RamDev, host of Healing at the Edge podcast, joins Raghu for a conversation on compassion and openness of the heart.

This week on Mindrolling, RamDev and Raghu discuss:

• RamDev’s background in mathematics and recognizing patterns
• How people in the West are not as embodied as in the East
• The first three chakras of fear, guilt, and shame
• Psychedelics and other dimensions of reality
• Going beyond separateness
• Compassion and non-dual practices
• Taming the monkey-mind
• Sub ek and quantum entanglement
• Stories about Maharaj-ji’s mystical existence
• Hope for the future and allowing our hearts to be vulnerable
• A meditation around inclusivity through compassion

About 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.

Learn more about The Living/Dying Project at livingdying.org

“In Buddhism, they say that when the mind is totally awakened, naturally arising compassionate activity occurs. You don’t have to try to be compassionate, you are compassion. Compassion is not even an emotion, it’s a state of openness of the heart in relationship to suffering.” – RamDev

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Tracy Cochran and Raghu talk about living our way to wisdom and being at home in ourselves through presence.

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In this episode, Tracy and Raghu chat about:

• Living our way to wisdom
• The knowledge that the world offers us
• Ram Dass and Fierce Grace
• Tracy’s experience being attacked
• Being seen with eyes of love and compassion
• The power of forgiveness
• Heartfulness and living within the truest parts of ourselves
• Courage and the willingness to be open

About Tracy Cochran:

Tracy Cochran is a writer and meditation teacher. She is the author of Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself, which is available on the Shambhala Publications website and on Amazon. She is the editorial director of Parabola, an acclaimed quarterly magazine that draws on the world’s cultural and wisdom traditions to explore the questions that all humans share. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, O Magazine, New York Magazine, Boston Review, and in many book anthologies and podcasts. Learn more about Tracy on her website.

Get your copy of Tracy’s book, Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself, HERE

“We have to live our way to wisdom…The world offers us so much, but it’s something we live our way into. We live our own stories, our own challenges.” – Tracy Cochran

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Psychedelic therapist and author Sean Lawlor chats with Raghu about shifting the paradigm through the healing power of psychedelics.

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In this trip on Mindrolling, Sean and Raghu take us through:

• Sean’s awakening through psychedelics
• The inter-connectivity of all things
• Psychedelic assisted therapy
• Indigenous uses of plant medicine and music
• Stories of Maria Sabina’s sacred ceremonies
• Changing our negative habits and ways of being
• Trusting ourselves to follow our inner guide
• Recreational use versus spiritual use
• Historical trauma and polarization

About Sean Lawlor:

Sean is an author, therapist, and developer of online course content. He received his Masters of Fine Arts from Chatham University and completed a 3-year Master’s program in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University. Sean’s new book, Psychedelic Revival: Toward a New Paradigm of Healing, is currently available for preorder in print and digital formats. Learn more about Sean on his website.

“My most impactful and powerful psychedelic experiences have been outside of a therapy office and outside of a group, community kind of setting.” – Sean Lawlor

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