Embark on a transformative journey beyond fear-based traditions and parochial religion with Rabbi Rami Shapiro on “Explore Spirituality.” Tailored for free thinkers and the spiritually independent, Rabbi Rami, formerly the host of the Spirituality+Health podcast, answers your spiritual and religious questions and introduces you to leading thinkers investigating the cutting edge of human consciousness and civilization. “Explore Spirituality” listeners can expect a dynamic blend of humor, insight, and provocation that will leave you entertained, smarter, and inspired.
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Rami talks with author Kabir Helminski about his newest book The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human. Rami and Kabir explore many topics including the beauty of Sufism through the lens of one of the greatest poets the world has ever known.
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Nothing to Grasp with Joan Tollifson
Episode 278
Friday, April 5, 2024 • Duration 40:34
Rami is joined by longtime friend Joan Tollifson to discuss Joan's compelling spiritual journey and perspective on the nature of being. Rami and Joan focus on her book Nothing to Grasp and the nature of being and suffering and Joan shares her experience dealing with challenging life circumstances growing up as both an amputee and a member of the LGBTQ community in the early 1960's, as well as battling alcoholism and cancer.
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Judith Polich, How to Be More Like Trees
Friday, November 17, 2023 • Duration 27:45
Judith Polich is an environmentalist and wetlands advocate. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Studies and Environmental Education from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of Return of the Children of Light.
Her newest book, Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees: The Ancient Masters of Cooperation, Kindness, and Healing, is reviewed in the Nov/Dec 2023 issue of Spirituality+Health.
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Kyle Chayka on Minimalism
Thursday, May 21, 2020 • Duration 30:19
Rabbi Rami’s guest this episode is Kyle Chayka. He is a weekly columnist for Pacific Standard. As a writer and critic, his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and Rolling Stone, among many others. He began his career as an art critic, and his new book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, is more in that vein than offering methods for organizing your spice rack.
Cultivating a deep sense of self is possible through minimalism, and Chayka and Rabbi Rami discuss minimalist artists like Agnes Martin, who explored minimalism as a way to find transcendence, or Donald Judd, who used box forms to find the essence of itself, something that was true in and of itself, which has relevance in spirituality. They also discuss how living in a minimalist way can mean allowing something to be exactly what it is, without putting our own story upon it. This can be a challenge when it comes to allowing other people to live their own lives.
For more of this inspiring and enlightening conversation about minimalism and how it relates to art, Buddhism, reality, and dealing with other humans, listen to the whole episode.
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David Kessler, grief expert
Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Duration 26:18
“Your loss is not a test, it is not a blessing, it is not a plan. Loss it what happens in life. Meaning is what we make after,” says David Kessler. Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief. He coauthored On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons with famed psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who pioneered the concept of the five stages of grief.
He and Rabbi Rami discuss his new book, Finding Meaning. Kessler wrote the book while processing the grief over his own son’s death.
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Jeana Naluai, Native Hawaiian healer
Thursday, April 23, 2020 • Duration 31:15
Based on Maui, Jeana Naluai is a trained physical and massage therapist who shares her Native Hawaiian cultural healing practices with students through retreats and trainings, and at her spa in the town of Makawao.
For the past 10 years, she has taught lomilomi, a Hawaiian traditional massage and healing tradition. She and Rabbi Rami discuss how lomilomi was used for medical treatment such as tissue massage and bone setting, but also had a spiritual and holistic purpose. Together, they explore how lomilomi can help the world today.
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Podcast: Spirituality in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 3
Friday, April 10, 2020 • Duration 16:34
This is the third episode in a four-part podcast series on maintaining spiritual and emotional wellness during the COVID-19 crisis.
Rabbi Rami’s guest today is his friend and colleague at the One River Foundation, Frank Levy. Based in Alabama, Levy is the retired Bureau Chief of Public Health Preparedness for the Houston Department of Health and Human Services, and former Director of Interfaith Relations at Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston. He frequently lectures on public health preparedness.
Levy makes three key recommendations for what we can do during the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen for the tips, and be well!
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Podcast: Spirituality in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 2
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 • Duration 18:14
This is the second of our four-part series of short Essential Conversations podcasts. Today’s guest is Rev. Dr. Gordon Peerman. Dr. Peerman is an Episcopal priest and a psychotherapist in private practice in Nashville, TN, and the author of two books, The Body Knows the Way: Coming Home Through the Dark Night and Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists about Suffering.
He and Rabbi Rami discuss how to best listen to our friends and loved ones in this time, and how we can use those same skills to observe our own emotions.
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Podcast: Spirituality in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 1
Friday, March 27, 2020 • Duration 11:02
In this special four-part series, Rabbi Rami gives counsel on how to stay healthy from social, psychological, and spiritual perspectives during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Expert Shauna Shapiro, Ph.D.
Friday, March 13, 2020 • Duration 28:00
This week Rabbi Rami interviews Shauna Shapiro, Ph.D. She is a professor and clinical psychologist who is one of the leading scientists studying the effects of mindfulness and self-compassion on wellbeing. Her new book is Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness + Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity + Joy.
One of the most hopeful and exciting developments in science has been the discovery of neuroplasticity—that is, our brain continues to change throughout our lives. The good news, Shapiro says, is “It’s never too late to change. No matter what has happened to us. All of us have the capacity to begin again.”
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