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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 606
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Ep. 25 - Meatball Fulton
The Mindrolling twins dig into the world of free form radio with Tom Lopez aka Meatball Fulton - a pioneer of the genre from back in the 60’s. Tom talks about his relationship with Don Van Vliet aka …
01:09:32 |
Thu 16 May 2013
Ep. 39 - Trungpa Rinpoche
Ram Dass talks about his relationship with the great Tibetan Lama, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Includes detailed moments with Trungpa and Ram Dass at different events and venues in the early 70’s where…
00:37:03 |
Mon 13 May 2013
Ep. 24 - Driving Yourself Sane
Navigating the conventional world and its roles – and escaping them: our chat with TV producer/teacher/friend Peter Goldsmith: How to roll your mind away from obsessive identification with the “work …
00:59:34 |
Thu 09 May 2013
Ep. 23 - Duncan Trussell Returns!
DUNCAN TRUSSELL, conscious humorist pal and podcast guru, is back with us, and we expand upon mind expansion, conquering cancer, mortality, Allen Ginsberg, the edges of time and space, downloading di…
00:48:44 |
Fri 26 Apr 2013
Ep. 22 - American Veda
“American Veda” author Philip Goldberg traces how Eastern philosophy and practice developed in the U.S., making it clear that yoga, meditation and kirtan didn’t just spring up here out of nowhere. We…
00:42:58 |
Fri 19 Apr 2013
Ep. 21 - Rascals
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche said, “The quality of a really good teacher is “rascalness." Why do we need the outright unpredictable sometimes in order to progress spiritually? This week our Mindrollers d…
01:01:02 |
Fri 12 Apr 2013
Ep. 20 - Ram Dass & Rameshwar Das
Raghu and David welcome Ram Dass and his co-author Rameshwar Das, who just finished their new book, Polishing the Mirror. Ram Dass talks about the moment that his life changed when he met his Guru an…
01:01:02 |
Fri 05 Apr 2013
Ep. 19 - Implant and the Wall
The Mindrollers traverse from the implant of knowledge via a teacher (or not) through to the real meaning of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” as explained to David by Roger Waters himself. Also ruminations ab…
00:57:50 |
Fri 29 Mar 2013
Ep. 18 - Life is Tough, Deal with It
David and Raghu investigate the unusual "Shambala Sun" cover story by Norman Fischer. Our Mindrollers present their own version of how to deal with life - stop blaming people, the world is upside dow…
00:51:38 |
Fri 22 Mar 2013
Ep. 17 - Mickey Lemle
Mickey Lemle’s documentary “Fierce Grace” passionately covers Ram Dass’s life post-stroke and also gives us a transcendent look at aging when life suddenly involves intense hardship. We talk with M…
00:38:23 |
Thu 14 Mar 2013
Ep. 16 - A Chat with Mirabai Bush
Mirabai Bush, who co-founded The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, has worked with everyone from Google to troubled youth to the army, teaching the practice of mindfulness. If anyone needs mo…
00:40:29 |
Thu 07 Mar 2013
Ep. 15 - Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg joins Mindrolling on location on Maui and shares her incredible clarity and huge heart. She lends a hand to our intrepid Mindrollers on how to navigate the vicissitudes of our complex…
00:38:12 |
Wed 27 Feb 2013
Ep. 14 - Krishna Das
Raghu and David sit with Krishna Das, who the New York times has called the Chant Master of American Yoga. They discuss chanting as a practice and people taking on "uncooked Gurus".
See Privacy Pol…
00:29:09 |
Wed 20 Feb 2013
Ep. 13 - Politics and Spirituality
Activism without anger, resistance without rancor: it's hard to reach detachment when the political world is making you crazy. What to do?
Vajravarahi is a spiritual energy deity perceived to transm…
00:52:50 |
Tue 12 Feb 2013
Ep. 12 - Enigmatic Teachers
What is a guru? What is a teacher? Raghu and David offer gentle though and definitions of an “accomplished being” a “siddha” and of a teacher, some of whom are great and some actually harmful...they…
00:44:47 |
Tue 05 Feb 2013
Ep. 11 - Immersed in Sacred Music
More spectacular experiences with sacred musicians: Bob Marley, Krishna Das, Jai Uttal and Bhagavan Das. Both frightening and enlightening times with world, trance and the beginnings of chant and kir…
00:39:38 |
Tue 29 Jan 2013
Ep. 10 - Shyamdas
This podcast with our dear friend Shyam Das which was scheduled for broadcast today January 22, 2013 tragically coincided with his passing in a motorcycle accident in India three days ago. There are …
00:41:12 |
Tue 22 Jan 2013
Ep. 09 - Close Encounters: From Zappa to Muktananda
David and Raghu talk about David's interview with Frank Zappa, and 60’s music from Detroit soul to California drug music. Raghu has an embarrassing Led Zeppelin experience. R & D discuss high beings …
00:31:55 |
Thu 17 Jan 2013
Ep. 08 - A Chat with Lama Surya Das
American Lama Surya Das talks with us about his sixties influences such as folk music, John Lennon, and his early questioning of the meaning of life. He carefully compares these times for the current…
00:48:04 |
Tue 08 Jan 2013
Ep. 07 - Digital Dilemma
This podcast explores the positive and negative aspects of media, including social media. Raghu recalls playing Ram Dass tapes on the radio back in the day and meeting Maharaji. David compares 1960’s…
00:45:11 |
Wed 02 Jan 2013
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