Voice of Evolution Radio

David Christopher, author of the Holy Universe, soon to be the Seeker and the Sage, and Linda Lombardo, author of In the Souls Waiting Room, and host of Voice of Evolution Radio, talk about everything BUT their books; all the particles in the Universe: time, money, separateness, our longings for our lives and our world.  Linda and David will be podcasting from time to time, as our time permits. We always have so much to talk about and we seem to awaken, inspire and activate each other when it comes to being Human and the Universe.  

If 2018 was for SOULand about entering the tempering realm of Mass Extinction, Systemic Collapse and Grief Composting, 2019 is about Praising Anima Mundi, Making & Offering the World of our Longing and Welcoming the places of Deep Belonging. So began my conversation with Azul Valerie Thome. I've been deeply curious about Azul's work, her passionate purpose for years. In this conversation, we express our thoughts, hearts and souls as they share what each awakens, inspires and activates in each other.  Producer and host: Linda Lombardo

Linda Lombardo of Voice of Evolution Radio is a renaissance soul. She brings her diverse background, including acting, producing radio dramas, blogging, being a forest therapy guide and a purpose coach together in her new book, "In The Souls Waiting Room: A spiritual awakening through radio drama", available on Amazon. Listeners of Edgetalkers will recognize her as a frequent co-host, and she also has a podcast of her own, also named "In The Soul's Waiting Room", on which the book is based. In this this interview, Linda discusses some key concepts of her podcast and book, including the "3 lenses" of the Human/Soul connection, the environment and evolution, and how they interact with each other to create the ever-evolving list for the "Keeper of Souls Purpose". Published here with full permission from Todd Lejnieks and Edgetalkers. You can find more podcasts by Todd and Edgetalkers here: https://soundcloud.com/user-492322903    

The Keeper is back! In season 2 of In The Souls Waiting Room, Jeff, our host, has moved on to new and exciting projects. Linda, the producer of Voice of Evolution Radio, is in the studio as host because she's received a message that someone ... or something ... is wanting to come through.  This speculative fiction, staged as a live radio program, continues to explore our world's challenges and potential. Season 1 was highly informative, setting the groundwork for what the Keeper calls 'productive dialogue' in season 2.  John Breeze is the Keeper's voice. Linda Lombardo is the host.  Get ready! It's going to be a wild ride! 

In The Souls Waiting Room is a series of radio dramas, written as a perspective and told in the voice of an imaginery character called, "The Keeper of Souls Purpose." The Keeper's purpose is to see that every Soul coming to the Human Realm has its purpose. Why the Keeper has chosen to speak with Jeff, one of Voice of Evolution Radio's hosts, is a mystery that we hope to unravel.  We wanted to talk about the Divine Feminine months ago and the Keeper said, "No, wait." So we waited and waited. Suddenly, there were the upcoming Women's Marches and the Me, Too movement, and the Keeper said, "Now." This is why we're calling episode 10 the lost episode. Episode 11, Ashes to Ashes; Stardust to Stardust was aired in 2017.  Starring Jeff Hendler, as the Interviewer, John Breeze as The Keeper, and Amina Dickerson as ... well, you'll see.  In The Souls Waiting Room is written and produced by Linda Lombardo.       

KEEPER: (PAUSE … gently.) I really thought you understood, Jeff. You’ve just had an awakening. Your story just changed. That’s a disorienting event. You’re asking what’s the hope of trying if in the end it’s all going to be destroyed? Is that right? INTERVIEWER: (PAUSE) I think what I’m asking is why some of us are trying so hard if the outcome is already written. That’s what I’m asking. This feels like a betrayal, Keeper; that device we keep talking about. KEEPER: Oh no. Not a betrayal. In fact, all life as you know has been entrusted to you. This is the final season one episode of In The Souls Waiting Room.    

KEEPER: Remember when we talked about judging the Human and the Human always coming up wanting? INTERVIEWER: Yes, I do.  KEEPER: There is a Soul’s wanting in a Human life of hoarding, Jeff. It actually comes from the first lens, although it’s dependent on the second lens, as things often are.  Before we get too deeply involved in that conversation let me just say that this applies to the literal and figurative meaning of the word “hoarder.” In the figurative sense, what happens when someone decides he or she should own the water even though people are dying of thirst? INTERVIEWER: Or because people are dying of thirst. KEEPER: Now, you see it. What happens when the world is starving and only a few people own the seeds or have genetically modified the seeds?  Episode 9 of In The Souls Waiting Room is about the homeless and the hoarders, both in the literal and the spiritual sense. Join us as season one of In The Souls Waiting Room starts its wind down. There's only one more episode left after this one.  John Breeze is the Keeper. Jeff Hendler is the interviewer. Linda Lombardo is the producer of Voice of Evolution Radio. 

In the Souls Waiting Room radio drama series. Jeff, a Voice of Evolution Radio host, and an imaginary character, the Keeper of Souls Purpose, explore the current state of the world, Humanity and its stories. The topic this month- the natural order of things: birth, death and dying. An excerpt:  INTERVIEWER: Let me ask you this - These Souls, the ones that don’t complete the journey to the Human Realm, do they ever come back? KEEPER: It depends. Souls incarnate hundreds, even thousands of times. The Soul chooses its purpose so if it chooses not to return to the same Human, then it doesn’t. It’s not about punishment, if that’s what you’re asking. The Soul already accepted the outcome. Jeff, I must tell you, that as we’re speaking - there’s a great leaning in of energy from the Souls Realm. This is the second time that’s happened here. (INTERVIEWER: I believe the first time was when we talked about Messengers and the LGBTQ community, right?) This is sacred space we’re creating here, Jeff. I just want you and the listeners to know that we are not alone in this conversation. INTERVIEWER: I’m struck by the freedom of it all and the forgiveness that’s available to us as Humans through this first lens perspective.   KEEPER: So much Human struggle and need for forgiveness is self-inflicted. INTERVIEWER: That’s true. I’m hoping your message conveys that and provides some comfort to those listening.  KEEPER: I understand and at the same time, I don’t know that my goal here is to be comforting.   Jeff Hendler is the voice of the "Interviewer". John Breeze is the voice of "The Keeper." Linda Lombardo is the writer and producer of this series. 

KEEPER: There is nothing new in the history of the world, Jeff; all that changes is how and by whom. At any rate, before the second mass extinction, there were giant mushrooms called Prototaxites. INTERVIEWER: Proto…? KEEPER: Pro-to-tax-ites.  They were around 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide, which doesn’t sound incredibly huge when you compare them to present day trees. However, they were the tallest life Earth had ever supported back then and they were all over the planet. INTERVIEWER: That would have been something to see. KEEPER: Yes, indeed it was. In episode 7, Giant Mushrooms, Trees and Fungi, the Keeper shares some insight into a world before Humans; how we are often prepared to take an Evolutionary leap, even before we know what that leap will be. The Keeper talks about climate: warming and cooling and the reasons for the many mass extinctions in Earth's history, all from the 3 Lenses: the Human/Soul connection, the Environment and Evolution. In The Souls Waiting Room is a radio drama series because the world could use a perspective that ties together all the particles of our lives: our spirituality, our day-to-day experience and what we see happening in the world around us. Giving this context and new perspective, we hope to change what may feel like chaos into the beauty and mystery of All That Exists Without Explanation and of course, Evolution. This series is written and produced by Linda Lombardo. The Interviewer is played by Jeff Hendler. The Keeper is played by John Breeze. Learn more about this series at http://www.thevoiceofevolution.com      

Here's a question for the Keeper from one of our listeners:  “I’m part of the LGBTQ community and saddened by the violence against us; and not only from strangers. There are a lot of LGBTQ kids on the street because their families reject them. The world is such a (and there are a few expletives omitted here) homophobic place. I’m wondering if there will ever be an understanding that we are all people who just want to live our lives.”   In part 6 of In The Souls Waiting Room(TM), the Keeper shares a perspective about messengers . These conversations are always shared through 3 lenses: the Human/Soul connection, the Environment and Evolution; the perspective clearly reveals that everything is connected and in balance; that when things get out of balance or that connection is forgotten, we find ourselves overwhelmed with the world and what's going on around us. Often, we mistake the Evolutionary process for chaos. Just think of the metamorphosis of a caterpillar. Nothing looks hopeful from the goo of metamorphosis!  The interviewer has concerns because our identities are just that. No one really wants to hear that he or she may be an evolutionary 'device' he says to the Keeper. And the Keeper's reply? The Keeper says, "Let’s get down to it, shall we, because ultimately it’s not about what you believe. It’s about what is."   Follow us at www.thevoiceofevolution.com. 

In the Souls Waiting Room, episode 5: Young Souls in Politics. Is there anything more unnerving? It's like being an elderly person in a room full of toddlers and shouting, "Why are they touching everything? Make them stop touching everything!"  The Keeper shares his metaview about Young Souls and all the variables that a Soul incarnating into the Human World brings with it. That's the first lens. He also shares his insight from the second lens: all the variables that we, as Humans, encounter here in this journey of our lifetime, and finally, offers perspective about the third lens, Evolution itself.  Jeff Hendler is the host. John Breeze plays the Keeper of Souls Purpose in this series of radio dramas, written and produced by Linda Lombardo.   

In The Souls Waiting Room is a radio drama series featuring the Keeper of Souls Purpose and Voice of Evolution Radio host, Jeff. In part 4, the Keeper and Jeff talk about the paradox of separatism. Here's a short transcript of what took place.    KEEPER: Here’s what’s in the energy of your planet right now, from my vantage point: There’s lots of Awakening; lots of Activation; old stories revealed as illusion and lots of grieving about that; a tension in the space between values and beliefs and needs and want. There’s a shift happening in authority that makes things all very competitive and manipulative. There are many Young Souls stepping into positions of power and that’s creating disorienting events for the Mature and Old Souls who’ve been working to bring all the Human dualities together; to build unity within diversity and help pave the way for a global shift. INTERVIEWER: Wow, and that’s the world explained in less than 30 seconds! You know, Keeper, I’m a hopeful person and even for me, with all the work I’ve done around leadership and my background in coaching, I’ll admit that it’s a challenging time. I’ve been thinking about that perspective you shared last time... that we’re all in the goo of metamorphosis. I really appreciated that analogy and it sounds exactly like what you’re describing now. KEEPER: Well, I’m glad you said you’re hopeful because I interpret what Humanity is going through right now as very hopeful even though, in the thick of it, many Humans are disoriented, reacting with separateness, a “them vs. us” perspective; not that it isn’t normal for Humans to have these reactions; yet, now even some higher frequency beings are being drawn into the energy of it because you’re all questioning your future. 

Questions are coming in about this radio drama series: "Is this for real?" and the answer is, "It depends." In The Souls Waiting Room is an offering of a perspective through 3 lenses:  The Human/Soul Connection The Environment Evolution Anything more than that, is up to you. There is science and there is the sacred in these imagined conversations between the Keeper of Souls Purpose and the Interviewer on Voice of Evolution Radio, Jeff. Fact check, as you please.  In this third part of the radio drama series, the Keeper and Jeff talk about Human potential through Climate Change, one of the greatest urgencies we have ever faced. Why don't we do more? Why so some refuse to believe it's real? And what does it take to move Humans into action? There's always more to be revealed.  Please join us in this deeply moving and powerful conversation. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/voiceofevolutionradio/2017/01/11/in-the-souls-waiting-room-part-three-human-potential-and-climate-change

In the Souls Waiting Room is a radio drama series for Humanity. This series tells the story of the Keeper of Souls Purpose and a radio host on Voice of Evolution Radio. The Keeper has stories that he believes benefit Humanity at this time of uncertainty, change and chaos. He tells his stories through three lenses: the Human/Soul Connection, the Environment and Evolution.  In First Contact, part two, the Keeper and the Interviewer, Jeff, explore Souls Purpose and Life Purpose; how Souls Purpose may be similiar and due to the variables at play in the world, the Life Purpose may turn out very differently. He shocks the Interviewer, by asking him to compare the Souls' purpose of Gandhi and Hilter. "The two in the same breath?" the Interviewer asks, "How is that possible?!" The listener is encouraged to ask his or her own questions, start his or her own conversations that awaken, inspire and activate.  This series will continue through 2017, once a month, with other guests sharing views and fact checking both the science and sacred behind the programs. 

Jeff: "We're going to empty the ocean here, aren't we?"  The Keeper: "Oh, all that and more."  In The Souls Waiting Room is a radio drama series about an imaginary character called The Keeper of Souls Purpose who has requested airtime from Voice of Evolution Radio host, Jeff Hendler, to offer a perspective to Humanity about Humanity.  Disorienting events, separateness, uncertainty and chaos. "That's hopeful!" says the Keeper.  Join us for launch of this series that begins 12/7/16 and continues through 2017. Calls and chat aren't available during this series since The Keeper has asked just to speak with Jeff. He is happy to answer your questions or comments, which can be sent to jeff@voiceofevolutionradio.com or linda@voiceofevolutionradio.com  Do you want to know how the Universe works? Do you wonder why Humanity is where it is right now? So do we. We don't offer answers or solutions; instead, we offer perspective that hopefully, will enable conversations that awaken, inspire and activate. 

Jacquelyn Strickland is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Coach and workshop leader based in Ft. Collins, Colorado. She has often been called the pioneer of the national and international movement for highly sensitive people (HSP) after co-creating the HSP Gathering Retreats in 2001 with Dr. Elaine Aron, author The Highly Sensitive Person, How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, and 4 other books the subject. Jacquelyn is passionate about her vision of a world full of empowered HSPs.  She has been certified to utilize the Myers Briggs Personality Inventory since 1991, and she is trained in hypnotherapy and is a Level II EMDR therapist. Her counseling and coaching practice combines therapeutic orientations, coaching principles, EMDR and hypnotherapy with her client's spiritual foundation. Sign up for her ezine, HSP Highlights & Insights by visiting her web site at www.lifeworkshelp.com or call (970) 484-0840, or email Jacquelyn@hspgatheringretreats.com Listen to Highly Sensitive People Part One on demand, which aired last week.  Linda Lombardo hosts. 

How do you define a Highly Sensitive Person?  What are the Challenges we face?  What is it important to know about this trait? In Part One of this two-part series, we'll talk about these bigger picture views of highly sensitive people. In part two of the series (next week), we'll talk about empowering the highly sensitive person.  About Jacquelyn Strickland, LPC Jacquelyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Coach and workshop leader based in Ft. Collins,Colorado.  She has often been called the pioneer of the national and international movement for highly sensitive people (HSP)  after co-creating the HSP Gathering Retreats in 2001 with Dr. Elaine Aron, author The Highly Sensitive Person, How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, and 4 other books the subject.   Jacquelyn is passionate about her vision of a world full of empowered HSPs.     She has been certified to utilize the Myers Briggs Personality Inventory since 1991, and she is trained in hypnotherapy and is a Level II EMDR therapist.   Her counseling and coaching practice combines therapeutic orientations, coaching principles, EMDR and hypnotherapy with her client's spiritual foundation.  Sign up for her ezine, HSP Highlights & Insights by visiting her web site atwww.lifeworkshelp.com or call (970) 484-0840, or email Jacquelyn@hspgatheringretreats.com

Robin Rice is an internationally published author, spiritual teacher, social change artist and mentor.  THERE COMES A TIME on each unique journey when the sojourner must stop to reassess. The common path has run out. The way ahead is not clear. The inner mountain reveals itself. The terrain changes, both formidable and exciting. THE QUESTION ARISES, AS IT MUST: What's Next? Be Who You Are Productions, Inc., offers social change projects. This year's project is "Life Is Sweeter Without Sugar" using what we have learned about neuroscience and change to help reduce or eliminate sugar through an online "camp" experience.  She founded the 70,000+ member Awesome Women Hub. She and 150 women created a music video tour “What The World Needs NEXT.”  YourHolidayMom.com gives LGBTQ youth a loving mother's support between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. 35,000 interactions in the first 40 days, the project is in the third season. Robin created the worldwide #StopTheBeautyMadness campaign at StopTheBeautyMadness.com, offering a stark look at the madness through intense graphic ads and an audio series.   Linda Lombardo hosts. 

Imagine if it was normal for all of us to give money for trees every month to consciously balance both our taking and our warming....we could reforest our planet in no time. TreeSisters is about building a huge engine of change in the form of a global network of women working together to re-robe the planet as fast as possible. They are developing 3 core strategies: 1) How to build a global network of women, and resource, empower and inspire them to work together to effect major change. A women led global crowd funding campaign for swift reforestation is doable, practical and needed now... 2) How to reforest the tropics within 10 years. How to build a collaborative map of steps to show how money raised in the global north can effect enormous change if deployed through existing reforestation and avoided deforestation initiatives in the field... 3) How to build bridges of care and shared responsibility between the two. Founder Clare Dakin talks with host, Linda Lombardo. This program runs 1 hour 5 minutes.   

The Earth is speaking to us. Yet, are we listening? Water is the essence of life. Water is the blood of the planet, our Pachamama, our mother Earth. When our blood is compromised, we humans fall into dis-ease. Why would we expect our planet to respond any differently? Jyoti, (Jeneane Prevatt, PhD) is one of the founders of Kayumari, a spiritual healing community located in the Sierra foothills of California, the North Bay of San Francisco, New York, Switzerland, Prague and the Brazillian Amazon. She is the Spiritual Director of the Center for Sacred Studies, a church dedicated to protecting and sustaining the spiritual practices of first-nation peoples around the world. She was one of the original conveners of The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Jyoti and host, Linda Lombardo speak about the Fukushima disaster and what is being called the death of the Pacific Ocean by scholars and teachers, and, bringing a ray of hope, the Fukusima Solutions project, designed to heal our waters. They talk about what the planet is telling us with the droughts; the receeding waters all over the world. Jyoti also shares her vision and work to restore sacred sites worldwide and entrust their care back to the indigenous peoples who revere them, for the sake of healing the Earth, it's energy and all beings. Jyoti is an internationally renowned spiritual adviser and psychological consultant. She has devoted her life to bringing unity to the planet by facilitating the development of alliances between individuals who are the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional medicine ways.

For more than a century, artists and musicians of all kinds lived and worked in the 170 studios built on top of Carnegie Hall. Today, it's all gone. The film "Lost Bohemia" by former resident Josef Astor, documents the lives of some of these artists, and their fight to save the historic towers. For 22 years, Josef Astor lived in Studio 845, a triplex in the Carnegie Hall towers, long the home of a fascinating segment of New York's Bohemia. A fine art and portrait photographer, he is also a filmmaker, and  the Voice of Leadership will be speaking with Mr. Astor about his documentary Lost Bohemia. According to the New York Times, Lost Bohemia is a sad and spirited elegy for the Carnegie Hall Studios, also acknowledging the famous ghosts who haunt the place, ranging from Isadora Duncan and Enrico Caruso to Marilyn Monroe and Martha Graham. "It is staggering to contemplate how much of New York’s cultural history is contained in the square feet Mr. Astor — known to his neighbors as Birdman — surveys. And it is infuriating, though not surprising, to witness how efficiently it is wiped away."  Lost Bohemia. A film by Josef "Birdman" Astor.

The Price of Honor is a documentary film about the murders of Amina and Sarah Said, teenage sisters from Lewisville, Texas, who were killed in a premeditated “honor killing” in 2008. The film shows the lives of the sisters and the path to their eventual murders by their own father, Yaser Said, who fled the crime scene and remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. Director, and Executive Producer and activist, Xoel Pamos, and author, activist, producer,  Amy Logan speak with the Voice of Leadership about honor killings and this powerful film. The film reveals new details and uncovers evidence about the case that has never before been made public, including a previous murder committed by Yaser, and the ultimate sacrifice of Amina Said, who had a secret plan to protect the love of her life. Her words, through emails, letters and diary entries, become the voice of the film and change much of what has heretofore been assumed about this case. Despite the tragedy, viewers will learn of an incredible love story that still has life after death. Friends, family members, experts and activists against “honor violence” emotionally guide viewers through the girls’ lives and deaths, in the process launching a movement to bring Yaser Said to justice. The Price of Honor discredits the prevailing theory that Yaser fled to his native Egypt after shooting his daughters, instead proposing that he is in hiding in the U.S. The film’s additional mission is to bring awareness to this international issue of honor violence, expose law enforcement’s mismanagement of the Said case, and raise the bar for how honor violence is handled by police in the U.S. henceforth.

Live broadcast times for India (7:30PM) and Nepal (7:45PM). Live broadcast time for the US East coast: 10 AM Ben Atherton-Zeman returns to Men…Women…and Other Truths in this special broadcas to share his “life-altering” experience: A 23-day tour of India and Nepal, presenting stories, and comedic – yes, comedic - presentations on eliminating violence against women, and transforming centuries old beliefs.   But it wasn’t just what Ben was teaching that altered his life, it was the people, their stories and their courage to continue standing up in the face of heinous abuse. This is a journey you won’t want to miss! Ben is a spokesperson for the National Organization for Men against Sexism (www.nomas.org), and is a public speaker on issues of violence prevention. He visited India and Nepal on behalf of the U.S. State Department Speakers Bureau. He identifies as a “recovering sexist” and believes that every man must challenge violence and sexism in the world, and in themselves.  Jeff Hendler hosts this special broadcast.

Writer, Photographer Carol Mossa created Earth's School of Love to heal the planet one thought at a time. When asked to say a bit about herself, Carol replies: OMG, what can I say??? I love my life. I love my friends, and my family. I love this do-over of a life that is beyond my wildest dreams. I am blessed. Carol writes: "Earth's School Of Love was never my idea. The fully-formed thought came to me, one busy morning while sitting at my desk in my studio. At that time, I had absolutely NO IDEA what I was supposed to do with it, but I do recall knowing, intuitively, that I had just been given something of great importance. Several years later, I am utterly devoted to using my keen eye for photography, my writing skills, and my immense gratitude for this life, to create these singular works of art, conversation starters, and platforms for healing." Over the last several years, Earth's School of Love followers have continued to show up on Carol's page, leaving messages there, and privately, thanking her for taking the time to spread the message, not the mess. She take these demonstrations of faith to heart, and believes her work can, and does, make a difference in healing the planet, one thought at a time. Some recent remarks: "I love this site. Thank you." ~Lynette "I so love your page and it has been very helpful." ~Cathy "Love what you all post." ~Mary "I so enjoyed viewing your page and receiving your words of encouragement. Thank you, today, and every day." ~Bonnie "I absolutely love your posts! How do  you come up with them? They're fresh, beautiful, and helpful." ~Connie "I just found this page. I feel like it was meant for me to find. It's so soulful." ~Mary

A polite warning; prolonged exposure to Jamie Catto could blow your mind.… as seen recently in The Sunday Times Style magazine, Jamie Catto is the creative catalyst, producer and director behind the global philosophy and music project ‘1 Giant Leap’ (The first 1 Giant Leap was nominated for 2 Grammys in 2003, sold over 300 thousand albums, and won numerous awards globally.) The new movie and album, ‘What About Me?’ released in 2009, has recently won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Red Rock Film Festival ... A musician and filmmaker, Jamie was a founding member of Faithless – the most successful name in dance music in recent decades, but is perhaps best loved for his landmark music and film project 1 Giant Leap. Exploring “the predicament of being human,” he and Duncan Bridgeman travelled the world recording the finest musicians and interviewing thought-leaders from different cultures, revealing “the unity within the diversity.” Combining his experience from projects such as 1 Giant Leap with a passion for personal evolution, Jamie began delivering workshops last year in places ranging from Devon to Berlin, Seattle to Thailand. “I think we’re living in a world where we’ve all agreed a massive compromise through the pursuit of approval,” Jamie says. “We get addicted to the ‘crack’ of approval very early on in life. Because of this, we edit ourselves incrementally until we’re these crippled 30% versions of ourselves.

  Jen Eramith of Akashic Transformations talks about personal leadership from her past experiences accessing the Akashic Records.  The Akashic Records are an energetic imprint of every thought, action, emotion, and experience that has ever occurred in time and space.  They are an etheric, holographic repository of information for human consciousness for the past, present and potentials for the future.  The energy that makes up the Akashic Records is the energy of Love, that permeates and creates everything in the Universe.  The Akasha is available everywhere, all the time.  Everyone can access information from the Akashic Records at any time, and indeed we do!  The flashes of intuition and knowing hunches that occur every day are glimpses into the divine wisdom contained in the Akashic Records.  Learn more about the year 2012, moving forward into 2013 and what it means for your personal leadership, our connection with each other, nature and more.