The New Dimensions Café

Ellen Dee Davidson is an advocate for the health of forests. Besides her memoir, she’s the author of a number of children's books, also worked as an elementary, piano, and creative writing teacher and raised two daughters. She lives with her husband in the redwoods of northern California where she regularly sits with trees in a form of “forest bathing”. She is the author of Stolen Voices: In a City Ruled by Silence Can One Girl’s Voice Make a Difference? (Turtleback Books Library Binding 2005), Princess Justina Albertina (Charlesbridge 2007), Zoe the Misfit (Boulden Publishing 2008), Wind (Luminare Press 2022) and Wild Path to the Sacred Heart (A Forest Bathing Memoir) (Star Tree Press 2019)Interview Date: 3/27/2023    Tags: Ellen Dee Davidson, power spot, nature, trees, hubris, logical brain, sentience of nature, consciousness, David Milarch, ancestor tree, Diana Beresford Kroeger, living lineage, Findhorn community, Dorothy Maclean, plant entities, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Personal Transformation

Jake Eagle, LPC, is a psychotherapist, mindfulness instructor, fellow member trainer of the International Association of Neuro‑Linguistic Programming, and cofounder of Live Conscious. After thirty years in private practice, Jake now works part-time as a meta-therapist, working with people who want to go beyond the bounds of traditional therapy. Together, he and his wife, Hannah, lead life-changing small group retreats at awe-inspiring locations around the world. Michael Amster, MD, is a physician and faculty member at Touro School of Medicine. With twenty years as a pain management specialist, he is currently the founding director of the pain management department at Santa Cruz Community Health. A practitioner of meditation for over thirty years, he is also a certified yoga and meditation teacher. He splits his time between clinical work, research on awe, teaching mindfulness, and leading awe-inspiring retreats around the world. Jake Eagle & Michael Amster, M.D. are co-authors of The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day (Hachette Books 2023)Interview Date: 3/3/2023   Tags: Jake Eagle, Michael Amster, awe, meditation, mindfulness, Personal Transformation, Meditation, Health & Healing

Neil Theise, M.D. Is a practicing pathologist and leading stem cell researcher as well as an explorer in the nature of consciousness and its relationship to us and the cosmos as revealed in complexity theory. He is also a senior student of Zen Buddhism at the Village Zendo in New York City under the guidance of Roshi Enkyo O'Hara. He is the author of Notes On Complexity: A Scientific Theory Of Connection, Consciousness And Being. (Spiegel and Grau 2023)Interview Date: 2/25/2023  Tags: Neil Theise, physics, chaos theory, complexity theory, ant colony, biological cells, quantum level of reality, spacetime, nature of mind, consciousness is fundamental, materialistic science, Newtonian mechanics, quenched disorder, AI, artificial intelligence, panpsychism, consciousness, mind is not the brain, materiality, materialism, non-material, randomness, covid pandemic, human heart, Science, Buddhism, Personal Transformation

Matthew Fox, Ph.D. is a priest and was a member of the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church for thirty-four years. He holds a doctorate in History and Theology of Spirituality and is a scholar in residence with the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as founder and president of Friends of Creation Spirituality. He is the author of more than thirty booksTags: Matthew Fox, Thomas Merton, mysticism, Ted Roszak, eros, silence, New Grange, Rachel Carson, monasticism, God the Mother, Spirituality, Social Change, Politics, Philosophy

Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. was a psychotherapist in private practice and a college professor of psychology and history. Now through her webinars, podcasts, live workshops, books, and articles, as well as one-on-one life coaching, Carolyn is touching the lives of thousands to assist them in deeply adapting and becoming resilient in the face of the unprecedented changes confronting humanity. She works closely with Andrew Harvey for the Institute for Sacred Activism. She is the author of Undaunted: Living Fiercely into Climate Meltdown in an Authoritarian World (Apocryphile Press 2022) and Radical Regeneration: Sacred Activism and the Renewal of the World (co-author Andrew Harvey) (Inner Traditions 2022)Interview Date: 2/17/2023    Tags: Carolyn Baker, planetary predicament, polycrisis, sacred assignment, uncertainty, Piave River disaster, relying on experts, shadow work, acting with compassion and kindness, Social Change/Politics, Spiritualty, Personal Transformation

Carolyn Resnick is the founder of The Resnick Method of Horsemanship and offers many online courses, clinics, retreats, and certification opportunities that create a magical connection with horses using rituals that are innate to the horse. She is a master horse communicator who grew up with horses and spent three summers of her childhood gradually becoming accepted into a community of wild horses, culminating in her ability to ride a lead mare bareback and without a bridle. She is the author of Naked Liberty: Memoirs of My Childhood, Guided by Passion, Educated by Wild Horses (Amigo Publications, Inc. 2005). Interview Date: 10/18/2022    Tags: Carolyn Resnick, Horses, pecking order, language of horses, code of leadership, leading from behind, trust, Horse trailer, bird on horse’s head, reciprocal relationship, The Camargue horses, Animals

Howard Eisenberg, M.D. is a medical doctor with additional postgraduate training in both psychology and psychiatry. He’s also been awarded a postgraduate degree for his parapsychological research on telepathy. He is the author of Inner Spaces: Parapsychological Exploration of the Mind (Musson Book Co. 1977) and Dream It to Do It: The Science and the Magic—Decoding Reality 2.0 (Syntrek® Inc. 2021)Interview Date: 1/20/2023    Tags: Howard Eisenberg, consensus reality, imagination, lucid dreaming, three brain systems, soul gazing, neurodeviant, neurodivergent people, Golden Rule, Philosophy, Personal Transformation. Meditation, Dreams

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, environmentalist, and award-winning author. In 2014, on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Williams received the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. She is the author of many books including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon 1991), Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert (Vintage Books 2002), When Women Were Birds (Sarah Crichton Books: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012) and The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016)Interview Date: 6/11/2016     Tags: Terry Tempest Williams, National Parks, sacred lands, mountain lion, Big Bend National Park, Jackson Hole, Grand Teton National Park, Grizzly bear, wolves, Yellowstone, keystone species, public lands, public commons, Ecology/Nature/Environment, History, Social Change/Politics, Animals, Travel

Carol Pearson, Ph.D. is an expert in depth psychology and transformational leadership as well as archetypal narrative intelligence. She has served as profession at several universities and colleges and also served as president of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. She was the senior editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice. She is the author of such classic works as: The Hero Within (republished, Harper Elixir 2015), Awakening the Heroes Within (Harper Elixir 2015), The Hero and the Outlaw (McGraw Hill Education 2001) (co-author Margaret Mark), Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within (Harper Elixir 2016)Tags: Carol Pearson, narrative intelligence, stories, curiosity, Zeus, storytelling, Persephone, fear, anxiety, yoga, archetypal downloads, Demeter, Mother Teresa, Dionysus, celebration, Mythology, Personal Transformation

Karan Bajaj was born and raised in India, and trained as a Hatha Yoga teacher in the Sivananda ashram in South India. He learned meditation in the Himalayas. He's been named one of India Today's Top 35 Under 35. He lives in New York City but soon will be returning to India with his wife and young daughter. He is the author of several novels, including: Johnny Gone Down (Harper Collins 2010), Keep off the Grass (Harper Collins, India 2008) and The Yoga of Max's Discontent (known in India as The Seeker) (Riverhead 2016).Tags: Karan Bajaj, yoga, sabbatical, surrender, India, resilience, yoga retreat, cold showers, power of physical discomfort, Cambodia orphanage, Purusha, enlightenment, Work, Livelihood, Spirituality, Meditation