Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist, Citizen Potawatomi Nation member and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, weaves Indigenous wisdom with science. She explores seeing the earth as gifts, practicing everyday reciprocity, plant intelligence vs brain chauvinism, bioregional belonging, reparative acts like Land Back, and how small caring actions scale into collective healing.

Anne Lamott, beloved author known for candid, compassionate prose, and Neil Allen, writer and spiritual coach offering practical craft guidance, chat about finding your true voice. They explore rhythm and melody in sentences. They talk plain, honest language, cutting excess, reading aloud for rhythm, and writing toward compassion and the really real.

Shi Heng Yi, a 35th-generation Shaolin master and head of Shaolin Temple Europe, blends traditional Kung Fu, Zen practice, and practical wisdom. He explores self-mastery, the illusion of identity, and working with grief and disappointment. He explains movement as meditation, the yin within Shaolin training, and how discipline and presence transform body and mind.

Coleman Barks, celebrated translator of 13th-century mystic Rumi and longtime student of Sufism, reflects on translation, grace, and friendship. He describes entering a trance to render Rumi into American free verse. He explores the transformative bond between Rumi and Shams, the spiritual atmosphere of friendship, and collaborating with cellist David Darling on Rumi-inspired music.

Darnell Lamont Walker, a death doula, Emmy‑nominated writer and filmmaker who accompanies the dying, shares stories from bedsides. He talks about living fully after a near‑death diagnosis. He describes bedside presence, rituals for a peaceful end, confronting regrets, the three‑sentence life‑story prompt, and how showing up in darkness is what love looks like.

Kristin Neff, pioneering self-compassion researcher and program developer, and Caverly Morgan, meditation teacher and former Zen monk, explore compassionate awareness as a path to waking up. They discuss integrating non-dual presence with embodied care. Short guided practices, relational Dharma, and using compassion as a lifeboat are highlighted.

Mark Nepo, poet-philosopher and bestselling author, reflects on aging as a luminous passage. He uses the meteor metaphor to show how outer layers fall away while spirit brightens. Conversations explore entering time, finding joy amid loss, poems about growing clearer with age, and how stillness and grief can open deeper presence.

Paul Selig, a literary channeler and author of channeled texts, shares his journey from skeptic to clairvoyant. He describes rooftop awakenings, how channeling feels, and the process of attunements into the “upper room.” Conversations cover clearing fear, practical phrases to hold alignment, and why now is a pivotal moment for collective spiritual shift.

Ky Dickens, award-winning filmmaker and creator of The Telepathy Tapes, shifted from skeptic to investigator of telepathic communication and consciousness research. She recounts discovering mindsight in nonspeaking children, tests of blindfold vision, and how energy healing and the interstitium reframed possibilities. She also shares filmmaking plans and advocacy for nonspeaking people.

Lee Harris, a global energy intuitive, channeler of the collective Zs, musician and author. He recounts first guide contact and explains channeling and automatic writing. Conversations explore inviting higher guidance, cultivating heart intelligence as a new social currency, navigating resistance to love, and practical steps for personal and planetary transformation.