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**Mindrolling with Raghu Markus**

Escapades in Mind-Expansion and Cultural Misadventures. Mindrolling Podcast is about coming unstuck and the recent history of awoken awareness. It’s about the intersection of culture, consciousness and realization with Raghu Markus.

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 575 – Poetic Spaces and the Creative Process with Joseph Goldstein & Noah Markus Jan 03, 2025

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Noah and Raghu Markus catch up with Joseph Goldstein to talk about poetry, imposter syndrome, trust, and more.

Grab a copy of Joseph’s poems and reflections HERE

In this episode, Raghu, Joseph, and Noah connect through these topics:

How Joseph revitalized his poetic spirit while traveling in Spain
Revision as the most important process of writing
Struggling with imposter syndrome
How poetry overlaps the meditative space
Silence as an integral precursor to creativity
The beauty within very ordinary experiences
How aversion traps us just as much as desire
Compassion as the activity of emptiness
Loneliness and the myth of intimacy
Building trust and self-confidence
Artistic versus scientific ways of understanding
Anger as a messenger and using wise discernment

Be sure to check out this talk on quantum mechanics, as suggested by Joseph in today’s episode.

About Joseph Goldstein:

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

“A lot of creativity comes out of the silence because then it’s more intuitive rather than thinking through something. It’s that overlap that I really love. I can be in a quiet space and a very ordinary perception of something takes on more meaning because I’m not just rushing through it, I’m actually there in it.” – Joseph Goldstein

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Ep. 574 – Radical Self-Compassion with Ralph De La Rosa Dec 27, 2024

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Trauma-focused psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa links with Raghu to explain how radical self-compassion can outshine our deepest wounds.

Eager to learn more? Grab your own copy of Ralph’s new book, Outshining Trauma.

In this episode, Raghu and Ralph have a conversation about:

Ralph’s casual brush with death and the divine play of the universe
Healing our afflictions and uncovering our awakened state
How we all tend to dissociate and distract ourselves
Inspiration from Buddhism in Ralph’s own life and his therapy practice
Befriending all of the different parts of our psyche
Connecting the heart of compassion to the difficulties we experience
Utilizing the tools of Internal Family Systems
Working with the breath and other meditation techniques
Getting intimate with our afflictions
The concept of taking refuge
Considering what a healthy love/relationship looks like
How to respond to self-judgment and drop our armor

About Ralph De La Rosa

Ralph De La Rosa (he/they) is a teacher of human spirituality, an internationally published author and a trauma-focused psychotherapist. Ralph works in private practice and is a seasoned meditation teacher known for his radically open and humorous teaching style. He is personally mentored by Richard Schwartz, founder and developer of Internal Family Systems. Check out Ralph’s new book, published in November 2024, focusing on trauma and radical self-compassion, Outshining Trauma. You can keep up with Ralph on his website.

“Our hearts can really break open for our own struggle. That, for me, is the nature of what I would call radical self-compassion, when you start to behold your own struggle and are willing to get intimate with your afflictions rather than run from them.” – Ralph De La Rosa

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Ep. 573 – Living in a Post-Truth World with Tyson Yunkaporta Dec 20, 2024

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Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta joins Raghu to discuss our shared evolution of consciousness and navigating a post-truth world.

This week on Mindrolling, Tyson and Raghu have a conversation about:

Living in a post-truth world where objective facts lose to emotional/personal appeal
How coronavirus nudged us closer to fascism
Cultural feedback routes and how America affects Australia
Working with Indigenous medicine to connect to the spirit
Navigating the grieving process
Revolutions of consciousness through the eras
Our universal connection and sharing of space with each other
Disinformation and the build-up to our recent election
Right story versus wrong story and how the truth gets blurred
All of our relations, human and non-human

About Tyson Yunkaporta:

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.

Preorder Tyson’s book, Right Story, Wrong Story: How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell

“People are really suffering, and this feels true. This story reflects our feelings of terror and the need to preserve our cultures and communities and resources exclusively.” – Tyson Yunkaporta

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Ep. 572 – Yoga, Sex and Death with Susan Marrufo Dec 13, 2024

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Sharing stories from her world travels, yoga teacher Susan Maruffo explores healing and self-discovery through yoga, Tantra, and meditation.

This time on Mindrolling, Susan and Raghu journey through:

Unhappiness within Western cultural conditioning
How getting out of the United States transformed Susan’s life
Being alone while doing yoga versus in a group setting
How suffocating our ‘roles’ in life can be
Recognizing our universal connection via a trip to India
Coming back into the body through yoga practice
Susan’s experience at a Tantric school in Thailand
Neo-Tantra versus classical Tantra
Healing through yoga and sexual exploration
Dying to the old versions of ourselves
How the heart reveals itself during meditation
The ways we run away from intimacy

About Susan Marrufo:

Susan left the United States and a job in advertising in 2008 to travel internationally and experience life beyond the confines of her cultural conditioning. She received her first 500-hr yoga certification in Thailand in 2009, where she began her studies of the classical yogic scriptures and delved deeply into esoteric tantric philosophy. After 2 years of teaching month-long tantric-based courses on the banks of the Ganges in India and the Pacific coastal towns of Mexico, Susan returned to the US to begin a residential internship with the Kripalu School of Yoga, where she taught in and project-managed several Kripalu yoga teacher trainings as well as received her 2nd 500-hr teacher training certification from the Kripalu School of Yoga. Susan facilitates group courses in the inquiry of yoga and meditation and dives increasingly deeper into her yogic studies. She is the founder of Samarasa Center.

“It was the first time that I started practicing yoga alone. Not in groups of classes with other people. That was transformational for me. That was the game changer, just being alone, having time, not feeling stressed, not feeling the pressure to be anybody. To be a wife, to be a boss, to be a daughter.” – Susan Marrufo

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Ep. 571 – Music and the Legacy of Ram Dass with Justin Boreta Dec 06, 2024

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Justin Boreta, the first musician to collaborate with Ram Dass, talks with Raghu about Ram Dass’ legacy and the power of music.

Check out the trackAwareness, an ambient track by Justin mixed with a guided meditation from Ram Dass.

This week on Mindrolling, Justin and Raghu chat about:

Ram Dass’ legacy transported through music
The chants that Ram Dass brought home from India
Kali Yuga, the age of destruction
Chants for Ganesh and music as the delivery method for mantra
Ram Dass’ humor and charm
How music is a tool for being in the present moment
Using the breath to enter into a space of loving-kindness
The intersection of community, teachings, and music
Trusting the music and letting go

Raghu suggests checking out the poetry of Kabir brought to life through music.

About Justin Boreta:

Justin Boreta is a member of The Glitch Mob, a beat-driven electronic group that has been touring for more than a decade performing around the world at festivals including: Coachella, Burning Man, Lollapolooza, Reading & Leeds and Bonnaroo. Boreta has collaborated with the spiritual teacher Ram Dass and Alan Watts on guided meditations and was recently nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Best New Age Album. Boreta is also a member of the Soul Land music series at Love Serve Remember.

“There was this sense of unencumbered big-eyed view of love. I felt so accepted and seen and relaxed right away. It was psychedelic. It was one of the most psychedelic experiences I’d had…the first thing I thought was if he [Ram Dass] makes me feel like that, I want other people around me to feel like that too.” – Justin Boreta

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Ep. 570 - Dream Yoga and Liminal Spaces with Andrew Holecek Nov 29, 2024

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Surfing dimensions of consciousness, dream yoga expert Andrew Holecek joins Raghu to discuss the benefits of lucidity in liminal spaces.

This time on Mindrolling, Andrew and Raghu discuss:

Andrew’s early interest in the occult and the role of psychedelics
Lucid dreaming and having insight before understanding
Tibetan Buddhism and dream yoga
Andrew’s experience with mantra and transcendental meditation
Liminal dreaming and working with the space between sleep and waking
Flexibility and surfing dimensions of consciousness
Witnessing our mind transition from wakefulness to sleep
Seeing how thoughts create reality
How dream yoga transcends lucid dreaming
Working with the tectonic states of our being

Grab a copy of Andrew’s recently released book, I’m Mindful, Now What?

About Andrew Holecek:

Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who offers talks, online courses, and workshops in the United States and abroad. As a long-time student of Buddhism, he frequently presents this tradition from a contemporary perspective – blending the ancient wisdom of the East with modern knowledge from the West. Drawing on years of intensive study and practice, he teaches on the opportunities that exist in obstacles, helping people with hardship and pain, death and dying, and problems in meditation. Known as an expert on lucid dreaming and the Tibetan yogas of sleep and dream, he is an experienced guide for students drawn to these powerful nocturnal practices. Check out Andrew’s website to learn more.

“Therefore, you can literally work with really short, micro, lucid dream lenses. Where you can bring lucidity/mindfulness into the transition and see how it is that thoughts create reality at the level of the dreamscape. This is a form of dream-incubation, you can actually watch a thought transform into a dream.” – Andrew Holecek

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Ep. 569 – Mindfulness, Transformation & Resilience with Leonard Pickard Nov 22, 2024

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Raghu interviews Leonard Pickard about his early involvement in psychedelics, zen practice, his 20-year incarceration, and building resilience via mindfulness.

Leonard will be joining Raghu, Zach Leary, Trevor Hall and others at a Ram Dass Legacy Event in Denver on December 12th, 2024. For more info, click HERE.

This week on Mindrolling, Leonard and Raghu chat about:

Transformative experiences as not dependent on substances
Delving into the great leaders of the sixties and honoring Ram Dass
The psychedelic revolution that is currently taking place
Our total dependence on one another
The way that music transformed throughout the 1960’s
Leonard’s time at the San Francisco Zen Center studying Buddhism, meditation, and yoga
Carrying our practice out into the world
How Buddhism prepared Leonard for years of incarceration
The beauty of spiritual practice and growing ones heart

Check out Leonard’s book, The Rose of Paracelsus, which he wrote while incarcerated, to explore more about psychedelics, spirituality, science, and human evolution.

About Leonard Pickard:

Once known as the Acid King, Leonard Pickard is a former research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Harvard fellow in drug policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Deputy Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA. His 1996 prediction of the fentanyl epidemic was published by RAND in The Future of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids. Leonard Pickard is one of two people convicted in the largest LSD manufacturing case in history. On July 27, 2020, Pickard was granted compassionate release from federal prison 20 years into his sentence.

“Transformative experience, if it is to be valid, cannot be drug dependent. It would be a terrible offense to think that such beautiful insights were dependent upon a mere substance.” – Leonard Pickard

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Ep. 568 - Awakening Our Joy with James Baraz Nov 15, 2024

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Amidst election results, environmental crises and more, Raghu and James Baraz consider how to awaken joy in times of disillusion.

To learn more about James’ work with the environment and to see how you can help, check out One Earth

This time on Mindrolling, James and Raghu have a talk on:

Vulnerability and unconditional love
Awakening Joy in times of disillusion
James’ definition of Joy as the sense of well-being
Making space for all the feelings we feel
Training ourselves to look for the good
How we have lost our connection to the land
Being courageous and coming from love
Indigenous and Buddhist teachings that point us to our place in the world
Understanding the consequences of our actions
Sila and acting with integrity as a path to inner peace
Why meditation is so essential
The joy of connection and a closing gratitude practice

About James Baraz

James Baraz has taught mindfulness meditation since 1978 and is co-founder of the world-renowned Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. He is co-author of two books Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to a Happier Life and Awakening Joy for Kids. James has taught the Awakening Joy course to over 24,000 people from 30 countries since 2003, as well as retreats and workshops in the U.S. and internationally. Learn more about James HERE.

“Actions have consequences, that is what karma is. What we do now has an effect on what’s to come in our children and future generations. Those are the dots that somehow the rich, supposedly brilliant minds, haven’t seen.” – James Baraz

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Ep. 567 - After the Ineffable with Dr. Dan Engle Nov 08, 2024

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Dr. Dan Engle joins Raghu to discuss how to integrate the ineffable into our daily lives after profound psychedelic experiences.

In this episode, Dr. Engle and Raghu have a conversation about:

How Dr. Dan’s life was profoundly changed after a serious accident
Integrating psychiatry and neurology together
Dr. Dan’s introduction to psychedelics in the jungle
How the psychedelic experience opens us up but can’t be sustained
Integration of the ineffable into our daily lives
Looking at science and spirituality in a productive way
The fundamental questions that arise out of the psychedelic experience
Psychedelics as a catalyst for personal change and authentic self-discovery
The soul as a drop in the ocean of spirit
Regressive hypnotherapy and unwinding past life events
Continuing to evolve toward greater understanding
Psychiatry’s place in spiritual endeavors
Living into the movie of we and building upon pillars of wisdom

About Dr. Dan Engle:

Dan Engle, MD, is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance. Dr. Engle is an international consultant to several global healing centers facilitating the use of long-standing indigenous plant medicines for healing and awakening. He is the Founder of

Full Spectrum Medicine, a psychedelic integration and educational platform; and Thank You Life, a non-profit funding stream supporting access to psychedelic therapies. Dr. Engle is the author of The Concussion Repair Manual: A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries, as well as his new book, A Dose of Hope: A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy. To learn more about Dr. Dan’s offerings check out his website HERE.

“The ceremony space, the experience with the ineffable, that opens us up (ideally) to our more divine nature, our more true self. That’s the catalyst. But, the real work happens in the integration. How do we make that real for the rest of our lives?” – Dr. Dan Engle

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Ep. 566 – Ode to India with Author & Religious Scholar Andrew Harvey Nov 01, 2024

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Offering a beautiful ode to India, Raghu and Andrew Harvey discuss divine truths and the oxymoron of beauty and pain.

This time on Mindrolling, Andrew and Raghu go over:

Andrew’s experience being born and growing up in India
India as a sacred world filled with divine beauty and pain
The divine feminine and masculine
Raghu’s experience bringing his father to India
The gift of Ram Dass and tying Hinduism to modern life
Revelations of incarnation
Andrew Harvey’s return to India and encountering great beings
Being mindful of our anger and transforming our emotions

About Andrew Harvey:

Andrew Harvey is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of mystic traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes. Andrew Harvey is also the founder and director of The Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Check out Andrew Harvey’s many book offerings HERE.

“Being born in India is for me the absolutely central and original and primordial and evolutionary event for me. That’s it. Because to be born in India is to be born into sacred world and a sacred culture that is alive with divine beauty, pain, passion, magic, veracity, truth. That’s India. – Andrew Harvey

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