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The one-hour "flagship" New Dimensions radio program, "The Yoga of Christianity" (Program 3302) will be airing the week beginning Wednesday, August 12 through Tuesday, August 18.  

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ABOUT MICHAEL TOMS: For more than a quarter century, Michael Toms has been engaging in dialogue with the world's leading-edge thinkers, social architects, creative artists, scientists and spiritual teachers. Called "the Socrates of radio," he is acknowledged by guests and listeners alike as one of the premier interviewers in media today. His legendary dialogues with such luminaries as mythologist Joseph Campbell, visionary inventor Buckminster Fuller, world knowned physicist David Bohm, spiritual philosopher J. Krishnamurti, poet/author Maya Angelou and many others, have brought wide acclaim to the "New Dimensions" radio series and have helped to bring innovative ideas into the mainstream culture.

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FREE DOWNLOAD: You may listen to or download a 15 minute,  New Dimensions Café  audio interview with me and Michael Toms entitled "Toward a Spiritual Ecosystem with Russell Paul"  Go to www.newdimensions.org and on the left-hand side click on New Dimensions Café Listen Now!  Scroll down to our interview (about 6 programs down).   If you would like to subscribe to the New Dimensions Café podcast which features many of the guests that appear on New Dimensions, it is available for a free subscription on the home page as well.

ABOUT THE MAIN PROGRAM AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The one-hour "flagship" New Dimensions radio program, "The Yoga of Christianity" (Program 3302) will be airing the week beginning Wednesday, August 12 through 18.  You can hear it streaming on the New Dimensions website that week for free. You can also hear it on a radio station close to you during that week. Go to "Listening Options" in their website for a list of stations and carry "New Dimensions." It will be available to download that week as well for a small charge. This interview as well as over 850 others are part of their wonderful archive.  New Dimensions is working in partnership with Stanford University Library to digitize their entire archive of over 8000 hours of deep dialogues with hundreds of the most innovative movers and shakers on the planet.  More hours are added to the archive every week. You can find another interview with me as well. Just enter my name in their search engine to find it. These interviews as well as hundreds of others on the subject of spirituality and other wonderful subjects will remain in their archive.  

Here is the description of the recent program with me:

THE YOGA OF CHRISTIANITY with RUSSILL PAUL: More and more Christians feel a need to seek meaning outside their own religious traditions. At the same time, Christianity has much to offer yogis who seek to bring a greater social context to their practice. Few people bridge the spiritual traditions of East and West, of the yogi and the Christian, as Russill Paul does. He is a native of India raised as a Catholic, with deep ties to Hinduism and the yogic tradition, and studied as a Benedictine monk at an ashram near Madras. From his perspective, neither tradition is better than the other-only unique. He explains, "A practicing yogi could very well make Jesus the center of his or her attention, and use the methodology and the teaching. We also have to see that Jesus himself propagates a kind of yoga, a yoga of love. While it's important to see that both the yoga and the Christian traditions have their emphases and specialties, there are certain things about Jesus' teaching, which can push the yoga tradition in certain ways that can be very powerful-just as the reverse is possible, the yoga tradition can help push Christians in certain ways that can be very powerful for them." Whether your practice is rooted in the teachings of Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, or Jehovah, this conversation will inspire you to explore ways to draw on the unique offerings of other traditions, so that you create your own unique yogic balance of inner and outer grace. (Program 3302)

Topics explored in this dialogue:
       Why Christian religions are losing their popular appeal
       How Jesus' apostles were influenced by Eastern spirituality
       Why the notion of sinfulness is difficult for yoga practitioners
       How the feminine is represented in Eastern spirituality
       Why the resurrection of Jesus is perceived differently in Indian culture