The No BS Spiritual Book Club with Sandie Sedgbeer

Plant Shaman and co-founder of Plant Consciousness Davyd Farrell's Celtic roots form a strong part of his healing and shamanic practices. A trained Plant Spirit Healer, Crystal Healer, Geomancer and a Yew Mysteries Initiate, he has also been initiated into a long lineage of Kichwa tobaqueros from the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Davyd co-founded the ground-breaking events, Gateways Of The Mind, Plant Consciousness, and The Shamanic Lands and the online tv platform www.wisdomhub.tv where he is the lead interviewer and curator. Davyd shares his 10 Best Spiritual Books with all of us this week and talks about the effect each one has had on his path.

Dean Sluyter (pronounced "slighter") has taught natural approaches to meditation and awakening since 1970 and has been featured on NPR, Coast to Coast AM, the Dr. Oz Show, and in The Oprah Magazine and The New York Times. A grateful student of Eastern and Western sages in several traditions, Dean has completed numerous pilgrimages and retreats in India, Tibet, Nepal, and the West and gives talks, workshops, and retreats throughout the United States and beyond, from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. Dean joins Sandie to talk about his 10 Best Spiritual books and the effect they've had on him on his life journey.

Crisis expert, mindfulness trainer, author of four books, and founder of The UK Spiritual Crisis Network, Catherine G. Lucas joins Sandie this week to share her story of awakening and transition and discuss the 10 best spiritual books that helped her step forward on her path.

John Perkins is a chief economist, Shaman, activist and bestselling author whose books on global intrigue and economics, shamanism, and transformation, including Touching the Jaguar, Shapeshifting and the classic Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 70 weeks, sold over 2 million copies and are published in 37 languages. John joins Sandie this week to share his 10 Best Spiritual Books and how they guided his path in life.

We humans, it is claimed, are genetically wired for selfish, cruel behavior. But are violence, greed, domination and control really a fundamental and ineradicable part of "human nature?" “Absolutely not!” Says futurist, cultural historian, social systems scientist, and attorney, Dr. Riane Eisler whose international bestseller The Chalice and the Blade, was hailed as the most important book since Darwin's Origin of Species. Join Sandie and Riane to hear more about her thoughts on the state and future of humankind and learn what 10 Best Spiritual Books shaped her life journey.

He calls himself a midwife, a translator, an explorer, poet, teacher, motorcyclist, elder and listener... but there's a lot more to Dennis Patrick Slattery than that. For the past 28 years he was a professor in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California, and his fields of interest are the mythopoetic imagination, depth and archetypal psychology, creativity, metaphor, theories of myth, and writing.  Author of The Way of Myth, A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief and many more, when I tell you his library encompasses over 6500 books, well, you just know that this is going to be one helluva fascinating conversation.

This week, The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Internationally Celebrated Astrologer, Author and Broadcaster Pam Gregory. Author of two bestselling books, You Don’t Really Believe in Astrology, Do You? and How to Co-Create Using the Secret Language of the Universe, and host of an ultra-busy YouTube channel, Pam Gregory is lauded for her popular and rigorously accountable monthly newsletter that provides detailed retrospective evidence of the accuracy of each month’s predictions. Pam joins Sandie this week to share the 10 Best Spiritual Books that influenced her the most on her life journey (and a whole lot more)! She'll also be sharing a bit about what the stars say we can all expect this year. You won’t want to miss this one!

Joanne Reid Rodrigues was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, where she grew up with a passion for teaching. Having been obese and often unwell with a binge-eating disorder when she was young, Joanne transformed her life and founded a highly successful slimming together program. Joanne joins Sandie this week to share her 10 Best Spiritual Books and discuss her own life transformation and spiritual awakening, trauma, stress, eating disorders and her books, Life Transformation Diet, and Slim, Happy and Free.

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets… WeAddHeart Founder & Co-founder of Syntropy States Digital Generative Art App, Gavin Andrews Gavin Andrew's is cofounder of WeAddHeart - a growing international movement empowering people to connect with their own hearts and the hearts of others; to live more fully from the heart and to add more heart and coherence to the world. He is also co-founder of Syntropy States, a cool start-up which creates beautiful audio-visual relaxation aids and breath pacers using digital generative art and 8D chill out music. Join Gavin and Sandie on the No BS Spiritual Book Club to hear the stories behind his 10 Best List and the latest information and updates on what HeartMath knows about heart coherence, and the benefits this could bring to all of us.

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets… WeAddHeart Founder & Co-founder of Syntropy States Digital Generative Art App, Gavin Andrews Gavin Andrew's is cofounder of WeAddHeart - a growing international movement empowering people to connect with their own hearts and the hearts of others; to live more fully from the heart and to add more heart and coherence to the world. He is also co-founder of Syntropy States, a cool start-up which creates beautiful audio-visual relaxation aids and breath pacers using digital generative art and 8D chill out music. Join Gavin and Sandie on the No BS Spiritual Book Club to hear the stories behind his 10 Best List and the latest information and updates on what HeartMath knows about heart coherence, and the benefits this could bring to all of us.