GLOBAL SPIRIT is a unique inquiry into humankind’s belief systems, wisdom traditions, and states of consciousness. This award-winning TV/web series sheds light on humankind’s deepest questions, tracing the eternal, yet still evolving human quest for meaning, truth and wisdom.
Global Spirit connects people to diverse religious and spiritual practices worldwide, especially those who seek insights on human consciousness and ultimate reality across multiple global traditions rather than just one. The series speaks directly to religious and spiritual scholars, teachers and practitioners, as well as those who identify as spiritual-but-not-religious or who are unaffiliated with traditional institutions.
The Global Spirit series is hosted by acclaimed author and spiritual seeker Phil Cousineau and has been created, produced and directed by the national Emmy, Peabody and duPont Columbia award winning filmmaker Stephen Olsson.
“Each week (Global Spirit) brings together scholars and other experts from different religious and philosophical backgrounds, not to sell a faith or argue hot-button issues, but to discuss universal themes like forgiveness or the nature of the spiritual journey.”
~ The New York Times
“The discussions on the “Global Spirit” series are sorely needed in this dispirited and disenchanted world. In many ways it is more important than journalism today.”
~ Bill Moyers
Viewer Comments
conveys an experience —
a sense of feeling it rather
than just talking about it.”
John Cleese, Actor
Global Spirit Season 1 Presenter
Global Spirit Season 1 Programs
THE JOURNEY TOWARDS ONENESS
w/ Ravi Ravindra & Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D.
EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS EAST & WEST
w/ with Sraddhalu Ranade & Peter Russell
DREAMS, VISIONS, & REALITIES
w/ Yidumduma Bill Harney and Stephen Aizenstat
THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE
w/ Brother David Steindl-Rast, Maata Lynn Barron, & Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Manis
FORGIVENESS & HEALING
w/ Dr. Ed Tick, Kate Dahlstedt, and Azim Khamisa
THE SHAMAN, THE SPIRIT HEALER & THE EARTH
w/ “Uncle” Angaangaq & Flordemayo
THE SPIRITUAL QUEST
w/ Karen Armstrong and Robert Thurman
ART & THE CREATIVE SPIRIT
w/ Estella Loretto & Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
MUSIC, SOUND & THE SACRED
w/ Reverend Alan Jones & Joanne Shenandoah
w/ Father Thomas Keating
THE ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE
w/ Sobonfu Somé & Andrew Harvey
“Global Spirit — what does that mean?
Collective commonality… We have one thing in common.
We were born with love, by love, for love.
We were infected with fear.
Nobody is born with fear.”
Season 2 Presenting Host
Global Spirit Season 2 Programs
w/ Jean Shinoda Bolen & Roger Walsh
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY
w/ Adam Bucko & Roshi Joan Halifax
THE PILGRIMAGE EXPERIENCE
w/ Pico Iyer & Zoila Mendoza
w/ Kabir Helminski & Parisa Soultani
THE SEARCH FOR GOD
w/ Jacob Needleman & Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
STORIES TO REMEMBER
w/ Kay Olan & Orland Bishop
EARTH WISDOM FOR A WORLD IN CRISIS
w/ Jake Swamp & Oren Lyons
SACRED ECOLOGY
w/ Joanna Macy & Michael Tobias
SOUND OF THE SOUL
w/ Ahmad Sidi Kostas
LOVE, FEAR & BEYOND
w/ Carlos & Cindy Blackman Santana
& Jerry & Diane Cirincione-Jampolsky
INSIDE SACRED TEXTS
w/ Willis Barnstone, Cynthia Borgeault
& Ken McLeod
THE ART OF LIVING & DYING
w/ Therese Schroeder-Sheker
& Frank Ostaseski
“Belief is a perspective and it can serve you for a time,
but holding a single belief indefinitely is like clasping onto the rung of the ladder and staying there.
The ladder is meant to be climbed.”
Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Sufi Teacher
Global Spirit Program Guest
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ABOUT CEM
Cultural & Educational Media (CEM Productions) is a San Francisco Bay Area based 501c3 non-profit media group producing films, TV series, and web-based programming that promote new insights on the meaning and depths of human existence. CEM uses the power of film and storytelling to inspire, bring together, and unify people and audiences worldwide.