Vedic Worldview

A Conversation with Mark Krassner

Thom Knoles speaks with Expectful founder and CEO Mark Krassner about meditation as a tool to empower mothers through pregnancy and beyond, the role that meditation can play in fertility, prenatal development and the birthing process, and how meditation can benefit child-rearing for parent and child alike.

Produced by Eric Cahan

Thom Knoles speaks with Graeme Wood about the movement toward religious fundamentalism, the political and cultural impact of ISIS and the implications of religious hegemony.

Produced by Eric Cahan & Mike Martinez

Few situations make us second guess ourselves more than those that we come across as parents or guardians of children.

In this episode, Thom provides some guidance for parents who face some fairly typical situations, balancing the needs of their children with their own self care, as well as one parent facing a parent’s worst-case scenario, a child at risk of taking their own life.

Rather than being prescriptive about what each parent ‘should do’ in relation to their child, this episode is a reminder that Vedic Meditation is ‘a tool in our parenting quiver’ that can put us in the best position to find our own answers and make the best decisions we can in any given situation.

PS - If you haven’t listened to it already, you might also be interested in listening to Thom’s episode on Raising Conscious Children [https://thomknoles.com/podcast/raising-conscious-children/].

Episode Highlights:

[00:45] Q- What is Your View on Sleeping With Our Children Vs. Teaching Them To Sleep On Their Own?

[03:13] Children Want a Comforting Launch Pad To Put Them Into Sleep

[04:22] Be a Spiritual Coach to Your Child

[05:16] A Comforting Presence During the Phase Transition

[06:13] Our Goal is Self-Sufficiency for Our Children

[06:50] Create Those Memories You Would Like to Have

[07:46] Your Number One Priority as a Parent

[08:38] Relax and Be In the Present Moment With Our Child

[09:31] Q - Can You Give Advice on Postpartum Meditation and the Effects on the Newborn?

[09:52] Practice Meditation On a Catch-As-Catch-Can Basis

[11:29] Your Child is Your New Spiritual Master

[12:22] Don't Be Concerned About Meditating Too Much

[13:05] Our Primary Spiritual Program

[14:22] One of the Tools In Your Mothering Quiver

[15:24] Mommy, I Think You Should Meditate

[16:17] Give the Baby Everything You Can Give the Baby

[16:50] Q - How Can I Create a Life of Joy While Living In Fear of Losing My Child?

[17:04] Meditation is Your Coping Mechanism

[18:49] Look After Yourself

[20:15] Arjuna's Dilemma On the Battlefield

[21:51] Developing A Resolute Intellect

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Many of us invoke the common phrase “Is nothing sacred?!” when we feel that something of value to us isn’t experienced the same way by others. What if we told you that everything could be sacred, to the extent that we make it so?

All of us hold certain things sacred in our lives, whether it be a memento, an icon, a place, a ritual, maybe some kind of religious artifact or even a cuddly toy from our childhood. But how often do we give thought to what it is that makes these things sacred for us?

This episode is a reminder from Thom that we can get more depth, more richness out of life, firstly by appreciating how we make things sacred, and secondly by choosing to make more things sacred in our life.

Thom invites us to go beyond the symbolic nature of that which we hold sacred and to actually have a conscious relationship with it.

He also shares how nothing is off the table when it comes to holding something sacred, leaving us open to the possibility of living a life where nothing is taken for granted and everything is available for appreciation.

Episode Highlights:

[00:45] What Makes Things Sacred?

[02:47] Prana Pratishtha — Becoming the Sentient

[04:40] Everyone has Experienced Love

[06:23] Bringing Sentience Together in an Alliance

[07:49] The Process of Navajo Weaving...

[09:13] Prana Pratistha in Action

[10:47] The World Reflects Back to Us

[13:00] The Man Who Enjoyed Himself in Prison

[15:06] The World is for Us as We Can Be for it

[17:04] Shoes-Off Rooms

[18:39] A Special Room

[19:41] Nobody's Watching

[21:13] Prana Pratishtha Creates a State of Consciousness

[22:37] The Unified Field Starts to Undulate

[24:43] Everything is Natural

[25:42] The Capacity to Awaken Consciousness

[27:26] Many Layers of Sophistication

[28:29] Two Dreamers Don't Dream the Same Dream

[29:57] Infinite Potential

[31:18] Turiya—The Fourth Consciousness State

[33:07] Cosmic Consciousness—The Fifth State

[35:09] God Consciousness and Unity Consciousness

[36:48] Consciousness Manifests Itself in One's Surroundings

[38:11] Same World, Different Experience

[39:55] What Effect Are We Having on the World?

[41:18] Inviting the World Into Our Consciousness State

[42:36] Nothing is Inanimate.

[44:45] The Gold and the Diamond Qualities

[45:54] Disgusting

[46:58] Make the World We Want to Make

[48:31] Culturing Our Environment

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