Talks 2025
Click on the links below to watch on YouTube.
January 5, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is a difference between memory loss and losing your mind, and yet both are necessary steps in discovering who you are. Trying to hold onto what was, to structured thought, to making sense of what is and will be--all need to be surrendered for true awakening to occur. It's a tough and challenging path. Deepening consciousness will help.
January 12, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Three words in the "spiritual" lexicon are important in this challenging moment, "Try," "Allow," and "Be." Trying and allowing involve us as individuals and are very helpful in life. Being happens by itself. There is no path to being. It is happening as you read this.
January 19, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
My grandfather witnessed the arrival of electricity, cars, radio, and television. He survived two world wars, a depression and loved Johnny Carson. But although claiming to be ready to die at 103, he suddenly saw death and yelled, “Save me.” We will all survive worldly change. It is finality, eternity, we must prepare for. Look inward, not just at the manifested world.
January 26, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"OH, THIS AGAIN!!!" These are the first words I spoke as I began my LSD trip 60 years ago, as I started entering old age and again as I watch the world slip into Fascism. I suspect I will say them on my deathbed. There are repetitive cycles to the human experience. Awakening is the revelation of these patterns and, perhaps, a release from the suffering they cause.
February 2, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
When the darkness descends and navigational systems fail, you must become the light, you must trust the journey. Learn to flow.
February 9, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The mind is the slayer of the soul. Take a breath. Just say "nope."
February 16, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is the source of suffering. Your pick.
February 23, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
It is hard to always know your impact in the world but if ever there was a time to impact it lovingly and purposefully it is now. Take charge.
March 2, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There are simple directives guiding us through the day. Pay attention. They have the power to cut through the media noise programmed to distract and entangle us. The directives are often silent and seem to rise out of nowhere. They care about you. Let them guide.
March 9, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
In the perfect balance of yin/yang, when fear and sadness dominate the world, happiness and joy need a place to go. Why not to you? Then you can radiate it back into the world. You can help restore balance in the universe.
March 16, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Three of my friends are terminally ill, two of them just discovering they have only days or weeks to live. If you want perspective on these turbulent times remember this, life is temporary and transitory. Find the joy. Prepare to leave.
March 23, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Intuitive knowing is the only true guide in perilous times. Finding your way to core intuition and integrating it with heart and mind is the best navigational tool in a map-less and unpredictable future.
March 30, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Reset!
April 6, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Arriving at “knowing.” It is not through the mind or heart. It involves “depth over time.” It involves practice and commitment - but is ultimately effortless. It arises. It will guide your life.
April 13, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Where do you turn when there is nowhere to turn? What do you hold onto when there is nothing to grasp? What do you "do"? Make something! Make art! Create something beautiful! Allow inspiration to lift your spirits and bring joy into the soul of your own being and into the hearts of those you love.
April 20, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What would you do if you knew that this was the last night of the world? What would you do if you were also told that you've been chosen by those on the other side to write a movie that would save the world--and only had months to do it? Important questions--answered here.
April 27, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
To be alive is a wonderful thing, even in a world of crumbling uncertainty. Life is a gift. Open it. Find the joy. Learn more about Time Sensitive #1 and reserve your copy: https://timesensitive.strangelandcomi... https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweis...
May 4, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We are taught by our society, our media, to glance at suffering and quickly turn away. Unfortunately, the time for looking away is ending. If you do not begin to search inside--you will be overwhelmed by a world erupting all around you. Dive deep and then help others find their way. It's called love.
May 11, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Teachers are human beings. They are not trying to turn you into spiritual beings but to expose and nourish the spirituality that is already at the core of your humanity. Such teaching is transformative and... nothing at all.
May 18, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The real goal of a spiritual practice is not to get somewhere else but to arrive at What Is.
May 25, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"Like a rolling stone – no direction home – a complete unknown. Go to him now. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal." We are all on a shared path to invisibility. Open your heart and let go.
June 8, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Transactional spirituality. Most of life is transactional, you do for me, I'll do for you. The core problem is that spiritual transaction that expects rewards in return only serves to reinforce the separate self and is a huge obstacle on the spiritual path.
June 14, 2025 Big Indian, NY morning (watch)
Going on a retreat, going on a pilgrimage, is as much about the effort and commitment to the journey as it is about the rewards of being there. A group of students driving 36 hours to Rudi's class all fell asleep in the class and were ashamed. Rudi said the class was the ride there – not the meditation.
June 14, 2025 Big Indian, NY afternoon (watch)
Losing one's phone is like losing one’s soul – one's self. It symbolizes the panic and loss awaiting modern man and suggests the terror of ultimate loss that awaits us all. Loss is inevitable. Panic and terror are not.
June 15, 2025 Big Indian, NY morning (watch)
What happens when you lose your navigational system in a world of chaos and disturbance? Our guidance systems are now shifting and many people are having trouble finding their way forward. Just know that there is a spiritual navigational system inside you and it is essential that you find it.
June 15, 2025 Big Indian, NY afternoon (watch)
What is your legacy? Do you even have one? What does it mean if the world and all life ends? Does your journey still count? Is there even a purpose to our lives in the centuries after our deaths and the end of existence as we know it? The answer is yes.
June 22, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Rigidity is the source of endless suffering. Thinking you know something, thinking you’ve arrived, is a static state. Nothing about life is static. Holding onto anything removes you from truth, keeps you from the "now." Stop knowing. Love the endless unexpectedness of your life. Let go of your rigidity. Enjoy.
June 29, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
I woke up this week with these words resonating inside me, "I'm done." It is hard to excavate the full meaning of this statement but it has transformed my life as I have known it. It is the end of doing and an arrival at simply being.
July 7, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
This weekend is the 60th Anniversary of an accidental massive accidental overdose of LSD that totally transformed my life and led me on the spiritual journey that inspires and illuminates this talk. It is a journey into "knowing nothing" which appears to be an unexpected doorway to enlightenment and simply learning how to Be.
July 13, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The future is not your friend. Find your way to now.
July 20, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Bottomless, infinite, transcendent love. Available now.
July 27, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Spiritual awakening is not a manufactured state. You cannot make it happen. It "wants" to happen. You just need to get out of the way.
August 3, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Your life is mostly a story you tell yourself, even your spiritual life. Yet there is a Witness to your story that transcends the story telling. It sees and knows it all. It is worth searching for. It is a blessing to find.
August 17, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The three most destructive words on a spiritual journey are – "I GET IT!" There is no you to get it and nothing to be gotten. Let go of trying to understand. Just be.
August 24, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is something to be said for longevity in a spiritual practice and the freedom it offers at the end of the journey. You don\'t want to leave this life carrying your grudges and knotted emotions. Learning how to let go, to surrender, is the gift of a spiritual life.
August 31, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What do you do when the center doesn't hold? First, realize that your mind is not the center. When the world seems to be falling apart, find your way to a deeper knowing. There is a doorway. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
September 7, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We had a 35th Anniversary screening of my film GHOST last night. I cannot believe how extraordinary it was to have so much of the past presenting itself with such vibrancy in the moment. Sam's last line, "It’s amazing Mol, the love inside... you take it with you." I felt its truth... and cried.
September 14, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
SHOW UP! TRUST! Core directives in the human journey.
September 21, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Ignorance and intelligence are at opposite ends of the same spectrum. There are kind people on both ends – and evil as well. The human journey is to transcend both and find a doorway to love and wisdom. That is the real graduation from the human experience.
September 28, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is no way out! But there is a way in! Work hard. Work soft. Just find it.
October 5, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS!" Well, according to ancient teachings, it was. And it will be like this for eons to come. As I said last week – and as teachers have proclaimed since the beginning of time – the only way "out" is "in".
October 12, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The real purpose and goal of a life is to be a Receiver and a Transmitter of a singular message, I AM. It flows from the Source of all Creation. Receiving and transmitting I AM is a life’s work and a doorway to miraculous wholeness, revelation and joy.
October 19, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Asking for help to surrender is not a prelude to giving up but a doorway to letting go. It is the path to freeing yourself - to becoming one with Eternity – to becoming one with Being. But asking for help is essential. It cannot be done alone.
October 26, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"Being" is not a passive activity. It is a dynamic force. It is full of radiance. If you think Being is just sitting in the quietude of meditation, think again.
November 2, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Your mind will not free you from the drama of your life. There is no rescue from the struggles of self-generated fear. Humankind has faced upheaval from the beginning of time. The path to liberation is within. It is your mind that bars the way.
November 9, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The Universe knows Itself through us. It knows love and pain, joy and suffering through us. Falling asleep is a nightly preparation for the final embrace, the ultimate thank-you for simply being. Meditation prepares us for the magnitude of this journey. It guides us through the profound unknowability of life.
November 16, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Developing a thick skin and cutting yourself off from the darkness of life also cuts you off from the Reality of Being. Allow yourself to suffer and be afraid as well as serving as a conduit for love and joy. You are the Totality. The only refuge is Knowing who you are.
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There is a difference between memory loss and losing your mind, and yet both are necessary steps in discovering who you are. Trying to hold onto what was, to structured thought, to making sense of what is and will be--all need to be surrendered for true awakening to occur. It's a tough and challenging path. Deepening consciousness will help.
January 12, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Three words in the "spiritual" lexicon are important in this challenging moment, "Try," "Allow," and "Be." Trying and allowing involve us as individuals and are very helpful in life. Being happens by itself. There is no path to being. It is happening as you read this.
January 19, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
My grandfather witnessed the arrival of electricity, cars, radio, and television. He survived two world wars, a depression and loved Johnny Carson. But although claiming to be ready to die at 103, he suddenly saw death and yelled, “Save me.” We will all survive worldly change. It is finality, eternity, we must prepare for. Look inward, not just at the manifested world.
January 26, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"OH, THIS AGAIN!!!" These are the first words I spoke as I began my LSD trip 60 years ago, as I started entering old age and again as I watch the world slip into Fascism. I suspect I will say them on my deathbed. There are repetitive cycles to the human experience. Awakening is the revelation of these patterns and, perhaps, a release from the suffering they cause.
February 2, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
When the darkness descends and navigational systems fail, you must become the light, you must trust the journey. Learn to flow.
February 9, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The mind is the slayer of the soul. Take a breath. Just say "nope."
February 16, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is the source of suffering. Your pick.
February 23, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
It is hard to always know your impact in the world but if ever there was a time to impact it lovingly and purposefully it is now. Take charge.
March 2, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There are simple directives guiding us through the day. Pay attention. They have the power to cut through the media noise programmed to distract and entangle us. The directives are often silent and seem to rise out of nowhere. They care about you. Let them guide.
March 9, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
In the perfect balance of yin/yang, when fear and sadness dominate the world, happiness and joy need a place to go. Why not to you? Then you can radiate it back into the world. You can help restore balance in the universe.
March 16, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Three of my friends are terminally ill, two of them just discovering they have only days or weeks to live. If you want perspective on these turbulent times remember this, life is temporary and transitory. Find the joy. Prepare to leave.
March 23, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Intuitive knowing is the only true guide in perilous times. Finding your way to core intuition and integrating it with heart and mind is the best navigational tool in a map-less and unpredictable future.
March 30, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Reset!
April 6, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Arriving at “knowing.” It is not through the mind or heart. It involves “depth over time.” It involves practice and commitment - but is ultimately effortless. It arises. It will guide your life.
April 13, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Where do you turn when there is nowhere to turn? What do you hold onto when there is nothing to grasp? What do you "do"? Make something! Make art! Create something beautiful! Allow inspiration to lift your spirits and bring joy into the soul of your own being and into the hearts of those you love.
April 20, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What would you do if you knew that this was the last night of the world? What would you do if you were also told that you've been chosen by those on the other side to write a movie that would save the world--and only had months to do it? Important questions--answered here.
April 27, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
To be alive is a wonderful thing, even in a world of crumbling uncertainty. Life is a gift. Open it. Find the joy. Learn more about Time Sensitive #1 and reserve your copy: https://timesensitive.strangelandcomi... https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweis...
May 4, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We are taught by our society, our media, to glance at suffering and quickly turn away. Unfortunately, the time for looking away is ending. If you do not begin to search inside--you will be overwhelmed by a world erupting all around you. Dive deep and then help others find their way. It's called love.
May 11, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Teachers are human beings. They are not trying to turn you into spiritual beings but to expose and nourish the spirituality that is already at the core of your humanity. Such teaching is transformative and... nothing at all.
May 18, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The real goal of a spiritual practice is not to get somewhere else but to arrive at What Is.
May 25, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"Like a rolling stone – no direction home – a complete unknown. Go to him now. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal." We are all on a shared path to invisibility. Open your heart and let go.
June 8, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Transactional spirituality. Most of life is transactional, you do for me, I'll do for you. The core problem is that spiritual transaction that expects rewards in return only serves to reinforce the separate self and is a huge obstacle on the spiritual path.
June 14, 2025 Big Indian, NY morning (watch)
Going on a retreat, going on a pilgrimage, is as much about the effort and commitment to the journey as it is about the rewards of being there. A group of students driving 36 hours to Rudi's class all fell asleep in the class and were ashamed. Rudi said the class was the ride there – not the meditation.
June 14, 2025 Big Indian, NY afternoon (watch)
Losing one's phone is like losing one’s soul – one's self. It symbolizes the panic and loss awaiting modern man and suggests the terror of ultimate loss that awaits us all. Loss is inevitable. Panic and terror are not.
June 15, 2025 Big Indian, NY morning (watch)
What happens when you lose your navigational system in a world of chaos and disturbance? Our guidance systems are now shifting and many people are having trouble finding their way forward. Just know that there is a spiritual navigational system inside you and it is essential that you find it.
June 15, 2025 Big Indian, NY afternoon (watch)
What is your legacy? Do you even have one? What does it mean if the world and all life ends? Does your journey still count? Is there even a purpose to our lives in the centuries after our deaths and the end of existence as we know it? The answer is yes.
June 22, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Rigidity is the source of endless suffering. Thinking you know something, thinking you’ve arrived, is a static state. Nothing about life is static. Holding onto anything removes you from truth, keeps you from the "now." Stop knowing. Love the endless unexpectedness of your life. Let go of your rigidity. Enjoy.
June 29, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
I woke up this week with these words resonating inside me, "I'm done." It is hard to excavate the full meaning of this statement but it has transformed my life as I have known it. It is the end of doing and an arrival at simply being.
July 7, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
This weekend is the 60th Anniversary of an accidental massive accidental overdose of LSD that totally transformed my life and led me on the spiritual journey that inspires and illuminates this talk. It is a journey into "knowing nothing" which appears to be an unexpected doorway to enlightenment and simply learning how to Be.
July 13, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The future is not your friend. Find your way to now.
July 20, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Bottomless, infinite, transcendent love. Available now.
July 27, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Spiritual awakening is not a manufactured state. You cannot make it happen. It "wants" to happen. You just need to get out of the way.
August 3, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Your life is mostly a story you tell yourself, even your spiritual life. Yet there is a Witness to your story that transcends the story telling. It sees and knows it all. It is worth searching for. It is a blessing to find.
August 17, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The three most destructive words on a spiritual journey are – "I GET IT!" There is no you to get it and nothing to be gotten. Let go of trying to understand. Just be.
August 24, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is something to be said for longevity in a spiritual practice and the freedom it offers at the end of the journey. You don\'t want to leave this life carrying your grudges and knotted emotions. Learning how to let go, to surrender, is the gift of a spiritual life.
August 31, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What do you do when the center doesn't hold? First, realize that your mind is not the center. When the world seems to be falling apart, find your way to a deeper knowing. There is a doorway. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
September 7, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We had a 35th Anniversary screening of my film GHOST last night. I cannot believe how extraordinary it was to have so much of the past presenting itself with such vibrancy in the moment. Sam's last line, "It’s amazing Mol, the love inside... you take it with you." I felt its truth... and cried.
September 14, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
SHOW UP! TRUST! Core directives in the human journey.
September 21, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Ignorance and intelligence are at opposite ends of the same spectrum. There are kind people on both ends – and evil as well. The human journey is to transcend both and find a doorway to love and wisdom. That is the real graduation from the human experience.
September 28, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is no way out! But there is a way in! Work hard. Work soft. Just find it.
October 5, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS!" Well, according to ancient teachings, it was. And it will be like this for eons to come. As I said last week – and as teachers have proclaimed since the beginning of time – the only way "out" is "in".
October 12, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The real purpose and goal of a life is to be a Receiver and a Transmitter of a singular message, I AM. It flows from the Source of all Creation. Receiving and transmitting I AM is a life’s work and a doorway to miraculous wholeness, revelation and joy.
October 19, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Asking for help to surrender is not a prelude to giving up but a doorway to letting go. It is the path to freeing yourself - to becoming one with Eternity – to becoming one with Being. But asking for help is essential. It cannot be done alone.
October 26, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"Being" is not a passive activity. It is a dynamic force. It is full of radiance. If you think Being is just sitting in the quietude of meditation, think again.
November 2, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Your mind will not free you from the drama of your life. There is no rescue from the struggles of self-generated fear. Humankind has faced upheaval from the beginning of time. The path to liberation is within. It is your mind that bars the way.
November 9, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The Universe knows Itself through us. It knows love and pain, joy and suffering through us. Falling asleep is a nightly preparation for the final embrace, the ultimate thank-you for simply being. Meditation prepares us for the magnitude of this journey. It guides us through the profound unknowability of life.
November 16, 2025 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Developing a thick skin and cutting yourself off from the darkness of life also cuts you off from the Reality of Being. Allow yourself to suffer and be afraid as well as serving as a conduit for love and joy. You are the Totality. The only refuge is Knowing who you are.
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