This offering grew from a regular dialogue between my sister, Zendra, and me: how do we contribute something practical and humane amid the social cacophony? Our answer was simple—create a cross-cultural hour of knowledge and shared silence. In this recording, Dr. Matcheri Keshavan—the Stanley R. Cobb Professor and Academic Head of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School—joins me to explore the neuroscience of meditative rest and its wider social implications. After a brief talk we settle into a 20-minute meditation, then return for Q&A. May it offer a small, steadying pause—and a reminder that inner stability is public service.
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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 framework—explores how Pure Consciousness, neuroscience, and social systems transformation intersect in the evolution of both the individual and society. Alongside his wife, Mina, he co-directs the Cambridge and Metropolitan Boston TM Program, where they have taught thousands the art and science of meditation.
Extending this mission globally, he is the founder of International Meditation Hour (IMH), a quarterly worldwide gathering dedicated to experiencing the unifying power of silence in a time of division, precarity, and technological upheaval. An author of several forthcoming works on the future of consciousness in an age shaped by technology, he writes and teaches from the conviction that the most important race is not between nations or machines, but between the conditioned mind and the awakening soul. They are the proud parents of four children. To learn more about him, visit: https://www.barutikmtsisouvong.com/.
