From Stardust To Us
Conscious conversations for a changing world. From Stardust to Us features thoughtful interviews with authors, artists, scientists, and spiritual teachers exploring consciousness, spirituality, culture, and more. New episodes bi-weekly. Hosted by Bernice Marie-Daly, Ph.D., a contemplative activist and interspiritual guide whose work centers Divine Feminine presence and relational spirituality, and LaNell Haydon, writer and creator exploring spiritual insight, human experience, and awakening. Podcast music provided by Soundstripe.com.
Episodes
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Will Tuttle, author of the internationally acclaimed The World Peace Diet (published in 18 languages). In addition to The World Peace Diet, Dr. Tuttle is the author of Food for Freedom and The World Peace Way, Six Keys to Health and Harmony for All, as well as over a dozen other books and CDs.
A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Dr. Tuttle is an educator, musician, an...
What if the universe is not something we look out at but something we are living from within?
In this conversation, we sit with Rebecca-Sophia Strong, creator of Embodied Cosmology®, whose work asks a radical question: What happens when the 13.8-billion-year story of the universe becomes something we embody?
Through immersive theater, movement-based learning, and deep-time imagination, Rebecca-Sophia invites us beyon...
Author Brian Muldoon joins us to discuss his novel The Luminous One, which reimagines the missing years of Jesus between ages 12 and 30.
In this conversation, we explore Jesus as a mystic and moral leader who may have encountered diverse spiritual traditions along ancient trade routes. Our discussion touches on Christian mysticism, Christ consciousness, imagination as a path to spiritual insight, and the radical ethi...
In this powerful and timely conversation, we speak with Linda, an attorney-turned-chaplain, whose life has been shaped by advocacy for immigrants, survivors of violence, and marginalized communities.
Due to safety concerns surrounding immigration advocacy, our guest joins us using only her first name.
Drawing from years of legal work and spiritual care, Linda shares her journey from immigration law to ordained minist...
The Rt. Rev. Br. Mark D’Alessio is a Franciscan friar and the Mentor General in the spiritual society of the Companions of Francis and Clare. He is also a Christian bishop and priest, ordained Buddhist lay minister, spiritual director, chaplain, retreat leader, interspiritual pilgrim, and author. He previously served as President and Executive Director of the Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute, an organizati...
In this deeply honest conversation, we sit with Kenneth Wortley. His life journey spans decades of ministry, education, marriage, and fatherhood. Ultimately, it leads to liberation.
Ken was born in 1951 into a blue-collar family in Saginaw, Michigan. His early life led him into theology and pastoral ministry. He served churches across Colorado, Oregon, California, and Washington. For years, he faithfully met the expe...
In this conversation, we sit with Kara Huntermoon, whose life and work are deeply committed to the Long Tom Watershed and the human and more-than-human communities of the Southern Willamette Valley. Kara shares how her path unfolded into hyper-local, hands-on ecological and community work, teaching permaculture and ancestral skills, living in intentional community, and organizing with neighbors to respond to climate...
In this short year-end episode, we reflect on our first season by revisiting some of our favorite quotes and poems shared by our guests. These words helped shape the spirit of this podcast. We offer them again as a way of closing the year with gratitude.
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From Stardust to Us explores spirituality, consciousness, and culture i...
Janet Lynn Roseman, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Integrative Medicine at the Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. She teaches courses in Spirituality and Medicine, Art and Medicine, and Death and Dying for medical school students. She received the first Joseph Moore President's Award for her work in oncology and spirituality from Lesley College and was a David Larsen Fellow in Spirituality and ...
In this conversation, we speak with writer and spiritual teacher Patricia Pearce, whose journey from Presbyterian pastor to mystic invites us to rethink the boundaries of faith and spiritual identity. Patricia shares how a profound shift in consciousness opened her to the illusion of separateness and the deeper unity beneath all things. Together, we explore the transformation that led her to leave the institutional ...
In this episode, we enter a conversation at the edge of human evolution, where science and spirituality converge.
Our guests, cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme and scholar Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, co-authors of The Story of the Noosphere, invite us to imagine humanity’s next great unfolding: the birth of a planetary mind.
Together we explore what Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere. Swimme and DeRaspe-Bolles describe...
Today, we are honored to welcome Angela Manno, an internationally recognized artist whose work bridges the worlds of science, spirituality, and ecology. Angela’s artistic journey has taken her from being commissioned by NASA to commemorate the return of U.S. space flight after the Challenger accident, to being invited by the Vatican to create a program for Laudato Si’ Week, Pope Francis’ landmark call to care for ou...
It’s been almost two years since our last conversation with John Roedel, an episode that quickly became one of our most listened-to.
This time, John returns to share the working title of his forthcoming book of poems and blessings, Anointing this Threshold. Keep an eye out for this beautiful new collection.
We also dive into his recent Substack post, Bloodlust Celibacy, where John confronts something haunting at the h...
John Deuel describes himself as a mystic pilgrim, spiritual director, and supervisor, roles he stepped into after closing out a 36-year career in high tech. In this conversation, John shares his journey from Catholic roots into the vocation of spiritual direction, the call of compassion at the heart of his work, and a “Merton moment” of oneness that continues to shape his path. We also explore how not to fear AI, an...
In this episode, we welcome Laura Lee and Paul Robear, Co-Directors of the Cuyamungue Institute, for a conversation that explores the deep intelligence of the body, the soul’s journey through collective darkness, and the call of a benevolent universe. As stewards of the embodied meditative practice of Ritual Postures, Paul and Laura Lee share insights from their global work with ancestral wisdom, ecstatic trance, a...
In this episode of From Stardust to Us, we speak with Tony Zelle, an Earth lawyer, author, and visionary, about the emergence of Earth Law: a transformative legal philosophy rooted in gratitude, reverence, and justice for the entire Earth community. Tony invites us to reimagine our legal systems through the lens of ecological interdependence, Indigenous wisdom, and spiritual presence. Together, we explore the limit...
In Part 2 of our conversation with writer and contemplative guide Leslye Colvin, we continue exploring the long arc of colonization, the myth of “unprecedented times,” and the intergenerational trauma many of us carry. Leslye reflects on the enduring power of Jesus’s words and what they ask of us in an age of cruelty, division, and longing for healing. This episode is an invitation into sacred space, collective rem...
In Part 1 of our conversation with writer, spiritual companion, and contemplative activist Leslye Colvin, we explore the roots of her faith, her family’s journey toward Catholicism, her reflection on Jesus's words, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do," and the long arc of colonization. This is a rich and reflective dialogue on belonging, courage, and the power of presence.
Jennifer Morgan, president and founder of the Deeptime Network, is an award-winning author, storyteller, and educator inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Maria Montessori, Thomas Berry, and Brian Swimme. Her Universe Story Trilogy — Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph — are used in classrooms around the world, particularly in Montessori schools as part of the Cosmic Education Curricul...
Jennifer Morgan, president and founder of the Deeptime Network, is an award-winning author, storyteller, and educator inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Maria Montessori, Thomas Berry, and Brian Swimme. Her Universe Story Trilogy — Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph — are used in classrooms around the world, particularly in Montessori schools as part of the Cosmic Education Curricul...
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