Visits with the Amish
Visits with the Amish: Impressions of the Plain Life | University of Iowa Press, 2010
The Ramayana
The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki’s Ancient Epic—Complete and Comprehensive | By Linda Egenes and Kumuda Reddy | TarcherPerigee, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016
All Love Flows to the Self
All Love Flows to the Self: Eternal Stories from the Upanishads |
By Kumuda Reddy, Thomas Egenes, Linda Egenes
| Samhita Productions, 1999
Guest Post—Ann Purcell on TM and My Creative Process
Ann Purcell—poet, author, blogger, singer-songwriter—shares the secret of her creativity. “I never considered myself a creative person, nor did I grow up in an artistic household.” Here she describes a dramatic change in her life that allowed her creativity to blossom.
The Ramayana Teaches How to Treat a Refugee
Friends have asked me to post examples of enlightened leadership from the Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic that is freakily apt for our times. Here is a compassionate and loving response to a refugee crisis that I find heartening to read.
#TheRamayana on the Donna Seebo Show Live
Tune in today at 11:00 a.m. Central Time at http://delphiinternational.com/donna-seebo-show/ to hear Linda Egenes interviewed on the Donna Seebo Show live! Linda will talk about her new book, The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki’s Ancient Epic—Complete and Comprehensive, co-authored with Kumuda Reddy, M.D., (#TarcherPerigee, Sept. 2016). If you miss the show, check out the archives on the same…
Look What Came in the Mail Today—Ramayana!
Oh, that magic feeling when the book you’ve worked on for 18 years is in your hands and it looks so beautiful! Big thanks to the editing and production team at Penguin Random House. Waves of gratitude to the many, many friends who helped me along the way. To everyone who has already bought a copy, I…
Iconic David Lynch Song Gets a Remake
Like falling in love, the process of creating art can be a mystery, even to the person writing the song or sculpting the statue. I loved interviewing the Greek singer Kid Moxie to find out the mysteries of her creative process as she and producer Michael Sternfeld, Amine Kouider, Sam Lieb, Donald Revolinski, and other Fairfield film geniuses did a remake of “Mysteries of Love,” the iconic Andrea Badalamenti score for David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
Q&A on the Ancient Origins of the Transcendental Meditation Technique
Here’s an article by my husband, Tom Egenes, in which he describes the origins of the TM technique in the ancient Vedic tradition of India. He also discusses this in further depth in the introduction of his new book, The Upanishads: A New Translation, co-authored with Dr. Vernon Katz, Tarcher/Penguin 2015.
How the Transcendental Meditation Helps Children Learn
How some schools are teaching kids to draw on their inner resources to achieve higher test scores, better graduation rates and reduced school violence.