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Point Reyes Dialogues
with Jacob Needleman
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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 Jack Kornfield
First Aired: October 18th 2010
Jack Kornfield was trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India and has taught meditation worldwide since around 1974, in addition to holding a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He has authored numerous best selling books, audio and meditation tapes. In 1972 he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and is a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California, where he currently lives and teaches.
Jacob Needleman speaks with Michael Murphy
First Aired: December 7th 2010
Michael Murphy is the co-founder and chairman of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, the Center for Theory and Research, a citizen diplomat, and the author of both non-fiction and fiction books that explore evidence for extraordinary human capacities. Among his many books are God and The Evolving Universe (with James Redfield and Sylvia Timbers), The Life We Are Given (with George Leonard), The Future of the Body, and four novels: Golf in the Kingdom, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Jacob Atabet, and An End to Ordinary History.
Jacob Needleman speaks with Angeles Arrien
First Aired: January 5th 2011
Angeles Arrien is an anthropologist, educator, award-winning author, and
consultant to many organizations and businesses, including the Fetzer Institute.
She lectures nationally and internationally; conducting
workshops that bridge cultural anthropology, psychology, and mediation skills. Requests for her expertise have taken her to Bali, China, Indonesia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Germany, Ireland, South Africa, and Canada. Her work with multi-cultural issues, mediation, and conflict resolution has been used with the International Rights Commission and the World Indigenous Council. She has also presented her material on the Cable News Network (CNN).
Jacob Needleman speaks with Nipun Mehta
First Aired: February 2nd 2011
Nipun Mehta is the founder of CharityFocus.org, a fully volunteer-run organization that has delivered millions of dollars of web-related services to the nonprofit world for free. The recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service and the President's Volunteer Service Award, his work creatively leverages web technologies for collaborative and transformational giving, lending him insight into service, leadership, organizational design, and spirituality. He serves on the advisory boards of the Seva Foundation, Dalai Lama Foundation, and Airline Ambassadors.
Jacob Needleman speaks with Michael Krasny
First Aired: March 2nd 2011
Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED's award-winning
Forum, a news and public affairs program that
concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business and
technology. Before coming to KQED Public Radio in 1993,
Dr. Krasny hosted a night-time talk program for KGO Radio
and co-anchored the weekly KGO television show
Nightfocus. He hosted Bay TV's Take Issue, a nightly news
analysis show, programs for KQED Public Televison, KRON
television and National Public Radio, and did news
commentary for KTVU television. Since 1970 he has been a
professor of English at San Francisco State University
and is a widely published scholar and critic as well as a
former regular contributor to Mother Jones magazine and a
fiction writer. He has also worked widely as a
facilitator and host in the corporate sector and as
moderator for a host of major non-profit events.
Jacob Needleman speaks with David Heiden
First Aired: March 2nd 2011
David Heiden is a physician, humanitarian, author, and
photographer. He is an ophthalmologist whose work
centers on the prevention of blindness in people with
AIDS. Dr. Heiden founded the AIDS Eye Initiative part
of the SEVA foundation's center for innovation in
EyeCare, to train doctors in the diagnosis and
treatment of the blinding CMV infection. In
collaboration with Doctors without Borders, this
project has also brought drugs and necessary medical
equipment to treat AIDS patients throughout Africa and
Asia.
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.
Jacob Needleman speaks with Jurriaan Kamp
Jurriaan Kamp founded Ode Magazine in The Netherlands in 1995 with his wife, Helene de Puy. The magazine continues to thrive there and in 2007, Ode Magazine’s U.S. offices opened in the Bay Area.
Ode’s mission is to publish stories about the people and ideas that are making a difference. The magazine for “intelligent optimists,” Ode reports on positive news in the areas of health, science, spirit, life, energy and business. Odemagazine.com is a vibrant community that connects readers from around the globe.
Before founding Ode, Kamp was an editor, correspondent in South Asia and Chief Economics Editor at the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. He is the author of Small Change: How Fifty Dollars Changes the World and Because People Matter. Ode Magazine in the Netherlands recently published its 100th issue.
He lives in Mill Valley, California with his partner and spouse Helene de Puy and their four children.
Jacob Needleman speaks with Alan Jones
The Rev. Alan Jones is Dean of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco, California. Born in England, Alan was educated there and at General Theological Seminary in New York City, where he later founded the Center for Christian Spirituality. Dr. Jones is a well-known writer and skilled storyteller. Among his books on Christian spirituality are Passion for Pilgrimage, Soul Making, and Sacrifice & Delight: Spirituality for Ministry.
Jacob Needleman speaks with Martin Shaw
Dr. Martin Shaw is a mythologist, storyteller and award winning wilderness Rites-of-Passage guide. Author of ‘A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness’ (June 2011 White Cloud Press), he works internationally and is visiting lecturer on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Leadership Programme at Templeton College, Oxford. As Director of the Westcountry School of Myth and Story he has a weekly blog.
Jacob Needleman speaks with Martha Heyneman
Martha Heyneman is a journalist, poet, teacher, and social commentator who is deeply engaged in the practice and understanding of the Gurdjieff teachings. She is the author of ‘The Breathing Cathedral: feeling our way into a living cosmos’, and ‘The Productions of Time, Collected Essays’. Many of her essays exploring western views of the cosmos literature and science have appeared in the magazine, Parabola.
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