A State of Mind

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Introduction: 0:00 - 12:45

Conversation with Pima Duddul starts: 13:05

Partial List of Topics

• His early discovery of Buddhism around age 11 and recognition that he was already a Buddhist
• Pema Duddul shares about his meditation and spiritual path
• Simplicity in practice versus ritual
• Importance of the Bardo teachings
• Ngondro or preliminary practices in Buddhism
• Psychedelics/ ethics/ 5 precepts including the precept against taking intoxicants
• Guru Yoga
• Orientalism 
• Racist views 
• Karma
• Is this benefit or harm? Look yourself and determine it. 

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Intro: 0:00-9:00

Conversation with Lyle: 9:30

Topics covered include:

• digital therapeutics
• Potential of software and video game technology to change lives 
• The video game industry is larger than combined Film and Music industries 
• The beauty and power of creating immersive environments for healing and transformation
• The near future of VR and Augmented reality, for better and worse
• 3 different categories of Digital Therapeutics 
• Using digital therapeutics to cope with chronic pain conditions 
• The first FDA approved video game to help treat ADHD
• Downsides of ADHD medications such as Adderal 
• Dope Sick documentary
• How pharmaceutical industry is a passive healing model, whereas we did an active approach
• How a lack of engagement and turning to comfort contributes to the epidemic of Depression and Anxiety in our society 
• A Content Detox
• Web 1, Web II, Web III
• How many Health measurements can be determined just from analyzing someone's voice, including a recent study on this from MIT
• How there is one mental health therapist per every 1,600 people in the USA 
• And more

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Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

• How Keith is a Long time martial artist
• Bringing together embodiment practice, Buddhist meditation, attachment theory &trauma
• How premodern societies were more securely attached
• Exploring how many of our psychological issues are a product of our contemporary world which premodern societies did not experience
• Meditation as a way to dissolve ego identities
• How your practice can only go as deep as the amount of safety you can access & how that is related to attachment wounding.
• Anxious attachment style with cell phones
• The way in which becoming awake or enlightened leads to much more effective activity in the world
• Adyashanti said that 90% of the questions he received are basically a version of “How do I get away from the present moment?”
• Looking at the attachment issues of putting young children into monasteries
• The role of social status given to spiritual or meditation practice or practitioners
• How every society has a role and value for a kind of shaman/yogi/monk figure
• The psychedelic renaissance and how medicines are encouraging our evolution and to honor that practice again
• Integrating Eastern and Western science
• Spiritual emergencies and not having cultural contexts for spiritual experiences
• How a long meditation retreat can disrupt the default mode network of the mind in a way that is similar to psychedelic use
• The ways in which intensive meditation can bring about a traumatic response
• How the meditation traditions aren’t equipped to handle trauma
• Keith’s point that meditation cannot touch or transform psychological issues which are truly in the shadow or unconscious mind.
• The teaching that no one has ever MADE you angry
• Anger in its most simple terms is clarity
• You can’t get angry if you don’t care
• Tribalism and Conformity
• Levels of Development

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About Kendra: Kendra Kemenyas is a Somatic Intuitive Healer, Educator, and Coach. Her own personal healing journey led her to develop Soulmatic™. Combing over 7 years of experience with Somatic Education, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Attachment Repair, Chinese Five Elements Medicine, self-inquiry, and clinical hypnosis. An effective modality that heals the nervous system, trauma, and burnout. She works with clients both in person & virtually, teaches workshops, and hosts both 1:1 retreats and group retreats. She comes to this work from a decolonial lens and believes that the body holds the wisdom to not only heal but to thrive and that by learning/creating relationship with the body we can shift from override/survival mode. She lives in Boulder, Colorado nestled next to the Flatiron Mountain Range.

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• http://abetterhumanstory.org/2019/09/19/when-evil-rises-among-a-people/
• https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/the-ugliness-we-see-in-human-history-is-not-human-nature-writ-large.html

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Psychedelic Integration Circle with Julian: https://astateofmindcounseling.org/index.php/psychedelic-integration-circle-with-julian-royce/

Partial list of Topics:

• The excitement around psychedelics
• The importance of having a good working effective model of therapy in order to truly heal deeply with psychedelics
• We are the Medicine
• The etymology of Psychedelic as Mind Manifesting and what this means.
• The paradox and limitations of 'life hacking' and self improvement projects
• Ego as the culmination of our defense strategies
• Limitations of many common experiences with psychedelics and the need for true Integration
• Making important distinctions between the approaches of Therapy versus Spirituality vs Recreational uses with psychedelics
• The immense value of being held and supported by a good therapist
• How to have a self healing session with cannabis
• Set and Setting
• Choice of music
• Somatic or body based ways to access and begin to heal unresolved trauma and dis-ease

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• A State of Mind #80: Shadow Sides of Naropa University #80  Shadow Sides of Naropa University with Kate Vosti, Somatic Educator
• Jonathon Haidt The Coddling of the American Mind: https://www.thecoddling.com
• John McWhorter
• Douglas Murray: https://douglasmurray.net
• Bret Weinstein: https://bretweinstein.net
• Making Sense with Sam Harris: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts
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Topics (in chronological order)

• Introduction, mindfulness, the primacy of consciousness
• Attachment theory: how we show up in relationships as well as our pursuit of life
• We are most likely to have the same attachment styles as our care givers
• How the dismissive attachment style shuts down their own relational needs
• How our early childhood relationships with our primary caregivers impacts our relationships today
• Defining "Attachment Style"
• Studies show 75% chance that one will die with the same attachment style they developed by age 2
• 4 Attachment Styles: Secure, Avoidant, Anxious and Disorganized
• Primary caregivers only have to show up in an attuned way 30% of the time is enough to develop secure attachment
• Explaining the Anxious Attachment Styles, which is called Preoccupied in adults
• Anxious Style tends to be more insecure in their exploration
• Discussing the Dismissive(also called Avoidant) attachment style
• How Disorganized attachment styles tends to develop in response to neglectful or abusive care givers
• Different attachment styles can show up in different contexts
• Trans-generational trauma
• How healing Attachment involves implicit memory, not just from cognitive understanding
• The Strange experiments and the work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
• How Anxious attachment style in the child comes about in part from a lack of reliability in care givers.
• How all the different attachment styles are  evolutionarily intelligent adaptation strategies that are actually the best response to particular dysfunctional environments.
• How the attachment styles one develops from 0-2 years old often becomes the same attachment style one has in the context of intimate relationship as an adult.
• How our largely unconscious internal working models
• How the development of meta cognition can lead to healing our attachment patterns.
• That many with dismissive attachment styles get into meditation and intense spiritual pursuits
• Just because someone is a Spiritual Teacher does not mean they have healthy relationships
• And how that often comes from a lack of awareness or respect of the relational needs of others
• The Qualities of Secure Attachment
• Strategies for healing insecure attachment styles
• The role of self regulation for helping Pre-Occupied
• The importance of the Dismissive attachment styles to work on receiving and letting in intimacy and love

Terminology:

• Secure (both child and adult)
• Anxious-ambivalent (for children) is called Preoccupied (adult)
• Avoidant (child) is called Dismissive (for adults)
• Disorganized in both child and adult (sometimes referred to as fearful-avoidant or fearful-preoccupied)

Resources:

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• https://thelostyak.com

Find his books at:  

• https://cup.columbia.edu/book/food-of-sinful-demons/9780231179966 
• https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-faults-of-meat/

Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

0:00 Introduction

3:34 Introduction to Geoffrey Barstow

7:25 Conversation with Geoff begins

• Geoff's background
• Studying Tibetan language
• How Geoff is both a Scholar and a Practitioner
• No one believes in myth of academic impartiality
• 2 Books on Vegetarianism and Buddhism
• First book is an Attempt to make sense of vegetarianism in the Tibetan context
• Using Buddhist positions to critique idea of lone gun man doing ego driven science
• How he got interested in vegetarianism
• How he went to Kham, Eastern Tibet and interviewed scholars and monks about eating meat
• 3 Levels of Vows in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions: Individual Liberation, Bodhisattva, Tantric.
• How vegetarianism was an issue in Tibetan for at least 1,000 years
• Being Vegetarian was seen as unhealthy - and seen then as an ascetic practice that someone could choose to do for the dharma but was a kind of sacrifice.
• Separation between buying and killing animals - and debate about this
• Not causing harm by eating less - or mitigate the harm through buying more 'humanely' raised meat
• Most chickens never see day light - they have very difficult lives
• Role of family and culture and tradition in eating meat
• Value in reducing the amount of meat you eat
• How we can't escape causing some harm
• The View sometimes expressed in Tibetan Buddhism that eating meat can be part of being a dharma practitioner because one forms a karmic connection with the animal and Geoffrey's response to this view.
• The question of the conceptual division between 'human' and 'animals'
• How neuroscience has shown that animals and humans are not actually so distinct biologically.

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List of Topics (in chronological order):

• 0:00 Introduction
• 04:16 Conversation with Kingsley begins
• Kingsley's background, being born in London, and participating in competitive sports such as football (soccer), squash &  cricket
• His early interest in computers and Torrenting, peer to peer sharing services
• Technology and music sharing platforms
• Discovered Bitcoin in 2011
• Advising long term investments of 10 years or so
• Democratizing Investing
• Founding Allocations.com to democratize investing
• Allocations.com now has over $1 Billion in assets and over 1,000 SPVs on the platform
• SPVs (Special Purpose Vehicles): what they are and different possible uses for them
• Private markets have out performed public markets in general
• How only 'the suits' had access to SPVs in the past
• How technology can automate processes and replace the need for expensive lawyers
• Scaling Awareness
• Creating tech platforms to spread Awareness and teachings and practices
• Abundance Mindset: what it is and how to cultivate it
• Life Currency as a guiding metric
• How Allocations hired a Chief Mindfulness officer early on
• Awareness is one of the core values of Allocations.com
• The need for new ways to value companies that include measures of environmental and societal well being
• Luminous Awareness School
• Awareness as a natural birth rite of every human and life form
• The Equality of all things
• Economic freedom and Scarcity mindset
• The importance of Gratitude

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• Mindful U Podcast: https://mindful-u-at-naropa-university.fireside.fm
• Look Again Podcast: https://lookagain.fireside.fm
• David Devine's Website: http://www.david-devine.com
• Spotify: HigherGlyph

0:00- 8:36 Intro

8:36 - 1:20:46 Conversation with David DeVine

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Topics (in chronological order):

• The Innate Path Psychedelic Psychotherapy Training
• Andres' background from growing up in Columbia to working in wilderness therapy to his current work with psychedelic assisted therapy.
• How learning about somatic therapy and the importance of the body changed everything for Andres in terms of his own process and healing and in his work with clients.
• Recognizing his own traumas that needed healing
• How the reactions of our nervous system to traumatic situations can lead to ongoging symptoms
• How Disassociation is a more subtle and often unnoticed response to trauma
• Signs of Disassociation, one of which is when you notice it, feeling like your body is oddly shaped or disproportionately shaped
• Life itself is overwhelming at times for all of us and so we all build up stress, to one degree of another.
• When stress builds up and passes a certain threshold, then we are in the realm of trauma. This threshold can be lower or higher depending on our life circumstances.
• Costs of trauma: less energy, aliveness, intimacy, resiliency, more reactiveness, depression, anxiety, etc.
• Parts Work: The role of the 'loyal soldier' as a 'part' that can show up to help one get through life
• The practice of 'touch and go'
• The healthy expression of our Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system responses
• Andres says that most meditative practices actually bring in a healthy dissociative state
• The importance of  pratyahara (withdrawal) in Patanjali's schema of the '8 limbs of yoga' and it's relation to healthy disassociation
• How Disassociation, even in healthy forms, that can come from spiritual practices, may be an important part of why so many scandals keep happening in spiritual communities.
• "non-meditation" in the Dzogchen tradition of Buddhism
• How Andres notices and brings attention to Disassociation in the moment in a therapy session
• How working with Cannabis and Ketamine can help
• Differences between working with Ketamine and with Cannabis
• The massive difference that the set and setting and context of deep therapeutic work has in the experience of using psychedelics.
• And more

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Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:26 Julian shares about working with depression and insights from a weekend attending a Tony Robbins virtual seminar
• 6:16 Conversation with Stephen Hatch begins
  • His upbringing with Christianity
  • how his parents were fundamentalist and Stephen was attracted to the Quakers at a young age
  • Dads side Armenia, Mom's side Quaker
  • Carl Jung's writings that people from the West  should not study yoga
  • What Stephen got from fundamentalist upbringing
  • What is contemplative Christianity?
  • Spirituality through the vehicle of Nature
  • Wilderness mysticism
  • Inter-spiritual
    • 3 Different ways to do this
    • Stephen is mostly the first way
  • The contemplative path
  • Meeting the great contemplative Christian teacher Thomas Keating
  • What is Spiritual Direction?
  • To be a Christian - to listen to the presence of the divine in whoever you are with.
  • The Book of Psalms: "We are all Gods, sons and daughters of the most High"
  • Process Theology: there is an aspect of God that is learning and growing
  • There was a time in the 1980s where he didn't want to use the word 'God'
  • Ways to understand Jesus Christ and Christ Consciousness
  • Thomas Keating was Christ in a sense for Stephen Hatch
  • Book of Psalms
  • Mary Magdalene as the chief apostle
  • The Dead Sea scrolls
  • Jesus as the light and Mary as the warmth
  • The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
  • Gnosis - Knowledge
  • No such thing as static perfection
  • To be perfect is to be on the journey continuously
  • Constant Growth
  • The oppression of the idea of 'perfection'
  • Everyone has their flaws and because of this we need each other!
  • What is 'the body of Christ'
  • A true Patriarch is a person who has wisdom and they take the responsibility and are an honorable person, just as a true Matriarch is.
  • It is all Relational.
  • Mytho-poetic Men's Movement
  • Ken Wilber's influence on Stephen
  • Solitude as such an important part of the spiritual path to discover your inner source
  • Stephen's reflections on the scandal with Shambhala Buddhism: it's because humans are involved.
  • 'The same measure you judge by, you will be judged by.'
  • Stephen thinks that it is dangerous to have a teacher as your prime source to God or Spirit.
  • Stephen's tradition comes from the Radical Reformation
  • How institutions are inherently flawed
  • Book recommendation: 'The New Monasticism'

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Partial List of Topics

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:57 Conversation with Paul Temple
• Why Paul Temple does not call himself a 'sound healer'
• Nada Yoga or Brahma Yoga
• Sound as the vibrational pulse of the universe
• He does Tibetan Vajrayana mantra chanting with the music and singing bowls
• How Healing comes from within
• Core vibrational forces called Brahma
• Chakras and the Subtle Body
• The vibratory nature of Reality
• Paul's friend Jonathon Goleman who coined the term 'sound healing' defines sound healing as vibration plays intention
• Seed Syllables in Vajrayana Buddhism
• The Importance of the Heart
• The Heart as the center of Integration & at the middle of the subtle body.
• Different meanings of 'hearing' and 'feeling' and how to develop greater sensitivities.
• The War in Ukraine
• Discussing the history of Psycho-pharmacology and Psychedelic Plant Medicines in Academic Anthropology and Psychology and how a Shaman was defined as 'psychotic' in the 1950s and 1960s and earlier eras in Psychology.
• 42:00 Paul explains his sound creations and where the singing bowls come from in Nepal and a little about the mantras he is chanting.
• 43:35 Paul's Sound Transmission & Journey (Recommended to listen on good speakers or headphones!)
• 103:56 Concluding our Conversation

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Learn more about Scott at https://scotttusa.com

Two good organizations helping Ukraine right now:

https://www.unicefusa.org

https://disasterphilanthropy.org

Topics in Chronological Order:

• 0:00 Introduction
• 4:29 Conversation with Scott
• Scott was a monk for 9 years
• Tsoknyi Rinpoche
• Returned his vows in 2017
• Differences between Ningma and Gelugpa Buddhist lineages
• The essence is the same according to Scott
• Keys to Buddhist teachings: Renunciation Mind, Bodhicitta & Emptiness
• Bodhicitta & Evolution
• Buddhism as a Subjective science
• Meaning of lineage
• Meaning of Renunciation Mind in the Buddhist teachings
• Renunciation as giving up clinging to an experience of reality that doesn't exist. Which is not saying Reality does not exist.
• How are Idols oppress us
• The importance of the Heart
• Different spiritual paths versus following one path
• Sancocha soup - all mixed up.
• Ayahuasca
• Psychedelics: we are the medicine.
• Nonduality: transcending circumstances.
• Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom.
• Ethics and Insight into the nature of mind.
• Downsides of social media, outrage & cancel culture
• Emptiness: Going Beyond Beliefs.
• There is only constructive miscommunication or unconscious miscommunnication
• Just Being.
• Engaging in the path to re-learn how to Be.
• Re-Awakening rather than Awakening.

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Partial List of Topics in chronological order:

• Growth and evolution with podcasting
• The art of Meditation as Listening and Responsiveness
• Letting everything go and trusting that when the time comes, it will be here
• Writing, Recording and Performing music
• Electronic music versus live music performance
• The Universal Heart beat of the universe
• The light up Medicine Buddha image Steven made for Julian
• Steven's trip to Iraq and Turkey and the Middle East
• Creating Laser Art
• What a Laser is
• Mental health and environmental dooms-day-ism
• The Pandemic
• Wearing or not wearing Masks
• How diversity of opinions and debate around Covid is actually a good thing
• Mark Zuckerberg's PR problems
• Reflecting on the global economic system and the problem of Inequality
• Capital in the 21st-century by Thomas Piketti and The Meritocracy Trap by Markovits

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Learn more about Rosh and the Blind Café at: https://www.theblindcafe.com

Partial list of Topics in chronological order:

• 0:00 Intro, launch of Season 3! And feedback from listeners
• 2:07 Discussing the situation of allegations of abuse being levied against a former podcast guest
• 5:12 'The Crown' by Rosh and the Blind Café Orchestra
• 8:39 Conversation with Rosh begins
• Rosh's music tour in Iceland
• How he had the Idea for blind cafe
• First experience darkness in Iceland
• How we are captivated by our sense especially sight
• How we see concepts
• Blind cafe next level experience
• Couples experience in the dark
• Meeting your lover in the dark
• Dark retreat in the Buddhist traditions
• Rosh shares from his work with The Art of Conscious Loving & Charles Muir
• How consciousness transcends spatial awareness
• Listening to one's inner compass
• Entering into and leaving Community

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https://www.facebook.com/dan.balgooyen

(partial) List of topics (in chronological order):

• Facilitating experience that invite connection, exploration of self and turning towards what is true
• Authentic Relating
• Our need to belong and the epidemic of isolation
• 'Edge work' & what an being at one’s edge can feel like: the voice of resistance, of discomfort.
• Co-creating community
• Living in an intentional community home
• How becoming financially wealthier tends to lead to greater isolation.
• Owning & claiming our power and becoming free of society’s expectations
• Exploring what ‘creating one’s own experience’ means
• How bring a ‘speck of dust’ gives you unlimited possibilities
• Breathwork
• Danny’s journey with Breathwork
• The way Danny approaches Breathwork
• The language of the Breath
• How Danny applies mindfulness & Breathwork in the the day to day normal life.
• Breath as a guide into the present.
• Danny's relationship with Cannabis
• 'a groove grooved too much can become a rut'
• How breath work can release and heal negative beliefs about ourselves and unprocessed trauma
• Danny's journey from competitive golf player to what he does now.

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Learn more about Jen Fiser and Innate Path at: https://www.innatepath.org

Psychedelic Integration Group with Julian Royce: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, find out more and register by emailing AStateofMindCounsel@gmail.com

Consensus Trance by Charles Tart http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html

Partial List of Topics

• Jen is the clinical director of Innate Path, which opened in 2018. Innate Path specializes in PTSD using Psychedelics and a Somatic oriented therapy model.
• How Cannabis can be a powerful tool for therapy, especially in the type of somatic trauma informed therapy specialized in by Innate Path.
• How the experience of Cannabis and / or Ketamine in the context of psychotherapy is often very different from the preconceptions people had about these substances from their life before.
• Innate Path did a study on working with Vets who had combat PTSD; the results were positive
• Why if you use cannabis to manage your symptoms you may not want to use it to do deep processing of PTSD.
• Cultural attitudes towards cannabis and how different this medicine is in the context of therapy
• How psychedelics work well with somatic oriented therapy
• The importance of using somatic processing to access subconscious material
• MAPS studies with PTSD and MDMA
• The importance of safety in order for subconscious material to emerge
• Working with Panic Attacks
• How trauma can lead to relapse
• How psychedelics can help us to deprogram
• Asking the guiding question: What serves Life?

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Learn more about Melinda at: https://melindareilly.com.au/

Topics in chronological order:

• Introduction
• Becoming is new book and first book of fiction
• Integrating different healing modalities
• How the Inspiration for the book came from the characters
• How important unstructured time is
• Burn Out and how to find your natural balance
• We are all one
• Wallees - Australian slang
• Spiritual not religious
• The age of 'the guru' being over; how we are entering the 'age of Aquarius'
• Yogi Bhajan
• Kunadlini yoga - energetic body - tapping into the energy at the base of the spine
• Story of Eckhart Tolle taking LSD and feeling no different.
• Integrating energy
• Reiki healing - similarities with yoga and how such 'alternate' healing modalities are becoming more widely accepted
• How mindfulness paved the way for alternate healing modalities like Reiki to be offered in hospitals
• The importance of being open minded and trying things out to find what works for you.

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Star Trek Discovery | Lieutenant Stamets Succed To Quickly Create Spore Drive

USS Discovery Enters the Mycelial Network To Save Tilly | Star Trek: Discovery

https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ijfs.13522

https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/beta-glucans-and-the-seven-pillars-of-immunity

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59473960

Paul Stamets:

https://instagram.com/paulstamets?utm_medium=copy_link

http://paulstamets.com/news/society-for-the-protection-of-underground-networks-spun

Topics (in chronological order):

0:00 Introduction and holiday wishes

6:02 Music: 'Through the Dark' by Ruby Begay with Jon Sousa

10:20 Conversation with Stephen begins

• Mycology, university research

12:20 Myco-remediation, energy

15:20 Environmental purpose for mushrooms, causes and human impact on resources, biofuels vs electrics

18:00 Cultural supply vs demand, environmental cost

19:00 Soil, horticultural, farm practices, food preservation

22:00 Bacteria, fermentation and probiotic process

24:00 Digestive systems, processed vs nutrient dense food

26:00 Mushroom connections and as a medicine

27:00 Foraging morels and other wild mushrooms

28:00 Fungal connection to trees

30:00 Gourmet mushrooms and cultivation

32:00 Garden integration with mushrooms

33:00 Mycelial networks and communication within nature

35:00 Gourmet vs medicinal

37:00 Ideas of centralized vs de-centralized intelligence

38:00 Flow, present moment, and surrender

39:00 Appreciation of nature

40:00 Global anxiety, hope perspective, nihilism

44:00 Mycology and information eco-systems

45:00 Star Trek

46:00 Space, science, and networks

49:00 Cycles of nature, symbiosis of mycology

51:00 Nutrition, health, and mis-information

55:00 Vaccines and polarization in society

60:00 Vaccine status

62:00 Anti-vax social party

63:00 Exploring and resetting through the pandemic

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www.the360emergence.com

The 360 Emergence: Instagram & Facebook: @the360emergence

Amber Ryan Instagram &Facebook: @the360.amberryan

Topics Discussed (in chronological order)

0:00 Introduction

• Christopher Wallis &the Tantrika Institute (the book Julian recommends is Tantra Illuminated): https://tantrikainstitute.org, https://hareesh.org

3:02: Conversation with Amber Ryan begins

• The impact of the Pandemic on Amber's life and work
• Pros and cons to connecting and taking classes virtually
• Differences between in person and online dance experiences
• Deep Listening and Intuition
• Power of coming together in person for community
• The 360 Emergence: the different aspects and nuances of this offering and what is meant by a '360 human'.
• Discussing the Vaccine and the different perspectives on it that are causing conflicts in communities
• Dance, movement and embodiment.
• What is ecstatic dance?
• Conscious Dance and different dance modalities
• Gabriel Roth, the creator of Five Rhythms, and how she offered a map for Westerners to find their way to embodiment and ecstasy
• How the Western world had ways of ecstasy suppressed historically
• Embodiment. The Body is like an Encyclopedia, holding memory.
• What is ecstasy

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https://sanctum.coach

Learn more about Guy:

https://www.facebook.com/The-Coaching-Guy-109878688196496

Topics Touched Upon (in chronological order):

Intro

05:03 - Conversation with Kevin and Guy begins

Death

Balance

Leadership

Reclaiming your own feminine

Integration through development

Frequency levels a la Hawkins

Higher developmental stage

BS: belief systems

Spiritual bypassing

Responsibility vs. freedom

Depression

Is duality a necessity?

Reverse racism + privilege

Peace

Protests and contradictions

Victim mentality

Parting words

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http://www.rhythmsanctuary.com

https://www.facebook.com/groups/44591474049/

https://www.a4uj.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstatic_dance

Partial list of topics (approximate times)

0:00 Introduction - The MeetDelic Conference & the corporatization in the emerging field of psychedelic medicines

6:38 Conversation with Ahva begins

• What is Rhythm Sanctuary and Ahva's role in helping found it
• How Rhythm Sanctuary has been a community, a place many people have made friends and Ahva has now facilitated 3 weddings of folks from Rhythm Sanctuary
• 11:38 What is Ecstatic Dance
• 12:39 Ahva's background with dance and as a dance teacher and her own teachers and journey with learning about dance and embodiment

15:00 - How Ecstatic Dance is a practice and way of finding connection and ecstasy while being Sober together

15:38 - the structure and elements of the Rhythm Sanctuary ritual, including the importance of not speaking on the dance floor

17:30 How Rhythm Sanctuary has saved people's lives

20:38 How Rhythm Sanctuary is not about the DJ, it is co-created by everyone who shows up together.

21:38 the power of sharing in a circle

24:30 Evolutionary reasons for why Public Speaking is so challenging for many

27:00 Ahva's background, being a single mom at a young age, how she lived in an intentional, off grid, sustainable community that included farming on 600 acres

35:38: The human needs for love and joy

• How to find your joy and purpose

39:30 New definition of Hierarchy

42:00 Ahva’s witnessing of a wild geese funeral service

42:30 Ahva's work as a Death Douhla and her work as a ceremonialist

• Rites of passage

52:00 Prosperity circulator abundance

54:50 - Ahva's work with Conflict Resolution

56:30 - When Ahva was unfairly attacked online for re-starting Rhythm Sanctuary and had her own brush with 'cancel culture'

65:30 Ahva's connection and roles with Arise Music Festival

1:12:00 - Ahva's work with Conflict Resolution and the Alliance for Unitive Justice which is based on Restorative Justice.

1:19:34 - the poem 'Courting the Muse' by Tiffanie DeBartolo, read by Ahva.

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Learn more about Sureya at www.sureyaleonara.com

Instagram: @sureya_leonara

Discount code for listeners: STATEOFMIND for 15% off the course called 'the Art of Transmutation' starting Nov 13

Partial List of Topics (approximate times):

• 5:44 Conversation with Sureya begins
• Sureya introduces herself as a holistic sex and relationship coach and shares what she means by holistic and how sex and relationships connect with so many areas of life
• How a non-dual perspective can help make sense of the many different healing and meditative and spiritual modalities
• How becoming debilitatingly sick with Lyme disease and a Cohn infection and other health problems eventually lead to a transformation for Sureya to become more empowered and to stop being in a victim mentality
• Getting out of victim mentality
• How to fully feel and face the challenges of life, without bypassing and also without staying in a victim mentality
• The illusion of 'free will' and how that does not contradict taking responsibility
• How Sureya was in a very toxic relationship that felt parasitic and how she found the strength to leave that
• 20:20 - a wise older friend saying to her 'You are responsible for everything that is happening in your life right now"
• 22:45 - how sometimes ending a relationship is the best thing for all involved
• 24:25 - role of addictions can play in relationships, for both the one in the caretaker role and the one who seems in need of saving
• 28:33 - Sureya's new course on the Art of Transmutation
• 29:54 Finding your sovereign truth
• 31:54 The Trauma and Fear of being Ostracized and kicked out of a group
• 33:25 - How Sureya works with almost all her clients on people pleasing and becoming authentic
• 34:33 - How Sureya was raised to be polite and people pleasing and how she used to be so shy
• 37:15 Importance of connecting as humans even when you believe different thigs or have different politics and view points
• 38:00 Creating good boundaries - and how there is an energetic component to it
• 40:00 - Story from the life of the historical Buddha of how he chose not to accept the 'gift' of anger after a man spat on his face.
• 44:00 - how to channel anger in a good way
• 45:00 Have people tried to "cancel" Sureya ?

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https://shedrub.org/

www.ryi.org

www.dharmasun.org

Partial List of Topics (times are approximate):

0:00 Introduction

8:05 Conversation with Catherine Dalton begins

• How the traditional Buddhist teaching are not something one ‘makes up’ or is unique to a particular individual teacher
• How Catherine first moved to Nepal and began study Buddhism and Tibetan language

21:00 - The impact of culture, culture shock and how being amongst people of a particular culture affects how we see the world

24:00 Boudhanath Stupa

28:00 spread of Buddhism around the world

42:00 the lack of a word for a gender other than male or female in the premodern Tibetan language

How Tibetan Buddhism is Tantric Buddhism or Vajrayana Buddhism.

46:50: the concept of having a 'guru' or teacher in Buddhism and what that means in the tradition

50:00 - how Vajrayana is described as the path of devotion

60:00 - the possibility of Dharma transmission through Zoom

1:01:00 - how Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche offered teachings online because of the pandemic and how they set that up

1:06:15 - Reincarnation and the 'Tullku system' of certain teachers being able to consciously reincarnate, how Catherine has met many Tulkus who "are not ordinary people"

1:14:00 - Question/ Observation that in the West, we are very driven by the idea of progress while in 'the East' and in traditional Buddhist cultures, there is more of a cyclical notion of existence, without the same idea of 'progress.'

1:20:00 - how dharma not about self improvement. Side effect not the goal.

The whole point is the pursuit of happiness.

1:22:30 the meaning of Buddha in Tibetan and in the Buddhist teachings and the possibility of bringing that into scientific inquiry

1:28:00- idea of Omniscience in Buddhism, Julian's skepticism and the traditional teachings of what that means

1:32:00 Karma and how everything we experience is our own mind or consciousness

1:36:00 Everything that happens is karma from the traditional point of view

1:38:00 the practice and power of making offerings

1:41:00 The importance of the three trainings: Ethical conduct, Meditation and Wisdom

1:46:00 - That our practice should be happening all the time, and how important it is to honor our relationships and actions in the world.

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Website- https://www.dankphartcreative.com

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/dankphart

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Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/DankPhart

Twitter- https://twitter.com/dankphart

Learn more about Gary Snyder: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gary-snyder

Riprap by Gary Snyder read in the intro: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47178/riprap

Learn more about Allen Ginsberg: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/allen-ginsberg

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-Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ciprianoband/

-Insta Handle: @ciprianoband

-Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/CiprianoOrtega

-Soundcloud:  https://soundcloud.com/lowrockhighart

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https://www.melissamoffet.com

https://www.instagram.com/melissa.moffet/

Topics (in chronological order):

• Being Impulsive vs being truly Spontaneous
• Taking risks, trusting your instincts
• How Melissa built a social media following and went from being an engineer to working as a coach and teacher
• Melissa shares how she was shy in real life while at the same time building a big following on Instagram
• Quality over Quantity
• Her background with dance and ballet
• Social media and Confidence: how to have an intentional relationship with social media and the importance of having good boundaries
• Suggestion to clean out everyone you are following and then carefully choose who to follow
• The danger of being in an information Bubble where you only hear from sources of information you want to and agree with
• The practice of choosing to listen to other perspectives you don't agree with in order to challenge yourself and grow
• Vulnerability in sharing publicly
• How it is so important to go to the edge of your comfort zone and then have time for Integration.
• Melissa shares about ways to Integrate and what that means.
• The importance of titrating and going slowly so that it is sustainable and so one does not burn out or shut down after a flurry of activity.
• The importance of Intention

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• Darrell’s background with the Unitarian Universalist Church, where he almost went down the path to become a minister.
• Darrell's experiences with the early internet and pre-internet computers and bulletin board systems.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
• Burning Man and the Burning Man Principles: https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-principles/
• Contact Improvisation - what it is and Darrell's discovery of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_improvisation

• The creation of Camp Contact - http://campcontact.org
• Authentic Relating, how it is a part of Camp Contact and a bit about what it is
• Cryptocurrency: Darrell shares some of his knowledge and wisdom about cryptocurrencies
• El Salvador and it's adoption of Bitcoin:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/06/25/adults-in-el-salvador-to-get-30-in-bitcoin-as-nation-unveils-details-to-make-crypto-legal-tender/?sh=14909474109c
• Psychedelics: their potentials for healing and transformation and creativity.
• Their potential in psychedelic assisted therapy.
• The War on Drugs
• The problems with a for profit health care industry
• Reasons why distrust of the medical establishment is at an all time high
• The issue of Vaccines and specifically the Coronavirus Vaccine and the Pandemic
• Renee Girard and Mimetic Discourse   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory
• Meta Integral and the Wisdom Deck https://www.metaintegral.com/wisdom-card-deck/
• The Stoa online community of thinkers and thought leaders http://thestoa.ca
• Daniel Schmachtenberger  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daniel+schmachtenberger
• OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism - Big 5 personality factors
• Your Undivided Attention:  Podcast from the Center for Humane Technology:  https://www.humanetech.com/podcast
• Scuttlebut as a non profit Social Media platform, and one without an algorithm to drive engagement.

http://ScuttleButt.nz  -- Decentralized Social Network (Use Manyverse on your Phone: http://manyver.se)

• How 5,000 friends is not enough for Darrell on Facebook

Facebook Friend Limits - Best summed up by this Interintelect salon description:  https://interintellect.com/salon/cheating-on-dunbar-maintaining-our-growing-social-networks/

- Accountability: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AhANo6wzBAA&feature=youtu.be

Learn more about Hilary at: https://hilarymorrislpc.com/meet-the-team.html

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarymorrislpc/

Articles by Hilary Morris:

Somatics and Psychedelic Therapy in the Treatment of PTSD:

https://psychable.com/psychedelics/somatics-and-psychedelic-therapy-in-the-treatment-of-ptsd/

Why Combat Veterans Seek Out Psychedelics for PTSD

https://psychable.com/psychedelics/why-combat-veterans-are-seeking-out-psychedelics-for-ptsd/

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

https://psychable.com/psychedelics/ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy-where-did-my-body-go/

Topics:

• Trauma and how serious concussions and traumatic brain injuries can be, physically as well as psychologically
• Healing from Physical trauma and Psychological trauma
• Post Concussion Syndrome
• Different therapeutic modalities she works with, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Somatic Therapies, EMDR, and Brain Spotting
• Her work helping women entrepreneurs
• Challenges women face in business
• Feminine and Masculine energies and how we all have these different energies to differing degrees
• The importance of having unstructured time
• Brain Spotting - what it is and how it works
• The importance of Pleasure - how to allow oneself to more fully experience pleasure
• Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and specifically, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
• Different ways Ketamine can be administered therapeutically, for example with Treatment Resistant Depression versus the lower doses that Hilary usually works with
• Ways in which Ketamine assisted therapy can help
• Ego dissolution and the temporary dissolving of the 'default mode network' in our brain/nervous system and how valuable an experience of being alive without being stuck in one's usual suffering can be so immensely valuable and life affirming
• Hilary shares an anchoring or grounding technique with us: I am here.

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She is offering an upcoming Yoga retreat: https://www.littleyogastudio.com/retreats/

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Through the companies she co-founded – Orience, Tao of Man, and JBK Wellness Labs – Jenelle is able to share the healing power of Traditional Oriental Medicine with a greater audience around the world.

Topics Covered

0:00 Introduction

• Derek Demuth's music video made it past the YouTube censors and you can watch it on episode #79
• More stories of disfunction and extreme social justice ideology at Naropa University
• Introducing Dr. Jenelle Kim
• 7:13 Conversation with Dr. Kim begins
• Her background and family lineage
• The 3 M's: Movement, Meditation and Medicine
• Reflections on 'Eastern' and 'Western' Cultures and Pre-modern and Modern eras
• How to make the right choices in your life- The "True and Right Method": True= what is true for you in that situation and Right = what is best for everyone involved.
• Meditation and Non-duality
• Stories of her father and his meditation teacher
• Advice around herbal medicine and taking supllements
• Her upcoming book: Myung Sung: The Korean Art of Living Meditation

Learn more about Dr. Jenelle Kim here:

https://jenellekim.com

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGEysqqsXuI8LvT_KeltBQ

https://www.instagram.com/drjenellemkim/?hl=en

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Learn More About Kate: www.somatic-untangling.com

Instagram: @rhythm.rose

Topics (in Chronological Order):

• 0:00-11:28 Introduction
• Buddhist Perspectives on Human Development and Spiritual Development
• Her early interest in the Buddhist teachings
• Self Doubt as a form of Laziness
• Different ways to understand ‘doubt’ and ‘the mind of  not knowing’
• Being ‘spiritual not religious’
• New age spiritual beliefs
• The relative rarity of talking with someone practicing within an authentic spiritual lineage
• That modern or contemporary people have a ‘God shaped hole in their hearts’
• The surprising success of Trader Joe’s in offering us less choices
• 27:30: The reasons why Naropa University seemed to make so much sense for Kate
• The events, health struggles, discovering Ecstatic Dance and Five Rhythms that lead to Kate eventually going to the graduate school for Somatic Psychology at Naropa University
• The Calling to become a somatic dance movement therapist
• Issues with the current state of Naropa University from the perspective of being a student
• How Naropa University seems afraid to challenge it's students
• 40:00 How Kate feels psychologically traumatized by attending Naropa
• 50:00 - Issues of Cultural Appropriation around Buddhism and other forms of spirituality at Naropa
• 54:00 - how the Masters in Dance Movement Therapy program lacked learning how to practice or teach dance movement therapy; how their one class on Dance Movement Therapy focused instead on the colonialism of ballet and related topics.
• 57:00 - a few of many stories of social justice attempts gone awry from Julian's experience in the Graduate School of Psychology
• 62:00: Is it advancing the cause of Social Justice to apologize for the color of your skin?
• Discussion of the shadow sides and down sides of the current state of education at Naropa
• 90:00 - not allowed to use the word 'mute' to refer to muting oneself while on Zoom because it is not politically correct.

Links to articles and books mentioned:

Even "Trigger Warning" is Now Off Limits by John McWhorter https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/brandeis-language-police-have-suggestions-you/619347/

The Coddling of the American Mind: https://www.thecoddling.com

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www.derekdemuth.com

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4b5QtTEHydioAAX4meYitI?si=KU63gUHITlyfBOfWfbfgVg&dl_branch=1

Instagram:  @derek_demuth

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http://www.lions-breath.com/home.html

Topics:

• April shares how she works with a Somatic orientation, with wilderness and with psychedelics - and ways these three are all similar
• EMDR Trauma therapy
• What is Trauma in context of psychology and therapy?
• April's experience with NGOs and policy work
• Somatic
• Psychedelics
• Wilderness
• Ketamine and Cannabis assisted therapy and what that can look like
• The stigmas and stereotypes around Cannabis and how different it is in the context of therapy
• Why she named her practice Lions Breath Counseling.

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www.WEWILDE.live

https://boulderhearttherapy.com

https://www.facebook.com/groups/170271004528071

Click this link to participate in the Ways of Looking Research study on the relationship between meditation practice preferences, personality traits, and the use of psychedelics. No psychedelic experience is required for participation.

https://www.ways-of-looking.com

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• Learn more about their work and connect with Ena and Howard at:
• www.enaandhoward.com
• https://www.kealarafana.com
• https://www.enavie.com
• Instagram: @enavieandhowardlipp
• Facebook: Ena Vie and Howard Lipp

Topics:

• Addictions
• How we are addicted to our thinking
• Plant spirit medicine and Psychedelics as anti-addiction medicine
• Music as sanity - how Howard grew up as a musician
• Howard's experience in an Addiction treatment center and how an experience with 'Soma' helped him to overcome the roots of his addictions
• The Soma in this case may well have been derived from Amanita muscaria
• Ena's life story of growing up in a strong Christian community and eventually breaking away from that
• The importance of community and how their ministry is about creating a positive loving community
• Authentic self - what it is and how to discover it
• How to know what to do
• Traditions and living lineages - the need for spirituality and traditions to evolve with each generation, rather than holding to a fixed view of how it is supposed to be. Howard shares from his Hebrew culture how the Torah and other scriptures are meant to be living and evolving with each generation.
• Everything is energy consciousness

There is a beacon calling you home.

It is the song of your soul.

Come listen with us a while.

We will help you hear the music.

The song of your essence,

the divine spark that’s you,

is the song that calls you home.

Keala Rafana

(www.enaandhoward.com)

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Topics:

Introduction 0:00- 8:12:

• Ways of Looking Science study on the  relationship between meditation practice preferences, personality traits, and the use of psychedelics.
• Julian's bout with Covid

Conversation with Kate Neligan 8:33:

• Equine and goat assisted coaching
• Loves animals
• Taming - gentleing
• 'Power with'
• Fun theory - that people will do more if its fun
• Bring teams from Corporate America to spend a day with the horses
• Emotional intelligence
• 'taming' or 'breaking' a horse - Kate prefers to call it 'gentling'
• Wild horses
• Re-Wilding
• Kate is starting to train other Equine coaches

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Topics Discussed:   

- Spirituality and what it is  

- Being a 'seeker', looking for truth, exploring different paths  

- Efforting and Effortlessness   

- India  

- Spirituality as Developmental  

- Importance of having a guide or teacher who actually cares about you  

- Spirituality as a developmental path of getting to deeper and deeper identities 

- Making Decisions from rightness or true Self and distinguishing that right choice from when one is dis-regulated 

- Differentiating 'self' or 'true self' from 'self image' 

- Self and Authentic Impulse 

- Non-duality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Harding_(lama)

https://www.tsadra.org/translators/sarah-harding/

https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Completion-Essential-Tantric-Meditation/dp/0861713125/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Sarah+harding&qid=1617929276&sr=8-4

https://www.amazon.com/Machiks-Complete-Explanation-Clarifying-Expanded/dp/1559394145/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=machig+complete+explanation&qid=1618097981&sr=8-1

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