John Osborne: What 50 Years of Meditation Taught a Venture Capitalist About Higher Consciousness

What happens when a Wall Street venture capitalist spends three years in a Trappist monastery, then spends the next three decades bringing meditation to military veterans, Harvard MBAs, and people on the edge of suicide? This conversation goes places most wellness discussions never reach. John Osborne has been a senior faculty member with the Art of Living Foundation since 1989, a Yale Divinity School graduate, a Trappist monk, a venture capitalist, a musician who has traveled the world alongside Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and the national director of Project Welcome Home Troops, a program that has helped thousands of veterans overcome PTSD through breathwork when conventional treatments fell short. He also works with the Institute of Absolute Intelligence, exploring the intersection of consciousness and science at a moment when AI is forcing humanity to ask what intelligence actually is. This is not a conversation about belief. It is a conversation about direct experience. 0:00 Introduction and unified field theory 1:23 Who is John Osborne 4:11 Finance, Trappist monasticism, and the spiritual thread running through it all 26:27 Why intuition is the most practical business skill 27:19 What is the intuitive life scan 28:41 Accessing past, present, and future in the present moment 29:36 How information arrives during a scan 30:40 The Institute of Absolute Intelligence and the science of consciousness 38:34 A 73-year-old man's message to his 8-year-old self 📲 Follow John Osborne Instagram: @john.osborne108 | YouTube: PLACEHOLDER 🔗 Links Mentioned in Episode 🧘‍♂️ Learn Art of Living Part 1: https://bit.ly/3ZDssMJ 🔥 Shankara: https://bit.ly/3SPGVBE 🔥 Sri Sri Tattva: https://bit.ly/4mWKO5q 📲 Follow Jitesh Vaswani Instagram:   / jiteshvaswani   | YouTube:    / @beyondtheknownpodcast