The New Dimensions Café

Jacob Needleman, Ph.D. is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also served as a research associate at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Tags: Jacob Needleman, silence, awareness, presence, meaningful, questions, happiness, Gurdjieff, attention, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Spirituality

Leslie Shore has worked in the retail industry and personal management fields as well as being a professor and instructional designer where she has gained much wisdom in what it takes to be an effective listener. She is the owner of “Listen to Succeed,” a consultancy that focuses on using listening analytics to help personal and professional clients achieve their highest level of effective communication. Her book is currently being used as a text book in several universities.Tags: Leslie Shore, barriers to listening, emotions, interrupting, attention, daydreaming, being present, emotional IQ, body language, eye contact, Personal Transformation, Self Help

Kira Asatryan is a certified relationship coach who provides individual life coaching, relationship coaching, conflict mediation, and couples’ coaching. Before becoming a relationship coach, she was director of performance marketing for prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups and cofounded an online marketing consultancy. She lives in San Francisco, and is the author of: Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships (New World Library 2016).Tags: Kira Asatryan, depression, anxiety, loneliness, isolation, friendship, affection, support, respect, appreciation, encouragement, comfort,  conversation, communication, Relationships, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Self Help

David Gibson is a leader in the field of sound healing and therapy. He’s the founder and director of the Globe Sound and Consciousness Institute in San Francisco which offers an Associates degree in sound healing therapy. He is also the producer of sound healing music and runs the sound therapy center at the Institute offering different types of sound healing treatments. He is a founder of the Sound Healing Research Association, which is designed to help bring sound healing into the mainstream, and is the author of The Complete Guide To Sound Healing (Sound Healing Center, 2013)Tags: David Gibson, sound, sound healing, pain, disease, frequency, ultrasound, anxiety, grief, grieving, emotion, emotions, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, vibration, white noise, Health & Healing, music, science

Martin Adams is a social innovator, systems thinker, and community organizer. He has been on a lifelong quest to create a fair and sustainable world in collaboration with others. Through his non-profit work, he saw firsthand the extent to which our economic system causes human and ecological strife. Consequently, Adams has devoted himself to the implementation of a new economic paradigm that allows humanity to thrive in harmony with nature.Tags: Martin Adams, Trust, fear, love, economic paradigm, greed, interfaith, Wall Street, perfection, nature, right livelihood, Buddhism, right to use land, Spirituality, Economics, social change, Indigenous wisdom 

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. Tags: Colleen Mauro, Intuition, telepathy, soul, communicating with higher levels of information, soul, awakened heart, Raja Yoga, Patanjali, divine downloads, inner Google search, rational mind, intuitive mind, divine mind,  Spirit Guides, Angels, Spirit, Personal Transformation, Meditation, Spirituality, Intuition, Psychic 

Michael N. McGregor is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Portland State University. He has lectured at universities, conferences, and community events on both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and is a member of Biographers International Organization and the International Thomas Merton Society.Tags: MichaeMcGregor, Robert Lax, Thomas Merton, History, Philosophy, Spirituality

John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, retired professor of psychology, spiritual counselor, and founder and editor-in-chief of Undivided: The Online Journal of Nonduality and Psychology. Tags: John J. Prendergast, non-dualism, wisdom, inner knowing, body, wisdom, knowledge, circle work, vibrant silence, inward alignment, safety, need for approval, trusting inner guidance, self-trust, truth, dogma, honesty, vulnerability, courage, surrender, core beliefs, projections, reacting, skillful boundaries, control, manipulation, Health & Healing, Psychology, Personal Transformation

Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a respected kamasqa curandero and shamanic adept from Peru, and has been guiding cross-cultural, ethnospiritual apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. He's been a popular faculty member at numerous U.S. colleges and universities. He originated the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism, and is the founder of the Heart of the Healer Foundation.  His works and programs have been featured on CNN, Univision, A&E and the Discovery Channel. Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is the author of: Lessons in Courage, Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life (co-author Bonnie Glass-Coffin) Tags: don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Pachakuti Mesa tradition, don Celso Rojas Palomino of Salas, Chiclayo, don Benitao Corihuaman Vargas of Wasau, Cusco, Andean and Peruvian shamanic tradition, rituals, ceremony, communion, consecration, composition, connection, cooperation, spiral, pilgrima ge to sacred places, Indigenous Wisdom, Shamanism

Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, and more. She is a workshop facilitator and speaker. Sera Beak is the author of: The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach To Igniting Your Divine Spark (Jossey-Bass 2006) and Red Hot & Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story (Sounds True 2013)Tags: Women's Studies, Relationship, Partnership, Sexuality, Spirituality