Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum
Be Here Now Network
RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the coauthor with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. Dale’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free. Learn more about Ram Dev’s work via the Living/Dying Project
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Oct 25, 2017 • 42min
Ep. 12 – Poetic Medicine w/ John Fox
Poet and Author, John Fox, joins the show to talk about the healing power of poetry.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 26, 2017 • 43min
Ep. 11 – Sandra Fish
Sandra Fish joins the show to talk about her work as an advocate for compassionate end of life care in prisons. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 30, 2017 • 53min
Ep.10 – Mindfulness on Death Row w/ Susan Shannon
Buddhist chaplain, Susan Shannon, joins the show to talk about cultivating compassion and mindfulness with death row inmates at San Quentin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Jul 21, 2017 • 31min
Ep.09 – Confronting Death with Joe DiNardo
On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Dale speaks with author, Joe DiNardo, about confronting death and the role of practice in the process of grieving. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 24, 2017 • 43min
Ep. 08 – Living/Dying with Ram Dass
Dale visits one of his oldest friends, and very special guest, Ram Dass to talk about lessons learned from their time in India with Neem Karoli Baba and ways we all can integrate the living/dying process.
Ram Dass joins Dale for a moving conversation about their work with the dying and the importance of practice in the living/dying process that we all go through.
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Apr 20, 2017 • 48min
Ep. 07 – Dr. James Smith
Dale has a conversation with Dr. Jim Smith about his battle with cancer, how it changed his perspective as a physician, and cultivating compassion.
Dr. Jim Smith is a surgeon whose personal journey and practice has changed the way he has come to practice. Dale and Jim discuss the role of compassion and the need for doctors to cultivate as much compassion for themselves as they do their patients.
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Mar 21, 2017 • 34min
Ep. 06 – Conscious Dying
In this talk, given at the Symington Cancer Conference, Dale discusses conscious dying and working with suffering.
Dale talks about the struggles of dying and methods of conscious dying that allow a person freedom from suffering.
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Feb 8, 2017 • 52min
Ep. 05 – Healing the Heart
Dale discusses healing the heart and staying on the path to God.
On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Dale talks about staying motivated in our practice, how we deal with suffering, and healing the heart with compassion.
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Jan 9, 2017 • 32min
Ep. 04 - The Joy of Taking Refuge
In this episode, Dale talks about the joy of taking refuge. When we take refuge, we are seeking sanctuary in awareness, truth, and connectedness. Dale reminds us to let go and teaches us the joy of taking refuge.
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Oct 26, 2016 • 44min
Ep. 03 – Melanie Bien
Dale speaks with Melanie Bien, who has dedicated herself to working on the street with the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team. The two met a few years ago at a retreat led by Dale, after the death of Melanie’s mother. Melanie and Dale discuss how the practice that she has cultivated counterbalances the deep suffering she is exposed to on a daily basis. Reminding us that to have love and compassion means giving it to ourselves and our enemies as much as anyone else. “Love is contagious, those who haven’t got it catch it from those who do.” – Meher Baba
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