Be Here Now Network Episode Explores Healing in Community with Mirabai Starr

Be Here Now Network published Ep. 244, "Sacred Connections: Healing in Community," as a guest episode on February 27, 2026, crediting Mirabai Starr and Rameshwar Das and noting the talk was recorded at the 2024 annual Ram Dass Legacy retreat in Maui, Hawaii. The episode appears under the Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast roster and is listed on the BHNN site with the episode header text "Ep. 244 - Sacred Connections: Healing in Community with Mirabai Starr & Rameshwar Das."

Mirabai Starr anchors the program around a plea for relational depth. In the episode listing she tells listeners, "We invite you to connect with your heart, yes, but that part of your heart that is burning with yearning for union. Union with God, union with the beloved, and especially, yearning for the divine within each other." The Apple Podcasts description frames that urging alongside a Ram Dass reference to "the depth of our being that Ram Dass called 'the loving witness.'"

The episode description lists concrete themes the conversation tackles: "Releasing the lone wolf mentality and cultivating conscious community," "The Three Jewels of Buddhism and becoming a refuge for each other," "Healing through shared grief, trauma, and deep spiritual friendship," and "Navigating introversion and finding community in unexpected places." Those exact phrases appear in the Apple Podcasts copy and shape the episode’s emphasis on collective practice rather than solitary practice.

BHNN’s episode listing also carries a practical invitation for listeners: "Join us for another retreat this summer in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains! Click HERE to register and get more information." The network’s home page header reads "A Network of Mindfulness & Spirituality Podcasts" and shows social links to Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube, alongside a rotating lineup of Guest Podcast contributors including Roshi Joan Halifax, Mirabai Starr, Gil Fronsdal, Mirabai Bush, and others.

The site’s broader programming situates Ep. 244 within a wide-ranging slate. For contrast, BHNN’s Mindrolling with Raghu Markus Ep. 515 features Jeff Walker discussing psychedelics and energy work; Walker says, “With psychedelics, we’ve set up collaboration around psychedelic health equity. We have a number of people in some foundations working on this question: how do we make sure that if the MDMA is authorized by the FDA, which it should be next year, that people who are in the city and people who have high ACE scores and people who are of color and have no income, will be able to access it?” That episode page also lists Walker’s ties to Bridge Builders and references his coauthorship of The Generosity Network and awards such as the John C. Whitehead Award for Social Enterprise from the Harvard Business School Club of New York City.

The Ep. 244 posting, recorded at the 2024 Ram Dass Legacy retreat in Maui and released Feb 27, 2026, adds a focused conversation about communal forms of spiritual care to BHNN’s catalog, which ranges from guided meditations by JoAnna Hardy to talks by Thich Nhat Hanh and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. The episode listing on the BHNN page included a "1D AGO" timing marker in the site capture and standard legal fragments such as "See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at," reflecting the network’s published episode metadata and platform presentation.