Behind Greatness by Inspire North

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. This week, we are speaking with a modern day Oracle and Founder of a Mystery School. Marguerite grew up in the suburbs of New York, the daughter and granddaughter of Sicilian immigrants to the US. We discuss her roots to the ancient world where natural and indigenous philosophy of existence ruled for hundreds and thousands of years before the advent of Christianity. She illuminates for us the importance of ancient knowledge traditionally held by “streghe” (healers/witches) in that part of the world. Marguerite dives into the esoteric (and into the galactic) with gusto and brings us with her. We talk about gods in other dimensions, the sacred feminine, myths being histories, experience with the underworld, parthenogenesis and the divine birth and hybridization of humanity. And if that’s not enough, we also discuss the chronic scholarly "clampdown" on the study of sexuality in spiritual practices of the ancient world and how this attitude has had us lose earth’s histories. As an oracle, Marguerite is focused on piecing together a new understanding of our earth histories, in part by understanding that we need to marry the intellect with intuition.   A lovely, expansive conversation with a truth seeker. Like plants on asphalt. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Marguerite, Check out the Seven Sisters Mystery School website: https:/www.sevensistersmysteryschool.com Watch more from Marguerite on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MargueriteRigoglioso7 Follow Marguerite on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margueriterigoglioso/ IG @margueriterigoglioso Follow Seven Sisters Mystery School on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SevenSistersMysterySchool/ FB @SevenSistersMysterySchool New course now available in replay: Heal Yourself & Our World by Reclaiming Guinevere, Arthur, the Fae & the Round Table: https://www.sevensistersmysteryschool.com/guinevere-arthur-course/ Join Our Monthly Mother Mary Love & Empowerments Circle: https://www.sevensistersmysteryschool.com/monthly-mother-mary-love-circle/ Master Mary's Holy Womb Mysteries (a comprehensive bundle of courses with both live & on-demand segments featuring ancient wisdom to help you restore the miracle capacities of your womb and advance as a holy being - with Mary as your mentor): https://www.sevensistersmysteryschool.com/marys-womb-mysteries/ Join the Priestess of the Dove Sisterhood! Level 1 Oracle Training is available on demand here: https://www.sevensistersmysteryschool.com/oracle-training/ Experience private spiritual mentorship with Marguerite: https://www.sevensistersmysteryschool.com/mentoring/  

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we have a wonderful chat with Robert Doyle. Robert has been a therapist for 25 years, with an expertise in hypnotherapy and brief therapy ACT. He grew up in London – a small city between Toronto and Detroit – and needed to expand his own limits as a young man. He was a highly intuitive and curious young boy who also developed an early affinity to tech. After leaving for the big city, he graduated from university and started on a career in telecommunications where he quickly developed a reputation for being the “fixer”. Named by his colleagues as the "confidence recovery expert " he helped save his employer millions in potential lawsuits over the years by simply giving a tuned ear to customer grievances. This prepared him for a jump to what he really wanted to do: help people discover and explore about their frontier and pushing it to get bigger limits (see also theme with Wynton Marsalis, ep 126). We talk about a heck of alot: the lost relationship with ourselves, our connection with the dream state, the power of words, the 3 minds, command vs control, curiosity deficiency and doubting your doubt. We discuss the importance of giving real space to the voice in your head, and of understanding that your subconscious always gets a vote. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Robert, Email: Greatness@BiggerLimits.com 8 Master Keys: www.The8Phrases.com Website: www.BiggerLimits.com/action for any inquiries re: ACT/generative therapy

Anthony joins us from his office in Toronto. He is a long time friend of our team and Behind Greatness. For over two decades, he and his firm Veritas have been very prominent and public in the world of forensic accounting and investment research in Canada. Anthony is a multi-layered human being with a drive-forward bent – and boy does he bring it in this conversation. We talk about preparation, freeing your mind for new ideas and quick-start vs follow-through – and being open to reciprocal impact. We talk pounding pavement and ideas, shining apples and doctor-visit crying. And, we lean in close as he shares some intimate, emotional, personal stories that instructed him as a young adult with life-long hard lessons in persistence, empathy, love and the importance of abstaining from judgement. We learn that you can tell him anything … just don’t tell him “can’t”. And ask yourself: what is it that you do that you never tire of doing?   Big hugs to Ana. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Anthony, Websites: www.vertiascorp.com, www.veritasfunds.com, www.theveritasfoundation.com Veritas Fact Finding Podcast: https://www.veritascorp.com/events/webinars-fact-finding Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-scilipoti-fcpa-fca-cpa-illinois-97a54913/

Stephen joins us from his home in the Los Angeles area. Stephen is the founder of The Identity Development Institute and an acclaimed Hollywood Director, and a published poet. He is a father of 3 children, two of whom are Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who are artists in their own right. He grew up with parents (and grandparents) who suffered trauma and addiction. His father, as a young American soldier during World War II, lived the reality of opening and freeing concentration camps in Germany. He also grew up in a Christian cult-like community in Pennsylvania and when he reached college age he saw doors and pathways open ahead of him that he otherwise wouldn’t have seen. And one of those paths was film directing. And he never looked back. Kind of. He also went back to school to do a Masters in Therapy. And boy do we discuss some themes that are important to Stephen. We talk about being “sane” in an insane world, the “engine in me”, lack of connection, the love of art, the curiosity in death – and being drawn to skid row. “Art is there to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfort”. Bam! To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Stephen: Identity Development Institute: https://www.identitydevelopmentinstitute.com/ Website: https://www.stephengyllenhaal.com/ IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350455/

We sit with Wynton in Toronto for a delightful conversation shortly after a show at Massey Hall. Wynton, a Trumpeter, is originally from New Orleans and is widely regarded as one of Jazz’s all time greats, having also won multiple Grammies for his classical and jazz work. He also co-founded Jazz at the Lincoln Center and acts as the Center’s Managing and Artistic Director. We discuss music as core human expression, the responsibility of teaching music, antagonistic cooperation and modern American culture, the latter of which is also something profoundly important to Wynton. He shares with us his thoughts on some types of modern music and the machine of commercialization that has corrupted the real message of music – and how this imbalance has informed our present society. And that’s just the start. We dive deep and learn about the allegorical qualities of sounds (and stories), music as the art of the invisible and being still enough to understand. He talks to us about the “halls of music” and how the vibration comes at him (and all of us) “whole” and how we are all interconnected on the board. To boot, Wynton has an interesting answer to previous guest John Kapelos’ musing about what’s beyond the river’s edge. A melodic conversation. “The ability to rise above your limitations”. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Wynton, Website: https://wyntonmarsalis.org TW: @wyntonmarsalis IG: @wyntonmarsalis FB: @wyntonmarsalis Marsiac Jazz Festival (France): https://www.jazzinmarciac.com/en

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. John Kapelos joins us from his home in Hollywood. He is a veteran actor, with over 40 years of acting experience in Film, TV and Theatre. Originally from London, Ontario, John shares with us his life as a child of Greek parents with older siblings who he adored. As a perennial “leaver”, John explored a young adult life as a creative nomad, living in several cities across North America before spending years in Chicago and then finally settling in LA. He’s not afraid to share some episodes of racial prejudice from those who took culture “hostage” in the business back then in his native country of Canada. John also speaks highly of his parents … and we dare the listener not to shed a tear on the story of his father as a little boy. John endears us with his openness in sharing his experiences of despair, of peer ridicule, of exploration, of hoarding – and of flying and dying. He chronicles his life as a “leaver” – but not as a man who leaves a place, but a man who enjoys the thrill of discovering different places…. Beyond the river’s edge. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north John, IMbD: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438127/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/thejohnkapelos/?hl=en Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1850ydRHRdl0TCRr9xHRPQ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kapelos-7158985/

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Our dicussion today is with writer, author, philosopher and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Gary Lachman, who joins us from his home in London. Gary grew up in New Jersey and as a young adult he decided to follow his musical curiosities and move to NYC to play and write Rock & Roll. Living in a store-front at 19 in NYC, he spent years writing songs and playing gigs as Gary Valentine until he lived his dreams: co-founding a successful Rock & Roll band, opening for the Rolling Stones, starting his own group The Know and playing with punk legend Iggy Pop. At 28, he retired. Taking his attitude, energy and drive and devoting it to learning, reading and writing – he started writing histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, existentialism, the paranormal, the Occult and the philosophy of consciousness. We discuss the importance and the significance of the Rose and “The All”, our lack of self-remembering, the robot we all live with and the triviality of “everydayness”. We learn from Gary about the taps on his shoulder and about current reconnection with (musical) exploration and living and creating with the lack of preconceptions.   “The promise without the guarantee”. What a treat. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Gary, Website: https://www.gary-lachman.com/ Books: https://www.gary-lachman.com/books-1 & https://www.gary-lachman.com/books-2 TW: https://twitter.com/GaryLachman FB: https://www.facebook.com/gary.lachman.3/

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Mark Cecchetto. Mark acts as the President of Nestle Canada’s Confectionary Division and lives in Toronto. Mark grew up in a healthy family environment where he was encouraged to explore and where the expectation for a successful future path was also not negotiable. Originally wanting to have a career in sports management – with the ultimate ideal as the GM of the Blue Jays – Mark saw a different path emerging as he became a young professional. We discuss several “oh crap” moments through his life and his need to look for rougher waters. We discuss at length his passion for mentoring and helping those younger than him and the angst and fear he sees in many as a reflection of his past worries. We learn about what “A” word best defines his expectation for his two children. And what we’re really curious about is what he’s trying to cleanse when we discuss his non-professional life. And staring at water … To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Mark, LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcecchetto/  

We are joined by Dean Radin at his home in Idaho. Dean is the Chief Scientist at the famous IONS in California. IONS was founded by Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell 50 years ago after the Apollo-14 mission. Mitchell had a mystical experience as he found himself in space and walking the moon that he started this Institute when he returned to Earth to study our interconnectedness with the universe. And Dean has certainly taken on those reigns. Contemplating existential questions at a very young age, he was often ribbed for having an extra “why” chromosome when he was merely a boy. Dean became fascinated early about tackling the problem of figuring our how the brain knows it’s aware. We learn about his upbringing both in the South and in the North, playing violin as an aspiring professional musician, the magic of the banjo, a mystical event in Scotland and a Thunderbird experience. We discuss his term “presentiment”, his experience with psychic espionage at the Stargate program, the cracking of belief systems, building evidence of psychic phenomena and using science to study from the INSIDE, and what his scientific research points to about our psychic abilities.   We recommend the listener to reference episode 80 with Russell Targ re his leadership in the CIA’s Remote Viewing program.   To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north Dean, Website: www.deanradin.com TW: https://twitter.com/deanradin LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-radin-9417877/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/DeanRadinsPage/ Books: https://www.deanradin.com/books    

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are joined by Thomas Verny at his home in Stratford, Ontario. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the effects of prenatal and postnatal environment on personality. Dr Verny shot to international fame after the publication of his book entitled “The Secret Life of the Unborn Child” in 1982. But fame was never a driver for Thomas. Searching the truth suited him better. We speak to a man today who has had his own private practice for many decades, has published several books, articles, short stories and poems and now who also hosts his own podcast – “Pushing Boundaries with Dr. Thomas R Verny”. But, we also learn about Thomas the Boy who was separated from his parents during the Nazi occupation, who was jailed to be shipped to a concentration camp and who was blessed with people close to him of miraculous love. We learn about the hardships his parents endured also after the War and as new immigrants to North America. And, we learn about the boy who became fascinated with the works of Sigmund Freud at age 13.   With a lifelong interest in memory and mind, Thomas soon went on to help establish the science of Pre & Perinatal Psychology. We discuss his work on cellular intelligence and the central role of the cell membrane vs the nucleus and the importance of the body vs the brain. If that isn’t enough, we also discuss his personal experience with a psychic and an illuminating Out of Body experience that became a very informative episode in his life – and possibly an informative one for our host.   And what matters most to Thomas? The teaser says it all.   His is a life lived. And it seems like he’s only getting started.   To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north                Thomas, Website: http://www.trvernymd.com Recent Book (2021): The Embodied Mind https://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Mind-Understanding-Mysteries-Consciousness/dp/1643137999/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D8CV2ZKKT48H&keywords=the+embodied+mind&qid=1662511995&sprefix=the+embodied+mind+%2Caps%2C199&sr=8-1 Podcast: “Pushing Boundaries” - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1628669415 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tverny/