Beyond Names: Spirituality for Anyone and Everyone
This podcast is for seekers, skeptics, believers, and the spiritually curious who long for deeper meaning and connection. Dr. Habib draws on his personal journey from conservative Christianity to Islamic mysticism, exploring the sacred beyond doctrine and the Divine beyond names. Episodes feature soulful reflections, honest storytelling, and conversations with guests from diverse backgrounds, touching on art, nature, social justice, and everyday experiences. Listeners are invited to return to their True Self and are guided through accessible spiritual practices to deepen their own journey.
Episodes
Knowing and Tasting Unity: Sufism, Spiritual Healing & Peacemaking with Nura Laird
In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib Boerger welcomes Nura Laird, a longtime student and teacher of Sufism, spiritual healing, peacemaking, and contemplative practice. Nura shares her remarkable spiritual journey—from growing up Jewish and discovering mysticism through Carl Jung, Alan Watts, and Teilhard de Chardin, to finding a deeper home in Sufism and Islam.Together, Habib and Nura explor
From Addiction to Awakening: Cristine Hull on Quantum Meditation, Spiritual Healing, and Higher Consciousness
What if your greatest struggle became the doorway to your deepest awakening?In this episode, Dr. Habib Boerger sits down with integrative mental health expert and holistic healing practitioner Dr. Cristine Hull for a powerful conversation about addiction, spiritual transformation, meditation, and the search for higher consciousness.Cristine shares her remarkable journey—from battling depression, a
When Doubt Becomes Prayer: A. Helwa on Love, Longing, and Return
Spiritual seekers often ask: How do I know that I am loved by God? What do I do when I feel distant from the Divine? How are doubt, suffering, and longing part of the spiritual path?In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names: Spirituality for Anyone and Everyone, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with bestselling author A. Helwa (Secrets of Divine Love) for a conversation about Divine Love, spiritual
Leading from the Heart with Paul Werder
Can spirituality transform the way we lead, work, and relate to one another?In this deeply personal and inspiring conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with Paul Werder, founder of Lionheart Consulting, leadership consultant, author of Business with Heart, and longtime faculty member at the University of Sufism.Paul shares the extraordinary story of how an unexplained illness became the doorwa
From Head to Heart: Healing, Sufism, and the Alchemy of Awakening with Latifah Lynn Hobin
What happens when a life-altering diagnosis becomes the doorway to a deeper relationship with the Divine?In this heartfelt and inspiring conversation, Dr. Habib sits down with spiritual teacher, healer, dentist, and author Latifah Lynn Hobin to explore her extraordinary journey from chronic illness and personal upheaval to healing, wholeness, and spiritual awakening.After being diagnosed with Mult
From Suicidal Ideation to Love & Light: Gina Cavalier's Journey of Healing
What does it take to move from despair to hope, from self-harm to self-love, from merely surviving to truly living?In this deeply personal and compassionate conversation, Dr. Habib sits down with entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, and sustainability advocate Gina Cavalier to explore her remarkable journey through childhood trauma, years of suicidal ideation, and the spiritual awakening that transfor
Every Act of Business Can Be an Act of Love
What if we stop treating our work as separate from spirituality and start treating it as a place where we can make love manifest? In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib sits down with Mark Silver—founder of Heart of Business, spiritual teacher, and longtime student of Sufism—to explore a radically different vision of work, success, and liberation.Mark shares his deeply personal spiritual journ
How to Heal Your Grief: Thomas Attig on Loss, Meaning, & Relearning Life
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with philosopher and grief scholar Dr. Thomas Attig to explore grief not as something to “get over,” but as an invitation into deeper humanity, meaning, and connection.Drawing from decades of work in grief studies, Thomas Attig shares his understanding of grieving as “relearning the world” after profound loss. Together, Habīb and Tom
Everything Is a Conversation with God: Breathwork, Love, and Awakening with Dr. Colleen Quinn
In this deeply expansive and intimate conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger sits with psychologist, mystic breathwork practitioner, and author Dr. Colleen Quinn to explore the transformative power of breath, love, and spiritual awakening.Colleen shares her extraordinary journey—from childhood spiritual sensitivity and profound trauma to two near-death experiences that reshaped her understanding of life,
From Wounding to Wholeness — Embodied Islam, Healing, and the Path of Rahmah with Dr. Rose Aslan
In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Dr. Rose Aslan—community healing practitioner, former professor, and guide in somatics, breathwork, and embodied spirituality. Together, they explore the powerful intersection of trauma, healing, and faith.Dr. Aslan shares her remarkable journey—from a childhood marked by fear to a passionate spiritual seeker, to her
The Repetition of War & the Call to Consciousness
In this powerful and timely conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by returning guest Abdul-Karim Pinckney—musical artist, former imam, and spiritual thinker—to explore the deeper meaning behind his unreleased single, “Here We Go Again.”Together, they reflect on the repeating patterns of war, the emotional and spiritual toll of global conflict, and the systems that perpetuate division and injus
Put Love First: Transforming Conflict into Connection
In this deeply insightful conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with psychotherapist and relationship expert Ray Rivers to explore what it truly means to put love first—not as a feeling, but as a way of being.Drawing from decades of experience working with couples, Ray shares how conflict in relationships is not a problem to avoid, but a doorway into deeper connection, healing, and growth. Tog
From Separation to Unity: Spiritual Awakening, Truth & What Is Ours to Do with Cathy Antunes
What happens when a single moment reveals the truth of reality—and changes everything? In this deeply moving and wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with radio host Cathy Antunes to explore a profound spiritual awakening that began with the birth of her child—an experience of unity, love, and connection that challenged everything she had been taught about sin, separation, and th
You Ain’t Gotta Believe Me: Faith, Freedom, and the Courage to Choose
In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined once again by musical artist, former imam, and spiritual thinker Abdul-Karim Pinckney for a powerful conversation centered on his new single, “You Ain’t Gotta Believe Me.”Together, they explore the Qur’anic teaching that there is no compulsion in religion, reflecting on faith as invitation rather than force, character as the first form o
A Practice for Peace: Prayer, Breath, and the Light of the Heart
In times of violence, hatred, and deep collective pain, many of us are asking the same question: How do we stay rooted in peace without turning away from the suffering of the world?In this special episode, Dr. Habīb offers something different from the usual conversation—an invitation into a guided spiritual practice for peace.Through breath, somatic grounding, and heart-centered awareness, we turn
Secular Chaplaincy & Spiritual Seeking: Finding the Sacred Everywhere
What happens when our spiritual experience expands beyond what we’ve been taught about religion?In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb Boerger speaks with actor, writer, and secular chaplain Elizabeth Morton about the lifelong path of seeking the sacred in unexpected places.Elizabeth shares her journey from a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky to becoming an interfaith minister, spiritual directo
The Inner Struggle to Do the Right Thing — A Conversation with Dr. Jihad Turk
In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger sits down with Dr. Jihad Turk, founding president of Bayan Islamic graduate school, to explore the beauty of religion when it is lived with depth, discipline, and love.Dr. Turk shares his journey as a Palestinian-American growing up in Arizona, the shock of his parents’ divorce that propelled him into spiritual seeking, his forma
With Hardship Comes Ease – Illness, Surrender & the Return to Oneness
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib sits with interfaith minister and author Liza Rankow, whose book Soul Medicine for a Fractured World explores the healing that emerges from our deepest fractures.Together they reflect on:Illness as a spiritual teacherWoundedness and wholeness as two sides of the same coinThe Japanese art of Kintsugi as a metaphor for the soulSuffering as a “discipline
Living in These Lands: Staying True to God in a World of Noise
What does it mean to remain faithful while navigating injustice, distraction, social pressure, and the constant pull of the ego?In this powerful episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib Boerger sits down with returning guest Abdul-Karim Pinckney — musical artist, former imam, and spiritual teacher — to explore the deeper meaning behind his single “Living in These Lands.”Together, they reflect on:Maintai
Nothing Between You and Love: Zen Wisdom for Troubled Times
Dr. Habib sits down with Zen teacher, author, and spiritual director Busshō Lahn for a deeply timely conversation about awakening, truth, and what it means to live from love in a world marked by suffering.Raised within the Catholic tradition and later drawn into Zen practice, Busshō shares how a single spiritual seed can grow into a life of “multiple belongings.” Together, he and Dr. Habib explore
Belovedness, Unbinding, and the Thread That Holds Us: A Soulful Conversation with Susannah Crolius
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by artist, spiritual companion, and grief tender Susannah Crolius for a wide-ranging exploration of spirituality as movement, unbinding, and belovedness.Susannah shares her spiritual journey—from a childhood shaped by art and nature, through decades of institutional ministry, to leaving the church in search of a more authentic, embodi
All Life, Embodied Faith, and the Decolonization of Spirit | Rev. Dr. Tomeka Jacobs
In this powerful and deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Rev. Dr. Tomeka Jacobs, theologian, former chaplain, and author of Ecocosmological Spirituality of Southern Queer Black Women: Remembering and Reconnecting Identity. Together, they explore spirituality beyond rigid categories—toward embodiment, wholeness, justice, and belonging.Dr. Jacobs shares her spiritual journey f
Sonic Theology: Sufism, Sound, and the Remembrance That Heals
In this deeply moving and contemplative conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by Hossam Ibn Yusuf, musician, Sufi practitioner, and spiritual seeker whose life has been shaped by sound, nature, and surrender.Hossam shares his remarkable spiritual journey—from a childhood influenced by Christian and Sufi lineages, to formative years at Dar al-Islam in New Mexico, through loss, resistance, music
Breaking the Tomb: A Journey into Love, Integration, and Social Justice
In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Abdullah Pat Aylward—board chair of the Shadhiliyya Sufi Communities and founding leader of the Sufi Center Minnesota—for a wide-ranging and heartfelt conversation about spiritual seeking, transformation, and embodied love.Pat shares his remarkable spiritual journey, beginning with a Catholic childhood and early yearning
Everything but Nothing: Creativity, the Body, and Returning to the True Self
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by spiritual healer and artist Michele Hamida Rabinowitz for a rich exploration of spirituality lived through the body, creativity, and presence.Michele shares her life story as a series of sacred doorways—birth trauma, dance, motherhood, bodywork, loss, healing, movement, and art—each one drawing her closer to God and to her true sel
A Heart That Can Break: Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye on Spiritual Memoir, Mothering Souls, and the Healing Power of Love
In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye—therapist, teacher, author, peacebuilder, and founder of the HeartNest Center for Peace and Healing—for a wide-ranging conversation on spirituality, trauma, transformation, and the lifelong work of love.Dr. Sabrina shares her spiritual journey from Catholic childhood to Sufism, reflecting on identity,
From Anxiety to Integration: Healing the Nervous System through Heart, Body, and Spirit
In this deeply honest and compassionate conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by writer, speaker, and professor Dr. Alane Daugherty to explore the lived intersection of spirituality, somatic awareness, trauma healing, and emotional resilience.Dr. Alane shares her personal journey through severe anxiety and emotional distress—and how meditation, Quaker spirituality, Zen practice, and somatic ap
Mercy, Oneness, and the Inner Path: A Conversation with Dr. Rosina Fawzia Al-Rawi
In this luminous episode, Dr. Habib sits down with renowned Sufi teacher and author Dr. Rosina Fawzia Al-Rawi for a conversation that moves from the streets of Cairo to the heart of Jerusalem, from the inner meaning of la ilaha illallah to the healing language of nature.With profound clarity and gentleness, Fawzia shares:Her early spiritual awakening and the moment that changed her lifeThe inner e
Embracing Our Full Humanity: Nina Lau-Branson on Freedom in our Relationship to Ourselves and to the Divine
Dr. Habīb welcomes spiritual director and emotional-integration practitioner Nina Lau-Branson for a deeply compassionate exploration of the inner life. Nina shares her powerful spiritual story — from growing up in a Chinese immigrant family, to a midlife awakening that led her away from corporate achievement and into a 15-year contemplative “wilderness,” and eventually into transformative work wit
Everything Is Love: Healing Fear, Food, and the Feminine with Debra Mastura Graugnard
In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by healer, teacher, and author Debra Mastura Graugnard for a journey into awakening, embodiment, and healing the sacred feminine. Debra shares her extraordinary spiritual opening, the childhood wounds and life events that shaped her path, and the profound moment she met her Sufi teacher, Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal.Together,
Art as a Path Home: Healing, Unity, and Spiritual Creativity with Cindy Libman
In this rich and heartfelt conversation, Dr. Habib sits down with psychotherapist-turned-spiritual-healer and painter Yasmine Rahmana Cindy Libman to explore the transformative power of creativity. Cindy shares her journey from lifelong anxiety and illness to profound inner peace through mysticism, healing, and the unexpected emergence of art as a spiritual practice.Together, they reflect on art a
The Unbroken Chain: Discovering Equanimity and Spiritual Lineage with Margaret Cullen
What happens when a meditation retreat unveils a hidden ancestral truth—and transforms how we understand peace itself? In this intimate conversation, Dr. Habib welcomes psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author Margaret Cullen, whose upcoming book Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive, and Love Boundlessly Through the Power of Equanimity explores the heart of balance amid life’s joys and so
Held in Compassion: Healing Trauma and Reimagining God with Dr. Frank Rogers Jr.
In this profoundly tender conversation, Dr. Habīb speaks with Dr. Frank Rogers Jr.—author, teacher, and co-founder of the Center for Engaged Compassion—about healing from trauma through the steady presence of Divine compassion. Together, they explore the lifelong process of recovering from abuse, the courage to face betrayal and rage, and the transformation that comes from knowing we are held—alwa
Self-Care for Mind, Body, Heart, and Soul
What does it mean to care for ourselves in a way that’s truly spiritual? In this episode, Dr. Habīb explores self-care as sacred practice — a way of honoring the holiness of our minds, bodies, hearts, and souls. Drawing from Sufi wisdom, contemplative psychology, and interspiritual insights, he offers practical guidance for nurturing each dimension of our being. From noticing and nurturing our inn
Finding God’s Truth: Love, Unity, and the Healing of Our World
Dr. Habīb Boerger welcomes Dr. Ibrahim Jaffe — physician, Sufi master healer, and Chancellor of the University of Sufism — for a profound conversation about healing, truth, and divine unity in a polarized world. Together they explore how to discern God’s comprehensive truth amid conflicting narratives, how personal healing mirrors global healing, and why mercy, compassion, and love are the only pa
Friendship as Spiritual Practice: Compassion, Justice, and Oneness with Drs. Seth Schoen & Christopher Carter
What if friendship itself could be a spiritual practice? In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habīb is joined by Dr. Seth Schoen and Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter—co-creators of Racial Resilience—to explore how compassion, contemplation, and community sustain the work of racial and social justice. Together, they reflect on moral injury and healing, the role of the Compassion Practice, and the uni
Returning Home to Love: A Conversation with Felicia Murrell
Author and spiritual director Felicia Murrell joins Dr. Habīb for a luminous conversation about awakening to Divine Love, releasing inherited images of an angry God, and rediscovering the boundless compassion at the heart of all being. Together, they explore the practice of stillness, the wisdom of the body, and the invitation to return home—to Love itself. Drawing from Felicia’s book AND: The Res
Can We Be Family in a Godly Way? Practicing Spirituality in Our Closest Relationships
In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb is joined once again by artist and former imam Abdul-Karim Pinckney (The Man of Real) for a heartfelt conversation inspired by his song “Can We Be Family.” Together, they explore the challenges and beauty of family life—our biological family, our family in humanity, and our family in creation—and how to approach these relationships “in a manner that’s God
Tasting Love, Living Surrender: A Conversation with Rahima Schmall
In this heartfelt episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib is joined by Rahima Susan Schmall, a psychologist, healer, and Sufi teacher who has spent over four decades weaving together psychology, spirituality, and embodied wisdom. Rahima shares her remarkable spiritual journey—from early awakenings in Al-Anon to the St. Francis Prayer, Buddhist practice, and finally the Sufi path. Together, she and Dr.
No Separation: Spirituality, Therapy, and the Journey of Love
In this heartfelt conversation, Dr. Habīb is joined by psychotherapist and family therapist Vanessa McNamara to explore the deep overlap between spirituality and relationships. From Vanessa’s Irish Catholic upbringing and mystical encounters to her discovery of Sufism, Buddhism, and shamanic traditions, she shares how personal crisis and ego-death opened her to an integrated path of spirit and hea
Music as a Path to Wisdom: Yuval Ron on Sound, Spirit & Healing
What if music could be more than entertainment — what if it were a doorway into wisdom, healing, and the unseen world of Spirit? In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb sits down with award-winning composer and world music artist Yuval Ron to explore the intersection of sound and spirituality.Yuval shares his multi-path journey through Kabbalah, Sufism, Buddhism, yoga, and psychoacoustics, and
Healing Through Spirit, Body, and Nature with Dr. Ron Banuelos
In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib sits down with Dr. Ron Banuelos, licensed acupuncturist and spiritual seeker, for a heartfelt conversation on the intersections of healing, spirituality, and nature. Dr. Ron shares his journey of reclaiming cultural identity, exploring men’s work and shadow healing, and learning from shamanic traditions of South America. Together they reflect on the ways
Slowing Down to the Still Center: Dr. Dana Maxwell on Nature, Health, and Heartful Living
In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib is joined by Dr. Dana Maxwell, a family medicine physician, yoga teacher, and retreat leader in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Together they explore the intersections of spirituality, nature, and health—how slowing down, connecting with the body, and spending time outdoors can bring us back to our still center. Dr. Maxwell shares her journey from growing up in
Trauma, Renewal, and the Love That Holds Us: A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Aizaiah Yong
In this moving episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb sits down with Rev. Dr. Aizaiah Yong—minister, scholar, healer, and author of Trauma and Renewal. Together they explore how profound suffering and ecstatic encounters with the Divine can coexist, how communal care transforms trauma, and how love and interconnectedness invite us to begin again and again.Drawing on Aizaiah’s story of surviving a near
Finding a Bigger Tent: Queer Faith, Embodied Faith
In this heartfelt conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with Rev. Julie Davis and Rev. Madison Jones McAleese to explore the journey from exclusion to belonging in faith communities. They share their personal stories of leaving—and then reimagining—the traditions they were raised in, finding inclusive spaces that affirm their full humanity, and rediscovering the beauty of ritual and embodiment
Your Body Is Sacred: Spirituality, Safety, and Self-Knowledge with Julia Considine Pierce
In this powerful and tender episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by educator, author, and spiritual health advocate Julia Considine Pierce. Together, they explore the deep connections between spirituality, nature, public health, and the sacredness of the body.Julia shares her spiritual journey—from the mountains of Appalachia to mysticism and public health research—and how it led t
Gratitude as a Way of Being: A Conversation with Abdul Karim
In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb is joined by guest co-host Abdul Karim Pinckney—artist, former Imam, and spiritual teacher—for a rich conversation inspired by his powerful song Grateful. Together, they explore the depths of gratitude: not just as a fleeting feeling, but as a lived practice that shapes the heart, mind, and body.Abdul Karim shares personal stories, spiritual
Too Sorry to Say “I’m Sorry”: Forgiveness and the Work We Avoid
In this powerful and heart-centered episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down once again with artist and former imam Abdul Karim Pinckney (aka The Man of Real) to explore the deep terrain of forgiveness and reconciliation. Inspired by Abdul Karim’s soulful country song “Sorry” from his AI-performed album Manipulations of the Unreal, this conversation dives into why the simple act of apo
What Does It Mean To Be Human? with Abdul Karim Pinckney
In this deeply moving and thought-provoking episode, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by artist, former imam, and spiritual thinker Abdul Karim Pinckney to explore one of life’s biggest questions: What does it mean to be human?Blending personal stories, spiritual insight, neuroscience, and poetic reflection, the conversation travels through themes of compassion, purpose, trauma, identity, and the soul’
Sensing the Sacred: Food, Chant, and the Spirit of Hospitality with Aliye Aydin
In this heartfelt and nourishing conversation, Dr. Habīb welcomes chef, spiritual facilitator, and podcast host Aliye Aydin (@soulspacechef) to explore the deep connections between food, spirituality, and the senses. From her Turkish-American heritage to her spiritual awakening through cooking, chant, and movement, Aliye shares how she experiences connection—her definition of spirituality—in every
The Path of Love: Inconvenient Inner Work and Service with Jamal Rahman
What does it mean to live from the heart in a world full of hardship, division, and longing? In this soul-nourishing episode, Dr. Habīb speaks with beloved Sufi teacher and interfaith minister Jamal Rahman about the mystical path of Islam, the sacred work of transforming the ego, and how laughter, silence, music, and service can all become gateways to the Divine. Together, they explore “the inconv
Cultivating Mercy: Music, Spirituality, and the Man of Real
In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib welcomes artist, former imam, and spiritual teacher Abdul Karim Pinckney — also known as The Man of Real — for a heartfelt conversation on faith, transformation, and his latest project, Project Inspire. From his journey through Islam and Sufism to his love of music as a vehicle for sacred expression, Abdul Karim shares how life itself becomes a spiritual
The Journey Home: The Who, What, and Why of Beyond Names
In this first episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib shares a little from his personal spiritual journey — from growing up in a conservative Christian family in rural Texas to discovering Sufism, embracing Islam, and earning advanced degrees in spiritual healing, spiritual counseling, and spiritual formation.He opens up about loss, doubt, religious wounding, and healing — and how the search for meanin
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