Gita for Daily Living is a biweekly podcast that distils the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita and presents it in a way that is action-able and relevant to daily life
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Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing, Life & Creativity
Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing · Creative Process Original Series
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Books & Writing episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winne ...
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 32, through 35 The lecture discusses the concluding verses of this Chapter, indicating the nature of the self as unattached and untainted by the actions of the limited self, yet supportive of the World of all beings. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - htt…
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The Writer's Voice: Novelists, Poets, Memoirists & Editors Share Their Stories
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How do writers develop their voice, showing us what is important in life? ADA LIMÓN (24th U.S. Poet Laureate, Startlement, The Carrying) explains that her poetry begins with a bodily sensation or curiosity, not an idea. She values the space and breath poetry offers for unknowing and mystery, finding solace in the making and the mess, not in answers…
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Writers on Memory, Language & the Power of the Unconscious
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How can we use negative spaces in fiction to engage with readers’ imaginations? How are memory and trauma passed onto us through language? How do we become more than the stories we tell ourselves? KATIE KITAMURA (Author, Audition, Intimacies) emphasizes that a book is created in collaboration with the reader, using negative spaces in the narrative …
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The AI Wager: Betting on Technology’s Future w/ Philosopher & Author SVEN NYHOLM - Highlights
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“ I think we're betting on AI as something that can help to solve a lot of problems for us. It's the future, we think, whether it's producing text or art, or doing medical research or planning our lives for us, etc., the bet is that AI is going to be great, that it's going to get us everything we want and make everything better. But at the same tim…
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The Ethics of AI w/ SVEN NYHOLM, Author & Lead Researcher, Munich Centre for Machine Learning
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As we move towards 2026, we are in a massive “upgrade moment” that most of us can feel. New pressures, new identities, new expectations on our work, our relationships, and our inner lives. Throughout the year, I've been speaking with professional creatives, climate and tech experts, teachers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and futureists about how…
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Episode 517: Chapter 13, verses 29,30 and 31
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 29, 30 & 31 The lecture discusses the relationship between the Supreme Self and the lower conditioned self in all things and beings, and how understanding this can liberate one from all limitations. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.c…
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BASQUIAT: The Price of Fame w/ Author DOUG WOODHAM - Highlights
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“People today are so used to Basquiat's prices being extraordinarily high and rising that it's almost hard for people to understand that wasn't always the case. In the year he died, 1988, a terrific painting by Basquiat might have sold for $30,000. Relative to his other artistic peers, like a great Julian Schnabel painting that cost $800,000. After…
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: The Making of an Icon with DOUG WOODHAM, Fmr. President of Christie's Americas
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“All of the great artists are there for a reason: because they rebelled in some way. They created a visual vocabulary that felt fresh and new, which excited people. So, the great artists are not built on sort of anthills of sand. They're built on things of substance and of meaning. Though this is not a sufficient condition to become an icon, it's a…
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Episode 516: Chapter 13, verses 26, 27 and 28
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 26, 27 & 28 The lecture explores the unity amidst the diversity of the world of plurality. The PARMESHVAR – the great Lord is the willing creator and remains present in all things and beings as the eternal essence and the efficient cause. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhaja…
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On Mind Games, Power & Obsession - Showrunner HOWARD GORDON & Writer DANIEL PEARLE - Highlights
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“How do you render something interior filmically? How do you communicate the details of the lost child, of the amount of time of the stuck creative process, and even the exterior, or the externalization of the house as a kind of hellish thing that's barely staying together—literally flooding with waste—and that you can't afford? So those are the de…
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The Beast in Me starring CLAIRE DANES - Behind the Scenes w/ HOWARD GORDON & DANIEL PEARLE
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“And I think there's also just something about an unfettered or uncensored id that is so captivating. We all have that fantasy of doing exactly what we want with no consequences and sort of letting that go. I think when you see an athlete at the peak of their game, doing that embodied thing and living that dream, or when someone has actually done h…
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Episode 515: Chapter 13, verses 23, 24 and 25
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 23, 24, & 25 The lecture discusses the relationship of our higher self – PARAMATMA with our lower “conditioned” self-JIVA, and examines what makes the JIVA take birth repeatedly. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8…
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On Oneness & Self-Healing w/ LD Chen - Head Coach, Oneness Institute, US & EU - Highlights
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Today’s episode is about something most of us long for: feeling healthy in our bodies and calm in our minds – not by pushing harder, but by letting the body restore itself. Our guest today is LD Chen, an entrepreneur-turned-author who discovered the ancient wisdom that healing doesn’t come from trying harder, but from restoring the body’s natural i…
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Oneness: A Way of Living with LD Chen - Author & Head Coach, Oneness Institute, US & EU
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“Oneness is actually not about learning in the usual way. Most teachings tell you how to learn – how to let go, how to calm down, how to manage anger. Oneness does the opposite: we stand, we train the body to correct the heart, and then we live from that heart.” Today’s episode is about something most of us long for: feeling healthy in our bodies a…
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Episode 514: Chapter 13, verses 20, 21 and 22
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 20, 21, & 22 The lecture discusses the cause-and-effect relationship as the nature of the manifest World and how our tendencies in this life will lead us to the good or evil womb in the next life. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com…
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Listening to the Planet - Writers' Perspectives on Nature, Place & Interconnectedness
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How do our environments shape who we are and how we care for the world and each other? There are many solutions to climate change, inequality, and poverty around the world. How can we learn from them and transform our society? Eiren Caffall (All the Water in the World) discusses the importance of embracing complexity and emotional flexibility in fa…
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“There are many ways in which I think human exceptionalism has seeped into the sciences, but one of the many ways is through the methodologies we use when we compare the intelligence of humans and other species. In particular, in my field, I’m a primatologist by training, comparing the cognitive abilities of humans with the abilities of our closest…
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Episode 513: Chapter 13, verses 17, 18 and 19
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 17, 18, & 19 The lecture explores how the all-pervading, indivisible supreme self appears to be divided among all beings; it is not only within all beings and things but also outside of them. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/play…
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Episode 512: Chapter 13, verses 14, 15 and 16
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 14, 15, & 16 The lecture discusses the nature of the knower in all beings as the all-pervading Supreme Self, which is within and without all things and beings. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRF…
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How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave with Poet MAYA SALAMEH
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“Poetry is like one of the great loves of my life, and I think it's probably the longest relationship I'll ever have. I read a lot of poetry. I also wrote these short stories even when I was pretty young, like in second grade, and the stories kept getting shorter and shorter. My family used to go to Damascus in Syria and Lebanon every summer for th…
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Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI with KAREN HAO
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“My book is called Empire of AI because I'm trying to articulate this argument and illustrate that these companies operate exactly like empires of old. I highlight four features that essentially encapsulate the three things you read. However, I started talking about it in a different way after writing the book. The four features are: they lay claim…
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Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis: ETGAR KERET on Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - Highlights
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“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice that we make, because this story will affect all the other choices.” Etgar Keret is one of the most inventive and celebrated short story writers of his g…
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Finding Humanity Through Storytelling with Author & Filmmaker ETGAR KERET
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“When I write my stories, I don't want to solve things in life. I just want to persuade myself that there is a way out. Maybe I am in a cell, maybe I'm trapped. Maybe I won't make it, but if I can imagine a plan for escape, then I'll be less trapped because at least in my mind, there is a way. I think that my parents are survivors. They always talk…
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“I'm Lebanese. I grew up in Lebanon during the Civil War, and I came to the United States as a graduate student with the intention of going back. I never wanted to stay here. I really thought that my life would happen in Beirut, in a city that I loved and hated in the healthiest of ways. My investments, both literary and intellectual, were rooted t…
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Episode 511: Chpater 13, verses 11, 12 and 13
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 "The Field and the Knower of the Field" Verses 11, 12, & 13 The lecture discusses "Ananya Yoga" – Yoga of unflinching identification with the one supreme fundamental reality that is our own self to find ultimate happiness, and liberation from all limitations. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https:/…
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“One day, I woke up with this concept of oil being tied up in our lives in ways that we don't talk about. It’s sort of a value-theoretical approach to climate change and the climate crisis. Something that's impersonal and goes to the root of our entire social metabolic structure.” In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor Davi…
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The Poetics & Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde &Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College w/ DANICA SAVONICK
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“As I was reading Hooks and Freire, a colleague recommended Adrian Rich's essay "Teaching Language in Open Admissions." It was in that essay that I first read about her experiences teaching at CUNY during open admissions, learning that she taught alongside June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara. Eventually, that essay led me to their archi…
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Episode 510: Chapter 13, verses 8, 9 and 10
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Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 8, 9, & 10 The lecture discusses the necessary values for the purification of the internal instrument - Mind and Intellect, so one can recognize the knower of the field, the all-pervading consciousness. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtu…
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“The origin was really trying to make sense of that 2016-2017 moment and to ask whether the alt-right was, as we were being told, a return to the 1930s, a kind of awakening of the sleeping beast of white supremacy armed in the streets in the United States. There are many explanations, but I decided to take this kind of curious route in with the dis…
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What Do We Do with the One Life We’re Given? - Scientists, Writers, Philosophers & Changemakers Share their Stories
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In this time of rapid technological change, how do we hold onto our humanity? How do stories, traditions, and community help us find meaning in loss and face an uncertain future? How can science, art, and spirituality open new pathways to understanding ourselves and the human experience? PAUL SHRIVASTAVA (Co-President of The Club of Rome) discusses…
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