The Global Heart: Creating a Global Community of Spiritual Practice

Thomas Steininger in Conversation with Elizabeth Debold

Every year, Dr. Elizabeth Debold, creator of One World Bearing Witness, brings together spiritual leaders, sacred activists, and guides from the different regions of the Earth in a global ceremony of diversity-in-unity. The Big Book religions are represented—rabbi, monk, nun, sheik—as are the many colors of shamanic practice from North and South America, Australia, Africa, Greenland. Over a 24-hour period, as the Earth turns once, these guides invite participants to engage live on Zoom in prayer, ritual, song, meditation. It’s an invitation to a global community of practice.

With so many spiritual and healing events online, why create such a 24-hour event? It’s not about offering information or even just a wonderful experience (which it is), Elizabeth says. The purpose is to create a field of global practice that brings together the various facets of the jewel of Spirit on this planet. Can we create a palpable field of unity across the globe that is actually experienced and recognized by the participants?

Join Dr. Thomas Steininger and Dr. Elizabeth Debold in a conversation about how One World Bearing Witness opens the global heart, giving us the experience of the diversity of the human spirit held in unity.