Saturday, November 29, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #168 - 29NOV14

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.
This week's podcast features:
  • A conversation with Dojin Sarah Emerson and Korin Charlie Pokorny, head priests at Stone Creek Zen Center in Graton, California.

    Dojin Sarah Emerson trained at Tassajara Zen Mountain center and other sites of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1997-2007. She ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest with Abbot Gaelyn Godwin at the Houston Zen Center in 2007. She has worked in the fields of mental health and pastoral care. She is currently delighting in the practice of Dharma in family life with Korin and their two children in Northern California.

    Korin Charlie Pokorny was ordained as a priest by Reb Anderson in 1999. He practiced as a resident at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm for 12 years, including serving as tenzo and director at Tassajara. He holds a master’s degree from Stanford University in Religious Studies, and currently teaches at the Institute of Buddhist Studies.

More information about Dojin and Korin's's work and interests can be found at:

Saturday, November 22, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #167 - 22NOV14

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.
This week's podcast features:
  • A conversation with noted author and teacher, Ravi Ravindra. Ravindra is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he served for many years as a Professor in the departments of Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and of Physics.

    He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, and the Founding Director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge. He was a member of the Board of Judges for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He is an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network and a Fellow of the Temenos Academy, England.

    Ravi's spiritual search has led him to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, G. I. Gurdjieff, Zen, Yoga, and a deep immersion in the mystical teachings of the Indian and Christian classical traditions. He is the author of several books on religion, science, mysticism, and spirituality, including his most recent The Pilgrim Soul: A Path to the Sacred Transcending World Religions, as well as Heart Without Measure, Spiritual Roots of Yoga, Centered Self without Being Self-Centered: Remembering Krishnamurti, Science and the Sacred, The Wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Yoga and the Teachings of Krishna, The Yoga of the Christ, also published as The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism.

More information about Ravi Ravindra's work and interests can be found at:

Saturday, November 8, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #166 - 08NOV14

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.
This week's podcast features:
  • A conversation with Susan Feinbloom, author of the recently published book Clairvoyant Psychotherapy. Susan Feinbloom is a psychotherapist with a strong focus on spiritual and psychic abilities. For the last 30 years she has been weaving meditation and clairvoyance into her practice, looking beneath content, beyond stories to underlying truths revealed through spiritual anatomy. Her background includes hands-on healing, spiritual midwifery, cranial/sacral therapy, Shamanic techniques of healing and homeopathic consultations. In addition to her latest book, which we’ll focus on in this interview, she is the author of Unwinding the Soul, a book of poetry, and has produced two CDs: Heaven and Earth Meditations, and Meditations on the Chakras.

More information about Susan Feinbloom's work and interests can be found at:

Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #165 - 01NOV14

The Mystical Positivist is now a weekly radio show on KOWS-LP 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. Listen live on Saturday evenings from 4:00 - 6:00pm, PST, via the web at KOWS Live Stream.
This week's podcast features:
  • A conversation with John Mann, Professor of Sociology Emeritus of the State University College of New York at Genesee. He is author or editor of some twenty books, including the recently released Before the Sun: Meeting Rudi that recounts his relationship with the remarkable American spiritual teacher Swami Rudrananda. Albert Rudolph, also known as Swami Rudrananda, affectionately known as Rudi, was a spiritual original, a maverick yogi whose teachings transformed the lives of thousands of emerging spiritual seekers. John Mann’s book Before The Sun chronicles the astounding day-to-day events of Rudi’s teaching by one of Rudi's first students.

    John managed to survive the rollercoaster ride of studying Kundalini yoga in the tumultuous 1960s of New York City under the tutelage of arguably one of the most profound and adept masters of inner work. The book represents Mr. Mann's experience as Rudi’s student and friend, taken as an indirect approach to the description of Rudi himself and what it was like to be in his presence. Before the Sun: Meeting Rudi is an expanded version of Mr. Mann's book that was originally published in 1987 as Rudi: 14 Years with my Teacher. But in the course of editing 14 Years about one-third of the first manuscript was eliminated for various reasons. This new edition might be called the author’s cut, reinstating big chunks of the book and adding many never-before-seen images.

More information about John Mann's work and interests can be found at: