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Since 1973 New Dimensions Radio/Media, a not-for-profit membership organization, has been producing and distributing the "New Dimensions" radio series heard worldwide. Each week, this life-long learning program series presents leading-edge thinkers, scientists, artists, healers, ecologists, spiritual leaders, and social architects in award winning, deep dialogues.
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Justine Toms is co-founder and Managing Producer and Host of "New Dimenions," a nationally-syndicated show on KKFI airing Tuesdays at 5:00 am.
Since 1973, Michael Toms, host of the nationally-syndicated "New Dimensions" program, has been engaging in dialogue with the world’s leading-edge thinkers, social architects, creative artists, scientists and spiritual teachers.
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Since 1973 New Dimensions Radio/Media, a not-for-profit membership organization, has been producing and distributing the “New Dimensions” radio series heard worldwide. Each week, this life-long learning program series presents leading-edge thinkers, scientists, artists, healers, ecologists, spiritual leaders, and social architects in award winning, deep dialogues. It is the longest running, most successful independently produced radio interview program on public radio. On this website, the New Dimensions’ program archive contains hundreds of programs now available for downloading in digital format.
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January 13, 2026 Arts & Culture
Communicating Across the Veil of Death with Cynthia Spring
Is death actually a transition from one kind of life to another? This deep dialogue explores this subject.
ListenJanuary 6, 2026 Arts & Culture
The Essence of Erosion and Evolution with Terry Tempest Williams
Williams asks the central question for our world today, “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?” Here we stare down our present situation without flinching but with radical hope.
ListenDecember 30, 2025 Arts & Culture
Finding An Antidote To The Attention Economy with Jenny Odell
More and more of us spend enormous spans of our time captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource by the technologies we use daily. This deep dialogue explores the increasingly materialistic and pragmatic orientation of our age and how to reroute and deepen our attention and explore what is hijacking the ageless need for community, solitude, and conviviality.
Read MoreDecember 9, 2025 Arts & Culture
Indigenous Traditional Healing Techniques in Altered States of Consciousness With Françoise Bourzat
Traditional psychotherapy is wonderful when it works, but it is time consuming and is only effective to the degree that the therapist is self-aware and has done their own healing work. Even then, many people reach their limits with what that kind of therapy can offer and need an approach that goes deeper into their psyche. Many are seeking a depth of healing that is more experiential through expanded states of consciousness. Some modalities of this are sweat lodges, vision quests, breath work, and where is it legal, psychedelics in Mexico. Françoise Bourzat discusses.
Read MoreDecember 2, 2025 Arts & Culture
The Difference Between Elderhood and Growing Older with Diana Percy
Percy suggests that rather than resigning ourselves to growing old we can choose to become an elder. This can be a time when we can make great contributions to our community. This deep dialogue explores what it means to be to be proactive in approaching aging and becoming an elder in the 21st century.
Read MoreNovember 25, 2025 Arts & Culture
Inhabiting The Poetry Of Our Lives with Mark Nepo
Mark Nepo has discovered that writing and other forms of expression can be especially effective in assisting our spiritual growth. Nepo tells of his experience, how he loosens the knot of his limiting mind when it is swirling with assumptions and conclusions.
Read MoreNovember 18, 2025 Arts & Culture
Transforming Suffering into the Light Of Our True Nature with Lama Palden Drolma
Even though we ultimately desire to be happy, most of us find ourselves taking in sorrow, pain and tragedy through everything we see, hear and feel both in our own experience and through the media. Lama Palden advises us to start from the center of ourselves and have the courage to face our own suffering. She also gives a description of how the practice of Tonglen (Tibetan meditation practice) can be used in our everyday life in an “on-the-spot” meditation.
Read MoreNovember 11, 2025 Arts & Culture
Being Claimed by a Myth with Martin Shaw, Ph.D.
Folktales, fairytales, and myths are the way our ancestors tried to tell truth and actually have the earth speaking through them. Shaw says that they are more than just human intelligence at play. Here he takes us on a deep dive into the importance of inviting story into our lives, not as therapy, not as giving advice. He tells us that these timeless stories can be the tributaries that lead us to the bigger river of essential truths that nourish our lives.
Read MoreNovember 4, 2025 Arts & Culture
The Inner Peace That Leads to Generous Love with Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.
Here, we focus our attention on the capacity for a generous love that embraces such virtues as kindness, courage, forgiveness, gratitude, dignity for all, and hope. Post emphasizes the importance of kindness, deep listening, the benefits of volunteering, raising kind children, and the significance of nature.
Read MoreOctober 28, 2025 Arts & Culture
The Choice Point for Humanity in “The Age of Surprises” with Deirdre Hade & William Arntz
Arntz and Hade describe the times in which we live as “The Age of Surprises,” and share what happens to our brain chemistry when we encounter a surprise. Hade shares her early mystical experiences and describes the importance of knowing our core virtues and values in order to be resilient.
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