Self-Improvement audiobooks
How To Get Your Point Across In 30 Seconds Or Less - Abridged
By: Milo O. Frank
Narrated by: Milo O. Frank
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Learn how to get your listenerโs attention, keep her interest, and make your pointโall in thirty seconds!
Milo Frank, Americaโs foremost business communications consultant, shows you how to focus your objectives, utilize the โhookโ technique, use the secrets of TV and advertising writers, tell terrific anecdotes that make your point, shine in... Read more
Greener Tomorrows
By: Ernest Callenbach, Fritjof Capra & Hazel Henderson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Three of the cultural visionaries of our time come together to explore the emergence of a new paradigm for viewing reality based on the fundamental inter-dependence of all life with the cycles of nature. They stress the shift from a mechanistic and patriarchal world view to a holistic and ecological view, if we are to survive as a species and a... Read more
View audiobookDoing What You Love and Making Money Too!
By: Nancy Anderson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Making a living while following one's bliss is too often seen as an impossible dream, too idealistic and pragmatically unattainable. Not so, according to Nancy Anderson, who provides a wealth of wisdom and myriad ways to discover your passion and follow your heart to a financially and personally rewarding career. Read more
View audiobookThe Healing Waterfall
By: Max Highstein
Narrated by: Jill Andre
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
About This Guided Meditation
The Healing Waterfall is waiting for you on a beautiful mountainside. Deeply relax while you slowly step forward into the pool, as the water heals and soothes every part of you. A perennial best seller, this luxurious, gentle meditation with itโs rich, soft music has been adored by many, many people over the years.... Read more
Yogafire
By: B.K.S. Iyengar
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Yoga is the most powerful force in the world,โ according to Iyengar, the most renowned yoga master to emerge from India in this century. Here he relates the practical benefits of yoga as a healing art. Intense, energetic and articulate, Iyengarโs presence belies his sixty-six years at the time of this interview. He describes himself as โliquid... Read more
View audiobookTales of Tibet
By: John Avedon
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In this dialogue the poignant and provocative story of Tibet since the Chinese Communist invasion unfolds. Exemplifying the nonviolent approach to conflict resolution, the Tibetan people, personified by the Dalai Lama himself, have demonstrated resilience and restraint in the face of an unparalleled devastation of their country. Read more
View audiobookGoddesses As Inner Images
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Psychiatrist Jean Bolen describes seven archetypal patterns embodied in seven of the Greek goddesses. In knowing which โgoddessโ is present, a woman can have a deeper understanding of everyday occurrences as well as more dramatic events--not to mention the benefits men can realize through a better understanding of the female psyche. Listen in... Read more
View audiobookDance 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 whatโs left.โ Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookEducating for Peace
By: Dr. Rodrigo Carazo, Murray Silberman & Willis H...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this illuminating conversation, Carazo, former president of Costa Rica and founder of the University for Peace is joined by Murray Silberman, Director of Planning and Development, and Willis Harman, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Member of the Board of Regents of the University of California. Peace, they affirm, is not an... Read more
View audiobook12 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
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
View audiobookPeace Is Possible: The Work of Eknath Easwaran
By: Michael Nagler & Eknath Eswaran
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Michael Nagler talks about the work of Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999), founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. Easwaran speaks about the responsibility each of us has to bring peace to the world through our actions. This dialogue centers around living the meditative life in the midst of family and community, and many relevant insights... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookA Better Game Than War
By: Robert Fuller
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Recovering the natural way and restoring balance to life provides the theme for the Fostersโ extraordinary explorations. In the eye of the hurricane there is calm, and the Fostersโ living expression during turbulent times inspires and challenges us to re-examine our own values. The Fosters direct the School of Lost Borders in Big Pine... Read more
View audiobookIs 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
View audiobookAlong 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
View audiobookBuckminster 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
View audiobookEcotopia 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
View audiobookBond 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
View audiobookThe Gates of Consciousness
By: Stanislav Grof
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A stirring visit with one of the modern pioneers of consciousness exploration. Born in Czechoslovakia, Stan Grof came to the U.S. in the late 1960s and became one of the foremost explorers of LSD-25 as a research tool. Since then he has developed non-drug alternatives for exploring the hidden reaches of the human mind and psyche. Read more
View audiobookErotic and Social Transformation
By: George Leonard
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
George Leonard (1923-2010) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. Read more
View audiobookThe Future as Transformation
By: Willis Harman
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Harman provides a provocative and penetrating analysis of what's going on in the world, with a social scientist/engineer/futurist who plainly feels we're in the midst of a planetary metamorphosis of monumental proportions. Read more
View audiobookSpiral Into Life
By: Jean Houston
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an enthralling and intriguing conversation with the visionary philosopher Jean Houston, who serves as director of the Foundation for Mind Research in Pomona, New York. She provides considerable insight on ways to fulfill our potential, as well as describing the opportunity on the other side of the problem. Read more
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