Religion audiobooks

Great Questions, The:  Mind, Consciousness and Meaning

By: Jean-Francois Revel & Matthieu Ricard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, internationally-renowned philosopher Jean-Francois Revel and his son Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, spent ten days in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu discussing the most fundamental questions of human existence. Read more

Biology and Destiny

By: Kenny Ausubel & Nina Simons

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter the molecular world of biology, where mushrooms have built a communication network that rivals the Internet and "everything is somebody's lunch."  In this dialogue you'll meet two brilliant "bioneers," Kenny Ausubel and his partner, Nina Simons, who are using nature to heal nature in the battle to restore the Earth from "suicide genes" and... Read more

Being Authentic

By: Marsha Sinetar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a vital energy you receive when you are infused with spiritual intelligence, which Marsha Sinetar calls the "kiss of life."  You may have felt this sense of aliveness at random moments of your life; now you can learn how to make it a part of your everyday existence. Read more

Healing Trauma: A Guided Meditation for Posttraumatic Stress

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The hypnotic, healing suggestions go very deep, and are designed to counter ugly flashbacks and nightmares with positive images. Additional segments reduce the intense spikes of anxiety and serve as a natural treatment for panic attacks, as well as anger and fury; others shift the tendency toward avoidance, numbness and isolation. Created by... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Promote A Healthy Heart

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Listening to this relaxing guided meditation for heart health is a powerful, evidence based practice for lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, holistically and naturally. The hypnotic suggestions, soothing narrative, and powerful affirmations on this research-based audio program combine seamlessly to deliver a state-of-the-art guided... Read more

A New Song

By: Jan Karon

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In A New Song, Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, retires. However, new challenges and adventures await when he agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap has its own unforgettable characters: a church organist with a mysterious past, a lovelorn... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You With Radiation Therapy

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This guided meditation for radiation therapy is designed to ease treatment side effects and symptoms, such as fatigue, burns, soreness and other discomforts, while at the same time reducing anxiety and encouraging a positive attitude toward healing. Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body therapy that consists of healing words and images, set to... Read more

The King James Bible: The Old Testament

By: Multiple Authors

Narrated by: George Vafiadis

Length: 64 hours

Abridged: No

An Award-Winning Narration of the Holy Bible, Old Testament, Complete and Unabridged.George Vafiadis spent over a year narrating the Bible. He would usually get up at three in the morning, check pronunciations and score the text for inflection, then spend three or four hours in the studio. This effort has made the InAudio Bible one of the best... Read more

The King James Bible: The New Testament

By: Multiple Authors

Narrated by: George Vafiadis

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An Award-Winning Narration of the Holy Bible, New Testament, Complete and Unabridged.George Vafiadis spent over a year narrating the Bible. He would usually get up at three in the morning, check pronunciations and score the text for inflection, then spend three or four hours in the studio. This effort has made the InAudio Bible one of the best... Read more

A New Song - Abridged

By: Jan Karon

Narrated by: Jan Karon

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Jan Karon's millions of fans can't wait to sit down with her heartwarming and hilarious characters, who have a way of becoming family. In fact, readers and booksellers across the country kept Out to Canaan and At Home in Mitford on The New York Times bestseller list for months.In A New Song, Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim,... Read more

Chuang Tsu - Abridged

By: Gia Feng

Narrated by: Chungliang Al Huang Huang

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brilliant, mystical, pragmatic, and witty, Chuang Tsu has been called the world's first anarchist by some. Even 2,000 years after his death, his provocative Taoist text remains in the forefront of ancient Chinese philosophical study. An essential sourcebook in the Taoist canon, the sublime prose of this spiritual classic provides a profound and... Read more

A World without Heroes

By: George Roche

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Roche’s A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianity—humorous, insightful, and uncompromising—takes careful aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will and faith of... Read more

The Art of Happiness - Abridged

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler

Narrated by: Howard C. Cutler

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least he's smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, the Nobel Prize winner, and increasingly popular speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending just a few minutes in his presence you... Read more

Hope for the Millennium

By: Barbara Gardner

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

During a private interview in Sai Baba’s ashram, a story was unfolding in Barbara Gardner's mind concerning people and events of which she had no prior knowledge whatsoever.  Gardner reveals how the experience changed her life. Read more

Tuning Into the Land

By: Diana James, Lee Brade & Leah Brady

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Indigenous people have a powerful remembering for us, because they pull us right back to the land, out of our disembodied heads.  They make us sit on the ground, get our feet dirty again, dance in time to the rhythm of the Earth.  We need to take this back to our own world.  Our task is not to grab knowledge like some kind of trophy, but to... Read more

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 6: Muir, The Wild Ideal And Eco-Feminism

By: Bill Devall, Frederick Turner, Casey Walker, Da...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The love of the environment expressed by John Muir has enriched us all. Listen as Sierra Club activist David Orr, Fredrick Turner, and others talk about the importance of Muir's idea that respect for living systems comes before human interests. Read more

Happiness Is a Choice - Abridged

By: Barry Kaufman

Narrated by: Susan Clark

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Happiness Is a Choice is a blueprint of simple, concrete methods to empower one's decision to be happy. Barry Kaufman presents a clear and strong statement on the care and feeding of the human spirit. He explores the belief that the secret to happiness lies within each of us, no matter what happens— or doesn't happen— in... Read more

Rilke

By: Rainer Rilke & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer... Read more

Metamorphosis

By: Ralph Metzner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph Metzner has been a pioneer in the continuing consciousness revolution.  “The only way to change consciousness is to change your own consciousness,” according to Metzner.  “Then, by example, it will carry over to other people.” Read more

The First People - 11,000 Years of Wisdom

By: Evan T. Pritchard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A descendant of the MicMac Indians and tutored by Algonquin elders, Evan Pritchard has done much to bring recognition of this tribe’s influence on the culture, history and government of the United States.  He speaks of the “crossroads” we now face, and how the ancient Algonquins knew a time would come when, “What we do now matters more than it... Read more

Sex, Passion and the Soul

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In a culture where one can find virtually any physical or mental sensation the imagination can conjure up, why do we remain unsatisfied?  Thomas Moore declares that we are actually afraid of sex, “afraid of our own vitality.”  He believes that what we need is the courage to live sensuously, to ease up on the maddening work ethic, and to give... Read more

Reclaiming the Balance, Saving the Future

By: Wiwona LaDuke

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

LaDuke describes the indigenous view of natural beings and political issues relating to our relationship with land, animals and each other. She says, ““In indigenous cultures a lot of the nouns are animate, and as such they have standing, they have spirit. They have whole stories. It puts you in a different relationship when you recognize them... Read more

Re-Visioning Jesus

By: James Carse

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

More knowledge about the life of Jesus has surfaced during the past few years than we’ve known since he walked the Earth.  Professor emeritus of religious history and literature at New York University, James Carse has revived an ancient tradition by writing the first full, all-new gospel of Jesus in 1,500 years. Read more

The Way of Passion - Abridged

By: Andrew Harvey

Narrated by: Andrew Harvey

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Way of Passion draws on the poems of Jalalud-Din Rumi (1207-1273) to present a guide to the timeless truth and beauty of Rumi's words. Inspired by Rumi's voice and by his own startling ability to see into the innermost heart of life, Andrew Harvey urges us to change, to have faith, and to act through love to transform this time of apocalypse... Read more