Eve Ensler — The Body After Cancer
2020-10-02
Eve Ensler has helped women all over the world tell the stories of their lives through the stories of their bodies. Her play, "The Vagina Monologues," has become a global force in the face of violence against women and girls.
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Reza Aslan — Islam's Reformation
2020-10-02
Reza Aslan opens a refreshing window on religion in the world and Islam in particular. It’s a longer view of history and humanity than news cycles invite — certainly when it comes to the Arab Spring, or to ISIS.
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Jane Gross — The Far Shore of Aging
2020-10-02
Jane Gross has explored this as a daughter and as a journalist, and as creator of the New York Times’ “New Old Age” blog. She has grounded advice and practical wisdom about caring for our loved ones and ourselves on the far shore of aging.
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Adam Grant — Successful Givers, Toxic Takers, and the Life We Spend at Work
2020-10-02
The organizational psychologist Adam Grant describes three human orientations, of which we are all capable: the givers, the takers, and the matchers. These also influence whether organizations are joyful or toxic for human beings.
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Jonathan Sacks — The Dignity of Difference
2020-10-02
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, speaks about how the faithful can and must cultivate their own deepest truths while finding God in the face of the stranger and the religious other.
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Brené Brown — The Courage to Be Vulnerable
2020-10-02
Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and n
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Louis Newman — The Refreshing Practice of Repentance
2020-10-02
Louis Newman, who has explored repentance as a ethicist and a person in recovery, opens this up as a refreshing practice for every life, even beyond the lifetime of those to whom we would make amends.
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Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves
2020-10-02
Philosopher, poet, and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht has struggled with suicidal places in her life and lost friends to it. As a scholar, she's now proposing a new cultural reckoning with suicide based on our essential need for each other.
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B.J. Miller — Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don’t Control
2020-10-02
As a palliative care physician, B.J. Miller brings a design sensibility to the matter of living until we die. He offers a transformative reframing on our imperfect bodies, the ways we move through the world, and all that we don’t control.
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Tiffany Shlain — Growing Up the Internet
2020-10-02
Tiffany Shlain reframes technology as an expression of the best of what humanity is capable. The internet is our global brain, towards which we can apply all the wisdom we are gaining about the brains in our heads and the character in our lives.
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Kevin Kling — The Losses and Laughter We Grow Into
2020-10-02
Kevin Kling is part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man. A treasured figure on the national storytelling circuit, his voice inhabits an unusual space — where a homegrown Minnesota wit meets Dante and Shakespeare.
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Krista Tippett — An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
2020-10-02
This episode, a “theft of the dial.” Writer and traveler Pico Iyer turns the tables on our host Krista Tippett by asking her the questions. An illuminating conversation on the mystery and art of living.
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Xavier Le Pichon — The Fragility at the Heart of Humanity
2020-10-02
French Geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon helped discover the field of plate tectonics. He is also a spiritual thinker, who raised his family in communities caring for people and families facing disability.
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Jean Berko Gleason — Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life
2020-10-02
Jean Berko Gleason is a legend in the field of psycholinguistics — how language emerges, and what it tells us about how we think and who we are. We keep learning about the human gift, as she puts it, to be conscious of ourselves and to comment on that.
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David Isay — Listening as an Act of Love
2020-10-02
"The soul is contained in the human voice," says David Isay, founder of StoryCorps. He shares his wisdom about listening as a sacred act of love, and how eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.
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Jonathan Haidt and Melvin Konner — Capitalism and Moral Evolution: A Civil Provocation
2020-10-02
The liberal view of capitalism as essentially exploitative may remain alive and well, Jonathan Haidt says. But the ironic truth of history is that capitalism actually generates liberal values as it takes root in societies.
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Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
2020-10-02
Alain de Botton is a philosopher who likes the best of religion, but doesn’t believe in God. So he’s created a global secular community — The School of Life. He explains why wisdom and ritual shouldn’t be reserved just for believers.
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Anil Dash — Tech's Moral Reckoning
2020-10-02
Anil Dash is a technologist, social media influencer, and vocal activist for moral imagination in the digital sphere. He believes that we can all contribute to the humane potential of technology in this moment.
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Joan Halifax — Finding Buoyancy Amidst Despair
2020-10-02
It’s easy to despair at all the bad news and horrific pictures that come at us daily. But Roshi Joan Halifax says this is a form of empathy that works against us. There’s such a thing as pathological altruism. This zen abbot and medical anthropologist has nourishing wisdom as we face suffering in the world.
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Rachel Yehuda — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations
2020-10-02
The new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the next generation. She has studied the children of Holocaust survivors and of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks. But her science is a form of power for flourishing beyond the traumas large and small that mark each of our lives and those of our families and communities.
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Alice Parker — Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts
2020-10-02
Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. Alice Parker is a wise, joyful thinker and writer on this truth, and has been a hero in the universe of choral music as a composer, conductor, and teacher for most of her 90 years.
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Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology of Self-Righteousness
2020-10-02
“When it comes to moral judgments, we think we are scientists discovering the truth, but actually we are lawyers arguing for positions we arrived at by other means.” The surprising psychology behind morality is at the heart of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s research. He explains “liberal” and “conservative” not narrowly or necessarily as political affiliations, but as personality types — ways of moving through the world. His self-described “conservative-hating, religion-hating, secular liberal instincts” have been challenged by his own studies.
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Nathalie Joachim — Song of Haiti’s Women
2020-10-02
Flutist and vocalist Nathalie Joachim is a magnetic voice of one of the unexpected aspects of our globalized world — new generations reclaiming and falling in love anew with the places their parents left. In an odyssey through songs of women, Nathalie Joachim is immersing in Haiti’s ecological and political traumas, as well as its beauty and its promise. She is co-founder of the urban art pop duo Flutronix and is based in Brooklyn.
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Frank Wilczek — Why Is the World So Beautiful?
2020-10-02
Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek sees beauty as a compass for truth, discovery, and meaning. His book “A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design” is a long meditation on the question: “Does the world embody beautiful ideas?” He’s the unusual scientist willing to analogize his discoveries about the deep structure of reality with deep meaning in the human everyday. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
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This Is Your Brain on Sex
2020-10-02
Anthropologist Helen Fisher explores the biological workings of our intimate passions, the brew of chemicals, hormones, and neurotransmitters that make the thrilling and sometimes treacherous realms of love and sex. In the research she does for match.com and her TED Talks that have been viewed by millions of people, she wields science as an entertaining, if sobering, lens on what feel like the most meaningful encounters of our lives. In this deeply personal conversation, she shows how it is possible to take on this knowledge as a form of wisdom and power.
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The Moral World in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now — Lyndsey Stonebridge
2020-10-02
Nothing is helping us more right now, as we watch human tragedies unfold on the U.S.-Mexican border and elsewhere, than a conversation Krista had last year with literary historian Lyndsey Stonebridge — on thinking and friendship in dark times. She applies the moral clarity of the 20th-century philosopher Hannah Arendt to now — an invitation to dwell on the human essence of events we analyze as political and economic. Our dramas of exile and displacement are existential, she says — about who we will all be as people and political community. What Arendt called the “banality of evil” was at root an inability to hear another voice. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
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