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Back to SearchHow to Manage Dopamine and Other Feel-Good Chemicals Naturally
Episode 235
The pursuit of altered states of consciousness through substances like drugs and alcohol is an age-old practice. Despite their potential risks and ne…
1 year, 5 months ago
Got Questions on Your Mind?
Episode 234
In this episode, Thom explores the corners of the mind, in response to listener questions about various aspects of the mind: how we think, what we th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Overcoming Loneliness in a Disconnected World
Episode 233
There are more humans on the planet today than ever before, and we have more ways of connecting with each other than ever before, yet loneliness has …
1 year, 5 months ago
The 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 months ago