New Dimensions! National NPR Welcomes Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein!

I’ve just been invited to do an interview for New Dimensions, one of my favorite NPR shows. I’m jazzed. It’ s a wonderful venue and opportunity to talk about the more metaphysical dimensions of Requiem. Poet David Whyte, who has been a guest, had this to say about New Dimensions:

“New Dimensions is a place where extraordinary and imaginative conversations occur. They are the kind of foundational conversations which are necessary where we have so many peripheral and often stressful involvements in the world. New Dimensions provides a sanctuary, a foundation, a deeper conversation that will inform, enable, and embolden you in many parts of your life.”

Some of the other writers who have been on the program include the poet Jane Hirshfield and the writing coach Natalie Goldberg. Not to mention such celebrities as Isabel Allende, Alice Walker, Susan Griffin, Robert Bly, Terry Tempest Williams and Maya Angelou. The show “spotlights radical thinkers, spiritual leaders, indigenous voices, artists, scientists, ecologists, and social architects, among others” and has had a host of interesting people who advocate a new world view, people like Fritjof Capra, Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Krishnamurti, Ken Wilber, Jean Huston, Huston Smith, Mathew Fox, Riane Eisler, Andrew Harvey, Carol Lee Flinders (who endorsed my book), even the Dali Lama. That’s pretty amazing company!

It’s also impressive to learn that Stanford has acquired the New Dimensions archive, thirty-five years worth of interviews. They’re cataloging the collection and making it available for future research. According to curator, Roberto Trujillo, it is “one of the most extraordinary archival collections [he has] encountered in [his] thirty-five years as a curator.” What a privilege to be part of it—alongside Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell, no less!

We’re recording next week. I don’t know when the show will be aired—it usually takes two to three months, so sometime in the fall, probably October. When I have a date, I’ll certainly post it. Of course, when you can hear it depends on where you live, since New Dimensions “airs in over 500 communities on radio stations around the US and many more around the world, including Canada and Australia.” They also run an internet radio program, the New Demensions Cafe, where they post podcasts that can be downloaded off their site. It’s actually a second, shorter interview. According to their site description, New Dimensions “seeks out the most innovative and creative people on the planet, engages them in spontaneous, deep dialogues, and broadcasts these programs to a worldwide audience.”

What an honor to be invited to participate!! Justine Toms will be conducting the interview. She and her husband Michael co-host. Justine told me she’d read Requiem, that it surprised her and that it deserved more attention than it has generated thus far. Thank you Justine.