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…
David Silver and Raghu ring in the New Year with a discourse on the wisdom teachings of Tibetan Buddhist Master, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. A…
Lisa Broderick joins Raghu to offer you all the time in the world, illuminating the science and spirituality of how we can transform our…
Danny Goldberg returns with Raghu to discuss the themes of art, spirituality and social polarization featured in Danny’s timely new book Bloody Crossroads 2020:…
Ananda Danielle Krettek Cobb, founder of Google’s Empathy Lab, returns to the Mindrolling podcast for a conversation that circles the intersection of technology, empathy,…
David Silver and Raghu jam on late Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s mind-rolling new book, Cynicism and Magic. In one of their newly…
Meditation teacher and author, Amanda Gilbert, joins Raghu to talk about living with kindness, mindfulness, freedom, intention, and compassion. Amanda Gilbert is a modern…
RamDev returns to “wing it” with Raghu in an India, Maharaj-ji, Ram Dass, Tantra, devotion, and presence steeped episode. RamDev founded and directed the…
Psychologist and author, Dr. Mitch Abblett, joins Raghu to share about ‘Prizing’ – his mindfulness protocol for parents to connect with their children in…
Spiritual Teacher, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, joins Raghu to share her transformational and healing journey from ‘Hollywood to the Himalayas’ – her trust-fall into the…