Body, Mind, & Spirit audiobooks

Personal Disarmament: Darkness and Light

By: Deena Metzger

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, playwright, author and psychotherapist, Metzger takes us on an extraordinary journey into the pain and the ecstasy of engaging life to the fullest. She describes her transformative experience with cancer and how the process enabled her to redesign her life, appreciating the simple and listening to the silences. Highlighting this dialogue... Read more

Don’T Worry--Be Happy

By: Marsha Sinetar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Using the Hansel and Gretel myth as a metaphor for life, psychologist and writer Sinetar speaks to those who are attempting to live their deepest calling in the midst of a seductive world. She emphasizes the power of a positive view without being pollyannish, and stresses how optimism is essential for the creative process to unfold. Read more

Spiritual Social Action

By: Catherine Ingram & Allan Hunt Badiner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

There is ground for hope in the transformative power of right action, and in this dialogue the focus is on the combination of spiritual power with social activism. The effect of truth in action is compelling as both Ingram and Badiner point to those whose lives are making a difference throughout the world. For anyone seeking to balance the inner... Read more

Authentic Power: Between Energy and Matter

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Venturing beyond the realm he opened with the classicThe Dancing Wu Li Masters (Bantam 1980), Zukav expands his vision, penetrating the fascinating complexities of human experience with a new theory of personal reality. He explains how we create the events in our lives with our thoughts and intentions, and puts us in touch with an ability to... Read more

Beyond Blame, Guilt and Shame

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Trained as both a biologist and a psychologist, Joan Borysenko has had a lifelong interest in the connections between science, psychology and spirituality. Exploring ways to shed self-blame and the pessimism of unhealthy guilt, she retrieves the wonder and mystery of being alive, and reviews the 21 telling “expressions” that indicate excessive... Read more

Seeing With the Heart

By: David Whyte

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet and workshop leader Whyte tells us, “Poetry belongs in many parts of our lives. It can bring mythological and concrete worlds together.” He takes us on a journey from the outer world of the Galapagos Islands where he was a Naturalist Guide to the inner world of an emerging poet. Read more

An Astronaut'S Path To Inner Space

By: Brian O'Leary

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Astronomer, scientist, and former astronaut encourages scientific research to include the serious study of paranormal events such as telepathy, UFOs, and the Faces on Mars project. He says, "No problem can be solved from the place it was created." O'Leary shares the possibilities of space exploration as having the potential for global cooperation. Read more

Talking to Our Selves

By: Hal Stone, Ph.D. & Sidra Winkelman Stone, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A husband-wife team, they have together developed "Voice Dialogue," a powerful and innovative approach to recognizing and integrating the many sub-personalities that exist within each of us. In this conversation they talk about our primary selves and disowned selves, especially with reference to relationship, bonding patterns, and how we can use... Read more

Myths, Symbols, Stories: Bi-Cultural Vision

By: Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Basque native, Arrien is at the forefront of those who see the common threads that unite us while honoring our differences. She speaks of the importance of myth and symbol in everyday life and combines the two disciplines of anthropology and psychology. Her cross-cultural approach provides both a universal and practical means of addressing... Read more

Loving Kindness and Active Peace

By: Dalai Lama & H.E. Tai Situpa Rinpoche

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Peace, the Dalai Lama has emerged as one of the great spiritual figures of this century. Here, in an exclusive interview with Michael Toms, he speaks of his positive impressions of Costa Rica, the purpose of religion, and his memorable meeting with Thomas Merton. Read more

Seeking Peace

By: His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In June of 1989 H.H. the Dalai Lama visited Latin America for the first time and was the featured speaker during the five day conference, "Seeking the True Meaning of Peace," sponsored by the Costa Rican Government, the U.N.-backed University for Peace, and the Catholic Church. Listen to the Dalai Lama's simple yet profound insights about the... Read more

Discovering Your Personal Myth

By: David Feinstein & Stanley Krippner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the five stages of discovering your personal mythology and why is it important to understand it? How do cultural myths become personal ones? Probing the unconscious and uncovering the source of our behavior patterns serves as the focus for clarifying the role of myth in our personal lives as well as its extension to the culture. Read more

The Gods in Everyone

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Both men and women carry the archetypal patterns of gods and goddesses. Here, Bolen, a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, discusses the power of this dynamic in our lives. She describes the Greek gods and their relevance in a patriarchal culture. Through understanding the different aspects of these gods, we can come to inhabit our lives more... Read more

Quantum Theory, Creativity and Consciousness

By: F. David Peat

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This conversation with theoretical physicist Peat ranges from chaos theory to synchronicity. Influenced strongly by David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti, he makes the connection between the worlds of science and spirit. Exploring the question "What is the nature of order?" provides the impetus for Peat to attempt to build a bridge between matter and... Read more

I Send a Voice - Abridged

By: Evelyn Eaton

Narrated by: Ellen Burstyn

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the most definitive accounts of the training and work of a Pipe Carrier, I Send a Voice is a gripping first-person account inside a Native American sweat lodge ceremony. Evelyn Eaton writes of her resolve to become worthy of participating in this healing ritual as she embraces the whole length of "the hero's journey." Through tests and... Read more

Sacred Odyssey: Seeking Freedom

By: Ram Dass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A 1990 return visit with the spiritual pilgrim whose personal journey for more than four decades has served as a reflective mirror for so many. He speaks about where he is now in his life; how methods are traps; overcoming fear in the midst of change; spiritual potential; the true source of change; facing adversity; the challenge of doing good;... Read more

The Wounded Feeling Function with Robert Johnson

By: Robert Johnson

Narrated by: Robert Johnson

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BetterListen Classic Course, recorded in NYC in 1989, Robert A. Johnson, the celebrated author of 'He, She', and 'We', revisits two medieval tales and illuminates how this feeling function has become a casualty of our modern times.

Johnson tells the story of the Wounded Fisher King from the Grail Myth to illustrate the anxiety and... Read more

An Awakened Life

By: Vernon Howard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wide-ranging, insight-provoking conversation, Howard states in simple terms what must be done to reach enlightenment. Powerful, incisive and mystical are only a few words that describe this rare and penetrating voice in the wilderness. Read more

Uncommon Wisdom

By: Robert Fulghum

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an inspiring and engaging dialogue about ordinary people living extraordinary lives and how the common things in life are often the richest source of spiritual sustenance. Fulghum, a retired Unitarian minister, reveals the meaning in simple things with wit and insight. Read more

Tales of White Buffalo Woman

By: Brooke Medicine Eagle

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

We are one with all things is the greatest teaching now available to human beings, according to the message of the mythic White Buffalo Woman as recounted by Brooke, a descendant of the famed Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph. She speaks of "the holy work" the work of wholeness, so vitally important to the task of restoring the balance of nature and... Read more

Inside the Mystery: Alien Contacts

By: Jacques Vallee, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most respected and knowledgeable investigators of UFOs and alien encounters, Vallee provides a larger mythic and historical context from which to consider these strange phenomena. Read more

Encounters With the Unknown

By: Whitley Streiber

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling and startling account of one person's experience of meeting unknown intelligence pointing to the possible reality of non-human visitors of superior intelligence on Earth. Here he tells the stunning, terrifying, and ultimately inspiring story of his struggle to understand and form a relationship with "the visitors." Read more

Awakening to the Vision

By: Ken Carey

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Recovering the virtues of native American peoples and integrating them into the emerging information society serves as the central focus of this relevant and inspiring dialogue with Carey, who lives on a farm in Missouri and has been acknowledged as a visionary through the fame of his books, The Starseed Transmissions (Uni-Sun/Stillpoint 1982)... Read more

Life, Death And Beyond: the Near Death Experience

By: Raymond A. Moody, Jr., MD, PhD

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Moody describes how it feels to die, and what people learn about life from the dying experience. In a natural and straightforward manner, Moody gives us reason to pause and reflect on the mystery of death and the age-old question: What happens after we die? Read more