, and Lee Harris – February 2019

Aired Thursday, 28 February 2019, 7:00 PM ET

Synchronize Your Energies is a new monthly show which provides clear insights into the rapidly shifting energies that are upgrading human consciousness and evolving life on Planet Earth. Each month, host Sandie, Suzy, and Lee share their individual observations and awarenesses of what’s going on in the seen and unseen worlds and offer a stable means of synchronizing your energy fields so you can thrive (not just survive) during these tumultuous times.

Bios:

Lee Harris is an energy teacher, intuitive, channeler, artist, and musician. He began as a part-time healer in 2004, doing intuitive readings out of his home in England. His work currently reaches hundreds of thousands around the planet, through his videos, audio recordings, writings, workshops, and online events.

Now based in California, Lee manages an international team of creatives in his self-growth company Lee Harris Energy; a worldwide multi-media and event production house. Lee and his team are passionate about grounding creative spirituality into these challenging times. As a transformation guide and teacher for others, he is determined to see people experience impactful and abundant lives while supporting each other through community. https://www.leeharrisenergy.com/

A visionary speaker, author, telepathic communicator, and multidimensional seer, Suzy Miller is the founder of the groundbreaking Awesomism Practitioner Process and The Journey Back to Love Series. While exploring the field of leading-edge consciousness, she has personally undertaken intense physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual inquiries which have grounded her work in a practical, accessible way.

Suzy has collaborated with professionals in a variety of fields from psychology, social work, mainstream education and medicine to leading-edge scientists, metaphysicians, healers and new thought leaders. She collaborated twice with Dr. William Tiller, Professor Emeritus Stanford University and featured physicist in the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” spearheading both The Autism Intention Healing Experiment as well as an experiment for the elevation of collective human consciousness. www.suzymiller.com

Radical Brilliance – Uncovering the Secrets of How Brilliance Occurs with Arjuna Ardagh

Aired Thursday, 21 February 2019, 7:00 PM ET

What caused Albert Einstein to recognize the general theory of relativity laying in his bathtub? What caused Steve Jobs to re-imagine the personal computer, and the phone, and then to imagine a tablet that didn’t even exist until everyone realized they had to have one? Why do some people have ideas that change the world while others live lives of quiet imitation? What are the components that contribute to an original, creative, and brilliant life?

After studying the subject and speaking to 420 extraordinarily intelligent people for his latest book, Radical Brilliance, Arjuna Ardagh knows the secrets. What’s more, he claims, anyone with the right understanding and willingness to make shifts in their lifestyle can not only create the optimal environment for innovative originality to thrive.

If you’re looking for ways to increase your creativity, bring more brilliance into your life, and make a contribution to the evolution of human consciousness, join Sandie this week when guest Arjuna Ardagh will be sharing the secrets of the “Brilliance Cycle,” which shows us that when four very different styles of activity repeat in a cyclical fashion in the same life, brilliance is the result.

ARJUNA ARDAGH is a bestselling writer, public speaker and executive coach, who has trained more than 2000 coaches over the last 25 years. He is the author of nine books, including the 2005 #1 National Bestseller The Translucent Revolution. His latest book, Radical Brilliance, is the anatomy of how and why people have original ideas which change the world. He has been a speaker at conferences all over the world, including at Google and the United Nations.

Website: www.radicalbrilliance.com

Aired Thursday, 14 February 2019, 7:00 PM ET

Sound, Science & Medicine with Yuval Ron & Dr. Richard Gold

In this week’s show Award-Winning Composer and peace activist Yuval Ron and Pioneering Integrative Health Practitioner Dr. Richard Gold join Sandie to discuss music as medicine for both the soul and the body. We will be playing clips from their latest double album, Voyaging Through the Chakras, which features a series of transformative guided meditations from Lucinda Clare, sublime music by Yuval Ron, performed by world-renowned musicians, embedded subliminal affirmations by Dr. Richard Gold that will to entrain your brain to its natural state of peace, and mantras whispered by the Himalayan Master, Svami Purna, designed to guide the soul toward illumination.

In between, we’ll be discussing:

• How music changes the structure of the brain and impacts the body
• Sound Cymatics – the wave-like patterns that we see in nature, art, and stone and crop circles around the world.
• The therapeutic benefits of sound waves
• The latest research on gene modification with ultrasound… And more…

YUVAL RON is a world-renowned musician, composer, producer educator, and peace activist who has composed music for the Oscar-winning film, West Bank Story, has performed for the Dalai Lama, and has collaborated with Sufi leaders, Zen buddhist priests, visual artists, choreographers, and neuroscientists. A noted lecturer, he has spoken at Yale, John Hopkins, MIT, and has been on the faculty of the Esalen Institute. His book Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom, won the gold medal award for best spirituality book at the indie book awards 2015.

Website: www.yuvalronmusic.com

DR. RICHARD GOLD is a licensed acupuncturist, and holds a doctorate in Psychology. One of the founders of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, he has spent the last four decades pursuing mental mindfulness and meditative awareness, and, in more recent years, studying neuroscience and the evolving understanding of the effects of sound and meditation on the brain. His best-known book is Thai Massage: A Traditional Medical Technique.

Website: www.mettamindfulnessmusic.com

Aired Thursday, 7 February 2019, 7:00 PM ET

The Spiritual Life of Animals with Elena Mannes

For eons, dogs have held the title of “man’s best friend, and stories abound of their loyalty, service, and their sometimes seemingly miraculous ability to both understand and communicate to others their human companions’ needs in emergency situations. And for as long as we humans have bonded with our canine companions, we have wondered whether our dogs have thoughts and feelings.

Elena Mannes is an award-winning television journalist and producer. Looking for companionship after a near-fatal car crash, she decided to get her first dog. But what she found with her dog Brio shook the foundations of her physical and spiritual worlds, sending her on a quest to discover the nature of his spiritual origins and to contemplate and seek out the possibility of interspecies communication—even after death. Motivated by her experience with an animal psychic, Mannes produced a filmed segment with Diane Sawyer featuring the same psychic, who described Sawyer’s country house and her dog’s favorite spots in the yard.

Elena Mannes joins Sandie in this week’s show to discuss her book, Soul Dog: A Journey into the Spiritual Life of Animals, in which she shares her investigations into the spiritual life of animals and her with animal communicators, psychics, and scientists specializing in animal intelligence such as Rupert Sheldrake.

About the Guest:

ELENA MANNES is an award-winning independent documentary director/writer/producer whose honors include six Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, two Directors Guild of America Awards, and nine Cine Golden Eagles. She has written, directed, and produced series and documentaries for CBS, PBS, ABC, and the Discovery Channel, including The Amazing Animal Mind and the PBS primetime special The Music Instinct, which led to the writing of her first book, The Power of Music. For more info visit her website at: www.souldogbook.com

Aired Thursday, 3 January 2019, 7:00 PM ET

Accidentally on Purpose: Tripping Through Life with Regina Meredith

Regina Meredith is a pioneer in the world of Conscious Media and is one of the most respected TV hosts and bloggers in the world of esoteric studies, health discoveries, politics and secret agendas. As the co-founder of Conscious Media Network, host of Open Minds on Gaia TV, and the founder of her own highly popular free streaming video network she reaches millions of people worldwide with messages of truth, hope and enlightenment.

This week, Regina Meredith joins Sandie to discuss her newly published autobiography Accidentally on Purpose: Tripping Through Life with Regina, which reveals some of the jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes events, discoveries, experiences, and individuals (and non-physical guides) that “accidentally on purpose” influenced her journey from mainstream sports/news reporter and presenter to pioneering co-creator/host of original online metaphysical video programming as well as her private decades-long exploration into the world of esoteric and hidden sciences.

Among the topics Sandie and Regina will be discussing are seeing behind the manipulation of reality; “The Guardians” and the messy origins of humankind; UFO’s, conspiracies, and adventures between dimensions, and more…

Website: www.reginameredith.com

Aired Thursday, 27 December 2018, 7:00 PM ET

Sound Tools for Navigating the New Year with Barry Goldstein

With Harvard Medical School, the American Psychological Association, Johns Hopkins and numerous other prestigious scientific and medical establishments confirming that music offers many documented physical and mental health benefits to humans, Truth in Medicine‘s final show of the year features Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, recording artist and author, Barry Goldstein.

In tonight’s episode, Barry Goldstein, Dr. Donese Worden and Sandie Sedgbeer will be discussing:

· Using music to create heart and brain coherence
· Music as Medicine – What the latest research reveals about the physical, mental, psychological and emotional benefits of music
· Music for our furry friends – Evidence that music positively impacts pets as well as humans
· How to create your own musical prescription for health and wellbeing
· Using music to ignite the heart (your own and others)…
· And more…

About the Guest:

The author of the best-selling book, The Secret Language of the Heart: How to Use Music, Sound and Vibration for Healing & Personal Transformation, Barry Goldstein’s prolific body of work spans many styles and genres, from co-producing the Grammy Award-winning track “69 Freedom Special” with Les Paul to providing original ambient music for Shirley MacLaine, Neale Donald Walsch, Gregg Braden, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Dr. Daniel Amen.

Website: www.barrygoldsteinmusic.com