Inner Traditions

Ehud Sperling is the founder and publisher of Inner Traditions International, the independent press he built from the ground up into a catalog of more than 2,000 titles spanning spirituality, alternative health, and indigenous wisdom traditions. In the debut episode of the Inner Traditions podcast, he sits down with his son and Inner Traditions Associate Publisher, Mahar Sperling, to trace the personal history behind the company — from a dyslexic, math-obsessed childhood in 1960s Washington Heights through New York's Warhol-era counterculture. This conversation digs into mysticism, ancient Egyptian spirituality, and the psychology of the “realized” human being, and offers a rare look at how decades of personal searching became the founding vision of an independent publishing house.

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