The New Dimensions Café

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who, for over three decades, has been teaching in the fields of poetry and spirituality. As a cancer survivor, Mark remains committed to the usefulness of daily inner life. He devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.He is the author of 17 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012) and The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your Heart (Atria Books 2016), His many audio learning courses include Staying Awake (Sounds True 2012) and Holding Nothing Back (Sounds True 2012)Interview Date: 7/18/2016  Tags: Mark Nepo, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Prayers for the Cosmos, Jesus, wholehearted, halfhearted, suffering, pain, upaguru, fear, lack, Spirituality, Personal Transformation

May McCarthy has co-founded and grown six successful companies over her thirty-year career, with the largest growing to over $100 million in annual revenues. She is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, angel investor, and philanthropist. She is the author of The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance (Hierophant Publishing 2015)Tags: May McCarthy, gratitude, spiritual partner, CSO, Chief Spiritual Officer, intuition, gut instinct, goals, Self Help, Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Soul, Spirit Guides, Angels, pirit

Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, public speaker, and founder of the Awakening Coaching. He is the author of many books including: The Translucent Revolution (New World Library 2005) and Better Than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching (Awakening Coaching 2013). John Gray, Ph.D. is a leading relationship expert. His unique focus is assisting men and women in understanding, respecting and appreciating their differences. He is the author of: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (Harper 2012). Gray and Ardagh are co-authors of: Conscious Men (Self X Press 2016)Tags: Arjuna Ardagh, John Gray, anger, passive aggression, hormonal differences between men and women, reptilian brain, monkey brain, men's groups, Relationship, Partnership, Sexuality, Women's Studies, Men's Studies

Mark Gober is an avid curator and researcher of scientific papers and books about consciousness, biological processes, psychic phenomena, near-death experiences, and quantum physics. He was a partner at the Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, California, which advises technology companies on mergers and acquisitions. He has also worked as an investment banker analyst in New York and has been named one of IAM’s strategy 300 (IAM hosts the world’s leading intellectual property strategists). Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University where he wrote his award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize-winning “Prospect Theory” and was elected a captain of Princeton’s Division I Tennis Team. He is the author of several books including:An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life (Waterside Productions 2018), An End to Upside Down Liberty: Turning Traditional Political Thinking on Its Head to Break Free from Enslavement (Waterside Productions 2022) and An End to Upside Down Contact: UFOs, Aliens, and Spirits—and Why Their Ongoing Interaction with Human Civilization Matters (Waterside Productions 2022) Interview Date: 11/4/2022   Tags: Mark Gober, nonhuman contact, Ezekiel’s vision, temptation of Jesus, alien encounters, benevolent aliens, malevolent aliens, Tower of Babel, Elohim, Old Testament, Frances Crick, double helix, DNA, Saviors in spiritual traditions, intention, demonic energies, goodness, love, fear, good and evil, darkness, light, Parapsychology/Paranormal; Spirit Guides/Angels/Spirit, History

Barbara E Hort, Ph.D. is a Jungian counselor. She provides consultation and training in the theatrical practice of psychodramaturgy in which she provides material on the psychological dynamics of a play that can be used by performing artists to enhance their storytelling. She is the author of Unholy Hungers: Encountering the Psychic Vampire in Ourselves and Others (Shambhala 1996) and Hollow Crown of Fire: A Discovery of Meaning in the Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Predecessors (White Horse Wordsmithing 2022).Interview Date: 12/16/2022   Tags: Barbara E Hort, coronavirus, Dante’s Inferno, historical pandemics, Persephone, metamorphosis, Mary Oliver, uncertainty, wearing masks, shelter in place, tang ping, lying flat, slowing down, Health & Healing, History, Mythology, Personal Transformation

Mark Vanhoenacker is a seasoned, long-haul commercial pilot and a brilliant lyrical writer about his journeys as experienced both from the air and on the ground where he chronicles for us some of the planet’s great cities. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, in Western Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. He is the author of Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Alfred Knopf 2015), How to Land a Plane (The Experiment; Illustrated edition, 2019) and Imagine a City: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World.Interview Date: 11/4/2022    Tags: Mark Vanhoenacker, piloting, wonder, awe, Pittsfield MA, Tokyo, Keeler CA, road signs, Philosophy, Travel, Writing

Stephen Jenkinson is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer. He has a master’s degree in theology from Harvard University and a master’s degree in social work. He was formerly a program director at a major Canadian hospital and medical-school assistant professor. He has worked extensively with dying people and their families and is a consultant to palliative care and hospice organizations. He is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School in Canada and is the subject of the documentary film, Griefwalker. He  is the author of: Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (North Atlantic Books 2015)Tags: Stephen Jenkinson, writing a letter to your mother, encounter with dying, heartbrokenness, Brother Blue, Hugh Hill, initiation, Death & Dying, Indigenous Wisdom

Ellen Meredith, Ph.D., is a medical intuitive, energy healer, teacher, and writer. She’s been in practice since 1984 and is an Eden Energy Medicine Advanced Practitioner who served on Donna Eden’s faculty and offers online courses through the Shift Network and other forums. She is the author of Listening in: Dialogues with the Wiser Self (Horse Mountain Press 1994), The Language Your Body Speaks: Self-Healing with Energy Medicine (Donna Eden) (New World Library 2020) and Your Body Will Show You the Way: Energy Medicine for Personal and Global Change (New World Library 2022)Interview Date: 10/28/2022  Tags: Ellen Meredith, energy medicine, language of chemistry, language of subtle energy, Donna, Eden, quantum physics, exchange of consciousness, dialoguing with our bodies, energy dialogue, energy conversation, naturopathic medicine, muscle testing, breath, posture, color therapy, wellness, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing

Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D. is a teacher, scholar, author, and musician, specializing in the native traditions and the translation and interpretation of the ancient Semitic languages of the Middle East—Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. His scholarship connects religious studies and psychology. He’s past chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion and is active in various international conferences dedicated to peace and spirituality. For more than 40 years he has followed the Sufi path and was a student of the Sufi Murshid Moineddin Jablonski (d.2001) and serves on the advisory board of the International Association of Sufism. His books include Prayers of the Cosmos (HarperOne 2009), The Hidden Gospel (Quest Books 2001), Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The Hidden Teachings on Life and Death (Hampton Roads 2022)Interview Date: 10/14/2022.  Tags: Neil Douglas-Klotz, Bible, New Testament, Jesus, Yeshua, Semitic languages, Aramaic Christians, chanting Jesus’ words, the perfection of ripeness, breath, John, In the Beginning was the Word, Christian Mysticism, Gnosticism, wisdom coming to flesh, yin/yang, both/and, God, the Cosmic Mystery, Religion, History, Spirituality

Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D., is a cosmologist and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. He is a cocreator and host of the Emmy award winning PBS documentary Journey of the Universe. He is the author of Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis 2019), Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era—A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (HarperOne 1994), The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story (Bear & Company 1984) and Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe (Counterpoint 2022). His video series Include Journey of the Universe• (Prime Video 2009) and Canticles to the Cosmos (Sounds True.1995)Interview Date: 10/18/2022    Tags: Brian Thomas Swimme, cosmologist, cosmology, cosmic evolution, bacteria, butterfly, cocoon, imaginal cells, quanta, elementary particles, star stuff, protons, neutrons, electrons, Thomas Berry, Divine Intelligence, carbon atoms from the stars, Science, Philosophy, Arts & Creativity, Spirituality