Stuart Goodnick
The Mystical Positivist
Helping You to
Follow Your Dread
Tayu Meditation Center
Tayu Meditation Center is a Fourth Way spiritual school, founded in 1976 by Tayu Teacher Robert Daniel Ennis. It is located on a small farm in the wine country of Northern California, near the town of Sebastopol in Sonoma County.
The Mystical Positivist
The Mystical Positivist is a podcast dedicated to the application of reason in the pursuit of spiritual practice and development. The thesis of the show is that rationality is in no way the antithesis of deep mystical experience, in fact, we assert that it is a necessary ally.
Helping You Achieve Success
Unlock Your Full Potential. Say Hello to THE NEW YOU
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Goal Setting
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Relationship Coaching
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Stress Management
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Career Advice
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What is Work on Self?
Who is the Work for?
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Self-Observation
Co-Meditation
Acknowledgement
Attention and Non-Identification
The Purpose of a Spiritual Community
About Me
Stuart Goodnick, co-founder of the Mystical Positivist podcast and blog, has been a practitioner of Tayu Meditation since 1985 and a Tayu Meditation instructor since 1993. He holds degrees in Physics from Caltech and UCSC, and has been an engineering manager in the industrial motion control and software security industries since 1989. Stuart has also been a student of the shakuhachi (Japanese Bamboo flute) under Master Masayuki Koga since 1996. In recent years Stuart has been applying the principles of spiritual practice and transformation in daily life as a senior executive in both Silicon Valley start-ups and global industrial manufacturers. He co-founded Many Rivers Books & Tea with Robert Schmidt and Jim Wilson in Sebastopol in 2002. A frequent writer and speaker on spiritual topics, Stuart maintains that rationality is no way the antithesis of deep mystical experience, but is in fact a necessary ally.
Online Coaching Resources

Wellness eBook
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The Essentials of Goal Setting
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3 Week Career Workshop
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Find Your Balance. Set Your Goals. Take A Challenge. Reward Yourself.
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