Authentic Living

Often the journey to the Authentic Self is a bit like losing your place. An identity to which you have held for years, even decades is diminishing. You can no longer say you are that old notion of yourself, but you can’t really say who it is that you are now. Worse than that, for some this amounts to a serious depression that may even include suicidal despair. For others it seems that life is meaningless, God cannot be accessed and the everyday experience of life is without hope. What is the purpose of this period in our lives or is there a purpose to it? Well it turns out that, indeed, there is a purpose to it, and not only that, but there is a way through it that brings you to the other side of the desert land a deeply evolved person. Are you experiencing a painful twist in your journey? Tune in and find out how you can make this into a time of enlightenment and, yes, even find joy in the midst of it.

Julia Cameron, our guest today, is the author of the seminal book on creativity, The Artist’s Way. This one book along with its offspring, The Artist’s Way at Work, The Artist’s Date Book, Inspirations: Meditations on the Artist’s Way, The Artist’s Way Workbook, The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal and The Complete Artist’s Way have helped so many to get in touch with the creativity that springs from the Authentic Self. Still as vital today as it was 10 years ago when it was published, The Artist’s Way, is an international best seller. Vein of Gold, another best-seller offers a profound journey through the vision and creativity of the artist-mind to the Authentic Self. Julia has also published three books of fiction and several books on the creativity of writing. This show will help the listener to access the creative, through the Authentic Self, and to utilize the Authentic Self to be more creative. Don’t miss it!

Dr. Raymond Moody, pioneer and world renowned expert on the near-death-experience, is our guest today as we explore how those who have experienced a near-death have responded with greater authenticity to life, indeed, have awakened to life on a whole new dimension. Dr. Moody is the best-selling author of eleven books, including Life After Life, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide, as well as Reunions. He has also published numerous articles in academic and professional literature. As Dr. Moody has learned more from those who have passed over and come back to inform us of what they now know, he has begun to provide philosophical counseling and workshops on the subjects of death, grief and near-death. Moody’s work offers the world an entirely new paradigm not only about death, but about life as well, particularly authentic life. Understanding death can help us all to understand life. Don’t miss this show!

Authenticity does not usually occur in a one time epiphany. Most often we have to coax it along by recognizing, listening to and honoring its voice. One way to do that is to work with a Life Coach. And today we are interviewing Life Coach and author, Salle Redfield. Two of Salle’s works, a CD and a book, are meditations based on her husband James Redfield’s work The Celestine Prophecy. She has also written The Joy of Meditating with an accompanying CD and Creating a Life of Joy, also with a CD by the same title. Salle began Life Coaching as an outgrowth of her own journey to authenticity. As a Life Coach, she helps her clients to focus on their truest passions and follow them. If you want to create a more authentic life, don’t miss this show!

Carol Bowman, internationally known pioneer in reincarnation studies, is our guest this week. Carol is the author of “Children’s Past Lives” and “Return from Heaven” both of which are now classics in the reincarnation field. Her research on spontaneous past-life remembrances in children has profoundly impacted her field and authenticated the whole idea of reincarnation. She has also been practicing past-life regression therapy with adults for almost twenty years. Often invited to be a guest on TV and radio, she has appeared as a reincarnation expert on Oprah, Good Morning America, Unsolved Mysteries, A&E, Discovery Channel, ABC Primetime, the BBC in England, and on The Art Bell Show. She just returned from lecturing in Brazil at an international conference and has also lectured in other countries around the world and in national educational institutions. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a world-renowned expert on reincarnation.

Three weeks ago we discussed the psychological components of the masks and costumes we wear that keep us out of touch with the Authentic Self. This week we will discuss the Authentic Self as a spiritual entity with greater power than that of the ego or false self. We attribute a lot of power to the ego, even giving it the supernatural power of “the devil that made me do it.” But the truth is even more impossible than that! The ego is meant to be a negotiator between the external and the internal. What happens too often is that instead, it becomes an identity—or a mask and costume. But, can it really be true that a mask and costume could be more powerful than the Authenticity hidden beneath it? And yet, we give it the reigns, without noticing the number of times we say things like, “I was out of control,” “I just couldn’t help it,” “I had no choice,” and “It just happened.” Listen to this show and learn of the truly profound power that is actually yours every single day.

Mary Bea Sullivan, author of “Dancing Naked Under the Moon,” a personal account of her own spiritual journey, is our guest today. Mary Bea’s compelling journey took her to teachers from diverse traditions to assist her in landing squarely in her own wisdom. Through her own spiritual dark night of the soul, beginning at the death of a dear friend, her quest is one example of how we both demand and resist crises that bring us past the veil and into the inner sanctum of authenticity. The American Institute of Holistic Theology, offering Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Holistic Theology, presents this dialogue, meant to offer a guide to listeners seeking an affirmative approach to the Divine that doesn’t necessarily fit within the construct of any particular dogma or creed. Do we actually get to decide who God is on our own? Actually, if we don’t we never really know God. The only way to have a real relationship with a real God is to be real. Don’t miss this show!

All healing is self-healing, because we heal from inside out, not from outside in. Dr. Weissman, our guest, is an internationally renowned physician, speaker, and educator and the developer of The LifeLine Technique, through which he offers an integrated approach to healing. He is the author of The Power of Infinite Love and Gratitude: An Evolutionary Journey to Awakening Your Spirit and a contributing author in the best-selling book by Dr. Masaru Emoto, The Healing Power of Water. He has practiced holistic medicine for 14 years and in 1999 opened The Way to Optimal Health medical center in Northbrook, Illinois. His approach to healing is one that recognizes the body as a self-healing organism, which is only blocked from its natural ability to thrive because of old patterns and wounds. Once these are recognized and released the body returns to its natural state of wholeness. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about self-healing.

Andrea Mathews is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, a Counseling Supervisor and an Approved Provider of Continuing Education Credits for Counselors, a Reiki Master and an astrological counselor, trained in metaphysical pastoral counseling, whose primary intent is to assist others in becoming aware of and living the Authentic Self. She is the author of “Restoring My Soul: A Workbook for Finding and Living the Authentic Self” a book that allows the reader to experience authenticity by working through the exercises right there on the pages. Using story, metaphor, poetry, art, the work of changing beliefs and learning to utilize the messages inherent in the emotions and body, the work of restoring the soul brings individuals to an entirely new paradigm for the Self. With this show your host intends to help listeners understand and exercise that new paradigm and to experience life as the challenge of joy and peace. Don’t miss this “how to” show!

Sonia Choquette is a spiritual teacher and intuitive guide whose intention it is to free those with whom she works from the restriction and fear of the ego and guide them to wholeness through the power of joy. She is a third generation intuitive and a best-selling author, having authored ten books, published in over thirty countries, as well as several audio programs and meditations. She has also appeared several times on ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox, Lime, Sirus and WGN and has featured in several national magazines. Sonia believes that we all have a natural ability to rely on the 6th sense or spiritual guidance, and that reliance on only the five senses is not only unnatural but limiting. Not only has she been the personal intuitive guide to several of the spiritual leaders of today, but she teaches how each of us may tap into that natural ability. On this week’s show, Sonia will guide our listeners in the development of the Psychic Self.

David Robert Ord, Editorial Director for Namaste Publishing, was fascinated with Jesus when he was still in elementary school. That fascination took him from his home in England, to New Zealand and finally to the United States where he became a graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary. For 20 years he taught about Jesus in traditional congregations, but now his book “Your Forgotten Self” breaks with conventional thinking about Jesus. According to Ord, the reason that we find Jesus difficult to understand is because we think of him as different from us. In fact, he sees Jesus as a mirror of the forgotten self that is the true essence in each of us. Andrea’s conversation with David Ord is an open invitation to all listeners to begin to experience the Divine energy that is the Self, to know the Self as Jesus knew himself—as the way, the truth and the life. Don’t miss it!

How do we know when the path is true? How do we tap into authentic guiding intelligence? To get answers to these questions, Authentic Living will feature Dr. Joan Borysenko, a modern-day mystic, author of 13 books, and several audio and video programs, distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine and world-renowned expert in the mind/body connection. “Your Soul’s Compass: What is Spiritual Guidance,” co-authored with her husband, Gordon Dveirdin will be the basis of our discussion, which will help us all learn how to tap into that guidance, a function of the Authentic Self. We all hunger for a path we can walk without indecision, a path upon which we can peacefully lead ourselves through the maze of life. “The Soul’s Compass” offers three different aspects of the kind of spiritual guidance that allows us entry into the informative universal flow of energy within: alignment, discernment and action. If you want to know how to trust your own guidance, don’t miss this show.

In the past 12 years Neale Donald Walsch has impacted spiritual evolution worldwide with an amazing and lengthy public Conversation with God. Through that process, one which has included at least 23 books, and several video and audio programs, he has set the spiritual world on fire. But Walsch is not without his own personal trials, including a fire that destroyed all of his belongings, the break-up of his marriage, a car accident that left him with a broken neck, and finally a period of homelessness and near starvation. Yet an openness to experience and an authentic search brought Walsch to his own personal and profound awakening, which has served to raise the consciousness of and even disturb the rest of the world. Andrea will interview Walsch on this week’s Authentic Living episode, to discuss the journey to authenticity that is the very nature of the soul. Don’t miss it!

Andrea will interview James Redfield, author of the best selling novels, The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight; the nonfiction book, The Celestine Vision, Living the New Spiritual Awareness; and the novel The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight. He also co-authored, God and the Evolving Universe, with Michael Murphy and Sylvia Timbers, and produced and co-authored the screenplay for The Celestine Prophecy movie, released in 2006. He and his wife, Salle Redfield, founded the Global Prayer Project, a biweekly telewebcast that offers guided meditation and prayer. Redfield is a beacon of light and wisdom, a humanitarian and a leader in the spiritual awakening that is happening all over the world. During the show, Redfield will offer his wisdom regarding what it means to live fully awake, the global and individual waking up process, as well as the experience of the conscious life. Don’t miss it!