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Founded Sounds True in 1985 as a multimedia publishing house with a mission to disseminate spiritual wisdom. She hosts a popular weekly podcast called Insights at the Edge, where she has interviewed many of today's leading teachers. Tami lives with her wife, Julie M. Kramer, and their two spoodles, Rasberry and Bula, in Boulder, Colorado. Author photo © Jason Elias

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Ilia Delio: A Cyborg Christian on the God Revolution W...


The myths we’ve inherited about God aren’t just outdated—according to Sister Ilia Delio, they may be at the root of our collective crisis.

This week, Tami Simon speaks with Ilia Delio—Franciscan sister, scientist, theologian, holder of the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair at Villanova University, and author of more than twenty books, including The Not Yet God, Re-enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, and the memoir Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian—about what a genuine God revolution would look like in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on the evolutionary theology of Teilhard de Chardin, the depth psychology of Jung, and the cosmotheandric vision of Raimon Panikkar, Delio offers a startling and empowering reframe: God is not a supernatural authority above us, but the inexhaustible ground of wholeness emerging through us—and we are, right now, called to complete that becoming.

Join Tami and Ilia to explore:

  • Why the God of the Axial Age is dying—and what’s being born in its place
  • The evolutionary arc from archaic religion to monotheism to a new cosmotheandric religious consciousness
  • What it actually means to be a “cyborg Christian”—and why Jesus of Nazareth was one
  • How AI mirrors the human psyche and why it may catalyze, not threaten, the next stage of love
  • The three-pronged revolution: creativity, complexity, and consciousness
  • How to awaken to the divine presence already alive within you—and why that’s the taproot we need now

Rich, irreverent, and intellectually alive, this interview is a genuine disruptor for anyone who has ever felt that the spiritual containers we’ve inherited are too small for the lives we’re actually living.

Listen now and bend into the lure. →

This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.

This episode is sponsored by Omega Institute, a global gathering hub for lifelong learning and spiritual exploration. Omega offers weekend workshops, special events, rest and rejuvenation retreats, professional training, online learning, and more. Discover what calls to you at eomega.org/true.

E194: Witness Consciousness and the End of Suffering

People suffer because they view life through the lens of stored past experiences, projecting fears and desires onto the future. Because of this, they become trapped in endless cycles of worry, resistance, and fear. Our true nature is the awareness that observes these thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Spiritual growth comes through recognizing ourselves as the witness rather than becoming lost in what we are witnessing. Ultimately, liberation comes not from changing the outside world, but from learning to handle our inner reactions and remaining seated in the awareness that observes all experiences.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

Just One Question | Rainn Wilson: Why Are You NOT an A...

What do you say when you tried atheism — genuinely tried it — and it just didn’t hold? When the mystery of your own consciousness, the fact that humans write operas and weep and hold babies, simply refused to reduce to atoms and molecules?

That’s where Rainn Wilson starts. Known to millions as Dwight Schrute from The Office, Wilson has spent the last several years stepping fully into his spiritual life — writing Soul Boom, hosting a podcast, and doing the uncomfortable work of saying out loud, in Hollywood of all places, that he believes in God. In this exchange, Tami asks him the question at the heart of it all: why are you not an atheist?

His answer is disarming. He honors skeptics, wrestles honestly with inherited images of God, and finds unexpected footing in the Lakota Sioux concept of Wakan Tanka — the Great Mystery — a God not above nature but woven through it. And he arrives, with characteristic candor, at something that feels true rather than tidy.

What you’ll hear in this exchange:

  • Why Wilson tried atheism and what ultimately made it impossible for him to stay there
  • How the Lakota concept of the Great Mystery opened a new way of thinking about God
  • What it actually costs to come out as devout in the entertainment industry
  • Why spiritual tools don’t just transform individuals — they transform communities

This is the kind of conversation that makes you want to hear the whole episode.

This clip is taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Rainn Wilson: Soul Boom: Standing for a Spiritual Revolution. Find the complete interview in this feed or at soundstrue.com.

This episode is sponsored by Omega Institute, a global gathering hub for lifelong learning and spiritual exploration. Omega offers weekend workshops, special events, rest and rejuvenation retreats, professional training, online learning, and more. Discover what calls to you at eomega.org/true

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A.H. Almaas: Love in Its Boundless Dimension

We come into this world with a basic trust in the goodness of life. And our trials, tribulations, and traumas cover up that trust, or shatter it completely. In this discussion of his new book, Nondual Love, Tami Simon speaks with author and teacher A.H. Almaas about spiritual self-inquiry and the path toward reclaiming our sense of the boundless benevolence of the universe. 

Take a deep, relaxing breath in a quiet, comfortable place and dive in to this inspiring, expansive conversation exploring: the Diamond Approach to spiritual realization; inner work as the quest to understand the content of consciousness; how truth is a continuum; the nature of experience and knowing; satchitananda; the Buddhist concept of selflessness; universal love and Sufism’s “ocean with no shores”; permanent realization; the ego and the inner Jabba the Hutt; “living daylight” and the overcoming of fear; how full embodiment frees us from our “diamond issues”; relaxation as the first step in experiencing nondual reality; asking yourself, “what’s in the way?”; and more.

To learn more about the Diamond Approach, visit https://www.diamondapproach.org/

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

Rob Bell: “The Risk of Not Becoming More YouR...


What if not doing the thing is the riskier choice?

This week, Tami Simon speaks with Rob Bell—New York Times bestselling author of 14 books and plays, host of The RobCast, and a former pastor—about what he calls his civilian phase. Rob left the role years ago. What surprised him was how long the role stayed with him afterward: “We leave an external form, and then over the years, the form begins to leave us.”

This is an unusually candid conversation. Tami goes first, admitting she didn’t feel free to fully reveal herself until she had economic security—and Rob meets her there without a tidy answer.

Join Tami and Rob to explore:

  • Why he doesn’t believe in risk versus no risk—only in risk management, and which risk is actually smaller
  • The “answer man” conditioning of a job that expected crisp soundbites about the deepest human questions—and what it did to his nervous system
  • Hiding in plain sight: how public visibility can be its own kind of concealment
  • The abyss, the void, the fallow field—learning to stop fighting the empty seasons
  • “And then I kept going”: the phrase that came out of pandemic sessions, and why people can’t see their own resilience
  • What shifted when a plant medicine experience dropped his head into his heart
  • Toxic positivity, a lineage that didn’t know what to do with pain, and the son who taught him it’s okay to be sad
  • Why a birch tree scatters 250 million seeds and doesn’t seem worried about efficiency
  • His father’s dementia, temporariness, and the strange way mortality heightens aliveness

Rob will lead an immersive workshop, The Ongoing Creation of Your Life, at Omega Institute, August 30–September 4.

Listen now and hear what it costs to keep standing at a distance from your own life. →

This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and originally aired on Sounds True One.

No Bad Parts

Richard “Dick” Schwartz earned his PhD in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University. He coauthored the most widely used family therapy text in the United States, Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, and is the creator of the Internal Family Systems Model, which he developed in response to clients’ descriptions of various “parts” within themselves. With Sounds True, Dick has written a new book titled No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon talks to Dick about the transformation that occurs when we welcome every part of who we are. He explains that even our most destructive parts have protective intentions, put in place to shield us from unprocessed pain, and details his method for accessing and mending these inner wounds. They also discuss the myth of the “mono mind,” and why the mind is naturally multiple; how “exiled” trauma can manifest as bodily pain; connecting with our core Self and letting it lead us in our healing; and how the language of “parts” can be useful in our relationship dynamics.

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E159: How Consciousness Becomes Trapped in Thought

The most basic function of mind is to receive messages from the senses so the indwelling consciousness can experience the outer world. Suffering begins when consciousness fixates on certain experiences and refuses to let them pass. These fixations become stored impressions that form the ego mind, distorting the perception of reality. Liberation comes not from controlling life to match the ego, but from letting go of identification with the personal mind so experiences pass through freely and actions arise from clarity and compassion instead of ego.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

E16: When the Mind Becomes Disturbed

The mind, like the ocean, can be calm or disturbed, but the same consciousness is observing both states. Rather than trying to fix or overreact to a disturbed mind, one can learn to step back and observe the disturbance without feeding it. Ultimately, ceasing to thrash around in the disturbed mind allows the mental energies to settle down naturally. This process of letting go of the impulse to struggle leads to greater inner peace and spiritual growth over time.

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E160: The Path to Integration—Releasing the Fragment...

Your psyche becomes fragmented because of suppressed emotions and unintegrated past experiences. These suppressed energies block the natural upward flow of Shakti, which leads to psychological suffering and confusion. Trying to fix internal issues by changing the outside world only results in temporary relief and greater entanglement. True spiritual growth comes from releasing the suppressed parts of yourself, practicing non-resistance, and refusing to store more disturbances. By doing this, you become whole, integrated, and attuned to the divine energy within, realizing you were always a great being all along.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

E161: Transmutation—The Spiritual Art of Letting Ene...

The mind becomes disturbed due to unfinished emotional energies from past experiences, which lead to fixation, worry, and suffering. There are three possible ways to deal with these energies: suppression, expression, and transmutation. The path of transmutation involves consciously relaxing whenever the energies come up, allowing them to pass through instead of resisting them. When allowed to pass freely, the vibration of the energies can rise and fear can become peace, anger can become compassion, and judging others can become love.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

E162: The Stairway to Heaven

The steps on the stairway to heaven are not paved with temporary highs or fleeting inspirational experiences. True spirituality begins with self-honesty about your fears, insecurities, and the mental and emotional patterns that dominate your daily life. The path to liberation involves relaxing, releasing, and staying seated in witness consciousness as you pass through your daily challenges. God’s creation is not here to be complained about but to be honored for the deep inner growth your life provides you. The strength to relax in the face of inner disturbance and to act from one’s deepest truth is what raises you step by step toward the divine.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

E163: Dive Deep—The Root of the Mind Is in the Heart

The mind’s noise is not the real issue—it is simply the surface ripples created by the fears suppressed in the heart. Your spiritual path is to relax, let go, and repeatedly dive inward past the mind into the heart, where the buried fears can finally be released. This ultimately leads to the constant upward flow of Shakti merging you into unconditional love and liberation.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.