Deep Transformation Podcast: Self - Society - Spirit

11/19/2025

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): "...from this perspective, there's no doing. There is a generation of appearance, a display of what we perceive being displayed instant by instant, and an outflow, a luminous outflow, of all forms and experiences."

🎙️How Does Anything (Including Us) Change in a Nondual World? with A. H. Almaas (Part 1 of 3)

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📺 Watch the FULL video conversations or 🎧 listen to the FULL audio only interviews of the A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series:

https://deeptransformation.io/a-h-almaas-wisdom-series/

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Trailer Transcript:

The expression I use sometimes that I call sometimes the source or the dimension of being, I call it "Hu", the Sufi name for God, "Hu", H-U. And I have a thing, I call it "Hu does?" which is in Christianity, it will be called the only doer, there's only one doer. The one doer is being itself, so that's using the expression "doing", you know. But, really, from this perspective, there's no doing. There is a generation of appearance, a display of what we perceive being displayed instant by instant, and an outflow, a luminous outflow, of all forms and experiences.

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11/18/2025

This Friday: Break the cycle of nuclear madness.

Join Dr. Roger Walsh and Dr. Howard Kornfeld for a powerful conversation on the psychology of power, nuclear escalation, and the path to peace.

For decades, they’ve been leaders in nuclear non-proliferation. On Nov 21 at the Berkeley Alembic, they’ll unpack the psychology of power and our path to real peace.

📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. PST
📍 Streaming ONLINE & In-Person

🎟️ Reserve your seat: https://momence.com/Berkeley-Alembic/Breaking-the-Cycle%3A-Undoing-the-Addictive-Roots-of-Nuclear-Madness/125156987

11/17/2025

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): "...When people talk about being nondual, do they really understand this?"

🎙️ How Does Anything (Including Us) Change in a Nondual World? with A. H. Almaas (Part 1 of 3)

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📺 Watch the FULL video conversations or 🎧 listen to the FULL audio only interviews of the A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series:

https://deeptransformation.io/a-h-almaas-wisdom-series/

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❤️ Our podcast is a labor of love funded solely by co-hosts Roger and John. If you enjoyed this episode, please help us keep these meaningful conversations alive by supporting us through: https://deeptransformation.io/donate/

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Trailer Transcript:

When people talk about being nondual, do they really understand this? If you don't understand this, your nonduality is incomplete because nondual means nothing is separate from anything else. Well, if nothing's separate from anything else, then how do birds fly? How do cars move? They're not separate. What happens? You see. Basically, here we talk about being and true nature. We're saying that it has a dynamism; and dynamic, meaning it's not just still. It can't be still. It's one side of it. The other side of it is alive. It's dynamic. It is [indiscernible]. And the way its aliveness happens, is it is constantly being creative of everything.

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11/16/2025

“All of reality is part of one unified fabric, so what does it mean when a bird flies from one place to another?”

🎙️ Episode 208
How Does Anything (Including Us) Change in a Nondual World? with A. H. Almaas (Part 1 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/a-h-almaas-wisdom-series-15-1-change-in-a-nondual-world/

In Part 1 of the 15th dialogue in the A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series, Hameed Ali enlightens us about the dynamic, creative force that generates our reality. “Dynamism is constant,” Hameed explains, “it never stops—it is constantly creating what we experience, what we perceive.” Hameed calls this nondual dimension of true nature—of our nature—creative dynamism. How do you explain change, he asks, if it’s not happening in time, and all of reality is one fabric, nondual? The dynamism Hameed speaks of, ongoing and total, has a radical implication: the entire universe is re-created, instant by instant. Not only the physical dimension, Hameed adds, but all dimensions—mental, emotional, and spiritual—are re-created anew.

As co-host Roger Walsh points out, Hameed’s teachings come from direct experience, and Hameed describes his own mind-blowing experience of the moment-by-moment re-creation of himself and the world in Part 2 of this dialogue. Nothing persists, he discovers, movement is not continual. In Part 1, Hameed also explores the subjects of free will, action, and choice as addressed from a nondual perspective, and the fact that we and our actions emerge from the totality of reality. As always, Hameed transmits his joy and exuberance at the mysterious and marvelous ways true nature expresses itself, and it is exciting to realize our own nature is as dynamic, creative, flowing and changing, as the universe. Recorded September 11, 2025.

11/13/2025

“We should not sleep in the delusion that things are better than they are.”

🎙️ Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity

📺 The FULL video of this conversation is now available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPupOve38Gg

In this compelling conversation, Jerry Brown gets right to the heart of the things that matter most. From truth seeking on an individual level to the challenge of our democracy, from the problem of leadership to the fear and greed that drive the arms race, Jerry nails the essence of our most pressing issues. Jerry’s deep concern about the existential threats we face today, such as nuclear war and climate change, is matched by his enthusiasm for life and excitement over the fact that the future is unknowable. We discover some of the key formative events that shaped Jerry’s keenly discerning character, so evident throughout his career and still today in his eighties, and why co-host Roger Walsh describes him as a “force of nature.” This conversation is thoroughly enjoyable, inspirational, eye opening, and disturbing too. Recorded August 7, 2025.

“We should not sleep in the delusion that things are better than they are.”----🎙️ Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity---❤️ Our p...

11/10/2025

Governor Jerry Brown: "...It's small, but that's what being a human being is, but we don't know how that smallness can be amplified by the shared sense that we need to change."

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🎙️ Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity (Part 2 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/governor-jerry-brown-life-power-future-of-humanity-2/

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

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Trailer Transcript:

We have to turn, and everybody can contribute in some minute way to that turn. It's not just you, but as you gather with others, that then ripples out. Communication is made, other people are inspired, and you never know who will have the energy. It's amazing how people—Denis Hayes started Earth Day in 1970. Just out of nowhere, we got an Earth Day. Greta just started talking, and for a few years, made a big impact. So, you can't tell depending on where you are. I believe, you know—joining the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, supporting Greenpeace, the Sierra Club. There are things you can do in following activities through the internet. It's small, but that's what being a human being is, but we don't know how that smallness can be amplified by the shared sense that we need to change.

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11/08/2025

Governor Jerry Brown: "...And by living an active full life and doing things that you believe are valuable, that's important."

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🎙️ Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity (Part 2 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/governor-jerry-brown-life-power-future-of-humanity-2/

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

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❤️ Our podcast is a labor of love funded solely by co-hosts Roger and John. If you enjoyed this episode, please help us keep these meaningful conversations alive by supporting us through: https://deeptransformation.io/donate/

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Trailer Transcript:

Every morning I get up, I'm excited. I'm really enthusiastic. Boy, another day. Beautiful out there. The birds are chirping. The sun has come up. However, I'm not in charge of that feeling. It just shows up. Someday, I may wake up totally depressed. So, I feel that I'm not in charge exactly. I guess I can make it worse, you know, by drinking or getting in a rut of some kind. And by living an active full life and doing things that you believe are valuable, that's important. But the inherent will to live, the inherent appreciation, that seems to be prior to my awareness. It just is something that I'm in. I'm in some larger gestalt that I show up in. So, so far so good. We don't know what I'm going to feel like tomorrow.

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11/06/2025

“The future is unknown, so don’t conclude that all is dark – or that all is bright! It’s unknown, so as long as we’re breathing and functioning, we have a lot to do.”

🎙️ Episode 207
Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity (Part 2 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/governor-jerry-brown-life-power-future-of-humanity-2/

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

Topics:
• Waking up with enthusiasm, excitement, and inherent appreciation
• What is Jerry engaged in right now?
• Roger’s summary of the global issues facing us today
• The nuclear danger is as important as it is underreported, and the key to proliferation is fear
• The ICBM Caucus
• Not talking about the arms issue is to be complicit
• Sitting with the question, what can I do?
• Social and political recognition of danger is so very important
• We have to turn and everyone can contribute to amplifying the turn
• The future is unknowable, so we do what we can
• Living in inquiry, the quest for truth
• Why was Jerry drawn to work for the good of the environment?
• The Jesuit belief in eternal damnation
• What you can derive from Zen
• Becoming individuators on the developmental path
• What does Jerry wish he’d known sooner?
• There’s always more to be learned

11/04/2025

Governor Jerry Brown: "'Age Quod Agis'. So, do what you're doing. And that means fully embrace, be present. "

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🎙️ Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity (Part 1 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/governor-jerry-brown-life-power-future-of-humanity-1/

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

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❤️ Our podcast is a labor of love funded solely by co-hosts Roger and John. If you enjoyed this episode, please help us keep these meaningful conversations alive by supporting us through: https://deeptransformation.io/donate/

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Trailer Transcript:

We have a statement that we made when I was in the Jesuits. It was a Latin phrase that we would encourage one another. It was called "Age Quod Agis". It's do what you're doing. Just do what you're doing. And they would tell me that because part of our work, part of our path, we had to pick grapes. There was a winery connected to the seminary. So, we'd be out during the summer picking grapes, and I'd be talking philosophy or theology. They say, "Brother Brown, just pick grapes." Age Quod Agis. Now, I [indiscernible] in Oakland. I made their motto, "Age Quod Agis". So, do what you're doing. And that means fully embrace, be present. So, there's quite a lot of meaning in that particular Jesuit slogan.

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11/02/2025

Governor Jerry Brown: "...Two big things we need, which we don't have anywhere near enough of. One of them is a sense of wanting to work together, a shared sense of common danger, common fate, which we don't have."

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🎙️ Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity (Part 1 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/governor-jerry-brown-life-power-future-of-humanity-1/

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

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❤️ Our podcast is a labor of love funded solely by co-hosts Roger and John. If you enjoyed this episode, please help us keep these meaningful conversations alive by supporting us through: https://deeptransformation.io/donate/

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Trailer Transcript:

Two big things we need, which we don't have anywhere near enough of. One of them is a sense of wanting to work together, a shared sense of common danger, common fate, which we don't have. If you think of Xi Jinping and Trump or Putin, they talk like one could win. Maybe one might, under certain circumstances, but there's a great danger that we all lose if we don't control climate, if we don't find ways to minimize pandemics, if we don't find a way to reduce some of the inequalities that will foster terrorism. And terrorism plus artificial intelligence linked to genetic engineering could result in man-made pandemics of a horrible character. And that's why the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists puts out this doomsday clock.

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11/01/2025

“We should not sleep in the delusion that things are better than they are.”

🎙️ Episode 206
Governor Jerry Brown on Life, Power, and the Future of Humanity (Part 1 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/governor-jerry-brown-life-power-futur

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

In this extraordinary, compelling conversation, visionary, activist, and long-time politician, former Governor of California Jerry Brown gets right to the heart of the things that matter most. From truth seeking on an individual level (the importance of inquiring into the depths of our reality), to the challenge of our democracy (getting a consensus in a population that has no coherence), to the problem of leadership (now it’s all about winning, which works on the football field but not for international relations), the fear and greed that drive the arms race (we’re not talking about the arms issue, and to not talk about it is to be complicit), and the existential danger of nuclear war (as important as it is underreported), Jerry nails the essence of our most pressing issues.

Jerry’s deep concern about the existential threats we face today, such as nuclear war and climate change, is matched by his enthusiasm for life and excitement over the fact that the future is unknowable. “We have to turn,” he says, “and everyone can contribute to amplifying the turn.” We discover some of the key formative events that shaped Jerry’s keenly discerning character, so evident throughout his career and still today in his eighties, and why co-host Roger Walsh describes him as a “force of nature.” This conversation is thoroughly enjoyable, inspirational, eye opening, and disturbing too. “We are on the brink, but no one wants to hear it,” Jerry says. “How do you speak the truth in a way it can be heard?” Recorded August 7, 2025.

10/31/2025

An Hour Long Guided Meditation with Deep Transformation podcast co-host Dr. Roger Walsh

This hour long meditation with Lama Roger Walsh offers guidance through a sequence of several practices, primarily Buddhist, that can be used separately or in various combinations for rich meditation sessions and ongoing practice.

It begins with a reflection and cultivation of gratitude as a way of opening the heart and appreciating our interconnection, invites setting an intention or aspiration for our lives, and then offers two meditations for cultivating the qualities and capacities of heart and mind to empower these aspirations.

It next offers guidance for becoming aware of thoughts, images, and other mental phenomenon as they arise, and before they hypnotize us, thus enabling us to catch them rather than them catch us. This is a very important skill for meditation.

In the final phase, it offers guidance for the more advanced Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen practice of resting in pure awareness, able to calmly witness all experiences, without being controlled by any of them. Recorded on October 26, 2025.

Watch the full session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwktnR53Uo

Free weekly meditation town Hall with Lama Surya Das. Lama's guest host this week is his dear friend and dharma brother Lama Roger Walsh. He is a cohost of t...