Episode description:
What does it mean to live a life of Pure Unlimited Love? In today’s episode, Dr. Stephen G. Post—renowned author, bioethicist, and pioneer in the science of compassion—returns to 45 Forward for a conversation about his newest book. Building on decades of work at the crossroads of science, ethics, spirituality, and caregiving, Stephen explores the Seven Paths and Ten Forms of Love that can guide us through life’s challenges with dignity, joy, and resilience. From morning meditations to everyday acts of kindness, Stephen offers practical wisdom on how to make love the foundation of our health, happiness, and relationships. It’s a roadmap for aging well—and living fully at any age.
About the Guest:
Stephen G. Post, PhD, is a public speaker, social philosopher, and scholar in health and social sciences, philosophy, and global spirituality, as well as an opinion leader, mentor, and educator. He currently serves as director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine. In 2001, with the late philanthropist Sir John Templeton, Stephen co-founded the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love: Spirituality, Compassion, and Service, an organization devoted to achieving cultural transformation through a blend of the highest levels of scientific research, spiritual- philosophical reflection, and effective practice. Described by Martin Seligman in Flourish as one of “the stars of positive psychology,” Stephen has spent much of his career researching and writing about the interface of spirituality and science. He is the first author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Happier, Healthier Life by the Simple Act of Giving, an influential book that became the initial cornerstone of social prescribing— a movement to connect people with social outlets in their community to improve health and well-being. He also wrote Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People, a culmination of his lifelong look into the way we care for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. His writings are widely quoted across many traditions, most recently in Rabbi Shai Held’s best-selling Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life, Prince Ghazi’s writings on Love in the Holy Quran, and in the work of the Indian Institute for Advanced Studies on The Nature of Universal Consciousness.
Contact: stephengpost@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.post.372
Twitter: @stephengpost
Websites: www.stephengpost.com
www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org
Alzheimer’s, caregiving, compassion, dementia, bioethics
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