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Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 26 Lawrence Edwards, PhD – World Renowned Kundalini Expert, Author, and Mystic.Our guest today is highly respected Kundalini expert and researcher Lawrence Edwards. His life long passion to know that Truth of the inner life brings a deeply steeped background in science to a profound inner mystical experience. He chronicles the awakening, unfoldment, and integration of the underlying power of the Universe, the Kundalini Shakti, in his most recent book, Awakening Kundalini – The Path to Radical Freedom. A book I highly recommend for those serious about understanding Kundalini and the subtle process of Kundalini Sadhana. He has narrated an audio presentation of the same name with guided practices and lectures th...2020-09-042h 08Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 25 Lee Lyon – World Renowned Meditation Teacher and Author of One of the Most Ancient and Esoteric Tantras Specifically for Westerners.Our guest today is Lee Lyon, world-renowned meditation teacher and author/translator of the recently released, The 112 Meditations from the Book of Divine Wisdom, the meditations from the Vijnanabhairava Tantra, with commentary and guided meditations. Lee has traveled the world, from the 1980s to today, teaching 1000’s the art of simple meditation and introspection, showing the way to access the deep internal experience which is the goal of all spiritual practice. Lee’s gift is to make the complex and esoteric simple and available to the uninitiated through his marvelous storytelling. He makes the deepest and m...2020-07-082h 16Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 24 Leo Dale – Jazz Musician, Audio & Video Producer, World Traveler with a well integrated awakened Kundalini.Our guest today is Leo Dale and we’re your hosts Marc Ketchel and Larry Holmes. Leo is an audio/video producer and a lifelong musician. Having traveled extensively particularly to India, he is just as comfortable on location anywhere in the world as in his studio in Melbourne Australia. Our conversation today covers a lot of ground, beginning from his early upbringing in a large Irish Catholic family of musicians where he’s #7 of 8. He shares his dramatic Kundalini experiences and insights including many while visiting the Indian ashrams of Baba Muktananda and his succes...2020-06-141h 49Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 23 Ani Pema - Buddhist nun, on 50 years of spiritual practice developing her humanity.Our guest today is with Swami Dayananda or as she’s known today, Ani Pema, a Tibetan Buddhist nun. And we’re your hosts Marc Ketchel and Larry Holmes.Swamiji currently resides in Chiang Mai, Thailand, but has spent decades living and traveling in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Thailand. She is a direct disciple of Swami Muktananda, the Shaktipat (or Direct Transmission) Master, and spent the last 12 years of his life with him as he traveled the world initiating thousands into the Way of the Siddhas or Perfect Masters. After Muktananda’s passing she eventua...2020-05-261h 59Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 22 Crisis Times Reflections, Insights and Looking Forward with cohosts Marc Ketchel and Larry HolmesWe’re your hosts, Marc Ketchel and Larry Holmes, and today we’d like to share our reflections, insights, and thoughts about what’s next and how to make the most of the current situation. This is a short conversation but one we hope will give you some perspective and add value to your life. What we discuss is how a simple shift in viewpoint can help each of us, in our own way, get the most of the current circumstances and make the process of going forward more fulfilling and rewarding. Show NotesJa...2020-05-1052 minWisdom Talks PodcastEp# 21 Mary Reilly Nichols – Non-Dual Tantric Yoga Teacher Specializing in Direct Transmission and Ecstatic Mystical Communion.Mary Reilly Nichols holds a BA in anthropology from Harvard University. is the Director of Nalanda Institute’s Yoga, Mind & Spirit and has been teaching yoga from a devotional/experiential perspective for over 30 years. She specializes in direct transmission experiential Yoga with an emphasis on the development of wisdom and direct experience through the lens of the non-duality traditions of Advaita Vedanta, and the Tantric methods of the Trika school of Kashmir Shaivism and Kundalini Yoga. Her meeting in the mid-1970”s with the Siddha Master, Baba Muktananda, a Shaktipat Guru, changed the trajectory of her life. She sp...2020-04-281h 54Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 20 **Special** Guidance and Insight in Crisis Times #2 with Joe Smith - The Transformative Power of BreathOur guest today is Joe Smith, who we interviewed in Ep# 19. You can see all the details of Joe’s amazing career as a senior executive in multiple healthcare companies where he managed employees in the thousands and budgets in the hundreds of millions. I asked Joe to come back and share with us in this very focused interview his experience with HeartMath and his decades-long work with breath and the deep insights he has received through this work with one of our most important biological functions. In our conversation, he shares his clear understanding of the phy...2020-04-201h 04Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 19 Joe Smith – Retired Healthcare Executive, Consciousness Explorer, Endurance Athlete, Brother, Husband, Father, and Grandfather.Our guest today is Joe Smith, retired healthcare executive, Consciousness explorer, endurance athlete, brother, husband, father, and grandfather. His remarkable story is one of adventure, pushing the envelope, and real-life wisdom. Our highly engaging conversation with Joe was over 4 hours long, and we were just getting started. What we are sharing with you today is only a small part of the full-life wisdom that Joe shared with us. But you can be assured, this is not the last time you will hear from Joe, the story is to be continued. What he shares with us in...2020-04-112h 03Wisdom Talks PodcastEp#18 **Special** Guidance and Insight in Crisis Times Series #1This is a special weekly series that we are initiating as a compassionate offering to our global community. It will include actionable guidance, insights and techniques to help everyone stay grounded, think clearly, and find ease during these challenging times. The format is short, generally 30 -45 minutes in length, packed full of actionable insights and techniques from experts and teachers with a proven track record of dealing with the circumstances we are all challenged by today. I believe you will find the time well spent and expect you will want to take notes or listen to...2020-03-2742 minWisdom Talks PodcastEp# 17 Kimberly Carson MPH, C-IAYT, E-RYT– Author, Nationally Recognized Chronic Pain Expert, Health Educator and Mindfulness Therapist.Our guest today is Kimberly Carson, author, nationally recognized chronic pain expert, health educator and Mindfulness therapist. Her research and program development with her husband, Jim Carson, PhD., at the prestigious Duke University Medical Center (Duke) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is documented in their latest book, Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain: An Eight-Week Mindful Yoga Workbook for Finding Relief and Resilience.Their Mindful Yoga intervention methods known as “Yoga of Awareness” developed by Kimberly and her husband Jim, has been shown in research trials to significantly reduce pain and fatigue in women with metastatic brea...2020-03-072h 25Wisdom Talks PodcastEp#16 Sally Kempton – World Renowned Author, and Teacher of Devotional Contemplative Tantra.Our guest today is Sally Kempton, a world-renowned author, and Teacher of what she calls Devotional Contemplative Tantra. A tradition based on the most authoritative Shaiva scriptures, deep devotional practices, and direct experience. Her teachings are based on the most esoteric direct transmission school of non-dual awareness known as Shaktipat. The veracity and authenticity of her teachings are rooted in the teachings and transmission she received from her Guru, Baba Muktananda, which she has skillfully developed and assimilated over the last 45 years. Her book, Meditation for the Love of It, is destined to be a s...2020-02-232h 17Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 14 Swami Prakashananda – Biographer of Baba Muktananda, and his oldest living direct disciple.Our guest today is Swami Prakashananda, the world-renowned biographer of Baba Muktananda and his oldest living direct disciple. Swamiji’s remarkable life has taken him to India over twenty times, spending a total of over 14 years living in India over the last fifty years. If you have been following our Wisdom Talks podcast and listening to the previous episodes you know how often our guests mention the intersection of their lives with Baba Muktananda and how the contact with him has influenced their lives and more often than not, very dramatically. In today’s conversation, three o...2020-02-012h 10Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 13 Kanu Kogod - Transformational Leadership Trainer and Organizational Consultant.Our guest today is Dr. Kanu Kogod, the Founder and President of Bridges in Organizations, a coaching and leadership organization that works in the business, health care, government, and non-profit sectors. She is a trained anthropologist, master certified coach, and renowned organizational development consultant.She co-designed and facilitated Leadership Alchemy, an award-winning transformational, leadership development program which received great acclaim through its work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where the program was active for almost a decade.Kanu’s mission is to develop dynamic skills for leaders using a holistic approach. It focuses on la...2020-01-252h 07Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 12 Master Charles Cannon – American Mystic, Author, and Early High-Tech Meditation Pioneer.Our conversation today is with the late Master Charles, American mystic, meditation teacher and Guru, mentor, and spiritual guide to thousands. An incredibly talented and creative individual, author of six books and countless audio and music recordings. He is an acknowledged pioneer in the evolution of human consciousness and a personal friend who I’ve known and worked with for over 45 years. His colorful life began as a child model and actor at the age of 9, followed by twelve years beginning in 1970, of fully devoted service to his Guru, Baba Muktananda, traveling the world with him. In 1977 he...2020-01-182h 00Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 11 John Tilton – World Renowned Porcelain Art Potter and Veteran Meditator.Our guest today is John Tilton, a world-renowned porcelain potter and veteran meditator who brings four decades of focused inner work in a dynamic spiritual community to his art form. And the results are truly breathtaking. You can see the remarkable results of his dedicated awareness coupled with his passionate and skillful talent at his website, tiltonpottery.com. Our discussion today is very practice-oriented, a rare peek at the ongoing dialogue between a devoted seeker of Truth and the subtle energies that influence that pursuit. We discuss the nuances of his ongoing ‘conversation’ with the subtle Energy one b...2020-01-111h 17Wisdom Talks PodcastEp# 10 – 2019 Revisited and Looking Forward to 2020 – A Conversation between Marc Ketchel and Larry HolmesIn this conversation, Larry and I have a far-ranging discussion on topics dear to our hearts. We discuss the science and practice of yoga, the power of the mind to be our greatest asset or our most devastating liability. The core teaching of our Guru, Baba Muktananda, “To see the Self everywhere, in everyone.” We discuss the application of Quantum Mechanics, the ubiquitous nature of Kundalini and the interconnectedness of all life. Larry shares his teachings on ‘PurposefulLleadership. And finally, we share the power of selfless service and the beautiful work that Peter Singer is doing, serving the less fortuna...2020-01-041h 48Wisdom Talks PodcastEp # 9 Marc Ketchel – Wisdom Talks Podcast Cohost, Meditation Teacher, Veteran Organic Food and Plant Based Business Owner, Serial Entrepreneur and World Traveler.Our guest today is my “Wisdom Talks” co-host Marc Ketchel, and I’m your host Larry Holmes. Today’s episode is a conversation with my cohost Marc Ketchel, meditation teacher, veteran organic food and natural products business owner, world traveler, and serial entrepreneur. A passionate, action-oriented, get things done kind of guy and a long-time personal friend. In fact, we’ve known each other for over 45 years, living and working together on a global project beginning in the early ’70s and ’80s. We were both Vedic monks at the time and worked together teaching and managing with a large international o...2019-12-271h 52Wisdom Talks PodcastEp # 7 Larry Holmes – Corporate Consultant for some of the largest companies in Australia, Psychologist, Leadership Trainer, Wisdom Talks Podcast co-host and Veteran Meditator.In today’s episode, I’m having a conversation with Larry Holmes, psychologist, leadership trainer, and corporate consultant for some of the largest companies in Australia. He’s also my cohost of the Wisdom Talks podcast and long-time personal friend. In fact, our relationship and friendship goes back almost 50 years, to the 1970s when we were both Vedic monks serving our Guru, Swami Muktananda, who we affectionately called Baba, spreading the worldwide Meditation Revolution that he had inspired. Larry played a very significant role in Baba’s global mission. He was for the longest time the MC of all hi...2019-12-132h 11Wisdom Talks PodcastEp # 6 Jim Carson, PhD. – Author and Chronic Pain Expert on How to Effectively Treat Chronic Pain through Meditation, Breathing and Yogic Movement.Our guest today is Jim Carson, Ph.D., author, researcher, father, and husband. He is the co-founder and senior teacher with his wife Kimberly Carson of the paradigm-shifting program, Mindful Yoga. He is a former yogic monk who has been practicing and teaching meditation and yoga philosophy worldwide for over 45 years. Jim is currently a clinical health psychologist and Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. Along with his wife Kimberly, he has applied his decades of expertise to the development and evaluation of yo...2019-12-071h 58Wisdom Talks PodcastEp #5 Eric Siegel – Spontaneous Kundalini Awakening, Software Developer, Consciousness Explorer, Millennial Generation and more.My guest today is Eric Siegel, a software developer, and Consciousness explorer who had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening before he even knew what the word Kundalini meant. He’s part of the millennial generation and has only been meditating for about 15 years. Apart from being a very intelligent, normal and well-adapted young man, he maintains a very serious and well-disciplined spiritual life while working in the world and holding a regular job. My interest in interviewing him emerged from extensive conversations we have had over the years about his meditation and specifically his experience integrating an active Kundalini into hi...2019-11-291h 28Wisdom Talks PodcastEp #2 Greg Campbell - Australian author, cross-cultural anthropologist, researcher, and wisdom holder.Our guest today is Australian author, cross-cultural anthropologist, researcher, and wisdom holder, Greg Campbell. In his tradition, a wisdom holder is a storyteller and Greg is an exemplary example of the ancient Australian storytelling tradition. I’m referring to the 65,000-year ancient Aboriginal culture he has made an integral part of his life and writings. In this interview, Greg will unpack his interesting and colorful life lived with intensity and the belief, ‘Anything is possible’. He tracks the arch of his fascinating life with humility and candor, with an engaging and captivating style all his own. This is not a...2019-11-131h 36Wisdom Talks PodcastEp #1 Don Daniels - Kundalini expert, Veteran Meditator, and Educator in Human Consciousness DevelopmentOur guest today is Don Daniels, an intrepid consciousness explorer, and veteran meditator of almost 50 years. His experience with Kundalini and the wisdom he shares is both powerful and transformational and a paradigm shift in deep states of meditation and human consciousness development. After several years of studying martial arts as a young boy and ultimately achieving Black Belt level, he began developing a strong interest in the contemplative aspects of the martial arts training as opposed to the physical contact aspects of the art form. This led to a spontaneous and dramatic awakening of the Kundalini en...2019-11-131h 52Wisdom Talks PodcastEp #3 Dr. Michael Chance – Chiropractic for Children, Toxic Environments, Meditation and Prayer, NET, and Applied Kinesiology.Our guest today is Dr. Michael Chance, Board Certified Chiropractor, a Phi Beta Kappa member, an energy worker, meditator of over 40 years, and a compassionate and sensitive educator of the next generation. He is the third generation of a four-generation chiropractic lineage. He’s my chiropractor but when I refer to him and tell people about what he does I inevitably refer to him as a healer, because that’s what he really is. That’s what my experience has been working with him over the years. He doesn’t like to be called a healer, he says in h...2019-11-131h 22