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EPISODE · Apr 23, 2026 · 41 MIN

John Osborne: What 50 Years of Meditation Taught a Venture Capitalist About Higher Consciousness

from Beyond The Known · host Jitesh Vaswani

John Osborne has lived inside two worlds most people never enter separately, let alone together. He spent years in a Trappist monastery in silence, built a three-decade career in venture capital and investment banking, helped thousands of military veterans heal from PTSD through breathwork, and has traveled the world with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar since 1989. In this conversation, John traces the single thread running through all of it: the direct experience of consciousness that no credential can fully describe and no analysis can replace. If you have ever felt that your inner life and your outer ambitions are pulling in opposite directions, this episode is for you.

John Osborne has lived inside two worlds most people never enter separately, let alone together. He spent years in a Trappist monastery in silence, built a three-decade career in venture capital and investment banking, helped thousands of military veterans heal from PTSD through breathwork, and has traveled the world with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar since 1989. In this conversation, John traces the single thread running through all of it: the direct experience of consciousness that no credential can fully describe and no analysis can replace. If you have ever felt that your inner life and your outer ambitions are pulling in opposite directions, this episode is for you.

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