We often talk about having a spiritual awakening, but what is it really?

More than a decade ago, at a silent retreat, Lisa Carillo stopped having the thoughts of a separate identity and saw that we are already and always the One Infinite Benevolence. When the thoughts came back a few weeks later, they weren't as convincing.

She developed tools for unraveling these thoughts and the conditioning of fear, using our daily lives as the perfect Divine workshop.

This was a fun podcast, marking my own journey of transformation. We recorded it just before I embarked on a life-changing trip of my own, and had fear and anxiety come up — I was supposed to leave early next morning. Softening through the ego's fear of change, we allowed more of the Infinite to come through. We also talk about Lisa's books: "An Unprincipled Life: Living From the Unknown" and "Living Awake: 20 Techniques to End 'I Got It; I Lost It.'" Her website is www.experiencingthetrueself.com

Have you been stuck for a while, longing for harmony in life, wondering why you just can't heal? Could it be that the issue is not you, and not even the healing methods that you use? Could it be that what is missing is the bigger picture?

We can't do it alone. We were never meant to. Nor were we meant to grow in a linear progression of unchecked expansion that destroys everything in its way.

Western history has shown that such expansion, is, perhaps, a little bit too destructive in the long term... If you think of it this way, it makes sense this is not a very good model for healing, either.

So what is the missing piece? In this conversation with Hollie Wildëthorn, we talk about just that. We discuss the power and gifts of the land, the ancestral spiral ways versus the linear ways, and so much more!

Hollie Wildëthorn, founder of the Institute for Self Crafting, is a psychotherapist, clinical counsellor and coach working in the intersections of trauma healing, neurodiversity, ecology and feminism. She has a background in natural and ancestral health, witchcraft and magick, altered states and sacred space, martial arts and natural movement, Women's Mysteries and conscious Wild Living.

For hundreds of years, the Western civilization has been divorced from its feminine oracular dimension, the symbolic mind. In this episode with author and researcher Betty Kovacs, we talk about altered states, the marriage of mysticism and science, and the current hunger for spiritual experience as the fifth Renaissance of the symbolic mind.

Watch Merchants of Light documentary by Anthony Chene: https://youtu.be/ALFrYW5mgZw?si=zb1ezE0VE6y1Q4fd

Books

Merchants of Light: https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Light-Consciousness-Changing-World/dp/0972100555

The Miracle of Death: https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Death-There-Nothing-Life/dp/0972100504