Healing Ourselves & Healing the World in Times of Peril & Promise

Maryann Weston, former award-winning, Australian journalist, author, and YouTube psychic-astrologer shares her wisdom on the importance of staying spiritually awake as we stand up to oppression in all forms, and how to keep up hope and faith during these chaotic and dangerous times. She is a clairvoyant and psychic medium, who combines these gifts with journalism and research skills to interpret how universal and spiritual truths a...

Rachel interviews author, shamanic healer and teacher, Christina Pratt, founder of the Last Mask Center about the importance of healing trauma, our ancestral lines, and the initation of our young into spiritual adulthood. She discusses how the resistance we feel both individually and collectively to undertaking the steep incline to what she calls spiritual adulthood both normal and yet must be faced if we are to create a world of p...

Rachel opens the floor to the indomitable, inspiring and wonderful P.M.H. Atwater, author of a dozen books, near death researcher and expert on the new children being born in these times, as well as a lover of life. Be inspired by the story of her life as she navigated the aftermath of several near-death experiences and was called on spiritual adventures and into fascinating areas of work. In a time when there is so much trauma and...

My heart weeps for my Jewish friends and all Jewish people in the wake of Hamas' attack on innocent Israelis and for all they and their ancestors have endured. My heart also weeps for innocent Palestinians who are caught in the grip of oppression and terror, as well. Compassion is merited for all concerned. Listen in as I grapple with the moral, geopolitical, and spiritual complexities of the unfolding war. How we can call out...

I love Payam. He is a man who lives in his heart and walks his talk. With all the many people offering entheogens, I know him to be a skilled and ethical practitioner. In our talk, we not only explore what healing is and how his work facilitates the transformation of trauma, but also how every effort spent doing this sacred work affects the whole planet in this time of peril and promise. 

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 The devastation and loss to the people of Maui in the wake of these terrible fires has penetrated the hearts and minds of all of us around the world. It is also just one more sign of how the climate and other processes around the planet are intensifying. Rachel offers her prayers of support for the people of Maui and reflects on how to navigate all of this intensity.

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violenc...

To awaken is part of our spiritual and human nature. Evolution is built into our DNA and our soul. Join Rachel here as she unpacks the controversial term, "woke" and redefines it as "awakening into a radical compassion for and kindness to all beings, stepping into service to heal our families, communities, nations, and the planet.”  Hear how, according to new laws in states such as Tennessee, Florida and Alabama here...

Joe Weston, author of Fierce Civility: Transforming Our Global Culture from Polarization to Lasting Peace, shares his powerful framework for healing the world through and out of these times of intense conflict and polarization. He redefines the concepts of "fierceness" and "civility" in his definition of Fierce Civility: "An unrestrained zeal and furious, active determination to communicate and build relati...

Elizabeth Soltis shares with Rachel her passion for building heart-based, respectful relationships and authentic collaboration, often between diverse parties who might otherwise never connect or who may even consider themselves to be adversaries. Authentic Collaboration is a holistic vision that cultivates respectful bridge-building with self and others and Earth. She discussed how we are often hindered in this process by thought f...

Join Rachel Mann PhD for a restart of her podcast, Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking & Ending Violence. In this episode, launched in 2023 as the war in Ukraine and elsewhere continues and authoritarianism, oppression of others based on race, ethnicity, culture, religion, and mass shootings are constant, she speaks of a road less traveled, but still there--a destiny line to a Great Peace in the future. Learn more ab...

In this final podcast of Season 1 of Destiny Lines, Rachel provides a luminous teaching about how just the act of coming into incarnation and breathing, you are in service in sacred reciprocity. She seems to dismantle the ways our world may lead you to feel that if you are not doing something big and grand, that you are not doing enough. Listen to this podcast and drink in the Love-Light that is yours, even as you go with Rachel as...

Sacred activist, Chris Saade, author of and contributor to more than 6 books, including The Quest for Individual Authenticity and Global Solidarity, shares his reflections on the power of honoring our sacred wounds, finding our individual authenticity, pleasure and as a pathway to tapping into our individual authenticity and how this is the key to peacemaking worldwide.  

Chris Saade is an author, a psychological and philosophical t...

Rachel tells the story of how in her early 30s, she started through the onset of physical and mental pain, she sought out energy healing. A spiritual world opened up to her through which she learned to transmute her own suffering even as she was given visions and images of how to heal the traumas of past lives and of humanity as a whole. She shares how this made her understand on a visceral level how we are all interconnected and h...

Jesse Crosson speaks with Rachel about his experiences as an inmate for 22 years in Virginia prisons and his perspectives on how there is better way to address criminal justice, a way that respects victims and prioritizes both public safety and genuine rehabilitation for offenders. He also shares how learning meditation and a spiritual experience when hitting bottom as an alcoholic radically changed the trajectory of his life and h...

Rachel interviews Martin Winiecki, a lifelong sacred activist for peace, about his understanding of the great shift we are going through, including how and why at this time fascim has such appeal. He talks about the way people feel isolated and unable to show their authentic experience and their grief and so look towards leaders and movements that will give them a sense of this lost belonging. He discusses the fact that the system ...

 Rachel discusses with Rob Corcoran, author of Trustbuilding: An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility, about the  power of trustbuilding to transforming misunderstandings, prejudices and even ending violence between groups. He shares how his work in Richmond, Virginia over several decades broke down barriers to interracial friendships and collaboration on projects illuminating and healing the city’s histo...

Rachel shares her journey of discovery and healing as she unexpectedly met and studied with Native American teachers from North and South America, including the Q’ero of the Andes in Peru. She reflects on what these ancient wisdom lineages translated into contemporary contexts by both indigenous peoples and their non-Native students have to do with the potential for a great shift in consciousness in these times of crisis and change...

Most recently in Ukraine and in almost every nation around the world, we are experiencing the rising shadow of authoritarianism and increasingly violent rhetoric and conflict. Rachel speaks in this special episode of her podcast her reflections on the actions of Russia in Crimea, Syria and Ukraine based on the 15 years she spent studying the former Soviet Union with her BA in Russian Studies, MA in Soviet Studies and PhD in Slavic ...

Rachel interviews Mandy Bird, LCHMC, and author of shares her view of why it is important to feel our grief to become individually authentic and know our purpose and take care of the world. While grief may take us to our knees, she teaches us what can we do with it so we are not destroyed in the process as part of caring for ourselves and the world!  doing this is profoundly connected to feeling our oneness as human beings and, thu...