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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…

3 min readJan 10, 2021

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The Eleusinian Mysteries

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Raja Choudhury
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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…

4 min readNov 7, 2020

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The Neuroscience of Navratri

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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…

7 min readOct 9, 2020

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An Indian Mystic in the Wild Wild West of Consciousness

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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…

3 min readNov 27, 2019

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I am tired of Mindfulness, give me Grace and Superpowers

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Raja Choudhury
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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…

2 min readJul 28, 2019

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The "Kamala" in Kamala Harris

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

How Tantra and Kundalini can empower Gender Equality and Planetary Balance

2 min readJul 30, 2018

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

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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…

2 min readDec 17, 2016

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The Vision of a Universal Church

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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…

1 min readDec 16, 2016

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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…

2 min readDec 2, 2016

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Spirituality and Religion are the Ultimate Placebos

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Yoga 3.0: How India invented Yoga, lost it, regained it and wants to give it away again

At 6:45 am on 21st June 2015, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat on the dais at New Delhi’s Rajpath and brought about a cultural…

7 min readSep 25, 2015

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Yoga 3.0: How India invented Yoga, lost it, regained it and wants to give it away again

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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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