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Course objectives: Discuss the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Identify the difference between the true self and the false self. Explain the non-dual aspects of Jesus's teaching. Practice contemplative prayer. We often think of saints as rare individuals whose gifts far exceed our own...

Spirituality—How It Makes Us Stronger With her previous bestsellers, Dr. Brené Brown helped us realize that vulnerability is the birthplace for trust, courage, joy, creativity, and love. Yet a willingness to be vulnerable means accepting that life will sometimes knock us down. Where do we...

Now updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The...

Experience the Liberating Power of "Radical Forgiveness" Is there a divine purpose behind everything that happens? If you're willing to embrace that possibility, every aspect of your life can change. This is the theory behind Colin Tipping's revolutionary method for experiencing the freedom...

When God is hardened into a visible image, and worship reduced to a program, we remain exiled from what is truly sacred—the world around us and the “divine imagination” that created it. In this third volume of his Celtic wisdom trilogy, John O’Donohue immerses us in what has been called...

Relax Into the Luminous Presence at Your Core Many of us struggle to live what we believe spiritually. What if closing that gap wasn’t about trying harder, but something quite the opposite? The Way of Grace is a guide to spiritual surrender and nondual realization based on the practice of ego...

Bible scholar and popular TikToker Dan McClellan confronts misconceptions about the Bible. This program is read by the author. The Bible is the world’s most influential book, but do we really know what it says? Every day across social media and in homes, businesses, and public spaces, people...

Rediscover the Transformational Power of the Life and Teachings of Jesus The life of Jesus offers each one of us a map to the direct realization of our eternal and divine nature. On Resurrecting Jesus, Adyashanti excavates the deep, mythic underpinnings of the Gospels to show how we can all find...

Insight, Transformation, and Truth—The Power of Prayer “All prayers are heard and answered,” says Caroline Myss. Can that be true? As you come to understand the original role of prayer in personal transformation, you begin to realize that it could be no other way. On The Power of Prayer...

Embrace the Possibility of Your Own Evolution Over the course of our lifetimes, human beings grow and change without cease. But what does it actually mean to transform ourselves—to take hold of our personal evolution and direct it for the better? Ken Wilber—one of the most widely read and...

Authentic Benedictine Chants You Can Learn at Home Fifteen hundred years ago, St. Benedict established a system of ora et labora prayer and work that monastics still follow today. Central to this prayerful integration of body and spirit is psalmody, or chanting the psalms. On Singing the Psalms...

"The Cloud of Unknowing" is one of Christianity's enduring mysteries—a meditative state where God is experienced on the deepest interior level. On Contemplative Prayer, Father Thomas Keating introduces you to the uplifting system of Centering Prayer, a revival of the contemplations practiced...

Connect to the Source of the Aramaic Jesus’ Wisdom and Guidance Perhaps the most essential teachings given to us by Jesus came in the final year of his life on earth. Known as the “I AM” statements and found in the Gospel of John and the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, these radical truths were...

The Psyche: Your Bridge to Direct Spiritual Experience Would you consider yourself a religious person? Or a spiritual one? The religions of the world are filled with stories of mystics and saints who experienced visions, dreams, and even wondrous face-to-face encounters with the Divine. Yet, for...

The Prayer of Jesus, or the Lord's Prayer, is among Christianity's most beloved teachings, a daily devotion practiced by Christians everywhere. If we could travel back in time to the ancient Holy Land and witness Jesus himself speaking and meditating upon these words, what would we learn? On...

How to Fully Accept Yourself—Just As You Are Most of us have plenty of experience with self-blame and guilt—but we are often at a loss when it comes to forgiving ourselves. According to Colin Tipping, this is because our idea of forgiveness usually requires a victim and a perpetrator—which...

The Beatitudes (or "Blessed are" sayings) are perhaps the most recognized and most beloved passage from the Sermon on the Mount, and yet they are among Jesus' most misunderstood teachings. On The Healing Breath, acclaimed teacher and author Neil Douglas-Klotz leads listeners through the...

A practice-oriented course in Christianity's unique meditation tradition, contemplative prayer, presented by James Finley, author, teacher, and former student of Thomas Merton. Finley has been at the forefront of the Christian meditation movement for over 20 years, and in this guided retreat, he...

Before a woman is anything else, she is a daughter. Her relationship with her mother anchors every other relationship in her life. Yet as an adult she may still blame her mother, try to change her, or fail to speak out about issues that matter. Harriet Lerner on Mothers and Daughters is a...

Course objectives: Discuss the mystical teachings of Meister Eckhart—the vision and path aspects of non-dual consciousness, or sense of oneness that pervades all of our lives Explain how the soul, as the interiority of ourselves, is capable of recognizing both the generosity of God, as...