Spirit Matters
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 Matters itself are members of the Association for Spiritual Integrity and pledge to abide by its Honor Code of Ethics and Good Practice. Interview guests are expected to uphold similar standards; those who are proven to exploit or abuse will not be platformed.
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The Power of Music and the Spirituality of Son...
Beth Nielsen Chapman is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who has recorded hits of her own and written hits for a multitude of artists
71 min
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Progressive Christianity With Rev. Nicole Lama...
Just in time for Christmas 2024, we have two ministers who are associated with Progressive Christianity
65 min
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The Yamas and Niyamas with Professor Christoph...
Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and comparative theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and the founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at the same school.
67 min
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Discovering Indian Philosophy With Dr. Jeffery...
Jeffery D. Long is a professor of religion, philosophy, and Asian studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2000.
67 min
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Trans-Traditional Marriage with Tadd and Carol...
Rev. Carol Allman-Morton is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire, and her husband, Rev. Tadd Allman-Morton, is the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Great Barrington, United Church of Christ.
64 min
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The Heart of Interfaith With Rabbi Laura Duhan...
With the Middle East aflame with violence, we explore the opposite with two of the three Interfaith Amigos
70 min
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Making Room For Spiritual Service With Carl Si...
Carl Siciliano is a nationally recognized advocate and provider for homeless LGBTQ youth.
60 min
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Yoga Therapy and Yoga Research with Catherine ...
A special episode on the growing discipline of yoga therapy and scientific research on the benefits of yoga practices.
67 min
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Original Love With Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman is a poet, author, and Zen master in the Sanbo Zen lineage.
63 min
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Spiritual Emergence Anonymous With Marie Grace...
Marie Grace B. is a cofounder of, and spokesperson for, Spiritual Emergence Anonymous (SEA). SEA describes itself as "a grassroots world-wide 12-step program for spiritual emergence."
60 min
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In These Holy Mysteries with Mirabai Starr and...
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. James Finley is a clinical psychologist, a spiritual director and a faculty member at the Center for Action and Contemplation. James Finley is a clinical psychologist, a spiritual director and a faculty member at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
66 min
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Learning Across Borders with Dr. Francis X. Cl...
Francis X. Clooney is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School.
64 min
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The Evolution of Spirituality with Daniel McKanan
Daniel McKanan is a senior lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, occupying a chair named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Faculty Director for the school’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality.
63 min
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Reloading the Perennial Philosophy with Dana S...
Guest Dana Sawyer is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and World Religions at the Maine College of Art & Design.
61 min
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Adapting Buddhism To a Secular, Pluralistic Am...
Kaira Jewel Lingo lived for 15 years as an ordained nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Plum Village.
61 min
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Revealing Unity in the World's Religions with ...
Paul John Roach talks world religions with Philip Goldberg
61 min
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Explore Vedic Wisdom and Roar Like a Goddess w...
Acharya Shunya is the first female head of a spiritual lineage that goes back 2,000 years in India.
62 min
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Mindfully Meeting a World in Crisis with Oren J...
Oren Jay Sofer holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University and now teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and communication internationally.
63 min
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A Nuanced Discussion of Spirituality, Religion ...
Swami Medhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and a distinguished academic, currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California
65 min
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Diving Into Kashmir Shaivism, Shaktipat, India...
Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, originally David Nowe of Pittsburgh, met Swami Muktananda and received Shaktipat initiation from him in 1975.
61 min
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Mysticism, Social Change, and African-American...
Dr. Alton B. Pollard III is a scholar, author, consultant, and public speaker on the subject of African American and U.S. religion and culture
65 min
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Spiritual Imagination and Engaged Contemplation...
Adam Bucko is an Episcopal priest, a teacher of contemplative spirituality, and an interfaith activist.
59 min
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Confluence and Constructive Development with K...
Kimberley Theresa Lafferty is a teacher-practitioner who specializes in what she calls Constructive Developmental Psychology as well as Indo-Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.
62 min
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The Hard and The Soft of Yoga with Beryl Bender
Beryl Bender has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1971
66 min
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Heartfulness and Spiritual Anatomy with Daaji ...
Daaji, aka Kamlesh D. Patel, is the fourth and current spiritual guide of the Heartfulness Institute
59 min