New Dimensions Foundation
436 episodes listed below
Spacious conversations for a more conscious life.
New Dimensions treats big questions as lived practice, not abstract debate. Its conversations move slowly through poetry, crisis care, food ethics, ecological grief, illness, death, creativity, and the search for a more conscious human life.
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New Dimensions is a warm, measured interview program about consciousness, spirit, and the difficult work of living with attention. Its conversations tend to begin in one clear place. A painting of an endangered species. A poem about an ant. A book about what to say in crisis. A terminal diagnosis. A meal. From there, the show slowly widens the frame, asking how a single act or image might reveal a larger pattern of kinship, responsibility, humility, and care. The result is not quick self-help. It is reflective radio for people who want thought to keep its texture. Recent episodes bring ecological grief into dialogue with sacred art, treating animals and ecosystems as more than distant resources. Poetry becomes a practice for staying available to beauty and suffering when the world feels uncertain. Crisis communication is approached through exact words, bodily calm, and the possibility of helping when every moment matters. Conversations about illness, death, and medical aid in dying are grave without becoming cold. They ask what participation, dignity, legal rights, family conversations, and support can mean near the end of life. Other episodes turn toward food, interdependence, meditation, loving-kindness, and the moral fog created by ordinary habits. Creative life also appears here, through writers and poets whose childhood memories, reading, dreams, and discipline become part of a larger inquiry into imagination. The show’s center is the interview. The host voice is attentive and appreciative, making room for guests to define terms, read passages, and build meaning slowly. New Dimensions is for listeners drawn to spiritual aging, ecological conscience, literature, healing, and the long conversation between inner change and public life.
Made for: For listeners drawn to reflective interviews on spirituality, aging, ecology, poetry, care, death, and moral imagination. It fits people who prefer patient inquiry over quick advice.
What sets it apart: New Dimensions connects practical human moments to larger questions of consciousness and planetary life. Few shows move so naturally from crisis words, poems, food, and end-of-life choices into spiritual and ethical reflection.
New Dimensions is an original and powerful forum for inspired and inspiring voices and views on a wide range of timely and timeless topics. Activism, art, education, science, psychology, philosophy, health, spirituality, global transformation, cross-cultural traditions, the interconnectedness of all life … All these and more are featured in this award-winning one-hour interview program that has been broadcast on public radio since 1973. For more information and over a thousand hours of downloadable programs visit newdimensions.org
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patient interviews connect inner practice, emotional life, art and ecological responsibility while giving large philosophical questions room to breathe.
New Dimensions treats health as a question of attention: how a person meets anger, isolation, other species and the pressures of collective life.
An ant rescue meets quantum vacuum fields when your inner life refuses to stay in one department.
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A reflective ecological conversation about art, species loss, and the duty to protect the living earth.
Angela Mano's conversation centers on a plain but resonant idea: personal change and planetary change are linked, and a shift in human consciousness can matter.
A rescued ant opens a contemplative reflection on poetry, isolation, and staying receptive in uncertain times.
The episode treats poetry as a practice of receptivity during global uncertainty, letting the rescue of an ant carry the larger emotional charge.
A calm, practical look at the RAIN process for meeting anger without feeding it.
Dr. Tara Brock's discussion of the RAIN process treats emotional reactivity as something to notice, not something to obey. It starts with the gap between what people hope for and the ways fear, self judgment, blame, and old hurt can throw them off balance.
A patient challenge to science's settled assumptions.
New Dimensions keeps its focus on Rupert Sheldrake as he revisits ideas science usually treats as settled, ranging from morphic resonance to nutrition, medicine, and whether the laws and constants of nature are fixed.
A reflective conversation about Genesis, inclusive public life, and a cooperative vision for America.
The episode follows Bill Moyers as he connects Genesis to public life and to the idea that a change in human consciousness could change the world.
A patient, searching case for treating humanity as part of a planetary mind.
The episode opens a serious line of thought about the noosphere, asking whether human consciousness belongs within a planetary nervous system and what that could mean for collective destiny.
Wellness tested against real midlife.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Rich Roll interviews recovery and endurance guests, plus 'Roll On' segments with Adam Skolnick.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
The living earth is treated like a presence in the room.
Poet Jane Hirshfield, author of 'Ledger,' discusses with host Justine Willis-Toms how poetry responds to climate catastrophe, pandemic isolation, and political suppression of science.
This episode explores how specific language and communication techniques can positively impact crisis situations, based on Dr.
This episode explores how to live authentically and wholeheartedly by connecting with deeper human consciousness and purpose, featuring poet and philosopher Mark Nepo.
This episode explores how our dietary choices impact human consciousness, planetary transformation, and the interconnectedness of all life, featuring insights from guest Will Tuttle.
This episode explores how to reclaim illness and death as natural parts of life through embracing participation and awareness, featuring insights from BJ Miller, M.D.
Novelist and poet Mary Mackey discusses her early creative influences, including being disciplined for reading William Blake in school and how childhood fever dreams shaped her writing.
An interview exploring the legal, medical, and personal aspects of medical aid in dying for terminally ill patients.
An exploration of spiral dynamics and levels of consciousness with Dr.
RAIN starts with a pause.
Science is not settled in this conversation.
Exploring how expanding awareness of energetic fields can lead to personal and global transformation.
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An interview exploring death as a transition, the reality of soul and spirit, and collaboration with loved ones beyond the veil.
An interview exploring how to find strength in the face of heartbreak, focusing on erosion in climate, democracy, and compassion.
This episode explores how quantum physics' insight of interconnectedness challenges assumptions and calls for rethinking economic growth.
Mark Nepo discusses how writing and expression aid spiritual growth and finding light in suffering.
An interview with mythologist Dr.
An interview with Dr.
This episode explores how science and mystical prophecy merge to help navigate postmodern upheaval, featuring physicist William Arntz and mystic Deidre Haidt.
An interview exploring the deeper understanding of karma across spiritual traditions with author Philip Goldberg.
Sam Daley Harris discusses his work with Results, a grassroots citizens lobby, and the importance of deep engagement and face-to-face interaction with Congress to end hunger and poverty.
Bill Moyers begins with Genesis.
New Dimensions gathers Brian Thomas Swim and Monica around the idea that human consciousness may be part of a larger planetary mind.
This episode explores how digital polarization affects consciousness and social reality, featuring Bruce Alderman discussing mindful engagement with fragmented social landscapes.
This episode explores the dual nature of fear—both destructive and constructive—with psychotherapist Dr.
This episode explores how to integrate mindfulness into daily life and business leadership with Zen teacher Marc Lesser.
Patricia Sun discusses how personal consciousness change can lead to global transformation, emphasizing interconnectedness and inner wisdom.
Exploring tools for fearless curiosity and empathetic conversations across ideological lines with journalist Monica Guzman.
This episode explores the challenges and gifts of growing older through a conversation with poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo, focusing on inner transformation and accepting life's limitations.
An interview with design experts about using creativity and strategic foresight to actively shape the future.
An interview with Richard Schwartz, creator of Internal Family Systems, exploring how healing our inner parts can extend compassion to communities.
This episode features a dialogue with Patrice Vecchione about the power of poetry by young immigrants and its connection to human consciousness, nature, and art.
A conversation exploring quantum physics, computing, and the simulation hypothesis, linking video games to our understanding of reality.
Exploring how focused journaling and writing exercises can transform suffering into healing and growth, with guest Catherine Ann Jones.