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Highlights from the Lighter Side
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Highlights from the Lighter Side

video | 10 min Center for Nondual Awareness Retreat, 2014

From playfully profound to seriously silly, enjoy this sampler of original nondual-inspired raps, rhymes, jokes, group activities, party games, and more.

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It’s All Sublime Rap
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It’s All Sublime Rap

video | 3:16 min — the treasure you are seeking couldn’t be more near

For seekers and finders of spiritual liberation . . . “Listen and open your eyes. What you seek has no disguise.”

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Channels of Sacred Communication
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Channels of Sacred Communication

video | 17 min Science and Nonduality Conference, 2016

This model of how to culitate a channel of sacred communication emerged from the inquiry, What makes Adyashanti’s retreats the most powerful form of his teaching?

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How to Grow a Mandala
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How to Grow a Mandala

video | 5 min 5-minute creative empowerment

You can channel beauty into the world from the deep and quiet clarity of the heart. Viewed more than 750,000 times, my 5-minute video will show you how.

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Rasa Harp at Black Mountain
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Rasa Harp at Black Mountain

video | 3 minmusic for quiet reflection

This musical meditation is an invitation to contemplate and surrender into the mystery of the vast cosmos of being. Each of my Rasa Harp tunings carries a different "vibe,” flavor, or rasa, which is Sanskrit for the feeling-experience transmitted through a creative work.

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Who Are You? Rap
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Who Are You? Rap

video | 4 mina playfully profound answer to the ancient question

“Who Am I?” After delving deep into this Impossible Mission of spiritual inquiry, The Premanator gives away the secret intel.

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Stop Mandala Time-Lapse
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Stop Mandala Time-Lapse

video | 3:32 min — a mandala emerging

Watch this (mostly) unplanned mandala coming into form. Commissioned by someone who had a deep spiritual "sign" that he wanted to honor and remember with a mandala.

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How to Make a Sri Yantra Mural
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How to Make a Sri Yantra Mural

video | 4 min watch the creation step-by-step

Since ancient times, yogis of India have considered the Sri Yantra to be the most potent geometric embodiments of the divine, bestowing life energy, good fortune, and even enlightenment to those who view it. Here's how I painted a massive Sri Yantra on my wall.

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Every Day Is Christmas
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Every Day Is Christmas

video | 3 min a fun and heartfelt Christmas carol

“Made me want to hug my mom.” :)

Reinventing Christmas #2: For many years I led Christmas carols at the annual gathering of Adyashanti's nondual meditation community. I wanted to include some fun songs in the mix, but all the truly fun songs lacked depth of meaning. So I wrote my own!

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The Blind Men and the Elephant
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The Blind Men and the Elephant

video | 4 min the ancient tale set to rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe

It was six men of Indostan
to learning much inclined
who went to see the elephant,
though all of them were blind,
that each, by observation,
might satisfy his mind . . .

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A New and Ancient Christmas Story
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A New and Ancient Christmas Story

video | 3 min in honor of the divine feminine

“I got chills.”

Reinventing Christmas #3: In the wintertime of 2014, I noticed that in our “western” culture there is no archetype of the holy girl child. I thought, What if Jesus was a girl? This poem unfolded over the next 6 years or so.

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Reason for the Season
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Reason for the Season

video | 4 min a rap about the true meaning of Christmas

“Ahhhh this was slammin’! I love it!”

Reinventing Christmas #1:
We’ve all heard the story about the guy
with the first name Jesus and the last name Christ.
Born long ago, yet we still remember
with a birthday party at the end of December. . .

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