It’s round 2 of this season finale of Purpose Highway, let us journey together into our dreams and bask in its meaning with our finale guest, Katherine Bell! Scott Mason welcomes Katherine in this 2-part season finale special to discuss what is a dream, its symbolism, and many more!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Katherine's views on alienation
• Dreams help to feel to belong
• The experiential part of the dream
• Dreams, anxiety, and terror
• Katherine's tips

QUOTES

Katherine: “We're not ever taught to trust ourselves. And the dreams kind of erodes away at that. And so that's why even the unpleasant dreams can be really, really helpful.”

Katherine: “If we deepen the dream and like going into the dream and trusting the dream, saying that there's something valuable here for me, and that bringing into my whole body, that that is the way I can take the part of the dream and deepen its work on me.”

Katherine: “A lot of people have a lot of fear. Running. I know I did running every day and not acknowledge it.”

Katherine: “Write your dreams down. Dreams are ephemeral, they disappear, you know, five minutes after you're awake, it's gone. So if you wake up in the morning, get yourself a journal and write it down. That act of writing the dream down is honoring the dream.”

Get in touch with Katherine with the link below:

• Email: krbell6@gmail.com
• Website: https://experientialdreamwork.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/experientialdreamwork

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In this season finale of Purpose Highway, let us journey together into our dreams and bask in its meaning with our finale guest, Katherine Bell! Scott Mason welcomes Katherine in this 2-part season finale special to discuss what is a dream, its symbolism, and many more!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Katherine symbolized by Persephone
• Dream Basking instead of Dream Interpretation
• What is a dream
• The spiritual component of dreams
• Guides in dreams
• The theory of the brain as a filter

QUOTES

Katherine: “Dreams are personal myths, and myths are cultural dreams. So there's a way if I get that right, you got to check me on that. But basically, the myth is like the dream of the culture. And so we use the myths to define our culture, the way we use our dreams, to define our personal experience of life.”

Katherine: “I don't even like the word interpretation, dream interpretation. Although people kind of use that word because they don't know What else to say, I think of it as dream basking.”

Katherine: “Everybody dreams, you say people say, Oh, I don't dream. It's like, no, no, no, you don't remember your dreams, that's very different. You actually, dreaming is something very vital to the structure of our brain.”

Katherine: “Self-awareness is a huge part of the path of spirituality as I see it, self-awareness and becoming aware of our, of what's important to us the meaning and the purpose of our lives, and that the dreams are very powerful in helping us reframe our stories about ourselves.”

Katherine: “Dreams are so beautiful because they're, they powerfully encapsulate these feelings in an image context, which we can really soak in.”

Katherine: “If we get to one track in any direction, then we won't, we won't, we will all have the same blind spot. And then we're all uniquely blind to that one thing.

Get in touch with Katherine with the link below:

• Email: krbell6@gmail.com
• Website: https://experientialdreamwork.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/experientialdreamwork

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Scott Mason and US Air Force Master Sergeant Joshua Stewart are revving up for another stellar episode of Purpose Highway. Also known as Stu, Josh works as a teacher of teachers, providing communications courses from the ground up, and helping others realize their impact on the world around them. Join Scott and Josh for round 2 here on Purpose Highway!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Developing a discipline of silence
• Going out of the dark to face the truth
• Shared meaning with yourself

QUOTES

Josh: “Get that creative stuff out of you, whether you think it's in you or not, and you'll start to see just some mental health upticks.”

Josh: “The purpose of communication is to get a shared meaning. So when it comes to what you're talking about, though communication is to get a shared meaning, inter interpersonal communication, shared meaning with others, but what about a shared meaning with yourself? Do you talk to yourself?”

Josh: “Shared meaning with yourself is your life journey, and it's something that when it stops, then maybe you've lost what your purpose is, or maybe your purpose has changed.”

Josh: “If you live in the cave, and all you know, are the shadows, then you don't, you don't really know reality.”

Get in touch with Joshua with the link below:

• Email: joshuastewart35@gmail.com

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Scott Mason is revving up the Purpose Highway to the skyway as he welcomes Joshua Stewart from the United States Air Force. Also known as Stu, Josh works as a teacher of teachers, providing communications courses from the ground up, and helping others realize their impact on the world around them. Join Scott and Josh here on Purpose Highway!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Selene, the Greek moon goddess
• Masculinity, then and now
• Finding meaning in life
• Impact of communication on culture

QUOTES

Josh: “When it comes to masculine and feminine, and I've said this to folks before any kind of generalization or stereotype is just an average. If you know anything about math, the average doesn't get you anywhere near the top or the bottom.”

Josh: “I think we need to start writing our individual stories because when we start putting so much into the social media section of it, we start to lose the basic thing that we're after, the purpose.”

Josh: “I think that if you aren't true to yourself, whether you succeed or not, you're going to end up in that bad mental state. Because at the end of the day, that's what it's really all about is what is your purpose.”

Josh: “You can find meaning in the little things in life, and these stories from these ancient times. These are the things people were coming up with before social media. It's how they were crafting their purpose.”

Josh: “I think that we have to look at facts differently. I think the objective reality isn't something that we can craft with words, obviously. But it is something that is up for interpretation.”

Get in touch with Joshua with the link below:

• Email: joshuastewart35@gmail.com

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This week is another exciting trip down The Purpose Highway as the one and only Climate Optimist, Anne Therese Gennari, joins Scott Mason in the front seat. Anne is the co-founder and Head of Marketing of Rolemodels, an agency that puts ethics, sustainability, environmental, and social justice at the core of its business. She also founded The Climate Optimist and is the host of her very own show, Hey Change.

Scott and Anne Therese will be dealing with topics about climate change, hope, and what journey it takes to be truly optimistic.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Anne Therese Gennari as Freya
• Arising as The Climate Optimist
• Hope and Optimism, interlinked
• Optimism starts with you

QUOTES

Anne: “I don't cry gold, but I will say that I have learned to understand that tears are gold in so many ways, and and allowing ourselves to cry can be one of the most empowering empowering things that we do”

Anne: “We are the system, and the fastest way to change the system is by empowering ourselves and becoming that change.”

Anne: “It's not about being the awesome person who saved the polar bears. It's actually taking it back home like, do you want to be breathing polluted air?”

Anne: “If we don't have hope, what do we have? And I think the same applies to optimism, where you can't just choose optimism.”

Anne: “We need to stop acting from fear and start embracing curiosity, excitement, joy and optimism. We are here to do something fantastic.”

Anne: “Awareness hurts, and that's okay.”

To find out more about Anne Therese, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anne-therese-gennari
• Websites: theclimateoptimist.com
• Twitter: annetherese_g

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Toxic myths of gender roles
• Dislodging toxic myths and embracing self change
• Breaking barriers and dismantling one’s self to have true change
• Pre-Bible existence of transgender people

QUOTES

Scott: “People sometimes have a lot of anxiety about dislodging toxic myths that are far less deeply rooted to their identity in the world.”

Sophie: “It's weird to talk about identity because it was me, but it wasn't me, if that makes sense. Whereas now I look at myself in the mirror and I'm like, ‘ ‘oh my God, I can't believe that's me.’ ’, but not in a disbelief sort of way, but more a holy sh**, I actually did it sort of way.”

Scott: “One of the biggest challenges that I believe anyone who truly dislodges these toxic myths is letting go, or at least learning to mentally adjust to who and what they were.”

Sophie: “You go through these times of intense change in your life, and there's often a ‘ ‘fake it until you make it’ ’ sort of phase, and so I was trying to pull together different elements I had fundamentally dismantled myself.”

Sophie: “Change is not a clean, easy process. You might turn into a puddle of goo for a while, but eventually you'll come out the other side.”

To find out more about Sophie, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sbedwards
• Websites: cloudsurfingmedia.com

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Sophie as Cybele, mother of gods
• Unpleasant Reality vs. Pleasurable Life of Lies
• The sad reality about nostalgia
• The importance of change

QUOTES

Scott: “In order to get to freedom, you have to be open to change if you are at all trapped.”

Sophie: “They're seeing that change is coming. They don't want change to come, and they would rather devour the next generation and destroy what is coming, then embrace that change.”

Sophie: “There has always been conflict and strife. Whether it's a class based issue, or race based, or sexuality, or gender, or whatever it is, there's always been this conflict. But when we look at it through the lens of nostalgia, we don't see what is real. We see what we want to see.”

Scott: “Nostalgia is itself a toxic myth that we tell ourselves, because like I said, it never is the whole story. It isn't something that exists now. And nostalgia can be easy and fun to feel. But it is something that separates us from the truth.”

Sophie: “Judging somebody by the quality of their actual character, as opposed to just what they're telling you they're about is important.”

Sophie: “The past can't hurt us, because it's already happened. The future can hurt us, because it hasn't happened yet, and so some people just think, let's just keep doing what we've always been doing, because it's working. Even though the longer we do that, the more we realize it's not working.”

To find out more about Sophie, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sbedwards
• Websites: cloudsurfingmedia.com

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Stephen as Prometheus, bringer of early technology to humans
• Foresight of kids and the future
• Importance of teaching kids the use of technology
• Stephen’s background and the birth of MakerState
• STEAM: STEM with an Art element

QUOTES

Stephen: “STEM or STEAM is not only to teach kids how to use technology, but to use it so that it creates a future for all that is more sustainable, and more inclusive.”

Stephen: “I'm not going to be one, who's going to be the warning of the social media issues and things like that. I'm going to be the guy who says, ``We have to teach these kids how to take a hold of this technology and do with it the things that they deserve, as humans and this planet requires.”

Stephen: “Kids are going to build this world, but they have to understand the technology and the media that they're working with and learn to create with it.”

Stephen: “I would much rather be working with 6, 7, 8, 9 year olds than have to try to, you know, help some 30 year old figure this out in church or a young person entering the workforce try to figure this out for the first time. I think K12 is where we need to take a serious look at, at how to challenge our kids with the questions that they're going to have for the rest of their lives.”

Stephen: “Whatever mistakes our generation is making, we can turn that by working with our youngest members of our society to make better choices that include more justice, more sustainability, that's what probably gives me the most hope.”

To find out more about Stephen, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-gilman-25a2235/
• Websites: https://maker-state.com/about-us/

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