Baruti KMT-Sisouvong, PhD
@baruti.bsky.social
Director & Certified Teacher: Cambridge TM Center helping people tap into their latent potential via Transcendental Meditation.
The key to positive change? Centering yourself.
Calm the mind, relax the body, and bring that quiet strength into the world. It's easier than you think-and it starts within.
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Calm the mind, relax the body, and bring that quiet strength into the world. It's easier than you think-and it starts within.
Access to full video in comments.
#TranscendentalMeditation #Meditation #DrBaruti #Meditation #Boston #Cambridge
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
The key to positive change? Centering yourself.
Calm the mind, relax the body, and bring that quiet strength into the world. It's easier than you think-and it starts within.
Access to full video in comments.
#TranscendentalMeditation #Meditation #DrBaruti #Meditation #Boston #Cambridge
Calm the mind, relax the body, and bring that quiet strength into the world. It's easier than you think-and it starts within.
Access to full video in comments.
#TranscendentalMeditation #Meditation #DrBaruti #Meditation #Boston #Cambridge
Spiritual bypassing isn’t spirituality—it’s avoidance dressed in higher language.
True spiritual maturity doesn’t float above reality.
It meets reality clearly—without blame, without distortion—with extreme ownership from the top.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/seeing-cle...
True spiritual maturity doesn’t float above reality.
It meets reality clearly—without blame, without distortion—with extreme ownership from the top.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/seeing-cle...
Seeing Clearly Without Blame
Spiritual Bypassing, Power, and the Ethics of Causality
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February 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Spiritual bypassing isn’t spirituality—it’s avoidance dressed in higher language.
True spiritual maturity doesn’t float above reality.
It meets reality clearly—without blame, without distortion—with extreme ownership from the top.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/seeing-cle...
True spiritual maturity doesn’t float above reality.
It meets reality clearly—without blame, without distortion—with extreme ownership from the top.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/seeing-cle...
Life's circumference can't be rightly drawn until its center is set, according to Benjamin Elijah Mays.
That center? It's you. Find your core to define your boundaries.
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That center? It's you. Find your core to define your boundaries.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Life's circumference can't be rightly drawn until its center is set, according to Benjamin Elijah Mays.
That center? It's you. Find your core to define your boundaries.
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That center? It's you. Find your core to define your boundaries.
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An introduction to Transcendental Meditation (TM), held within a live International Meditation Hour. This session offers reflection, practice, and twenty minutes of unedited silence—an invitation to settle the mind and notice what becomes available when effort softens.
Holding the Space: Silence, Practice, and the Long Arc of Becoming
Silence, Practice, and the Work of Engaging the World
www.ontranscendence.org
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
An introduction to Transcendental Meditation (TM), held within a live International Meditation Hour. This session offers reflection, practice, and twenty minutes of unedited silence—an invitation to settle the mind and notice what becomes available when effort softens.
An introduction to Transcendental Meditation (TM), held within a live International Meditation Hour. This session offers reflection, practice, and twenty minutes of unedited silence—an invitation to settle the mind and notice what becomes available when effort softens.
An Introduction to Transcendental Meditation (TM) | Intl. Meditation Hour — Dr. Baruti KMT-Sisouvong
YouTube video by Baruti KMT-Sisouvong, PhD
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February 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
An introduction to Transcendental Meditation (TM), held within a live International Meditation Hour. This session offers reflection, practice, and twenty minutes of unedited silence—an invitation to settle the mind and notice what becomes available when effort softens.
In moments of disruption, we’re often told that dignity diminishes and control must be surrendered. But agency does not vanish in transition—it clarifies.
This essay explores how orientation, not dominance, becomes the true source of power during change, and is rooted in inner oherence.
This essay explores how orientation, not dominance, becomes the true source of power during change, and is rooted in inner oherence.
Agency Where It Wasn’t Expected
On dignity, choice, and the quiet power of standing one’s ground
www.ontranscendence.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
In moments of disruption, we’re often told that dignity diminishes and control must be surrendered. But agency does not vanish in transition—it clarifies.
This essay explores how orientation, not dominance, becomes the true source of power during change, and is rooted in inner oherence.
This essay explores how orientation, not dominance, becomes the true source of power during change, and is rooted in inner oherence.
We’re taught to rush through transitions—to treat uncertainty as weakness and thresholds as problems to solve.
But across cultures and traditions, the in-between has always been recognised as a place of heightened potential. Check it out!
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But across cultures and traditions, the in-between has always been recognised as a place of heightened potential. Check it out!
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The Liminal Space Is One of Power
Why periods of transition hold more agency than we are taught to recognise
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January 27, 2026 at 12:47 PM
We’re taught to rush through transitions—to treat uncertainty as weakness and thresholds as problems to solve.
But across cultures and traditions, the in-between has always been recognised as a place of heightened potential. Check it out!
www.ontranscendence.org/p/the-limina...
But across cultures and traditions, the in-between has always been recognised as a place of heightened potential. Check it out!
www.ontranscendence.org/p/the-limina...
Not all knowledge is meant for immediate use—or universal uptake.
This essay reflects on intellectual formation, institutional detours, and the ethics of preparation: why some insights arrive only after the mind has been tempered by experience, and why the long work still matters.
This essay reflects on intellectual formation, institutional detours, and the ethics of preparation: why some insights arrive only after the mind has been tempered by experience, and why the long work still matters.
Creating Packets of Knowledge for the Prepared Mind
On Intellectual Formation, Systems, and the Ethics of Preparation
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January 24, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Not all knowledge is meant for immediate use—or universal uptake.
This essay reflects on intellectual formation, institutional detours, and the ethics of preparation: why some insights arrive only after the mind has been tempered by experience, and why the long work still matters.
This essay reflects on intellectual formation, institutional detours, and the ethics of preparation: why some insights arrive only after the mind has been tempered by experience, and why the long work still matters.
Thirteen years ago, we crossed a threshold—one that required distance, discipline, sacrifice, and trust.
What endures is not an institution, but the work.
Not certainty, but alignment.
Not guarantees, but becoming.
What endures is not an institution, but the work.
Not certainty, but alignment.
Not guarantees, but becoming.
Thirteen Years In: Custodianship, Commitment, and the Quiet Work of Becoming
What Remains When the Path Is Uncertain
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January 20, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Thirteen years ago, we crossed a threshold—one that required distance, discipline, sacrifice, and trust.
What endures is not an institution, but the work.
Not certainty, but alignment.
Not guarantees, but becoming.
What endures is not an institution, but the work.
Not certainty, but alignment.
Not guarantees, but becoming.
On mentors and how knowledge is transmitted, carried, and quietly entrusted.
In honour of Dr. Charles S. Finch III, I reflect on the ways his scholarship, presence, and generosity shaped my own path, and why some teachers continue to guide us long after they transition to Ancestorhood.
In honour of Dr. Charles S. Finch III, I reflect on the ways his scholarship, presence, and generosity shaped my own path, and why some teachers continue to guide us long after they transition to Ancestorhood.
A Personal Point of Light Since 1996: In Honour of Dr. Charles S. Finch III
A Reflection on Lineage, Light, and the Long Work of Remembrance
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January 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM
On mentors and how knowledge is transmitted, carried, and quietly entrusted.
In honour of Dr. Charles S. Finch III, I reflect on the ways his scholarship, presence, and generosity shaped my own path, and why some teachers continue to guide us long after they transition to Ancestorhood.
In honour of Dr. Charles S. Finch III, I reflect on the ways his scholarship, presence, and generosity shaped my own path, and why some teachers continue to guide us long after they transition to Ancestorhood.
What if much of what we call “reality” is simply agreement?
In this reflection, I explore how unspoken social contracts shape consciousness, preserve hierarchy, and quietly limit human becoming—and how recognising them as constructs rather than truths opens the door to collective evolution.
In this reflection, I explore how unspoken social contracts shape consciousness, preserve hierarchy, and quietly limit human becoming—and how recognising them as constructs rather than truths opens the door to collective evolution.
Simple Agreements and the Illusion of Inevitability
A Seven Layers Reflection on Consciousness, Constraint, and Human Becoming
www.ontranscendence.org
January 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM
What if much of what we call “reality” is simply agreement?
In this reflection, I explore how unspoken social contracts shape consciousness, preserve hierarchy, and quietly limit human becoming—and how recognising them as constructs rather than truths opens the door to collective evolution.
In this reflection, I explore how unspoken social contracts shape consciousness, preserve hierarchy, and quietly limit human becoming—and how recognising them as constructs rather than truths opens the door to collective evolution.
This morning, I completed my 1,500th Peloton ride.
Two 45-minute sessions.
Steady heart rate.
Calm breath.
Zone II.
Over five years: 19,223 miles and 1,054 hours—most recently shaped by the quiet discipline of sustained Zone II training. No fireworks. No spectacle. Just quiet, consistent work.
Two 45-minute sessions.
Steady heart rate.
Calm breath.
Zone II.
Over five years: 19,223 miles and 1,054 hours—most recently shaped by the quiet discipline of sustained Zone II training. No fireworks. No spectacle. Just quiet, consistent work.
BONUS—The Long Ride: My 1,500th Peloton Riding Session
Some of the most important work we do leaves no witnesses—only results
www.ontranscendence.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
This morning, I completed my 1,500th Peloton ride.
Two 45-minute sessions.
Steady heart rate.
Calm breath.
Zone II.
Over five years: 19,223 miles and 1,054 hours—most recently shaped by the quiet discipline of sustained Zone II training. No fireworks. No spectacle. Just quiet, consistent work.
Two 45-minute sessions.
Steady heart rate.
Calm breath.
Zone II.
Over five years: 19,223 miles and 1,054 hours—most recently shaped by the quiet discipline of sustained Zone II training. No fireworks. No spectacle. Just quiet, consistent work.
A Sufi teaching asks: What do the fish know of the water that surrounds them?
This essay explores how immersion—not ignorance—keeps us from recognising the power of mind in shaping the world we live in.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/the-water-...
This essay explores how immersion—not ignorance—keeps us from recognising the power of mind in shaping the world we live in.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/the-water-...
The Water We Call the World
On Mind, Immersion, and the Architecture of the Human-Derived World
www.ontranscendence.org
January 13, 2026 at 12:37 PM
A Sufi teaching asks: What do the fish know of the water that surrounds them?
This essay explores how immersion—not ignorance—keeps us from recognising the power of mind in shaping the world we live in.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/the-water-...
This essay explores how immersion—not ignorance—keeps us from recognising the power of mind in shaping the world we live in.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/the-water-...
There are structures that shelter us early in life—homes, beliefs, roles, agreements.
And there comes a moment when we realise they were never meant to be permanent dwellings.
Sometimes, the most meaningful departures begin long before we walk out the door.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/leaving-th...
And there comes a moment when we realise they were never meant to be permanent dwellings.
Sometimes, the most meaningful departures begin long before we walk out the door.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/leaving-th...
Leaving the House, Turning Toward the Light
A Reflection on Inherited Structures, Individuation, and the Long Preparation for Freedom
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January 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
There are structures that shelter us early in life—homes, beliefs, roles, agreements.
And there comes a moment when we realise they were never meant to be permanent dwellings.
Sometimes, the most meaningful departures begin long before we walk out the door.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/leaving-th...
And there comes a moment when we realise they were never meant to be permanent dwellings.
Sometimes, the most meaningful departures begin long before we walk out the door.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/leaving-th...
What if flourishing isn’t something we force—but something we allow?
This short reflection explores what it might mean to cooperate with a universe already inclined toward fruitfulness, and how the conditions we design—socially and collectively—either support or obstruct that unfolding.
This short reflection explores what it might mean to cooperate with a universe already inclined toward fruitfulness, and how the conditions we design—socially and collectively—either support or obstruct that unfolding.
Epilogue: On Cooperation with a Fruitful Universe
Reflections on Flourishing, Alignment, and the Conditions That Allow Life to Unfold
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January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
What if flourishing isn’t something we force—but something we allow?
This short reflection explores what it might mean to cooperate with a universe already inclined toward fruitfulness, and how the conditions we design—socially and collectively—either support or obstruct that unfolding.
This short reflection explores what it might mean to cooperate with a universe already inclined toward fruitfulness, and how the conditions we design—socially and collectively—either support or obstruct that unfolding.
What keeps a society intact is not boundaries alone—but buffers.
This essay grew out of a respectful disagreement and led somewhere deeper: away from politics, and toward architecture.
What conditions allow agency to take root—and endure?
www.ontranscendence.org/p/boundaries...
This essay grew out of a respectful disagreement and led somewhere deeper: away from politics, and toward architecture.
What conditions allow agency to take root—and endure?
www.ontranscendence.org/p/boundaries...
Boundaries and Buffers: Citizenship, Dignity, and the Space Between Survival and Agency
A Systems Reflection on Capacity, Coherence, and Civilisational Design
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January 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
What keeps a society intact is not boundaries alone—but buffers.
This essay grew out of a respectful disagreement and led somewhere deeper: away from politics, and toward architecture.
What conditions allow agency to take root—and endure?
www.ontranscendence.org/p/boundaries...
This essay grew out of a respectful disagreement and led somewhere deeper: away from politics, and toward architecture.
What conditions allow agency to take root—and endure?
www.ontranscendence.org/p/boundaries...
Friends,
Thank you for being here.
For your attention.
For your patience.
For your willingness to engage with work that values depth over speed.
We continue—thoughtfully and together.
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Thank you for being here.
For your attention.
For your patience.
For your willingness to engage with work that values depth over speed.
We continue—thoughtfully and together.
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A Note of Thanks
Dear Friends,
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January 1, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Friends,
Thank you for being here.
For your attention.
For your patience.
For your willingness to engage with work that values depth over speed.
We continue—thoughtfully and together.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/a-note-of-...
Thank you for being here.
For your attention.
For your patience.
For your willingness to engage with work that values depth over speed.
We continue—thoughtfully and together.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/a-note-of-...
Awakening is not escape.
It is reorientation, integration, and return.
This is not about sudden transformation, but about learning to live what we see.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/from-shado...
It is reorientation, integration, and return.
This is not about sudden transformation, but about learning to live what we see.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/from-shado...
From Shadow to Stone: Awakening, Return, and Inner Refinement
A Transitional Essay Bridging the Seven Layers of Manifestation and the Model for Perpetual Growth and Progress
www.ontranscendence.org
December 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Awakening is not escape.
It is reorientation, integration, and return.
This is not about sudden transformation, but about learning to live what we see.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/from-shado...
It is reorientation, integration, and return.
This is not about sudden transformation, but about learning to live what we see.
www.ontranscendence.org/p/from-shado...
Viewing It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas morning, a familiar line landed differently:
“I wish I were never born.”
This essay is not about despair or sentimentality. It’s about perspective, invisible impact, and the quiet goods a life holds in place—especially when circumstances feel heavy.
This essay is not about despair or sentimentality. It’s about perspective, invisible impact, and the quiet goods a life holds in place—especially when circumstances feel heavy.
When Meaning Goes Quiet
A Christmas Reflection on Invisible Impact
www.ontranscendence.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Viewing It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas morning, a familiar line landed differently:
“I wish I were never born.”
This essay is not about despair or sentimentality. It’s about perspective, invisible impact, and the quiet goods a life holds in place—especially when circumstances feel heavy.
This essay is not about despair or sentimentality. It’s about perspective, invisible impact, and the quiet goods a life holds in place—especially when circumstances feel heavy.
Resilience has always been the untold story.
Leonard Steinhorn once urged us to stop asking why African Americans struggled and instead ask how they (we) achieved so much against the odds. As humanity faces the disruptive force of AI/AGI, that same reframing may guide us.
Leonard Steinhorn once urged us to stop asking why African Americans struggled and instead ask how they (we) achieved so much against the odds. As humanity faces the disruptive force of AI/AGI, that same reframing may guide us.
Resilience, History, and the Dawn of AI: Asking the Right Question
What African American achievement teaches us about navigating systemic odds and technological disruption
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December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Resilience has always been the untold story.
Leonard Steinhorn once urged us to stop asking why African Americans struggled and instead ask how they (we) achieved so much against the odds. As humanity faces the disruptive force of AI/AGI, that same reframing may guide us.
Leonard Steinhorn once urged us to stop asking why African Americans struggled and instead ask how they (we) achieved so much against the odds. As humanity faces the disruptive force of AI/AGI, that same reframing may guide us.
For decades, conversations about consciousness, mastery, and spiritual development have unfolded through imagery that rarely includes Black faces—despite our deep historical contributions to these traditions.
If you’ve ever felt unseen in spaces you know you belong to, this one will speak to you.
If you’ve ever felt unseen in spaces you know you belong to, this one will speak to you.
Beyond the Frame: On Representation, Erasure, and the Arc of Becoming
A reflection on imagery, identity, and why depictions of Black mastery matter in the study of consciousness.
www.ontranscendence.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
For decades, conversations about consciousness, mastery, and spiritual development have unfolded through imagery that rarely includes Black faces—despite our deep historical contributions to these traditions.
If you’ve ever felt unseen in spaces you know you belong to, this one will speak to you.
If you’ve ever felt unseen in spaces you know you belong to, this one will speak to you.
A series of brief reflections on consciousness, awareness, and the intelligence beneath everyday life.
Insight not just to inform—but to transform. Join me!
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Insight not just to inform—but to transform. Join me!
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#DrBaruti #FYP #Consciousness #Neuroscience #Meditation
December 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A series of brief reflections on consciousness, awareness, and the intelligence beneath everyday life.
Insight not just to inform—but to transform. Join me!
radicalscholar.com
#DrBaruti #FYP #Consciousness #Neuroscience #Meditation
Insight not just to inform—but to transform. Join me!
radicalscholar.com
#DrBaruti #FYP #Consciousness #Neuroscience #Meditation
We’re often told to “follow your passion.” But over three decades, I’ve learnt that passion isn’t the path — mastery is.
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The Work Before the Work: How I Built a Life They Can’t Ignore
On mastery, consciousness, and the long arc of becoming.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We’re often told to “follow your passion.” But over three decades, I’ve learnt that passion isn’t the path — mastery is.
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A man with a severe neurological condition walked into my TM teaching room seeking not a miracle, but a moment of peace. What unfolded reminded me why this work matters—and what it means to touch stillness even when the body struggles.
A man with a severe neurological condition walked into my TM teaching room seeking not a miracle, but a moment of peace. What unfolded reminded me why this work matters—and what it means to touch stillness even when the body struggles.
BONUS — Where Stillness Meets Struggle: A Reflection on Teaching TM to a Man with a Severe Neurological Condition
On the Quiet Bravery Required to Seek Stillness When the Body Is in Pain
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December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Click to read or listen to my latest essay!
A man with a severe neurological condition walked into my TM teaching room seeking not a miracle, but a moment of peace. What unfolded reminded me why this work matters—and what it means to touch stillness even when the body struggles.
A man with a severe neurological condition walked into my TM teaching room seeking not a miracle, but a moment of peace. What unfolded reminded me why this work matters—and what it means to touch stillness even when the body struggles.
Your mind is more powerful than you’ve been told. On Transcendence explores the science and mysticism that support it—and what awakening means for the future of humanity. Ten seconds won’t change your life—these conversations might.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Your mind is more powerful than you’ve been told. On Transcendence explores the science and mysticism that support it—and what awakening means for the future of humanity. Ten seconds won’t change your life—these conversations might.
www.youtube.com/@ontranscend...
www.youtube.com/@ontranscend...