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Revolutionary Freemasons with Christopher Hodapp and Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus

21st Century Radio® Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus sits down with author and filmmaker Christopher Hodapp to unpack the real history and persistent misconceptions about the Freemasons. Hodapp is also the writer of Freemasons for Dummies.

About Solomon’s Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. 

Unearth the fascinating history of how the Freemasons and Founding Fathers sowed the seeds of a new nation amid the tumultuous collapse of the British colonies.

Step back in time to the birth of a revolutionary new republic and discover how the utopian ideals of a visionary secret society laid the foundation for the most powerful nation on earth. Follow George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and other Founding Fathers as they transform the democratic principles of their Masonic lodges into a radical new nation.

Solomon’s Builders unravels history from myth as it takes you on a Freemason’s tour of Washington, D.C. It reveals the evidence of Masonic influence during the construction of America and its new capital, including clues hidden in plain sight:

•Masonic connections to national monuments
•Puzzling pentagrams and symbolism in city streets
•The mysterious temples of the “Widow’s Sons”

Solomon’s Builders relates the true stories of these visionary founders, and the fascinating meaning behind the cryptic codes, enigmatic symbols and intriguing architecture that is reputedly the basis for the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown’s novel The Lost Symbol.

To learn more about Chris’s work, head to https://freemasonsfordummies.com/

Conversation originally recorded in 2009.

The Power of Harmonics with Andi & Jonathan Goldman, Host Dr. Zoh Hieronimus

21st Century Radio Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus sits down with co-authors Jonathan and Andi Goldman to discuss all the things sound healing. 30 years ago Jonathan wrote the classic Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics, published by Healing Arts Press. Does his guidebook still apply? How can harmonics be used in healing? How can humming lead to better health and happiness? How do intention and gratitude effect how we use sound every day? We delve into these questions and much more.

About Healing Sounds:

Sharing many easy-to-follow sound healing exercises, such as “Vowels as Mantras” and “Overtoning,” Goldman explains in detail how to perform vocal harmonics--a form of overtone chanting--and experience their transformative and healing powers. He shows how harmonics can be used as sonic yoga for meditation and deep relaxation as well as to enhance energy and resonate the chakras, the energy centers of the body.

In their book The Humming Effect the Goldmans reveal that humming is one of the simplest and yet most profound sounds we can make. If you have a voice and can speak, you can hum. Research has shown humming to be much more than a self-soothing sound: it affects us on a physical level, reducing stress, inducing calmness, and enhancing sleep as well as lowering heart rate and blood pressure and producing powerful neurochemicals such as oxytocin, the “love” hormone.

In this guide to conscious humming, Jonathan and Andi Goldman show that you do not need to be a musician or singer to benefit from sound healing practices—all you need to do is hum.

Providing a self-healing method accessible to all, the authors reveal that, even if you have no musical ability, we are all sound healers.

Freemasons and the Temple of Solomon: James Wasserman & Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus

21st Century Radio Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus sits down with author James Wasserman to discuss his book The Temple of Solomon: From Ancient Israel to Secret Societies.

The spiritual heart of many esoteric societies, the Temple of Solomon was located atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a site venerated by the three great monotheistic religions as the intersection of Divine and human. Built by King Solomon at the peak of ancient Israel’s power, the Temple of Solomon housed the golden Ark of the Covenant in its Holy of Holies, a sacred chamber where one could communicate directly with God. Centuries after the temple’s destruction, the Temple Mount was used as the headquarters for the Knights Templar during the Crusades, and countless legends have come down through the centuries about the secrets they may have uncovered there, including discovery of the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant.  This book explores the Temple of Solomon in the Hebrew Scriptures, the New Testament, and Apocryphal writings as well as its role in the founding of Freemasonry, the legends of the Knights Templar, the doctrines of the Kabbalah, and Muhammad’s visionary journey from the Temple Mount through the heavens. Seeking to understand the powerful desire of many religions and secret societies to re-create the temple through ritual and prayer, James Wasserman explains why it was built, the magical forces King Solomon may have used in its creation, what its destruction meant for Jews and Christians alike, and why the Knights Templar as well as several modern secret societies named their orders after it.

This is an excerpt of a conversation originally recorded in 2011.

Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

How to Be: A Monk and a Journalist with Judith Valente

The spiritual seeker’s guide to living with authenticity and integrity in troubled times by a lauded journalist and monk mentored by Thomas Merton.
 
This book is a dialogue between two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a married professional woman. It is two people “strugeling to articulate life’s universal questions from diverse contexts and perspectives.” Brother Paul writes as one steeped in silence and the daily rhythms of the ancient prayer practices of monasticism. Judith Valente writes as a professional woman attempting to bring a sense of prayer and contemplation to a scattered life in the secular world.

Valente uses the story of Brother Paul’s interview for a PBS documentary as a jumping-off point: When asked the purpose of the Trappist life in the modern world, he said that it is “to show you don’t need a purpose.” The purpose of life, he said, is life. “You’re to live your life.”

How to Be offers a window into two people living their lives on purpose (or not) and struggling to come to terms with the big issues everyone faces: faith, mortality, mystery, prayer, work. It is a book that provides insight and inspiration for those walking the spiritual path—particularly for those interested in the contemplative path.

Judith Valente is a former staff writer for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. She is a former correspondent for PBS’s Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly and senior correspondent for investigative reporting and long features at the NPR affiliate in central Illinois. She was also a special correspondent covering faith and values and arts and culture for Chicago Public Radio. Valente contributes articles to US Catholic magazine and National Catholic Reporter. 

Kolchak: The Night Stalker with Kendall Phillips - Host Mark Eddy

Author KENDALL PHILLIPS joins us to discuss his new publication "Kolchak:  The Night Stalker."  This one season show had cheesy but thought provoking monsters.   But what made this show such a cult classic?  Devoted fans still watch the reruns and there are social media groups with ever increasing numbers.  Kendall gives us the background on this influential show, the creation of the Kolchak mythos, the pitfalls of the monster of the week; but more importantly, it laid the foundations for more recent, standout TV shows:  "Walking Dead,"  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the all important "X-Files."  Join us for a fun discussion but we'll also have a look at the turbulent times from which it was spawned as well as the far reaching legacy.  "The whistling has started."

Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison

Joshua Greene, who studied meditation with the legendary Beatle George Harrison, draws on personal remembrances, recorded conversations, and firsthand accounts to create a moving portrait of Harrison's spiritual life, his profound contribution to the Beatles' music, and previously unpublished anecdotes about his time with music legends Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and others.

"Many well-known artists have touched people's hearts with their music, but few have ever succeeded in touching people's souls. That was George's gift, and his story is described here with affection and taste. A wonderful book."
–Mia Farrow

Joshua M. Greene earned his master's degree from Hofstra University, where he taught Hinduism and Holocaust history until his retirement in 2013. He has spoken at the Pentagon, the Judge Advocates College, and the New York Public Library Distinguished Author series, and he lectures frequently before state bar associations. His most recent book is a biography of Srila Prabhupada, titled Swami in a Strange Land.

The Physics of God with Joseph Selbie

The explanations of transcendent phenomena given by saints, sages, and near-death experiencers—miracles, immortality, heaven, God, and transcendent awareness—are fully congruent with scientific discoveries in the fields of relativity, quantum physics, medicine, M-theory, neuroscience, and quantum biology.

The Physics of God describes the intersections of science and religion with colorful, easy-to-understand metaphors, making abstruse subjects within both science and religion easily accessible to the layman—no math, no dogma. This intriguing book:

• Pulls back the curtain on the light-show illusion we call matter.
• Connects string theory’s hidden brane worlds to religion’s transcendent heavens.
• Reveals the scientific secret of life and immortality: quantum biology’s startling discovery that the human body is continuously entangled.
• Demonstrates the miracle-making power of our minds to effect instantaneous physiological
• changes.

A dedicated meditator for over forty years, Joseph Selbie has taught yoga and meditation throughout the United States and Europe. He is also the author of The Yugas: Keys to Understand

Tricia McCannon: The 30 Lost Years of Jesus with Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus

Where was Jesus for the first thirty years of his life? Where and what was he taught?  Who were his teachers?

21st Century Radio® Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus sits down with mystic and author Tricia McCannon to discuss her book Jesus: The Explosive Story of the 30 Lost Years and the Ancient Mystery Religion. Based on new information culled from hard to find Vatican texts, theosophical classics, ancient texts, legends, and systems of hermetic symbolism, Tricia McCannon constructs a radical new timeline of Jesus’ life. She assert Jesus spent at least seven years of study and training in Egypt, a number of years in England, and visited both India and Tibet before beginning his public ministry in Palestine.

This is a wide-ranging examination of the direct links and similarities between Jesus’ teachings and those of various Mystery religions and sects that were popular during his lifetime, including the Essenes, Buddhist, Mithrans, Zoroastrians, and Druids. McCannon offers compelling evidence that places Jesus’s life and mission firmly in the context of the profound spiritual teachings that came before him.

Drawing on records from the Vatican, Tibet, India, and Egypt, along with Greek, Aramaic, and Pali text, as well as oral traditions of Jesus’s teachings, McCannon uncovers the real reason that he has remained such a powerful and pivotal figure in world consciousness for over two millennia.

McCannon is the author of over 30 DVDs and 13 on-line books, all focused on personal transformation, awakening Christ Consciousness and Global Healing. She is also the Director of the Phoenix Fire Mystery School, the Founder of the Gnosis Learning Institute, and the Founder/President of the UFO Forum in Atlanta.

Originally recorded in 2017.