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Spiritual practice, like everything else in life, is evolving. What does this mean? By ‘Spiritual Practice’ I mean any activity that expands your sense of identity, for example meditation, contemplative philosophy, prayer, yoga, martial arts, psychedelics, transpersonal psychotherapy, fasting, visualisation, lucid dreaming, conscious parenting, forgiveness and much more. By ‘Evolving’ I mean that everything develops and adapts over time. Most of the spiritual traditions that have spawned these transformational practices emerged hundreds and often thousands of years ago in the pre-modern era. Modernity (rationality and science) and post-modernity (cultural diversity and the information age) are hugely influential historical periods that have happened since then, and I believe that contemporary spiritual practice needs to integrate the insights of these two worldviews as well as the premodern in order to keep being relevant and adaptive in a changing world.
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Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
In this episode I explore the spiritual side of strength training and long distance running with Gary Hawke. We are often led to believe that Yoga is the only 'spiritual' form of exercise out there. But what if you feel an affinity with the life of a yogi but are not drawn to classical yoga? Any type of exercise, from solo forms like strength training to team sports, can bring us to a collision with the infinite when used intentionally as a technique of ecstasy. This conversation explores the subtle art of expanding your identity through exercise and sport.
For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk
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To find our more about Gary Hawke please visit http://www.garyhawke.org/
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Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
How do you pray when you don’t believe in a wise old man who lives in the sky? Are deities out there in the universe or are they archetypal forms of our own psyche and does it actually matter which is true? What’s the difference between the law of attraction and prayer? What are the similarities and differences between meditation and prayer? Christian contemplative prayer, The meaning crisis of modernity, The shortcomings of the neo-advaita teachings in relation to prayer, How to traverse periods when we feel no connection with our muse.
Lynn Evans is a lifelong mystic and spiritual practitioner, whose life’s work has been to deeply explore the nature of being, awareness and transformation, always through the lens of direct and embodied human experience. Lynn can be contacted by email at elvesnanny@hotmail.com or on Facebook @embodiedawakeningUK
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/
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Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
You will find exceptions to these generalisations. With that caveat here we go: Different traditions say different things about who we are, and they often contradict each other. Could it be that they are all right but have a part of the truth that they are trying to hold up as the whole truth? If we use the metaphor of each tradition being a musical note, each moment presents itself as the different notes integrated into a chord. That is the oneness of our identity. It can be hard initially to get any traction with this mushy oneness blend until we have seen the manyness as well. Our identity can be separated out in a great many ways but let’s look at the 3 main ones that crop up in spiritual traditions and psychology. Our individual personality - you know the one we love and hate! Mother Nature - if you don’t believe Mother Nature is part of your identity try not eating, drinking and breathing and see how that works out for you. Formless awareness- awareness is a rather bland word but it’s all we have in English. Awareness is formless because it has no colour or shape, and no simple location, yet it is unmistakably a key aspect of our identity. Awareness is not just an “it” we can talk about but is also an “I” as the core of subjectivity. Western psychology tends to lean towards our limited personality being the only real identity. It doesn’t often deal with our transpersonal nature. Ecology tends to lean towards Mother Nature being the only real identity. We are the web of biological connections, seamlessly integrated into our environment. We are Mother Nature. Many meditation eastern traditions lean towards formless awareness being the only real identity. This is because formless awareness is the only unchanging part of our identity throughout our lives or moment to moment. Just because it’s permanent doesn’t mean it’s better than our ever changing personality or ever evolving Mother Nature. Is a stone better than a flower? Try making music with just one note and it’s pretty crap. Each moment is 3D, technicolour, surround sound etc. Do you want your identity and life to be a rich piece of music or a one note monotone? A chord is still one thing, one moment / our identity presented in its totality all at once. But a chord is also made of several notes. Once you’ve seen the notes on their own you better understand what makes the chord. Even though all these aspects of your identity are present simultaneously, each will naturally come to the forefront at different occasions when appropriate. When your 4 year old son proudly shows off his Lego model to you he wants you to reach out with your personality and warm him up with your appreciation and affection. He doesn’t want or need you to sink into formless awareness and present him with silence. When meditating it is entirely appropriate at different stages along the path to zero in on formless awareness rather than meditate over identified with your personality. If you a sitting on a mountain peak it’s appropriate to revel in the miracle of you shared embodied identity as and with Mother Nature. Enjoy your life in 3D folks.
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
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Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
The esoteric spiritual traditions excel at delivering a 1st person experience of divinity: the deity is not just out there (3rd and 2nd person perspective) but also in you and me….we are that in the 1st person. Modernity has keenly focused on the objective world, the 3rd person perspective, and helped us fall in love with amazing intelligence and beauty of Nature. But, that awe and devotion is directed outwards towards Nature. What if we do a 180 degree shift and recognise the 1st person experience “I am Nature”. Evolution is one of the biggest ideas in modernity. It’s not just about ‘the survival of the fittest’, but is also an exhilarating unfolding of greater complexity within ourselves, culture and nature. What is it like to feel this creative evolutionary urge as our own identity? Could this be a solution to the meaning crisis of modernity? Could this be a path of ‘spiritual’ practice for atheists?
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/
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Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Ben Calder is the founder and primary practitioner at the Centre for Integral Health in the town of Shrewsbury in England where he helps clients with Kinesiology, Bowen technique, Access bars, Nutrition advice, NLP, qigong, Allergy testing, meditation and Mcloughlin scar tissue release.
We talk about how to approach integrating the health of our body, heart, mind and spirit. Ben has been practicing Qigong for 30 years, is a long time meditator and has been a professional kinesiologist for 18 years. In this conversation we focus in particular on nutrition, epigenetics, the relationship between the practitioner and client, the importance of flow, how spiritual bypassing can ignore health, and how to stay sane and healthy during coronavirus lockdowns.
For more information about Ben’s work please visit https://bencalder.co.uk
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/
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Paul Witcomb about his journey. Topics covered are: his job as a psychiatric nurse in the NHS, his training with Dan Millman (author of the peaceful warrior), NLP, Hawaiian shamanism, Generative Change, and meditating throughout the day.
For more information on Paul’s work please visit the Generative Practice Group on Facebook
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/
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Jon Freeman about his journey. Topics covered are: Jose Silva and training in the Silva method which teaches people do develop their intuitive abilities with respect to health, integrating the insights of quantum physics into our worldview, and spiral dynamics training and teaching.
For more information on Jon’s work please visit the Facebook page Access to Possibility and www.spiralfutures.com
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/
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Lynn Evans about her journey. Topics covered are: Chi Kung, Transcendental Meditation, Waking Down in Mutuality with Saniel and Linda Bonder, how interpersonal relationships within a spiritual community can be a crucible for awakening, how deep tissue massage can access, open up and heal trauma held in our bodies, how giving language to feelings can lubricate their movement and health, the non-separation of our personal and transpersonal identities and the sacred and profane.
To contact Lynn you can email her on elvesnanny@hotmail.com
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/
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Gary Hawke about his journey. Topics covered are: bodybuilding, yoga, love as the essence of spirituality, long distance running, Integral theory (the good things about it and the limitations), Critical Realism and the work of Roy Bashkar, drama therapy for shadow work, Gary’s experiences in psychotherapy and then transitioning to becoming a therapist himself.
To find out more about Gary’s work please visit: www.garyhawke.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/
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Sanji about her journey. Topics covered are: life as a Sanyasin at the Rajneesh community in India, whether Gurus are relevant in our contemporary era, subtle energy massage with Michael Barnett, Bob Moore, PsychoSynthesis, Trillium Awakening, Spiral Dynamics, and what lies beyond waking up to the Ground of Being.
For more information on Sanji’s work please visit www.trilliumawakening.org where you can see her teacher bio
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/