Laura Perlin is a tarot reader and ritualist working with personal and collective healing and self-actualization. She join us to explore the practice of esoteric healing arts,  the role of true nature in freedom from suffering, and perspectives on reindiginization and wisdom.https://www.lauraperlin.com/Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_PodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5VYkm1iU0tmbBvJohdTZcv?si=4be5c4df79fc4aa8 ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mu/id1640125881Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasFMPerryTimestamps:0:00 Intro2:43 What is the nature of suffering?3:27 What’s divinity?4:25 How does one live from true nature?6:13 How does true nature fit in with tarot reading and ancestral work?17:04 What is the phenomenology of card reading and do you have particular metaphysical positions about it? 27:23 What about a secular or non-spiritual path to true nature? 30:48 What’s reindiginization? 35:09 Cancel culture39:14 The identities of privilege and the victim45:27 Pointing back to true nature 55:08 How does this all fit in with the 21st century?59:22 How does wisdom and true nature fit into the practice of technology?1:04:21 Perspectives on capitalism 1:12:14 Not making capitalism, products, and wealth wrong1:18:30 What is the nature of suffering and what is the path to its cessation?1:19:40 Closing thoughts from Laura and where to connect1:21:02  Drawing a tarot card to end the podcast 

Philip Golabuk is founder of PhilosophyCenter, where he offers philosophical counseling, self-study courses, and LIFECOACH Training. Their mission is to encourage and facilitate the self-work that leads to greater awareness, creative expression, and personal evolution as well as a deeper appreciation for the miracle, mystery, and opportunity of being alive. Philip is a member of the National Philosophical Counseling Association, has taught college level philosophy courses, and has worked as part of a community outreach program to inmates in jail and prison. PhilosophyCenter: https://philosophycenter.net/Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5VYkm1iU0tmbBvJohdTZcv?si=4be5c4df79fc4aa8 ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mu/id1640125881Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasFMPerryTimestamps: 0:00 Intro2:15 What is suffering? 3:58 How do we meet pain skillfully? 5:50 What is our true identity? 8:41 How to practice self-inquiry into identity? 12:55 What does non-local mean?16:57 Is awareness our true nature? 22:05 What is philosophical life coaching? 25:12 How does working with beliefs fit into freedom from suffering? 30:45 The relationship of truth to freedom from suffering 38:47 What does a disordered soul look like?40:07 What should you do if you suspect you have a disordered soul?44:50 Is living from the level of true nature sufficient? 51:30 What is enlightenment? 53:00 Parting words 54:30 Outro

Rupert Spira is a non-dual teacher and joins us to discuss the cause of suffering, the path to returning to our innate happiness, the realization of our true nature, and we also explore whether awakening has a moral dimension.Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5VYkm1iU0tmbBvJohdTZcv?si=4be5c4df79fc4aa8 ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mu/id1640125881Timestamps: 0:00 Intro2:10 What is suffering?2:30 What veils our innate happiness? 2:35 What is the mechanism by which thoughts and feelings veil our happiness?5:28 What is our true nature? 7:40 Isn't "I am" merely another piece of content? 10:04 Experience as a property of being 10:57 There's never a point in which there's no awareness19:57 Non-materialist physicalist idealism24:04 Consciousness as non-local25:47 An experiment in inquiry30:40 Experience, awareness, and the brain 37:41 Is awareness independent the brain?42:54 The risk of reifying consciousness as a thing44:52 The silence of understanding and the mind bringing itself to its own ending46:38 The stages of awakening 51:24 Direct and progressive paths, and how purification and defabrication fit in56:16 Rupert's definition of enlightenment57:04 The insights of the second stage of awakening1:00:41 One taste and recognizing aware being is the nature of everyone and everything1:05:03 How does ethics fit into the realization of true nature?1:09:00 World peace would have to be based on a truth we can all agree on1:13:34 Where to find and follow Rupert Spira1:14:30 Outro

Loch Kelly is a meditation teacher and licensed psychotherapist that teaches awakening through small glimpses many times throughout daily life. He joins us to discuss the nature of suffering, paths to freedom from suffering, and how we can shift into the free and joyous consciousness that's already always here. Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5VYkm1i... ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Timestamps: 0:00 Intro2:34 What is suffering? 5:02 Do resistance, contraction, and immersion in thought fit into your understanding of suffering? 8:11 What are the stages of awakening? 17:13 Emptiness22:16 One taste, vipassana, and approaches to awakening 26:32 Moving from witness consciousness to one taste 31:48 Differences in subtle energy and head oriented people 35:10 Glimpse practices for non-dual awareness 50:08 A map of awakening 55:36 The importance of working with parts to stabilize awakening 1:01:17 What is nirvana/enlightenment? 1:05:58 Everything being OK when you're not OK1:08:15 Loch's overview of the pragmatics of the effortless mindfulness approach 1:14:53 A glimpse: What's here now when there's no problem to solve? 1:25:05 How to continue practicing through the stages of awakening 1:27:55 Are there risks with practicing pointing out instructions? 1:30:10 What is Loch's experience given his years of practice? 1:38:01Outro