The International Meditation Hour was conceived as a shared pause—a space to step out of momentum and return to something more fundamental—Pure Consciousness.
In this session, I offer a brief arc of my own journey, not as biography, but as context: how early contemplative experiences, academic study, and learning Transcendental Meditation (TM) gradually converged into a life shaped by teaching, research, and service. What follows is less an explanation than an invitation—to sit together in silence and to notice what becomes available when the mind is allowed to settle naturally.
At the heart of this hour is a twenty-minute period of silent meditation. The silence is intentional and unedited. It is not background or interlude, but the centre of the experience.
My hope is simple: that this session offers a moment of inner stability, and a reminder that meditation is not an escape from the world, but a foundation for engaging it with greater clarity and care.
As always, take from this what is useful, and allow the rest to unfold quietly in its own time.
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About the Host
Dr. Baruti KMT-Sisouvong is a consciousness scholar, executive coach, and Certified Teacher of Transcendental Meditation® based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work—spanning The Model for Perpetual Growth and Progress and The Seven Layers of Manifestation—explores how Pure Consciousness, neuroscience, and social-systems transformation intersect in the evolution of both the individual and society.
He is the Founder and Director of Radical Scholar Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to consciousness-based research and public scholarship, and President of Serat Group Inc., the parent company of Transcendental Brain, a consulting and educational platform bringing consciousness science into leadership and institutional development. He also serves as Host of the On Transcendence Podcast.
Alongside his wife, Mina, he co-directs the Cambridge and Metropolitan Boston TM Program and serves as Host and Founder of International Meditation Hour (IMH), a quarterly global gathering dedicated to the unifying power of silence.
He writes from the conviction that the most important race is not between nations or machines, but between the conditioned mind and the awakening soul.
To learn more about him, visit: https://www.barutikmtsisouvong.com/.
