On December 27, 2008 well-known and controversial HIV activist Christine Maggiore died.  Her death certificate listed the cause of death as disseminated herpes virus infection, bilateral pneumonia, and oral candidiasis.

David Crowe was Christine's co-host on the dissident podcast "How Positive Are You?" and the President of Rethinking AIDS, an organization that promotes dissident ideas about HIV.

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Resources
How Positive Are You? Podcast [iTunes]
Rethinking AIDS
Christine  Maggiore's Website


Rebutting Dissident Views of HIV
The CDC HIV Page
The NIH: Evidence that HIV causes AIDS

Christine on Inquire Within
Questioning AIDS
The Life and Death of Eliza Jane

Books

What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? by Christine Maggiore

On December 27, 2008 well-known and controversial HIV activist Christine Maggiore died.  Her death certificate listed the cause of death as disseminated herpes virus infection, bilateral pneumonia, and oral candidiasis.

Peter Duesberg is a well-known and controversial scientist who wrote the book, Inventing the AIDS Virus.  It was Duesberg that inspired Christine Maggiore’s work.  In this podcast he explains why he believes HIV played no roll in her death and why his controversial views are still valid.  

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Rachael Evens is the founder of Quantum Martial Arts.  Being a female martial arts master, she brings a unique perspective to the practice.  In this podcast she discusses her groundbreaking work and how it is empowering men and woman alike.    By taking a decidedly spiritual approach to martial arts, she is helping students to strengthen their bodies, minds and souls.

 

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Resources
Quantum Martial Arts: San Francisco
Quantum Martial Arts: Seattle

 

Recommended Reading
The Chronicles of Tao by Ming-dao Deng

 

While visiting New Orleans in the spring of 2008, documentary filmmaker Patricia Federico became captivated by the Katrina stories still being told on the street by the locals who survived the storm.

After overcoming a catastrophic disaster, loss of life, and the separation of their families, residents come front and center to give first-person accounts of what happened to them before, during and after the hurricane. They describe the struggles still facing them as they try to rebuild what the levee breaches destroyed.

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Resources
Peace Out Productions
Donate to the Community Center of St. Bernard Parish

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Do you have particularly strong emotional reactions that you can't seem to control? Do you notice your yoga students adoring you, clinging to you, or avoiding you? In this podcast, psychologist Gail Brenner, Ph.D. discusses transference, in which we see the world through the unresolved emotions and confused beliefs from our childhood experiences. She offers suggestions for how to respond and take care of ourselves when we are the object of others' transference.

Gail is a workshop leader, blogger, and licensed psychologist with 16 years of experience offering psychotherapy. She speaks about practical ways to free ourselves from self-defeating patterns so we can experience lasting peace and happiness. She has worked with adults, elders, couples, families, and teenagers as well as people with pain and chronic medical problems.

Shahla Ettefagh and Patrick Riley have committed their lives to assisting underprivileged children in India. They gave up their careers in USA and permanently relocated to India in 2002 and founded the Mother Miracle School. 

Located in Rishkesh, India the school provides much need services to more than 400 children. By addressing educational, nutritional and health care needs, the school is supporting some of the poorest children on the planet.

In this interview, Patrick and Shahala talk about the school's humble beginnings and how it continues to grow.  They also talk about ways you can help by sponsoring a child or evening traveling to India to work with the children.

 

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Resources

The Mother Miracle School

Sponsor a Child

Darren’s India Retreat

Although the twelve-Steps began with Alcoholics Anonymous, today there are dozens of twelve-step programs addressing every form of addiction imaginable.   One trait all of these programs share is a focus on spirituality.  While no one dogma is advocated, a regular practice of prayer and meditation is encouraged.

In The Twelve Step Buddhist, Darren Littlejohn explores the relationship between each steps and modern Buddhism while providing a model for recovering addicts who want to take a Eastern approach to their twelve-step recovery. 

In this interview Darren shares some insights as to how a recovering person might benefit from the teaching and practice of Buddhism in conjunction with their twelve-step work.

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Resources
Darren Littlejohn’s Website

Purchase The Twelve Step Buddhist

In SIGNS: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God's Plan, well-known author Robert Perry ventures into new territory to explore what he calls a CMPE (Conjunction of Meaningfully Parallel Events).  Although Perry has written and taught almost exclusively on  A Course in Miracles in the past, this new book speaks to a more universal audience.

According to Perry, each of us is receiving guidance all the time, but without knowing what to look for, those signs often go unnoticed.  In Signs he outlines his model for recognizing these messages and offers insight into  using them to guide our lives.

 

Resources
Circle of Atonement Website
Signs Website

Previous Podcasts with Robert Perry
Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 1
Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 2
Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 3

Purchase SIGNS

All of us have times in our lives when things seem to be falling apart.  In this podcast, yoga teacher and personal coach Peter Chandonnet explores the process by which we can take difficulties and turn them into opportunities.

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Resources
Peter’s Website
Peter on Facebook

For more than 30 years Yanni has been entertaining people around the world with his soothing instrumental music.  His new CD, Voices is a departure from his past work, however.  In this new CD he has gathered some of the most talented vocalists from the next generation of musicians to add lyrics to some of his greatest hits.

In this interview I join Nathan Pacheco and Chloe on their tour bus to talk about what it is like to work with a musical legend and how it feels to lend their voices to such a groundbreaking CD.


Resources:
Yanni Voices
Nathan Pacheco on MySpace
Chloe on MySpace

Purchase the CD
Amazon • iTunes

Early in his life, Nathan Ohm was raised a fundamental Baptist and eventually graduated from Bob Jones University.  As a gay man, Nathan continues to reconcile his past to his present spiritual journey of peace, love, and enlightenment.  He advocates that through all of our challenges, we can ultimately experience satisfaction and wholeness.

Nathan  is the founder of Lifestyle Invention, a coaching practice designed to help people improve the quality of their lives.  He currently resides in New York city where he leads a multidimensional lifestyle as an actor, singer, life-coach, yogi, corporate manager, and world traveler.

Resources
Nathan's Website

David Plotz is a journalist and writer with Slate as well as the magazine's editor.  He is the co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest podcast with John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon.
Several years ago, he began blogging about the Bible, which became the foundation for his second book entitled  Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.

Director and filmmaker Kate Churchill discusses her new documentary on yoga and the transformational effects it had on skeptic Nick Rosen.  Enlighten up is a  funny, charming, and informative tour of modern yoga that will take you around the world in search of the essence of yoga.


Resources:
Enlighten Up Website

Watch the Trailer

Have you ever cried while practicing yoga?   This experience is very common and yet it can take a new  yogi by surprise.  In this podcast, psychologist and yoga teacher Darcy Lyon explains that emotional and psychological releases during hatha yoga practice are a natural way for the body and mind to release past traumas that may be stored in the tissues of the body.


Resources
Darcy's Website

Suggested Reading

John Friend is the founder of Anusara Yoga and a world-renown expert in both hatha yoga and yoga philosophy.   In part two of this two part interview John talks about the principles of Anusara yoga and what distinguishes it from other styles.

John Friend on YouTube

Books

Darren Main’s Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic is a completely delightful and insightful introduction to the philosophy of yoga for the modern practitioner. Darren’s personable and compassionate style makes the philosophical visions of Classical Yoga and Vedanta easily accessible and applicable for the quickly growing yoga community in the West.
~John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga

John Friend is the founder of Anusara Yoga and a world-renown expert in both hatha yoga and yoga philosophy.   In part one of this two part interview John talks about his own start on the spiritual path and what lead him to develop Anusara Yoga.  He also discusses his passion for "The Wizard of Oz" as  a spiritual metaphor.

John Friend on YouTube

Books

Joshua Bell is a Grammy award-winning violinist who has performed worldwide including the prestigious Carnegie Hall.  Joshua's music is featured in the motion picture Defiance and his 11th CD, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons was recently released.

In this podcast, Joshua discusses his childhood, his son and a fascinating social experiment in which he participated in a Washington, DC Subway station. 

Resources
Joshua Bell's Website
Washington Post Article
Watch Video of Joshua in the D.C. Metro

Purchase Joshua's Music
Complete Discography

Nick Margerrison, host of The Night Before on the United Kingdom's radio station Kerrang talks to Darren about homosexuality and the Bible and Darren's controversial interview with Shirley Phelps.


Resources
Nick Margerrison's on Kerrang
Nick's Blog
Listen to the Shirley Phelps Interview

BUY: Hearts & Minds: Talking to Christians about Homosexuality

Matt Miller is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; a contributing editor at Fortune; and the host of Left, Right & Center, public radio's popular week-in-review program  Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love, was published in 2003.  Now his much anticipated book The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of The Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity is available. 

In this podcast Matt, talks about the future of America under President Obama’s leadership as well as how we can all change our minds and save the world.
Resources
Matt Miller’s Website

The Center for American Progress
Left Right & Center Website

Left Right & Center Podcast

Purchase Matt Miller’s Books

Joshua Radin is a folk singer who’s music has been featured on TV shows such as Scrubs, Brothers and Sisters, Grey's Anatomy, American Idol and One Tree Hill. 

His Second Album, Simple Times was recently released and in this interview,  he talks about the healing power of music and all the well-deserved attention he is receiving.
Resources
Joshua's Website
Joshua on iTunes

In this interview with "Queer Ear Radio" Darren discusses his book, Hearts and Minds: Talking to Christians about Homosexuality and the basic human need for both spirituality and sexuality.
Resources
Queer Ear Radio

The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas has made a name for themselves by protesting at funerals around the United States.  At first they reserved their hate-filled protests for prominent members of the gay community, but in recent years have turned their attention toward the  troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan as well.

In this podcast, Darren sits down to talk with Shirley Phelps, the spokeswoman for the church, about her controversial views, the hurtful slogans they use, and campaign that the church continues to wage.

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WARNING: While this is a very civil discussion, listeners should be warned that some of the language may be offensive.  This  podcast may not be appropriate for mixed company.

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Resources
www.GodHatesFags.com
Shirly welcomes your comments.
Please be civil and respectful.  (Two wrongs, don't make a right.)

Learn More about Darren's Book
Hearts & Minds: Talking to Christians about Homosexuality

Suggested Reading

Erin Lambert and Caley Joyner of hOM Yoga in San Francisco discuss the practice of yoga a means to bring the whole family closer together.  Their studio is dedicated to offering yoga for every member of the family in every stage of life from pre natal to yoga for seniors.


Resources:
hOM Yoga
Email Erin
Email Caley

Francisco LePort is a graduate student at Stanford University working toward a Ph.D in experimental particle physics. His work deals primarily with the mass of neutrinos. In his spare time, he is an avid student of philosophy, psychology, and yoga. 

In this two-part podcast we discuss the relationship between modern physics and mystical traditions such as yoga.

Resources
Email Francisco LePort

Books
The Physics of Star Trek
Dancing Wu Li Masters
The Little Book of Bleeps

Movies
What the Bleep Do We Know