Point Reyes Dialogues
with Jacob Needleman

Open in iTunes Point Reyes Dialogues, originating at KWMR in Point Reyes Station, (California) explores with renowned host Jacob Needleman (author, social philosopher and commentator) the great questions of life and our current condition with eminent friends from the arts, science and spirituality, politics and public service. Jacob Needleman is host of the Point Reyes Dialogues and Sylvia Timbers is the series producer. Jacob Needleman is an internationally renowned author and philosopher whose many distinguished books include The American Soul, Money and the Meaning of Life, and Why Can't We Be Good? For over forty years he has taught philosophy to many thousands of students, lectured around the world and has served as a consultant in the fields of psychology, education, medical ethics, philanthropy, and business. He has been featured on Bill Moyers' acclaimed PBS series A World of Ideas. One of the central aims of these dialogues is to reawaken the art of conversation as a passionate work of opening one's mind to another human being. Conversation such as this is rapidly disappearing in our present world. Yet the work of 'non-egoistic listening and thinking together' is the rock upon which is based not only the American ideal of democracy, but the very possibility of ethical action in our morally and physically threatened world. Our premise is that new territories of collaboration and creativity open with the inner work of listening and thinking together, leading to ethical action in the world. We will be engaging, one on one, outstanding leaders in the fields of business, art, science, technology, religion, politics, philanthropy and the humanities. Each dialogue will be an experiment in deep conversation, each side working to receive, illumine and inspire the thought and mind and spirit of the other. Jacob Needleman speaks with Frances Vaughan First Aired: May 2nd 2011 Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. is a psychologist, educator and author of books, chapters and articles on psychology and spirituality. Her books include Awakening Intuition, The Inward Arc: Healing in Psychotherapy and Spirituality and Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions. With her husband, Roger Walsh, she is co-editor of Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision, and Gifts from A Course in Miracles. As a pioneer in transpersonal psychology, Dr. Vaughan was a founding faculty member of the Institute of Transpersonal psychology. Later she joined the clinical faculty at the University of California Medical School at Irvine. At present she is a founding faculty member of the Metta Institute. Part 1 Part 2