December 22, 2007

It's almost Christmas and Wake Up and Live celebrates this week with Bongo Boy and Tony providing some live in studio music in the first hour.

At the top of our second hour, we've the opportunity and honor of talking with Jean Houston, renowned author, scholar, philosopher and teacher. A founder of the Human Potential Movement, Jean's path has intersected with people from Joseph Campbell to Margaret Meade and even a year (unknowingly)with Teilhard de Chardin at the age of 13 in New York City.

Jean has authored over twenty books her two latest being "A Mythic Life" and "Mystical Dogs." Recently in a week's span, she addressed the Festival of Faiths conference in Louisville; the Spirituality and Children conference in Chattanooga and the Annual Theosophical conference in Atlanta. Next year will be the 25th year of Jean's facilitating Mystery Schools with two continuing programs outside NYC and another at IONS in Petaluma. In addition, Jean is a United Nations consultant and directs Social Artistry in Ashland, Oregon.

As Jean is fond of saying, "We're so much more than dreary little egos dragging around bags of encapsulated skin. " Join us as we get Jean's perspective on these times in which we're living and how we can engage our lives personally and nationally on a mythic level.

Check out Jean's website where you can listen at no cost to talks and lectures (under Audio Library) and read of Jean's goings on. Go to: http://www.jeanhouston.org/ and in case you miss Saturday's show, it will be archived with several prior shows at www.seedsthestory.com/wakeup