The Spiritual Forum

Amethyst Mahoney is an ex-fundamentalist and former psychologist turned Tarot reader and coach. She spent decades reading and researching religious texts and helping others overcome self-doubt while understanding the history and multiple interpretations of the Bible. Amethyst is passionate about helping people find freedom from fundamentalism without succumbing to toxic spirituality or spiritual bypassing. She is also the founder of Spiritual Badass and the author of the Life Map System. In this episode we have a lively conversation about a lot of things including: •Religious trauma •Spiritual bypass •The hidden ways fundamentalism permeates our culture •The original blessing •Keeping a connection with God while finding a new path Spiritual Badass https://spiritualbadass.info/ The Life Map System book at thelifemapsystem.com

Alan Abrahams was an ultra Orthodox Jew living in London. For many years he taught Jewish philosophy and spent most of his spare time studying Jewish literature. During his 20’s, Alan had a transformative experience at a retreat where all his worries and anxieties instantly fell away, and he saw what lay behind our personal mind. This experience changed him and he felt happy for no reason at all. Fast forward to his early thirties and together with his wife and children, Alan made the tough decision to leave his job and religion. That was the beginning of a journey that challenged him beyond anything he could ever have imagined. In this episode Alan shares his remarkable journey of awakening that caused him to question everything and ultimately land in a place that authentically reflected his true Self. Through it all he miraculously remained connected to his family. Alan also shares his remarkable spiritual practice of simply listening.

An MIT educated physicist and lifelong Catholic, Thomas Sheahen, PhD serves as a unique bridge between science and religion. He is the author of the recently published book, Everywhen – God, Symmetry and Time, which expands the reader’s thinking about the nature of God and the time-space reality we live in. What came before “In the beginning?” What happens “after” life? Everything we know is constrained by time, but God/the Divine isn’t. In this episode we discuss these questions as well as: • The time transcendent nature of God • How science supports religious faith • The mistake that Creationism and Darwinism both make • What “let there be light!” means • The need to remain humble • The false gods of science © the spiritual forum 2022 Thomas Sheahen's book: https://www.amazon.com/Everywhen-Symmetry-Dr-Thomas-Sheahen/dp/195671510X

After being steered down multiple dead ends in the medical community, Dr. Jess Bell, an osteopathic physician with over 20 years of experience, was guided to find her own solutions. She founded Energetic Osteopathy™, which bridges traditional osteopathic treatment and energy medicine, and ultimately teaches people how to work inside their own bodies energetically. In this episode we hear how Jess came to be aware of a much greater source of healing than she had learned from her medical training. We have a lively conversation that includes: •The natural ability we all have to heal our own bodies •The co-dependent relationship we have with medical professionals •The healing energy of love and power of the heart •The energetic upgrade that is happening within people and on the planet Dr. Jess's website: https://www.centersforenergetichealing.com/ Online self-healing community: https://selfhealingimmersion.com Receive one month free membership: one month FREE membership: https://selfhealingimmersion.com/plans/202084?bundle_token=6c0cc1ddfbbff7d0b6c86951caeed945&utm_source=manual NOTE: In this episode Rev. Carol mentions the healing story at the Pool of Bethesda. Here is the full scripture in John chapter 5: Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”  “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

“Everything I thought I knew about reality had to be reconsidered.” – Mark Gober How many people in your world can say that? A Princeton grad, former Silicon Valley tech group partner and investment banking analyst, Mark Gober questioned his fundamental reality (i.e. the reality we all live in) resulting in his four books: An End to Upside Down Thinking (2019), An End to Upside Down Living (2020), An End to Upside Down Liberty (2021), and An End to Upside Down Contact (2022). In this episode we cover a range of topics including: The materialistic paradigm we all live in The nature of consciousness - it precedes the material The iterative process of awakening The four categories of spiritual practice Compassion with discernment The importance of individuality The unfortunate suppression of science involving consciousness It’s a very lively and enlightening conversation. Gober currently serves on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment, and hosts the remarkable podcast, "Where Is My Mind?" © the spiritual forum 2022 For books and podcast: https://markgober.com/ Institute of Noetic Sciences: https://noetic.org/ School of Wholeness and Enlightenment: https://www.soweglobal.com/ In this episode Rev. Carol mentions a 'video' on 9/11. It was actually a five-hour documentary called, September 11: The New Pearl Harbor. It can be found on YouTube. Learn more here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3828916/

Ambiguous grief is the emotional state that occurs with the loss of a loved one, but not to physical death -- when someone is still living yet their relationship with us has changed. This can show up as loss due to divorce, addiction, cognitive decline, incarceration, familial estrangement and more. After Stephanie Serazin had her own experience with ambiguous grief, she sought out her own healing which led to further research, discoveries about hope, and co-authoring the Ambiguous Grief Process Model. In this episode we talk about grief as a portal to our higher self, the gift and trap of hope, our societal propensity to not share grief, and the family dynamics that ensures challenges are kept private. Called to action by Spirit, Stephanie now works to bring awareness to ambiguous grief as a nuanced, natural, and navigable response to loss. She is the founder of the Rise Up Rooted Community and her book, SoulBroken, will be published in October, 2022. “Grief is the price we pay for love. So if you’re grieving any loss, say to your heart, ‘Well done.’” — Stephanie Serazin RiseUprooted.net stephaniesarazin.com Soulbroken: A Guidebook for Your Journey Through Ambiguous Grief: https://www.amazon.com/Soulbroken-Guidebook-Journey-Through-Ambiguous/dp/1538709759

After a near-death experience during a heart and kidney transplant in 2020, Shana Pereira is now channeling her purpose into building a movement, content platform and research institute around the future of religion and healthcare. She openly shares her lessons around organ transplantation, the importance of partnership with your medical team, the mental resilience it takes to survive when faced with death, and the emotional impact of having seen the afterlife. In this episode we learn how serendipity, God/Higher Power, and her own initiative guided her extraordinary path. We discuss the importance of honing our power of discernment and paying attention to the minute, opportune moments in life that call us to action. Shana also details her death experience, her new calling, and her relationship with her new heart. Website: http://www.shanapereira.com/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/shana_pereira

Dr. Will Tuttle, visionary author of the international best-seller, The World Peace Diet, has presented over 3,000 lectures, workshops, and concert events throughout the world. An ordained Dharma Master in the Zen tradition, he is a featured expert in Cowspiracy and A Prayer for Compassion. In this episode we traverse human history beginning 10,000 years ago when animal herding became the dominant culture and brought with it the elite class structure, materialism, war, domination of the feminine, and systemic exploitation that are so familiar to us today. We have individually and collectively been wounded by this culture and lost our ability to make relevant connections. The ultimate result is the commodification of humanity (as you sow, so shall you reap). But a benevolent revolution that honors all life, our sacred bodies and the Divine within, is in our grasp. Keep your mind and heart open to this message! The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony: https://www.amazon.com/World-Peace-Diet-Spiritual-Harmony/dp/1590565274 http://www.willtuttle.com/ https://www.worldpeacediet.com/ https://circleofcompassion.org/

It was only when breast cancer knocked at her door in 2016 that everything changed for Celine O’Donovan. A new path emerged in front of her and she was propelled in a new direction -- a direction that she could never have found on her own. In this episode we talk about the gifts that came out of her devastation. She got off the proverbial “hamster wheel,” did a lot of “undoing” and breaking open, and moved herself through fear to her own power. A native of Galway City on the west coast of Ireland, Celine recently published a book titled, Gifts from the Devastation – What Cancer Taught Me About Life. She is also a qualified life coach and public speaker who is passionate about sharing her story of hope. Her message is for anyone experiencing any kind of devastation, not just a cancer diagnosis. Celine’s Inside Out Living Indicator, mentioned in this podcast, is shown below her photo at https://thespiritualforum.org/podcast/gettingoffthehamsterwheel https://linktr.ee/celineodonovan Website:www.celineodonovan.com Gifts from the Devastation Print Book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/o-books/our-books/gifts-from-devastation-cancer-life Gifts from the Devastation Audio Book: https://celineodonovan.samcart.com/products/audio-book https://www.instagram.com/celineodonovan/ https://www.facebook.com/celine.odonovan.9

Anneke Lucas is an author, speaker, advocate for human trafficking victims and creator of the Unconditional Model. Her work is based on her decades-long healing journey, after surviving being sold by her family as a child sex slave into a murderous pedophile network in Belgium. In this second episode we go deeper into her healing process – how her memories were recovered and the work she has done herself and with other survivors. We also discuss the internal and external power structures that we are stuck in and how we give our power away to authorities because we haven’t healed ourselves. Indeed, we do create our reality. And by our healing/integration/awakening work, we can create a new one. Anneke’s message is one of hope and healing – we have to be the Light in this world. She has shared her life experience in a TedxTalk and four-part YouTube interview series, and she recently published a book titled, Quest for Love: Memoir of a Child Sex Slave. US link to book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4FV3982 International links to book: https://annekelucas.com/book Website: www.annekelucas.com TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLp5LM18wIU Four part Interview Collective Evolution: https://explorerlounge.one/programs/elite-pedophilia-sex-rituals-anneke-lucas NOTE: In our conversation we mention Internal Family Systems Model. You can learn more about that here: https://ifs-institute.com/about-us We also share paraphrased scripture about children. Here are a few of Jesus’s words about it: "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” Mark 10:15"If anyone causes one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." Matthew 18:6 “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:4