Carolyn Baker, PhD, works closely with the Institute for Sacred Activism. She is a former psychotherapist and professor of psychology and history who writes the Daily News Digest. She offers life and leadership coaching and spiritual counseling. She is author of several books including, Undaunted: Living Fiercely into Climate Meltdown in an Authoritarian World, Dark [...]

Swami Dayananda Saraswati was a member of the Order of Sanyasins, or spiritual renunciates. He is author of several books including The Value of Values, Who am I?, and Commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita. Here he points out that all human activity is based on a quality of non-self-acceptance. When we feel ourselves to be [...]

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.  He is author of several books including Flow, The Evolving Self and Creativity.  Here he discusses the results of over thirty years researching the lives of highly creative individuals. He points out that creativity involves a lifelong commitment that begins with one’s personal [...]

In this 2016 video he addresses misconceptions about the possibilities of remote viewing training. He states that statistical analysis of the U.S. government’s twenty-year remote viewing project failed to yield evidence that any training methods were successful. At least three different approaches were involved, including the methodology developed by Ingo Swann that has become the [...]

In this video from 2017, he suggests that the human condition has always been tragic and will remain so — because all humans carry within themselves a burden of unrecognized rage and false beliefs. The best way to cope with tragedy, he maintains, is to engage in a process of illuminating and modifying these false [...]

Sarah describes how her psychic abilities gave her an extra edge as a paramedic while helping people in life and death moments.

Ruth-Inge Heinze is author of Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today and Shamans of the Twentieth Century. She describes shamans as experts in the use of altered states of consciousness and sacred rituals in the service of their communities. She discusses her fieldwork with over a hundred shamans in both urban and rural settings.