Body, Mind, & Spirit audiobooks

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

Quantum Odyssey

By: Fritjof Capra

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Capra relates his personal journey of meeting and interacting with some of the leading contemporary thinkers and visionaries. What emerges is a wisdom packed dialogue about new ways of thinking and being. From Krishnamurti's spiritual insight to Gregory Bateson's intellectual prowess, Capra weaves an intricate and informative web of influences... Read more

The Pilgrim's Way

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Here psychiatrist and author Bolen speaks of her archetypal pilgrimages to Chartres, Glastonbury, Ireland, Greece and India. The magic and mystery of sacred places and their power and energy for transformation, as well as the earth as healer, provide the central themes for this dialogue. Read more

From Physics to Peace: Finding New Truths

By: Robert Fuller

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an inspiring, engrossing tale of one man's odyssey from physics professor and college president to citizen diplomat, searching for "a better game than war." Fresh, candid and compassionate, he challenges us all in new ways to find our passion and respond to it, to think about our values and the nature of change and risk. Read more

Beyond Crisis

By: Ann Kaiser Stearns

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone experiences personal crisis of one form or another. In this dialogue, Stearns, a clinical psychologist, tells how new growth can occur through pain, grief and trauma. Turning losses into victories underscores the conversation, as she describes what enables and inspires some people to transform tragedy into rebirth while others are... Read more

Seeking Wisdom

By: Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Learning to listen to our inner voice, living in relationship, suffering and liberation, finding providential help along the way and much more are covered by Needleman as he speaks to the depth and breadth of the spiritual search. He emphasizes the power of the oral tradition and the need to be open and receptive to truth when it appears. Read more

Expressing the Inner Voice: Writing Your Way Through Crisis

By: Gabriele Rico

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Rico tells how through writing about deep feelings, emotions can take shape, come to the surface, and be clarified, instead of being repressed to emerge later as destructive behavior. Read more

A New World View

By: Willis Harman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

According to Harman, we are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history—a change in the actual belief structure of Western industrial society—which points to extraordinary new possibilities for human consciousness. Read more

New Visions of Consciousness

By: Stanislav Grof, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer in the exploration of the human mind and psyche, Grof points to a vast domain, far beyond the mechanistic conception of human memory, that opens to the full range of the human past and present. He speaks to a unity underlying apparent separateness--a continuity of experience which pervades consciousness. Read more

The Ground of Being

By: Huston Smith, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A dialogue with one of the world's foremost scholars of religion and philosophy about the role of spirit in modern life, focusing on how to understand the difference between the secular and the sacred in a scientifically biased world. Professor Smith is the wisdom guide as he spins the mystical mandala pointing to the unity of all the great... Read more

The Heart of Healing

By: Stephen Levine

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of his extraordinary work with those who came to him to die, Levine has emerged with a vision of healing capable of opening the heart and mind as well as the body. He speaks of the "real healing" as "the one we took birth for." We're all born in this realm to become complete. Read more

Clear Mind, Clear Medicine

By: Bernie Siegel, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The courage to live and embrace love may make the difference between living and dying. In this exhilarating dialogue, surgeon Siegel displays a remarkable reliance on the natural capacity of people to manifest self-healing. He speaks of music in the operating room, inner guides and love as the principal force for healing. Read more