Soul Force: Interspiritual Wisdom for the 21st Century
Hello, I’m Anu. 👋🏽
I’m a speaker, author, educator, and meditation teacher working at the intersection of neuroscience, technology, leadership development, human rights, contemplative practice, and social entrepreneurship. My book, Breaking Bias, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, is published by Hay House.
Trained as a lawyer and social scientist at NYU Law and University of Cambridge, I’m also a certified yoga and meditation teacher—and a lifelong student of consciousness and Spirit. My work is shaped by a lived interspiritual path rooted in Buddhist wisdom and the Hindu-Christian Self-Realization Fellowship tradition. 🧘🏽♂️
Since 2014, through my social enterprise Be More with Anu, I’ve trained over 100,000 professionals—doctors, lawyers, teachers, therapists, faith leaders, and more—in mindfulness-based skills to break bias and bridge divides. My work has been featured widely, including on the TED stage, the Oprah Conversation, Harvard Business Review, Telepathy Tapes, and Spirituality & Health.
Amid growing political and cultural turbulence, backlash against DEI efforts, and rising polarization, I took 2025 to step back and reflect. What became clear is that my deepest motivation was never about a label, but about a purpose: applying innovation and entrepreneurial approaches to help professionals and organizations transition from eras of legalized exclusion toward genuine collaboration, trust, inclusion, and belonging for all.
That commitment remains. At the same time, I’ve become less interested in defending any single framework and more curious about a deeper, enduring question: What do these times require of us now?
While I don’t pretend to have all the answers, I do know I have much to share—for burned-out leaders and social entrepreneurs, futurists seeking innovations, disoriented DEI practitioners and supporters, bridge-builders, peacemakers, and spiritually inclined activists—about how to move through this moment with greater ease, wisdom, and compassion.
If that’s you, I’d love for you to join me. This Substack is where I explore what’s possible when we imagine from the grounding that gave rise to our global commitments to human rights, human equality, and human dignity—what I call soul force. ✨
Why Soul Force for the 21st Century?
Because today’s crises cannot be solved by force alone.
Soul force is an interspiritual response to polarization, backlash, and our search for wellbeing.
Adapted from Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha, or truth-in-action, soul force names the inner strength, integrity, and compassion required to transform hearts and systems without replicating harm. Martin Luther King Jr. described it as a spiritual power: the loving strength of will to confront violence without mirroring it.
In the 21st century, I believe we must reinvigorate this force both within and between us—not only to address physical violence, but also the quieter forms of algorithmic violence that fragment our attention, erode our dignity, and numb our capacity to care. 🕊️
I believe today’s polarization, militarism, mental-health crises, climate breakdown, and unregulated AI are deeply intertwined expressions of a single underlying condition: a mindset of separation from ourselves, one another, and the living world.
Here, I weave modern science and contemporary scholarship with interspiritual wisdom drawn from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Sufi, and other traditions—offering essays, interviews, meditations, and somatically informed practices to help cultivate the soul force this moment requires.
This is an invitation to respond rather than react, and to choose wisdom over ignorance, compassion over hatred, and hope over despair in service of a future rooted in belonging, acceptance, and equality. 🕊️
Subscriptions & Community 🤍
This work is sustained by my beloved community (you!).
Recent political shifts have led to significant loss of institutional work, and your support here allows me to continue offering these teachings in a more independent, relational, and accessible way.
Free subscribers receive regular essays, reflections, and meditations.
Paid subscribers additionally receive access to a private chat space with me, a growing content library with meditations and interviews with practitioners, invitations to special events, discounts on courses and offerings, and deeper long-form teachings. Thank you for your support!
Your Invitation 🌱
Soul Force: Interspiritual Wellbeing for the 21st Century is your invitation to reclaim your humanity – so that together we can imagine and build futures where all beings belong in the fullness of our diversity.
I’m grateful you’re here. I hope you’ll stay and walk this path with me.
Much ease and love your way,
Anu
