BodhiSpeak with Jerry Walsh

BodhiSpeak is a platform to share, discuss, debate, and converse over teachings and philosophy’s from different traditions and thinkers around the globe. We explore topics such as consciousness, art, spirituality, health, healing, psychedelics, esoteric studies, mysticism, politics, relationships, communal living and all things transformational--leaving nothing excluded.

BodhiSpeak with Jerry Walsh is a religion podcast hosted by Jerry Walsh, with 61 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jerry Walsh hosts BodhiSpeak with Jerry Walsh, a religion show with 61 episodes published.

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  Episode #73

  Dimitri Mugianis on Bwiti Initiation, Iboga, Ethical Medicine, & Demilitarization of Psychedelic Culture

  Jul 12, 20261h 51m

  Dimitri Mugianis is a writer, artist, musician, ceremonialist, and harm reduction practitioner whose work explores psychedelics, addiction, spirituality, community, politics, and the ways people heal outside conventional systems. For more than twenty-five years he has worked with people navigating addiction, trauma, and profound psychological and spiritual experiences, pioneering community-based approaches to ibogaine and other psychedelic practices. Drawing equally from the Beat tradition, avant-garde music, activism, and contemplative practice, Dimitri writes and speaks about the intersection of personal experience and social change. His work explores the commodification, medicalization, and militarization of psychedelics, the contradictions of late-stage capitalism, and challenges dominant narratives around recovery, psychiatry, and the psychedelic renaissance, arguing instead for relationship, culture, ceremony, and community as central to healing. His writing has appeared in STAT News, The Guardian, Salon, Jacobin, Left Voice, and other publications, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, VICE News, The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, and the documentary I'm Dangerous With Love. He is currently at work on a memoir and a collection of essays exploring the cultural, political, and spiritual implications of psychedelics, harm reduction, and recovery. Sound Healer Training with Dream Seed 26-27

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  Episode #72

  Don't Be A Victim of Your Own Success

  Dec 24, 202550 min

  Frankenstein - who is the real monster? Self-love as the basis of integration

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  Episode #71

  A Talk with the Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam, Tibetan Buddhist Spiritual Teacher & Exile

  Aug 14, 202532 min

  Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam is the Spiritual Director of the Drikung Meditation Center. Born in Lhasa, Tibet, Lama Sonam began his Buddhist training when young within the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. At the age of 18, Lama Sonam took full ordination and became a monk (Gelong). Lama Sonam then went on to complete a retreat on Ngondro (Common and Extraordinary Preliminaries) and the Five-Fold Path of Mahamudra under H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and Gelong Yeshe. Lama Sonam received teachings and blessings from more than twenty-five great masters, including Nyedak Rinpoche, his beloved main teacher, and the Most Venerable Pachung Rinpoche, the renown scholar and retreat master at Drikung Thil monastery. Lama Sonam served as disciplinarian at Jang Chub Ling monastery, in Dehra Dun, India. This difficult position required an extremely vast knowledge of the Dharma, and inspirational deep inner qualities. Lama Sonam has also served as the personal attendant to H.H. Chungtsang Rinpoche, H.E. Drubwang Rinpoche, Tongkar Tulku, and H.E. Thritsab Rinpoche, and tutored American tulku Thadag Rinpoche (Jack Churchward). On June 9, 2003, Lama Sonam arrived in Boston to be the Resident Lama at the Drikung Meditation Center. Lama Sonam has shown himself to be expert in both the theoretical and practical aspects of training the mind through meditation and Vajrayana methods for awakening our Buddha Nature. In the fall of 2005, Lama Sonam started the Jowo Rinpoche Statue Project to benefit the Boston area, the United States, and the world. Lama Sonam began to realize his vision of bringing the blessings of Buddhism, from Buddha Shakyamuni and countless other enlightened masters from the East- India, Nepal, and Tibet, to the United States by creating a pilgrimage site. Arriving in May of 2008, the centerpiece of the pilgrimage site is an eight foot tall gilded, jewel-encrusted bronze, the U.S. Jowo Rinpoche Statue. The magnificent U.S. Jowo Rinpoche statue is a replica and spiritual emanation of the most revered Jowo Rinpoche statue that was made at the time of the historical Buddha and brought to Lhasa, Tibet in 641 AD.

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  Episode #70

  Hunger Strike for Humanity: August 6th through 9th

  Aug 4, 202513 min

  My friend Sam and I were discussing the humanitarian crisis in Israel and Palestine, which has been heartbreaking for so many of us and shortly after we spoke, we received word that August 6th-9th there is a "Hunger Strike for Humanity", co-organized by our friends and healing allies, Stephen and Marcina at Reconsider. August 6th and 9th specifically coincides with the 80th Anniversary of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The intention and prayer of the fast is to meditate on what we can do in our personal lives to help humanity choose peace over violence and deeply ask, "what kind of world do we want to live in?". This fast is not focused on one specific situation but the myriad conflicts that are happening in the present day (Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Haiti, Ukraine/Russia, Myanmur and so on). Simultaneously, this hunger strike for humanity is stated to be in solidarity with Satyam Homeland’s Hunger Strike for Peace, an ongoing hunger strike being carried out by both Israeli and Paelstinians calling for peace, reconciliation between cultures, and the end of the policy of forced starvation and siege on the civilians in Gaza. This hunger strike isn't a one-sided political movement - it is just a humble, simple inner and outer action we want to take for humanity to recognize that love, compassion, forgiveness, peace, and a fundamental respect for human rights for all people are the only methods capable of ending conflict both within and without. We are inviting the community to join us in this prayer to advocate for a more compassionate world so that as my teacher, Maestro Manuel, would say, may all people may have clean water, food, shelter, & be happy. If you feel inspired to join in some manner there is more info below here: https://multifaithpeace.org/event/vigil-for-humanity-on-80th-year-after-atomic-bombing/ How to Participate This is a personal and collective invitation. You are welcome to join in whatever way resonates with you: Join the vigils and conversations via Zoom Fast in a way that aligns with your capacity—full, partial, from food, a habit or distraction Hold moments of daily silence, prayer, or reflection together Share stories, light candles, or simply witness Together, we reflect with curiosity, become aware of our role in all of it, take responsibility for what we create, reimagine what’s possible, and manifest peace through conscious presence. There is no need to RSVP. Just join us when you feel called.

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  Episode #69

  A Cloud Never Dies

  Feb 23, 20252h 4m

  Zen Buddhist Teachings and Beyond inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh and others Descriptions are empty but I am home, I have arrived

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