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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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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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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