Saturday, June 25, 2016

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #227 - 25JUN16

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 Solala Towler, author of a book recently published by Sounds True called Practicing the Tao Te Ching: 81 Steps on the Way. Solala Towler has taught and practiced Taoist meditation and qigong for more than 25 years. In addition to Practicing the Tao Te Ching, he is author of Tales from the Tao, Tao Paths to Love, and more. Solala is the editor of The Empty Vessel, a widely respected journal of Taoist philosophy and practice. He teaches qigong and sound healing at conferences and workshops around the country.
More information about Solala Towler's work can be found at:

Saturday, June 18, 2016

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #226 - 18JUN16

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 Aaron Krumins and Thad Malik. After visiting India in 2004, Aaron Krumins decided to stay and continue his pilgrimage which has been a story of words and paintings. Traveling from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, he has been painting his experiences and his stories of India. Aaron settled for seven years to practice his art form in the pilgrimage town of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, home to mystics such as Ramana Maharishi, Yogi Ramsuratkumar, Seshadri Swami, and many others. Aaron presently splits his time between Austin Texas and Tamil Nadu.

    Thad Malik is an inspired yogi and poet. He has practiced and taught yoga in the suburbs of Detroit and remote Himalayan Hideaways. He is a former yoga studio owner and a current nomadic yogi gypsy. Wherever Thad’s adventures or heartfelt yoga classes lead (which is many places) they invariably come again to the juiciest of moments: Now!
More information about Aaron Krumins and Thad Malik's work can be found at:

Saturday, June 4, 2016

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #225 - 04JUN16

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 Daniel Terragno Roshi, and Christine Skarda. Daniel Terragno, a native of Chile, is a teacher in the koan tradition of the Diamond Sangha, which was founded by Robert Aitken Roshi. Daniel is the dharma heir of John Tarrant Roshi of the Pacific Zen Institute. Daniel started his spiritual practice in 1967 studying the Gurdjieff Work with W.A. Nyland before taking up Zen. Daniel received authorization to teach Zen in 1995, and in 2001 received dharma transmission from Tarrant Roshi. Daniel also teaches and leads sesshin in Ohio with Yellow Springs Dharma Center and Zen on High in Columbus, Ohio; with Grupo Zen Viento del Sur (Southern Wind) in Argentina, based in Buenos Aires, and also in Santiago, Chile.

    Christine Skarda is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun, a philosopher and scientific theorist whose professional career has spanned the fields of philosophy, neurophysiology, and cognitive science. She has both drawn on and contributed to the insights of these fields in her quest to understand the nature of perception. This quest eventually propelled her out of the research laboratory and onto a meditation cushion, where Skarda turned to methods of inquiry drawn from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to study the perceptual process from another angle. An ordained nun, Skarda has by now spent over a decade and a half in meditation retreat in the United States and India under the guidance of some of the greatest living members of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche. She returned to America in 2007 and continues her retreat in California. Occasionally she leaves retreat to lecture or teach to a diverse audience, offering her scientific background to Buddhists and her Buddhist insights to scientists and philosophers.

More information about Daniel Terragno and Christine Skarda's work can be found at: