Mindrolling With Raghu Markus

R&D on reaching for the inner universe…eradicating the “paranoid ghost puppet performers”…smoking with Bob…loving Anais Nin…love, love, love – the eternal urge. 

Banishing blame is the aim, admonishing anger is the game. The amazing Pali Katannu Sutta…Costco…and, last but never least, “no longer laying trips on anyone.”

Lonely is never good, alone is cool. Sexy oldsters. Loneliness creating sickness, even arthritis. R&D tell their dreams...Jimi sings the blues and we explore craving and behaving...

The Mindrollers chat with the Lama: Is there really a chasm between us and them? Seems we need to cultivate empathy with our distant neighbors. We need to slow down and increase our attention and intention. 

Mr. Shiva Baum and the intrepid Mindrollers commune at the church of Springsteen...compare the crazed sixties and the weird now...talk about cutting through the illusion and the kirtan phenomenon...

Meet Dennis McKenna and take in reflections upon his early life, his brilliant brother Terence, and their pioneer explorations of all manner of psychedelic substances. No question, the McKennas together changed the way we looked at altered, expanded consciousness.

Jack Kornfield, one of the seminal messengers of Buddhism to the West, in conversation with us...in his own inimitable, honest and uber-lucid way, Jack delivers amazingly helpful insights into useful Buddhist/universal ways of being. "The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love." - Jack Kornfield To learn more about Jack visit his website: http://www.jackkornfield.com/

Talking holistic radical radio with airwaves innovator Alan Hutner - conspiracy chemtrail entertainment, bhakti broadcasting, Arlo Guthrie...

Danny's eloquence and wisdom about Dr. King as well as his rich personal anecdotes about activism, politics and music giants Nirvana and Zeppelin in his life...

Duncan and the Mindrollers dealing with their inner "alien" intruder and not getting crazy...

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first." - Jim Morrison

 R & D discuss "Reaching" as a practice in itself -  the deft movement in consciousness  to be more present, to be attending, to be tender...

Sharon Salzberg, world renowned author and Buddhist meditation teacher joins us for a discussion on Lovingkindness in the face of adversity.

Do the rich care about the poor? The invisible people as seen by the very visible...the empathy gap and how to close it...

Spontaneous orgasms...“homo economicus”...compassion & neural networks...sex on the beach out of the blue, and a Chrissie Hynde song thrown in...

We're going after the afterlife. Is it consciousness or is it simply legacy? What?

Suffering is grace. Suffering is a nightmare. Can both be true? How in the name of real life do we deal with pure pain? And how do we handle other people’s suffering? Finding the balance...

High Himalayan India R&D: Raghu’s latest yatra.

Lama Tsultrim Allione is our honored guest – she’s great. We concentrate on her truly transformative book “Feeding Your Demons.” The book's core concept/vision: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” Yeah, can't argue with that - facing and transforming your shadow self is pretty essential in the liberation process... Check out the Wikipedia entry Here for brief yet solid biographical info about our guest.

Music is a beatific balm to our psyche, suggesting our soul...