I recently interviewed the owners of Crystal Visions in North Carolina for Retailing Insight, the successor to New Age Retailer magazine, marking the retail store’s 30th anniversary in 2019. See that interview with Blair Justice and Joan Colburn here. Doing that work threw me back in time a bit: I was an editor for New…
I am posting my March 2007 Byron Katie interview, newly edited to be completely true to the original conversation and transcript. In print in the magazine Pure Inspiration and in the material previously posted online, the interview’s edit involved a significant back and forth between me and Stephen Mitchell, Katie’s husband and a renowned classical scholar,…
I absolutely love this interview. I love the voice Lisa Nichols has and shares here: so beautiful. I interviewed Lisa by phone in August 2004 just two hours after she first received a copy of Chicken Soup for the African American Soul — her first published book; I later got to meet and spend a…
A best-selling author for decades, Wayne Dyer was one of the most popular teachers in the self-help, mind/body/spirit, and New Age communities. This interview was my first with Wayne. At the time I was editor in chief of New Age Retailer (now Retailing Insight), the main industry trade magazine for the category, and this piece originally…
I’ve interviewed Marianne Williamson three times, and she is electric: smart, fast, passionate, insightful, eloquent. In some ways, Marianne is the most frustrating person I’ve ever interviewed, because each time I’m blown away and end up wondering how she isn’t the best-known teacher of our time. And then I really think about the question and…
What struck me first about Sakyong Mipham was his quiet, stealthful presence. Mipham serves as temporal and spiritual director of Shambhala, a global network of meditation and retreat centers. After waiting for the Sakyong — a ruler, or earth protector, who rules by balancing heaven and earth — to join me for an interview in April…
With the 1999 release of The Power of Now, a The New York Times No. 1 bestselling book about the spiritual power of living in the moment, Eckhart Tolle became one of the most popular and influential authors in the mind/body/spirit marketplace, and that popularity has only grown. The Power of Now has been translated into…
I interviewed Thomas Moore with a colleague and mentor — and now a good friend — in 1998; if I recall correctly, she was generous and wise enough, the latter in terms of personal and personnel development, to give me the byline. Moore, a former monk and a psychotherapist, has released 19 books, including the…
Here I combine a few excerpts from my interview with Brian Froud into a slightly longer but still rather short—and I hope wholly enjoyable—excerpt. Froud is exceptionally entertaining. Professionally, he worked with Jim Henson as conceptual designer for the films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. He has been a leading illustrator of fairies and many…
Today I’m posting a compelling excerpt from a precious interview with Rabbi David Zeller, so I’ll keep my intro especially short: David, a transpersonal psychologist, was a beautiful spiritual teacher. I highly recommend his book The Soul of the Story, a powerful collection of stories describing his experiences with teachers from many religious and spiritual…
