Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected

Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world. 

Bios: 

Michael Lerner, Editor of the groundbreaking political/social/spiritual magazine TIKKUN, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in San Francisco, and author of, among other books, The Politics of Meaning and most recently Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul, is one of contemporary America's most important socio-political/spiritual thinkers. 

Matthew Fox, an ordained priest since 1967, is a visionary theologian and founder and president of the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, CA. Fox's many books and lectures synthesize ecological and social justice, mysticism and blessing. His books include Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh and The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time. 

Joanna Macy, Ph.D., a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology and a leading voice in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment, is the author of, among other books, Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age; Thinking Like a Mountain; Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory; World as Lover, World as Self; Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World; and Widening Circles. She travels widely giving lectures, workshops, and trainings and serves as adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Starr King School for the Ministry, and the University of Creation Spirituality. 

Bioneers Series III includes the following programs: 

• BN301 Part 1: The Duh Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry
• BN302 Part 2: Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy
• BN303 Part 3: Light At The Edge of The World: Reinventing The Poetry of Diversity
• BN304 Part 4: Greening Medicine: the Mainstreaming of Herbs
• BN305 Part 5: Soil and Soul: The Future of Farming
• BN306 Part 6: I Heard the Voice Of A Porkchop: The Theoretical Promise Versus The Actual Perils Of Genetically Modified Organisms
• BN307 Part 7: Less Is More : Toward A Zero Discharge Industry
• BN308 Part 8: Daughters of Thoreau: Not Too Well Behaved
• BN309 Part 9: Plants and People: Who's Cultivating Who?
• BN310 Part 10: Getting the Real Story: Bypassing Corporate Media
• BN311 Part 11: Nature As Healer: Restoring Life As Community
• BN312 Part 12: The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic
• BN313 Part 13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected 

The Bioneers series consists of three sets of 13 programs each:

Bioneers Series I The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Bioneers Series II Improving Environment By Changing The World
Bioneers Series III 

Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered. Join us as we look deeply into the magic and mystery of the convergence between leading-edge science and ancient wisdom for a Declaration of Interdependence for the new millennium. Though these programs were produced in the 1990s the contents of this series are timelessly relevant. 

HOST: Michael Toms    INTERVIEW DATE: 2002            PROGRAM NUMBER: BN313