Best of 2022 – Top Episodes from the Be Here Now Network Family
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Simply being in the present or living in the present is necessary but it's not sufficient. We can recognize something that's present, but it's not...
Welcome to the Soul Land Music Series: Songs & Stories Inspired by Ram Dass. Music as a Vehicle Rounding the year anniversary since the first wind...
In celebration of her new podcast, Mirabai Bush illuminates her journey through India alongside Ram Dass, to the feet of Maharajji, and into the...
In this poetic excerpt from his book, Deva Bhumi, Ram Dass' closest Indian friend and brother, KK Sah, illuminates the meaning of bhav on...
Interweaving the spiritual wisdom of Ram Dass and Alan Watts, Ganesh Das explores how to dance through change, getting free of our attachments to...
It’s common knowledge that exercise is great for your physical health, helping you to live longer and have less health issues. But did you know...
Waking up to the realities of our shadows through the vivid mirror of others, can we move past our projections to deescalate the powderkeg...
Working within polarities wrought with righteousness, disagreement & ignorance, can we share in the spontaneous, boundless joy of the present moment by offering one...
I was first introduced to the book Be Here Now in 1972 by the big sister of my high school sweetheart. I had already been reading books...
My model of emotional intelligence has three levels. First, there are the neural circuits at play, particularly the dynamic between the prefrontal cortex –...
It is election day and an anxious and fearful Noah Markus shares his anxiety toolbox, which is filled with wisdom from Be Here Now...
Philosophy -- to put it as simply as possible -- focuses on finding meaning and purpose in life. Most people Eastern philosophy originates from...
Are You “One of Those Purposeful People"? I was speaking with my friend the other day and was struck by the fact that he seemed...
How do we navigate the overall unruliness of life, so filled as it is with urgencies—tasks left undone, friends who need help, health problems,...
David Nichtern joins Noah Markus for a conversation around Right Livelihood in modern times, why money really shouldn’t be a dirty topic, and how...
Your good health, happiness, and inner peace all depend on a smooth flow of energy—the harmonious balance and clarity of your seven chakra energy...
Throughout his many lectures, Ram Dass often used the terms “impeccable” or “impeccability”. When I started writing this blog, I felt like I had...
Designed to move energy between your personal field and the universal field, your chakras are invisible but vital engines that replenish your energy and...
“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of...
Service Can Give or It Can Take...It’s Your Choice. When we think of service, we often consider it to be a type of job you...
Elaine N. Aron, PhD, is a clinical and research psychologist, author, and pioneer in the field of high sensitivity. She has published five books, including The Highly...
Thomas M. Campbell, MD, is co-author, with his father T. Colin Campbell, PhD, of The China Study - the largest study on nutrition ever conducted. He is a...
Heath Slawner, one of the lead teachers for Simon Sinek—the visionary voice behind the concept of WHY—specializes in strategic communication and leadership and has...
Ever feel like you’re totally losing it? Your adrenals are shot. Your lower back is hurting. You tripped into the dog’s water bowl and ruined...
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and a New York Times best-selling author of 15 books...
Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, are couples therapists with over 40 years’ experience. They co-created Imago Relationship Therapy, an approach practiced by more...
Frank Ostaseski, an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and pioneer in end-of-life care, has accompanied over 1,000 people through their dying process. Acclaimed author of The Five...
Mari Andrew is a writer, illustrator, and speaker best known for her creative daily posts on Instagram. What started out as making one drawing a...
Donna Eden, a pioneer in the field of holistic healing, is among the world’s most sought-after, joyous, and authoritative spokespeople for energy medicine. Her invigorating...
In the best-selling book The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz, Mexican author of Toltec spiritualistic texts, delivers principles to transform our lives into an expression...
Lynne Twist is the author of the best-selling The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life and founder of the Soul of Money Institute. She...
“When we get curious, we step out of our old, fear-based, reactive habit patterns, and we step into being.” – Judson Brewer, MD, PhD For many of us, mulling...
Judson Brewer, MD is a psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness...
Gabor Maté is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade with patients challenged...
Shefali Tsabary, PhD, is an international speaker, acclaimed author, and creator of the groundbreaking Conscious Parenting approach - which Oprah Winfrey has endorsed as revolutionary...
I have to start this off by forgiving myself. I did not write this blog in a timely manner, and I’ve really been feeling...
Robert Peng, born and raised in Hunan, China, is a world-renowned qigong master and healer. He began studying this ancient Chinese art of wisdom, love,...
Matt Kahn,author of Whatever Arises, Love That, is a spiritual teacher and highly attuned empathic healer whose often humorous videos are a YouTube sensation. Through...
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place...
Dan Siegel, MD, is an internationally acclaimed author, educator, and child psychiatrist who has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. The executive director...
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in one last time. Today is the final full day of action here at the retreat. Monday morning brings the closing...
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in from Maui on a beautiful Saturday evening. We had a marvelous, intense, invigorating, and inspiring day here, with some...
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in from the island paradise of Maui. As it turns out, you can still catch a cold in paradise. I usually...
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in from Maui again. The retreat kicked into full gear today with a morning of dharma talks, an afternoon workshop,...
Aloha, Noah Markus here! Greetings from the island paradise of Maui, where I’m one of the extremely lucky people to be attending the 2018...
Sylvia Boorstein, MSW, PhD is the author of numerous books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation practice, including That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Buddhist: On Being...
Renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, author and host of The Metta Hour podcast for the Be Here Now Network Sharon Salzberg recently sat down with Kate Green Tripp, from...
Adyashanti, author of The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the...
What does it take to be honest? This question came to me on my walk along the Hudson River this morning. Our guru, Neem Karoli...
Have you read the children’s book Mr. Tiger Goes Wild? I think of it often when I reflect on modern life. The book portrays a...
Alexandra Elle is an author and poet living in the Washington, DC, metro area with her husband and daughter. In her preteen years, writing came...
As part of our exploration of the concept of music as an ally, the Awakened Heart Blog was lucky enough to talk about the...
A 2007 study by political scientist RD Putnam discovered that people are more likely to socially retreat when in ethnically diverse environments. Our tendency...
Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher and impassioned global activist. Featured in magazines, on NPR, and on Oprah.com, Seane uses her platform to...
It’s pretty easy to convince ourselves that we aren’t the “type” for a given job, friend, adventure, or form of exercise. I fall into this...
“Nobody can say 'I am in samadhi.' One cannot talk or communicate. Samadhi is an experience where the existence of 'I' disappears. Explanations can...
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about this old Ram Dass story where he was staying at a house that came with a cat....
Max Strom is a global speaker, author, yoga teacher, and trainer, best known for deeply impacting the lives of his students with teachings that reach...
Mindfulness teacher Laurie J. Cameron, the author of The Mindful Day, reflects on the dramatic benefits of practicing mindfulness in the workplace and shares practical...
Find a practice That naturally takes you out of your thinking mind, Like walking, jogging, swimming. I do it on a treadmill or while walking outside along a...
Chris Grosso shares an excerpt from his newest book Dead Set on Living: Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F#*king Up to Waking...
Turning Happiness and Suffering into the Path of Enlightenment In Tibet in 1926, Dodrup Chen Rinpoche III wrote a small booklet called “Turning Happiness and...
i went to maui to visit ram dass for a private retreat in the summer of 2015. he wasn’t well at the time. his...
Separation and Integration as Essential Operations On our Path to Wholeness In 1963, Ram Dass and Tim Leary left Harvard to explore the paths of...
The seventh limb of yoga, Dhyana, moves deeper into the practice of developing awareness. Whereas Dharana is the practice of one-pointed meditation, or focus...
For many years I harbored serious qualms with organized religion. In all honesty, I still do. But when I moved to Thailand in 2010...
Are You Time Travelling or Staying in the Moment? When I was 11 years old, my mother took me on a trip to India. It...
Our teacher is prolific. As much as we want, he gives. He gives and gives and gives. Even now, at age 86, post-stroke and...
We are thrilled to have 1440 Multiversity as the first sponsor of the Be Here Now Network’s podcasts! 1440 Multiversity is the nation’s newest learning...
An Exploration of Satsang Growing up in the “spiritual” scene, I never really registered just how different it was. Like, maybe having 20 to 30...
Mindfulness as a Daily Habit… All of us can remember those first moments of clear presence when we realized there is a path to inner...
Sitaram Dass reflects on the struggle of engaging ethically and responsibly in the modern world. In this search he turns to the wisdom of...
In Ancient Egypt, the Goddess Maat was the weigher of souls in the underworld. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, it describes how...
A Free Flowing Conversation around mantras, chanting, music and love with Our Resident Kirtan Wallah. Recently the Be Here Now Network was lucky enough to...
How do we keep our practice alive over time? Everything ebbs and flows. Cycles of the moon, the seasons, our energy throughout the day, creative...
Faith, hope and love; Ben Riggs reminds us why the greatest of these is love. On the spiritual path, we will fall short many times....
Working with Dharana is part of a developing series for Be Here Now Network, exploring the 8 Limbs of Yoga, and the ways in which we can...
Teddy Flood, from HBO’s Westworld, is a character with a mysterious backstory. Handsome, brooding, a cowboy, and on TV - of course he’s got a...
Writer, activist, and musician Sitaram Dass invites us to question the freedom our role in society really gives us and to analyze the value...
In this excerpt from "In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea" Danny Goldberg takes us back to the Summer of...
When practicing pratyahara we are asked to withdraw from whatever experience we are working through- but to do it with intention and direction. A previous...
Archetypes in our stories guide our lives in profound and largely unconscious ways. Through reframing classic mythologies, we explore the resurgence of feminine archetypes and...
Stefan Ravalli continues his series, Tweaking Our Compassion Computer, with Part II: Practice. To cultivate our ability to connect to the other, one way of doing this...
Mirabai Starr shares her process of turning to the Divine Mother to navigate the emerging landscape that is life. "How I Met My Mother" was...
Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically. The...
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” We’ve all been hearing that expression since we were kids. It’s an unquestioned means of cautioning someone...
THICH NHAT HANH´S GATHAS Dwelling in the present moment, We can see so many beauties and wonders right before our eyes–a child’s smile, the sun rising,...
A Long, Strange Trip For many people, psychedelic drugs such as LSD (acid) and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) can act as a gateway to an expanded...
Renowned storyteller, performer, author, activist and scholar Michael Meade weaves threads of timeless wisdom traditions into myths for today’s global crisis. Michael Meade says each...
“Inner social action” is necessary in order to make our outer actions productive. There have been many dark ages throughout history. As we now enter into...
How do we get used to remaining in the nature of the mind? When thoughts come while you are meditating, let them come; there’s no...
Whereas the Yamas place a lot of focus on recognizing ourselves in relation to the world around us, the Niyamas bring deeper focus to...
The first limb of yoga, the Yamas, speak to the difficulty of relationship and social dynamics. Hoping to guide us into a more authentic...
Within the sayings and practices of both Sufism and music, one can find all the necessary conditions that are needed to cultivate higher states...
Whatever your political perspective, now is the season to stand up for what matters. To stand against hate. To stand for respect. To stand for...
On February 14, 2017, the world lost a great teacher, Gelek Rimpoche. Born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1939, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche was recognized as an...
Spiritual bypassing, a phrase coined by the psychologist John Selwood, is the use of spirituality to avoid our painful feelings, unmet needs, and unhealed...
The outcome of this election is a wake-up call to action. Now that we know our elected leaders will not save us, let’s get...
Born at 4:11pm on January 14, 2017 and filled with light by the energy of a full moon, my daughter has come with the...
Raghu’s latest podcasts have all had some focus on the coming sea change of government administrations. He has talked to spiritual luminaries like Sharon...
Zen teacher David Robert Loy gives a new and insightful perspective on the reality of America's current political climate. Much of the country, and the world were...
At the time of writing, it has been about a week since the 9th Annual “Open Your Heart in Paradise” retreat on Maui has...
“Bring your attention back to the breath.” “Keep breathing!” “Breathe into your edges and soften.” The list goes on, but I think you get the point....
We live in a hectic world that never stops talking, never stops doing. The only state of consciousness that is encouraged in our culture is...
Your favorite yoga class starts at 6, you’re running late from a meeting after work, there’s traffic, but despite it all, you get to...
"When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart; He will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you...
"When we throw a banana peel into the garbage, if we are mindful, we know that the peel will become compost and be reborn...
"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular...
The true purpose of psychedelics is to share with the world fresh ideas. Throughout this animated short talk, Terence McKenna talks about all of the...
“Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas,...
We hear quite a bit about being in the moment these days. Celebrities and CEOs have spoken out about how adopting the practice, has improved...
In speaking regularly with spiritual seekers, it dawned on me one day how addicted so many of them are to the power of charisma. They...
Slowing down seems impossible these days. The constant contact and connection available at our fingertips facilitates so much of our lives. What can we do...
For more from Alan Watts on seeking god and more, visit the Alan Watts Electronic University "It is surely absurd to seek God in terms...
Elegant brain mapping has shown that we’re hardwired for empathy. The recent discovery of “mirror neurons” has done for behavioral health what DNA has...
One day the Buddha held up a flower in front of an audience of 1,250 monks and nuns. He did not say anything for...
Many Ways Up The Mountain - On Meditation... There are many ways up the mountain, but each of us must choose a practice that feels...
How would you deal with the death of your spouse? How would you feel if you lost your mother tomorrow? Or your sister or...
“Whenever thoughts arise, just observe them as thoughts and label them “thinking.” What usually happens when we have thoughts is that we absorb ourselves...
The challenge is working to extricate ourselves from the reactivity to suffering around us, not to the denial of it, which we’re trying to...
The Courage of Prayer “My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted...
Imagine a very poor man living in a decrepit little shanty, the only thing he owns in the world. What he does not know...
This is a general educational piece on common Hindu and Buddhist deities, mantras and archetypes/practices written by Dr. Manoj Chalam. You can find information about...