Blissful Thinking

This week's guest is Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John, an award winning author of 9 books,  including her most timely book published this year I'm Still Your Negro, An Homage to James Baldwin. She is…

My guest this week is Mita Mistry, a writer, mindfulness-based cognitive therapist, and acupuncturist based in the UK. Mita is an incredibly sensitive and empathic person, and in this episode she int…

My guest this week is my friend Kevin Martin. He is a native of the Bay Area and a practitioner of vipassana and, more recently, a student in the Dharmacharya Program under the teachings of Venerable…

This episode features Kadija George! She's a legendary figure in the Black British literary world, one of the truest pioneers. Kadija writes under the name Kadija Sesay, and is an literary activist, …

Dean Dorsett is my oldest friend! He was my companion, confidante, and comrade-in-arms during my 3 years at Oriel College, Oxford, very much in the news now due to the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. In t…

This week's episode is with my friend, the dharma teacher Thomas Davis. Thomas was a lay minister in the church for over 10 years before crossing over to Theravada Buddhism. He graduated from the Spi…

This week's episode is with radical psychologist, feminist and psychotherapist Guilaine Kinouani, an expert on the impact of racism on the mental health of people of colour, particularly the African …

This week's episode is with poet, novelist, and writer on masculinity, JJ Bola. We speak about traditional African spirituality and the importance of communicating with ancestors in revolutionary mov…

Roger Robinson is a poet and vocalist for the musical crossover project King Midas Sound. I've known him for 20 years as one of the biggest-hearted, most generous writers around. This year, everythin…

This week's episode is with my dear friend Mauricio Barriga, a schoolteacher originally from Mexico, now living in Santa Ana in Orange County. Mauricio and I met at Deer Park Monastery, CA, which is …

This week's episode is with the extraordinarily insightful poet, storyteller, healer, clairvoyant, tarot reader, and psychic, Giorgia Alexander. This is a deep, sensitive, and most of all wise explor…

This week's episode is with former rapper and novelist Mutlu Ergün who is currently an anti-racist trainer, travelling across Germany. Usually with his brother, he runs People of Colour empowerment w…

Welcome to our third interview with the truly inspirational Rikki Beadle-Blair who explains the importance of self-love, positivity and gratitude and how to get there. There's nothing preachy or bogu…

The award-winning novelist Nayomi Munaweera talks with us abut childhood trauma, abuse and her "spiritual toolbox" of vipassana meditation, therapy, twelve-step, and ayahuasca. Her advice to us all a…

Welcome to the Blissful Thinking podcast! In this first I episode, I, Rajeev Balasubramanyam, tell the story of how I came to spiritual practice. I talk about the need for people of colour to share p…