“To live in peace, we must learn how to live.”
- Rev. Gola Wolf Richards
BroadcastWisdom.com acts as an official non-profit link, to free contemplative audio and video education resources.
These materials are offered by The Institute for Contemplative Education (also known as The Humanity Institute in Maine), a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. The Institute was founded to foster the development of contemplative dialogues that address global conflict-resolution through the lens of the ancient Yin/Yang concept of universal reciprocity.
This framework emphasizes human nature as a dynamic interplay of opposites—creative and destructive, mature and immature, self-involved and selfless—each reflecting aspects of both the spiritual and material dimensions of change. Within this view, all things exist along a spectrum of personal or collective consciousness, expressing actual or potential stages of development, in response to the universal principle of transformation.
Perspectacles® Podcast
The Perspectacles® Podcast is an ongoing contemplative conversation, held between a father, Rev. Gola Wolf Richards, and his son, Ryan W. Richards; focused on the idea that we must learn to save ourselves collectively, from ourselves as individuals; based on addressing all conflicts, grounded in a higher orientation to consciousness; where in theory and in practice: As timeliness in self-cultivation is framed within the most holistic range of concerns that compassion can reach, the character of our moral self-cultivation is central, to how Yin/Yang dynamics of universal reciprocity evolve interlacing pathways, to exceed how hell will otherwise continue to thrive, where heaven fails to grow.
The United States of Consciousness and Change
Broadcast Wisdom® and Dove Pax Productions bring you: Contemplative Segues to Responsible Citizenship in the United States of Consciousness and Change; Reflected in Twelve Interlacing Stanzas, of a Sermon for Voting to Elect Peace.
Rev. Gola Wolf Richards is the founder of BroadcastWisdom.com and The Institute for Contemplative Education in Maine, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing contemplative self-cultivation as a pathway to global conflict-resolution. With degrees in Human Development Psychology and Theology—and over four decades of teaching—his work draws on ancient wisdom, modern psychology, and personal experience to illuminate the path from inner transformation to collective peace.
Rev. Richards has lectured widely on Contemplative Education for Global Conflict-Resolution, including at Dartmouth College’s Novela Symposium, Duke University’s Graduate School of Environmental Engineering, the University of Maine’s first International Peace Conference, Bowdoin College’s G.G. Jung Society, the University of Montana’s Education for Peace program, and the “Religion and the Challenge of America” faculty seminar. He also hosted Speaking for Virtue®, a University of Southern Maine radio broadcast featuring early 20th-century poetry and prose.
His free audiobook, The Way to See (W)hole®, offers a poetic and visual guide to sage perspectives for conflict-resolution, rooted in both the Book of Changes and a deeply personal journey of healing, forgiveness, and transformation. At the heart of his work lies a living belief: that true peace begins where understanding transforms suffering, and where the wisdom born from hardship becomes a gift for all.
The Way to See (W)hole®.
For thousands of years, sages in all world traditions have represented the highest development of humanity. In all traditions where they are honored and studied, they are said to have achieved wisdom through being “centered”. Intuitively inspired from the integral center of the universe, as we are willing to implement mature insights into action, sage adages aid us to complement opposition with dignified resolutions. To seek, find and integrate into consciousness the eternal harmony underlying the world’s endless points of disorder is how one becomes centered. Contemplation provides a means to this end.
Trump and the Ongoing Inauguration of Peace
Contemplating The United States of Consciousness and Change
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“I have known Wolf Richards for more than 40 years, and have always been impressed by his skill and wisdom in interpersonal relations. He has an intuitive understanding of other people's feelings and of their efforts to cope with the problems that confront them. In my opinion Mr. Richards' grasp of Confucian principles will give depth to his approach to conflict resolution. He is an excellent speaker and a fine person.”
— Robert E. Lane, Prof. Emeritus of Political Science, Yale University
“I became particularly aware of the value of Wolf's philosophy when I was the Director of Personnel of the Division of Special Education of the New York City Board of Education. At that time (1983-1987) the Division employed 20,000 staff (10,000 of whom were teachers) serving 114,000 students. The stress the other major managers and I experienced, often on a daily basis, was sometimes nearly unbearable. However, I was able not only to survive, but to succeed by any measure, with the support I experienced from Wolf's philosophic precepts.”
— H. Steven Coopchik
“Dear Wolf, First, let me thank you for letting me see your manuscript [The Way to See (W)hole®]. I know from speaking with you how dear this project is to your heart... The manuscript is heartfelt and mindful. I very much enjoyed your word play, which lightens what could be turgid. The message is coherent and seamless... It has been a pleasure to meet and converse with you, and a pleasure to encounter your good and poetic soul in its strivings... I wish you the greatest success with this project.”
— Tabitha King, author and wife of author Stephen King
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