Science & Technology audiobooks

Thomas Merton Remembered

By: Brother Patrick Hart, Father Timothy Kelly, Bro...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

On the 25th anniversary of Thomas Merton's untimely death in Bangkok, Michael Toms visited Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, and talked with several of those who knew the remarkable Trappist monk and acclaimed writer when he lived there during the last 27 years of his life. Read more

The Medicine Way of Life

By: Hyemeyohsts Storm & Swan Storm

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Hyemeyosts Storm's very personal story of overcoming drunken violence, spiritual ignorance and lack of self-respect. He describes the difficult but life-changing lessons he learned from his spiritual teachers about how to relate to self and the world, and asks us to discover first-hand for ourselves and our children what it means to be... Read more

Discovering Soul in the Workplace

By: David Whyte

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's, notes poet David Whyte. "So far, much of corporate America has been about succeeding at other people's lives." Determined to change this situation, Whyte has been working with organizations to help them foster creativity in their employees, for the simple reason that... Read more

Reclaiming Native Culture

By: Winona Laduke

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Passionate, outspoken, and articulate, Winona LaDuke is an internationally known activist for indigenous rights and environmental and women's issues. All over the world, she observes, colonialism is encroaching upon natural ecosystems and the people who have lived in them for many centuries--but destroying land and cultures is not a sustainable... Read more

Dialogue With Sir Laurens Van der Post: A Mythic Journey, Part 1

By: Laurens Van der Post

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The experiences of Sir Laurens Van der Post, including time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and a sojourn in the Kalahari desert after World War II, give him a broad perspective. He shares with us the mythic origins of Hitler and Nazism, and why the end of “the age of leaders” is relevant today. Read more

Dialogue With Sir Laurens Van der Post: A Mythic Journey, Part 2

By: Laurens Van der Post

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Laurens Van der Post had a long friendship with Carl Jung. He talks here about the significance of Jung’s work and the compelling story of events surrounding Jung’s death. He also shares his perspectives on the I Ching and the nature of time, and why feminine wisdom is coming of age. Read more

Dialogue With Sir Laurens Van der Post: A Mythic Journey, Part 3

By: Laurens Van der Post

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Laurens Vander Post placed great significance on dreams. In this dialog he shares how collective and individual dreams relate to our changing times. He also speaks about the emergence of new meaning and hope for the future. At age 86, he had a thought-provoking outlook on living and dying. Read more

Listening to Prozac - Abridged

By: Peter D. Kramer

Narrated by: Peter D. Kramer

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE END OF PERSONALITY?

Since it was introduce in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory, even dexterity, Prozac has changed millions of troubled lives -- but not without raising... Read more

The Survival Of Consciousness

By: Stanislav Grof & Willis Harman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compelling dialogue with two researchers who have devoted their lives to exploring the questions related to survival of consciousness after death and experiences of non-ordinary consciousness. Read more

Creating Conscious Community

By: Carolyn Shaffer & Kristin Anundsen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shaffer and Anundsen discuss how modern times have created new needs as well as opportunities for creating effective community of many kinds. Our human need for connection is as strong as ever, and here are creative, encouraging ways to fulfill our connection in the context of today's world. Read more

Falling Awake

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By paying attention in the moment and to the people we are with, Jon Kabat-Zinn says we can bring a richness and power to our lives that goes beyond healing to give us meaning, wonder and joy in life. “It’s very similar to falling asleep,” he says, “only this is actually falling awake.” Kabat-Zinn has decades of experience with the effectiveness... Read more

Positive Plus - Abridged

By: Joyce Brothers

Narrated by: Joyce Brothers

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Turn negative traits like nagging, perfectionism, and compulsive behavior into positives with this simple guide from renowned psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers. For decades Dr. Brothers was a sage, down-to-earth voice of reason to the millions who read her books and newspaper and magazine columns and heeded her advice on television and radio.... Read more

Thomas Merton the Man

By: Ron Seitz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 1993, Michael Toms made a "pilgrimage" to the hermitage of Thomas Merton at the Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. This is a recording of his visit with Ron Seitz, who was a young poet when he befriended and was mentored by Merton. Here Seitz offers memories and insight from the life of the brilliant Trappist monk and spiritual teacher. Read more

Human Energy Fields and Healing

By: Barbara Brennan, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A skilled explorer of the possibilities of healing through unconventional methods, Barbara Brennan is gifted with the ability to see and affect energy colors and patterns in and around the body--an ability she says everyone potentially has. Deep and thorough healing occurs, she explains, through the honoring of subtle energies on physical,... Read more

Feeling Alive and "In the Flow"

By: Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We experience flow when we are totally absorbed in a challenging activity for its own sake, and not for the sake of the results. The flow state is accessible to everyone, can occur at any level of skill, and is in fact necessary for real enjoyment of life beyond simple pleasure-seeking. Read more

Quantum Mind--Quantum Joy

By: Amit Goswami

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Goswami delivers this most encouraging statement: "Consciousness in its primacy is joy. Once we have a taste of this primal joy, we can never forget it." He’s an Indian-born physicist and philosopher who has been pursuing a deeper truth in science which has led him to the conclusion that understanding human consciousness is central to... Read more

Ufos:  Fact Or Fiction?

By: John Mack, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Mack presents evidence pro and con, and various speculative explanations of many aspects of the UFO abductions. Despite a lack of conclusive proof for or against the reality of abductions, Mack says, "If the mystery's there, we might as well embrace it rather than run from it." Read more

A Psychology of Spiritual Optimism

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Human beings don't come compartmentalized--and human healing doesn't have to either. Building bridges between medicine, psychology and spirituality is the theme of this heart-centered discussion with a medical psychologist and pioneer of psychoneuroimmunology. Read more

Writing From the Belly

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel Allende talks about her passion for writing. She speaks with great depth of feeling about the death of her daughter Paula. She says, "Every book is triggered by a very strong emotion that has been with me for a long time, and usually that emotion is painful. However, the process of writing is so joyful." Read more

The Mythic Power of Film

By: Geoffrey Hill

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

After listening to this exploration of the mythological significance of films, you will never watch movies with the same eyes again. Psychotherapist Geoffrey Hill describes cinema as an art form revealing the fears and desires, symbols and issues of contemporary times. Read more

Taming Your Inner Critic

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

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Inner Critic is one of the inner selves that Hal and Sidra Stone have identified through decades of Voice Dialogue therapy; and it can be a very destructive voice unless we learn how to identify and deal with it. Here they tell us the differences between men and women in this regard; how to recognize and understand the Inner Critic; and most... Read more

Creativity, Chaos and the Madwoman

By: Linda Leonard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Madwoman is a paradoxical archetype whose manifestations range from insanity and fury to passion, ecstasy and creative chaos. In some form or other, she is part of the inner chorus in every personality, in both men and women. Linda Leonard has a personal acquaintance with the Madwoman both through her professional therapy practice and her... Read more

It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You - Abridged

By: Janet Greeson

Narrated by: Janet Greeson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Overcome Hidden Food Addictions, Take Charge of Your Body, Your Emotions, Your Life

Here's hope and help for food addicts. Developed by Janet Greeson, a nationally renowned pioneer in the development of addiction treatment programs, this day-by-day self-help program treats the physical, emotional and spiritual causes of food addiction.
... Read more

Becoming An Elder

By: Mark Gerzon

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerzon describes the midlife process as a quest, as discovering the deep questions that are arising within. He encourages older people to share their stories with the young, as we all learn to dispel the negative and false belief that growing older means not growing. He’s the author of Listening to Midlife: Turning Your Crisis Into a Quest. Read more