Beth Green

: Beth Green is an intuitively-guided counselor, teacher, spiritual activist, composer and workshop leader, an original thinker and a catalyst for change who also launched a career as a professional improvisational pianist at the age of 76.

But this is just the beginning. Beth is also a original social commentator. She’s been a blogger for the San Diego News Network and the Huffington Post and now hosts two livestreams a week on Facebook (facebook.com/grannyrockson) and YouTube (@BethGreenTV). Despite her having been chronically ill since the age of 15, Beth’s work is prodigious, effective and constantly evolving. Yet none of this describes her. Very simply put, Beth Green is intuitively guided in all things. And that is the secret of this amazing woman.

Born of working class Jewish parents in New York City,1945, Beth has always been acutely aware of the intense suffering on the planet. From the age of 9, and at great personal cost (including being expelled from an Ivy League women’s college), she became a dedicated social activist, engaged with issues ranging from anti-nuclear proliferation to income inequality, the Vietnam War, racism, social justice and workers’ rights. At the age of 16, she wrote a letter to the NY Times expressing her concern about nuclear proliferation, and the letter spread around the world. It was even featured on the cover of a Pete Seeger album. At the other end of her political activism, from 1974-78, she was the West Coast Coordinator of the Wages for Housework Campaign, which pointed out the role of “women’s work” in the economy while addressing the economic foundation of women’s lack of power in society. She felt deeply committed to this work, but by 1978, she had burned out on political activism and opened herself to a different way to support social change.

She didn’t have to wait long. In 1978, just as she withdrew from radical politics, she had a completely unexpected spiritual awakening, and in 1980, she even had a “psychic” awakening and began to experience an inner voice that has guided her ever since. She immediately became an intuitively-guided counselor, working with groups and individuals.

With no training in spirituality or religion – just following her inner guidance – Beth immediately became a voice for grounded spirituality. Right out of the gate, her understanding has been broad, and her insight has been laser-like. Her coaching and teachings have called upon us to confront mindless conformity to the beliefs and conditioning that enslave us, and she has supported us to see past our own fears and rationalizations. She has helped us connect the human and the divine, and her life-long goal has not wavered. As before, when she was a social activist, she is striving to help co-create a better world, but now using what she sees as a more effective approach. And she does it all with warmth, compassion and a delightful sense of humor.

Right after her psychic awakening, Beth worked for a short time on her own. But in 1983, she was guided to call her work The Stream, defined as the process of becoming who you already are, and to her amazement, people joined her, and a spiritual community was born, whose express purpose was to bring together psychology and spirituality. During those years, Beth did counseling, offered intuition training, ran workshops and intensives, wrote articles and created tapes, books and articles, all intuitively guided. One of the seminal works she created during that time was the book “Sacred Union: The Healing of God,” which posited a God that was not perfect, but evolving, and which showed the way to evolve beyond the domination of the ego.

Over the decades, The Stream went through many changes, including becoming a nonprofit organization. But ultimately it has evolved into what it has become today, a tight-knit group with a common purpose, to support Oneness, Accountability & Mutual Support in ourselves and throughout the world and to use the works of Beth Green to do so.

In the decades since her spiritual awakening, Beth has evolved and created numerous teachings, tools and processes to support everyone’s evolution. Many of these are contained in her books “Living with Reality” and “Handbook for the Inner Revolution.” In addition, she has been a counselor and prolific workshop leader, facilitates support groups for men, written six books (two fiction and four non-fiction), all of which are free downloads at https://healingartsnetwork.org. These downloads include “Living with Reality,” a comprehensive manual to shift human consciousness and the “Handbook for the Inner Revolution”. She has also created six albums of original music, which you can find on all your favorite music streaming platforms. And there’s lots more she’s done, including being a blogger at the Huffington Post and other sites, and participating as one of only 14 spiritual teachers in book called “The New Science & Spirituality Reader” edited by two-time Nobel prize nominee Ervin Laszlo. Over the decades, she has been interviewed many dozens of times on the media, and she formerly hosted her own radio show, Inner Revolutionary Radio. Additionally, she has supported many people to develop their own intuition, both as a natural result of working with her in her intuitive style and through her many intuition and consciousness training classes.

Currently, in addition to doing intuitively-guided personal and creativity counseling, groups, retreats and workshops, Beth is offering two weekly livestreams at her very active Facebook page. Every Wednesday at 6:30 pm Pacific time, Beth offers Lighting the Way, a livestream combining commentary, humor and group discussions as she addresses the inner self in a compassionate but direct way. She and her husband also continue to perform live every Thursday at 7 pm Pacific time, broadcasting a program called Magical Improvs with the Kindred Spirits Band. She has performed in New Thought churches and other venues via video during the pandemic and after. In addition to twice-yearly retreats, she offers Intuition Training for Joy & Service!, an online class you can join at any time. In addition, she offers special programs and concerts when she feels guided, and she has developed the transformational music you hear on this website.

Her current focus is offering a positive vision to mobilize opposition to the current administration and to bring awareness to the economic, social and spiritual components causes that are underlying our current challenges. She is hoping to use her gifts to help bring about the world we all long for. She is available for speaking on the internet. In addition to her Facebook page, which has over 10,000 followers, Beth has well over 4,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, Beth Green TV, where she speaks with fresh originality about topics from relationships and ego, to economics and history. On this channel, she also shares videos of her original music, and there’s tons of it. And finally, in addition to her counseling, teaching, and other opportunities for you to interact with her personally online, Beth offers periodic in-person events, such as retreats. Her retreats often have the theme of developing your own kinds of creativity and becoming yourself.

And speaking of the piano, Beth has a fascinating history around music. Although Beth has been on the planet since 1945, she has just become a performer and is launching her professional career at 76 years of age. Beth was being trained as a classical pianist until the age of 15, when she became chronically ill and disabled. Blocked by illness, Beth stopped playing the piano, but through the miracle of computer technology, she was able to start composing and recording during her 50s. But now in her mid-70s, another miracle has occurred – she has begun playing the piano again. Guided by the inner voice, in 2017, at the age of 73, she and her husband James bought a gorgeous grand piano, even though she couldn’t play. She was guided to only improvise so she could avoid the strain of having to physically read music and having to practice and perform skills impossible for her body. To her amazement, she discovered that she has a great improvisational gift, she can play for limited amounts of time without totally crippling herself, and she loves it. She is now using her 9-foot Shigeru Kawai concert grand piano to perform live improvisations, and she uses the internet to tour the world with her music. Some of her music has even been utilized to help reverse cognitive impairment.

For a little personal information, Beth Green is married to James Maynard, otherwise known as “Sweet Baby” James, who is also a musician and with whom she sometimes performs, especially in their Magical Improvs livestreams. Beth is grateful to James, who cares for her emotionally and takes care of her physically. They live in beautiful, treed Corvallis Oregon with their two little dogs, Lily and Charlie.