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How many times have you contemplated the perfect guest list for the ideal dinner party or social networking event? Of course you’d want to invite an author or other artist if possible…maybe even a playwright and a filmmaker, for telling unforgettable stories with an edgy point of view.

Perhaps you’d add the names of an inspiring couple whose harmonious professional interests bring to their home life a sacred passion.

What if you could host a world-renowned psychic or medical intuitive, alongside a brilliant scientist who shifted from clinical lab work to the ethereal world of metaphysics? Or how about a heartening journey of rehabilitation: from one who lost everything, but grew and eventually reclaimed much more in return.

If this sounds like “kitchen table wisdom” that you’d love to hear, we hope you’ve been tuning in to AIHT’s weekly Authentic Living series on Seventh Wave Internet radio! As creator, producer and host, AIHT faculty member Andrea Mathews, D.D., L.P.C. serves up philosophical soul food, one satisfying hour at a time.

“Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to give birth to yourself.”

—Andrea Mathews

Conversations on Authentic Living invite the interplay of experts and our audience—through opportunities to e-mail or call-in, during the interviews and/or in advance.

Such was the case when best-selling creativity guru Julia Cameron (who wrote and teaches The Artist’s Way), invited listeners to consider a daily devotion to journaling as “a dust-buster for developing Zen-like consciousness.” AIHT loved hearing from a student who thanked Ms. Cameron for her 12-step series in bringing creativity to work.

Here are other conversational snippets from Authentic Living.

Serving as bookends for AIHT’s “first flight” in this new interview series, Celestine Prophecy author James Redfield’s “Waking Up” interview described that, once we can boldly decide to live more consciously, we affirm the spark of God that can raise our intention to infinite heights of clarity and purpose.

One could even call his message a metaphor for Authentic Living’s quest, to shine brightness into the darkness of temporary challenges such as a fearful economy or political uncertainty.

Later in the series, it was Salle Redfield who described life coaching as an intentional way to “hop, skip, and dash—with no time, space, or energy for intimidation—into the deliciously long and sinuous learning curve of personal growth options.”

Adding affirmations of her own, third-generation intuitive author Sonia Choquette encouraged audience members to practice with daily psychic sit-ups: “I begin each day with an intention to be open to guidance, to expect guidance, to trust and appreciate when guidance comes,” she says. “With these intentions, each day is easier to navigate.”

As Authentic Living’s host, it is Andrea Mathews who provides both a bridge and a backbone for difficult investigations such as grief and the inevitable dark night of the soul. Such opportunity, she reminds us, is the turning point from which we can intentionally choose new ways of seeing, feeling, and being.

Other interviews included Raymond Moody’s describing the joyful transformation of those who “return” from a near death experience, and Carol Bowman’s methods that help people release phobias that stem from trapped remnants of past-life energies.

For Neale Donald Walsch, all creation is co-creation. “Our soul is a wave in the ocean of God, a hugely powerful microcosm in local form; carried by the collective creation through which we simultaneously move as one. Make no mistake, God cares just as much about the outcome of our efforts as we do—not more and not less. Do all that you can, so that God can do all that (S)He can.”

In Darren Weissman’s chiropractic practice, chronic pain can bring to light that, in fear, we sometimes focus on the wrong things. Instead of envisioning that ‘I want to grow a garden with ease and enjoy nature,’ he sometimes hears patients’ request that he ‘make these aches disappear, or at least become more bearable, because I miss the freedom of being outdoors.’

“Here’s the difference,” Darren explains. “Once I’ve decided that I want to go to the beach, why would I ever want to express that ‘I’m not going to the mall, and I’m not going to do this or that. Focus only on what you’ve chosen that you do want to do!”

As editorial director for Namaste Publishing, David Robert Ord’s reassurance that “God’s love is not a lottery” offered a theological discussion of the word ‘sin’ deriving from the exacting mastery of archery. “God isn’t counting our every curse word, nor does He calculate the exact number of times we ‘miss the mark.’ God hopes for our ongoing improvement of course, that we’re paying attention so that the net effect of our time in Eden is generally good.”

Former oncology biologist Joan Borysenko offered gentle observations of how to align with spiritual guidance and how to “lead with kindness,” by seeing with the eyes of the heart—invoking macro-awareness rather than micro-perception.

Interfaith author Mary Bea Sullivan invited listeners to create meaningful community by abiding with other points of view, while not discarding one’s own truth. Seeing golden threads of connection rather than heavy-metal bondage, we learn to “go more lightly” with each other.

Authentic Living interviews are archived and accessible at: www.aiht.edu/mediafiles/authenticlivingradio.asp

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