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Dr. Svoboda discusses cosmic lessons learned from Vimalananda with guests Dr. Fred Smith and Paula Crossfield.

Dr. Svoboda is joined by Dr. Fred Smith & Paula Crossfield to share the many cosmic lessons learned from Vimalananda. This time on Living with Reality, Dr. Robert Svoboda , Dr. Fred Smith, and Paula Crossfield discuss: How Dr. Svoboda and Dr. Smith met Vimalananda Transforming what we ingest The unusual and auspicious things that Vimalananda made happen Vimalananda’s capacity to enliven tantric forces Dealing with karmic debt Being attuned to the celestial realm Vimalananda’s lessons on the cosmic forces in trees Becoming sensitized to our own senses Magic and mantras in the kitchen The challenges of being born in the west Read more about Vimalananda on  Drsvoboda.com . “This was a way that he was teaching, by just sensitizing us to use our own senses” – Dr. Fred Smith About Dr. Fred Smith: Dr. Fred Smith studied Sanskrit for more than a decade in Pune, Madras, and elsewhere in India, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his work on Vedic ritual and the early sixteenth-century philosopher Vallabhacarya, whose work he has been translating. With his work on deity and spirit possession, his interest in Indian religious and spiritual…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Robert Svoboda

Guests: Dr. Fred Smith, Paula Crossfield

Topics covered

• cosmic lessons
• Vimalananda
• tantric forces
• karmic debt
• Vedic astrology
• spiritual experience

Keywords

• Vimalananda
• tantric forces
• karmic debt
• Vedic astrology
• spiritual experience
• cosmic forces
• senses
• mantras

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Iowa, Drsvoboda.com

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