OMTimes Radio Archives

Aired Thursday, 16 March 2017, 7:00 PM ET

Ego, Evolution, and Making Sense of Our Times with Cate Montana

Why do peace and happiness elude us? Why are people so divided?

According to author Cate Montana, it’s happening because as a nation—as an entire species—we’ve forgotten who we really are. We have confused “self” with ego—the mental program (like a computer code) that gives us the illusion of individuality—an utterly false “reality” similar to what’s presented in the movie The Matrix.

The age-old struggle between love (exemplified by the open mind/open hand) and the fear-driven ego (the closed-mind/closed fist) can never be resolved until we understand who we really are. In this conversation Sandie and Cate Montana discuss what the ego is, how it’s born, how it thinks, and how the ego can be managed and expanded into what is known as transpersonal consciousness—the bridge consciousness between limited personal ego and the transcendent state of egoless enlightenment—a state of mind more aligned with the powerful I AM presence that is the true generator of peace, happiness and unification within.

Cate will also share some basic processes that will help listeners begin to move into transpersonal awareness.

About the Guest: Cate Montana

CATE MONTANA is the author of The E Word: Ego, Enlightenment & Other Essentials (Atria) and Unearthing Venus: My Search for the Woman Within. A dauntless explorer of inner and outer worlds, and the former editor of the Bleeping Herald newsletter for the hit indie movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? Cate has worked with plant medicines with shamans in the Amazon jungles of Peru, the Andes in Ecuador and the deserts of New Mexico, studied yoga in India, explored ancient South African ruins on horseback, hiked solo through England’s sacred sites, and much more. She has a master’s degree in psychology and writes and teaches about the ego, transpersonal and transcendent consciousness and quantum physics. She also writes for the UK magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You and blogs for The Huffington Post. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Website: www.catemontana.com

Aired Thursday, 9 March 2017, 7:00 PM ET

The Healing Power of Sound 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 forces to discuss the healing power of music, and their new sound remedies for healing and well-being as part of their new Metta Music Medicine Series based on the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine five element theory and recent advances in modern neuroscience.

Topics Include:

* What is Sound Remedy?
* Can Music Medicine be created by musicians per instructions of doctors and scientists
* How can sound impact the body?
* What is brain entrainment and how does it promote healing and well-being?
* What are the healing principles that guide these new sound remedies?
* And more…

About the Guests: Yuval Ron & Dr. Richard Gold

YUVAL RON is a world-renowned musician, composer, educator, peace activist, and record producer. Among his many honors, he composed the music for the Oscar-winning film, West Bank Story, was invited to perform 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, UCLA, MIT, and other schools, and has been on the faculty of 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.. He graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture in 1978 and since then has devoted his professional career to the study, practice, researching, teaching and publishing in the field of East Asian Medicine.

Dr. Gold has pursued advanced studies in China, Japan, and Thailand and was one of the four founders of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Dr. Gold was first introduced to meditation and yoga in 1970 during a month-long meditation retreat and has pursued mental mindfulness and meditative awareness over the past 40+ years. In recent years, Dr. Gold has studied 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: http://www.mettamindfulnessmusic.com/about.html

Aired Thursday, 2 March 2017, 7:00 PM ET

Opening the Doors of Perception with Anthony Peake

Anthony Peake studied at the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics. He has written ten books, all of which have one central theme: what exactly is ‘consciousness,’ and what is its relationship with the seemingly solid, material universe presented to us by our senses. In his work he discusses neurology, psychology, quantum physics, consciousness-studies and cosmology and then places in the mix mysticism, occult beliefs, theology and cultural items such as movies, music and even poetry.

Website: www.anthonypeake.com

Aired Thursday, 23 February 2017, 7:00 PM ET

What We Don’t Know About Love - Becoming An Everyday Avatar with Suzy Miller

Every once in a while, a person steps forward on the world stage whose gifts and abilities are so far beyond what we ordinarily encounter that the words just don’t exist to fittingly describe their impact on the lives of others. Such a person, in my experience, is Suzy Miller. A visionary speaker, author, telepathic communicator, multidimensional seer and pioneering founder of the groundbreaking Awesomism Practitioner Process, Suzy Miller single-handedly shifted the perception of what many regarded as a devastating disorder from Autism to Awesomism. In taking something that was synonymous with the word “broken”, and revealing its hidden potential, Suzy Miller not only transformed the lives and the outlook for thousands of parents and children worldwide, but also gave birth to a powerful new word that is rich with positive potential.

Now, in her latest body of work Everyday Avatars – The Journey Back to Love, Suzy Miller is once again weaving her transformative magic on our perceptions about love. Founded on the experiences and insights gained from the past 17 years of pioneering work with the higher consciousness of thousands of energetically sensitive kids, The Journey Back to Love process dramatically shifts all the places where many of us secretly believe we are broken because of lack of love in our past and/or our present and shifts our perception to I AM LOVE.

What does that mean? It means that when we perceive love differently we experience love differently. And when we experience love differently, we experience life and living as a human being in a greatly expanded way.

About the Guest: Suzy Miller

Suzy Miller is a visionary speaker, author, telepathic communicator, multidimensional seer and founder of the groundbreaking Awesomism Practitioner Process and Everyday Avatar: The Journey Back to Love Series.

A former Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist, with a Masters Degree in Education, Suzy pioneered a shift in the perception of autism from an individual “disorder” to a collective revolution in human consciousness and has been playing in the field of leading edge consciousness ever since.

Throughout her long career, 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 twice collaborated with Dr. William Tiller, Professor Emeritus Stanford University and featured physicist in the movie “What The Bleep…” spearheading both The Autism Intention Healing Experiment as well as an experiment for the elevation of collective human consciousness.

A lifelong student of consciousness, Suzy has personally facilitated the growth and mastery of hundreds of Awesomism practitioners and thousands of private clients worldwide. In addition to continuing to support the full integration of unhealed aspects of Self through private sessions and the Journey Back to Love Series. She currently offers her awareness, experiences and support through private sessions, workshops, articles, speaking engagements, and live events.

Website: www.suzymiller.com

Aired Thursday, 16 February 2017, 7:00 PM ET

Changing the Story of Your Health and Your Life with Carl Greer, PhD

What if, despite aging, injuries, health conditions, and illnesses, you could not only return to the state of health you enjoyed previously but even improve on it? An impossible thought? Far from it! The story of our health (and our lives) is more in our control than we may think and this week’s guest, Clinical Psychologist and Shamanic Practitioner Carl Greer will not only tell us why this is so, but also provide some remarkable real life stories to prove it.

About the Guest: Carl Greer, PhD

CARL GREER PhD, PscyD is a clinical psychologist and master of transformation, with a fascinating story of his own. A one-time successful entrepreneur, Greer now practices as a clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and shamanic practitioner. Following on from the success of his book, Change Your Story, Change Your Life, Greer has written Change The Story of Your Health as a practical tool for reframing our experiences so that we can experience less stress, greater well-being, and even better physical health if we are willing to identify our health story and begin rewriting it.

Website: www.carlgreer.com

Aired Thursday, 9 February 2017, 7:00 PM ET

In 1979, Penny Kelly experienced a full, spontaneous awakening of kundalini that completely changed her life. The experiences that followed, which are outlined in several of her books, included visitations from a group of “small men in brown robes” who gave her explicit information about the coming changes; encounters with a group of Elves with whom she made a deal to produce one hundred tons of grapes from a mere thirteen acres of vineyards, without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides; explorations of “other dimensions,” which revealed the multi-dimensional structure of the psyche; a collaboration with biophysicist and scientist, Dr. William Levengood, whose study of plants and soils from crop formations in 1999 revealed astounding secrets about energy and the nature of consciousness, and a journey into a world of tangled information about the history of humanity that encompasses 40,000 years, lost civilizations, the Goddess, religion, sex, power, consciousness, energy and human transformation.

About the Guest: Penny Kelly

PENNY KELLY is an author, teacher, speaker, publisher, personal and spiritual consultant, and Naturopathic physician. In 1979, while working as a tool and process engineer for Chrysler Corp, she experienced a full, spontaneous awakening of kundalini that completely changed her life. She left Chrysler and returned to school to study the brain, consciousness, perception, cognition, intelligence and intuition. This was followed by over a dozen years of work as an educational consultant specializing in the brain-compatible and accelerative teaching techniques of Dr. George Lozanov.

In 1987, she moved to southwest Michigan and for 25 years has operated Lily Hill Farm and Learning Center. Today she travels, lectures, and teaches a variety of classes and workshops including Developing the Gift of Intuition, Organic Gardening, and Getting Well Again Naturally.

Penny Kelly holds a degree in Humanistic Studies from Wayne State University, and a degree in Naturopathic Medicine from Clayton College of Natural Health. She is the mother of four children and has written seven books, including The Evolving Human – A True Story of Awakening Kundalini; The Elves of Lily Hill Farm – A Partnership With Nature; Robes – A Book of Coming Changes; Getting Well Again, Naturally – From the Soil to the Stomach, as well as 3 volumes in her Consciousness and Energy series.

Website: www.pennykelly.com

Aired Thursday, 2 February 2017, 7:00 PM ET

With record sales in excess of 1 and a half million, and a fan base that includes the Dalai Lama, Cher, Anthony Robbins, and Eckhart Tolle, the artistes Deva Premal and Miten are at the forefront of a burgeoning worldwide chant phenomenon. Beloved for their chanting of Indian Sanskrit mantras and Miten’s spiritually inspired songs, they travel the world presenting retreats and performing at festivals, concert halls, rock venues and cathedrals in as many as 25 countries a year.

In this episode, we hear tracks from Miten’s new album Temple at Midnight and Sandie and Miten discuss:

* Why Miten turned his back on a successful rock star career to join Osho’s ashram in India
* Why Miten calls John Lennon his first guru
* Meeting and making music with Deva Premal
* Can Sacred music and Sanskrit healing mantras help heal our world?
* The inspiration behind the songs on Temple at Midnight
* Why bringing people together and developing kindness is particularly important right now
* And more…

Website: http://devapremalmiten.com

Aired Thursday, 26 January 2017, 7:00 PM ET

In 2017, the US Supreme Court is preparing to take up transgender rights for the first time in history, ruling on the question of whether transgender students are entitled to use bathrooms matching their gender identity. While the issue has only recently ignited a political firestorm across the country, transgender author Lee Schubert has dealt with an inner battle surrounding public restrooms throughout her life. In this show, Transcender Lee shares the details and questions raised in her book, Woman Incognito.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

* Why Lee has chosen not to change her body to make it more female
* What it means to really know who you are
* Gender, class, religion, race, sexual orientation and age – can we really transcend the stereotypes and cultural conditioning that society imposes upon us telling us who we are, and how we should think and behave?
* And what would happen if we did?
* And more…

About the Guest: Lee Schubert

Lee Schubert is the author of Woman Incognito: Transsexual without Transition, and a transsexual woman with a lifelong interest in both religion and politics. Active in both areas, she is on a mission to transcend boundaries of gender, race, religion, class, and sexual orientation. As a woman in a male body, Schubert has discovered that gender is not determined by physical sex, and has no interest in changing her body to make it appear more female—unlike most of the male-to-female transsexuals seen in the media.

Schubert holds two degrees in English and has acquired additional education in finance, religion, radio communications, and philanthropic studies. Her background includes involvement in numerous religious and political organizations. She has gained a deep appreciation of the diversity of human experience and encourages others to join in her mission to transcend traditional societal boundaries that confine and separate us unnecessarily. She lives with her wife in Morristown, New Jersey.

Website: http://www.transcenderlee.com

Aired Thursday, 19 January 2017, 7:00 PM ET

Internationally acclaimed best-selling author, spiritual teacher, and world-renowned medium, James Van Praagh has received hundreds of thousands of messages from the other side of life. And all too often, in many of these messages, the deceased have shared with him that they want the living to know how to utilize the power of love while they are still living life in the physical body.

In his new book, The Power of Love, James demonstrates the transformative energy and force of love. He reminds you that love knows no limits and can alter a person’s life forever. Sharing vivid personal stories and incredible knowledge from the afterlife, James shows how you can activate the power of love to open your heart to the world.

When you align yourself with loving thoughts, anxiety and worry will start to fade. Decisions that might have preoccupied you before will become easier to make. Difficult events and people will not be drawn to you, because you are learning to release that magnetic energy. When you begin to consciously surround yourself with the energy of love and acceptance—your natural state of being—your journey in this physical dimension can become much smoother, more purposeful, and more powerful.

About James Van Praagh

James Van Praagh is a pioneer in the field of mediumship and one of the most celebrated and respected spiritual teachers working today. He has brought a mind-full awareness to the subject of “communication with the dead” into the public psyche for the past thirty years. Mr. Van Praagh is known as a “survival evidence medium,” meaning that he provides evidential proof of life after death via detailed messages from the spiritual realms.

His work has brought spiritual insights to millions with his numerous guest appearances on such shows as Oprah, Dr. Phil, Larry King Live, 20/20, The View, The Today Show, Chelsea Lately, Beyond Belief, Biography, Coast to Coast, 48 Hours, and a multitude of others.

James Van Praagh is also the number one New York Times best-selling author of Talking To Heaven, Reaching To Heaven, Healing Grief, Heaven and Earth, Looking Beyond, Meditations, Ghosts Among Us, Unfinished Business, How to Heal a Grieving Heart, Adventures of the Soul and his latest best-seller, The Power of Love: Connecting to the Oneness.

Connect with him at: vanpraagh.com

Aired Thursday, 5 January 2017, 7:00 PM ET

Zoë Wild learned to meditate in the East, in Burma, where she was a Buddhist nun and lived in a monastery for nearly two years. When she gave up being a nun and returned to the west she was shocked to see how differently meditation was taught here. Instead of finding the peace and tranquility they were seeking, Zoe found that many people were struggling. Western meditation, she says, was causing people to move away from their lives, to reject their experience, to feel superior to others who couldn’t do it “properly” or didn’t adopt a certain lifestyle. People were spending more time reading, writing and talking about meditation than actually practicing it.

Her solution: a practical, fun course called Wild Meditation, which liberates meditation from the confines of the cushion, and uses playful exploration in the midst of daily life activities to help you discover the peace and wisdom that lives within you no matter what you are doing. Wild Meditation allows you to rest in your center as you express your unique, quirky, authentic self and open to the full range of experience life has to offer.

Zoë Wild joins Sandie Sedgbeer this week to discuss:

~ Why she made the transition from Buddhist nun to life coach, meditation teacher, activist, writer, and workshop presenter.

~ How meditation underpins the tireless work she does presenting trauma healing workshops, establishing women’s centers, funding students in Turkey, and working towards creating a world where every single person knows their essential, liberated nature and humanity lives in global unity.

~ How you can awaken your life in just four weeks with meditation.

~ And more…

About the Guest Zoë Wild

Zoë Wild is A former Buddhist nun, life coach, meditation teacher and writer, who facilitates workshops for people who have experienced trauma and to establish peace and reconciliation between cultures in conflict. Her education and employment span fields including spirituality, self-growth, meditation, healing trauma and PTSD, hospice care, working with veterans, prisoners and bereaved children, activism, business development and international non-profit organization. What’s more, she maintains that meditation plays a vital role not only in envisioning the world she believes we should be living in, but also in actively working to create it.

Her foundation, One Light Global is based on the premise that the path to world peace is through meeting every individual from the belief that we are one human family, that we all have one light inside of us, and that we can help each other to create a better world for all.

Websites: www.onelightglobal.org / www.wildmeditation.com