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Beginnings: R. Carlos Nakai
The first substantive interview I ever did was with R. Carlos Nakai in 1998. I’d worked at a newspaper as…
Wayne Dyer on the Most Common Meme: I Can’t Change.
What’s the most common meme people hold? A minister in Maui told me about a boy who was five…
Eckhart Tolle on Goal Setting and Being One with the Present Moment
Ray Hemachandra: Eckhart, the practice of being in the moment by definition is not goal-oriented, correct? Eckhart Tolle: Correct. You…
Sakyong Mipham on Your Practice and Life
Ray: Your first book, Turning the Mind Into an Ally, serves as a guide for training the mind with meditation…
Byron Katie on the Mind Waking Up to Itself
Ray: When you describe your moment of realization—the cockroach moment—about not believing your thoughts, it sounds almost revelational. Do most…
Doreen Virtue describes specific archangels
(I invite you to read the post Ask Your Angels here, a richer and more recent excerpt from my interviews…
Rabbi David Zeller on What Makes a Good Spiritual Teacher
Ray Hemachandra: Rabbi, what makes a rabbi, priest, or guru a good teacher or guide to God? And what are…
Marianne Williamson on taking a moral inventory
Ray: You write about the importance in midlife of doing “the rigorous work of taking a fearless moral inventory”—about facing…
Brian Froud on Pink Fairies
Ray: Have you encountered blocks to your work because of the subject matter of fairies? Brian: I get…
