Dale Borglum (Ram Dev) founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the coauthor with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and giv ...
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Twenty years ago, Dr. Eric Oliver started teaching a course on how to know your self at the University of Chicago. In the class, Eric would ask his students nine questions that were essential for crafting “a well-examined life.” For this podcast, he poses these same nine questions to some of our wisest and most interesting fellow humans. We hope these conversations will shed some light on your own lived experience and tell you something you didn’t know about this mysterious process we call a ...
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Explaining service as the easiest path to awakening, RamDev gives tips on developing compassion and selfless action. Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev guides listeners through: His favorite part …
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Ep. 113 –The Art of Prayer: Tell Me, What Do You Ask Of God?
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In conversation with listeners, Ramdev explains how prayer unites us with God and prepares us to receive grace. Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about: Prayer as the foundation of eve…
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Tom Levinson is one of the most multifaceted people we know. A former lawyer and divinity student, he is the author of ALL THAT’S HOLY: A Young Guy, an Old Car, and the search for God in America. Tom is co-founder of LK Advisors, LLC, which provides families with help navigating the complexities of life with money. He is also cohost of Money, Meet …
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Brittney Hartley is an author, secular spiritual counselor, and self described Nihilism survivor. She was raised in a strong Mormon community in Idaho and was a history teacher and mother when she began questioning her faith. This led her to graduate study in theology and eventually a life today as a meditation teacher and spiritual counselor for p…
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Bringing the mind into the heart, Ram Dev elucidates how to let go of the ego and surrender into beingness. Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. In this episode, RamDev teaches on: Living out concepts after we understand them Keeping our h…
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Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of A Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United…
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Sam Patten is a political consultant who spent the first half of his career promoting democracy and advising political campaigns in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. He gained notoriety in 2018 when he became the target of the Muller Investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, due largely to his connection with Konstantine Kilimin…
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Discussing why it is so difficult to open the heart, Ramdev provides practical lessons on how to rest in the heart-space more often. Today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev speaks about: Why it is so h…
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The Neuroscience of Well Being - Camilla Nord
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Camilla Nord is fellow and director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at Cambridge University. Her research tries to bridge the gap between neuroscience and treatments for mental health disorders, She is also the author of a new book called The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health. Support the Show.…
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Examining the concept of faith, Ramdev talks about awakened fearlessness and surrendering during moments of fear. Today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. In this episode, RamDev lectures on: How saints seem to have no fear The principal of Su…
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Emotions, Negotiation, and Comedy - Dr. Hillary Elfenbein
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Hillary Anger Elfenbein has been a business school professor at the Olin School of Washington University in St. Louis since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, a Master’s degree in Statistics, and undergraduate degrees in Physics and Sanskrit, all from Harvard University. Dr. Elfenbein served for five years on faculty at the Haas Sc…
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RamDev shares his thoughts on approaching subtle grief and feelings of separateness through a Tantric lens. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on: Dealing with the sub…
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RamDev offers wisdom on receiving the body as an energetic entity we can utilize to enter into non-dual awareness. This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers some wisdom on: The challenge of making our life a practice Experiencing this in the body for full presence Embodiment perceived as emptiness How unresolved trauma can get locked in the b…
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The Mysteries of Consciousness - Anil Seth
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Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. He is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From…
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Mindful Politics - Steve Israel & Tim Ryan
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Former Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill – unindicted and undefeated – to pursue a career as a writer. He heads the non-partisan Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in New York City. Israel was a Member of Congress for sixteen years. He left in 2017, having served as House Democrats chief political strategist betwee…
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Ep. 107 – Finding the Object of Your Devotion
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Whether it is Christ, a guru, a loved one, or neighbor, RamDev helps us find the object of our devotion in each passing moment. In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains: The inner and outer guru Letting go of identification with suffering Seeing the forest versus getting lost in the trees The grace within devotion How our psychologic…
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Ep. 106 – Distraction From Boundless Awareness
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RamDev analyzes how distraction prevents us from experiencing boundless awareness and the ways we can develop qualities of spaciousness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains: How …
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Eric Oliver is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He studies American politics, public opinion, political psychology, local politics, racial attitudes, the politics of science, and the self. Recent research papers examine why Americans believe in conspiracy theories, how credulous Americans are about misinformation, why 20…
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Ep. 105 – Finding Light Through Loss with Wendy Stern
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Sharing her personal story with loss, yoga therapist Wendy Stern joins RamDev to talk about somatic grieving through yoga and mindfulness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this moving episode, RamDev and Wendy Stern conver…
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Ram Dass joins RamDev for a moving conversation about their work with the dying and the importance of practice in the living/dying process that each of us will go through. In this revamped episode, RamDev and Ram Dass connect on: The formation of the living dying center The four Tibetan mind-turning truths How all fear can be tracked to a fear of d…
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Amy Owen is a birth doula, meditation teacher, and yoga instructor in Chicago. She started her career in the 1980s as a fashion model and began practicing mediation in her early 20s. A few years later she learned yoga and has been teaching yoga since 2008. She created the outreach prenatal yoga program serving Northwestern Hospital’s ambulatory car…
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Tom Turcich is a writer, motivational speaker, and adventurer. After the early death of a close friend, he decided to walk around the entire globe. He spent several years planning this journey and seven years actually doing it. Along the way he faced sickness, theft and other numerous challenges. But he also met incredible people and discovered how…
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Using mindful awareness and compassion, RamDev walks listeners through the pathways to emotional freedom. Check out Ram Dev’s new online course, A Practical Guide to Freedom: The Stages of Awakening, where you will come away with the wisdom and practices to integrate and embody the stages of the spiritual path so you can begin to surrender into the…
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The Secrets Behind Gestures - Susan Goldin-Meadow
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Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Rumi Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Human Development, and the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago. She has won numerous awards and written several books on language and gesture including her latest book: Thinking With Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind H…
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Ep. 102 – The Relationship Between Devotion, Self Compassion and Compassion for Others
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Concentrating on devotion, RamDev describes healing feelings of inadequacy and holding a deep compassion for the self and others. This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about: - Devotion as the easiest way to open the heart - Self-worth and offering Compassion to ourselves - Trusting that everything is the Dharma unfolding - Becoming a…
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Alan Lightman is a professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition to publishing numerous scientific papers in physics on the nature of gravity, he has published the best selling novels Einstein’s Dreams and The Diagnosis, which was a finalist for a national book award. He recently hosted the tv series “Searc…
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Defining the meaning of fully conscious dying, RamDev shares the practices that can help all of us meet death with acceptance and awareness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode, RamDev elucidates: The stages of b…
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Rama Ranganathan, M.D. Ph.D. is a Joseph Regenstein Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. Rama’s research has focused the atomic and cellular structure, function, and evolution in biological systems. His work has led to new models for the architecture of natural proteins. He is also the dire…
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Analyzing the roots of anxiety, RamDev explains the spiritual and emotional benefits of having a direct experience of emptiness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains: The fundamen…
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Richard Lang is Co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, the UK charity set up in 1996 to help share the Headless Way as widely as possible in the world. He first saw who he really was when he attended a workshop with Douglas Harding in 1970. He is committed to making this Vision as widely available as possible. He has written two books, Seeing Who You …
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The Premonitionist - Stephanie Arnold
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Stephanie Arnold is an American producer and author. In 2013, she was clinically dead for 37 seconds after suffering an amniotic fluid embolism immediately after giving birth to her second child. In her book, 37 Seconds, she recounts this event and her life afterwards. It was said that she predicted her flatlining and details of how it would happen…
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Ep. 99 – Transmuting Emotions into Presence
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How can we bring awareness and compassion to our emotions? This week, RamDev looks at how we can grow by forming a close relationship with our emotions. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow On this episode of the Healing at the E…
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The Psychedelic Psychologist - Harriet De Wit
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Harriet De Wit is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, her research investigates the effects of psychoactive drugs on healthy people, examining what they can tell us about normal brain function. Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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Ep. 98 – The Spiritual Imperative of Artificial Intelligence
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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into cultivating qualities to respond to the artificial intelligence disruption. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow Reflecting on the increase in collective fear that comes with…
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Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist, formerly writing the weekly column This Column Will Change Your Life for the newspaper The Guardian. In 2021, he published Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a self-help book on the philosophy and psychology of time management and happiness. For more information please visit https:/…
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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on surrendering into suffering and how right effort unfolds in our lives. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on: The m…
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Join us as we get to know a whole new round of amazing guests for, what is to be, an exciting Season Two of Nine Questions with Eric Oliver. Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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Richard Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987. He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behavior. He is best known for his work on the evolution of human warfare, described in the book Demonic Males, and on …
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Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning freelance journalist who reports about science, travel, food and adventure for the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and more. Her multi-award winning first book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, was published in 2018 with Da Capo Press. Her second book, I Feel Love: MDM…
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Fresh from a trip to Guatemala, RamDev guides us on letting go of separateness and surrendering into wholeness. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow “Right now we can begin to rest in the wisdom that we are not the body and the pers…
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Exploring practices for embodied mindful awareness, RamDev shines light on the five stages of the journey of awakening. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow “Enlightenment is not something that is achieved. It is the revealing of wh…
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Focusing on truth and awareness, RamDev teaches us how to see the guru in everything and everyone. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores: The formlessness of the Guru The Guru within th…
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Describing three levels of surrender, RamDev shows us how to receive the blessings of an open heart. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow "The first level of surrender that allows us to receive is giving up a wish that things be …
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Ep. 92 – The Tantra of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment
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RamDev dives into the Tantra of delight, wonder, and astonishment to help us surrender with love into our sacred fundamental nature. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow "In this crazy 21st century in which we're living, for me, …
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Andrea and Eric recap season one’s highlights and what season two might have in store. Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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Exploring how to open the heartmind, RamDev, offers insight into love, devotion, suffering, boundaries, resistance, and equanimity. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow "In Sanskrit there's not two words for heart and mind, there…
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The Skeptical Provocateur - Chris Kavanagh
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Chris Kavanagh is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford in the Centre for Social Cohesion at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and an Associate Professor at the College of Contemporary Psychology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. His research interests include East Asian religions, ritual behavior, and the bonding effects of shared dysp…
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Soften devotion and open to the idea of life as meditation with RamDev as he teaches us about seeing God in everything. In this episode of the Healing at the Edge podcast, RamDev helps us discover being less rigid with meditation, loving like Christ, and embodying awareness in daily life. NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram …
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Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he held the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History. In 2018 he became a professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He has published several books including The Creedal Imperat…
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Dan Hooper is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a Senior Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Dan is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Sea…
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