Saturday, January 31, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #176 - 31JAN15

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:
  • This week we feature a pre-recorded conversation with Mari Angelon Young. Mari Angelon Young is a writer, adventurer, grandmother, and longtime student of the transformational path. She is the author of numerous books including an in-depth biography of the renowned south Indian saint, titled Yogi Ramsuratkumar—Under the Punnai Tree, as well as As It Is: A Year on the Road with a Tantric Teacher, and Spiritual Slavery, a biography of her spiritual teacher, Lee Lozowick. In her most recent book, The Baul Tradition – Sahaj Vision East & West, Angelon documents the Baul Path, a Tantric spiritual tradition, from its earliest roots in Bengal, to its transmission in the West in modern times.

    Since 1990, Angelon traveled extensively with her teacher, exploring spiritual traditions in India and Europe; she continues to travel and write while living at Triveni Ashram in the Desert Mountains of northern Arizona. She holds a master's degree in transpersonal psychology, has taught Jungian and archetypal studies at private colleges in the Southwest, and was the editor of Tawagoto, a quarterly journal of spirituality and personal transformation, for twenty-five years. She currently enjoys leading workshops in the U.S. and Europe in the bhakti and tantric traditions of India, dream yoga, writing as a spiritual practice, and the art of growing wise with dignity, empowerment, and grace.

More information about Mari Angelon Young's work and interests can be found at:

Saturday, January 24, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #175 - 24JAN15

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:
  • This week we present an interview pre-recorded on Skype with Gil Fronsdal. Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council.

    In 2011 Gil founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. He has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a Ph.D in Religious Studies from Stanford University studying the earliest developments of the bodhisattva ideal. Gil is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; a book of original teaching stories called A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and he is the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications.

More information about Gil Fronsdal's work and interests can be found at:

Saturday, January 10, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #174 - 10JAN15

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:
  • This week we present an interview pre-recorded on Skype with Ocke de Boer, author of Higher Being Bodies - A Non-Dualistic Approach to the Fourth Way, with Hope. Ocke de Boer is the engine of a Work-group in Holland which has been in existence since 1990. He studied esotericism in Amsterdam for 4 years at a Raja Yoga School for Universal Thinking, which is non-dualistic thinking. Mr. de Boer has gained a general education in philosophy, religion and esoteric systems without getting lost in any of them. His center of gravity is in the Fourth Way, The Work, which he refuses to call the Gurdjieff Work. In his own words: Gurdjieff was and is a very big guy in the Fourth Way, but he did not invent it.
More information about Ocke de Boer's work and interests can be found at:

Saturday, January 3, 2015

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #173 - 03JAN15

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 Red Hawk (Robert Moore, Ph.D.), author of seven collections of poetry, including his recent work Mother Guru: Savitri Love Poems (Hohm Press, 2014), from which he’ll read. He is also the author of Journey of the Medicine Man (August House, 1983; finalist, Walt Whitman Award); The Sioux Dog Dance (Cleveland State University, 1991; runner-up, Patterson Poetry Prize); The Way of Power (Hohm Press, 1996); The Art of Dying (Hohm Press, 1999); Wreckage With A Beating Heart (Hohm Press, 2005) and Raven’s Paradise (Bright Hill Press, 2010; Bright Hill Press National Poetry Book 2009 winner).

    In addition, Red Hawk is the author of Self-Observation: The Awakening of Conscience, an Owner’s Manual (Hohm Press, 2009), a prose contemplation on the practice of self-study. He was the Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University and is now professor of English at the University of Arkansas in Monticello.

    Red Hawk earned a bachelor’s degree in English and history, and a master’s degree in English, both from Illinois State University. He earned a doctorate in Contemporary American Literature from the University of Cincinnati. He has received several awards and grants, and had poetry readings with such luminaries as Allen Ginsburg and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Miller Williams, Tess Gallagher, and Coleman Barks, and more than 70 solo-readings in the U.S. More than 80 of his poems have been published in magazines such as The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Atlanta Review, Shenandoah, and many others.
More information about Red Hawk's work and interests can be found at: