The No BS Spiritual Book Club with Sandie Sedgbeer

A popular meditation teacher on the Insight Timer App and a sought-after meditation facilitator who has released three meditation albums, Paulette Pipe has presented at and led meditations for events such as the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) conference, The Parliament of World Religions Conference, the Stand UP for Humanity event, and various unity functions.   A member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, a Source of Synergy Foundation project, and the Holomovement, PAULETTE PIPE is a meditation facilitator and teacher, professional sacred space (a.k.a. a “Keeper of the Flame”), retreat facilitator, podcast host, and ordained Unity minister.  Paulette now heads Touching the Stillness Ministries—the vibrant, thriving, non-profit organization she founded to provide spiritual resources, retreats, and programs designed to make meditation and mindfulness both practical and accessible for daily application.

Steve Farrell reached the pinnacle of Silicon Valley success as the co-founder of two high-tech firms. And then his mother suggested he read Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God and he woke up… with a bang! Suddenly, he had a new vision of helping people everywhere realize the power we hold to heal societal dysfunction and create a better world, not just for some of us but for all of us.   He is an evolutionary pioneer and co-founder along with Neale Donald Walsch of Humanity’s Team, which is now a prominent global non-profit helping people everywhere awaken to our interconnectedness. Join us this week and hear about the books and messages that transformed Steve Farrell’s life and work and led him on an uplifting and empowering journey from Silicon Valley to embracing a life of true success by answering his soul’s calling.

The No BS Spiritual Book Club with Sandie Sedgbeer Discover the 10 Best Spiritual Books that inspired Innovative Zen Buddhist Minister, Mystic, Author, Scholar, & “Moonlight Dancer” Reverend Steve Kanji Ruhl on his life path.   Steve Kanji Ruhl is ordained in the Zen Peacemaker Order is a Buddhist chaplain at Deerfield Academy, a Buddhist Adviser at Yale University, and author of the award-winning, critically acclaimed spiritual memoir Appalachian Zen: Journeys in Search of True Home - From the American Heartland to the Buddha Dharma , and of Enlightened Contemporaries: Francis, Dogen & Rumi - Three Great Mystics of the Thirteenth Century and Why They Matter Today. 

There’s more than one good reason that Becs Sawyer is one of Britain’s most beloved mediums. Having experienced her own physical and emotional transitions as a transgender woman, Bec’s empathy, compassion, humor, and startlingly accurate mediumship have been bringing comfort and healing to sold-out audiences across the UK for more than two decades.  Join us as Becs shares the 10 spiritual books that inspired and guided her far-from-ordinary life journey across the years.   Becs Sawyer is one of Britain’s most beloved mediums.  She has been featured widely across the British media, including the national Good Morning TV program. A spiritual medium, star being, teacher, and sacred medicine practitioner, Becs’ mediumship abilities truly began to unfold after experiencing her own physical and emotional transitions as a transgender woman.  Becs’ busy schedule with her mediumship nights, workshops, and unique Re-Creation readings (which have a twelve-month waiting list), include regular healing meditations live on her Facebook page five mornings a week and monthly live evenings of mediumship. 

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets... Author, Musician and Award-winning Documentarian, Ronnie Pontiac American Metaphysical Religion - Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World with Ronnie Pontiac From working as Manly P. Hall’s research assistant and substitute lecturer, to producing award-winning documentaries, music, and books on mystical traditions, metaphysical counter-cultures, and Rosicrucian origins, Ronnie Pontiac shares the 10 Best Spiritual Books that had the biggest influence on his trajectory through life.

From education, training & coaching to broadcasting high consciousness fields into the lives of thousands across the globe… discover the 10 stand-out books that guided and inspired Clayten Stedmann’s mission to support “the evolution of consciousness in an economized society.”  Clayten Stedmann has worked in the education, training, and coaching business since 1995, focusing on business as a spiritual path. Since discovering Consciousness Kinesiology (CK) in 2004, he has done over 9.8 million CK calibrations and created over ten consciousness assessments and several unique energetic medicine protocols.  From 2013 to the present, Clayten has transitioned from using his coaching skills in his private practice to employing his research skills using kinesiology (CK) and his coaching skills in a company he co- founded with Jeffrey Stegman.  Focused Life Force Energy (FLFE,) which broadcasts high-consciousness fields into the lives of thousands of people in over 80 countries. Beginning with service projects and targeting trauma-hit areas like refugee camps, FLFE donates over 90% of the energy created by the FLFE technology to service projects around the globe in line with its mission to “Support The Optimal Conditions For The Evolution Of Consciousness In An Economized Society.”

Meet... scientist, yogi,author and entrepreneur, Riz Virk! A Soul’s Journey, Superlearning, Out On a Limb, Lucid Dreaming and Autobiography of a Yogi are just a few of the 10 books that ignited both a deep curiosity and an expanded consciousness in the mind of Mit & Stanford Graduate, Scientist, Entrepreneur, modern Yogi, and self-confessed “Simulated Being” Rizwan Virk.   Join us on this week’s episode of The No BS Spiritual Book Club’s live streaming interview series and hear the intimate stories behind Riz’s 10 Best selections, and what he learned from Yogananda that he’s now passing on in his own homage to the great man,  Wisdom of A Yogi  - Lessons for Modern Seekers from Autobiography of a Yogi.      A graduate of MIT and Stanford, Rizwan Virk is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, venture capitalist, computer scientist and author of several bestselling books in his own right, including The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientists Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are in a Video Game, Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success, and Wisdom of A Yogi  - Lessons for Modern Seekers from Autobiography of a Yogi.

Meet... Speaker and award-winning author, Roberta Mussato! Emotional well-being coach, speaker, NLP Practitioner, author of the book Universe, I Trust YOU: A Month in Sri Lanka, and Bradley Cooper’s secret wife (but only in her dreams – we think!) Roberta Mussato joins Sandie Sedgbeer to share the 10 Best Spiritual Books that had the biggest impact on her life journey.   Roberta Mussato is a life coach, NLP Practitioner and the award-winning author of Universe I Trust You: A Month in Sri Lanka, the inspiring true story of her solo backpacking adventure.  Roberta helps awakening (and wide-awake) souls get unstuck and move forward towards a more aligned and fulfilling life; because there is so much more joy, abundance, love and possibilities when you step out of your fears and subconscious patterns.

Meet… Therapist, painter, musician, and author Marlene Seven Bremner! Spirituality, magic, ancient civilizations, altered states of consciousness, shamanism, psychology, mythology and esoteric doctrines, are just some of the subjects that transported Marlene Seven Bremner from a peripatetic military-base childhood to a life as a painter, poet,  therapist, musician, and author of books on Hermetic philosophy and creative alchemy. So you won’t be surprised to see such names as Khalil Gibran, Terence McKenna, John Perkins and Manly P. Hall among the 10 Best List of books that influenced her the most on her life journey. Join Sandie on this week’s episode of The No BS Spiritual Book Club when Marlene Seven Bremner will be sharing the intimate stories behind her 10 Best List. 

Meet author, creator, executive producer, and host Gail Harris   Thich Nhat Hanh, Masaru Emoto, Brian Weiss, T.H. White and Steve Rother are just 5 of the authors that “turned on the light” for pioneering TV anchor-woman and award-winning PBS and NPR journalist, Gail Harris.   What did Gail find in those books that prompted her pivot from hard hitting, political reporting and co-producing the award-winning documentary “Hiroshima Remembered” to conceiving and pioneering the ground-breaking exploration of higher consciousness series “Body & Soul: Your Guide to Health, Happiness, and Total Well-being," for PBS in the early 1990’s?   Join us this week on the No BS Spiritual Book Club’s live-streaming interview series when Gail Harris will be sharing the intimate stories behind the books that expanded her consciousness and changed the entire trajectory of her successful mainstream TV career.