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  • Podcast Episode: CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANSION: YOGI NIDRA

    Podcast Episode: CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANSION: YOGI NIDRA

    In this episode, Pip and Mara explore the concept of Consciousness Expansion through the lens of Yogi Nidra, inspired by Dippack Mistri’s vivid experience with a Himalayan sage on a terrace in Spain. They argue that what is often referred to as Consciousness Expansion is, in reality, Mental Expansion, where the true self, or Seer,… Read more

  • Podcast Episode: LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS

    Podcast Episode: LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS

    Pip: Dippack Mistri asks the question most of us sidestep before breakfast: what exactly is the light that makes all other light possible? Mara: This episode goes deep into that territory — the nature of consciousness as the absolute foundation of reality, drawing on Advaita Vedanta, the Gayatri Mantra, and the teachings of sages like… Read more

  • Podcast Episode: CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS BANISHMENT

    Podcast Episode: CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS BANISHMENT

    Pip: Dippack Mistri has a question for neuroscience, and it is not a gentle one. Mara: Today we’re in the territory of consciousness — what it is, whether science can locate it, and what the Hindu philosophical tradition has been saying about it for centuries. One theme, one sustained argument. Pip: Let’s start with the… Read more

  • Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA

    Pip: If you have ever wondered whether the universe is fundamentally made of love, and also whether a dog named Krupan already knew the answer, Dippack Mistri has been to the source and filed a report. Mara: That is the territory we are in today — the nature of Brahman, the Absolute, and what the… Read more

  • Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA

    Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA

    Pip: There is a question that has occupied mystics, philosophers, and at least one very patient dog — what is bliss, really? Mara: Dippack Mistri takes that question seriously, and today we follow the thread through the heart of Vedantic philosophy, a pilgrimage to Tiruvannamalai, and what it means to find the Absolute not in… Read more

  • Podcast Episode: EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA

    Podcast Episode: EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA

    Pip: There’s a post on Dippack Mistri’s site that opens with Moses, takes a hard left through ancient Sanskrit, and lands somewhere most legal scholars probably weren’t expecting. Mara: The territory today is justice, karma, and what a phrase most people think they understand actually means when you follow it back to its source. Pip:… Read more