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Geology, Ecology, Eros & Ethics . We continue to explore the relationship between human experience and our environment. Environmental Consciousness shifts our perspective from anthropocentric

Connecting Spirituality and Global Mind. How do we finding connections between the spectrum of faith, tradition and worldviews? We have shared stories, and these stories

New discoveries in Paleo-Indian Archaeology The peopling of the Americas is a hot topic with new theories and dates emerging from new found evidence. Anthropologist

Research on the Origins of Art and Religion. Ancient cultures are being widely seen as more advanced, more sophisticated, their innovations and the marks they

Guest: Ashok Gangadean, Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College. Logos is one of many terms given an age-old concept that appears in traditions spanning the globe,

Back by popular demand: With warmth, humor, playfulness, Frank Ferrante has much more to share on righting our path, personally and collectively. His common sense

Ray Tomes studies cycles of all kinds. Those within our own bodies, and Earth’s body, are of particular interest, and the many ways we are

Essential Skills for Surviving the Modern World. How can we tap into research from modern psychology to reach our fundamental human goals in more effective

Jeff is carrying on the work of his late mother Brenda Dunne, who with Robert Jahn founded and ran the PEAR Lab at Princeton studying

Frank Ferrante – International Inspirational Speaker Workshop Facilitator – Coach, Author of “May I be Frank. ““What happens when Tony Soprano meets Deepak Chopra? That’s

It’s the ultimate walking meditation — long-distance hiking is an exercise in endurance and perseverance, mentally and physically testing one’s limits and clearing the mind.

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religions, University of Iowa. About divination, Fred writes: “Divination has a sense of foretelling, predicting, or prophesying. It is

Through the Lens of the Wandering Eye, Scott Stulberg – World Photographer. Scott’s love for travel and photography has led him to many remote corners

Guest: Frederick L. Coolidge Ph.D, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Fred presents a scientific, historic and psychological account of dream interpretation

Christine VanPool / Todd VanPool
Popular professors of archaeology and anthropology at the University of Missouri, Christine and Todd’s field work and research into

What the breakthrough Hamlet’s Mill begun, Mathisen’s Star Myths of the World carries forward, with more links between the world’s mythology, and a shared system

Ray Tomes developed a “Harmonics Theory” as an explanation for observed patterns of cycles and structure of the Universe. Says Ray: “G’day, I’m Ray Tomes.

How to Think Like a Neandertal
Thomas Wynn, Professor of Anthropology Fredrick Coolidge, Professor of Psychology. Neandertals built complex structures, used feathers and ochre

DIVINATION: Divinatory Practices of Ancient India
Frederick M. Smith – Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religions University of Iowa. Divination has a sense

“Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.” … C.G. Jung. We all note when those wonderfully odd, magical, meaningful

Two best friends set out to explore Africa. Forty years, 300,000 miles, and 45 countries later, their vast and visually stunning archive, on photo and

Every aspect of wellness not only affects all of our lives, but impacts the world around us. In our multicultural world the need for healing

Loran Olsen, Professor Emeritus of Music & Native American Studies, Washington State University.
Music serves a culture in various ways — as a container

Brandon Massullo takes a novel approach to studying the paranormal. He looks, and listens deeply, to eye witness and first person accounts, and looks at

The James Webb Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy. GUESTS: Tony Hull, Diana Dragomir, Bob Woodruff. To look back in time at the cosmos’s infancy and explore

For most of human history, the night sky was an essential part of our nature. Dark skies are critical for the well-being of humans, plants,

How Will Robots Change The World? AI powered robots are set to perform tasks and operations we humans find too complex, repetitive, boring, or dangerous.

Geert Mayer MD, Neurologist, Psychiatrist
Former Director in Hephata Klinik, Germany. Geert, an advisor to the Cuyamungue Institute, describes our work as “the hybrid

Bruce Bernstein, Museum Professional,
Anthropologist, and Curator. Building collaborative partnerships between cultures was the methodology Bruce developed over three decades working with the National

Eric John Shaw, a Yoga scholar and teacher of 30+ years, will be our guide with an illustrated tour through the poses, the meditative, mystical

Thomas Wynn, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Our earliest hominid ancestors, were, like us, hard-wired for pattern recognition, and like

Avi Loeb, Theoretical PhysicistDepartment of Astronomy, Harvard University. Founder of the privately funded Galileo Project, Avi takes the search for E.T. out of the fringe

John Matthews, Celtic Wisdom Tradition Historian. The stories of King Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot and Guinevere, Galahad, Gawain, Tristan and the rest of the Knights

We begin with a report on our activities at CI’s HQ in Santa Fe, where we engaged the land and the sky in our honoring

“Climate healing is the largest engineering project in the history of humanity.”

So says our guest, systems engineer Dr. Sailesh Rao. “Any project involving a

Tony Hull, Adjunct Professor of Physics & Astronomy at UNM. The solar and lunar cycles, so meaningful to the astronomers of old, were writ upon

Douglas Wolk, author of “All the Marvels” read all 27,000 Marvel comic books, what is in effect, the largest/longest running and expanding mythic saga of

Corinne Dempsey, Assoc Professor of Religious Studies
Joi Sigurdsson, Icelandic Healer
Corinne Dempsey, author of Bridges between Worlds: Spirits and Spirit Work in

It was his work with San Bushmen in his native South Africa that expanded this western-trained medical doctor’s perspective on what healing is. David Cumes

The exploration of the shamanic origins and power of live theatre continues with a slideshow of rituals around the world. Thomas shares his work with

Joel Primack & Nancy Abrams’s illustrated tour through the Cosmos highlights how we humans enjoy the very rare gift of being aware of not only

The Cuyamungue Institute hosted a collaborative project of the ancestral Tewa site on our land, with our neighbor, the Pueblo of Pojoaque, and the project

The frame drum is among our most ancient musical instruments and one of the first percussive instrument invented and used widely, for prayer, ritual, ceremony,

Guest: Shane Farnsworth – Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.
Let’s explore the idea of a multi-dimensional universe! In some models, mathematical consistency hints at

Here we are challenged to reopen the playground inside yourself, to rediscover the spontaneous, natural flow of rhythm, sound and voice that you’ve been carrying

Metapatterns: Tyler Volk, Professor Emeritus of Biology & Environmental Studies.
Tyler returns to go deep in his research on Metapatterns which embrace both nature

After the Light: The Spiritual Path to Purpose. Guest: Kimberly Clark-Sharp, MSW, LCSW. What have we learned over the last few decades, with the acknowledgement

Panel Discussion:
Christine VanPool, Professor of Anthropology
Fredrick Smith, Professor of Religious Studies
Thomas Riccio – Professor of Visual and Performing Arts

Underlying Patterns of the Universe, Tyler Volk, Professor Emeritus of Biology & Environmental Studies. Can we correct course by getting a new view of big

Corinne Dempsey was a skeptic before a friend insisted she visit Iceland’s community of healers and seers. Impressed and intrigued, she spent months looking into

Harnessing the Power of Intention – Bianca Harle. Intention, is more than making goals. A goal is more mind-orientated where as the true power of

Guests: “Jee” Dhamindra Jeevan, Christa Pusateri. The Metaverse has dramatic implications that call us to claim a role in shaping the worlds within the world

Sound is all around us, and inside of us. Ancient cultures and indigenous peoples have used sound to heal and to transform and today there

Sonic driving plays a key role in the ritual used by the Cuyamungue Institute, and in rituals around the world. Traditional cultures around the world

Bill wrote Beyond Knowledge: How Technology is Driving an Age of Consciousness and his TechCastProject newsletter as a roadmap to define and usher in the

Celebrating the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. Our Panel of Astronomers all have a hand in the mission of the Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Buckminster Fuller, futurist, designer, engineer, architect, innovator may be best known for the Geodesic Dome, but his legacy spans so much more. Steven Sieden says,

How does ritual work? What are the active elements and dynamics that lend ritual its transformative power, that allows us to go further and deeper?

We humans have long been opening the doors of perception, widening our bandwidth both internally, from direct experience and the arts, and externally, with the

We have turned the corner of the seasons, and with the days getting longer, its time to celebrate the return of the light. Let’s do