Our guest today is highly respected Kundalini expert and researcher Lawrence Edwards. His life long passion to know that Truth of the inner life brings a deeply steeped background in science to a profound inner mystical experience. He chronicles the awakening, unfoldment, and integration of the underlying power of the Universe, the Kundalini Shakti, in his most recent book, Awakening Kundalini – The Path to Radical Freedom . A book I highly recommend for those serious about understanding Kundali...
Sep 04, 2020•2 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Our guest today is Lee Lyon, world-renowned meditation teacher and author/translator of the recently released, The 112 Meditations from the Book of Divine Wisdom , the meditations from the Vijnanabhairava Tantra, with commentary and guided meditations. Lee has traveled the world, from the 1980s to today, teaching 1000’s the art of simple meditation and introspection, showing the way to access the deep internal experience which is the goal of all spiritual practice. Lee’s gift is to make the comp...
Jul 08, 2020•2 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Our guest today is Leo Dale and we’re your hosts Marc Ketchel and Larry Holmes. Leo is an audio/video producer and a lifelong musician. Having traveled extensively particularly to India, he is just as comfortable on location anywhere in the world as in his studio in Melbourne Australia. Our conversation today covers a lot of ground, beginning from his early upbringing in a large Irish Catholic family of musicians where he’s #7 of 8. He shares his dramatic Kundalini experiences and insights inclu...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Our guest today is with Swami Dayananda or as she’s known today, Ani Pema, a Tibetan Buddhist nun. And we’re your hosts Marc Ketchel and Larry Holmes. Swamiji currently resides in Chiang Mai, Thailand, but has spent decades living and traveling in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Thailand. She is a direct disciple of Swami Muktananda, the Shaktipat (or Direct Transmission) Master, and spent the last 12 years of his life with him as he traveled the world initiating thousands into the Way of the...
May 26, 2020•2 hr•Season 2Ep. 23
We’re your hosts, Marc Ketchel and Larry Holmes, and today we’d like to share our reflections, insights, and thoughts about what’s next and how to make the most of the current situation. This is a short conversation but one we hope will give you some perspective and add value to your life. What we discuss is how a simple shift in viewpoint can help each of us, in our own way, get the most of the current circumstances and make the process of going forward more fulfilling and rewarding. Show Notes...
May 10, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Mary Reilly Nichols holds a BA in anthropology from Harvard University. is the Director of Nalanda Institute’s Yoga, Mind & Spirit and has been teaching yoga from a devotional/experiential perspective for over 30 years. She specializes in direct transmission experiential Yoga with an emphasis on the development of wisdom and direct experience through the lens of the non-duality traditions of Advaita Vedanta, and the Tantric methods of the Trika school of Kashmir Shaivism and Kundalini Yoga. ...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 55 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Our guest today is Joe Smith, who we interviewed in Ep# 19. You can see all the details of Joe’s amazing career as a senior executive in multiple healthcare companies where he managed employees in the thousands and budgets in the hundreds of millions. I asked Joe to come back and share with us in this very focused interview his experience with HeartMath and his decades-long work with breath and the deep insights he has received through this work with one of our most important biological function...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Our guest today is Joe Smith, retired healthcare executive, Consciousness explorer, endurance athlete, brother, husband, father, and grandfather. His remarkable story is one of adventure, pushing the envelope, and real-life wisdom. Our highly engaging conversation with Joe was over 4 hours long, and we were just getting started. What we are sharing with you today is only a small part of the full-life wisdom that Joe shared with us. But you can be assured, this is not the last time you will hear ...
Apr 11, 2020•2 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This is a special weekly series that we are initiating as a compassionate offering to our global community. It will include actionable guidance, insights and techniques to help everyone stay grounded, think clearly, and find ease during these challenging times. The format is short, generally 30 -45 minutes in length, packed full of actionable insights and techniques from experts and teachers with a proven track record of dealing with the circumstances we are all challenged by today. I believe yo...
Mar 27, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Our guest today is Kimberly Carson, author, nationally recognized chronic pain expert, health educator and Mindfulness therapist. Her research and program development with her husband, Jim Carson, PhD., at the prestigious Duke University Medical Center (Duke) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is documented in their latest book, Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain: An Eight-Week Mindful Yoga Workbook for Finding Relief and Resilience. Their Mindful Yoga intervention methods known as ...
Mar 07, 2020•2 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Our guest today is Sally Kempton, a world-renowned author, and Teacher of what she calls Devotional Contemplative Tantra. A tradition based on the most authoritative Shaiva scriptures, deep devotional practices, and direct experience. Her teachings are based on the most esoteric direct transmission school of non-dual awareness known as Shaktipat. The veracity and authenticity of her teachings are rooted in the teachings and transmission she received from her Guru, Baba Muktananda, which she has ...
Feb 23, 2020•2 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Our guest today is Bob Quinn, organic farmer, author, scientist, and food researcher. This conversation is a deeply insightful discussion about ancient grains, food systems, and the rural communities that produce our food. We talk about the food itself, how its grown, processed and distributed. The factors which determine the quality of our food and some of the little-known research Bob and his team have done around wheat and gluten sensitivity. He reveals discoveries he’s made about ancient gra...
Feb 15, 2020•2 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Our guest today is Swami Prakashananda, the world-renowned biographer of Baba Muktananda and his oldest living direct disciple. Swamiji’s remarkable life has taken him to India over twenty times, spending a total of over 14 years living in India over the last fifty years. If you have been following our Wisdom Talks podcast and listening to the previous episodes you know how often our guests mention the intersection of their lives with Baba Muktananda and how the contact with him has influenced t...
Feb 01, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Our guest today is Dr. Kanu Kogod, the Founder and President of Bridges in Organizations , a coaching and leadership organization that works in the business, health care, government, and non-profit sectors. She is a trained anthropologist, master certified coach, and renowned organizational development consultant. She co-designed and facilitated Leadership Alchemy, an award-winning transformational, leadership development program which received great acclaim through its work at NASA’s Goddard Sp...
Jan 25, 2020•2 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Our conversation today is with the late Master Charles, American mystic, meditation teacher and Guru, mentor, and spiritual guide to thousands. An incredibly talented and creative individual, author of six books and countless audio and music recordings. He is an acknowledged pioneer in the evolution of human consciousness and a personal friend who I’ve known and worked with for over 45 years. His colorful life began as a child model and actor at the age of 9, followed by twelve years beginning i...
Jan 18, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Our guest today is John Tilton, a world-renowned porcelain potter and veteran meditator who brings four decades of focused inner work in a dynamic spiritual community to his art form. And the results are truly breathtaking. You can see the remarkable results of his dedicated awareness coupled with his passionate and skillful talent at his website, tiltonpottery.com . Our discussion today is very practice-oriented, a rare peek at the ongoing dialogue between a devoted seeker of Truth and the subt...
Jan 11, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 11
In this conversation, Larry and I have a far-ranging discussion on topics dear to our hearts. We discuss the science and practice of yoga, the power of the mind to be our greatest asset or our most devastating liability. The core teaching of our Guru, Baba Muktananda, “To see the Self everywhere, in everyone.” We discuss the application of Quantum Mechanics, the ubiquitous nature of Kundalini and the interconnectedness of all life. Larry shares his teachings on ‘PurposefulLleadership. And finall...
Jan 04, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Our guest today is my “Wisdom Talks” co-host Marc Ketchel, and I’m your host Larry Holmes. Today’s episode is a conversation with my cohost Marc Ketchel, meditation teacher, veteran organic food and natural products business owner, world traveler, and serial entrepreneur. A passionate, action-oriented, get things done kind of guy and a long-time personal friend. In fact, we’ve known each other for over 45 years, living and working together on a global project beginning in the early ’70s and ’80s...
Dec 27, 2019•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Ep# 8 begins with Dr. Gabriel Cousens describing his Kundalini awakening during his first meditation session with his Guru, Swami Muktananda and I’m your host Marc Ketchel. In today’s episode, I’m having a conversation with Gabriel Cousens, MD, a very popular holistic physician, Rabbi, and meditation teacher. But he’s really much more than a meditation teacher, he brings decades of personal experience working with a fully awakened Kundalini to his teaching. Not only has he developed rare insight...
Dec 21, 2019•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In today’s episode, I’m having a conversation with Larry Holmes, psychologist, leadership trainer, and corporate consultant for some of the largest companies in Australia. He’s also my cohost of the Wisdom Talks podcast and long-time personal friend. In fact, our relationship and friendship goes back almost 50 years, to the 1970s when we were both Vedic monks serving our Guru, Swami Muktananda, who we affectionately called Baba, spreading the worldwide Meditation Revolution that he had inspired....
Dec 13, 2019•2 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Our guest today is Jim Carson, Ph.D., author, researcher, father, and husband. He is the co-founder and senior teacher with his wife Kimberly Carson of the paradigm-shifting program, Mindful Yoga. He is a former yogic monk who has been practicing and teaching meditation and yoga philosophy worldwide for over 45 years. Jim is currently a clinical health psychologist and Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Por...
Dec 07, 2019•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 6
My guest today is Eric Siegel, a software developer, and Consciousness explorer who had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening before he even knew what the word Kundalini meant. He’s part of the millennial generation and has only been meditating for about 15 years. Apart from being a very intelligent, normal and well-adapted young man, he maintains a very serious and well-disciplined spiritual life while working in the world and holding a regular job. My interest in interviewing him emerged from exte...
Nov 29, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Our guest today is Janine Sagert – intrepid consciousness explorer, film producer, a corporate consultant for some of the largest and most influential companies in America, and a life-long social justice and military veterans advocate. Our conversation today covers a wide spectrum of cutting edge, paradigm-shifting issues. We discuss her long history living and working with military veterans, the use of psychedelics to successfully treat mental illness and PTSD, the future of mental health in Am...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Our guest today is Dr. Michael Chance, Board Certified Chiropractor, a Phi Beta Kappa member, an energy worker, meditator of over 40 years, and a compassionate and sensitive educator of the next generation. He is the third generation of a four-generation chiropractic lineage. He’s my chiropractor but when I refer to him and tell people about what he does I inevitably refer to him as a healer, because that’s what he really is. That’s what my experience has been working with him over the years. He...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Our guest today is Australian author, cross-cultural anthropologist, researcher, and wisdom holder, Greg Campbell. In his tradition, a wisdom holder is a storyteller and Greg is an exemplary example of the ancient Australian storytelling tradition. I’m referring to the 65,000-year ancient Aboriginal culture he has made an integral part of his life and writings. In this interview, Greg will unpack his interesting and colorful life lived with intensity and the belief, ‘Anything is possible’. He tr...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our guest today is Don Daniels, an intrepid consciousness explorer, and veteran meditator of almost 50 years. His experience with Kundalini and the wisdom he shares is both powerful and transformational and a paradigm shift in deep states of meditation and human consciousness development. After several years of studying martial arts as a young boy and ultimately achieving Black Belt level, he began developing a strong interest in the contemplative aspects of the martial arts training as opposed ...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
