Nonfiction audiobooks

Dance of The Tao

By: Chungliang Al Huang

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Huang touches on those principles of inner dancing that make life a joy. In this amusing and enlightening conversation, he encourages us to move freely, to laugh, to embrace paradox, to take ourselves and our world lightly. Take the S out of cosmic and enjoy what’s left.” Read more

The Psychology of Achievement

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Grow with this classic program! Soar to new heights of success and achievement with The Psychology of Achievement. This remarkable program reveals strategies to elevate your income, put your career on the fast track, and accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible. Unlock the secret to doubling your brainpower and sharpening your... Read more

On The Trail Of The Hundredth Monkey

By: Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Daniel Drasin

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a special documentary program featuring Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, the British biologist whose controversial book, A New Science of Life, proposes a nonmaterial basis for heredity, instinct, mind and memory. This program answers many of the most frequently-asked questions about Sheldrake’s radical ideas, and describes recent experiments which... Read more

12 Cosmic Healers

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Leigh Taylor-Young

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

About This Guided Meditation
Very etherial and mystical, 12 Cosmic Healers is a journey into the heavens, where 12 great Archangels, each in a different sign of the zodiac, send healing light and sound to twelve different ares of your body. This program corresponds musical key signatures with astrological signs and the body. It's quite a trip!... Read more

Kids and Cash

By: Ken Davis & Tom Taylor

Narrated by: John MacDonald

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Teaching your kids to understand and appreciate the value of money can be difficult. This recording's simple step-by-step approach can help. It includes a section on the many ways kids can earn money for themselves and also provides anecdotes of ways in which famous people earned money when they were children. Read more

Meditating in the Marketplace Or Living Ultimately

By: Charles Garfield, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Here the founder of the Shanti Project, creator of "Peak Performance" seminars and founding president of the Peak Performance Center talks about ways to enhance life and realize one's personal potential in the middle of the marketplace or the "real" world. Read more

Through the Narrow Gate

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this highly personal account of an ex-nun’s transition from a cloistered, disciplined life, to a life in the world, confronting her human feelings and making her own decisions, Karen Armstrong discusses frankly and with humor her process of coping with the shifting values and lifestyles of the secular world. It is a revealing account of her... Read more

The Neuronaut Returns

By: Timothy Leary

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Cosmic, crazy, and comic wisdom abound in this raucous romp through the galactic regions with the late Leary, Pied Piper of the sixties generation. His societal impact was undeniable. Whatever your belief system, Leary's thinking challenges our preconceptions and this conversation is no exception. Read more

Metamind — Metamorphosis

By: Albert Hofmann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 1943, working in his Sandoz laboratory, the Swiss research chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered LSD-25, and thus changed the lives of millions over the next decades. Here he tells how LSD affected his own life and, in the process, weaves an intriguing story of mysticism in the midst of science Read more

Is There Enough to Go Around?

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This comprehensive imaginative thinker and visionary gives an extraordinary overview of the state of the planet and human history. Asked whether there are enough resources to support our growing population the late Buckminster Fuller, age 85 when this was recorded, responds with a tour-de-force capsule of the history of Western civilization. Read more

Parts of the Whole

By: David Bohm, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Theoretical physicist Bohm developed a theory of quantum physics that addresses both matter and consciousness as an unbroken whole. The late Bohm’s concept of “implicate order” provides a basis for bridging science to the realm of spirit. For two decades, he explored this possibility with religious philosopher J. Krishnamurti. Read more

Understanding Mind-Active Drugs

By: Andrew Weil, MD

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In American society one could hardly find a subject more controversial or more apt to raise hackles, prompt desires or trigger fears. For this reason alone it is important for us to dissolve the myths and uncover the truth about substances that cause significant changes in the body and/or mind. Weil, an M.D., provides us with an overview not... Read more

Prosperity Principles

By: Ruth Ross

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re looking for ways to live more fully and abundantly, you’ll want to listen closely to psychologist Ross, as she describes her own path to prosperity. Numerous insights and practical steps are revealed in the course of the conversation. Read more

Along the Spiritual Path

By: Swami Muktananda

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 1982 Swami Paramahansa Muktananda passed from this world. In tribute to him and his work we are presenting this 1979 interview. In this extraordinary conversation, Muktananda talks about a wide range of spiritual matters including the role of the guru and disciple, social responsibility, choosing a teacher, enlightenment, what the west... Read more

The Deep Self

By: Helen Palmer

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Gifted psychic visionary Helen Palmer explores the inner capacity to tap one’s intuitive nature. She helps us explore our conscious journey across the landscape of the unconscious, so often hidden from our view. Live listener phone-in questions are answered during the second half of this 2-hour program. Read more

The Greatest Aces

By: Edward H. Sims

Narrated by: Justin Hecht

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Top World War II aces of the RAF, USAAF, and the Luftwaffe recall the greatest aerial missions in this thrilling program. There is Douglas Bader, one of the best of the RAF fighter pilots despite 2 artificial legs, Adolf Galland of the Luftwaffe, who, subsequent to being shot down in France one morning, took off in another Messerschmitt that... Read more

Turn Your Radio On: Michael Toms Is Interviewed by George Leonard

By: Michael Toms

Narrated by: George Leonard & Phil Catalfo

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Here Toms reveals his own early roots of how New Dimensions came through a series of synchronistic events. He also talks about his own spiritual background. This was a live radio program and includes calls from listeners. Read more

Buckminster Fuller: The 50-Year Experiment (documentary)

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Narrated by: Phil Catalfo & Michael Toms

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a special audio documentary of the life and work of a twentieth-century genius. Included is the story of how the late Bucky transcended failure and despair and devoted his life to serving humanity. There is also a commentary describing his contribution to our time. If you're interested in making the world work, you owe it to yourself to... Read more

Esp In Daily Life

By: Jeffrey Mishlove & William Kautz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Contrary to popular belief, ESP, or "psi" as it is known in parapsychology, means much more than fork-bending or talk-show advice to the lovelorn. Here two leading researchers in this field tell us things that expand our understanding beyond conventional limits. Read more

Free Associating

By: Ken Nordine

Narrated by: Phil Catalfo

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a flight of fancy with Ken Nordine, one of radio's creative geniuses. He is the man who created the marvelous "Word Jazz" records of the late 1950s and whose voice has visited our homes on countless radio and TV commercials over the years. For anyone who loves radio or sound in any medium, this conversation is a must. Read more

Ecotopia Revisited

By: Ernest Callenbach

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of the visionary "ecotopian" view of the world, made famous through his classic book, Ecotopia returns with a fresh vision of an energy-efficient, ecologically responsible future society spread across Northwest America. Read more

A New Science Of Life

By: Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the provocative concepts of morphogenetic fields and morphic resonance, we may indeed be more than the sum of our parts; we may have access to all that has gone before. Sheldrake, a biochemist, has postulated an extraordinary new theory that, if correct, could overturn our fundamental concepts about nature, brain function and consciousness. Read more

Bond Of Power

By: Joseph Chilton Pearce

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of The Crack in The Cosmic Egg (Julian Press 1971) and Bond of Power (Dutton 1981) tells of a metamorphosis that has occurred in his life--one he claims is available for each of us, and one based upon our human birthright. Our rational mind can only take us so far, and then we all must tap into the deep well of wisdom residing within. Read more

The Dawn of the Solar Age

By: Hazel Henderson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hazel Henderson provides some penetrating insights to help light our way through the darkness. Here she speaks of the death of the old socio/political model and the rise of new ways. Read more