Lost Ways of Knowing

Lost Ways of Knowing

The “Lost Ways of Knowing” podcast teaches a basic history of the Indian traditions that feature centrally in modern yoga, focusing on the value of awakening, or being liberated from ignorance. The ultimate aim is to establish a working definition of “Yoga as awakening”, and to initiate a dialogue about awakening as the systematic overcoming of self deception which leads to deeper intimacy with what is real.

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S5E8 Devotion as Freedom

December 2, 2025 • 36 mins
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S5E7 Liberation in Classical Yoga

October 1, 2025 • 36 mins
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S5E6 Traditional Enlightenment

August 1, 2025 • 50 mins
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S5E5 Contemporary Definitions of Liberation

July 1, 2025 • 50 mins
There are many different ideas about what enlightenment is: some come from the dogma of particular schools; some come from individuals only vaguely associated with a set of schools, etc. What follows is a list of “contemporary definitions” from teacher...
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S5E4 What is liberation?

June 1, 2025 • 34 mins
This episode begins the conversation about the nature of awakening. The spirit of the discussion precedes in a way that hopes to shine light on how we might be confused about the subject itself. Without trying to define enlightenment in a propositional...
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S5E3 Knowing the Real

May 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Our sense of what is meaningful is tied directly to our sense of what is real. Humans need to feel that their hopes, beliefs, efforts, and relationships are grounded in something that transcends their own lives, something more substantial than their ow...
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S5E2 Realness

March 31, 2025 • 29 mins
Having established that what is most meaningful to us is that which is experienced as the most real, this episode delves into ways of imagining the specifics of realness itself. Drawing again on the work of Dr. John Vervaeke, we discover that realness ...
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S5E1 Essence & Meaning

March 3, 2025 • 25 mins
This episode investigates the idea that human beings manifest an essential nature defined by the ancient Yoga tradition. We suggest that the modern world has mistaken this nature and that we have been educated incorrectly as a result. This in turn has ...
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S5 Introduction

March 3, 2025 • 4 mins
Season 5 continues our conversation about Yoga and the centrality of Awakening in its many manifestations. We look specifically at why things like self transcendence and awakening are necessary for humans, and how these things are intimately tied to ou...
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S4E3 Summary

June 15, 2024 • 19 mins
Yoga is a discipline that has a complex and accurate understanding of all the things we need to do in order to determine what is real so we can determine what we care about, the nature of our relations and therefore help us determine what we should do....
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S4E2 Transnational Anglophone Yoga

April 28, 2023 • 48 mins
This episode focuses on modern, transnational, anglophone yoga, which has tended to emphasize the practice of asana over certain other techniques that were central to the Hatha tradition: e.g. shatkarmani, mudra, and etc. This emphasis is fueled by the...
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S4E1 Vivekananda

April 28, 2023 • 40 mins
This episode focuses on Swami Vivekananda, a key figure who brought Yoga to the West. His political and spiritual leanings show a strong influence from British colonialism, including: Western (Greek) notions of rationality and more universalist interpr...
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S3E5 Chakra & Kundalini

April 28, 2023 • 60 mins
The last episode on Siddha based practice looks deeper into two famous aspects of the subtle body: the chakras and the Kundalini. We discover a dizzying array of teachings concerning these matters, not all in agreement with one another. We also find th...
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S3E4 Subtle Body & Reversal

April 27, 2023 • 51 mins
This episode elucidates the final stage of the Siddha’s alchemical endeavors, which is known as reversal, or “ulta sadhana”. In reversal, the breath, mind, and seed of the human being are coagulated into a stable substance and directed into the subtle ...
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S3E3 Immobilization

April 27, 2023 • 38 mins
This episode focuses on the period that follows preparation and purification, which for Siddha based practices is known as immobilization. It turns out that the subtle sexual essences humans produce are also homologs of breath and mind. Breath, Mind, a...
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S3E2 Preparation & Purification

April 27, 2023 • 34 mins
This episode focuses on the period of preparation and purification that must precede the generation of the divine body and the emergence of its powers of transformation. We look closely at how preparation and purification are themselves patterned on th...
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S3E1 Tantra, Hatha, Alchemy

April 27, 2023 • 45 mins
This episode is the first in a series that delves into what is known as “Siddha” yoga, which is a combination of indigenous Hindu Alchemy, Tantra, and Hatha Yoga. We discuss each of these areas as key sources for the ideological framework, the aims, an...
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S2E3 Heresy

April 27, 2023 • 33 mins
This episode focuses on the life of the Buddha and the impact of his teaching in the Indian philosophical sphere. We tell a basic story of his life and journey to enlightenment, and detail the essence of his realization as the teaching of no-self (anat...
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S2E2 Gita & Yoga Sutra

April 27, 2023 • 42 mins
This episode focuses on the intersection of the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, which is a key text for modern practitioners. We compare and contrast the aims and means of the two texts by way of the three great yogas, karma, jnana, and ...
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S2E1 Mahabharata Gita

April 27, 2023 • 34 mins
This episode focuses on the central epic in Indian history known as the Mahabharata, the twelfth chapter of which is Bhagavad Gita. We look closely at the Gita as a great synthesis of the Vedic tradition of sacrifice and the mysticism of the Upanishads...
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