Mike Dooley, author of the new book Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams. Mike is a former international tax consultant turned entrepreneur who's founded a philosophical Adventurrers Club on the internet that's now home to over 300,000 members from 182 countries. He's the author of six books, including the bestselling Notes from the Universe series, Choose them Wisely, and was one of the featured teachers in the international phenomenon, The Secret. Mike lives what he teaches, traveling internationally, speaking to thousands on life, dreams, and happiness.
Tom Park discusses human love and sexuality in his interview with Marnia Robinson. Her new book is titled, "Cupid's Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships."
Author Juliet Schor speaks with host Paul O'Brien.
We are living in a new ecological and economic reality. Humans are using this planet's resources faster than we are regenerating them. Eco-systems are shutting down, turning oceans into dead zones and farmland into desert. As a result, food, energy, and transport are becoming increasingly expensive. The current recession has led to another type of scarcity: incomes, jobs, and credit are also in short supply. Our usual way back to growth -- a debt-financed consumer boom -- is no longer an option we can afford. Our guest today argues that through a major shift to new sources of wealth, green technologies and different ways of living, we can all experience plenitude.
What has happened to the world economy? How can the troubles of a working-class community in Cleveland or a new suburb of Miami become an international financial crisis? How did a smaller and smaller group of people come to control a larger and larger percentage of the world's money? Is it possible to restructure our financial system and what roll will ordinary people play?
Win McCormack is the author of THE RAJNEESH CHRONICLES. Win is currently publisher and editor in chief of Tin House Magazine. He has written on political issues for a variety of publications, including The Nation. From 1983-1986 he wrote a monthly column called Rajneesh Watch for Oregon Magazine, of which he was the editor in chief. The columns won the magazine a William Allen White Commendation for investigative reporting.
Eric Zimmerer graduated from the Colorado School of Counseling Hypnotherapy and was certified as a Clinical Hypnotist in 2005. Since then he has been practicing hypnotherapy and developing hypnosis CD recordings for stress relief, weight loss, and self improvement. Eric moved to Beaverton from his home town of Boulder Colorado in 2009.
Today on Pathways we are visiting with Catriona MacGregor, author of Partnering with Nature: the Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth. It just won a "Best Books Award" from USA Book News. Catriona is an authority on global environmental trends. For over twenty years, she led and supported environmental initiatives in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the United States. Catriona is also a coauthor of Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and the Planet. She lives with her husband, Paul, son Joe, and many animal friends, domestic and wild, in northern California.