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Vedic Worldview Thom Knoles
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Join philosopher, educator and celebrated speaker on the cognitive sciences, Thom Knoles for inspiring insights and wisdom to support your personal evolution. Thom is an renowned expert on the relationship between quantum physics and human consciousness, and on the 5,000 year-old body of wisdom known as The Veda. For over 50 years, he has personally taught Vedic Meditation to tens of thousands of students and consulted to governments and private corporations throughout the world.
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An Invitation to Vedic Meditation Initiator Training
The pinnacle of the journey for any meditator is to become an Initiator of Vedic Meditation.
Not only does it give you the tools and opportunity to teach the technique to others, but it also gives a quantum boost to your own evolution.
The opportunity to spend 12 weeks in the birthplace of our technique, absorbing Vedic wisdom from Thom and other course leaders, and the chance to develop lifelong bonds with new friends and colleagues from far and wide is unequaled.
In this bonus episode, Thom extends an invitation to join him in January for our 2025 round of Initiator Training. Get ready to be inspired, and to maybe make the potentially life-changing decision to apply.
Listen to the episode, then go here for more details: https://thomknoles.com/initiator-training/
Episode Highlights:
[00:45] A Sacred Setting
[02:11] Program Structure
[03:25] High Rounding
[04:54] Representing the Shankaracharya Tradition
[05:48] Independent Initiators
[07:28] A Life-Altering Endeavor
[09:04] Apply to Create the Fondest Memories of Your Life
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Guru Purnima - The Origin and Significance
This episode of The Vedic Worldview explains the significance of Guru Purnima, which falls on this weekend, July 20-21. Vedic meditators are invited to join Guru Purnima celebrations with Thom and other Vedic Meditation Initiators around the world over the course of the weekend. If you'd like to join these celebrations, please visit thomknoles.com/guru-purnima for details of events near you.
The Vedic calendar is full of days of celebration, but one of the most revered of these celebrations is Guru Purnima.
It’s a day where we honor all the teachers, and the teachings in our life, the lessons that have contributed to our evolution.
In this episode, Thom discusses the origins and significance of this important and much-loved celebration.
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Episode Highlights:
[01:23] Movable Dates
[04:29] Soma Chandra
[05:50] Many Moons Ago
[07:18] Apaurasheya - Not Authored By Anyone
[10:15] Vyasa Purnima
[12:29] Guru Puja
[13:58] The Waxing Full Moon
[16:37] Holding Awareness of Life's Teachers and Life's Lessons
[18:11] Guru Deva
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The Guru Gita - Song of the Guru
In this episode, we're celebrating the student-guru relationship, and the role it has in our evolution. Each year we celebrate this relationship, and the all the teachers and teachings in our life, with Guru Purnima. Vedic meditators are invited to join Guru Purnima celebrations with Thom and other Vedic Meditation Initiators around the world during the weekend of July 20-21, 2024. If you'd like to join these celebrations, please visit thomknoles.com/guru-purnima for details of events near you.
The word Guru is very much misunderstood outside of India. Parodies often show the Guru as being someone who makes demands of their followers, and the disciple as being one who blindly follows the instructions of the Guru.
But the truth of the relationship is much deeper than that, and it goes both ways.
The wisdom of the teacher is brought forth by curiosity of the student, which in turn leads to a level of earned trust in the teacher from the student. Thus the student follows the instructions of the teacher with eyes wide open, not blindly, as most Western mischaracterizations of this relationship suggest.
In this episode, Thom previews the Guru Gita, the song of the Guru, which eloquently and elegantly explains the teacher-student relationship. It gives us a benchmark to know when we’ve had the well-deserved great good fortune to invite a Guru into our life who is worthy enough to support our evolution.
Episode Highlights:
[01:33] The Process of Illumination
[04:14] Grades of Manifestation
[06:54] Elements of the Self
[09:41] Expanded Awareness
[11:17] Sensing the Cascades of Cause and Effect
[13:42] Skanda Purana
[16:10] The Song of the Guru
[18:56] Sweet Surrender
[21:58] Stop Trying to Control Everything with Thinking
[23:42] Guru-Disciple Relationship
[25:39] How to Make Use of the Guru Gita
[28:06] Nama Rupa Sahitam Bhavati Eva
[30:09] Well-deserved, Self-created Good Fortune
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The Pain of Childbirth
The pain a mother experiences when giving birth is an experience that only a mother could know. Though it’s often overplayed in movies and on television, it’s a sacred experience that brings extremes of emotion into play.
In this episode, Thom leans heavily on the experience of midwives and mothers, and shares how the Vedic perspective on pain can be applied to the process of labor and childbirth.
He also shares why Vedic Meditation is not recommended during the process of childbirth.
Whether you plan on giving birth or not, this is an episode we can all learn from and apply to other experiences of pain in our lives.
Episode Highlights:
[00:45] The Greatest Act of All Time
[02:12] 400,000 Births per Day
[03:48] Embrace the Situation
[06:02] A Necessary Level of Intensity
[08:26] Facilitating the Movement
[10:30] Avoid Meditation in Labor
[11:54] Necessary Stress Chemistry
[14:21] Indie Birth
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Mastering the Siddhis
Vedic meditators are blessed with a life-changing technique that can make a profound difference in their lives.
Many meditators, though, seek to progress even further, and tap into the vast well of Vedic wisdom that is available to us all.
One avenue for further progress is knowledge of and initiation into practicing the “Siddhis.” These advanced practices allow us to tap into extraordinary human capabilities and realize more of our human potential.
In this episode, Thom gives us a brief overview of Mastering the Siddhis, his popular course which covers a vast array of the Siddhis practices, and is available only through approved Vedic Meditation Initiators.
Episode Highlights:
[00:45] Maharishi Patanjali
[04:02] Yoga is a State
[06:47] Sutra - A Short Aphorism
[09:22] Closing the Gap Between Individuality and Universality
[11:36] Siddhi - Extraordinary Human Capability
[13:07] A Foundation for Greater Capabilities
[15:23] The Ability to Master and Capture Cause and Effect
[18:12] MTS - A Course of Six Instalments
[20:51] Enjoy Life to the Fullest More Easily
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How to Make Things Right
As Vedic meditators, we have the distinct advantage of knowing that evolution is the only thing ever happening. So, if this is the case, do we ever need to make things right?
Aren’t they right already?
In this episode, Thom reminds us that we aren’t just pawns in some cosmic storyline that’s out of our control and that we aren’t just here to witness the story as it unfolds.
In fact, as Vedic meditators, we have an additional responsibility to not just perceive when things need to be put right, but to step up and do what’s needed to maintain the evolutionary storyline.
Episode Highlights:
[00:45] Has Anything Actually Gone Wrong?
[02:27] Vedanta - The Final Conclusion
[04:10] The Big Bang
[06:09] What Happened?
[07:55] Who is this I?
[09:53] Am I Being Called to Make Things Right?
[11:47] Influencing the Storyline
[13:28] Extended You
[15:08] Scratching the Itch
[16:37] Invitation and Capability
[18:52] The Mahabharata - A Cracking Good Tale
[20:57] This Isn't How I Want the Story to Go
[22:46] You Can't Just be the Knower
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Customer Reviews
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Thom is an attorney representing your consciousness, embodiment of knowledge gained through Maharishi, and those before.
More an inquiry than a review
I see several comments about how Thom has stolen Maharishi’s knowledge and teachings. Why is this? As far as I understand it, this knowledge is thousands of years old and is meant to be passed down from teacher to student over and over again. Isn’t that exactly what Thom is doing? Isn’t that what Maharishi would have wanted?
Maharishi didn’t invent this. He learned from Guru Dev. And Guru Dev learned it from his master. And that continues back for many years. TM has been around since, I believe, the 1950s. This knowledge and this technique for many years more than that. So how could Thom be stealing the knowledge from anyone?
Thom very often praises Maharishi in this podcast. He doesn’t claim to own any of this knowledge and he is constantly giving credit to Maharishi as well as other prominent teachers.
The only thing Thom isn’t doing, as far as I can tell, is teaching under the umbrella of the TM organization. He used to, and I am curious as to why he decided to sever ties and go out on his own. I have heard that Thom has inflated his credentials. If so that is shameful.
But, provided Thom is as qualified as he seems, this knowledge and technique can now be spread around the world in more than just one way. What a gift.
Some might say the TM organization exists in part to insure that the technique is taught correctly and so that there can be a maintaining of a certain level of quality. Well, maybe. But it’s been passed down for thousands of years without the existence of TM. So it’s certainly possible. And who’s to say all of those TM teachers all around the world are more qualified than Thom Knoles? I’m sure some are, and I’m sure some are not.
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Thom’s mellifluous voice makes his podcast completely enrapturing. Touching on a wide breadth of topics, this podcast is one that you can listen to again and again, finding enjoyment and new knowledge in every listen.