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Back to SearchThe Myth of Hard Work
Episode 232
Hard work is often worn as a badge of honor. If someone works hard, then they “deserve” their successes. We might even say they have a “good” work et…
1 year, 7 months ago
How to Cope with Toxic Behavior
Episode 231
If you’ve noticed an increase in the use of the word “toxic” in relation to human behavior in recent years, you’d be right. Its use has become so pre…
1 year, 7 months ago
How to Control Election Outcomes
Episode 230
Most listeners of The Vedic Worldview live in democracies and are all too familiar with the fact that irrespective of who is elected, there will alwa…
1 year, 7 months ago
Questions About Social Discomfort
Episode 229
Welcome to another Q&A episode, with Thom fielding a range of questions from listeners with a common thread of social discomfort.
Thom holds forth on …
1 year, 8 months ago
What's it Like to Be You? Understanding Empathy
Episode 228
Being an empath might seem like a gift—experiencing what someone else is going through must surely deepen our understanding of one another.
But in thi…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Purpose of Education
Episode 227
In a world where education is available to nearly everyone, one might expect that the major challenges facing humanity would have been solved by now,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga
Episode 226
One could easily spend a lifetime exploring Vedic literature and still barely scratch the surface in terms of the wisdom that’s available to us. Betw…
1 year, 8 months ago
Revenge vs Justice
Episode 225
We often hear cries for justice when what’s being called for is actually revenge. So, what exactly is justice? And how do we distinguish the differen…
1 year, 9 months ago
Leela Shakti - Play Power
Episode 224
One thing that sets the Vedic worldview apart from other schools of thought is the notion that everything that we get to witness, every form, every p…
1 year, 9 months ago
Karma, Charm, Art, and Suffering
Episode 223
Listeners are steering the ship once again, in our latest Q&A episode.
Thom answers a question about karma and how it fits into the dynamics of our re…
1 year, 9 months ago