Ron Rivers is an entrepreneur, non-profit founder, author, and lecturer. Ron’s focus is on binding systems and spirit in alignment with the single truth and relational universe. His efforts coalesce at the intersection of Spirituality, Web3, AI, Political Economy, Philanthropy, and Systemic Reformation. He is the author of Self-Actualization in the Age of Crisis and the founder of SpiritDAO, a non-profit spiritual community embracing the single truth and relational universe.

In our conversation we discussed self-actualization, spiritual renaissance, the Roman Catholic church, LDS, Mormonism, narratives, meaning, spiritual agnosticism, startups, non-profits, social impact, spirituality, transcendence, morality, materiality, inherited systems, doubt, desire, death, agency, mapping the terrain, returning to nature, the self, meta-crisis, existential threat, sense making, sustenance cycles, classes, castes, beliefs that shape reality, dogma, change as the nature of reality, observable infinites, the universe, imagination, SpiritDAO, cosmology, meta-modernism, spiritual alternatives, the relational universe, the observer, and the informational universe.

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Guest Name: Ron Rivers

Website: https://www.ronrivers.com/

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X: https://twitter.com/riversmind

Youtube: https://youtube.com/@spiritdao

Medium: https://medium.com/@ronrivers/

GitHub: https://github.com/ronrivs

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ronrivers

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Mollie Adler is a podcaster, writer and seeker, exploring emotional alchemy and the shadow side of the human psyche. She is the host of the Back From the Borderline podcast and the Night Night Bitches podcast. You can also find her writings at the Back From the Borderline substack. I’m a big fan of Mollie’s work, as well as her willingness to be open, objective, and ruthlessly raw, and I couldn’t have been more excited to speak with her.

In our conversation we discussed the Back from the Borderline podcast, borderline personality disorder, screaming to be heard, the music industry, podcasts, stories, search, overt, labels, projecting, critical thinking, virtue signaling, activism, nuance, Carl Jung, depth psychology, underworld, Lisa Miller, Depression, Joseph Campbell, allegory, the biomedical model of health, DSM5, ADHD, chemical imbalance, myth, epigenetics, neuroscience, business, collective unconscious, collective conscious, symptoms as saviors, weed pens, myth and meaning, initiation, the Red Book, Gods, archetypes, opposites, monomyths, splitting, emptiness, favorite persons, and limerence.

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Guest Name: Mollie Adler

Website: https://linktr.ee/backfromtheborderline

Substack: https://backfromtheborderline.substack.com/

Pateron: https://www.patreon.com/backfromtheborderline

Instagram: https://instagram.com/backfromtheborderline

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Dr. Adele Lafrance is a clinical psychologist, research scientist, author, and the co-developer of emotion-focused treatment modalities, including Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, and she’s also a psychedelics researcher, with a focus on ayahuasca, MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine. She is the co-author of What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers, which aims to help parents reconnect with their instincts and have more empathetic and effective relationships with their children.

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Guest Name: Adele Lafrance

Website: https://dradelelafrance.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-adele-lafrance-9a498784/

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