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Finding Insight through Archetype
How does your soul speak to you? In dreams? Symbols? Archetype?
Finding beauty and meaning in the strands of our changing world is a critical, on-going practice. It is the soul’s currency, offering inspiration, creativity, and belonging, adding to the “Commonweal:” the well-being of all. For many of us, tuning into the world of archetype offers a glimpse into our own soul’s journey, and offers a foundation that can hold us steady even when everything else seems unpredictable and unfamiliar.
April 4, 2026
Some Themes at the Heart of His Oeuvre
Jeffrey J. Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
March 11, 2026
Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times
Graham Leicester and Oren Slozberg with Host Katherine Fulton
March 6, 2026
Narrative, Resilience, and Social Change
Urmitapa Dutta, Susan James, and Host Susan Grelock Yusem
April 26, 2016
Akil Palanisamy
The Paleovedic Diet: A Complete Program to Burn Fat, Increase Energy, and Reverse Disease
Join TNS HostJoin TNS Host Michael Lerner and Rebecca Katz, Director of the Healing Kitchens Institute at Commonweal, for a conversation on a deeply sophisticated approach to integrating the Paleolithic diet with Ayurvedic Medicine with Akil Palanisamy, MD.
February 27, 2013
Jeff Vander Clute
Compassionate Action: New Stories, Healing, and Thriving Communities
Join us for this conversation between Commonweal’s Michael Lerner and Jeff Vander Clute, executive director of New Stories — an educational organization serving as a resource center, creative collaboratory and project incubator in support of emerging new stories for who we are as humanity, what we are becoming, how we are changing, and where we are going together.
December 18, 2015
Rabbi Rachel Cowan
Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience and Spirit
Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for an exploration of spiritual biography with Rabbi Rachel Cowan, known nationally as a pioneer of contemplative practice in Judaism.