Fereshteh Bethel's guest appearances

Fereshteh Bethel

A Bahá'í Perspective

Rainn Wilson

Mark Sisson

Ben Guterson

Jane Jensen

Vivian Lee

Robert Wilson

Richard Hoff

Helen Brown

Jamie Findlay

Anthony Lopez

David Douglas

Dizzy Gillespie

Tom Price

David Hoffman

William Smith

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I had interviewed Fereshteh  href="http://bahaipodcast.com/assets/mp3/abp-232.mp3" target="_blank"before on this program and we reconnected.  She proposed that we talk about the gun culture here in the US.  We had been planning this interview for many months, so it is a coincidence that this interview comes out just weeks after, on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, when a 15 year old comes to his school with his new Christmas present, a semiautomatic handgun, and kills four classmates, and wounds seven others including a teacher.  Fereshteh has a PhD in psychology and was a licensed clinical psychologist.  She has  made presentations on psyco-social and religious topics around the world.

I had interviewed Fereshteh  href="<a href="http://bahaipodcast.com/assets/mp3/abp-232.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bahaipodcast.com/assets/mp3/abp-232.mp3</a>" target="_blank"before on this program and we reconnected.  She proposed that we talk about the gun culture here in the US.  We had been planning this interview for many months, so it is a coincidence that this interview comes out just weeks after, on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, when a 15 year old comes to his school with his new Christmas present, a semiautomatic handgun, and kills four classmates, and wounds seven others including a teacher.  Fereshteh has a PhD in psychology and was a licensed clinical psychologist.  She has  made presentations on psyco-social and religious topics around the world.

A Bahá'í Perspective:  Fereshteh Bethel

Fereshtehnbsp;grew up in a Baha'i family in Iran until she was 15. Her family decided to leave Iran to serve the Baha'i Faith elsewhere and ended up in El Paso, Texas. Fereshteh married an American and had an opportunity to return to Iran with her new family by way of her husband's company. While in Iran, she completed her four year college degree. She and her family returned to the US in 1976 and she continued her education, getting her PhD in psychology. Her thesis was on the psychology of martyrdom, which we talk about in the interview.