Sharing insights from decades of sitting with the dying, RamDev explores how to live and die with awareness and an open heart.

Pick up a copy of RamDev’s new book, How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear and check The Living Dying Project’s numerous, free support groups for grief, illness, and more.

In this episode, Chris and RamDev have a conversation on:

• Ramdev’s extensive work with the dying
• Learning to live while remembering our mortality
• Open hearted joy that transcends suffering
• Seeing the same patterns in different traditions
• Leaning into what’s difficult rather than shying away from it
• Deepening our practice into the fabric of our being
• Ram Dass and returning to presence after we’ve veered off the path
• Grief and feeling separate from others, separate from the divine
• Recognizing the universality of grief and the many forms it arrives in

“With very few exceptions, the most beautiful Americans I’ve ever met are people who are almost dead because they’re more willing to be themselves. It’s not like ‘am I having a good hair day or not, or how much money do I have, how’s my body looking today or my personality.’” –RamDev

About RamDev:

RamDev Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of The Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United States, The Dying Center. He has taught and lectured extensively on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, on caregiving as a spiritual practice, and on healing at the edge, the edge of illness, of death, of loss, of crisis. Check out RamDev’s podcast, Healing at the Edge, on the Be Here Now Network.

“How deep is your practice? It’s not the books you’ve read, it’s not what you’ve got in your mind, it’s what’s really deep in your soul. It makes me think of when Ghandi was assassinated—he was saying ‘Ram Ram’. How can he say ‘Ram Ram’ if he was unexpectedly shot in the chest? Because he was saying it all the time. He wasn’t saying it because he was shot, he was saying it and he was shot.” –RamDev

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In this expansive discussion, integrative healing practitioner Dr. Robert Krause explores consciousness, philosophy, and saying ‘yes’ to life.

Tune into Ep. 144 of the Indie Spiritualist Podcast for a conversation around mental health, psychedelic therapy, and integrative healing with Chris, Dr. Krause, and psychiatric nurse practitioner Vicki Marnin.

In this episode, Chris and Robert have a conversation on:

• Tantra vs. Buddhism and unique views of pleasure and suffering
• Acceptance and commitment to the experience of all things
• How to sit with pleasure without grasping
• Saying ‘yes’ to life with arms wide open
• The power of breathwork
• Consciousness, philosophy, and the material world
• Reconciling with our own mortality in order to live a fuller life

About Dr. Robert Krause:

Robert Krause DNP APRN-BC is the Director of Clinical Services & Co-Founder of Centered, a unique mental health center for integrative healing. Dr. Krause pursues his work through various schools of philosophy, psychotherapy and pharmacology, as well as meditation, yoga, tantra, sex therapy and psychedelic therapy. Dr. Krause holds a BA in Philosophy from WCSU, a certificate in Nursing and a Master of Science degree from the Yale School of Nursing, and a doctoral degree in nursing practice from Quinnipiac University. His doctoral research work was focused on using a program of yoga and meditation to decrease incidents of aggression in an inpatient psychiatric unit. He also holds certifications in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery from Harvard University, and certificates in both Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Research and Sex Therapy from the California Institute for Integral Studies.

Robert has been a faculty member of the Yale School of Nursing and the Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. At Western Connecticut State University and Quinnipiac University he has lectured in their philosophy programs; and at the Graduate Institute, he has lectured in Holistic Health and also in the Consciousness Studies Department.

“Knowing that it’s perfectly safe to die can also let us know that it’s also perfectly safe to live. One of the practices in tantra is in order to know what your yeses are, you first have to be able to say no. In the same way, when you’re able to reconcile yourself to your mortality, then, you’re in a place to say yes to life.” –Dr. Robert Krause

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Holistic healer Erik Harris explores the benefits of natural medicine and how it can support healing across mind, body, and spirit.

This time on The Indie Spiritualist podcast, Chris and Erik chat about:

• Perspectives from both alternative and Western medicine
• Erik’s first experience with energy work and alternative healing
• Overcoming emotional and physical pain
• Inspiration from A Course in Miracles
• Healing in mind, body, and spirit
• Getting to the root cause of what is causing us pain
• Chris’s own journey with neurodivergence
• Honoring the part of us that questions things
• The relativity of being ‘better’
• Connecting to plants, trees, and mushrooms

About Erik Harris:

Erik is a holistic healer dedicated to helping people with chronic pain and illness uncover the root causes of imbalance and create sustainable paths toward wellness. His own healing journey through spinal injuries, digestive issues, and Lyme disease led him to explore natural medicine, herbalism, Chinese medicine, energy healing, and other holistic modalities. He completed a five-year apprenticeship with Dr. Ming Wu and graduated from the Connecticut Institute of Herbal Studies in Chinese Herbology. With over 10 years of experience, Erik is a certified Qi Gong Instructor, Chinese Herbalist, Tui Na Therapist, Medicinal Aromatherapist, Auriculo-therapist, Reiki Therapist, and Tong Ren Therapist. He integrates these practices with his background in psychology to support the connection between body, mind, and spirit. Erik’s mission is to empower others with practical tools and personalized holistic approaches that help them take an active role in their own healing and wellness. Learn more about Erik and book an appointment with him HERE. You can also check him out on Instagram.

“Listen to people when they tell you what’s going on. There are all sorts of mystery illnesses and chronic conditions. Chronic conditions are at an all-time high. You would be surprised how many people you know are dealing with something. Give them a little grace and try to support them. If you haven’t had it, you don’t understand, but try to listen, try to be there.” –Erik Harris

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