Saturday, February 27, 2016

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #215 - 27FEB16

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 recording of a live talk given at Many Rivers Books & Tea on Thursday January 28, 2016 by your Mystical Positivist hosts, Stuart Goodnick and Rob Schmidt, on the topic of Choice: The Dance of Free Will. The question of Free Will has challenged the human imagination for centuries. In light of contemporary scientific findings on the neurological operation of the brain, arguments about free will have run up against some apparently stark realities. This new evidence begs a number of questions: To what extent do mechanical or deterministic factors give birth to our perceptions and actions in the material world? On what basis can we invoke choice to ensure that we avoid the slavery of unconscious perception and behavior? These questions become even more acute if we posit the existence of an underlying spiritual impulse to be free. If genuinely non-mechanical choices determine our destiny, how can we give ourselves fully to the spontaneous freedom of the moment—and what would it mean to do that? Join us for an exploration of what choice means in relation to spiritual and existential freedom.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #214 - 20FEB16

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 by telephone with Tarini Bauliya, author of Saved From Enlightenment: The Memoir of an Unlikely Devotee. The book describes the actualization of her spiritual yearnings throughout her life, and particularly as she came to work with and learn from western spiritual master Lee Lozowick. Along the way, Tarini experienced the obstacles that most spiritual practitioners face. Her book is a funny and poignant recounting of those experiences from the perspective of a hard-won greater maturity.
More information about Tarini Bauliya's work can be found at:

Saturday, February 13, 2016

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #213 - 13FEB16

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 in the studio with with Karl Young, Ph.D, on the history of the materialist perspective in scientific inquiry, and the limitations that strict material realism imposes. We discuss how a broader empirical perspective on science avoids a necessary commitment to a realist interpretation of the material entities that serve as the basis for current scientific models. Such an approach opens the doors to a genuine scientific inquiry into matters of consciousness and spirit. A native of San Francisco, Karl Young received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He worked as a research physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator and was an assistant adjunct professor at the University of California, San Francisco. His research focuses include the study and simulation of complex systems, applied information theory, image informatics, statistical image processing, parallel processing, and magnetic resonance physics. Karl is an accomplished jazz musician, as well as an avid student of the Shakuhachi or Japanese Bamboo Flute, and has studied intensively with such notable teachers as Kaoru Kakizakai and Riley Lee. In addition, Karl has maintained a longstanding interest and practice in Zen Buddhist Meditation.
More information about Karl Young's work can be found at:

Saturday, February 6, 2016

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #212 - 06FEB16

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 a pre-recorded interview with Rose Volckhausen, Vijaya Fedorschak and Karuna Fedorschak on the topic of spiritual lineage and how to embody lineage as disciples of a teacher no longer in his or her body. All three guests are disciples of spiritual teacher Lee Lozowick. Using the pen name Janet Rose, Rose Volckhausen is the author of Journey: From Political Activism to The Work. Vijaya Fedorschak is the author of Father & Son: The Indian Beggar King Yogi Ramsuratkumar and the American Master and Poet Lee Lozowick. Karuna Fedorschak is author of Parenting: A Sacred Task.
More information about Rose Volckhausen, Vijaya Fedorschak, and Karuna Fedorschak's work can be found at: