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The Other 9/11: How Swami Vivekananda Transformed America

This September, while most Americans remember 9/11 as a day of mourning, many will commemorate the “Other 9/11” in 1893 when the world came…

Sep 11

The Other 9/11: How Swami Vivekananda Transformed America

Sep 11

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A Thousand Suns

The First Mystics: the Eleusinian Mysteries

The title “Mystic” was the name given to ordinary citizens of Athens who made an annual pilgrimage to a set of mysterious caves at Eleusis…

Jan 10, 2021

The Eleusinian Mysteries

Jan 10, 2021

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A Thousand Suns

The Neuroscience of Navratri

When Rishi Markandeya sat up in the valleys of Yamunotri composing the Puranas named after him, little did he realize that his epic…

Nov 7, 2020

The Neuroscience of Navratri

Nov 7, 2020

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A Thousand Suns

An Indian Mystic in the Wild Wild West of Consciousness

Imagine a gathering of hundreds of the world’s leading minds in consciousness research today and then discovering that only two were there…

Oct 9, 2020

An Indian Mystic in the Wild Wild West of Consciousness

Oct 9, 2020

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A Thousand Suns

I am tired of Mindfulness, give me Grace and Superpowers

I really am tired of the evangelical zeal with which Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga are now bandied around as the panacea for all ills…

Nov 27, 2019

I am tired of Mindfulness, give me Grace and Superpowers

Nov 27, 2019

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A Thousand Suns

The "Kamala" in Kamala Harris

Watching Kamala Harris’ dramatic rise in the first Democratic Party debate left Indians all over the world nodding knowingly as to how…

Jul 28, 2019

The "Kamala" in Kamala Harris

Jul 28, 2019

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A Thousand Suns

The Dance of Shiva & Shakti in the #MeToo and #TimesUp Age

How Tantra and Kundalini can empower Gender Equality and Planetary Balance

Jul 30, 2018

The Dance of Shiva & Shakti in the #MeToo and #TimesUp Age

Jul 30, 2018

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A Thousand Suns

The Vision of a Universal Church

In 1870’s India, a mostly forgotten Calcutta philosopher and a leading member of the Brahmo Samaj at the time, Keshub Chandra Sen, formed…

Dec 17, 2016

The Vision of a Universal Church

Dec 17, 2016

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A Thousand Suns

Soma and the Psychedelic Origins of Religious Experience

In a talk I gave in 2015, I explored the origins of Vedic and Zoroastrian religious thinking in the Soma/Haoma Schools in the Indus…

Dec 16, 2016

Dec 16, 2016

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A Thousand Suns

Spirituality and Religion are the Ultimate Placebos

You fear death, we give you the afterlife and reincarnation and heaven. You fear life, we give you angels and light beings and prayer and…

Dec 2, 2016

Spirituality and Religion are the Ultimate Placebos

Dec 2, 2016

Raja Choudhury

Raja Choudhury

Observations from the edge of disruptive + conscious creativity, innovation, design and filmmaking. Exploring deep meditation. Just trying to follow my Bliss.

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