Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for another conversation with author, professor, and philosopher Jacob Needleman.
Part of the End-of-Life Conversations Series
Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Canadian Educator Leroy Lowe about how he started a revolution in how scientists think about the impact of low-dose mixtures of chermicals in cancer causation.
Part of the Healing Circles Series
Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Diana and Kelly Lindsay about their new program in Langley, Washington—an off-shoot of Commonweal’s Healing Circles Program.
Part of the Healing Circles Series
Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Zen priest Shodo Harada Roshi. This is the Roshi’s third visit to TNS, and the next conversation in our End-of-Life Conversations series.
Part of the End-of-Life Conversations Series
Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Betsy Stroman—founder and former director of Sausalito Village, a volunteer-based non-profit organization that has been offering services to support independent senior living since October 2010.
Part of the Healing Circles Series
Renowned actor, narrator, author, activist, and singer/songwriter, Peter Coyote has produced his second autobiographical memoir, The Rainman’s Third Cure. Join him for a wide-ranging discussion with TNS Host Steve Heilig about his story and the broader world.
More than 40 years ago, long before integrative cancer care was mainstream, Michael Lerner helped to launch the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Over the years, he has sat with more than 2,000 souls navigating a cancer diagnosis, learning much about what it means to live—and die—with uncertainty and illness. One insight runs through each experience: cancer can be an invitation to heal our body, mind, and spirit. This course includes some of the most compelling conversations Michael has hosted at Commonweal's New School in recent years that explore whole-person cancer care. Join in Michael's exploration, through his letters and interviews, with integrative oncologists, healers, and patients who are leading the understanding and practice of whole-person cancer care.

Jeanine M. Canty is a visionary scholar whose groundbreaking work illuminates the profound connections between consciousness, thought, and our relationship with the natural world. Her teaching weaves together social justice, ecological wisdom, and transformation. By reading her writings and watching or listening to recordings of her time in residence, you can explore how mind and spirit intersect with ecological healing in your own life.
As a founder of terrapsychology—the study of how the things of the world live in us—The New School’s Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist is interested in how imagination, story, and creativity let us tune in on the Greater Conversation unfolding continually around and within us. With the podcasts, videos, writings, and exercises gathered during Craig’s visit, you can join the exploration: growing a more resilient and earth-honoring worldview.
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. In this ongoing series of conversations, Jeffrey talks with Host Michael Lerner about his body of work—more than 13 groundbreaking books about the mystical and the erotic, the relationship of mind and matter, and parapsychological phenomena. Michael has been reading, talking, and meeting with Jeffrey for more than a year now, immersing himself in the consciousness worldview that Jeffrey presents in his books and teaching. Follow Michael's journey through these conversations.
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