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Rami talks with author Kabir Helminski about his newest book The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human. Rami and Kabir explore many topics including the beauty of Sufism through the lens of one of the greatest poets the world has ever known. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rami is joined by longtime friend Joan Tollifson to discuss Joan's compelling spiritual journey and perspective on the nature of being. Rami and Joan focus on her book Nothing to Grasp and the nature of being and suffering and Joan shares her experience dealing with challenging life circumstances growing up as both an amputee and a member of the LGBTQ community in the early 1960's, as well as battling alcoholism and cancer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rami is joined by special guests Ayal Feinberg and Frank Levy to discuss the changing face of anti-semitism and how modern academic approaches hope to develop new ways to understand and fight anti-semitism in its many forms. **Have a question? Download the mindbodyspirit app and use the open mic feature to submit a question for Rami ** apple app store google play store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perry Garfinkel is a veteran journalist, editor, frequent speaker, and author of the bestselling Buddha or Bust. His newest book is Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma's 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times. An excerpt from the book, along with an edited transcript of this conversation, appears in the March/April 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Martinez is the founder and executive director of Alma Institute, a nonprofit educational institution equipping students from marginalized communities to become legal psychedelic facilitators. She's served as an advisor to the National Psychedelics Association, the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, and the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance. Her new book, Whole Medicine: A Guide to Ethics and Harm-Reduction for Psychedelic Therapy and Plant Medicine Communities, is featured in the January/February 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Myra Goodman is the author of Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Darkness to Light, in which she tells the story of her father, Mendek Rubin, who survived the Holocaust to become an inventor and sage. Myra's essay with her cousin Trudy Goodman, "Awaken to Spiritual Bravery," is featured in the January/February 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gilda Montenegro-Fix is an Olympic whitewater slalom kayaker. She is also the founder of Celebrate Diversity!, a consulting and training company focused on cultural agility. She is a motivational speaker and the author of an essay in the January/February 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health entitled "Remembering Love." Find her work at celebratediversity.co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don Miguel Ruiz is a renowned Nahuatl teacher with millions of followers worldwide. Born into a family of healers and raised in Mexico by a healer mother and Nahuatl grandfather in the Toltec tradition, don Miguel is the author of the classic The Four Agreements, The Fifth Agreement, and many other books. His newest book, written with Barbara Emrys, is Grief and Renewal: Finding Beauty and Balance in Loss. You can read an extended transcript of this podcast in the January/February 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anne Lamott is the author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her new book, Somehow: Thoughts on Love, is due out in April 2024. Neal Allen is the author of Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside of You, and an excerpt from his new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, entitled “Enjoy Being Ordinary,” appears in the November/December 2023 issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine. S+H editor-in-chief Steve Kiesling interviews Anne in the same issue in a piece called “The Time to Write: A Master Class From Anne Lamott.” You can learn more about Neal’s work at his website shapesoftruth.com, and follow Anne on instagram @annelamott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Evert Hopman is a master herbalist and lay homeopath and holds a Master’s in Education and Mental Health Counseling. She’s the archdruid emerita of the Tribe of the Oak and a founding member of the Order of the White Oak. Her newest book, The Sacred Herbs of Yule and Christmas: Remedies, Recipes, Magic, & Brews for the Winter Season, is featured in the Nov/Dec issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Judith Polich is an environmentalist and wetlands advocate. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Studies and Environmental Education from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of Return of the Children of Light. Her newest book, Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees: The Ancient Masters of Cooperation, Kindness, and Healing, is reviewed in the Nov/Dec 2023 issue of Spirituality+Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Gavin Francis is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, and a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He has authored eight books and numerous articles in a variety of publications, including the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His newest book is Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence. Steve Kiesling’s interview with Dr. Francis is featured in the November/December 2023 issue of Spirituality+Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perdita Finn is the co-founder with her husband Clark Strand of the nondenominational international fellowship called The Way of the Rose. Perdita and Clark were guests on the Spirituality+Health Podcast a few years ago to discuss their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. Perdita has studied with many spiritual teachers and has apprenticed with the psychic Suzan Saxman, with whom she wrote a book called The Reluctant Psychic. Perdita’s new book is Take Back the Magic: Conversations With the Unseen World, included in the 2023 Books We Love feature in our September/October issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Norman Rosenthal is a world-renowned psychiatrist and best-selling author who was the first person to describe seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and to pioneer the use of light therapy in its treatment. He did this during his 20 years at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Rosenthal’s newest book (which was featured in our Sept/Oct 2023 Books We Love feature) is Defeating SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder): A Guide to Health and Happiness Through All Seasons. You can also read his essay “How Meditation Can Help Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder” on spiritualityhealth.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. David Rosmarin is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a program director at McLean Hospital, and founder of Center for Anxiety. He’s an international expert on spirituality and mental health, and his work has been featured in Scientific American, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. His new book, Thriving With Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You, is featured in the Books We Love portion of the September/October 2023 issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine. You can learn more about his work at dhrosmarin.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kristoffer Hughes is Chief of the Anglesey Druid Order, a Mount Haemus Scholar, and a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. He is a best-selling author of a number of books, including The Book of Celtic Magic. He’s the creator the Celtic Tarot, and his newest book is The Book of Druidry: A Complete Introduction to the Magic & Wisdom of the Celtic Mysteries. His interview with Stephen Kiesling, “Awakening to the Wisdom of the Oak,” is featured in the July/August 2023 issue of Spirituality+Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. E. Elisabet Lahti is an awarded educator, international speaker, and the founder of Sisu Lab that helps individuals everywhere think deeply about excellence in how we operate as humans and to tap into our innate capacity for virtuous fortitude. She's the researcher of 'sisu' for which her journey began when she was called to reinvent herself in the aftermath of major trauma and later attended a master’s program at the University of Pennsylvania to study applied positive psychology. Consequently, she ran and cycled 2400 km across New Zealand in 50 days to study how humans overcome and even grow through extreme challenges. Her work has been featured at CNBC, BBC, Forbes, Business Insider and so on. Elisabet´s book "Gentle Power: A Revolution is How We Think, Lead, and Succeed Using the Finnish Art of Sisu" published by Sounds True is an invitation to foster the constructive and life-expanding side of our inner power and thus, leave a legacy that creates empowerment for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allan Hamilton, MD, is a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, a decorated Army veteran, and Regents Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona as well as a life-long horse trainer. His next book on the human brain is Cerebral Entanglements—How the Brain Gives Value and Meaning to Our Private and Public Lives, to be published by Knopf in the Spring of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Myles Mellor is one of the top crossword writers in the world. Published in over 1000 magazines, newspapers and web outlets. Over 20,000 crosswords published worldwide. Supplying theme crosswords, diamond crosswords, syndicated puzzles, cryptograms, diagramless crosswords, word search, sudokus, anagrams, and word games. He can be reached through his website at www.ilovecrosswords.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 2007, Light has personally taught thousands of people from all walks of life how to enjoy a daily meditation practice in a self-sufficient way, and he’s positively impacted many more practitioners through his books, videos, and popular TEDx talk on the 5 Most Common Meditation Myths. Light facilitates workshops and retreats around the world, and gives talks on happiness, mindfulness, inspiration, and leadership. He’s written three bestsellers: The Inner Gym: A 30-Day Workout for Strengthening Happiness (L&G Publishing, 2015), and Bliss More: How to Succeed in Meditation Without Really Trying (Random House, 2018), and Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration (Sounds True, 2021). His next book, Travel Light: Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life (Sounds True, 2023), is based on his experiences as a “one-bagger” nomad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices