
Guru Viking Podcast
The Guru Viking Podcast specialises in in-depth interviews with remarkable figures in the fields of meditation, spirituality, and religion.
NEW EPISODE EVERY FRIDAY
Ep102: Cults, Science, & the Dalai Lama - Dr Jay Sanguinetti
In this interview I am joined by Dr Jay Sanguinetti, Research Professor at the University of Arizona, Assistant Director at the Center for Consciousness Studies, and co-director of the SEMA Lab with Shinzen Young.
Ep101: One Blade of Grass - Henry Shukman
In this episode I am joined by Henry Shukman, award-winning poet, Zen teacher, and author of ‘One Blade of Grass, a Zen memoir’.
Ep100: Emancipated Passion of Kaula Tantra - Ian Baker
In this episode I am once again joined by Dr Ian A. Baker, international fellow of the Explorers Club and the Royal Geographic Society, author of 7 books, and an initiate of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu Tantric lineages.
Ep99: Making Of A Tantric Lama - Lama David Curtis 2
In this episode, I am once again joined by David Curtis, a Lama in the Shangpa-Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism and founder of the Tibetan Language Institute.
Ep98: Hidden Zen - Meido Roshi
In this interview I am joined by Meido Roshi, Rinzai Zen Abbot of Korinji Monastery, Wisconsin, and author of ‘Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening and Embodied Realisation’.
Ep97: From The Heart of Chenrezig - Glenn Mullin
In this episode I am once again joined by Tibetologist, author, and Tantric Buddhist Lama Glenn Mullin.
Ep96: The Garden Of Mystical Love - Gregory Blann
In this interview I am joined by Gregory Blann: mystic, artist, author, and initiate of the Inayati and Halveti-Jerrahi orders of Sufism.
Ep95: Coitus Reservatus - Dr Ben Joffe 4
In this episode I am once again joined by Dr Ben Joffe, anthropologist and scholar practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.
Ep94: The Enlightenment Button - feat. Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, & Dr Jay Sanguinetti
In this episode I host part 5 of an ongoing trialogue between Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, and Dr Jay Sanguinetti.
Ep93: The Epic of King Gesar - Amalia Rubin
In this episode I am joined by Amalia Rubin – internationally known singer, Buddhist practitioner, 8 language polyglot, and scholar currently conducing her PhD research on ‘Gesar as an ongoing mode of reality in the lives of modern Tibetan youths in Eastern Tibet’ at the University of Leeds.
Ep92: Magical Movements of Tibet - Dr Alejandro Chaoul
In this episode I am joined by Alejandro Chaoul PhD, author, meditation teacher, Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston.
Ep91: Dark Side of the Dharma - Anna Lutkajtis
In this episode I am joined by Anna Lutkajtis author of ‘Dark Side of the Dharma: Meditation, Madness, and Other Maladies on the Contemplative Path’.
Ep90:Nocturnal Meditation - Andrew Holecek
In this episode I am joined by Andrew Holecek, author, spiritual teacher, and expert on lucid dreaming and the Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep.
Steve interviewed by Dan Doty
In June 2020 I was interviewed for the second time by Dan Doty of DanDoty.com.
Ep89: Dzogchen, Hypnosis, & Psychopaths - Dr Ian Wickramasekera & Petra Tauchner
In this episode I host a dialogue between Dr Ian Wickramasekera and Petra Tauchner on Dr Ian’s ‘Empathic Involvement Theory’ of hypnosis.
Ep88: Saints and Psychopaths - Har Prakash Khalsa
In this episode I am joined by Har-Prakash Khalsa, artist, meditation teacher, and founder of the Expand Contract Youtube Channel, which hosts the video teachings of Shinzen Young.
Ep87: Tibetan Mantra Healing - Drukmo Gyal Dakini
In this episode I am joined by Drukmo Gyal Dakini (འབྲུག་མོ་རྒྱལ), an International singer, recording artist, and practitioner of Tibetan mantra healing.
Ep86: Bliss, Enlightenment, & Fristonian Physics - Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, Dr Jay Sanguinetti
In this episode I host part 4 of an ongoing dialogue between Shinzen Young, meditation teacher and neuroscience research consultant, and Chelsey Fasano, a Columbia University neuroscience student.
Ep85: Finding Our Sons’ Reincarnations - Wendy & Ronnie Barry
In this episode, I am joined by Wendy and Ronnie Barry who discuss their quest to find the reincarnations of their two sons who, in 1997, died in a car crash.
Ep84: Hitchhiking in Samsara - Lama David Curtis
In this episode, I am joined by David Curtis, a Lama in the Shangpa-Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and founder of the Tibetan Language Institute.