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San Diego Vedanta Monastery, 1440 Upas Street, San Diego, CA
Join me at the beautiful San Diego Vedanta Monastery for my lecture presentation on the wisdom of Nisargadatta Maharaj, the surprisingly down-to-earth Guru of the Advaita Vedanta darshana. Free and no registration required.
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San Diego Oasis at Rancho Bernardo, 17170 Bernardo Center Dr., Rancho Bernardo, CA 92128
After his near-fatal car accident, Mexican physician Don Miguel Ruiz became an apprentice of a Nagual or shaman in the Toltec tradition. His groundbreaking book The Four Agreements, a distillation of that indigenous American wisdom, has been translated into 48 languages and remained on the New York Times bestsellers list for ten years. At the heart of his work is the idea that our assumptions (our agreements) shape the quality of our lives, and when we craft new ways of thinking we greatly increase our freedom and power. Join us for this close look at each of the Four Agreements, and their intersections with philosophy, psychology, and world spirituality.
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Stay tuned for digital registration link coming soon.
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San Diego Oasis, Grossmont Center, 5500 Grossmont Center Drive Suite 269 , La Mesa, CA 91942
Join us as we explore India’s most beloved sacred text, the Bhagavad Gita. Composed around the time of Christ, the Gita is the plain-talking culmination of the rich philosophical traditions begun in the earlier Vedas, Upanishad, and Buddhist texts. Like all literature, it is best approached in layers. What does the Bhagavad Gita teach about God, duty, ethics, war, society, consciousness, human nature, violence, and the beauty of being alive? A favorite book of Gandhi who carried chapter two in his pocket his whole life, and of Thoreau who brought only one book to Walden Pond, his copy of the Gita borrowed from his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Very few books have had this long a reach or this profound an impact. Let’s find out why. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BECAUSE OF REMODELING AT GROSSMONT OASIS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN SWITCHED TO ZOOM. CONTACT SAN DIEGO OASIS FOR DETAILS.
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Vision: A Center for Spiritual Living, 4780 Mission Gorge Place, Suite H, San Diego, CA
Join Peter Bolland and Joe Rathburn for an evening of beloved John Denver classics. Watch live in the room, or stream live online. Click here for tickets: https://visioncsl.breezechms.com/form/20261203
My book The Seven Stone Path-An Everyday Journey to Wisdom is out now and available everywhere.
And be sure to get the free Workbook HERE!
I am a professor of philosophy and humanities at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California where I have taught world religions, Asian philosophy, world mythology, and ethics for 34 years.
Off campus I speak, write, teach, and sing about a wide range of spiritual and philosophical things.
I have a YouTube channel called Peter Bolland TV where I post videos of some of my talks, songs, and the mini-lecture videos I produce for my students about the world's wisdom traditions. Check it out and subscribe!
I lead guided meditations online on the Insight Timer Meditation app. Come meditate with me for free!
I launched a newsletter called Finding a Way on the Substack app, all about my journey through the world's wisdom traditions. Part memoir, part spiritual exploration, and all heart, Finding a Way is my latest effort to finally make sense of it all. Check it out and subscribe!
For many years I wrote columns for both Unity Magazine and the San Diego Troubadour, and all of those columns are gathered on my blog Thinking Through.
And I lecture all over town in a wide variety of venues. Check out the calendar page to see where I'll be next!
All of my work is about one thing: shaping the insights of the world's wisdom traditions into tools we can use to enrich our lives.
I also sing, play guitar, write songs, make albums, and perform regularly throughout the San Diego area.
I've been playing music and writing songs my whole life. My first solo album was called Frame, released in 2002. It earned a Best Americana Album nomination at the San Diego Music Awards. Then I had a band called The Coyote Problem from 2002-2010. We won the Best Americana Album prize for both of our albums, Wire in 2005 and California in 2007 at the San Diego Music Awards. Quit while you're ahead, right? I fired myself from my own band so I could focus on all of my other projects, including my solo work. The result? My album Two Pines, available now.
I am also a session musician playing a wide variety of instruments on other people's albums, things like acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel guitar, Dobro, mandolin, banjo, and harmonica.
But these days I spend most of my off-campus time speaking and leading workshops at a wide variety of venues, (The Chopra Center, The San Diego Vedanta Monastery, San Diego Oasis, The Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Vision: A Center for Spiritual Living, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego, Seaside Center for Spiritual Living, First United Methodist Church, and many more) about all of the things I've learned through the years about the world's wisdom traditions. If you'd like to come experience one of my many multimedia lecture presentations or long-form classes about the life-changing transformational wisdom of world mythology, comparative religion, and practical philosophy, visit the Calendar page for a complete schedule of upcoming events.
The Bolland Eightfold Path
1. Buy my book on Amazon and write a review.
3. Check the Calendar page for coming attractions.
4. Listen and shop on the Music page.
5. Meditate with me right now for free on the Insight Timer Meditation app.
6. Follow the link to my Blog "Thinking Through."
7. Click the YouTube icon and subscribe to Peter Bolland TV.
8. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter Finding a Way