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Conversations with leading thinkers on a variety of topics including the environment, ecology, culture and consciousness Primary Format : Environment Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Bolinas State/Province : CA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The New School at Commonweal Podcasts Methings.com listings of The New School at Commonweal Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The New School at Commonweal TKV Desikachar and Kate Holcombe - A Conversation on Healing Yoga TKV Desikachar is the son and foremost student of the legendary yoga master T Krishnamacharya -- teacher of Patthabi Jois, BKS Iyengar, and Indra Devi. Kate Holcombe is a senior student of Mr. Desikachar and founder of the Healing Yoga Foundation in San Francisco. For over 45 years, TKV Desikachar has devoted himself to teaching yoga and making it relevant to people from all walks of life and with all kinds of abilities. His teaching method is based on T Krishnamacharya's fundamental princ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walter Murch - The Music of the Spheres: Rediscovering the Harmonic Relationship Among the Planets Note: This conversation relied heavily on Mr. Murch's visual presentation, which is unavailable. Still, we found the conversation so compelling as to make it available for listening. Please familiarize yourself with the article link below for further understanding of Walter's work in this area. Walter Murch is an Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer who has done celebrated work with George Lucas, Francs Ford Coppola, Anthony Minghella, and others. He is the subject of Micha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catharine A. MacKinnon - Are Women Human? Reflections on Sexual Violence Catharine A. MacKinnon is America's foremost feminist legal scholar and a leading public intellectual and political philosopher. She has made major contributions to law and public policy on equality, sexual harassment, pornography, trafficking, rape, and genocide. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist on sex equality domestically and internationally. She is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, The James Barr Ames long-term visitor at Harvard Law S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keith Block - Life Over Cancer: A Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment Andrew Weil, M.D., writes in his preface: “Life Over Cancer sets the course for what I believe is the future of successful cancer treatment,” “I believe in Keith’s program and would go to the Block Center if I were facing a diagnosis of cancer. It is where I have sent and will continue to send my friends and family members,” and “Life Over Cancer is the program every cancer patient deserves in order to have the best chance for recovery and restoration of health.”Keith's book- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russell Jaffe, MD - The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform We have (again!) a special opportunity for a conversation with a remarkable Commonweal friend, Russell Jaffe, M.D. Russ talks with us about "The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform." Trained in Clinical Pathology at the National Institutes of Health, Russ served on the permanent NIH staff as a practicing molecular biologist and molecular pathologist. In the course of his later career, Russ has worked extensively in optimal health, nutrition, Oriental ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanford Woods - What Is Art? Reading Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Tolstoy's 'What Is Art?' Hanford Woods teaches Shakespeare at Dawson College in Montreal and is a longtime Bolinas resident. Eric Karpeles is a new Bolinas resident and recently spoke for The New School on "Paintings in Proust." We recommend reading "Hamlet" and "What Is Art?" (both available on Internet!) in advance of the conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russell Jaffe, MD - The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform We have (again!) a special opportunity for a conversation with a remarkable Commonweal friend, Russell Jaffe, M.D. Russ talks with us about "The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform." Trained in Clinical Pathology at the National Institutes of Health, Russ served on the permanent NIH staff as a practicing molecular biologist and molecular pathologist. In the course of his later career, Russ has worked extensively in optimal health, nutrition, Oriental ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Karpeles - My Book is a Painting - Marcel Proust & the Resonance of the Visual Image Eric Karpeles, author of Paintings in Proust, presented an illustrated talk entitled "My book is a painting: Marcel Proust & the Resonance of the Visual Image." This conversation was recorded on June 12th, 2009. A PDF of the visual presentation is available at: http://commonweal.org/new-school/audiofiles/podcast/61e_karpeles_TNS_2.pdf Paintings in Proust has received considerable acclaim in the US, Britain and France, where the French edition sold out its first printing in three weeks. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cindy Sage and Nancy Evans - Wireless or Wellness - A Conversation on EMFs and technology New wireless technologies have changed the face of the world in the last decade. Cell and cordless phones, and the wireless towers that send their signals around town have very real bioeffects. Decision-makers and the public are just learning about possible health risks. What can you do to help protect your health? These and other important topics will be covered by Cindy Sage, Sage Associates, Co-Editor of the BioInitiative Report. She and 14 other scientists and public health experts have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey and Leila Masson - A Conversation on Freud, Animal's Emotional Lives and Environmental Factors in Human Development Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a writer who lives with his family in New Zealand. He has been a professor at several universities in Canada and America. After serving as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, he wrote a series of books critical of psychiatry and therapy. In the 1990s he turned his attention to animals, and in particular, their emotional lives. His book 'When Elephants Weep' became an international best seller, as was 'Dogs Never Lie About Love'. Since those two boo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Brody, Silent Spring Institute - Endocrine Disruptors in Indoor & Outdoor Air Julia Brody is a leader in research on environmental pollutants and breast cancer and in public engagement in science. She is the executive director of Silent Spring Institute, a research organization dedicated to studying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. Dr. Julie Brody and her team at the Silent Spring Institute in Massachusetts are well-known pioneers in exploring linkages between toxic chemicals exposures and breast cancer, prompted by the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Gerzon - Decision Making as if Consciousness Matters Mark Gerzon, a leader in building global community and conflict resolution, believes critical decisions are often deeply flawed because they are made in settings that neglect the importance of nurturing a consciousness that elicits our deepest wisdom. His passion is designing environments that meet Einstein's transformative challenge: to ensure that we do not try to solve problems on the same level awareness at which they were created. Join us for a very special New School Conversation. Ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Servan-Schreiber - A Conversation on Healing David Servan-Schreiber, author of "Healing Without Freud or Prozac", "Instinct to Heal" and "Anticancer, A New Way of Life". Michael Lerner conducted this interview on Friday, December 5, 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terry Tempest Williams - Finding Beauty in a Broken World Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to hear Terry Tempest Williams, one of the most exquisite and powerful voices for healing ourselves and the earth. Terry has been called “a citizen writer” who speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A gifted naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Terry has shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. “So here is my question,” she asks, “what might ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Gordon, M.D. - LIFE LESSONS IN HEALING: Cancer, Trauma, and Mind-Body Medicine Jim Gordon is one of America's leading authorities in mind-body medicine. He founded the influential Cancer Guides training program, sponsors the premier Food as Medicine training, and conducts Healing the Wounds of War trainings in Israel, Gaza and other conflict zones. Jim Gordon is the Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Georgetown Medical School, and recently served as Chairman of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Viederman - A Conversation on Socially Responsible Investing Stephen Viederman* is the former president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, from which he retired in April 2000. During his tenure the Foundation became a leader in mission-related investing, an effort to reduce the dissonance between the foundation�s investments and its grant-making values through portfolio screening, shareholder activity, and mission-related venture capital investing. This effort was widely recognized by the national press, including the New York Times, a variety of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Therese Poulsen - Yoga For Trauma Therese Poulsen is the founder and director of Breath of Hope Foundation, through which she brings yoga and integrative healing to children traumatized by natural disasters or war in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries in the Global South. Therese has been teaching yoga and integrative approaches to healing for over two decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Schettler, M.D., Medical Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network and Chair of the Science Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Recorded February 5th, 2007. This talk describes how his exploration of the effects of chemical contaminants on environmental health have led him into a comprehensive perspective on the interaction of genes, gene expression, nutrition, stress, income disparities, chemicals, and many other factors in human health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ram Dass and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen - Aging&Dying Ram Dass is a widely admired American spiritual teacher who suffered a disabling stroke some years ago and wrote about the experience in"Fierce Grace."Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, is Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal and Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. Now living on Maui, Ram Dass talked with Rachel Naomi Remen and Michael Lerner about what his stroke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D - Herbal Therapies and Integrative Approaches to Women's Health Dr. Fredi Kronenberg is Professor of Clinical Physiology and Director of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary&Alternative Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She received her B.S. from Cornell University in neurobiology and behavior and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in physiology, where she researched thermoregulatory and reproductive physiology. Her postdoctoral research at Columbia University initiated her work in womenOs health an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website