Raghu Markus spent 18 months in India with Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. He has been involved in music and transformational media since the early 1970s, when he was program director of CKGM-FM in Montreal.
In 1974, he collaborated with Ram Dass on the box set Love Serve Remember. In 1990, he launched Triloka Records, which established itself as a critical leader in the development of world music. For 17 years, Triloka was home to such artists as Krishna Das, Hugh Masekela, Walela, Jai Uttal and transformational media projects that featured Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, and Les Nubians.
Raghu lives in Ojai, California, and is the Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. In 2016, he co-founded the Be Here Now Network, where he hosts the Ram Dass Here & Now podcast, as well as his own Mindrolling podcast. He is the producer of Becoming Nobody, a Ram Dass documentary feature film that was released in 2019.
Mindrolling Podcast is about coming unstuck and the recent history of awoken awareness. It’s about the intersection of culture, consciousness and realization.
Mindrolling the Word happens to be a Tibetan monastery tradition, the home of “the garden of ripening and liberation.” For Raghu Markus, it is a rock and rolling conversation remembering the sixties, digesting the seventies, paralleling then and now, right now, as we find our way in the 21st century.
This podcast “rolls” the frantic monkey mind, mugs the complacent mental head. The moving power of music is one of the main tools of the show, transformation is the common denominator. Actual direct experiences is the core of the Mindrollers, some of which are enlightening, some of which were intensely frightening – what turns up here is a Mindroll of the karmic and cosmic dice, but we dare to promise honesty and guarantee high comedy along with the more high falutin’ content…
Dr. Connie Zweig and Raghu investigate the lifelong process of aging through the lens of ‘shadow awareness’ and ‘shifting from role to soul.’ Connie…
Dr. Ellen Vora joins Raghu for a conversation on the connection between mind and body—exploring psychedelics, anxiety as grace, and our personal hotline to…
The illustrious Johnny Pemberton joins Raghu to explore perspective and trust, comedy as alchemy, and the connection between acting, observation, and truth. Johnny Pemberton…
Intuitive animal communication expert, Lori Ann Spagna, joins Raghu to share about our innate spiritual connection to animals. Lori Ann Spagna is a Best…
Jack Kornfield and Noah Markus join Raghu for a conversation weaving together Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, intuition, negativity, creativity, forgiveness, and letting go….
Dr. Mark Epstein returns with Raghu to discuss the Zen of Therapy—merging eastern spirituality & western psychology—in a conversation spanning Ram Dass, India, &…
David Chernikoff joins Raghu Markus for a ‘Mindrolling’ conversation around aging, dealing with polarity, and how to become at ease with the mystery that…
Raghu Markus, Sharon Salzberg, and RamDev talk more about the gifts of Ram Dass’ legacy, plus Sharon leads a Metta meditation and answers questions…
Raghu Markus, RamDev, and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the gifts of Ram Dass’s legacy, including his honesty, sense of humor, loving awareness practice, and…