The New Dimensions Café

Christian de Quincey, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University and Dean of Consciousness Studies at the University of Philosophical Research. He is the founder of the Wisdom Academy. Tags: Christian de Quincey, consciousness, information age, data, attention, matter and energy, Patterns of energy, AI, artificial intelligence, technology, intelligent behavior, purpose, sentience, consciousness knows, energy flows, ecology, interconnectedness

Jan Phillips is an award-winning photographer, writer, multimedia artist, and workshop leader. She's a co-founder of the Livingkindness Foundation, a global network for grassroots philanthropists. Early in her life she entered a convent as a novice to become a nun at the Catholic community of nuns at St. Joseph’s Provincial House in Latham, New York. After three years she was abruptly and surprisingly dismissed which led her on a life-quest to seek her personal spiritual truth. Jan Phillips is the author of many CDs and books including The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader (9th Element Press 2006), Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (Quest Books 1997), God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art (Quest Books 2000), Born Gay: Images & Reflections of an Ordinary Lesbian (Jan Phillips 2003), No Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and Evolutionary Creativity (Livingkindness Foundation 2011) and Still On Fire: Field Notes of a Queer Mystic (Unity Books 2021)Interview Date: 4/25/2022     Tags: Jan Phillips, faith, dismissal from a convent, homosexuality, coming out as gay, Catholicism, Catholic Mass, Earth as original source, car accident, activism, pacifist, we are the help that is on the way, Memoir, Religion, Spirituality

Judith Valente is a former staff writer for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal and is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Valente contributes to the US Catholic magazine and National Catholic Reporter. Besides her life as a journalist, she’s a poet, retreat leader, TV & Radio Producer, and Benedictine lay Associate. Judith Valente and Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO are co-authors of a book of letters entitled: How to Be: A Monk and a Journalist Reflect on Living & Dying, Purpose & Prayer, Forgiveness & Friendship (Hampton Roads 2021)Interview Date: 4/8/2022  Tags: MP3, Judith Valente, Paul Quenon, letter writing, Covid pandemic, journalism, climbing a tree, wasting time, Spirituality

Guy Finley is a spiritual teacher and author. He is the Founder and Director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit center for transcendent self-study located in Merlin, Oregon. He hosts the Life of Learning Foundation’s Wisdom School and offers free online classes open to all every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Each class also includes a question-and-answer session with Guy. He is the author of over 45 books including The Secret of Letting Go (Llewellyn Publications 2008), The Lost Secrets of Prayer: Practices For Self-Awakening (Llewellyn Publications 1998) and The Seeker, the Search, the Sacred: Journey to the Greatness Within (Weiser Books 2011). Also: CD: 5-Prayers for Self-Transformation - a self-discovery course.Interview Date: 5/3/2022  Tags: Guy Finley, overwhelm, consciousness, reaction, blame, triggers, unconscious expectations, breath, breathing, T.S. Eliot, resistance, stop, drop and endure, negativity, intelligence, conscious witness, Philosophy, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Spirituality

Shelly Tygielski is founder of the Pandemic of Love movement and is a self-care activist, community organizer, and mindfulness teacher. She is the author of Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World (New World Library 2021)Interview Date: 4/18/2022 Tags: Shelly Tygielski, self-care, Audre Lorde, burnout, inner work, cooperation in nature, mutually beneficial, coexist with nature, fungi, social media, Pandemic of Love, Personal Transformation, Community, Social Change/Politics

 Since 1973, Justine Willis Toms has been exploring personal, social and spiritual transformation through her work as an electronic journalist, editor and writer. She is co-founder, executive director and host of New Dimensions Radio. She is a founding convener of The Millionth Circle Initiative and has been actively involved in circle work since 1980. She serves on the board of World Prayers as well as Women’s Perspective. In June 2004, she was one of 30 people in the world invited to participate in The Synthesis Dialogues with his holiness the Dalai Lama. She was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2011. She is the author of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do (with Michael Toms) (Harmony Books 1999) and Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World (Hampton Roads 2008)Date: 12/16/2015   Tags: Justine Willis Toms, Chinese Bamboo, optimism, Geese flying in V formation, circles, Collaborative Leadership, Listening deeply, voting, creativity, beliefs, Personal Transformation, Philosophy

Colleen Mauro is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Intuition magazine published from 1988 to 2001. It explored the potential of the mind and the many varied ways of intuitive knowing, and featured research and how-to information on intuition, inspiration, and telepathy for the general reader. Colleen Mauro is the author of Spiritual Telepathy: Ancient Techniques to Access the Wisdom of Your Soul (Theosophical Publishing House 2015)Interview Date: 1/22/2016    Tags: Colleen Mauro, Intuition, telepathy, soul, communicating with higher levels of information, qualities of the soul, awakened heart, Raja Yoga, Patanjali, divine downloads, inner Google search, rational mind, intuitive mind, divine mind, Soul/Spirit Guides/Angels/Spirit, Personal Transformation, Meditation, Spirituality, Intuition/Psychic

Dean Sluyter lived in New Jersey for 33 years where he developed the Literature of Enlightenment Program at the Pingry School and worked with inmates at Northern State Prison and Mountain View Youth Correctional Facility. He now lives in Santa Monica, California and teaches natural methods of meditation and awakening throughout the United States and beyond. He's known for his funny, down to earth style and for making life transforming teachings accessible and easy. He is the author of many books including The Zen Commandments (Tarcher/Putnam 2001). Why the Chicken Crossed the Road and Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings (Tarcher/Putnam 1998), Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies (Three Rivers Press 2005), Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice (Tarcher/Penguin 2015), Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction (TarcherPerigee 2018) and The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature (New World Library 2022) Interview Date: 4/1/2022   Tags: Dean Sluyter, J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye, Fanny and Zooey, Glass family, Bhagavad Gita, Krishna, Arjuna, yoga, Venus of Willendorf, Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, Mark Twain, cat in the hat, Dr. Seuss, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma, poetry, chanting mantras in Sanskrit, Coleridge, Kubla Khan,Meditation, Education, Writing, Art & Creativity, Buddhism

Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. is the only person who has been awarded a doctoral diploma in Parapsychology by an accredited American University - the University of California at Berkeley. For the past 50 years he's been a pioneer in the research of parapsychology. He is the founder and host of the radio and TV program series Thinking Allowed, and most recently, New Thinking Allowed. Both are available on YouTube. Dr. Mishlove is the recipient of the prestigious Bigelow Institute Award of $500,000 for his essay on parapsychology entitled Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death. Jeffrey Mishlove’s books include Roots Of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies Revised and Expanded (Da Capo Press; Revised 1997) and PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter ( Hampton Roads 2000)Interview Date: 2/25/2022  Tags: Jeffrey Mishlove, white crows, William James, afterlife communications, hyperspace, afterlife, Ted Owens, UFO sightings, reincarnation, near death experiences, NDEs, covid pandemic, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Life After Death, dreams

Loch Kelly, M.Div, LCSW is founder of the nonprofit Open-Heart Awareness Institute. He is an educator, licensed psychotherapist, and recognized leader in the field of meditation, who was asked to teach Sutra Mahamudra by Mingyur Rinpoche and to teach nondual realization by Adyashanti. He collaborates with neuroscientists in the study of meditation to discover ways to improve compassion and well-being. He’s an emerging voice in modernizing meditation and social engagement. He is the author of Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practices of Open-Hearted Awareness (Sounds True 2015) and a CD set of Meditations: Shift Into Freedom: A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness (Sounds True 2015Interview Date: 1/13/2016   Tags: Loch Kelly, meditation, mindfulness, calm abiding, stress, suffering, effortless mindfulness, awareness, spacious awareness, waking up, bliss, spiritual bypass, emptiness, spirituality