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Dr. Larry Dossey is one of the most interesting and most valuable people on the planet. He’s a highly respected physician, where being an authority in medicine gives credence to what he talks about where oneness and consciousness trump the materialistic, self-serving worldview we now entertain. Larry was very gracious in flying into L.A. to give a moving talk at an event I was producing for TED a few years ago. And, his interview by Oprah, that we talk about in this podcast episode, was revelatory in authenticating the power of prayer to heal people. Plus, credentials aside, he’s an absolutely lovely human being!

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“Richard Grossinger’s new book, The Night Sky, should be heralded as the publishing event of the decade. This is a book that has the power to change your relationship to the universe. I would even say it has the potentiality to participate in the evocation of a new civilization.”

Please do yourself the favor of listening to my podcast with Brian Swimme. He has the map, from the origin of the universe till now, where humanity is the first species that could change Earth – for the better or for the worse. The Christian story, predominant in America, would be supplanted by the universe story for how to live our lives for the better.

A mathematician by training, Brian is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco, where he’s a brilliant teacher of evolutionary cosmology in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. By my lights, he’s the most valuable voice on the planet. He gives us a way to perceive the human situation so we see what we are doing here and what our destiny is. His understanding is so inspirational that if I got the world to tune into what Brian delivers I would feel like I had fulfilled my mission in life.

The Universe is a Green Dragon is his masterwork. Do you know anyone who has bought 1,000 copies of any book? That would be me, since 1989, when I shut myself into my bedroom for two days to finish reading it. And, Brian’s gifts as an author are matched by a personal style that makes him a candidate for being my favorite human I didn’t give birth to.

What a sweet surprise it was to discover this on Brian’s Wikipedia page: “Suzanne Taylor, founder of Mighty Companions, says Swimme is a charismatic person who seeks to place scientific technology in its context of the infancy of the earth community as it struggles for reconnection to its sacred source. She believes that he sweeps us into the grand picture of human beings as the current culmination of the still-evolving universe.”

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It’s thrilling that 100,000 more viewers every month watch a TED talk about​ ​remote viewing that my friend, Russell Targ, did for me: click here to watch. It’s up to​ 5 million views as of this writing. It’s full of the “Ideas Worth Spreading”​ ​that TED presumably is all about, yet it caused TED  to cancel the license they’d given me to produce TEDx West Hollywood so that I ultimately​ ​delivered my program, Brother Can You Spare a Paradigm?, or, Making the​ ​Quantum Leap, on my nickel.

You can learn a lot about remote viewing, a capacity we all have to “see”​ ​what exists in a distant place we’ve never been to, in Third Eye Spies, a​ ​documentary about his work that Russell finished this year and is streaming​ ​now on Amazon Prime. Tune in and find out about the lab Russell had​ ​at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), funded by the CIA to use remote viewing to spy on the Russians during the Cold War. The lab also had some​ ​victories that are beyond belief yet they occurred, like finding the trail to Patty​ ​Hearst after she was kidnapped and working with Uri Geller doing some​ ​“mind reading” that seemed impossible.

In my quest for what could shift our worldview to where we care about each​ ​other as much as we care about ourselves, remote viewing and the ESP that​ ​Geller is so adept at give evidence of how connected we are in one cosmic​ ​soup. Russell, a physicist of some renown who worked on developing the​ ​laser, helps us get beyond our cultural attachment to old Newtonian ideas of a universe running on cause and effect where separation is the name of the​ ​game.

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The Los Angeles Times wrote an article on the “launch of the world’s first interdisciplinary research institute on kindness, which will explore, for instance, how and why being nice to others reduces depression and the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.” The team of UCLA researchers will examine three themes that are the foundation of the institute’s project: “the roots of kindness, how to promote it, and how to use it as a therapeutic intervention to improve mental and physical health…Research by UCLA scientists already has shown that mindfulness and kindness actually alter the behavior of genes, turning down those that promote inflammation, which can lead to heart disease or certain cancers, and turning up the activity of genes that protect against infections.”

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