Stuart Goodnick and Robert Schmidt

The Mystical Positivist

Religion EN ↓ 131 episodes

The Mystical Positivist, with hosts Stuart Goodnick and Dr. Robert Schmidt, is dedicated to the application of reason in the pursuit of spiritual practice and development. It consists of commentary, book reviews, interviews, and discussion in and around the local and larger spiritual community. The thesis of the show is that rationality is in no way the antithesis of deep mystical experience, in fact, we assert that it is a necessary ally.

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Stuart Goodnick and Robert Schmidt

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The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #317 - 26JAN19 27.01.2019

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week we feature a pre-recorded talk that Mystical Positivists, Rob Schmidt and Stuart Goodnick , gave at Many Rivers Books & Tea on Thursday Jan. 3, entitled To Create and Sustain a Habit of Open-Heartedness . The pre-talk publicity describes the talk this way:  The meme of our time is obsession with human perfection. Focusing upon perfection,...

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #316 - 19JAN19 20.01.2019

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show on the show we converse in the studio with Tibetan Buddhist nun Ani Samten Palmo . Ani Samten Palmo is a monastic at Lotus Mountain Gompa and a student of Lama Lena (aka Yeshe Kaytup) and Lama Wangdor Rinpoche of Tso Pema, India, both teachers of Direct Mind Perception Meditation and lineage holders of several Tibetan Buddhist tradition...

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #315 - 12JAN19 13.01.2019

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show on the show we converse in the studio with Hal Blacker , founder of Real Dharma , an organization dedicated to helping people find inner freedom through directly recognizing their true nature. Hal teaches nondual wisdom and meditation and has until recently lead a meditation and study group in Marin County, California. Hal believes that...

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #314 - 29DEC18 30.12.2018

Podcast :  This week's podcast features: This week we feature a pre-recorded conversation with Hokai Diego Sobol . Hokai started practice and study of Buddhism in 1985. After 10 years of exploring Buddhist thought and practicing martial arts, while broadly learning from sources Eastern and Western, mainstream and fringe, Hokai became a practitioner and eventually instructor in the Shingon eso...

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #313 - 22DEC18 23.12.2018

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show we feature a pre-recorded conversation with spiritual teacher J. Jaye Gold , author of Justin Time: Autobiographical Stories from an American Spiritual Master , Another Heart in His Hand: A Spiritual Anomaly , and Highway of Diamonds . In his younger years, J. Jaye Gold studied at a 500-year-old experimental Naqshbandi Sufi school in no...

The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #312 - 15DEC18 16.12.2018

Podcast : This week's podcast features: This week on the show our subject is the recently published book, The Fragrance of Emptiness: A Commentary on the Heart Sutra . We replay an interview recorded two weeks ago with the author, Tibetan teacher Anam Thubten , and then we continue the discussion with a live interview in the studio with the editor of the book, Laura Duggan . Anam Thubten grew up i...