Today's diverse and abundant spiritual landscape offers enormous opportunity for learning and growth. Here, author, spiritual counselor, and public speaker Philip Goldberg draws on more than 50 years of experience to host conversations that can help you make sense of it all and transform your life. You’ll meet teachers, scholars, and experts from a range of traditions (and no tradition), some who are well-known, others who should be well known, all with wisdom to impart. The aim is to help you expand your awareness and deepen your practices as you move along your chosen path. Note: Both Phil and Spirit Ma...
Latest episodes
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1 h 19
A Saint and the Antichrist with Matthew Fox
The prolific and provocative priest, Matthew Fox, returns to Spirit Matters to speak about two totally different but strangely relate new books. Fr. Fox earned a doctorate in the H…
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1 h 13
Perennial Wisdom Revisited and Reloaded with Dana Sawyer
Dana Sawyer is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and World Religions at the Maine College of Art & Design and the author of biographies of both Aldous Huxley and Huston Smith. His p…
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Perennial Wisdom Revisited and Reloaded with Dana Sawyer
Dana Sawyer (https://www.danasawyer.com/) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and World Religions at the Maine College of Art & Design and the author of biographies of both Aldous…
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The Heart of Wisdom with Michael Schauch
This episode's guest is Michael Schauch (www.michaelschauch.com). Michael is an alpinist—meaning he climbs high mountains—and an award-winning author who, in his words, “lives to e…
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The Heart of Wisdom with Michael Schauch
This episode's guest is Michael Schauch . Michael is an alpinist—meaning he climbs high mountains—and an award-winning author who, in his words, “lives to explore the depths of nat…
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1 h 03
God of Love Revisited with Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr (https://mirabaistarr.com/) returns for her third visit to Spirit Matters. Mirabai is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations o…
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1 h 05
God of Love Revisited with Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr returns for her third visit to Spirit Matters. Mirabai is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taug…
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Embodying the Goddess with Cynthia Abulafia
Cynthia Abulafia is an author, an academic, and a devotee of the Goddess. She is, in her words, committed to giving language to the divine feminine and restoring the experience of…
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1 h 10
Love in the Bible with Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Rabbi Rami Shapiro is our returning champion. This is his third appearance on Spirit Matters (fourth if you count the time he interviewed me about Karmic Relief). Rami is a self-pr…
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1 h 08
All That Jazz with Ed Sarath
If you've ever contemplated the link between spirituality and music, or between consciousness and musical improvisation, this is the episode for you. My guest is Ed Sarath, a longt…
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1 h 15
College Chaplaincy with Vineet Chander and Monica Sanford
A Hindu Chaplain and a Buddhist Chaplain walk into the Spirit Matters podcast ... and talk about counseling today's generation of students. Vineet Chander graduated from the George…
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1 h 11
Infinite Awakening with Stephan Bodian
Stephan Bodian studied and practiced for many years with masters in the nondual wisdom traditions of Zen, Dzogchen-Mahamudra, and Advaita Vedanta, and in 2001 received authorizatio…
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1 h 08
The Way of the Sant with Anantanand Rambachan
Anantanand Rambachan is an eminent scholar of religion, currently Emeritus Professor of Religion at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota. He has also served as Visiting Professor at the…
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1 h 04
Loving the Fire with Deborah Santana
Deborah Santana is an author, activist, philanthropist, and business leader dedicated to peace, justice, and women’s empowerment. The founder of the nonprofit, Do a Little, she adv…
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1 h 15
Mindful Democracy with Jeremy Engels
Jeremy David Engels is the liberal arts endowed Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, the co-founder of Yoga Lab, and a longtime mindfulness…
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1 h 03
No-Try Meditation with Peter Russell
Peter Russell is a long-time contributor to our understanding of spirituality, consciousness, meditation, and related matters, who believes "the critical challenge of today is free…
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1 h 06
No-BS Mindfulness with Oneika Mays
Oneika Mays is a yoga and meditation teacher who was formerly the mindfulness coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York. With roots in Buddhist and Yogic teachings,…
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1 h 12
The Magdalene Revolution with Andrew Harvey
One of our favorite guests, Andrew Harvey, returns to Spirit Matters. A leading voice for inclusive, universal, spiritual wisdom, Andrew is an internationally acclaimed writer, p…
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1 h 09
Spirituality and High Sensitivity with Elaine Aron
Elaine Aron is a clinical and research psychologist who received her advanced training at Pacific Graduate Institute and the Jung Institute in San Francisco. Her research on sensor…
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1 h 11
The Science of Magic with Dean Radin
Dean Radin is chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), an associated distinguished professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the cofounder a…