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Wise Talkers

Demystifying Meditation - in 1979!

Wise Talkers

Ronald Fel Jones

Society & Culture

2.54 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This 6th Legacy Edition of Wise Talkers features a 1979 radio show in which I was interviewed about meditation on KNCO in Grass Valley, California. I was teaching meditation classes at the time. It’s an interesting look back on how meditation was viewed 45 years ago, and how I taught and practiced it in a practical, ‘demystified’ way. With questions from the host, KNCO’s Mark Johnson, and four callers, we discussed: how meditation compares to day-dreaming; how it can be used for planning...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Wisewalkers. I'm your host Ronald Fell Jones.

0:10.0

This is the sixth episode of my new podcast, Wise Talkers, and if you've been listening, you know that I have been

0:18.1

replaying interviews that were conducted many decades ago to launch my podcast.

0:23.6

And this sixth edition is also an older interview,

0:28.0

likely to be my last legacy edition,

0:30.2

as I'm calling them.

0:31.3

But in this interview, the tables are turned, as I'm calling them but in this interview the tables are turned as I'm not the interviewer I am the guest and here's how that happened I was giving some meditation classes in Nevada City in the late 70s and the other local station KNCO in

0:46.2

Grass Valley and AM station invited me on an interview to talk about meditation in my

0:51.4

class so of course I accepted. It's interesting all these

0:54.8

years later to listen to an interview about meditation 45 years ago because that was well

1:00.9

before meditation became as mainstream as it is today.

1:04.7

You know, practice and taught in everything from elementary schools to corporate boardrooms

1:09.3

backed by scientific research and all kinds of studies showing the efficacy of meditation.

1:15.0

So it's interesting to hear the questions and the way the subject is introduced by the host and my own answers.

1:21.0

I don't think my views have changed all that much. They've

1:24.8

certainly become more, I don't know, nuanced and perhaps more

1:28.3

comprehensive since I've been meditating for many many years since then. But in any case I find it interesting the questions, the call-in questions are interesting.

1:36.5

So I hope you enjoy it. One thing that is also different about this edition of Wise Talkers is that it's quite a bit shorter than the previous ones.

1:43.5

The interview that took place in 1979 is just under 18 minutes, this short intro, and then

1:49.7

after the interview I'll add a few more words including by the way some update on my plans for

1:55.7

wise talkers in the next few months which may be interrupted a bit which I'll explain after

2:01.0

I replay the interview.

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