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Western Baul Podcast Series — 156 episodes
Your Life Is a Tree (Mary Angelon Young and Regina Sara Ryan)
Quietude Disturbs the Brain (Lalitha)
The Benefits of Recapitulation Practice and How to Engage It (Rick Lewis)
Sensation: The Language of the Body (Naomi Worob)
A Creative Life Is a Conscious Life (Karl Krumins)
Walking Side by Side with Grief for a Lifetime (Nachama Shahar)
Accessing Sources of Spiritual Inspiration (VJ Fedorschak)
Halfway Up the Mountain: 25 Years Later (Mariana Caplan)
Gurdjieff's Aphorisms 3: The Nature of the Path (Carl Grimsman)
Rhythm, Ritual & Reverie (Mary Angelon Young)
Union (Lama Barbara DuBois)
Eating Impressions: Staying Put in Your Vibratory Atmosphere (Red Hawk)
Fun with Self-Hatred (Bandhu Dunham)
Third and Fourth Quarter Game Plans: Spirituality in the Second Half of Life (Regina Sara Ryan)
Feeding the Body of Light (Clelia Lewis)
Obsession for God (Matthew Files)
The Crisis of Continuity of Wisdom (Rob Schmidt and Stuart Goodnick)
Don’t Know, Go Straight (Elise Erro/e.e.)
Irritation: It's a Godsend! (David Herz)
From Rigidity to Fluidity: The Art of Easeful (and Even Elegant) Transitions (Michael Menager and Mic Clarke)
Making the Work Your Own (VJ Fedorschak)
Living a Fluid Life (Juanita Violini)
O Earth, When Will We Hear You Sing... Thomas Merton and Journal Writing as Prayer (Regina Sara Ryan)
Does Traditional Spiritual Training Apply Anymore? (Lalitha)
Bittersweet: A Refuge in Troubled Times (Mary Angelon Young)
In Relationship (Myosho Ginny Matthews)
Encouraging Boredom in Our Lives (Matthew Files)
The Essence of Creation Is Transformation (Nachama Greenwald)
Cultivating Virtue: The Stoic Traits of Wisdom, Courage, Temperance, and Justice (Bandhu Dunham)
Storytelling Is a Core Competency of Spiritual Practice (Rick Lewis)
Yearning, Longing, and Desire for Oneness (Debbie Hogeland-Celebucki)
Can’t We Just Have Fun? Seriousness, Humor, and Foolishness on the Path (Michelle Meaux)
Beginner's Mind: The "Goal" of Spiritual Practice (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Divine Alchemy: What Is It? (Mary Angelon Young)
Gurdjieff’s Aphorisms 2: Crystallizing the Permanent I AM (Carl Grimsman)
Red Hot Sadhana: In the Fire of Love and Loss (Jessica Jenns)
Entering Silence: An Invitation and a Possibility (Regina Sara Ryan)
All Things Lovely Exist (Naomi Worob)
The Urge to Win, Dominate, and Control (Bandhu Dunham)
Present Attention is Objective Love (Red Hawk)
Just This and the Practice of Assertion (Matthew Files)
Telling What Is True for Us and Trusting: Bridging the Inner and Outer World (Juanita Violini)
Languaging Nonduality (Rob Schmidt and Stuart Goodnick)
What Can My Secret Life Offer Me on the Path? (David Herz)
My Interviews with Sisyphus (Tom Lennon)
Seeing the Bigger Picture (Elise Erro/e.e.)
Conscious Surrender: Deepening Our Role in the Spiritual Process and Why It Matters (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Keep My Heart Open in Hell (Nachama Greenwald)
Waking to Ordinary Life (Lalitha)
The Art of Japa (Michael Menager and Mic Clarke)
Regulating the Nervous System in Spiritual Work (Clelia Vahni Lewis)
The Only Grace Is Loving God (Mary Angelon Young)
S’agenouiller et embrasser le sol – Présence et Objectif, une approche poétique (Mary Angelon Young)
If You Don’t Act Right, You Don’t Feel Right (Matthew Files)
Walking the Razor’s Edge: A Talk on Attention (Juanita Violini)
Teachings of Dune: Clues for Living Like a Human from the Writings of Frank Herbert (Bandhu Dunham)
Spiritual Practice in a Human Body (Myosho Ginny Matthews)
The Power of Identification (Red Hawk)
What the Heck Is a Guru? (Rick Lewis)
Calling in Our Angels: Protectors, Friends, Guides and Midwives for Transitions Through Life and Death (Regina Sara Ryan)
Gurdjieff's Aphorisms: Essence of a Teaching (Carl Grimsman)
An Ethical Will: What Values Can We Pass on to Future Generations? (Elise Erro/e.e.)
The Gospel of Thomas (David Herz)
Staying in Love (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Threshold: Spirituality and Ecology, Here at the Changing of the Guard (Mary Angelon Young)
Whatever Happened to Enlightenment? (Matthew Files)
Shadow and Luminosity, Descent and Transcendence (Nachama Greenwald)
The Direct Path: Taking the Backwards Step (Peter Cohen)
The Value and Necessity of Suffering (Red Hawk)
One’s Face on the Path (Jocelyn del Rio)
What If? An Exploration of Transformational Possibility (Regina Sara Ryan)
Cultivating Transparency: Realizing the Emptiness of the Stories You Tell Yourself and Others (Rob Schmidt and Stuart Goodnick)
It’s Not the Fall That Kills You: A Talk on Groundlessness (Juanita Violini)
”What’s Your Pleasure? Poetry and Perspectives on Pleasure on the Spiritual Path” (Karen Sprute-Francovich)
Women Talking: Power, Dominance, and Agency in the Age of ‘Me Too’ and on the Path (Elise Erro)
Removing Obstacles to Our Heart’s Desire (Lalitha)
Losing the Taste for Drama (Bandhu Dunham)
Conscience and the Law of Identification (Red Hawk)
Working with Money as Spiritual Practice (Regina Sara Ryan, Tom Lennon, Vijaya Fedorschak)
The Shadow on the Path (Vijaya Fedorschak)
My Last Bully Is Me (Rick Lewis)
”Honey in the Heart: The Rasa of Enjoyment, Delight and Celebration on the Path” (Nachama Greenwald)
Deep Dharmic Doo-Doo: Resistance is Futile… But So Also Is Acceptance (Peter Cohen)
Wisdom Teachings of the Ancient World: Celtic Spirituality and Tantra (Mary Angelon Young)
Lies We Tell Ourselves (Karl Krumins)
How Do We Enter the Heart, and What Do We Find When We Enter? The Way of the Pilgrim and the Prayer of the Heart (Regina Sara Ryan)
Impermanence: Living with Reality (Bhadra Mitchell)
The Rough Road to Self Awareness: Intention, Attention, and Risk (Juanita Violini)
The Restoration of Love (Elise Erro)
Eating Bears: Notes on How to Go About It (Jocelyn del Rio)
Spiritual Bypassing and Adulthood on the Path (Deborah Auletta)
Pairs of Opposites (Bandhu Dunham)
Escape From the General Law (Red Hawk)
The Obstacle Is the Path (Chris McMaster and Debbie Hogeland-Celebucki)
We’ll Never Be Prepared for Life—We Might as Well Start Living It (Rick Lewis)
The Recognition of Our Heart (Karen Sprute-Francovich)
Timing Is Everything: Opening to Windows of Opportunity in Life and on the Path (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Fourth Way Magic: How Hermetic and Indigenous Traditions Interface with the Gurdjieff Work (Rob Schmidt and Stuart Goodnick)
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off (Regina Sara Ryan)
Basic Trust: The Soul’s Key to Being (Peter Cohen)
Kneel and Kiss the Ground: The Poetics of Presence and Purpose (Mary Angelon Young)
Do You Want to Be Right or Do You Want to Be in Relationship? (Matthew Files)
The Benefit of Good Company on the Spiritual Path (Tom Lennon)
War: What Is It Good For? (Bandhu Dunham)
Cultivating Spiritual Maturity: An Honest Look at Our Commitments (Lalitha)
Writing as a Transformational Path (Mary Angelon Young and Regina Sara Ryan)
Living From Paradox (Juanita Violini)
Hospitality: The Practice and the Art (Regina Sara Ryan)
Using Death as an Advisor: What Death Can Teach Us About Living (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Grace and Mercy: Return of the Goddess (Angelon Young)
Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For... Why? (Matthew Files)
Giving Ourselves to Love (Nachama Greenwald)
Nonduality: Speaking the Unspeakable (Peter Cohen)
Know Your Character: Who’s Running the Show? (Elise Erro/e.e.)
Awakening Conscience: The Potential Value of Not Expressing or Suppressing Negative Emotions (Panel Discussion with Red Hawk, Clelia Lewis, and VJ Fedorschak)
Being Where We Are: Grounding Spiritual Teaching in the Body (Bandhu Dunham)
Everything is Food: A Gourmet’s Guide to the Spiritual Path (Regina Sara Ryan)
Sun. Moon. Tantra. Navigating the Ocean of Chaos and Coherence (Angelon Young)
Love and Longing: May the Heat of Suffering Become the Fire of Love (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Conscience: The Transformative Effect of Working with Inner Conflict (an interview with Clelia Lewis)
The Way of the Wise Woman: A Deeper Dive into the Awakening of the Mother Spirit (Red Hawk)
Enlightenment? (Jocelyn del Rio)
Understanding the Persistence of 'Sleep' (Unconsciousness) (Matthew Files)
Spiritual Warriorship and the Undefended Life (Nachama Greenwald)
A Deeper Yoga: Moving Beyond Image to Wholeness and Freedom (Christina Sell)
Faith: How Necessary is It on the Spiritual Path? (Karl Krumins)
Contemplating Continuity—A Conversation with Spiritual Friends (Barbara Du Bois)
Creative Life: The Art of Getting Out of Our Own Way (Bandhu Dunham)
Not What Should Be But What Is (Regina Sara Ryan)
Cultivating Resilience and Inner Strength on the Spiritual Path (Angelon Young)
Yogi Ramsuratkumar: The Godchild, Tiruvannamalai (Caylor Wadlington)
Love What You Do Not Love: The Doorway to Ever Present Peace (Vijaya Fedorschak)
The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself (Matthew Files)
The Alchemy of Grief and Love (Nachama Greenwald)
Maintaining Presence in the Midst of Chaos (Bandhu Dunham)
Panel Discussion: Exploring the Depth of Spiritual Tradition (Barbara Du Bois, Carl Grimsman, and Vijaya Fedorschak)
What’s Love, and What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Eternal Questions and Easy Misunderstandings (Regina Sara Ryan)
Contemplation: Awareness and Presence in Ordinary Life (Angelon Young)
The Transformative Power of Guarding One’s Speech (Bandhu Dunham)
Living Life with Gratitude (Debora Hogeland Celebucki)
Can’t Get There from Here: The Overlay of Mind on Reality (Bala Zuccarello)
Deepening Compassion in Times of Groundlessness, Uncertainty, and Fear (Nachama Greenwald)
Dig into the Mud to Get to the Sky (Karuna Fedorschak)
Cultivating the View that Everything is in Transit: A Consideration of Death in the Spiritual Traditions (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Wonder and Radical Amazement: Relearning the Forgotten Language of the Soul (Regina Sara Ryan)
The Tyranny of the Past (Angelon Young)
There is a Crack in Everything—That’s How the Light Gets In: The Myth of Self-Perfection (Matthew Files)
My Body is a Temple: Creating a Life of Practice (Christina Sell)
Be Kind, Be Generous, Be Tender-Hearted (Rick Lewis)
Neither Attracted nor Repelled—The Value of Cultivating Equanimity (Nachama Greenwald)
Following a Path with Heart—Reflections on Castaneda’s Literature (Karl Krumins)
Traps on the Path (Karuna Fedorschak)
Confirmation Bias (Bandhu Scott Dunham)
The Possibility of Inner Freedom through Recognizing Ego Insubstantiality (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Tantra and Ordinary Life (Angelon Young)
Spiritual Authority (Regina Sara Ryan)