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Isaac Bentwich MD – The Battlefield of the Soul and the Challenges of the Modern World

Aired Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 5:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM PST

How the Baghvad Gita Can Turn Our World Outside In

Interview with Isaac Bentwich, M.D. Author of “Gita: A Timeless Guide for Our Times”

“Ancient wisdom never gets old.” — Swami Beyondananda

The Bible … the Koran … the I Ching … for millennia scholars have gone through these “fine couth tomes” with a fine tooth comb, seeking practical wisdom, and timeless perspective.

This week on Wiki Politiki, we will be featuring one of the most heralded and widely-read ancient texts of all, the Baghvad Gita. Written more than 2,000 years ago, the Gita (meaning Divine Song), speaks to and accesses the “perennial wisdom” at the foundation of every spiritual path and practice. As Deepak Chopra has said, “Gita is the ultimate guide for your spiritual- journey.”

It has been called the “foundation of yoga.” Yet, many western yoga students want to focus on the physical aspects of yoga, and grow impatient with this story that has been foundational for those who brought yoga to the west — from Yogananda to Vivekananda to Iyengar to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It has also captivated and inspired many of the world’s greatest creative minds — scientists, thinkers, musicians, poets, and spiritual teachers: From Beethoven to Leonard Cohen, from Gandhi to Deepak Chopra, from Carl Jung to Robert Oppenheimer (‘father’ of the atomic bomb), from Emerson and Thoreau to Will Smith and Julia Roberts.

Our guest this week, Isaac Bentwich M.D. is a longtime practitioner and teacher of Yoga and Meditation. Trained as a physician and a scientist, he has founded three life-science technology companies, leading revolutions in medicine, genomics, and environment conservation, and he now heads Innovation Center at Technion, recognized as one of the top-ten innovative universities in the world. The vision and innovations that underlie the companies he founded came through periods of silent meditation retreats at the foothills of the Himalayas and in the Galilee. His path is one of reverence to the Wisdom teachings that shine through different traditions and religions. The study and practice of Gita’s Wisdom teachings has profoundly touched his life, and he is passionate about sharing this with others. His work on this translation of the Gita spanned twelve years.

For those not familiar with the book, the Gita is a dialogue between an Indian prince, Arjuna, and Krishna—his friend, master, and God incarnate. In the midst of a dramatic battle and deep moral dilemma, Krishna guides the prince from “worldly despondency to a brilliantly clear account of the meaning of life, the source of suffering, and the paths to happiness and self-fulfillment.”

Just as Arjuna and Krishna inhabit the “battlefield of the soul,” Bentwich suggests that this “ancient inner guide is more relevant than ever in addressing the unique challenges we face in the modern world.” With the purpose of making the Bhagavad Gita more accessible and relevant to contemporary readers, Bentwich’s new translation is unique in three ways:

1. It is the only translation that recreates in English the mesmerizing melody, meter, and rhyme of the Sanskrit original.
2. Gita is “women empowering,” crafted for both men and women.
3. Bentwich crystalizes the key messages of each verse to create a simple, practical guide to inner growth.

If you’re curious how something written 2,000 years ago is uniquely applicable today, join us for a deep conversation this Tuesday, June 25th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET. http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/wiki-politiki-radio-show/

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The Journey from Hurting to Healing to Happiness

Aired Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 2:00 PM ET

Tina C. Hines shares how she discovered she was a 4th generation clairvoyant, medium, and healer, and how she applies her intuitive gifts to guide women on a journey from hurting to healing to happiness. Using a bit of tough love coupled with deep compassion, she nudges women to start building a new relationship with happiness.

About the Guest: Tina C. Hines

Tina C. Hines, an international intuitive clairvoyant, medium, and healer, has devoted her life’s work to transforming and guiding emotionally wounded women on a journey of healing. During her 31-year career in corporate America, Tina began cultivating her gift managing the executive offices at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Black Enterprise Magazine and Johnson & Johnson.

Tina has traveled the globe showing women simplistic strategies to transform their self-defeating behaviors. Using a bit of tough love coupled with deep compassion, she nudges women to start building a new relationship with happiness.

Tina has been featured in the NY Times, appeared on Good Morning America, Positive Energy TV, This Needs to Be Said and Trenton Now. It’s during her international retreats where women are educated, empowered, and enlightened to nurture their inner child and create the life they desire.

WEBSITE: http://www.tinachines.com/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TinaCHines/

Melanie Meade – Stop Being Selfish

Aired Monday, 24 June 2019, 4:00 PM ET

This week is a bit of a heart to heart about showing up in the world and stop denying you or others YOUR brilliance! Inspired by a recent conversation with an amazing business person she shares the conversation she regularly has with herself in times of change and when you hit the outer reaches of your comfort zone.

About Melanie Meade:

Melanie Meade is a social media marketing professional, business mentor, consultant and the Managing Director of Access Consciousness’ European operations. She is Certified Facilitator for Access Consciousness® and several special Access programs including Joy of Business and Access Bars.

An inspired creator with a natural flair for content creation and social media marketing, Melanie is sought after for her innovative insights and her innate ability to capture and illuminate other’s brilliance. You can find out more about Melanie at: melaniemeade.com

5 Elements of Intimacy – Honor

Aired Monday, 24 June 2019, 3:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM PST

What is honor to you? Do you honor others but not yourself? Do you treat your self with regard or do you judge yourself as bad and wrong all the time? When you honor yourself the same way or even better way than how you honor others, it comes back to you. You and your body are able to work together with tons more ease. Your reality doesn’t seem weird or wonky. Overall, life is just filled with tons more ease, joy, and glory (the exuberance of living). What magic can be created when you honor yourself first? What joy can show up in your life when you choose to honor you? What if more money, more possibilities and more creation can show up? Join Venus Castleberg as she discusses how much honoring can create and generate in your life and the lives around you. She will be live, on air, on Monday, June 24that 12 p.m. PST/3p.m. EST on her radio show, Outside the Impossible here on OmTimes Radio. Feel free to call 202-570-7057 with any questions.

Noemi Grace – How To Deepen Your Acceptance

Aired Monday, 24 June 2019, 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST

What would it take to love you more and feel more loved by others?

Self-acceptance is a powerful practice that allows the ego and one’s surroundings to be transformed, while judging yourself keeps you from accepting love from others.

Through self-acceptance, you can experience more love in your life.

But, how do you fully accept yourself when you don’t know how?

Joining us on today’s edition of Light On Living is psychotherapist, soul healer, and the author of the new book, An Intimate Dialogue With God: The Miraculous Power Of Unconditional Self-Love, Noemi Grace, to share how to deepen your acceptance of self, others, and life.

Noemi channels new perspectives from God on unconditional self-love, forgiveness, divine grace, and life’s purpose. Her new book is the first in a series of books that shares her transformative communication with God and her experience, as she learns to apply the divine messages to her life. Her passions include sharing these beautiful uplifting messages and helping people heal their minds, hearts, and souls. She lives with her husband in the Boston area.

To contact Noemi’s and official:

• Website: www.NoemiGrace.com

• Facebook: @NoemiGraceAuthor

Sharon McRill – Is Your Mess Causing You Stress?

Aired Friday, 21 June 2019, 7:00 PM ET

With the not so surprising research showing a connection between stress and clutter and the often experienced symptoms of stress and autoimmune flares, let’s talk spring cleaning and decluttering!

And, thanks to the easy to implement tips our guest expert Sharon McRill, author of the best-seller ‘Downsizing the Silver Tsunami: Who to call and where does the stuff go?’ and owner and president of The Betty Brigade, an Ann Arbor-based organization, and relocation company is sharing, we discover clutter is one of our more manageable life stressors to solve.

Some of what Sharon will share with us is:

• Understanding the emotion of letting our stuff go
• The simplest way to get your decluttering started
• What to do when family members clutter styles differ
• plus so much more…

Sharon McRill loves to help busy people get things done. As the owner and president of The Betty Brigade, an Ann Arbor-based organization and relocation company, Sharon and her team of 10 “Betties” perform such projects as moving coordination, organizing and staging. For more information on The Betty Brigade, visit www.BettyBrigade.com. Then, listen to this intriguing and productive chat Friday, June 21st at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video.

Shamanic Wisdom & Ceremonies for Transforming Our Lives and Our World with Sandra Ingerman

Aired Thursday, 20 June 2019, 7:00 PM ET

We perform ceremonies to mark important events and celebrate holidays—yet our modern approach to ceremony only scratches the surface of its true potential. In The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred in Everyday Life, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman reminds us that when we invoke the sacred power of ceremony, we tap into one of the oldest and most effective tools for transforming both ourselves and the world.

Sandra Ingerman joins Sandie live this week to discuss:

• Why performing ceremonies are so important to people in shamanic cultures
• The elements of a powerful ceremony — setting strong intentions, choosing your space, preparing ceremonial items, and dealing gracefully with the unexpected
• Stepping into the sacred — key practices for leaving behind your everyday concerns and creating a space where magic can happen
• Invoking spiritual allies — the power of working with the elements, the natural world, ancestor spirits, and the creative energy of the divine
• Ceremonies for energetic balance — healing and blessing, resolving sacred contracts, getting rid of limiting beliefs, creating Prayer Trees, and more
• Life as a ceremony — how to infuse your entire life with ceremonial practice, from planting a garden or to revitalizing your home or office to helping heal our planet

She will also lead us in a live guided ceremony to radiate light to troubled places on the earth and share this ceremony with friends, loved ones, and in local communities.

SANDRA INGERMAN, MA, is an award winning author of twelve books, including Soul Retrieval, Medicine for the Earth, Walking in Light, and The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred Into Everyday Life, and The Hidden Worlds. For 35 years Sandra has been a world-renowned teacher of shamanism teaching workshops internationally on shamanism and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods.

Sandra is devoted to teaching people to work together as a global community to manifest positive change. She is passionate about helping people to reconnect with nature. Since the 1980’s thousands of people have healed from past and present traumas through the classic cross-cultural shamanic healing method Sandra teaches called Soul Retrieval. Sandra is a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional mental health counselor and a board-certified expert on traumatic stress.

Visit her website: www.sandraingerman.com

The Art of Abundance

Aired Thursday, 20 June 2019, 5:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM PST

Abundance. Why is it that sometimes seems so out of reach? How can we bring more abundance into our lives? Let’s explore what it is to be truly Abundant. What’s that like? Is it even possible? Join Kathy for an hour about expanding abundance in your life.

If you’d like to join the Radical Abundance free challenge, sign up here: http://www.meetkathywilliams.com/abundance.html

Submit show ideas, listen to replays, find out Kathy’s upcoming schedule, and get a free money rain exercise at: www.meetkathywilliams.com

Would You like To Make An Impact In The World?

Aired Thursday, 20 June 2019, 4:00 PM EST / 1:00 PM PST

Pennie and Matthew will be discussing the following on Thursdays Show – First, we need to grow up emotionally. Human beings are collectively very emotionally immature. There is this thing called emotional intelligence, and we haven’t prioritized it as a species. We’ve focused primarily on developing our scientific, physical, mental and technological capacities while seriously neglecting our emotional development.

Just think what would be possible, if every child was taught how to be deeply compassionate with themselves and others. If we simply learn to process our emotions in a healthy way, we would keep our hearts open, we would be more compassionate, and all of our relationships would be far healthier and more fulfilling.

We also need to learn the importance of family and community, and to expand that to include the entire human family. There’s nothing wrong with being powerfully committed to getting our personal individual needs met, but far too many of us stop there. We might extend our sense of responsibility and commitment to those closest to us, but what about our neighbours. Most of us don’t even know our neighbours! What about the people living on the other side of the earth that you’ve never met? Why stop there? Could we extend our sense of compassion, and responsibility, to all life forms? Even to future generations?

If almost all of the world’s most pressing problems have been created by humans, then doesn’t it make sense that a shift in human consciousness is what’s needed most?

If we simply shift from patterns of selfishness and greed, to patterns of compassion, generosity, and love, We believe that all of the tangible problems will eventually get resolved.

We already know the tangible physical solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. We know what we need to do to reverse climate change. We know what we need to do to prevent war, to feed the hungry, to build ecologically sustainable societies, and to transform politics.

We just need to wake up to the truth of who we really are, open our hearts big and wide, and hold fiercely to a vision of what’s possible.

Fear and doubt have gripped the collective human psyche for far too long.

If you know anything about the law of attraction, what you pay attention to, and especially what you pay attention to with significant emotion, you attract. We do this individually, and collectively. So as long as we collectively indulge in fear and doubt, and as long as we choose to believe there is no hope for the future of humanity, then we will continue to collectively create that reality.

Hope you can join the show and enjoy.

The Power of True Patriotism

Aired Thursday, 20 June 2019, 3:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM PST

Between prolonged war time, divisive politics and social controversy regarding the National Anthem, it’s hard to understand – much less embrace – the notion of true patriotism. Having been raised by a proud U.S. Marine, Jennifer is passionate about patriotism and equally frustrated by America’s political climate. Join her as she discusses the value and beauty of patriotism with Commander Doug Reinbold, who recently retired from active duty service after 21-years in the U.S. Navy. He’s currently in the Defense Industry in the Washington, DC area.

Bio: CDR Doug “Rhino” Reinbold, USN (ret.)

Commander Doug Reinbold, United States Navy (retired), was born and raised in Seymour, Indiana, and graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Aviation Technology. Upon selection and graduation from Officer Candidate School he was commissioned as a Naval Officer and was designated a Naval Aviator following completion of flight training. His first fleet service was in San Diego, California, piloting the SH-60B Seahawk helicopter and deploying twice to the Arabian Gulf on missions to conduct maritime interdiction operations. While completing his tour, his peers selected him as the squadron’s Pilot of the Year.

He then received orders to Pensacola, Florida, to serve as a T-34C Instructor Pilot for U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and international flight students. Obtaining all possible qualifications, he was selected as Instructor Pilot of the Year and chosen to be in the first class of instructors to fly the T-6A Texan II. After completion of this tour, he was ordered back to sea duty as a Catapult and Arresting Gear Officer (Shooter) aboard the USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70) nuclear aircraft carrier, deploying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

His next fleet assignment was with the first-ever MH-60R Seahawk squadron, operating the Navy’s newest and most advanced combat helicopter. As Department Head, he served during the command’s maiden deployment embarked onboard the USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74) Carrier Strike Group, and he was named his squadron’s Officer of the Year upon completion of his orders.

He was then nominated to attend the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, graduating with a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies. Subsequently he received orders to the Office of Naval Research where he was detailed to the Pentagon to serve as the Deputy for Operations for the Defense Science Board.

His final assignment was as the MQ-8 (Fire Scout) Officer-in-Charge, directing the introduction and fleet integration of the Navy’s first operational unmanned aircraft system. During his career he has accumulated more than 3000 flight hours in 10 different aircraft and is a Commercial-rated Airplane and Helicopter pilot. His military awards and decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, as well as various unit, campaign, and individual ribbons.

He recently retired from active duty after more than 21 years of honorable service. Presently he serves in the defense industry in the Washington, D.C. area where he and his wife are the proud, but exhausted, parents of two awesomely energetic daughters.