Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

Escapades in Mind-Expansion and Cultural Misadventures. Mindrolling Podcast is about coming unstuck and the recent history of awoken awareness. It’s about the intersection of culture, consciousness and realization with Raghu Markus.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Ep. 573 – Living in a Post-Truth World with Tyson Yunkaporta

    Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta joins Raghu to discuss our shared evolution of consciousness and navigating a post-truth world. This week on Mindrolling, Tyson and Raghu have a conversation about:  Living in a post-truth world where objective facts lose to emotional/personal appealHow coronavirus nudged us closer to fascismCultural feedback routes and how America affects AustraliaWorking with Indigenous medicine to connect to the spiritNavigating the grieving processRevolutions of consciousness through the erasOur universal connection and sharing of space with each otherDisinformation and the build-up to our recent electionRight story versus wrong story and how the truth gets blurredAll of our relations, human and non-humanAbout Tyson Yunkaporta: Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises. Preorder Tyson’s book, Right Story, Wrong Story: How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell “People are really suffering, and this feels true. This story reflects our feelings of terror and the need to preserve our cultures and communities and resources exclusively.” – Tyson Yunkaporta See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    59 min

  2. 13 DEC

    Ep. 572 – Yoga, Sex and Death with Susan Marrufo

    Sharing stories from her world travels, yoga teacher Susan Maruffo explores healing and self-discovery through yoga, Tantra, and meditation. This time on Mindrolling, Susan and Raghu journey through:  Unhappiness within Western cultural conditioningHow getting out of the United States transformed Susan’s lifeBeing alone while doing yoga versus in a group settingHow suffocating our ‘roles’ in life can beRecognizing our universal connection via a trip to IndiaComing back into the body through yoga practiceSusan’s experience at a Tantric school in ThailandNeo-Tantra versus classical TantraHealing through yoga and sexual explorationDying to the old versions of ourselvesHow the heart reveals itself during meditationThe ways we run away from intimacyAbout Susan Marrufo: Susan left the United States and a job in advertising in 2008 to travel internationally and experience life beyond the confines of her cultural conditioning. She received her first 500-hr yoga certification in Thailand in 2009, where she began her studies of the classical yogic scriptures and delved deeply into esoteric tantric philosophy. After 2 years of teaching month-long tantric-based courses on the banks of the Ganges in India and the Pacific coastal towns of Mexico, Susan returned to the US to begin a residential internship with the Kripalu School of Yoga, where she taught in and project-managed several Kripalu yoga teacher trainings as well as received her 2nd 500-hr teacher training certification from the Kripalu School of Yoga. Susan facilitates group courses in the inquiry of yoga and meditation and dives increasingly deeper into her yogic studies. She is the founder of Samarasa Center. “It was the first time that I started practicing yoga alone. Not in groups of classes with other people. That was transformational for me. That was the game changer, just being alone, having time, not feeling stressed, not feeling the pressure to be anybody. To be a wife, to be a boss, to be a daughter.” – Susan Marrufo See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 7m

  3. 6 DEC

    Ep. 571 – Music and the Legacy of Ram Dass with Justin Boreta

    Justin Boreta, the first musician to collaborate with Ram Dass, talks with Raghu about Ram Dass’ legacy and the power of music. Check out the track Awareness, an ambient track by Justin mixed with a guided meditation from Ram Dass. This week on Mindrolling, Justin and Raghu chat about:  Ram Dass’ legacy transported through musicThe chants that Ram Dass brought home from IndiaKali Yuga, the age of destructionChants for Ganesh and music as the delivery method for mantraRam Dass’ humor and charmHow music is a tool for being in the present momentUsing the breath to enter into a space of loving-kindnessThe intersection of community, teachings, and musicTrusting the music and letting goRaghu suggests checking out the poetry of Kabir brought to life through music. About Justin Boreta: Justin Boreta is a member of The Glitch Mob, a beat-driven electronic group that has been touring for more than a decade performing around the world at festivals including: Coachella, Burning Man, Lollapolooza, Reading & Leeds and Bonnaroo. Boreta has collaborated with the spiritual teacher Ram Dass and Alan Watts on guided meditations and was recently nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Best New Age Album. Boreta is also a member of the Soul Land music series at Love Serve Remember. “There was this sense of unencumbered big-eyed view of love. I felt so accepted and seen and relaxed right away. It was psychedelic. It was one of the most psychedelic experiences I’d had…the first thing I thought was if he [Ram Dass] makes me feel like that, I want other people around me to feel like that too.” – Justin Boreta See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 2m

  4. 29 NOV

    Ep. 570 - Dream Yoga and Liminal Spaces with Andrew Holecek

    Surfing dimensions of consciousness, dream yoga expert Andrew Holecek joins Raghu to discuss the benefits of lucidity in liminal spaces. This time on Mindrolling, Andrew and Raghu discuss: Andrew’s early interest in the occult and the role of psychedelicsLucid dreaming and having insight before understandingTibetan Buddhism and dream yogaAndrew’s experience with mantra and transcendental meditationLiminal dreaming and working with the space between sleep and wakingFlexibility and surfing dimensions of consciousnessWitnessing our mind transition from wakefulness to sleepSeeing how thoughts create realityHow dream yoga transcends lucid dreamingWorking with the tectonic states of our beingGrab a copy of Andrew’s recently released book, I’m Mindful, Now What? About Andrew Holecek: Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who offers talks, online courses, and workshops in the United States and abroad. As a long-time student of Buddhism, he frequently presents this tradition from a contemporary perspective – blending the ancient wisdom of the East with modern knowledge from the West. Drawing on years of intensive study and practice, he teaches on the opportunities that exist in obstacles, helping people with hardship and pain, death and dying, and problems in meditation. Known as an expert on lucid dreaming and the Tibetan yogas of sleep and dream, he is an experienced guide for students drawn to these powerful nocturnal practices. Check out Andrew’s website to learn more. “Therefore, you can literally work with really short, micro, lucid dream lenses. Where you can bring lucidity/mindfulness into the transition and see how it is that thoughts create reality at the level of the dreamscape. This is a form of dream-incubation, you can actually watch a thought transform into a dream.” – Andrew Holecek See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1 hr

  5. 22 NOV

    Ep. 569 – Mindfulness, Transformation & Resilience with Leonard Pickard

    Raghu interviews Leonard Pickard about his early involvement in psychedelics, zen practice, his 20-year incarceration, and building resilience via mindfulness. Leonard will be joining Raghu, Zach Leary, Trevor Hall and others at a Ram Dass Legacy Event in Denver on December 12th, 2024. For more info, click HERE. This week on Mindrolling, Leonard and Raghu chat about: Transformative experiences as not dependent on substancesDelving into the great leaders of the sixties and honoring Ram DassThe psychedelic revolution that is currently taking placeOur total dependence on one anotherThe way that music transformed throughout the 1960’sLeonard’s time at the San Francisco Zen Center studying Buddhism, meditation, and yogaCarrying our practice out into the worldHow Buddhism prepared Leonard for years of incarcerationThe beauty of spiritual practice and growing ones heartCheck out Leonard’s book, The Rose of Paracelsus, which he wrote while incarcerated, to explore more about psychedelics, spirituality, science, and human evolution. About Leonard Pickard: Once known as the Acid King, Leonard Pickard is a former research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Harvard fellow in drug policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Deputy Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA. His 1996 prediction of the fentanyl epidemic was published by RAND in The Future of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids. Leonard Pickard is one of two people convicted in the largest LSD manufacturing case in history. On July 27, 2020, Pickard was granted compassionate release from federal prison 20 years into his sentence. “Transformative experience, if it is to be valid, cannot be drug dependent. It would be a terrible offense to think that such beautiful insights were dependent upon a mere substance.” – Leonard Pickard See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    58 min

  6. 15 NOV

    Ep. 568 - Awakening Our Joy with James Baraz

    Amidst election results, environmental crises and more, Raghu and James Baraz consider how to awaken joy in times of disillusion. To learn more about James’ work with the environment and to see how you can help, check out One Earth This time on Mindrolling, James and Raghu have a talk on: Vulnerability and unconditional loveAwakening Joy in times of disillusionJames’ definition of Joy as the sense of well-beingMaking space for all the feelings we feelTraining ourselves to look for the goodHow we have lost our connection to the landBeing courageous and coming from loveIndigenous and Buddhist teachings that point us to our place in the worldUnderstanding the consequences of our actionsSila and acting with integrity as a path to inner peaceWhy meditation is so essentialThe joy of connection and a closing gratitude practice About James Baraz James Baraz has taught mindfulness meditation since 1978 and is co-founder of the world-renowned Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. He is co-author of two books Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to a Happier Life and Awakening Joy for Kids. James has taught the Awakening Joy course to over 24,000 people from 30 countries since 2003, as well as retreats and workshops in the U.S. and internationally. Learn more about James HERE. “Actions have consequences, that is what karma is. What we do now has an effect on what’s to come in our children and future generations. Those are the dots that somehow the rich, supposedly brilliant minds, haven’t seen.” – James Baraz See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 1m

  7. 8 NOV

    Ep. 567 - After the Ineffable with Dr. Dan Engle

    Dr. Dan Engle joins Raghu to discuss how to integrate the ineffable into our daily lives after profound psychedelic experiences. In this episode, Dr. Engle and Raghu have a conversation about: How Dr. Dan’s life was profoundly changed after a serious accidentIntegrating psychiatry and neurology togetherDr. Dan’s introduction to psychedelics in the jungleHow the psychedelic experience opens us up but can’t be sustainedIntegration of the ineffable into our daily livesLooking at science and spirituality in a productive wayThe fundamental questions that arise out of the psychedelic experiencePsychedelics as a catalyst for personal change and authentic self-discoveryThe soul as a drop in the ocean of spiritRegressive hypnotherapy and unwinding past life eventsContinuing to evolve toward greater understandingPsychiatry’s place in spiritual endeavorsLiving into the movie of we and building upon pillars of wisdomAbout Dr. Dan Engle: Dan Engle, MD, is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance. Dr. Engle is an international consultant to several global healing centers facilitating the use of long-standing indigenous plant medicines for healing and awakening. He is the Founder of  Full Spectrum Medicine, a psychedelic integration and educational platform; and Thank You Life, a non-profit funding stream supporting access to psychedelic therapies. Dr. Engle is the author of The Concussion Repair Manual: A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries, as well as his new book, A Dose of Hope: A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy. To learn more about Dr. Dan’s offerings check out his website HERE. “The ceremony space, the experience with the ineffable, that opens us up (ideally) to our more divine nature, our more true self. That’s the catalyst. But, the real work happens in the integration. How do we make that real for the rest of our lives?” – Dr. Dan Engle See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 2m

  8. 1 NOV

    Ep. 566 – Ode to India with Author & Religious Scholar Andrew Harvey

    Offering a beautiful ode to India, Raghu and Andrew Harvey discuss divine truths and the oxymoron of beauty and pain. This time on Mindrolling, Andrew and Raghu go over: Andrew’s experience being born and growing up in IndiaIndia as a sacred world filled with divine beauty and painThe divine feminine and masculineRaghu’s experience bringing his father to IndiaThe gift of Ram Dass and tying Hinduism to modern lifeRevelations of incarnationAndrew Harvey’s return to India and encountering great beingsBeing mindful of our anger and transforming our emotionsAbout Andrew Harvey: Andrew Harvey is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of mystic traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes. Andrew Harvey is also the founder and director of The Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Check out Andrew Harvey’s many book offerings HERE. “Being born in India is for me the absolutely central and original and primordial and evolutionary event for me. That’s it. Because to be born in India is to be born into sacred world and a sacred culture that is alive with divine beauty, pain, passion, magic, veracity, truth. That’s India. – Andrew Harvey See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Escapades in Mind-Expansion and Cultural Misadventures. Mindrolling Podcast is about coming unstuck and the recent history of awoken awareness. It’s about the intersection of culture, consciousness and realization with Raghu Markus.

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    2012 - 2024
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