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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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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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 track Awareness, 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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