Vedic Worldview

How to Know When to Persist or Let Go

If a desire doesn't bring lasting fulfillment, why do we follow it at all?   Thom offers a Vedic perspective on desire, fulfillment, and the difference between pursuing

Vedic Meditation in Prison: Joh Jarvis and The Light Inside. Part 2

What can Vedic Meditation offer in a place most people only imagine from the outside? In Part Two of this two-part series, Thom Knoles and Joh Jarvis trace Joh's work tea

What Is Navaratri Sharad? The Nine Nights of Mother Divine

What could be more worthy of a twice-yearly celebration lasting nine nights and ten days than the celebration of Mother Divine herself?   In this bonus episode, coincid

From Journalist to Meditation Teacher: Joh Jarvis's Journey, Part 1

How can a piece of advice unsettle a life that seems already established? In this first installment of a three-part conversation, Thom Knoles and Joh Jarvis, a fellow Ved

Ask Thom Anything: Ego, Reincarnation, and Tough Love

Is the problem ego, or our misunderstanding of it? In this Ask Me Anything episode, Thom responds to three big questions: how to balance eliminating the ego with having a

Why You Feel Alone Even When You’re Connected

It's never been easier to connect with others yet loneliness is reportedly the fastest-growing epidemic worldwide. In this episode, Thom explores why human beings are bui

Living Abundance Sedona Retreat Preview

What if abundance begins when we stop assuming everything is running out? In this short bonus episode of The Vedic Worldview Podcast, Thom previews his upcoming Living Ab

The Real Danger of AI: Why Fear Is the Problem

Are fears about AI justified, or is it fear itself that's the problem? In this episode, Thom puts today’s anxiety about artificial intelligence into a much larger context

How to Be an Extraordinary Human Being Pt 2

What if becoming extraordinary has less to do with certainty and more to do with your capacity to move with the unknown? In this episode, Part Two of a two part series (L

How to Be an Extraordinary Human Being Pt 1

What if safety is not found in the familiar, but in our willingness to move into the unknown?   In this episode, Thom explores why the ever-repeating known leads to sta

The True Source of Toxicity

We're often told that we live in a world full of toxic behaviour, but is it the world that's toxic or is it our view of it that gives it a toxic flavor?   In this episo

Dopamine: A Product of Human Experience

What if the real problem with dopamine is not too little or too much, but the modern urge to treat it as the source of human experience rather than its product?   In th

The Purpose of Creation: Why Consciousness Becomes a Story

If Oneness is our natural state, why does life unfold through uncertainty, limitation, and change?   In response to a listener's question, Thom explores why the Unified

Building Community Through Vedic Meditation: A Conversation with Barron Hanson

Can a regional town become a living experiment in collective consciousness? In this conversation, Thom speaks with fellow Vedic Meditation Initiator, Barron Hanson about

Dhanur Veda: The Forgotten Art of Diplomacy

What creates diplomacy, and why does it seem so absent when societies need it most?   Thom explores Dhanur Veda, the Vedic body of knowledge concerned with governance,

The Masters of the Shankaracharya Tradition Part 2

Why would a naked yogi be received as a blessing, and why would a great master decline a title others might revere?   In this second part of the two-part Masters of the

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Masters of the Tradition, Part 1

What keeps a body of knowledge alive across thousands of years without losing its purity?   In this first part of a two-part series, Thom traces the Guru Parampara, the

Ravana: The Essential Villain, Part 2

There's never any shortage of characters on the world stage who demonstrate what appear to be anti-evolutionary behaviors, but what if the very forces that seem to obstru

Ravana: The Essential Villain Part 1

What if the villain is not outside evolution, but part of what gives it shape?   In this first episode of a two-part exploration, Thom uses the characters of Ravana and

Ask Thom Anything: Apology, Higher Consciousness, and Past Lives

Have we met before? Is it possible to be over apologetic? And if Cosmic Consciousness is so special, then what's the function of God Consciousness and Unity Consciousness