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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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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 Nick Osborne about his journey. Topics covered are: his work helping the effectiveness of groups dedicated to social and environmental change, his tour of 30 eco-villages and intentional communities in Europe and North America, permaculture, the Transition Town movement, Extinction Rebellion, the Occupy movement, Deep Adaptation, Craig Hamilton and Evolutionary Enlightenment, how to prevent our egos from hijacking group work, psychotherapy, and meditation.
For more information on Nick’s work please visit www.evolvingorganisation.co
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
Here are some instructions for a few meditation postures that I have used at different times in my life. At the end I also list a few useful bits of equipment to aid your meditation practice. Getting the correct posture is a crucial first step when engaging in a meditation practice.
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 Barbara Hunt about her journey. Topics covered are: Sufi retreats, Buddhist silent meditation retreats, sacred music, Evolutionary Spirituality with Craig Hamilton, nutrition and her work with Vital Detox based in Glastonbury UK, 5 rhythms dance, the More to Life program, a Course in Miracles, evolutionary buddies, and Thomas Hubl.
For more information on Barbara’s work visit www.forgivenessmadeeasy.co.uk or www.evolutionarycoaching.co.uk or www.barbarajhunt.com or www.vitaldetox.com or www.leadingbeyondego.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 Stuart Verity about his journey. Topics covered are: Theosophy, Vipassana meditation retreats, his 3 visits to the Kumbh Mela religious festival in India, psilocybin mushrooms, drinking Ayahuasca with the Santo Daime Church, Tai Chi and Chi Kung, his post graduate degree in Integral theory at JFK university, and studying Dzogchen with Daniel P Brown.
For more information on Stuart’s work please visit www.integral-taichi.com or email him stuart@sverity1.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
Meditation is a very effective relaxation technique, and for many people this is the goal of their practice, and a worthy one. It can also be a technique for realising something more radical: waking up from the dream of exclusive identification with your personality (often called ‘the self’ or ‘ego’ in meditation literature). This sounds quite odd, disorientating and even scary. I am going to demonstrate that this is actually everyone’s experience all the time whether they know it or not, and is the most natural and easy way to be. We will discover that we actually have a greater capacity than we usually assume. What I am about to describe is not a philosophy. It’s a direct, living experience that is there for you to find for yourself. You don’t have to obliterate your personality through austere and cruel practices, it’s more a case of looking carefully and honestly at what is actually happening in your moment to moment experience. Once, you have woken up to what lies within, beyond and behind your personality, you have more freedom to be creative, and be more open to what other people and life have to offer.
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 Tessa Martin about her journey. Topics covered are: Iyengar yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Mondo Zen with Jun po Roshi, the value of spiritual friends and community on the journey, how yoga benefits meditation, and the benefit and a power of silence.
For more information on Tessa’s work please google Tessa Martin Yoga Newbury 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 Layman Pascal about his journey. Topics covered are: the art of practice, yoga, Zen Koan practice, relationships helping you grow emotionally, how practice can help us navigate the chaos that is potentially coming more and more in the future, practices that use our sensory experience as a conduit for enriching our lives, how to train our minds by reading material we don’t yet understand, making visual diagrams in order to help us coordinate out thoughts.
To find out more about Layman’s work you can reach him on the Integral Global facebook page and also you can watch his video series called the Integral Stage on Youtube.
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
I would like to offer my story as a lesson in both the blessings and the perils of psychedelics use, may it benefit those others walk this path. I feel like I can now come out of the closet as someone who has been an enthusiast and keen practitioner with these substances for many years. I believe opinion is shifting on this topic because many very successful mainstream public figures, for example Steve Jobs, Sam Harris and Joe Rogen have spoken of the contribution these substances have made to their lives and as a result people are less quick to write off everything else you say or do if you mention that you are partial to a few magic mushrooms every now and then. The public are realising that these are not merely play things for recreational use at music festivals, giving users a bizarre but fundamentally useless experience, but are also powerful catalysts for genuine transformation.
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
Ralph Cree interviews Barbara J Hunt about her book and process 'Forgiveness Made Easy'. Barbara shares her wealth of experience guiding clients through her 90 minute forgiveness process which draws upon visualisation, sentence completion and a large tool box of psychotherapeutic techniques. Forgiveness is a simple idea but like every powerful practice is difficult to do. In this interview we explore the nature and impact of forgiveness as individuals and collectively and the A-Z of how to do it.
For more information on Barbara's book 'Forgiveness Made Easy' please visit www.forgivenessmadeeasy.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 Donald Clarke about his journey. Topics covered are: Mixed Martial Arts, The Wim Hoff method, ice baths, psychotherapy, psychedelics (in particular 5meo DMT), Vipassana, and Integral Theory.
For more information on Donald’s work please visit www.floateffect.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/