The Hundredth Monkey Radio, October 16, 2011
Dr. Robert Forman
Dr. Forman is the author of the just released Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul. He is uniquely qualified both personally and professionally to re-imagine the spiritual life. A meditator of 40 years, he gained a Ph.D. from Columbia University, specializing in religious experiences around the world, and became a tenured professor of comparative religions at City University of New York. After he retired from teaching he helped found the Journal of Consciousness Studies and founded and still directs the Forge Institute for Spirituality and Social Change, which has developed the Soul Jazz family of programs to help people weave the depths of their spiritual discoveries into their everyday lives.
Personally Dr.Forman hasnt missed a day of meditation in 40 years. He broke through to the first major life shift he sought during a nine-month meditation retreat, at the ripe old age of 24. Further developments have continued through his lifetime of yearly solo meditation retreats, self-reflection, 18 years of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic training, his marital work, his teaching, writing and leading of workshops, and his research into and national leadership role in the grassroots spirituality movement. Thus both personally and professionally, he is truly uniquely qualified to re-imagine the spiritual goal and the path to it.
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"CONDEMNATION WITHOUT INVESTIGATION
IS THE HEIGHT OF IGNORANCE"
Albert Einstein
Just being a couple of guys who have great concern in the things happening in our existence, Ramon and I (Tom), decided to host a show to have a forum for us to ask questions of some of the researchers and fellow experiencers on this great planet we currently find ourselves.
Please look for us in the near future with interviews and conversations with some of the cutting edge researchers in the fields of UFO's, Consciousness, Spirituality, Religion, Health, Symbolism, Physics and what ever else we find interesting or applicable to the growth of humanity....
You get to a point where you are questioning everything for some of us. We are happy with the answers they give. For others, It's not enough. Are they spraying our skies? Are they poisoning our food and water? And why? Are there other beings visiting us from a different planet, universe, or dimension? Is there more to us than skin and bones? Does our consciousness create our reality? Are there higher powers or are we this higher power? Why are we being visited by extra terrestrial's? What happens to us when we die? Is this my first life on this planet? Have I lived more lives? What is my purpose in life? Was the human species created by aliens? Is our government hiding advance technologies? Are we at the verge of advancing consciously, physically and emotionally? Are we becoming a new human species? What does 2012 mean? Or is it nonsense? Are the powers that be trying to dumb us down or keep us from evolving spiritually? These are some of the questions you may be asking. And we will try to answer them, but each one of us is responsible for finding our own truths. Tune in every week as we investigate these questions and more.
