Blissful Thinking #17: Vimalasara Mason-John - "Life is to be of Service"
This week's guest is Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John, an award winning author of 9 books, including her most timely book published this year...
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Blissful Thinking is a podcast wherein I ask people of color the big questions: What is life? What happens when we die? Why are we here? What does "god" mean to you? How do you get through e...
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17 episodesBlissful Thinking #16: Mita Mistry - "Life is a Gift"
My guest this week is Mita Mistry, a writer, mindfulness-based cognitive therapist, and acupuncturist based in the UK. Mita is an incredibly...
Blissful Thinking #15: Kevin Martin - "Life is Interconnection"
My guest this week is my friend Kevin Martin. He is a native of the Bay Area and a practitioner of vipassana and, more recently, a student i...
Blissful Thinking #14: Kadija George - "Life is Living Your Best Life"
This episode features Kadija George! She's a legendary figure in the Black British literary world, one of the truest pioneers. Kadija writes...
Blissful Thinking #13: Dean Dorsett - "Life is about Getting Better at Being More Loving"
Dean Dorsett is my oldest friend! He was my companion, confidante, and comrade-in-arms during my 3 years at Oriel College, Oxford, very much...
Blissful Thinking #12: Thomas Davis - "Life is a Process of Discovering Who You Are"
This week's episode is with my friend, the dharma teacher Thomas Davis. Thomas was a lay minister in the church for over 10 years before cro...
Blissful Thinking #11: Guilaine Kinouani - "A Good Life is Feeling Connected to the World"
This week's episode is with radical psychologist, feminist and psychotherapist Guilaine Kinouani, an expert on the impact of racism on the m...
Blissful Thinking #10: JJ Bola - "Through Spirit We Are Always Alive"
This week's episode is with poet, novelist, and writer on masculinity, JJ Bola. We speak about traditional African spirituality and the impo...
Blissful Thinking #9: Roger Robinson - "I Don't Need to Define What Life Is"
Roger Robinson is a poet and vocalist for the musical crossover project King Midas Sound. I've known him for 20 years as one of the biggest-...
Blissful Thinking #8: Mauricio Barriga - "Life is Just What It Is"
This week's episode is with my dear friend Mauricio Barriga, a schoolteacher originally from Mexico, now living in Santa Ana in Orange Count...
Blissful Thinking #7: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi - "Life is a Preparation for Death"
This week's episode is with writer, editor and translator Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. It's wide-ranging! We talk about Islam, spirits, tarot, ay...
Blissful Thinking #6: Giorgia Alexander - "Life is the NeverEnding Pursuit of Unconditional Love"
This week's episode is with the extraordinarily insightful poet, storyteller, healer, clairvoyant, tarot reader, and psychic, Giorgia Alexan...
Blissful Thinking #5: Mutlu Ergün - "Life is in Our Invisible Relationships"
This week's episode is with former rapper and novelist Mutlu Ergün who is currently an anti-racist trainer, travelling across Germany. Usual...
Blissful Thinking #4: Rikki Beadle-Blair - "Life is Understanding"
Welcome to our third interview with the truly inspirational Rikki Beadle-Blair who explains the importance of self-love, positivity and grat...
Blissful Thinking #3: Nayomi Munaweera - "Life is This Moment"
The award-winning novelist Nayomi Munaweera talks with us abut childhood trauma, abuse and her "spiritual toolbox" of vipassana meditation,...
Blissful Thinking #2: Fannie-Lee Lowe - "Life is a Magical Mystery Tour"
The first interview! And it's with my dear, wise, loving 82-year-old friend from San Francisco, Fannie-Lee. Here she talks about death, abou...
Blissful Thinking #1: An Introduction with Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Welcome to the Blissful Thinking podcast! In this first I episode, I, Rajeev Balasubramanyam, tell the story of how I came to spiritual prac...