The Soul-Directed Life

Big Question: How shall I nourish my beautiful life? Gabriel Horn (White Deer of Autumn) is a writer and teacher of Native American history, culture, and spirituality. Gabriel and his wife Amy Krout-Horn are the authors of many books on conscious living including Native Heart, Ceremony: In the Circle of Life, and The Book of Ceremonies. He joins us to share several simple yet powerful ceremonies we can bring into our lives to nourish our souls.

Big Question: How shall I nourish my beautiful life? Lupa is an artist, writer, and naturalist with a gift for understanding ecopsychology. In our focus this month on nourishing a beautiful life, we are encouraged to deepen our spiritual connection to the earth and rejoin the community of nature. Lupa invites us to explore not just symbols of nature, but to bury our hands in the earth and work with the real thing. This isn't just another list of totem meanings-this conversation will empower you to discover your own totems and make them a part of your everyday life.

Big Question: How shall I nourish my beautiful life? Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned expert, author, and speaker on the world's chakra systems, the subtle body, and the healing power of empathy. Cyndi conducts client sessions and training classes throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. If you are looking to nourish your beautiful life, it is essential to understand the energy flowing in and through your chakra energy fields.

Big Question: How do I choose the seeds of my life? Our big circle theme for The Soul-Directed Life this year: "The Life Cycle of Nature and Creativity," comes from The Soul Discovery Coloring Book: Noodle, Doodle, and Scribble Your Way to an Extraordinary Life. I was blessed to collaborate on this fun, fun coloring book that goes way beyond coloring with Toronto artist and sister of my heART, Christine Pensa. Join us for the Book Launch Party! There will be soul scribbling (bring colored pencils!), drawings for goodies, party favors for all, and opportunities to invite us into your home!

Big Question: How do I choose the seeds of my life? Ralph White cofounded the New York Open Center, America's leading urban center of holistic learning, and edited the award-winning Lapis magazine. A pioneer in the global consciousness movement, Ralph has created numerous international conferences on depth subjects including the Art of Dying and the lost spiritual history of the West. He joins us to talk about his spiritual memoir, The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning.

Big Question: How do I choose the seeds of my life? Colleen Mauro has 30 years of experience in magazine publishing and a lifelong interest in untapped powers of the mind. She created Intuition magazine, offering research and how-to information on ways of knowing. She joins us to share a lifetime of research in Spiritual Telepathy: Ancient Techniques to Access the Wisdom of Your Soul.

Big Question: How do I choose the seeds of my life? From dancing to forgiving, from walking at dawn to sharing dinner with a stranger, Rivvy Neshama invites us to find the sacred in unexpected places and everyday life. Her award-winning Recipes for a Sacred Life is filled with short, true tales that are magical yet filled with down-to-earth heart and humor, and connect us more deeply with love, joy, and purpose.

Big Question: How can I open to possibility? My listeners know Writing Down Your Soul is a powerful tool to awaken the "extraordinary Voice within." But what other methods open your internal wisdom? Elaine Clayton, author of Making Marks, is an artist, children's author, illustrator, and intuitive psychic. Everything she does is about seeing with your third eye. We all have access to this third-eye wisdom through intuitive drawing. It's playful, it's delightful, it's easy, and it's astonishingly evocative-mysticism with a colored pencil! What a way to open to possibility.

Big Question: How can I open to possibility? Carl McColman is a member of the Lay Cistercians of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit, a contemplative community in Georgia under the spiritual guidance of Trappist monks. What can Cistercian wisdom, the practice of Thomas Merton and Thomas Keating, offer us in our quest to "open to possibility?" Can humility, silence, compassion, and contemplation-the prayer of the heart-feed us amidst all the commotion in our crazy, busy lives?

Big Question: How can I open to possibility? Dan Millman, the peaceful warrior, joins us to kick off our fourth year with a rich conversation about the FOUR purposes of life. Yes, four. He'll teach us the four purposes, give a live demonstration of his life path number system, and help us see the plan in our own crazy zigzag career paths. Plus, Janet will introduce the new circle for the year: The Life Cycle of Nature and Creativity. This is the year of the double divine feminine-and it begins with opening to possibility in all four purposes of life.

The Call to Enter the Dreamtime It doesn't seem possible, but we have walked the Medicine Wheel for a full year, traveling through the four directions and seasons, and responding to the energy and wisdom Sun Bear and Wabun Wind describe so beautifully in Dancing With the Wheel. It is my great joy to invite my first teacher, Charlotte Starfire, to be with us on this last show of the year. Charlotte apprenticed with Sun Bear and OhShinnah Fast Wolf. Charlotte built the Medicine Wheel at the Kashi Interspiritual Ashram where we just held our Soul-Directed Life 2015 retreat. She will speak in depth about her life with the wheel, and we will both share our personal prayers of the seven directions. Come, celebrate, and honor the wheel!

The Call to Enter the Dreamtime Robert Waggoner is a past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and the author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. He is the coeditor of the online journal Lucid Dreaming Experience. Robert joins us to explain his simple technique to become consciously aware of your dreams, a revolutionary psychological tool to investigate the deeper aspects of the dream state, consciousness, and the mind. And yet, as his new book Lucid Dreaming, Plain and Simple, reminds us, it's simple!

The Call to Enter the Dreamtime Dr. Michael Lennox is a practicing psychologist and one of the most respected and sought-after dream interpreters in the United States. He has interpreted thousands of dreams in the past 20 years. He's the author of the popular book Dream Sight and joins us to share his brand-new Complete Dictionary of Dreams, with more than 1,000 dream symbols explained! A dream that stumped me about scorpions falling out of the ceiling (!) now makes perfect sense. This is going to be an amazing conversation.

The Call to Honor the Wisdom of the Elder Mark Nepo hit The New York Times best-seller list with The Book of Awakening, the story of his journey through cancer. His loving readers have eaten up all his books since, including Seven Thousand Ways to Listen and The Endless Practice. Mark is beloved because he so authentically shares his journey. Speaking with the compassion of someone who's been there, he returns to The Soul-Directed Life to give us a peek Inside the Miracle to help us deal with our own difficult diagnoses or significant life challenges.

The Call to Honor the Wisdom of the Elder Mirabai Starr is a beloved special guest on The Soul-Directed Life. It was Mirabai who shifted the content of the show into the mystical realms when she shared the universal truths of the mystics of all traditions and ages in June 2013. People call her "Mystical Mirabai." She earned this title by living a beautiful life in communion with the Beloved. But it hasn't been easy. When her 14-year-old daughter died, Mirabai's heart burst wide, exposing the deeper mysteries of life. Mirabai tells the story in her brand-new memoir, Caravan of No Despair.