Steve Kramer

Finding Joy in Unsettling Times with Special Guest Steve Kramer!

Joy is not something we earn or work toward. Joy exists within every moment, we simply need to reveal it. During these days of social distancing, it is imperative that we find goodness in the present moment. We’ll discuss mindfulness as a way to find joy in your day to day life. Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/

Applying the Ageless Wisdom

As spiritual beings having a human experience, we have access to universal wisdom. Not only do we have access to it, but we are a collective embodiment of it. How do we apply this wisdom to our everyday lives and how does this wisdom assist us in stewarding planetary life? Join us as we explore these questions.

The Energy of Organization

How do we harness the power to create order and what does this energy provide to us on the spiritual path? We wrap up our 5-part series on mental energies with the energy of organization. Join us.

Concrete Knowledge

Concrete Knowledge will be the theme of today's exploration of the various energies of the mind. This energy allows stimulates invention, finds facts, creates order, and develops practical understanding. "Knowledge will set you free." May it be so.  

Active Intelligence

For the month of April we will explore the energies of the mind. These discussions are intended to compliment last month's exploration of the energies of the heart. Active Intelligence as a quality of Mind will be the theme of today's show. 

Idealism and Devotion

We conclude our month-long journey through energies of the heart with a look at idealism and devotion. These energies serve well in dedicating ourselves to a cause; they can also create the fanatic. Join us for as lively discussion on ways to access and express idealism and devotion for the greater good of us all.

Harmony Through Conflict

We continue our month-long discussion of energies of the heart with a segment on harmony through conflict. How do we bridge different approaches to life and the human experience? How do we find common ground with so much diversity in world? We utilize the heart amd its capacity to resonate. Join us.

The Energy of Love-Wisdom

For the rest of March, we will be examining three of the seven types of energy in our universe. In February, we looked at the energy of Will and how we can best work with it. Now we will be examining how we work with three of the seven energies that we can think of as related to Heart energy, starting with Love-Wisdom.

Encore: The Importance of Inclusive Social Action

How do we promote inclusivity and denounce divisiveness? There is a growing need to understand inclusive social action and find ways to impliment this type of action on our daily world stage. We will explore this topic for the month of January and offer an introduction on this show. 

The Ethics of Using Will Energy

How do we wield the powerful force of Will and ensure that it is used for good. On today's show we will discuss goodwill and aligning our actions with a moral compass. Join us.

The Destructive Aspect of the Will

Destruction is usually seen as negative, yet we are costantly breaking down old forms and replacing them with new. This is called progress or evolution. The energy of the will initiates and destroys. We will discuss these expressions on today's show. Join us.

The Creative Aspect of the Will

The freedom to choose is one of the great attributes of human life. Generally, we choose our thoughts, our responses, and our actions. In doing so, we are working with the creative power of the Will. It is wise to be conscious of this energetic aspect of living. Join us for this discussion. 

The Nature of the Will

What is the energy that we call Will? What is its purpose and why is our understanding of this powerful force so important? How is it related to spiritual principles? Join us as we begin a new month and a new topic of conversation, the Energy of the Will.

How To Ensure Inclusive Social Action

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is our responsibility to ensure that inclusivity prevails over divisiveness. This is the topic of today's show. Join us.  

Implementing Social Action

The 'when' and the 'how' of effective action in the face of social injustice can be a complex matter. We must be cautious not to fan the flame of evil, put ourselves in harm's way, or cause further divisiveness. On today's show we will offer discussion on the implementation of inclusive social action. Join us.

Preparing For Inclusive Social Action

We may sense that social action is necessary but lack the skills or the impetus to get involved. On today's show we will discuss ways that we can prepare ourselves for inclusive social response. Join us.

The Importance of Inclusive Social Action

How do we promote inclusivity and denounce divisiveness? There is a growing need to understand inclusive social action and find ways to impliment this type of action on our daily world stage. We will explore this topic for the month of January and offer an introduction on this show. 

Encore: What Does It Mean To Be A Cosmic Citizen

Throughout 2018, we've been exploring universal principles and their influence on our personal growth, our society, our spiritual nature, and our capacity to generate goodwill, we look at the ways they shape us as cosmic citizens. Join us as we go galactic for this New Year's encore. It's still all about you, us, and the greater whole... now the cosmic whole!

Cosmic Relations and Hope

As the new year approaches, we will dive deep into the concept and quality of hope. Hope is cosmic in nature because it arises out of perceived limitations. It is expansive, creative, and generative. We will discuss the components of hope and ways to bring it forward in your 2019.

Cosmic Relations and Compassion

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." This humbling quote is from the Dalai Lama   From a human perspective, the prospect of worldwide love and compassion seems like a tall order. From a cosmic perspective, the relevance of humanity's presence on Earth seems quite small. So how do we rise to the need? How do we align with cosmic principles which support these qualities. Join us for the discussion.

Cosmic Relations and Our Moral Compass

A moral compass is an internalized set of values and objectives that guide a person with regard to ethical behavior and decision-making. What if this was in relation to our cosmic selves? How might that affect our outlook and our actions? Join us for this conversation.

What Does It Mean To Be A Cosmic Citizen

After spending seven months exploring universal principles and their influence on our personal growth, our society, our spiritual nature, and our capacity to generate goodwill, we look at the ways they shape us as cosmic citizens. Join us as we go galactic and its still all about you, us, amd the greater whole.

Strengthening Our Ability To Cooperate

Learning to respect differences, building trust, and expanding our circle of care are some of the ways we can increase our ability to cooperate. On today's show we offer insight into strengthening the "cooperation muscle" which moves us toward positive group action. Join us.

Cooperation As Altruism and Self-Interest

As we learn to see ourselves in others and others in ourselves, we understand that cooperation is not only beneficial, but imperative. Cooperation feeds the cyclical nature of expansion and evolution; as we work with others, we feel better and accomplish more. Join us as we explore cooperation as altruism and self-intertest.  

The Myth of Competition

As we look out into the world we see plenty of belief systems that support the idea of competition being useful, productive, and necessary. We believe differently. As we cooperate and collaborate, we strive. On today's show we will examine competition and ways that we can adjust our approach to living that creates win-win situations and an appreciation on the process rather than the prize.

Understanding Cooperation

We begin a new month and a new topic for consideration. Cooperation is the seventh of the seven principles that underlie our reality which we have dedicated ourselves to discussing each month on Season 3 of Spirit Fire Radio. We evolve through symbiosis and cooperation. Learning to approach people, endeavors, and life itself cooperatively leads to abundance and creativity. On this first show we discuss the components of cooperation.

Strengthening Our Ability To Adapt

Human beings use many tools to strengthen their ability to adapt: creativity, will-power, wisdom, courage, hope... and the internet! Increasing your ability to adapt generates flexibility, opens you up to a wide variety of experiences, and facilitates growth. The earth is complex, diverse, dynamic, and incredibly adaptable... perhaps we learned a thing or two from our mother! Join us.

Managing The Adaptation Process

Adaptability is a principle that governs how we coexist. As an individual, being adaptable is a quality and a skill. Much of the skill set centers on navigating nuances of the process of change... and since change is inevitable and constant, these are skills worth honing. Adapt and prevail! Join us.

When To Adapt

Timing is everything. On today's show we will discuss the value in discerning when action, or adaptation, is required and look into ways to be prepared when the time to adjust to change is right now. Join us.

The Process of Adaptation

Cultivating our ability to be responsive to change requires flexibility and resilience; the good news is, they are also the by-product of this process - the process of adaptation. Mother Earth has been adapting for 4.5 billion years - we’re gonna take a look at her processes and see if we can make some of them our own!

The Importance of Adaptability

It is adaptability which makes us "the fittest" in Darwinian terms. Most assume that fittest means strongest or most intelligent. Not so. As we strenghthen our capacity to adapt to new conditions, we evolve. On today's show we will discuss the importance of adaptability and its role in our growth as a being, a species, and as an aspect of consciousness. 

Strengthening Our Interdependence

As we become aware of our innate interdependence, we naturally become more appreciative, compassionate, and generous. And as we become more appreciative, compassionate, and generous, we deepen our understanding of interdependence... wonderful how that works! Join us as we discuss ways support each other and generate reverence for our natural interconnectedness.

Service and Interdependence

Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another... or to be of service. As professionals, neighbors, passers-by, friends, family, or as a humanity, our lives become more efficient and more meaningful as we exchange with each other. As interdependent beings, it's natural! On today's show we will discusst the ways service supports and reveals our interdependence.

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Exploring Interdependence

We are part of an interdependent community of life; or as we could say, we are part of an interdependent community called Life. Each subject we've explored this season (interconnectivity, participation, nonlinearity, and nonduality) leads us to this underlying principle that governs the way in which we coexist: interdependence. If fact, we thrive to the degree that we become efficiently mutually reliant on each other. We will explore this topic for the month of September. Join us.

Encore: Hope & Spirituality

What is hope? What part does it play in our spiritual evolution? Hope is ever present! By exploring its universal qualities and its relationship to our joy, faith, and optimism we can unlock our personal growth potential; aligning ourselves with positive outcomes.

Moving Beyond Duality

Today's show explores ways to uphold the truth of our interconnectedness and dispell the illusion of duality. Our similarities are stronger than our differences. Join us as we focus on reversing the "this or that" approach to living.

Objectification and Its Consequences

Objectification reinforces the myth of our dualistic reality. It is so pervasive in our culture that we may not notice that myriad of ways that we objectify one another, the ways we are objectified, and the ways in which we objectify ourselves. Join us as we explore this topic.

Addressing Bigotry

Allowing our uniqueness to shine through highlights the diversity amongst our human family. Yet, using our differences as a way to separate and divide reinforces bigotry. At our core, we have much more in common with each other than we have differences. We must learn to hate; we are not born this way. We are fed illusory ideas about another person based on their skin, their background, or their religion. We are born with love in our hearts… babies do not know prejudice. How does this process...

Dualistic Reality: Is It Actually Real?

The concept of duality seems to define our day to day existence: this or that, us or them, over or under, stop or go, rich or poor, black or white, yes or no. Certainly this way of approaching the world lends itself to the conceot of free-will and choice; both of which we have discussed in terms of creating our own reality. But are we limited to this or that? Is reality more complex than a dualistic approach? Join us as we begin our month's topic of nonduality.

Nonlinearity and Social Change

"The only constant in life is change," so it has been said. It's an interesting paradox and feel true. That said, one would think that culturally and socially we are progressing, learning from our mistakes, and changing for the better. What has happened when certain human rights seem to disintegrate while progress is made on others? Can evolution and devolution happen simultaneously? And why do certain social structures outlast others? On today's show we'll discuss nonlinearity and social ch...

Linearity & How We Mature

As we look at the span of our life and consider our maturity, we will often defaut to timeframes; for instance, references such as "when I was three..." or "my college years" create markers on a seemingly straight line of the time-travel we've embarked upon since birth. Yet we mature in spurts as well as at different rates from one another... and some family members don't seem to mature at all (mischevious joke). Join us as we discuss the organic nature of our maturity.

The Illusion of Linearity

 The perception of linearity keeps our world tidy and manageable. Yet it is merely a perception; in fact, it verges on illusion. An illusion is a distorted idea or mental concept of reality. In that we are constantly creating and shaping our ever changing world, it's useful to leverage the idea of limitless potential. Join us as we discuss the limitations of perceived linearity.

The Concept of Nonlinearity

We usually talk about our lives as proceeding in a linear fashion – from past to present to future. But underlying this way of thinking about our lives is an assumption of determinism or cause and effect. We know from our discussion last month that our universe is actually probabilistic rather than deterministic, and that it is our focus and our choices that create our reality. In the same way, time is not an objective, deterministic construct. Rather it is a construct that we create to help...

Managing How We Act

Everything happening in the world today is an aspect of a thought precipitated into action somehow, somewhere. Last week we discussed the powerful energy behind thoughts and words. This week we explore the truth behind the expression, "actions speak louder than words." 

Managing Our Thoughts and Speech

Energy follows thought. It is factual, scientifically and spiritually. Managing our thoughts means taking responsibility for the part we play in fostering meaningful relationships and creating the world we live in. The words we choose to present our thoughts impact that creation all the more. Speech gives form to thought; it makes our thoughts available to others. What are you creating with your words? Do they empower? Do they inspire? Or do they harm? Join us as we discuss participation thr...

Attention and Intention

We wake up and life unfolds before us. With the first thought you think in the morning, you begin participating in creating the reality of your day. Will you continue on with the same stride or will you step to a new beat? We refine the level and quality of our participation in this process through attention and intention. What do you participate in? And how do you participate in it? What is the energy behind your participation? That's for you to decide! Join us.

Participation: How We Create Our Own Reality

We move from last month's theme of 'interconnectivity' to this month's theme of 'participation.' We've established that we are all connected and interdependent; therefore, our the way we live our lives... or the level and quality of our participation in life created our reality and shapes the experience of all of those around us. Join us as we introduce the theme of participation.

Managing Interconnectedness

As we learn to navigate group experience we refine our sense of interconnectedness and in the process we become an ever-valuable asset to the whole of humanity. How do we do this? On today's show we will explore the notion of a "cosmic citizen" and the ways to become one and make the most of being one. Join us.

Living as Part of an Interconnected Group

Group activity fosters a sense of interconnectedness and an awareness that we are part of a greater whole, yet being a part of a functioning group requires effort, discipline and a degree of self-realization. On today's show we will explore the move from self identification to group awareness and its implicit rewards. Join us!