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# Laurie Anderson Hosts the Rubin Museum’s New Podcast AWAKEN
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/laurie-anderson-hosts-the-rubin-museums-new-podcast-awaken/
- Published: 2021-06-15T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:11:06.000Z
- Description: The 10-episode series features stories of transformation from 10 guests.
- Author: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
- Tags: Announcement, Laurie Anderson, Rubin Museum of Art, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

What is enlightenment? What does it mean to be awake? Are you awake? 

Explore these questions and more in [*AWAKEN*](https://bit.ly/3x8uwLY?ref=hyperallergic.com), the Rubin Museum of Art’s new podcast, hosted by acclaimed musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson. Inspired by the Rubin’s current exhibition, *Awaken: a Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment*, the podcast features personal stories of transformation from a diversity of guests. 

"With the podcast, we wanted to bring a human scale to the sometimes intimidating concept of enlightenment, with voices from a variety of perspectives — both religious and secular — that offer very different, personal examples of what awakening can feel like," said Dawn Eshelman, head of programs at the Rubin Museum. *AWAKEN* guests include comedian Aparna Nancherla; gender non-conforming writer, performer, and public speaker Alok Vaid Menon; psychologist, author, and teacher of meditation, emotional healing, and spiritual awakening Tara Brach; master birth doula and world-renowned wellness leader Latham Thomas; musician, songwriter, and best-selling author Amanda Palmer; artist Tsherin Sherpa; best-selling author, activist, and Buddhist Teacher Lama Rod Owens; hospice and palliative medicine physician and author BJ Miller; Medicine Woman of Seminole heritage and traditional Cheyenne training Patricia James; and Tibetan Buddhist master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

**Episodes 1–3 are out now. To listen and learn more, visit** [**rubinmuseum.org/awakenpod**](https://bit.ly/3x8uwLY?ref=hyperallergic.com).