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Ep. 19 | Connie Zweig, Ph.D., Elder, award-winning author, and Shadow expert, has provided us with a rare gift in her recent book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul. Upon discovering there was a surprising lack of any information, resources, or even language with which to contextualize the inner work of aging and the crucial rite of passage to elderhood, Connie has given us just that. In this conversation, we come face to face with our own inner ageist shadow character and we learn that if we do the inner work, we can make the all-important shift from doing to being, let go of our roles, begin to identify with our spiritual nature, and open the door of our awareness to further developmental stages. Rather than becoming seniors in decline, Connie illuminates who we can become as elders. “The world needs elders now: for their compassion, their gratitude, their generosity, their skills, their shadow awareness, and their spiritual development. The world is starved for this nourishment.” Recorded on October 6, 2021.“There is a whisper, a restless longing, inside of people for something more.”Topics & Time StampsThe surprising lack of information, language, and context for inner soul work for those of us living beyond midlife (03:44)Connie realizing her own “ageist” bias, and how ageism is internalized from our culture (08:08)The first inner obstacle to overcome on our way to elderhood is the Inner Ageist shadow character (10:06) Internalized ageism affects our health, cognitive and physical, quality of life, and longevity and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (10:44)Challenges that elders face specific to our time (12:15)Aging from the inside out, from “role to soul,” doing contemplative practice and inner work, turning in, is available to all regardless of circumstance (15:32)What practices and spiritual experiences have led Connie on the wisdom path? (19:49)Connie’s primary practice now: gratitude (23:07)What can we become, as elders? (24:39)Aging is a crucial rite of passage; it becomes a developmental process if we’re open to doing the inner work (28:38)A door opens for us to ask again, Who am I? Who am I now? (31:26)From role to soul: what is the soul? And letting go of our roles (33:07)Differences in the ways masculine and feminine types tend to struggle with letting go of roles (35:58)Holy longing: the calling to be something more and the suffering that is caused when we don’t fulfill our higher needs (38:12)Gerotranscendence: a spontaneous movement towards a transcendent perspective as people age (43:31)The shadow defined and the shadow of spirituality (45:32)How can we improve our capacity to work with the shadow? (49:14)The world needs elders now (51:12)Resources & ReferencesRoger Walsh & Frances Vaughan, Paths Beyond Ego*Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams, Meeting the Shadow*Connie Zweig & Steve Wolf, Romancing the Shadow*Connie Zweig, Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality*Connie Zweig, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul*Father Thomas KeatingBecca Levy, PhD studied ageism at Yale and how it affects our health, quality of life, and longevityMargaret Mead, Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap*Turning Inward with Ram Dass (shifting from roles to souls)Depth PsychologyVedanta, one of the 6 schools of Hindu philosophyAbraham Maslow, A Theory of Human Motivation*“The Holy Longing,” a poem by Goethe (this version translated by Robert Bly)Marion Woodman, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine*Lars Tornstam, Gerotranscendence: A Developmental Theory of Positive Aging*Ken Wilber, The Religion of Tomorrow*The “shadow,” a term coined by Carl Jung to represent the personal unconscious---Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow, author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her new book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul (Sept. 2021), extends shadow-work into late life and teaches aging as a spiritual practice. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for 50 years. She is a wife and grandmother and was initiated as an Elder by Sage-ing International in 2017. After investing in all these roles, she is practicing the shift from role to soul.---Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos and Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 18 (Part 2 of 2) | Jonathan Rowson, brilliant, driven, articulate, shines a bright light of understanding on the metacrisis we face today, what feeds it, and what could help us find our way through. What is metamodernity and what does it have to offer? Is the ecological crisis fundamentally an educational crisis? Can we grow into our problem rather than thinking of ourselves as “failing beings” as the climate collapses around us? From the metaperspective to the deeply personal, Rowson shares his wisdom, including life lessons he gleaned from being a chess Grandmaster, before becoming a philosopher, research fellow, nonprofit director, and author. Recorded on November 17, 2021.“Let’s be careful what we’re talking about because we’re creating a world…”Topics & Time Stamps - Part 2What is metamodernity and what does it have to offer us? (01:04)The “cultural between”: serious about the meaning of life (04:48)The political “after”: an antidote to hyper modernity, returning to basic human sensibilities and a time-rich relationship with life (06:22)The mystic beyond: a return to metaphysics (08:28)What does “a time between worlds” mean? (09:32)We’ve got to perceive the context clearly in order to orient ourselves: our interiors, our capacity for growth, bio precarity, technology innovation, and more (12:50)On the nuances of confusion (14:27) Can we grow into our climate collapse problem rather than thinking of ourselves as “failing beings”? (17:07)The importance of Bildung = transformative, civic, and aesthetic education (18:17)Is the ecological crisis fundamentally an educational crisis? (20:18)What chess taught Jonathan about life: jewels of wisdom from The Moves That Matter (23:42)Concentration = freedom (25:31)Making peace with our struggles: we’re always going to be a work in progress (30:38)Successful underachievement and living with regret (35:42)Living in an algorithm-driven culture (40:52)Longing for a clearer sense of relationship with the divine, the cosmopoetics of life (43:59)Our unbidden tears are the best of us (46:03)Resources & References - Part 2Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics (Vol 1)*Hanzi Freinacht, Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics (Vol 2)*Jonathan Rowson, Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic BeyondDavid Foster Wallace, David Foster Wallace-BooksCobra Khai, martial arts comedy-dramaStranger Things, movieJohn Vervaeke, award-winning lecturer on subjects like Awakening from the Meaning CrisisJürgen Habermas, German philosopherJonathan Rowson, essay, Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic BeyondConfucius’ Rectification of NamesThomas Metzinger, German philosopherBildung, linking philosophy and education for both personal and cultural maturationJonathan Rowson, “Bildung in the 21st Century: Why Sustainable Prosperity Depends on Reimagining Education”Zachary Stein, Education in a Time Between Worlds: Essays on the Future of Schools, Technology, and Society*Jonathan Rowson, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life*Jonathan Rowson, Aeon magazine article Concentrate!The Bhagavad GitaJonathan Rowson, Spiritualise: Revitalising Spirituality to Address 21st Century ChallengesJonathan Rowson, anthology Metamodernity: Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and Emergence in Metamodernity*Perspectiva, systems-soul-society.com, interdisciplinary nonprofit organization developing responses to our epistemic metacrisis; Jonathan is co-founder and director.Jonathanrowson.me* As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.---Jonathan Rowson, Ph.D. is co-founder and director of Perspectiva, an organization committed to understanding the relationship between systems, souls, and society in theory and practice, with a view to help overcome collective immunity to transformation in a time between worlds. He is also an open society fellow and a research fellow at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey. He  was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA, where he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change, and spirituality, and curated and chaired a range of related events. By background, Jonathan is an applied philosopher with degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and Bristol Universities. In a former life he was a chess Grandmaster and British Champion and views the game as a continuing source of insight and inspiration. His book, The Moves that Matter: A Grandmaster on the Game of Life, was published in 2019.---Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos and Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 17 (Part 1 of 2) | Jonathan Rowson, brilliant, driven, articulate, shines a bright light of understanding on the metacrisis we face today, what feeds it, and what could help us find our way through. What is metamodernity and what does it have to offer? Is the ecological crisis fundamentally an educational crisis? Can we grow into our problem rather than thinking of ourselves as “failing beings” as the climate collapses around us? From the metaperspective to the deeply personal, Rowson shares his wisdom, including life lessons he gleaned from being a chess Grandmaster, before becoming a philosopher, research fellow, nonprofit director, and author. Recorded on November 17, 2021.“Let’s be careful what we’re talking about because we’re creating a world…”Topics & Time Stamps – Part 1What are Jonathan’s daily practices (while also being very much “in the world” these days)? (05:37)Being a cartological hedonist: intellectual mapmaking (10:27)What does Christianity have to offer that we should be paying attention to? (11:58)Becoming “construct aware” in the political spectrum and elsewhere: cultural progress depends on it (14:29)The UK Brexit quagmire: what are we talking about when we say democracy? (18:32)Why developmental psychology may not be the best lens to look at our culture and politics (20:15)What is the most strategic contribution you can make? (29:45)Progressive imperialism: assuming everyone is or could be on the same page—but conflict and opposition will always be a feature of the world (32:04)Who is included in the word “we,” getting people to face up to the fallen nature of the world, and the Manichaean worldview (34:51)The contemplative perspective and our fundamental state of delusion (36:30)Underlying delusion in the progressive community that there is a fundamental “right” way or that we will come to a common agreement on issues like climate (38:28)The imperative to mobilize to face the epistemic crisis as well as the environmental crisis (40:23)How do we work together in a context where we may disagree and dislike each other: making friends with conflict (42:05)The metacrisis, confusion, and the bottomless mystery: a time between worlds (45:08)Carlos Castenada’s 4 traps for the person of knowledge: fear, power, clarity, old age (47:57)Confusion is not necessarily a bad thing (48:35)Resources & References – Part 1Jonathan Rowson, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life*Perspectiva, systems-soul-society.com, interdisciplinary nonprofit organization based in London, developing responses to our epistemic metacrisis; Jonathan is co-founder and directorJonathan Rowson, essay Tasting the Pickle: Ten Flavours of Meta-Crisis and the Appetite for a New CivilisationJonathan Rowson, Spiritualise: Revitalising Spirituality to Address 21st Century ChallengesJonathan Rowson, anthology Metamodernity: Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and Emergence in Metamodernity*Jonathan Rowson, essay, Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic BeyondVedantic philosophyConfucius’ Rectification of NamesRobert Kegan, The Evolving Self (first chapter “The Unrecognized Genius of Jean Piaget”)*Alistair McIntosh, Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition*Aldous Huxley, Island*The Manichaean worldviewDaniel Schmachtenberger, founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan** As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.---Jonathan Rowson, Ph.D. is co-founder and director of Perspectiva, an organization committed to understanding the relationship between systems, souls, and society in theory and practice, with a view to help overcome collective immunity to transformation in a time between worlds. He is also an open society fellow and a research fellow at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey. He  was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA, where he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change, and spirituality, and curated and chaired a range of related events. By background, Jonathan is an applied philosopher with degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and Bristol Universities. In a former life he was a chess Grandmaster and British Champion and views the game as a continuing source of insight and inspiration. His book, The Moves that Matter: A Grandmaster on the Game of Life, was published in 2019.---Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos and Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 16 | Kateryna Yasko and Vytautas Bučiūnas crossed the border into Lithuania three days before this conversation took place, after a five-day exodus from Kyiv, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. This conversation is a call for action and support of the incredibly brave Ukrainian people, and illuminates their willingness to fight to the death to throw out the invaders who are there to crush their freedom and make Ukraine a colony of Putin’s Russia. This is an informative, inspirational, and heartbreaking dialogue with two exceptionally insightful Integral leaders from the Ukraine—about propaganda and myth-making in our post-truth world, about integrating power, force, and love, about a new worldwide unity, and how the Integral perspective might pave the way towards world peace. Recorded March 5, 2022.“One nation has opened the hearts of the whole world. What kind of conversations should we have now to foster this care and compassion, and move it in a constructive direction?”Topics & Time StampsWitnessing the beginning of this phase of Putin’s aggression: the Revolution of Dignity and the Annexation of Crimea in 2013 and 2014 (04:29)The Russian propaganda machine: painting Ukraine as a fascist country of Nazis (06:32)Putin’s masterful creation of a myth in this post-truth world (10:05)This is a fight for truth (17:40)Is there anything good about Putin? (23:51)Kateryna & Vytautas’ experience: the beginning of the invasion and the exodus to Lithuania (26:31)Sirens and bomb shelters are becoming routine; fear has turned to anger (39:55)Europe is united, NATO is united, Ukraine is united (42:15)How this invasion has reinforced Second Tier consciousness in the West (44:49)How long can Ukraine hold out? Are the sanctions enough? What about a Russian oil embargo? (46:58)What can Western countries do, what are they not doing, and why sanctions are so useful (50:58)Russian oligarchs and Putin in his bunker (54:50)Do we need to allow Putin to save face or just fight to the bitter end? (58:21)Denazification, demilitarization…dePutinification and other parallels (01:01:41)Putin’s narrative and the Russian Orthodox Church (01:03:01)Europa = Gayropa, Putin has assumed the role of protector of traditional values (1:06:18)How can we use the Integral metaperspective to heal what’s happening? (1:10:43)Why what Ukraine is doing is so inspiring: fighting out of love, not fear (01:12:05)Ukraine and others’ “showing up” is very Second Tier (01:13:06)One nation has opened the hearts of the whole world. How shall we integrate this and foster the care and compassion to steer it in a constructive direction? (01:14:18)Integrating power and love: facing our need to engage power with force (01:15:30)A new focus on World Peace from a Second Tier perspective (01:19:21)Glory to Ukraine, glory to heroes (01:22:15)Resources & ReferencesVytautas Bučiūnas' website: Upgrade of Leader’s Operating SystemThe Revolution of DignityThe Annexation of CrimeaBrave New World of Putin, propaganda article waiting to be published after the occupation of UkrainePhilosopher Alexander Filonenko, Ph.D., “We Need Holiness”Spiral Dynamics’ Second Tier of consciousnessThe Russian Orthodox ChurchRussian Ministry of Culture websiteAdam Kahane, Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change*Martin Luther King, Jr.’s quote, “Power without love…”World Peace with the Integral Approach, Integral European Conference 2022Gravitas Plus, "Why Putin wants Ukraine,'' an overview of the Russian-Ukrainian crisisHow can I help? List of resources curated by RazomForUkraine.org#StandWithUkrainePodcast produced by Vanessa SantosShow Notes by Heidi Mitchell---Kateryna Yasko (Ukraine) is an organizational psychologist, a trainer for the development of emotional intelligence, trust, cooperation, effective communication, and peaceful conflict resolution, and co-founder of the consulting company U-Integral. Her academic background is in the area of international relations and law (MSc), business (MBA), and psychology (MSc). She bases her programs on the principles of Ken Wilber’s Integral approach and Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication, and is certified in Spiral Dynamics Integral and in Susanne Cook-Greuter’s Maturity Assessment Profile. Kateryna is also head of the public association "International Institute for Integral Development" and a founder of the educational initiative EMPATIA.PRO, specializing in bringing  holistic approaches into educational leadership and learning cultures. Vytautas Bučiūnas (Lithuania–Ukraine) is a co-founder and managing partner of U-Integral, an integral leadership development company. Vytautas also has vast experience as a top manager in the banking sector including working as the Head of Resident Office, Senior Banker, Associate Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Russia, Ukraine). Vytautas' professional profile includes building organizational units from scratch, carrying out large-scale transformations, and managing crises. Vytautas is a certified Integral Master Coach™ (Integral Coaching Canada), an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)™, and the only business consultant in Ukraine certified in Leadership Maturity Framework – Maturity Assessment for Professionals (LMF-MAP) and Global Leadership Profile (GLP). Vytautas explores the development of human consciousness and complex social systemsfrom a holistic perspective. He considers the growth of a critical mass of mature leaders with systemic thinking and transformational capabilities to be the key to society's healthy development. 

Ep. 15 (Part 2 of 2) | Zen teacher Diane Musho Hamilton brings us home to the simple essence of Zen: to practice as one, without reference to past or future. This heartfelt conversation covers many topics: waking up to our true nature, grief and practices that help us work through it, the tension of “difference,” healing the rift between female and male, the role of ayahuasca and peyote, the ever more subtle process of purification, and a beautiful recitation of 14th century Sufi poet Hafiz’s poem, “I Have Learned So Much.” Allow yourself to be reminded how simple things can get if you let them and how, as Diane says, “We’re all just growing up together.” Recorded on September 13, 2021.Diane Musho Hamilton is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 30 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition. As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system and won several prestigious awards for her work in this area. She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills. Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her latest book is Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.“What does it mean to be human?”Topics & Time Stamps – Part 2Grief: being present with it and practicing with it (01:01)How shamanic practice can let us see pure radiance in others (07:46)The power of ritual in times of grief (08:48)Grief and integral practice (12:20)What is the role of a specifically female contemplative teacher? (19:03)Confronting the feminine shadow (22:59)The neverending, ever more subtle practice of purification (aka Ken Wilber’s “cleaning up”) (25:32)What do women want from men? (30:11)And what do men want from women? (34:40)Peyote, forgiveness, and healing the rift (38:04)Resources & References – Part 2Roger Walsh, The World of Shamanism*Hafiz, The Gift, translated by Daniel Landinsky*Dan Brown, meditation master and teacher Dogen Zenji, One Continuous Mistake (Shoshaku Jushaku) in DōgenRam Dass quotesDon QuixoteW.E.B. Du Bois, sociologist, author, activistCarlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan*Diane Hamilton, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart*Diane Hamilton, Everything is Workable*Diane Hamilton, The Zen of You and Me*Two Arrows Zen, Salt Lake City Artspace ZendoTwo Arrows Zen, Torrey, Utah* As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.Podcast produced by Vanessa SantosShow Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 14 (Part 1 of 2) | Zen teacher Diane Musho Hamilton brings us home to the simple essence of Zen: to practice as one, without reference to past or future. This heartfelt conversation covers many topics: waking up to our true nature, grief and practices that help us work through it, the tension of “difference,” healing the rift between female and male, the role of ayahuasca and peyote, the ever more subtle process of purification, and a beautiful recitation of 14th century Sufi poet Hafiz’s poem, “I Have Learned So Much.” Allow yourself to be reminded how simple things can get if you let them and how, as Diane says, “We’re all just growing up together.” Recorded on September 13, 2021.Diane Musho Hamilton is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 30 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition. As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system and won several prestigious awards for her work in this area. She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills. Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her latest book is Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.“What does it mean to be human?”Topics & Time Stamps - Part 1Diane’s opening at seventeen to “what does it mean to be human?” (02:43)Buddhadharma, Integral, and Big Mind (05:10)The urgent need for us to wake up to our fundamental unity (10:37)How Ken Wilber’s developmental stages and states fit in (15:20)The heart of Zen Buddhism: an utterly coherent reality, free of separation (19:37)Differences between Diane’s teachings & practice and traditional Zen: creating space for ego development (20:51) Zen’s contribution to conflict resolution: radical first person, sitting together as one (24:11)Looking at climate change in an Integral way, from 1st-person, 2nd-person, and 3rd-person perspectives (26:21)Zen teaches peace is in the present without reference to past or future (29:33)The difference between meditation and flow states, and manifesting from the place of Big Mind (33:57)Resources & References - Part 1Diane Hamilton, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart*Gabriel Wilson, Kimberly LohDiane Hamilton, Everything is Workable*Diane Hamilton, The Zen of You and Me*Two Arrows Zen, Salt Lake City Artspace ZendoTwo Arrows Zen, Torrey, UtahChögyam TrungpaGail Hochachka, “Finding Shared Meaning in the Anthropocene: Engaging Diverse Perspectives on Climate Change”Dennis Genpo Merzel, Big Mind Big Heart** As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.Podcast produced by Vanessa SantosShow Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 13 (Part 2 of 2) | Dan Millman has shown us how to live with both a peaceful heart and a warrior’s spirit for forty years. His new book Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit shares his reflections on the extraordinary experiences that shaped his evolution from youthful dreamer to spiritual teacher. Dan’s first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, was a bestseller and adapted into a feature film. Dan is a former world trampoline champion, Stanford University gymnastics coach, martial arts instructor, and Oberlin college professor. His 18 books are published in 29 languages. Dan has traveled widely, teaching in over thirty countries. To learn more about his books, events, online courses, and free life-purpose calculator, visit www.PeacefulWarrior.com.Dan Millman, a man who has devoted his life to mastery—in sports and in the arena of life itself—and author of the book that opened doors for so many, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, published in the 80s, talks about inspiration, talent, discipline, mastery, ordinary life, and his own path, practices, teachers, and new book, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest. Humorous and humble, Dan embodies the peaceful warrior way, centering his life around service, sharing his wisdom, and living the question, “What needs doing right now?” Recorded on October 20, 2021.“There are no ordinary moments.”Topics & Time Stamps - Part 2Dan’s teachers: the professor, the guru, and spiritual technology (01:37)On cults (07:52)The first 5 levels of consciousness: blind belief, conventional reality, St. Ego, the philosopher, disillusion (13:22)Dan’s daily practices and the 4-minute meditation on the process of dying (22:46)The fundamental foundation of the peaceful warrior’s way (25:17)The Zen of ordinariness (27:07)Dan’s teachers: the warrior-priest, David Reynolds (29:13)On gratitude (33:41)Approaching life as an experiment and action inquiry (39:04)Carlos Castaneda’s four natural enemies of man: fear, clarity, power, and old age (41:02)Dan’s guiding question (45:26)Resources & References - Part 2Adi Da, American spiritual teacherCarl Jung, “...making the darkness conscious.”Arthur Deikman, pioneering psychiatrist*The 4-minute Peaceful Warrior MeditationThe Ten Ox Herding Pictures from the Zen traditionDan Millman, The Life You Were Born to Live*David Reynolds, Constructive Living*Bill Torbert, Action Inquiry*Carlos Castaneda’s the 4 enemies, The Teachings of Don Juan*Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity*Dan Millman, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit*Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior*PeacefulWarrior.com* As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.Podcast produced by Vanessa SantosShow Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 12 (Part 1 of 2) | Dan Millman, a man who has devoted his life to mastery—in sports and in the arena of life itself—and author of the book that opened doors for so many, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, published in the 80s, talks about inspiration, talent, discipline, mastery, ordinary life, and his own path, practices, teachers, and new book, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest. Humorous and humble, Dan embodies the peaceful warrior way, centering his life around service, sharing his wisdom, and living the question, “What needs doing right now?” Recorded on October 20, 2021.Dan Millman has shown us how to live with both a peaceful heart and a warrior’s spirit for forty years. His new book Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit shares his reflections on the extraordinary experiences that shaped his evolution from youthful dreamer to spiritual teacher. Dan’s first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, was a bestseller and adapted into a feature film. Dan is a former world trampoline champion, Stanford University gymnastics coach, martial arts instructor, and Oberlin college professor. His 18 books are published in 29 languages. Dan has traveled widely, teaching in over thirty countries. To learn more about his books, events, online courses, and free life-purpose calculator, visit www.PeacefulWarrior.com.“There are no ordinary moments.”Topics & Time Stamps - Part 1The deepest source of Dan’s inspiration (05:32) How do we develop talent? In sports—and in life (06:46)The heart of Dan’s motivation: What’s the bigger picture? Asking “What do I do?” instead of “Who am I?” (11:25)The importance of gaining self-knowledge (Know thyself): otherwise we make the right choice for the wrong person! (12:51)On discipline, the Marshmallow Experiment, and using failure as a stepping stone (15:15) The learning curve of mastering...anything (18:18)There are no ordinary moments: practice everything (24:21)How self-mastery leads to a path of service (27:37) Practicing happiness (33:05)Helping others, helping ourselves: connecting heaven and earth (36:08)Resources & References - Part 1Dan Millman, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit*Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior*PeacefulWarrior.comDan Millman, The Hidden School*Dan Millman, No Ordinary Moments*The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment on delayed gratificationPicasso, “It took me...a lifetime to paint like a child.”Roger Walsh’s essay, Contributing Effectively in Times of CrisisMihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow*Groundhog Day movieRamana Maharshi, I want to give people what they want...eventually they may want what I want to give them.Sri Nisargadatta, Not this, not this, not this.Joseph Campbell, “Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.”Adyashanti, spiritual teacher and authorGolda Meir, “Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.”Ram Dass, from Be Here Now: “Just because you are...experiencing waves of bliss...is no reason to not know your zip code.”** As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.Podcast produced by Vanessa SantosShow Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 11 (Part 3 of 3) | Cosmological explorer Chris Bache tells what he discovered on his extraordinary journey, doing 73 high-dose LSD sessions over a period of twenty years. Motivated by a passion to find out more about the universe, Chris became intimate with the ocean of suffering in our collective psyche, the death/rebirth cycle, the preciousness of individuality, integrating consciousness at very high levels of energy, and the future of humanity. Chris explains a universal intelligence met him every step of the way. A modern-day Odysseus, who has explored realms far beyond our normal perceptions of reality, Chris’ presence is profoundly compassionate, grounded in a uniquely deep trust in the love and intelligence of the universe. Recorded on October 25, 2021.Chris Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Board of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of non ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award-winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles, a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn, a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20-year journey with LSD.Topics & Time Stamps - Part 3Pitfalls on the path and how to keep grounded (01:22)The sickness of silence: doing psychedelic research in a psychedelic-phobic society (07:09) Is there an end state? Every opening is a portal to another opening (09:00) Dissolving into pure luminosity, an endless progression (12:00)“Diamond vision” outside of time/space and the Bardo reality: seeing through the eyes of the future human (14:20)The diamond luminosity condition (18:07)Words from the Great Mother (24:29)The creative intelligence and the evolution of the collective psyche (27:31)The profound genius, the depth of love, and the purposeful intent of the universe (29:40)Discovering we can trust ourselves profoundly—our individual minds as well as the greater reality (37:26)Letting go of the fear of death: death is the great liberation (43:23)Resources & References - Part 3A.H. Almaas, Runaway Realization, The Alchemy of Freedom*Dharmakaya: the clear light of absolute realityPure Land BuddhismStanislav Grof, The Cosmic Game*Vajrayana practiceChris Bache, LSD and Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven*Chris Bache, The Living Classroom*7-week online course on Chris’ book: Exploring the Cosmic Mind Through Psychedelics (Shift Network)* As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.Podcast produced by Vanessa SantosShow Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 10 (Part 2 of 3) | Cosmological explorer Chris Bache tells what he discovered on his extraordinary journey, doing 73 high-dose LSD sessions over a period of twenty years. Motivated by a passion to find out more about the universe, Chris became intimate with the ocean of suffering in our collective psyche, the death/rebirth cycle, the preciousness of individuality, integrating consciousness at very high levels of energy, and the future of humanity. Chris explains a universal intelligence met him every step of the way. A modern-day Odysseus, who has explored realms far beyond our normal perceptions of reality, Chris’ presence is profoundly compassionate, grounded in a uniquely deep trust in the love and intelligence of the universe. Recorded on October 25, 2021.Chris Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Board of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of non ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award-winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles, a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn, a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20-year journey with LSD.Topics & Time Stamps - Part 2Individuality is the great beauty. One of the great gifts of the universe. (01:11)Awakening to your bond with the universe (06:53)Using psychedelics for healing, spiritual awakening, cosmological exploration: You don’t need to shatter time to spiritually awaken (10:21)Stabilizing states of consciousness and Chris’ practices today: meditation, the being of practice, grounding (13:51)The shift taking place at the collective archetypal level (17:10)The death and rebirth of humanity and the emergence of a changed humanity (17:57)The global crisis is a crisis of consciousness: growing into our full soul being (19:15) The birth of the future human and the awakening of the soul (25:59)Seeing the human transition to come from the place of Deep Time (31:50)The sacred question: How can I serve other people and make this knowledge useful to other people? (33:17)The transmission and healing that come from deep practice (36:54)7-week online course on Chris’ book: Exploring the Cosmic Mind Through Psychedelics (38:44)What has been the reaction to Chris’ book? (39:43)Psychedelic therapy (42:02)The essential work of integration (43:24)Resources & References - Part 2Ramakrishna, the longing to be separate in order to worship the MotherVedanta, one of six schools of Hindu philosophy, the end of the VedasChris Bache, Dark Night, Early Dawn*Chris Bache, LSD and Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven*Duane Elgin, Choosing Earth. In 2006, Duane received the international Goi Peace Award in recognition of his contribution to a “global vision, consciousness, and lifestyle.*Ian Stevenson, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect*Chris Bache, Lifecycles*Kenneth Ring, Heading Toward Omega*Chris Bache, The Living Classroom*7-week online course on Chris’ book: Exploring the Cosmic Mind Through Psychedelics (Shift Network)Roger Walsh, Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics*Tim Read & Maria Papaspyrou, Psychedelics and Psychotherapy** As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.Podcast produced by Vanessa SantosShow Notes by Heidi Mitchell