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Blissful Thinking

Jun 12, 2020

This week's episode is with radical psychologist, feminist and psychotherapist Guilaine Kinouani, an expert on the impact of racism on the mental health of people of colour, particularly the African diaspora in Europe. We had an extraordinary conversation in which I learned so much about how racism works in the minds of...


Jun 5, 2020

This week's episode is with poet, novelist, and writer on masculinity, JJ Bola. We speak about traditional African spirituality and the importance of communicating with ancestors in revolutionary movements, as well as imperialist attempts to suppress such practice, and we speak about today's situation in the United...


May 30, 2020

Roger Robinson is a poet and vocalist for the musical crossover project King Midas Sound. I've known him for 20 years as one of the biggest-hearted, most generous writers around. This year, everything has gone his way, in terms of success, so I wanted to ask him how he has remained grounded, what his secret is. Here...


May 23, 2020

This week's episode is with my dear friend Mauricio Barriga, a schoolteacher originally from Mexico, now living in Santa Ana in Orange County. Mauricio and I met at Deer Park Monastery, CA, which is where he learnt his practice of meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and here he explains the essence of this...


May 8, 2020

This week's episode is with the extraordinarily insightful poet, storyteller, healer, clairvoyant, tarot reader, and psychic, Giorgia Alexander. This is a deep, sensitive, and most of all wise exploration of some of the key issues that face us all: trauma and how to heal from it, narcissism, sociopathy, and, last of...