Exploring Consciousness and Sustainable Eating

This chapter delves into the critical roles of first, second, and third-person viewpoints in understanding consciousness, emphasizing how early life experiences shape our realities. It also advocates for sustainable eating habits, tying the importance of food quality to overall human development and consciousness.

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Our world is way long overdue for a sacred revolution!

Teacher, Druid and psychologist John Churchill joins Paul on a deep exploration of human development and explains why a sacred revolution must take place to reclaim and transform our planet this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about John’s work and upcoming courses at his Planetary Dharma website. Find him on social media via Instagram.

For Spirit Gym listeners: Save 20 percent on John’s Introduction to Planetary Dharma: A Fourth Turning Path course July 18-20 to help you explore the awakening of the Bodhisattva within you!

Timestamps

6:17 “The kind of growth that I’m interested in is measured over years and decades, not in peak experiences [like plant medicines].”

9:07 Bodhisattva: John’s spiritual philosophy.

18:57 A good death.

24:32 Consciousness evolves but awareness doesn’t.

35:40 “Ninety percent of people should go to the monastery because they don't have a clue what they're doing.”

41:33 Our evolutionary journey.

47:49 “The most interesting game in town is the individual.”

1:01:03 Intuition or direct non-conceptual valid cognition?

1:11:05 “You can get a good sense of a person’s level of development based on what techniques they're attracted to.”

1:21:14 God consciousness or human consciousness.

1:37:31 Do you view levels of development as expressions of compassion?