"World Peace, Through Inner Peace"

Social entrepreneur, spiritual guide and author Virginia Swain explains how personal tragedy shaped her spiritual focus, her work at the United Nations, and her vision for the transformation of America in a post 9/11 world. She also speaks about her most recent community project, America’s Soul Cafe, and provides advice to anyone seeking to integrate their quest for inner peace with peace in the world.

Virginia is the author of the recently published book, My Soul’s Journey to Redefine Leadership: A New Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of 9/11.

This interview was recorded during the  August 21, 2017 Solar Eclipse.

Links: 

Virginia Swain’s site

The Institute for Global Leadership

Center for Global Community and World Law

My Soul’s Journey to Redefine Leadership: A New Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of 9/11 (Virginia’s Latest Book)

America’s Soul Cafe

Diversity and Spirituality Network

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Spiritualities: East and West

Cross-cultural communication scholar William Kelly talks about what his extensive travels in Africa, the Philippines and Japan taught him about himself. He also talks about how Asian spirituality is fundamentally different from how most Westerners perceive it, the contrast between Asian spirituality and Western materialism; and how the current worldwide nationalistic trend may be a precursor towards a more spiritually oriented era in which global inter-connectivity is prized.

Notes:

Bill Kelly’s UCLA Faculty page

Notes for a New Age (includes Kelly’s article on the Meaning of the New Age)

Diversity and Spirituality Podcast Page

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Big morning sky above my town.

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View from Hoboken. I think that's Manhattan. The band Insect Trust, fronted by my old friend Nancy Jeffries, back in the day titled their Album, Hoboken Saturday Night. Anyone remember?

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My friend Ibou Ndoye and Liz Cohen walking to their wedding July 29 at the Hoboken pier. What a grand time!

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About Men's Work: origins, importance and future directions

The founder of the Men’s Leadership Alliance explains how he got involved with men’s work, it’s origins and evolution, how and why native American rituals are incorporated into men’s work, and issues that white men in particular bring to him in his coaching practice.

Links:

Men’s Leadership Alliance

Inner King Training Experience

Mankind Project

4 Gateways Coaching

The Diversity and Spirituality Network

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Still Life

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"Spiritual, But Not Religious"

According to the PEW Research Center, about one fifth of all Americans don’t identify with any religion, but call themselves as spiritual in some way.

Sociologist of Religion Siobhan Chandler specializes in the study of this group, which she calls SBNRs or “spiritual, but not religious”. In this podcast, Chandler talks how she herself fits in this group; the subcategories within SBNR; the degree to which this is a global, rather than just North American phenomena, and the meaning of this category’s growth for the society as a whole.

Links:

Spiritual, But Not Religious - Siobhan Chandler’s website

YouTube presentation on SBNR

Chandler’s papers on Academia.edu

Wikipedia’s take on “spiritual, but not religious”

Diversity and Spirituality Network’s website

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Mount Hood! @Citibank #40YearsOfWow #Contest

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My triumphant four-legged friend with a prize found on her morning jaunt.

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"Cindy's Story" - An Interview with Cindy Franklin

Cindy Franklin, the co-founder of the Diversity and Spirituality Network, talks about coming from a background that some people might think of as privileged; spirituality as a pathway to appreciation of diversity;  her studies with a diverse array of spiritual teachers;  and her vision for the Diversity and Spirituality Network.

Links:

About Muktananda (Cindy’s First Spiritual Teacher)

“Spirituality is the River” - an interview with DSN co-founder Rene Molenkamp

“A Foundation Story” - an interview with DSN co-founder Angelo John Lewis

Diversity and Spirituality Network website

 

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Twilight from the plane coming into San Diego

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"What the F#@ Is Enlightenment"

Boston’s Kamaria Powell began asking life’s most thought-provoking questions and found answers she didn’t find in the Pentecostal Church in which she was raised. She shares her journey, the questions she asked herself along the way, and why she now defines herself as “spiritual,” rather than “religious.” She also explores the role of religion in the African-American community and its particular impact on African-American women.

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Just another beautiful day in San Diego. They call it "June gloom" in those parts, but it looks a bit like paradise to my East Coast eyes,

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The Deal With Dodson (2)

The Deal With Dodson (2)

View On WordPress

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Painting on University wall

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San Diego landscape, taken from the University

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Monks Office

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