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For over 25 years on KBOO, the Pathways interview program has offered lively, original conversations with leaders in personal and cultural transformation. Over the years, we have been honored to bring to KBOO listeners some of the biggest names in the field -- including: Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, John Gray, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and hundreds of other authors and teachers. In addition, we make it a point to host local talent -- people who are making a positive cultural difference in our Oregon radio community.
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Brain Circus
Michelle’s “keeping it real” personality and entrepreneur style has been described as vivacious, committed as a catalyst able to see beyond reality, a wordsmith wizard, and a playful connector and leader. She can often be found goofing with her sweet-love son, dancing, or gratefully working with amazing everyday visionaries dedicated to an integrated and kind world. Yet don’t let her spunk and business mindedness distract you from her focused devotion to cultivating awareness around what she calls our super powers of acceptance, curiosity, and connection as the elixir of youth, health, and living wholeheartedly.
Her current creative ventures are Brain Circus; a community festive-ALL premiering in Portland in 2012, which offers play based learning for adults, brain science, and local community based businesses, and Divine Deviants; a women’s collaborative business supportive of the storytelling and promotion of the everyday unsung hero and grassroots philanthropy.
She’s played in many sandboxes of the working world, mostly within practices or businesses that help heal or transform the bodies, minds, and spirits of individuals or groups. Oh, and there were also those stints as a restorer of a lighthouse ship and Head Fudgemaker as well.
- Title: Pathways: Michelle Wirta speaks with host Paul O'Brien
- Length: 27:56 minutes (31.97 MB)
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
Our guest on Pathways today is Jonah Lehrer, author of the new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. He is also a contributing editor at Wired and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He writes the "Head Case" column for the Wall Street Journal and regularly appears on WNYC's Radiolab. The author of two previous books, Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide, he graduated from Columbia University and attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
- Artist: Paul O'Brien
- Title: Pathways Radio: Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine: How Creativity Works"
- Album: Pathways
- Date: 2012
- Producer: Paul O'Brien
- Length: 29:09 minutes (33.37 MB)
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The Economics of Happiness
Our guest on Pathways today is Helena Norberg-Hodge, analyst, author, speaker, filmmaker, and producer of a new award-winning documentary entitled The Economics of Happiness. Helena is the founder and director of International Society for Ecology and Culture. She is a pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, and has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. Trained in linguistics, she has given public lectures in seven languages, and has appeared on broadcast, print, and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The London Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. Her ground-breaking work in Ladakh, or ‘Little Tibet’, earned her the Right Livelihood Award, or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ and her book, Ancient Futures, along with a film of the same title, has been translated into more than 40 languages.
www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org
- Artist: Pathways
- Title: Pathways Radio presents: The Economics of Happiness
- Length: 27:04 minutes (30.98 MB)
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Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds
Our guest on Pathways today is Scott Teitsworth, author of the new book, Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds: The Bhagavad Gita as Psychadelic Guide. Scott is a lifelong student of Indian philosophy and modern science under the tutelage of Nitya Chaitanya Yati, himself a disciple of Nataraja Guru, in the lineage of Narayana Guru. An editor of books written by these gurus, he and his wife host the Portland branch of the Narayana Gurukula, where they have taught classes on the Bhagavad Gita and Indian philosophy since the 1970s.
- Length: 29:03 minutes (33.24 MB)
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Modern Storytelling
Our guest today on Pathways is storyteller Will Hornyak. From Irish folktales and American tall tales to Native American legends, Russian fairytales and beyond, Will weaves a wide web of well-crafted stories into energetic and highly engaging performances. A former newspaper reporter in Latin America, he combines an understanding of world cultures with a love for the rhythm and music of language. A strong advocate for storytelling as a tool for personal and social empowerment, Will has performed and offered workshops for the Multnomah County Juvenile Justice Dept., the Oregon State Penitentiary (Salem), the American Cancer Society, the Oregon Early Childhood Education Council and numerous businesses, schools and colleges. He teaches classes in storytelling at Marylhurst University and Lewis and Clark College and performs throughout the Northwest and beyond. He was awarded the Brimstone Grant from the National Storytelling Association for his environmental education program: Living Streams: Stories for Healthy Watersheds.
- Length: 30:08 minutes (34.49 MB)
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Pity the Billionaire
Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least it's supposed to. But when today's guest set out in 2009 to look for expressions of American discontent, all he could find were loud demands that the economic system be made even harsher on the recession's victims and that society's traditional winners receive even grander prizes. Today we will examine the peculiar mechanism by which dire economic circumstances have delivered wildly unexpected political results. Our guest on Pathways today is Thomas Frank, the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, What's the Matter with Kansas?, and One Market Under God. A former opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and a monthly columnist for Harper's. He lives outside Washington, D.C.
- Length: 28:53 minutes (33.05 MB)
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Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Michael Erard is the author of the new book, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners. He has graduate degrees in linguistics and rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin. He's written about language, linguists, and linguistics for Science, Slate, Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and New Scientist, among many other publications. Erard is a contributing writer for Design Observer and blogs for Psychology Today. He is also the author of Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean. Erard speaks some Chinese and some Spanish but does not call himself trilingual. In the course of writing BABEL NO MORE, he had his own brain scanned, travelled to three continents and made a fool of himself - while thoroughly enjoying doing so - in Hindi, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
More information about Babel No More is available at Books on KBOO.
- Title: Author Michael Erard speaks with host Paul O'Brien about his new book.
- Length: 29:33 minutes (27.05 MB)
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The Effect of Buddhism on World Culture
Today on Pathways we are visiting with Dr. Robert Thurman, author of several books on Buddhism and Tibet, including Why the Dalai Lama Matters and he is the founder of the Tibet House, a non-profit dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture, located in New York City. Well-known as a leading figure in terms of the transmission of Buddhist culture and ideas to the United States, Robert Thurman is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University, co-founder along with Richard Gere, of the Tibet House, and yes, he is Uma Thurman's dad.
- Length: 29:31 minutes (27.02 MB)
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Freedom From Religion Foundation
Today on Pathways we are visiting with Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. A former minister and evangelist, Dan became a freethinker in 1983. His books, Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children and Losing Faith in Faith From Preacher To Atheist are published by the Foundation. His newest book, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists, was published in 2008. A graduate of Azusa Pacific University with a degree in Religion, Dan now puts his knowledge of Christianity to effective freethought use. A professional pianist and composer, Dan performs freethought concerts and is featured in the Foundation's musical cassettes, "My Thoughts Are Free," "Reason's Greetings," "Dan Barker Salutes Freethought Then And Now," a 2-CD album "Friendly Neighborhood Atheist," and the CD "Beware of Dogma." He joined the Foundation staff in 1987 and served as public relations director. He was first elected co-president in November 2004.
- Title: Freethinker Dan Barker speaks with host, Paul O'Brien
- Length: 27:53 minutes (25.52 MB)
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The Open Center
Today on Pathways we are visiting with Ralph White at the Open Center, which he co-founded 27 years ago, and serves as creative director. It's truly one of America's leading institutions of holistic learning and world culture in America. In addition, Ralph is an international speaker on spirituality, consciousness and the history of the western tradition. He is also editor of the award-winning Lapis Magazine and taught the first fully accredited course in holistic learning at NYU. His story, "A Walk on the Wild Side of Tibet," was published in the book, Tibet: True Stories.
- Artist: Pathways Radio with Paul O'Brien
- Title: RalphWhite
- Year: 2011
- Producer: PAUL OBRIEN
- Length: 29:28 minutes (26.98 MB)
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This author's name in Dr.
This author's name in Dr. Robert Moss and you will find several books on dreaming by him - one of the foremost authorities on dreaming, no doubt.
Pathways show- 2-01-09
Thanks, for the shows Sunday mornings; great way to start the week, and so glad to hear OCOM sponsoring you. Will be sure to mention this next visit we make there.
The "Well Dressed Ape" this AM was simply scintillating!
todays PATHWAY guest
Today's topic was particularly interesting, I would love to locate his website. He said it is www.connecttogod.com unfortunately this address sends the searcher to a christian website certainly not the site I was anticipating. Please send me more info so I am able to locate the correct site.
I did not catch the Rabi's name. The discussion was Kabalah and Neurology.
Thank you,
Colleen
Last weeks' show on forgiveness
Hi-
Great show last Sunday. Could you please remind me of the name of the author and her book? Didn't have a pen handy when the show was one and want to follow up.
Thanks,
Shari
Hello & Happy New Year
Hi Tom,
Crystal Wendekier, former Events Coordinator of East West Bookshop in Seattle, here to say hello and Happy New Year. I hope this email finds you well.
I decided to give up on the real estate business in Seattle. I finished graduate school in June 2008 and recently relocated to my home town of Sacramento, CA. I received a Master of Science Degree in Applied Behavioral Science with a focus on leadership and organizational development from Bastry University.
I'm currently looking for full-time or consulting work in Event/Program Management in the Sacramento area. I was wondering if you'd write a recommendation for me on my professional networking webpage at www.LinkedIn.com about my event work with you over the years when I was at East West. I would greatly appreciate it. You can see my webpage at: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/crystal/wendekier. You will need to sign into view my full webpage.
Please let me know if you ever need my help with your events.
Thanks,
Crystal Wendekier
crystalw38@yahoo.com
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Guest on Pathways on 7/6
Dear Paul,
Please let me know who your guest on 7/6, was, and any contact info., i.e. website.
It was a really good interview, as always, but it was cut off a few minutes early.
Thank you, and I love Pathways! Keep up the good work.
Mary
Guest on 7/6
The guest on Pathways on July 6, 2008 was Ainslie MacLeod, author of The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended
How new age "tarot" damages culture
Tarot readers are promoting stereotypes which have been harmful to the interests of game players. Many card game websites are being targeted by "psychic reading" Google ads which are inappropriate to their content. Card game websites such as Webtarot.fr, Letarot.net, and Tarotux.org have also been wrongly categorized as "occult" or "paranormal" by internet filtering software programs such as SonicWall. An online forum for the popular Hoyle Card Games CD-ROM software even displayed a complaint from a misinformed Christian user because of the software's inclusion of the modern French tarot card game. These are just three examples of the damage these stereotypes have been causing.
Tarot is the trick taking card game that brought forth the notion of a trump suit in card games. Tarot, like contract bridge and skat, has been called the "chess of card games" for good reason. Tarot has clearly made a valuable contribution to our game playing culture. This contribution is sadly being obscured by those who continue to sell tarot exclusively as a fortune telling or divination tool. Websites such as Tarot.com, Belief.net, Tickle.com and others have been misleading the general public into believing that tarot is nothing but an occult instrument. The notion that tarot cards are only used for fortune telling or the occult is completely false.
Paul O'Brien, CEO of Tarot.com, has made some assertions about tarot for which there is no evidence at all. "It was masquerading as a card game for a long time because people could be burned at the stake for using it" and "It was more related to alchemy than religion." are some prime examples as quoted by Belief.net of O'Brien's Da Vinci Code style campaign of disinformation. There is no provable historical link between tarot cards and astrology, Kabbalah, alchemy or any other esoteric phenomena. There is also no evidence to indicate that tarot cards were intended for any other purpose than for the play of card games. The business arrangement between Tarot.com and large corporations such as AOL (America Online) and Glam Media assures us that O'Brien's pseudo-history is widely accepted as fact.
Another popular website guilty of distorting tarot is the social networking site Tickle.com, which is owned by Monster.com. On Tickle.com's tarot reading page we find this false assertion "The practice of reading Tarot cards dates back to the Egyptians." Contemporary research disputes Tickle.com's false statement. Tarot cards began to appear in early to mid 15th century Italy. The practice of reading tarot cards dates no earlier than the 18th century.
The general public has been duped by the "new age" publishing industry and by the uncritical mainstream media regarding tarot's true heritage. The connection of tarot cards with the occult is based on false histories concerning the decks origins. The occult activities should in no way be seen as genuine tarot. Genuine tarot is a type of card game. The tarot game is very popular right now in France, Canada, and practically any place the French language is spoken. There is also a similar game played in Austria and surrounding areas known as "tarock." Many players of tarot card games, nowadays, use a more modern deck with double-ended court cards and conventional playing card suits of hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds and the trump cards sport arbitrary scenes of 19th century Europe. Not only is tarot currently played as a card game in continental Europe, there are efforts to import these games to other parts of the world. Unfortunately, the widespread promotion of fortune telling stereotypes in connection with tarot cards has had an inhibiting effect on cultural exchange and innovation.
Tarot cards, history
Imagine someone who is so passionate about card games to deny that a deck of cards could be used any other way (including divination) than the way he likes ... and to think that he equates such misuse of cards with causing damage to culture! Is just playing cards so important? Is it more important than the effort to achieve greater understanding of the meaning of one's life, for instance -- whether you agree with the methodology or not?
There are lots of ways to do divination, and Tarot is definitely one of them, but Tarockspieler conflates divination with fortune-telling, betraying the fact that he/she doesn't know much about the difference between them. I would recommend my book, Divination.
I quite agree with his/her assessment of Tickle and most sites, as well as the abundance of fraudulent practitioners in the world of Tarot readings. I am well aware of the controversies about the origins of the Tarot deck, including the reductionist denial history that Tarockspieler subscribes to. On the basis of my sources, which I do not want to discuss in a Pathways forum (but would be happy to share via a more appropriate forum), I find it overly simplistic to categorically assert, as Tarock does, that there was no spiritual dimension to the origins of the Tarot symbology, which includes astrological, numerological and Kaballic corespondences. He/she can write or email to me directly for those sources if so desired.
I would share them here, but this post is completely misplaced on a KBOO forum related to the Pathways radio program, of which I happen to be a host, but which has nothing to do with Tarot per se, and has only featured a couple interviews on the topic in the past 24 years. Why was this post, which only has to do with my "day-job," posted here??? I have a blog on Tarot.com that would be more appropriate.
Tarot Cards, History
Great write up! I have a two trusted Tarot readers that are sincere prationers and their clientel are equally sincere for the most part. And as for myself I treat their knowlege and profession with respect and reverence. Being that we're resourcing the infinite divine upon potential directions that lay before us in life we'd might as well be respectful about it. Being respectful and sincere about this artform and you'll glean truthful results within the infinite sea of probabilities (quantum field).
I'd like to share more on the topic however, it may be a better idea to continue with this discussion later at your Tarot.com site.
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