Turning to Celtic wisdom, author and teacher John Philip Newell chats with Raghu about reconnecting to our home, Mother Earth.

Pick up your copy of John’s new book, The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home, HERE.

This week, John and Raghu get into:

• John’s upbringing and being drawn to the natural world
• The Celtic lineage and having awareness for the sacredness of nature
• Knowing that wisdom resides deep within us, not outside of us
• Seeing the universe as an expression of the divine
• What we can learn from native traditions
• A radical new beginning through humility and relation to earth and one another
• Addressing the divine in one another and in every life form
• Breaking cycles of war and repetition
• The contributions of Carl Jung on the collective and individual unconscious
• Merging Eastern and Western traditions

Check out The Marriage of East and West to learn more about the topics John and Raghu reference

About John Philip Newell:

John Philip Newell is a Celtic teacher and author of spirituality who calls the modern world to reawaken to the sacredness of Earth and every human being. In 2016 he began the Earth & Soul initiative and teaches regularly in the United States and Canada as well as leading international pilgrimage weeks on Iona in the Western Isles of Scotland. His PhD is from the University of Edinburgh and he has authored over fifteen books, including his award-winning publication, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul, which was the 2022 Gold Winner of the Nautilus Book Award for Spirituality and Religious Thought of the West. His new book, also with HarperOne (and published in the UK by Wild Goose), is The Great Search (August 2024), in which he looks at the great spiritual yearnings of humanity today in the context of the decline of religion as we have known it.

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“For me, it was the introduction to Celtic wisdom that awakened me to knowing that wisdom is deep within us and the divine is at the very heart of our beings. We don’t have to somehow invoke or implore a distance presence.” – John Philip Newell

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Connecting the inner world and the outer world, physicist Federico Faggin reveals his work studying the physics of spirituality.

Follow this link to order your copy of Federico's book: Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers and Human Nature

This episode of Mindrolling with Federico and Raghu includes these topics:

• Federico's life growing up in Italy
• Neuroscience and studying consciousness
• How physical feelings come from electrical processes in the brain
• Connecting spirituality and physics
• Considering if a computer could be programmed for consciousness
• Faggin's experience recognizing the inner love that comes out of us
• How quantum physics proves the interconnection within the universe
• Federico's perspective on freewill and determinism in our lives
• Going beyond what science has done
• The limited freedom we have while incarnated
• Predicting our behavior and how our consciousness is watching all
• Grace and the unpredictability of free will
• The divine mystery and why it will never be resolved

About Federico Faggin:

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today; his work underlies the modern world's entire information technology. His new book, Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers and Human Nature, was just published in May of 2024.

“I eventually ended up deciding that I was going to spend the rest of my life studying consciousness and trying to connect spirituality and physics. In other worlds, connect the other inner world of experience and meaning with the outer world of symbols and matter in space and time.” – Federico Faggin

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Focusing on curiosity, patience, and self-compassion, Cortland Dahl joins Raghu to go over his new book, A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism.

This week, Cortland and Raghu discuss:

• The mystical practice of making aspirations
• Tuning into ourselves and trusting ourselves
• Learning through our relationships
• Recognizing that the next Buddha is the sangha
• Nurturing sparks of inspiration through practice
• How meeting teachers helps us realize our own inner depth
• Why curiosity can move us along the spiritual path
• Patience, creating space, and being vs. doing
• Self-compassion in a world of chaos and uncertainty
• Discomfort as a zone of growth
• Expanding our motivations for doing our practice
• Seeing the awakened nature in everyone and everything

Pick up a copy of A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism HERE

About Cortland Dahl:

Cortland Dahl is a Buddhist scholar and translator, author, meditation teacher, and a collaborator on various scientific studies. After receiving a Master’s Degree in Buddhist Studies, he lived for eight years in India and Nepal, where he spent long periods in solitary retreat in the Himalayan foothills and taught courses on Buddhism, meditation, and Tibetan language at Kathmandu University’s Center for Buddhist Studies and at the Tergar Institute, which he co-founded in 2007. He went on to study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was mentored by the renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson and received a Ph.D. in Mind, Brain, and Contemplative Science, the first ever degree of its kind awarded by the university. Cortland's current work focuses on studying the psychological and neural mechanisms of different families of meditation practice. He is also the creator of the Healthy Minds program, a well-being training program that integrates insights from scientific research with a comprehensive path of contemplative training. Keep up with Cortland HERE or check out his books HERE.

“We have no clue of this depth and richness that is inside of us. How we stumble through life completely oblivious to these amazing qualities of mind and somehow we just haven’t learned to see it. Then, you meet a teacher and it gets cracked open a little bit and you start getting a glimpse just by being in their orbit.” – Cortland Dahl

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