The Soul-Directed Life

October Theme: How do we live The 9 Containers of Love? Paul K. Chappell is an international peace educator, West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran, and author of the Road to Peace book series. After seeing violence up close in his childhood home and on the battlefield, Paul has dedicated his life to a new understanding of war and peace, rage and trauma, to show us a path to peace.

October Theme: How do we live The 9 Containers of Love? Banafsheh Sayyad and Andrew Harvey fell in love over Rumi's ecstatic poetry. She is Iranian-born master dance artist who fuses Sufi mysticism with the Divine Feminine in dance. He is a living mystic and voice of Sacred Activism. Together they explore the question, "How can we live life as a sacred dance?" (Note: there will be Rumi poetry in Persian!)

Ninth Container of Love: The Divine Feminine You are not only a genius, you are a feminine genius, a divine feminine genius. An intuitive, sensual, creative, confident, intelligent genius. The juicy, radiant LiYana Silver, author of Feminine Genius, is with us to help us tune in to our feminine genius so our overutilized, linear, competitive masculine genius can take a rest.

Ninth Container of Love: The Divine Feminine The Divine Feminine can be soft and loving or fierce and powerful. Across traditions, she appears as a black goddess-think Hindu Kali or Catholic Black Madonna. Devotional polytheist and Priestess of the Morrigan, Stephanie Woodfield, brings us her love of Irish mythology and deep relationship with the Celtic Dark Goddess so we can turn to her for strength and courage.

Ninth Container of Love: The Divine Feminine The Divine Feminine is all: the feminine, masculine, inside, outside, all in all. She is Twameva, the ancient Sanskrit hymn to the Mother. Divine life coach and deep student of the teachings of Yogananda, Usha Sharma, has been chanting Twameva her entire life. Come, listen, as Usha teaches us this sacred prayer beginning with a new understanding of the sounds of AUM.

Ninth Container of Love: The Divine Feminine Joyce Rupp is a member of the Servants of Mary, a spiritual midwife, and a world-renowned author of numerous best-sellers including two about her relationship with Sophia, the radiant Divine Feminine in the Wisdom Books of the Bible: The Star in My Heart and Prayers to Sophia. Who better to kick off our month in the arms of the Divine Feminine!

Eighth Container of Love: The Invisible Every year our host reads a few books that move her so strongly that she becomes an evangelist for them. In 2016, William Keepin's Belonging to God was one of those. Keepin's premise is that divine love is fractal. That means it is indivisible, holographic, and foundational. Just as fractals follow the quantum laws to create our universe, divine love is present in all spiritual traditions, creating a wildly diverse Oneness. It's not an accident that one week after William Keepin was on the show this past year, our host received The Nine Containers of Love. Join Janet and William for a deep dive into the fractal nature of divinity and the universe.

Eighth Container of Love: The Invisible Our host blesses the day she stumbled upon Lauralyn Bunn while researching the theta brainwave state for Writing Down Your Soul. She doesn't think she could have written any of her books or explored the fields of the soul so deeply without the guidance from the masters and teachers of the Akashic Record. (See Find Your Soul's Purpose, loop five, for their mind-bending explanation of how to change the past by not wanting to change it!) Lauralyn is a world-class consultant and trainer of the Akashic Records, and it is our host's great honor to invite you to sit with her as they probe the wisdom of the Records for guidance that can feed us right now.

Eighth Container of Love: The Invisible After a few millennia of patriarchy, the goddess, at last, is being heard and seen and felt in the land. Where do we find her? In our hearts, our bodies, our minds, our very cells. And who better to help us hear Her wisdom and feel her presence than Sally Kempton, author of Awakening Shakti. Enter the circle, as Sally intones the living presence of Mother Matangi, Durga. Kali, and more. Be with us as the goddess moves out of the Invisible and into our lives.

Eighth Container of Love: The Invisible When a breakthrough idea drops into our host's awareness or she receives an invitation to write a book or something happens in her personal life that she doesn't understand, she calls her dear friend Margo Mastromarchi to probe the angelic realm for guidance. Without fail, our host is led into a new level of understanding beyond anything she could have asked for or even imagined was possible. On today's show, join Margo and Janet for a rare hour with the angels.

Eighth Container of Love: The Invisible If you follow the Shift Network, you've been invited into collective meditation with David Nicol. He is the director of the Gaiafield Project and the Institute for Subtle Activism and the author of a worldview-changing book, Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation. On today's show, Janet talks with David to explore some deep questions: What is consciousness? Where does one mind end and another begin? Can a group generate collective transformation? And if so, how? Join the show and begin some subtle activism of your own.

Seventh Container of Love: Mother Earth and the Cosmos What is more fundamental: energy or intelligence? Is information physical? Can quantum physics and the theory of relativity be reconciled? What is the consciousness revolution? On today's show, Janet explores big questions like these with cosmologist, planetary healer, and futurist Jude Currivan. Jude has an advanced degree in physics from Oxford and one in archeology from the University of Reading in the U.K. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle along with Ervin Laszlo and the author of the breathtaking book (and our July book club selection): The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation.

Seventh Container of Love: Mother Earth and the Cosmos I had an intuitive numerology reading with Emma Kupu Mitchell on my birthday. One of the things that makes Emma's insights so special is the breadth of her wisdom, including astrology. Emma recommended Moon Astrology by evolutionary astrologer, Amy Herring. I not only read it, I invited Amy to be on the show. Can't wait to learn more about what the moon in our natal and progressed charts is telling us about what we are becoming.

Seventh Container of Love: Mother Earth and the Cosmos When Jacqueline Freeman's Song of Increase showed up in my mailbox, I wondered why Sounds True was sending me a book about beekeeping. I'm not a beekeeper ... But then, I opened it and I haven't put it down since. I may never. Because the bees have given us, through Jacqueline, a profound mystical treatise. This is a book to read in Lectio Divina, consuming and digesting just a few sentences at a time. Join us for bee insights into sound, scent, light, and more. Your eyes and your heart will open forever.

The Soul-Directed Life Book Club Selection for June: Conversations in the Spirit Sixth Container of Love: Mystics Did you miss the '70s spiritual revolution? (yeah, me too) Don't worry. It was captured on tape as Lex Hixon interviewed hundreds of new interspiritual voices on WBAI's famous program, "In the Spirit." More than 300 of those programs have been salvaged. Sheila Hixon compiled and edited 33 of them in an heart-opening time capsule, Conversations in the Spirit. She joins us to talk about Lex, their deep study of multiple traditions, and what it was like to sit with Krishnamurti, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Mary Bailey, Huston Smith, and more. Sheila is blessing us with clips from those shows, selected just for The Soul-Directed Life!