#25 Divine Will and Human Ambition with Guest Cheri Smith

Please join Dave the Mystic with returning guest Cheri Smith who will be giving us an indepth view of her perceptions of the contrast between the Big Plan and our personal plans and goals and how we frequently have issues with not being able to perceive the Divine Plan and can be at odds with it. Cheri has been called a ‘chela,’ a disciple. Her teachers have been Oscar Ichazo, Rudolf Steiner, Swedenborg, Valentin Tomberg, Daniel Andreev, Dr. Stephen Chang, Samuel Hahnemann, Alice Bailey, Flower A. Newhouse, Athene Bitting, and Walter Russell. As a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab and Caltech, she worked on Voyager II space radiation physics. She taught meditation and movement techniques from Sufism, Tibetan Buddhism, and modern gestalt therapy at centers like Esalen in Big Sur. She studied in Europe, and traveled to India and China, and learned Taoist medicine. She was for a decade involved here and in the UK with the anthroposophical movement, including biodynamic agriculture and Waldorf education, being one of the founding members of the first Community Supported Agriculture project in the US. After four years in Jesuit divinity school in Boston she served as a hospital chaplain. She is presently a healer and teacher in San Diego, CA. She’s a poet, sacred dancer, and volunteers with homeless women, drug addicts and alcoholics. Her book, Seeing in the Dark: A Memoir of the Spiritual Life is soon to be published. A mother of four, grandmother of five, passionate about creativity, beauty in all its forms, Self realization, homeopathy, and bridging esoteric and traditional spiritualities, Cheri embodies with humor and humility the unity of science, art, and spirituality.