BodhiSpeak with Jerry Walsh

Personal Evolution is Creative Evolution: Kate Raudenbush - Internationally Acclaimed Artist

 Kate Raudenbush is a New York-based, Burning Man-bred artist, who resonates deeply with environmental issues, and the perils and potential of our evolving humanity.

Kate’s work and words have been published, and exhibited in art museums from the Renwick Gallery/Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, to the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, to the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea. Artworks have been created for international art fairs from Miami to the Hamptons, and for festivals and civic squares from Amsterdam to Las Vegas, Santiago Chile, Montreal Canada, Tulum Mexico, Lake Tahoe, Reno, Washington, San Fransisco, New York City, and in the creative vanguard of many epic, fiery gatherings at Burning Man.

 

Kate and I dated and worked together for 4 years 1/2 a decade ago, creating art and bringing it around the world

Neuroscience of Healing - Part 3- The Endochrine System, Cold Exposure, Sat-Chit-Anadamide, and Tribal Bullet Ant Initiation

Learn how to activate the bliss of your Endocrine system from within using cold exposure, Anadamide, and embrace the discomfort and transformational forces of nature 

Neuroscience of Healing - Part 2 - How to Work with Dopamine

Dopamine controls motivation, pleasure, reward, and drive -- it is what moves us and what informs us on how we are achieving and activating our goals and aspirations. It is also a very Buddhist system -- pain - pleasure - craving - aversion

 

 

 

 

Neuroscience of Healing - Part 1 - Stages of Fasting

This is part 1 of several episodes that will go in-depth into the mechanisms behind specific spiritual practices -- This episode talks about fasting and the stages we go through neurologically and physically during a 3 day water fast. We also get into the spiritual and philosophy perspective of fasting and inspiration for why it should be at the foundation of your practice

Strength Through Kindness: Robert Foley, former Navy SEAL and present-day Healer

In recognition of veterans day, I sat down to speak with Robert Foley, a former Navy SEAL with Native American ethnicity who has lived with severe trauma all of his life stemming from his rough upbringing to his time in combat. Robert's inspiring story is one of overcoming immense pain and finding solace by bringing healing work to others using equestrian therapy, Japanese forest bathing, and the mystical powers of nature.

Rattlesnakes, Chapel Perilous, Black Elk and Inner Trust

A Rattlesnake crosses my path...

A Vision

Questing for a Vision, Drukpa Kunley, Tibet, Burning Man, Freedom, Synchronicity, and more

The Inherent Good, Ruthless Inventory, and a Daily Quest for Meaning

There is a inherent good in all people but to activate it and place it in the service of unity, healing, and awakening of the planet requires listening to all sides of our psyche from our highest transcendental potential to our darkest fears and demons. Take ruthless inventory of yourself daily and find the meaning behind pain and suffering.

Meditation and Mushrooms: A Conversation with Dan Kanda

A conversation with meditation practitioner, mushroom maniac, and Golden Drum community member, Dan Kanda. I first met Dan in Tel Aviv, Israel at a meditation retreat in 2016 -- 4 years later we became roommates in Upstate New York. Dan has spent several years living in S.N Goenka style vipassana meditation centers and has traveled through India, Nepal, and Burma to pursue Buddhist dharma and practices of liberation. Dan discovered his passion for medicinal mushroom cultivation through vipassana and is currently supplying the Golden Drum and local area with epic Lion's Mane, Blue Oysters, and Shitake mushrooms on a weekly basis. Dan and I dropped in to talk about his path of meditation and and how the mushrooms planned it all...

The Adventure Begins When Everything Goes Wrong

Where you stumble, therein lies your treasure - Joseph Campbell