Philosophy audiobooks

Exploring The Dark Night Of The Soul

By: Marabai Starr

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Starr gets personal, diving deep into her own journey, sharing her pain and passion of the dark night of the soul, and the refuge she found in exploring the wisdom of these ancient texts. “The dark night of the soul is about the spiritual value of suffering and the stripping away of everything we have ever believed and relied upon.” Starr shares... Read more

Living the Heart Path

By: Doug Boyd

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

There are many avenues of personal empowerment available in today's world--but none of them mean anything unless we put our abilities into service for other people. This teacher of powerful medicine ways shares his insights about the power of making ourselves available to people, and the path of humanity toward service and compassion. Read more

Courage, Conversation and Changing the World

By: Margaret Wheatley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Never before in human history have we been exposed to so much data from so many sources, a veritable deluge. According to Wheatley, "We have to slow down. Nothing will change for the better until we do. We need time to think, to learn, to get to know each other. We are losing these great human capacities in the speed-up of modern life and it is... Read more

True Prosperity

By: Shakti Gawain

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When most of us think of prosperity, we immediately think of money.  Shakti Gawain has another definition:  "Prosperity is the experience of having what we truly need and want in life.  Prosperity is an experience, it doesn't come from anything external." Read more

The First People - 11,000 Years of Wisdom

By: Evan T. Pritchard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A descendant of the MicMac Indians and tutored by Algonquin elders, Evan Pritchard has done much to bring recognition of this tribe’s influence on the culture, history and government of the United States.  He speaks of the “crossroads” we now face, and how the ancient Algonquins knew a time would come when, “What we do now matters more than it... Read more

Noble Thoughts / Noble Life

By: Satish Kumar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Satish Kumar, whose inner journeys proved deep as his travels were long, tells you stories about love, courage, and the triumph of the human spirit in his unpretentious yet compelling style. Read more

The Integral Perspective

By: Ken Wilber

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

But as fields of knowledge become increasingly specialized, it gets harder and harder to see how disparate strands of understanding could possibly integrate into a unified whole. How do science and religion fit together? Is one right and the other wrong? Or are they both telling us truths about different aspects of a single reality? Is there a... Read more

Understanding Everything

By: Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the cosmos made of at its most fundamental level? Where does consciousness exist in the physical world? How does it fit into our understanding of evolution? What can you and I do to ensure the evolution of our species continues beyond the next generation? Ervin Laszlo has a mind as big as the cosmos, it seems, as his studies and writings... Read more

Ideas That Matter:  The Life and Legacy of Thomas Merton

By: Lawrence Cunningham & Brother Patrick Hart

Narrated by: Mark Walstrom

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A gifted and complex man, the late Thomas Merton is considered by many to be a pivotal figure in 20th-century writing and spirituality. A Trappist monk, Merton was a voracious reader, prolific writer, great music lover (especially of jazz), and a social activist who believed there was more to the contemplative life than "simply denying oneself." Read more

Discovering Your Greatest Opportunities

By: James B. Swartz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Swartz discovered many common traits in the world's most successful people that you'll find encouraging. For example, you're never too old, dismal failure is often followed by extraordinary achievement, and taking time off might turn on your greatest inspiration. Best of all, achieving your greatest success may be easier than you expect. He... Read more

Resist Much, Obey Little: The Writer As Social Critic

By: Edward Abbey

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The environmental movement stands on the shoulders of one of the American West’s leading advocates, the late Edward Abbey. Here he admonishes us to make a difference, “to oppose injustice, to defy the powerful, to speak for the voiceless.” With wry humor and candor, he points to the serious environmental crises caused by “simple greed” and... Read more

New Paradigm Thinking

By: Fritjof Capra & David Steindl-Rast

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

These two great minds have joined together to explore the exciting parallels and compatibility of thought in Buddhism, Christianity and modern physics. In the “new paradigm” of thinking, there is a shift from the alienation-producing authority model to one of cooperative thinking, in which we can truly develop a deep sense of belonging to a... Read more

Don'T Get Even--Get Odd

By: Steve Bhaerman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Buckle up and put your karma in gear, but beware of too much fasting or you may get stopped by the Higher State Patrol. When Swami Beyondananda was younger, he was struck by enlightening, and it opened his clown chakra. Since then he has been unable to stop the flow of puns and irreverent wisdom poking fun at overly serious seekers of... Read more

Honoring the Wisdom Traditions

By: Huston Smith

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This interview is a snapshot of the lively ongoing thought processes of a renowned scholar of world religions. It clearly illustrates how his own spiritual vision has expanded--and likewise his classic reference treatise on world religions. He describes his discovery of Tibetan Buddhism, and his personal meeting with the Dalai Lama. Read more

Love and Wisdom of the Divine Mother - Sounds of Sacred Wisdom

By: Karunamayi & Swami Vijayananda

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The undiluted wisdom of Indian Hinduism is presented here by a female spiritual teacher. Considered by her devotees to be a sacred incarnation of the goddess Saraswati, Karunamayi’s birth was predicted by the great sage Ramana Maharshi. Read more

Peacework

By: Ciaran McKeown

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Issues of peace around the world are a tangled weave, and extremely volatile. This conversation illuminates the complexities in Northern Ireland, and helps us to develop greater compassion and a deepening of our own thinking regarding ethnic factions within any nation. A respected political journalist in Northern Ireland, McKeown became an... Read more

Everyday Enlightenment

By: Richard Moss & Ariel Moss

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

These dedicated explorers of human consciousness offer a stimulating view of what could be possible if we learned to use our everyday situations, our body awareness, and our family relationships to live toward a new definition of enlightenment. They describe how to use sensation and intuition as guides to spiritual growth. Read more

Decoding Your Dreams

By: Gayle Delaney

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are dreams important? How can we remember more of our dreams, or use the dreams we remember to inform our waking life? Through years of research and dream analysis, Dr. Delaney has developed a "dream interview" technique that truly gives us the keys to decoding our own dreams. Read more

Rediscover Your Center, Reclaim Your Joy

By: Richard Moss

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how you can move through your days with greater peace and joy. Dr. Moss has developed a map of the ways we lose our awareness and let suffering take hold of our lives. He helps us find the way back to our center and the ability to be in the present, so that pain is transformed and we rediscover our compassion-for ourselves, for others, and... Read more

Evolving Spirituality

By: Ken Wilber

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In our quest for for meaning, we have turned first and foremost to the great wisdom traditions of the world. Yet, in modern times, these great traditions, and the very notion of spirituality itself, have come under fierce attack by some of our most respected intellectual institutions. Read more

Living In Meaningful Coincidence: Reflections Of A Physicist

By: David Peat, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Physicist F. David Peat is one of the most interesting and innovative thinkers of our time. In this reflective look at the synchronicities of his life, Peat reminisces about his friendship with colleagues like fellow physicist David Bohm, brain researcher Roger Penrose, sculptor Anish Kapoor and high school physics teacher Dicky Blink. Peat's... Read more

Humanity's Potential to Consciously Evolve

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hubbard's research through history she realized that when a culture lost an image of its own future, which was positive to that culture, and they didn't believe in themselves anymore, the culture declined. Read more

Consciousness: What's It All About?

By: Charles Tart

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The science of consciousness and how it is changing, is explored in this dialogue with Charles Tart, a scientist and pioneer in the fields of psychology, parapsychology, dreams and meditation.  He discusses Eastern wisdom in a way the Western mind readily comprehends.  The nature of consciousness lies at the heart of it all, for "if we don't... Read more

The Art Of Mindfulness

By: Philip Toshio Sudo

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you were to think of integrating the principles of  Zen Buddhism into music, punk rock would probably not be part of the equation.  Philip Toshio Sudo, a musician and longtime practitioner of Zen, chose to play punk rock  because "the technique is secondary to the passion and intensity of the performance."  The type of music you prefer is... Read more