Evolving Spiritual Practice

The Daemon and Cheating the Ferryman with Anthony Peake

In this conversation with Anthony Peake we discuss the bold hypothesis he calls ‘Cheating the Ferryman’: when we die we fully relive our lives again and again (a bit like the film Groundhog Day) Anthony proposes that we are composed of two entities, the Daemon who has lived our life over and over and remembers it all, who provides hints to the Eidolon who is renewed every new life. We talk about Deja vus and it’s relation to this hypothesis, temporal lobe epilepsy, schizophrenia, cannabis induced psychosis, near death experiences, DMT, Ketamine and synchronicity. Anthony has now written eight books, co-authored a ninth and co-edited a tenth. All of them develop his Cheating the Ferryman hypothesis into ever-wider areas of application. 

For more information on Anthony Peake’s work please visit: https://www.anthonypeake.com/

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Near Enemies of theTruth: Christopher Hareesh Wallis

In this conversation I talk to Christopher Hareesh Wallis about his book ‘Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free’ 

Have you ever been told, “You create your own reality”? Have you been encouraged to “be your best self” or “follow your bliss”? Nowadays these slogans are everywhere, but what if they’re doing more harm than good? After over thirty years as a scholar-practitioner of meditation and Tantric philosophy, acclaimed author Hareesh explores the most widespread distortions of spiritual teachings present in our world today. Rooted in the Asian wisdom traditions, his book uncovers why these oft-heard platitudes are “near enemies” to the truth, often detour us off the spiritual path, and can even cause unnecessary suffering.

For more information on Hareesh’s work please visit: https://hareesh.org/

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

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My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

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Anna Grear: How to live well with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Anna Grear has been living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) since 1989 which has seen her confined to her bed and house for extended periods of time where she was forced to go deep into her psyche. In this interview Anna describes the profound spiritual experiences associated with her condition, and the many practical skills she has learned in how to cope with CFS. We also discuss how fatigue is a metaphor and symptom of late stage capitalism. 

Anna coaches people with CFS and also those wishing to deeply explore their sense of identity: for more information please visit https://www.hypnocatalyst.com

Anna also has a podcast called ‘the fatigue files’: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-fatigue-files/id1664552299

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree

My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms

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Dr Roger Walsh: Camp fire chat with a spiritual elder

Dr Roger Walsh is a very wise man. Since the 1970's he has devoted his life to exploring consciousness and wisdom through a wide variety of spiritual and psychological techniques. This conversation is a camp fire chat and trans-generational gifting of the lessons Roger has learned on his long journey mastering these practices. Roger (M.D., Ph.D. DHL.) graduated from Australia’s Queensland University with degrees in psychology, physiology, neuroscience, and medicine, and then came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar.  He is now at the University of California at Irvine where he is professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology, as well as a professor in the religious studies program.

Roger’s research and writings span several areas. These include the nature of psychological health and wellbeing, meditation and contemplative practices, religion and spirituality, wisdom and other virtues, integral studies, and the psychological roots of our current global crises. He is deeply immersed in contemplative practices as a student, researcher, and teacher.

Roger’s books include Paths Beyond Ego (one of Common Boundary’s “Most Influential Books”), Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (“Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award”), Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices with a foreword by The Dalai Lama, and The World of Shamanism. He is currently editing The World’s Great Wisdom: What Sages Say about Living Wisely and Well.

Roger's website is https://drrogerwalsh.com/ and podcast is https://deeptransformation.io/

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree

My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms

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Why I left the Mormon Church

Kathryn was a Mormon from the age of 2 until 42 and in 2020 she had an awakening where she realised Mormonism was…..bullshit. We talk about her life as a Mormon, the type of things she used to believe in and what the institution was like. We go into the details of exactly how she came to question the truth of Mormonism, her leaving of the church and what her current life of freedom is like. She has completed a course with cult expert Steven Hassan to help her understand the nature of cults and the process of leaving them. She is due to start a university degree in the study in coercive control. Hearing stories like Kathryn’s are profoundly helpful as we all fall prey to ideological capture of some kind at different times in our lives whether religious, philosophical or political. We can also become free from these ideologies becoming wiser, humbled and more discerning.

For more information on ex-Mormon’s: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree

My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms

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Yeshe: Off-Grid life, travels to India and psychedelics

Yeshe has lived a very interesting and unusual life. She has lived of-grid her whole adult live in basic hand made shelters called benders, yurts and for the last 12 years a round house which she built with her partner and raised a family in. All of these homes have not been connected to the electricity grid and services such as running water, mains gas, or sewers. It is a life close to nature and offers many benefits and challenges alien to the average modern human. She also spent 12 years travelling in India and Nepal and became the student of two gurus: a Hindu Yogi and a Tibetan Buddhist Lama. Lastly we touch upon the subject of psychedelics and her time being the carer for the famous psychonaut John C Lilly after he had a stroke.

For more information on Yeshe’s work please visit her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@welshmountainyeshe1129

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree

My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms

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Feeding your Demons with Lama Tsultrim Allione

Lama Tsultrim Allione was the first American to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1970. For several years she lived in sacred places, caves and hermitages in the Himalayas. Later she disrobed, married and had four children. She maintained a deep practice and studied with many of the most important Tibetan teachers of the last 50 years. She is now a renowned teacher and one of the only female lamas in the world today. In the early 1970’s she was initiated into the Chad practice which was developed by the 11th century Tibetan yogini Machig Labdron. Some years later she began to teach the Chod practice and gradually developed her own version which is more suitable to contemporary Western practitioners which she calls ‘Feeding Your Demons’ a five step practice based on feeding not fighting our demons such as anxiety, depression, or addiction. In 2007 she was recognized in Tibet as the reincarnation of Machig Labdrön. She has written several books including ‘Women of Wisdom’ and ‘Wisdom Rising’.

For more information on Lama Tsultrim’s work please visit: www.taramandala.org

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree

My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms

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Integral Taoism with Sally Adnams Jones

Sally Adnams Jones is a therapist, author and artist living in Canada. She grew up in Durban, South Africa. She has studied human transformation with several of the great Indian gurus who moved to America, where she did her post graduate work in transformative Yoga Education. Later in Canada she became the director of a residential, Yoga Education Centre, and a teacher of Transformative Art Education at University. She has written the book ‘Art-Making with Refugees and Survivors: Creative and Transformative Responses to Trauma after Natural Disasters, War and other Crisis.’ She is currently writing a new book called ‘Integral Taoism’ which was the subject of our conversation in this podcast episode.

For more information on Sally’s work please visit: https://sallyadnamsjones.com/

Sally’s podcast is here: https://radicalemergence.org/

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree

My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms

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MetaModern Spirituality with Brendan Graham Dempsey

The short answer to what MetaModern spirituality is that it is what comes after New Age spirituality. The New Age, popular from the 1970’s onwards, was strong in the sense that its progressive outlook brought together all the various spiritual traditions of the world, but weak in the sense that it was rather shallow and whimsical in this approach. The MetaModern view keeps the openness to the rich variety of traditions and practices from around the world but makes a point of situating that within the rigour of the scientific method and the potency of sustained and faithful practice of traditional spiritual techniques. Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He earned his BA in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont and his MA in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Greensboro Bend, Vermont, where he runs the holistic retreat center Sky Meadow. He is known to sometimes answer to the names Julian, A. Severan, Sadie Alwyn Moon, and others… He moderates a Facebook group called MetaModern Spirituality.

 

To find out more about Brendan’s work please visit: https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/

 

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

 

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page www.soundcloud.com/ralphcree

 

My youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

 

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Three types of psychological shadow with developmental psychologist Kim Barta

Kim Barta is an experienced and versatile developmental psychotherapist, specialising in delivering specific therapeutic techniques to the different developmental stages humans grow through in their lives. He is skilled in working with the ‘shadow’ a term coined by Carl Jung to denote the parts of ourselves that our outside of our conscious awareness. Often the shadow is treated from a single perspective addressing only one aspect of the shadow with a bias towards integration. Kim breaks the shadow into three types: projections (which we do want to integrate back into ourselves for example if we project our own power onto an authority figure), introjections (which we actually want to let go of rather than integrate into us for example many aspects of sexual abuse), and split ego states (which we want to bring into awareness and harmonise for example when we feel conflicted about whether to chill out or work hard). The importance of distinguishing these types of shadow is that if the wrong technique is used it can create more harm than good - for example mistakenly trying to integrate aspects of sexual abuse that should be really be let go of.

For more information on Kim’s work please visit https://www.kimbarta.org where you can find out about his year long, in-depth course on meditation, psychological development and shadow work. 

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page www.soundcloud.com/ralphcree

My YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ

My Facebook page is www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms

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