Evolving Spiritual Practice

The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the centre of Creation with Jude Currivan

In this conversation with Dr Jude Currivan we discuss her book ‘the cosmic hologram: in-formation at the centre of creation’. Jude is a cosmologist, planetary healer, and futurist. She was previously one of the most senior business women in the UK as CFO and on the Executive Boards of two major international companies. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University specialising in quantum physics and cosmology and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies. A coal miner’s daughter, she has experienced multidimensional realities from an early age, has traveled to more than 80 countries and worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions. She is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality and integrates leading-edge science, consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic wholeworld-view. She is also the author of 6 non-fiction books, including The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation (March 2017), the first of the Transformation trilogy. A member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle, she lives in Wiltshire, England.

For more information on Jude’s work please visit: www.judecurrivan.com

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How to integrate psychedelic experiences with Jahan Khamsehzadeh

Jahan Khamsehzadeh, Ph.D. completed his dissertation on psychedelics in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. His book, The Psilocybin Connection: Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution of the Planet—An Integral Approach, was his dissertation. He earned his Masters in Consciousness and Transformative Studies from John F. Kennedy University, and his Bachelors from the University of Arizona with a major in Philosophy and minors in Physics and Psychology. Aside from academic work, he has undergone several major trainings, including graduating from the Hakomi somatic-psychotherapy comprehensive training program and training within the Mazatec mushroom tradition. He assisted the Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Certificate training at CIIS for two years and mentored at the newly emerging School of Consciousness Medicine. He works as a facilitator for legal psilocybin mushrooms ceremonies in Jamaica with Atman Retreats, one of the few opportunities offered worldwide where people can legally experience psilocybin. Jahan is on the PsiloHealth integration team, volunteers at the Zendo Project (which provides psychedelic harm reduction at festivals), and leads a monthly group called “Developing a Relationship with Sacred Mushrooms” with the San Francisco Psychedelic Society. In this discussion we explore how to integrate psychedelic experiences - how to walk the talk and enact the changes in your identity that have been revealed to you during your trip. Integration is as key as the famous ‘set’ and ‘setting’ aspects of psychedelics work.

For more information on Jahan’s work please visit: www.PsychedelicEvolution.org

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Alone in the Wild with Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis (Chris walks the UK) is walking the entire UK coastline (20,000 miles). He has been walking for four and a half years so far and covered 16,000 miles. For three of these years he was walking solo in the wildest parts of the UK with hardly any money and foraging for wild food. The Highlands and Islands of Scotland in particular have large expanses of very wild country with extreme weather conditions and dangerous terrain. Solo time in the wilderness is one of the most ancient techniques for self discovery whether it’s the initiation of neophyte Shamans, Yogis living in Himalayan caves, a rite of passage from childhood into adulthood or a survival expert testing their skills and resolve. 

To find out more about Chris please visit: www.facebook.com/chriswalksuk

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Consciousness is Everything: Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others. In this conversation we discuss the similarities between the non-dual (consciousness only) view from the eastern traditions, the western philosophical view of metaphysical idealism and the experimental evidence of modern physics that support these views. We address the problems with the materialist view of reality and the nature of consciousness during waking, dreaming, death, reincarnation and psychedelic experiences. 

For more information on Bernardo’s work please visit www.bernardokastrup.com

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The Psilocybin Connection with Jahan Khamsehzadeh

This conversation is a comprehensive exploration of psilocybin mushrooms and their impact on our psychology, biology, and social development. How—and why—do psychedelics exist? Did psilocybin catalyze our early human ancestors’ social evolution? How humanity has co-evolved alongside “magic” mushrooms—Jahan Khamsehzadeh, PhD, explores our historical and ancestral relationship to psychedelics and presents new and exciting research about what psilocybin can mean for us today. Supported by archaeological evidence, neuroscience, and academic studies, he explores how mushrooms gave rise to art and expression, impacted spiritual experiences, and even spurred human brain development. We also explore the topic of psychedelic therapy as Jahan has trained with the Mazatec people of Mexico in traditional psilocybin mushroom use as well as western somatic therapy and works as a facilitator and therapist for Atman psilocybin retreats in Jamaica.

For more information about Jahan’s work please visit www.psychedelicevolution.org

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

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Sex and violence in Tibetan Buddhism: the rise and fall of Sogyal Rinpoche

Mary Finnigan and Rob Hogendoorn have co-authored an amazing book exposing the corruption and abuse perpetrated by Sogyal Rinpoche and his multinational Tibetan Buddhist organisation Rigpa. Sogyal was probably the 2nd most famous Tibetan Buddhist in the world, after the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is a hugely successful book, selling millions of copies and being translated into many languages and in fact started my own spiritual journey in the 1990’s. Mary and Rob show that Sogyal didn’t even write most of the book, and that it was mainly written by a couple of his students, although he claimed authorship. Incredibly, despite numerous serious scandals revolving around sex, power and money, Sogyal managed to “teach” and lead the Rigpa organisation for about 45 years. This demonstrates a failure of the Tibetan Buddhist community at large to rein in such rogue actors and charlatans. In this conversation we explore the nature of Sogyal’s abuse of his students and what the warning signs are that people should look out for when joining spiritual communities and teachers. We also make suggestions of actions individuals and communities can take to make wholesome and healthy environments for spiritual practice and learning. 

Mary and Rob’s book (Sex and violence in Tibetan Buddhism: the rise and fall of Sogyal Rinpoche) can be found here www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Violence-Tibetan-Buddhism-Rinpoche/dp/0986377090

For more information about Rob’s work please visit www.openbuddhism.org/

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Dzogchen training in the Aro gTer lineage with Zhal’med Ye-Rig

Zhal’Med Ye-Rig is a teacher in the Aro gTer which is a Vajrayana (Tantrik) lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The teachings of the Aro gTer descend from a lineage of enlightened women, beginning with Yeshe Tsogyel who founded the Nyingma tradition of Buddhism with Padmasambhava. The lineage is now represented in Britain, America and Europe by several Lamas and their senior ordained students. These teachers are Westerners which gives them some advantages over Eastern teachers in terms of understanding the minds and cultural context of Western students. These teachers are not monks or nuns. They are ordained Tantrikas who have conventional jobs and families. Many teach as married couples. Zhal’med Ye-Rig talks about his training over the past 20 years including several periods of retreat and intense practice.

For more information about Zhal’med Ye-Rig and Aro gTer please visit www.arobuddhism.org

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The practice of Emergent Dialogue with Elizabeth Debold

Emergent Dialogue empowers you to participate in a new culture of creative togetherness. Through this collective practice, you become an agent of emergence, discovering how to make yourself available to what wants to become known between us. Neither simply a method nor a technique, emergent dialogue takes the most fundamental human activity—speaking with each other—and transforms it into a powerful shared space of curiosity, reverence, meaningfulness, and potential. Emergent Dialogue brings to life a Co-Conscious We. It takes us beyond interpersonal relationship into the dimension of shared intersubjectivity where co-consciousness and co-intelligence thrive as a new way of being. It is a process of collective sense-making that arises from the space between us—a space that has an intelligence greater than any of us individually. It is catalyzed by the longing in the human heart for wholeness, connection, and depth, which becomes a creative life force when we each dare to open ourselves to its presence, vulnerability, and power. It is a practice ideal for culture changers, intentional communities, social entrepreneurs, and pioneers of the human spirit. It is for anyone who wants to step beyond the boundaries of the known to find out what wants to emerge from the living intelligence that we share.

Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D. is best described as a gender futurist. She is a leading authority on gender development and author of the bestselling Mother Daughter Revolution (Addison-Wesley, 1993; Bantam, 1994). For the past four decades, she has worked on the front lines of gender and cultural evolution as activist, researcher, journalist, spiritual explorer, and transformative educator. Her lifelong pursuit of freedom, creativity, and equality between the sexes has taken her from door-to-door activism for the U.S. Equal Rights Amendment to groundbreaking research on gender development at Harvard University to cutting-edge cultural and spiritual investigation at evolve magazine.

Elizabeth has been sought out as an expert on gender and the evolution of culture by major media outlets in the U.S. and abroad and has lectured in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe. Her work has appeared in academic publications, popular media, and international anthologies as well as in the now-defunct quarterly magazine, EnlightenNext, where she was Senior Editor for nearly a decade. She has made multiple appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, and NPR, and was featured in a major Lifetime documentary on girls’ development. 

For more information about Elizabeth’s work please visit www.evolve-world.org

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Science Fiction: the mythos of science and modernity

Damien Walter is a writer and storyteller. His work has appeared in The Guardian, BBC, Wired, Independent, Aeon and OUP. He teaches the rhetoric of story and writing the 21st century myth to over 35,000 students worldwide. He is also the host of the superb Science Fiction podcast. In this episode we discuss science fiction as the mythos of the modern scientific worldview. We feel that the best science fiction makes conscious use of both the logos (rationality) and mythos (the imaginal and non-rational) Two good examples being the original Star Wars movies and The Matrix. Wedding the mythos and logos in science fiction could provide a significant remedy to what many are calling ‘the meaning crisis’ of modern life. 

For more information on Damien’s work: https://damiengwalter.com/

Science Fiction podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/science-fiction/id1530666687

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Voice Dialogue: the psychology of selves with Trilby Fairfax part 2

Voice dialogue is a psychotherapeutic technique based on the view that we are composed of many sub-personalities or ‘voices’. That is why it is referred to as the psychology of selves as opposed to the mono-self view. Through the help of a facilitator we learn to speak in the 1st person from different ‘voices’, exploring their unique wisdom, benefits and downsides. Ultimately we discover we are not actually identified with any one of these sub-personalities but rather all of them held within awareness. Trilby Fairfax began her journey with voice dialogue over 40 years ago and has facilitated thousands of sessions. 

You can find Trilby’s website here: www.transformingdialogue.com

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

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