Author and music executive Danny Goldberg joins Raghu to talk about tapping into the basic goodness inside us all.
This week on Mindrolling, Danny and Raghu discuss:
- Our basic goodness as human beings
- The deep spiritual experiences that can happen outside of organized religion
- Breathing contemporary life into ancient spirituality
- Govinda, a famous devotional track produced by George Harrison
- Universalism and taking different paGandhi the same place
- Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and nonviolent resistance
- Seeing everyone as the Buddha, as ‘God in drag’
- Wise Compassion: Using your brain and your heart
“You need to go to the mountaintop for the inspiration but then to be the kind of person Dr. King wanted us to be, you gotta minister to the valley. We need both.” —Danny Goldberg
About Danny Goldberg:
Danny Goldberg is an author and music executive who has spent decades in the business. As a manager, Danny represented Bonnie Raitt, Nirvana, The Allman Brothers Band, and Sonic Youth. As a label executive, he was President of Atlantic Records, and Chairman of Warner Bros. Records and the Mercury Records Group – among others. Danny Goldberg’s previous books include Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment and Resistance to Trump, Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, How The Left Lost Teen Spirit, Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside The Rock and Roll Business and In Search of The Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea. Learn more about Danny and his work HERE.
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