End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Michael Kokal
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May 13, 2025 • 59min

Episode 315: Mike De La Rocha: "Sacred Lessons"/Revolve Impact & On/Notice

Mike de la Rocha is a strategist, musician, author, and one of the most effective change makers of our generation.  As co-founder of Revolve Impact (an award-winning social action and creative agency), he participated founding Artists for 47, a coalition assembled to pass California's historic proposition 47 that has impacted more than 1 million people and led to the largest record change effort in U.S. history, launching the Justice Policy Network, the country's first bi-coastal fellowship focused on increasing the number of leaders in government advancing a new safety agenda, and producing #SchoolsNotPrisons.  Mike's impact portfolio includes serving as Director of Strategic Partnerships for Californians for Safety and Justice, Legislative Deputy for (future Congressman) Tony Cardenas, and Policy Advisor for the L.A. Human Rights Commission.  His work in utilizing music for social change spans four continents where he has worked alongside notable cultural icons such as Harry Belafonte, Dolores Huerta, and John Legend.  He is one of Good Magazine's top 100 people changing the world, a 2017 recipient of the AFL-CIO's Justice, Peace and Freedom Award, and a top innovator in America as listed by Stanford Social Innovation Review. This podcast will focus on his new book:  Sacred Lessons, which comes out next month and is available for preorder from Simon and Schuster.  Check more of Mike's work out at:  https://linktr.ee/mrmikedelarocha Have a Blessed Week!  Link to the show:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-315-michael-de-la-rocha-sacred-lessonsrevolve-impact-onnotice
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Apr 29, 2025 • 1h 4min

Episode 314: Ananda Forest: "Good News About the World Falling Apart: The Third Turning of Human Consciousness"

Ananda is the author of Here For The Joy (2022) and Good News About the World Falling Apart (2025) the latter work being the subject of this podcast. Ananda went to Andover, Oberlin and Yale Law School and later taught English at St. Ann's School in Brooklyn.  In 1994, he left the city for upstate New York where he worked as a carpenter and mechanic and started seriously following his bliss.  He retired from carpentry when he hit 56, but never stopped teaching:  twelve years guiding students of shamanism at Spirit Hollow, the nature and spirituality center he co-founded, and the last twenty years and counting as an adjunct instructor of anthropology, history and mythology at the Community College of Vermont. For more information about Ananda and his many offerings, please see:  https://anandaforest.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-314-ananda-forest-good-news-about-the-world-falling-apart-the-third-turning-of-human-consciousness Have a blessed week!
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Apr 16, 2025 • 1h 14min

Episode 313: The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: Lore Spores Vol. I/Pareidolic Divination/Oracular Sensibilities and/or Interactions

Originating in the Netherlands, The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo is a creator of cosmic, comedic, and contemplative content, here to serve the Lore.  Also known as a "Bardo Bard," he is a multidimensional artist, he utilizes pareidolic divination, wit, wordplay, and a 6th sense of humor to mindfully investigate where the limits of language meet the fringes of reality.  His work finds expression through visual art, written and spoken word, music, film, puppetry, uncanny impressions, performance, and Oracular Interactions.   He is the host and creator of the podcast Self Portraits as Other People, the narrator of Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: The Julian Jaynes Society podcast, and the author of The He & The She of It, Impatient Transformations and his new work, Lore Spores Vol. 1--which the subject of this podcast.  For more information check him out at:  https://www.theungoogleable.com/ The cover art is the work of the guest, and it is a helpful image to the oracular interaction which will transpire on the podcast as is the spirit of Dion Fortune, who successfully resisted the egregore of German Fascism in the 1940s by not directing energy into it and supporting other egregores:-)   This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-313-the-ungoogleable-michaelangelo-lore-spores-vol-ipareidolic-divinationoracular-sensibilities-andor-interactions Have a blessed week!
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Apr 3, 2025 • 1h 1min

Episode 312: Mike Fiorito: "UFO Symphonic--Journeys Into Sound"

Mike is a journalist and Adjunct Professor of English at City Tech (CUNY).  He is the author of numerous books including:  For All We Know:  A UFO Manifesto; Mescalito Riding His White Horse (Independent Press Favorite Award); Falling From Trees (Independent Press Favorite Award); The Hated Ones; Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud's Haberdashery Habits, and Hallucinating Huxley. This podcast will focus on his new release: UFO Symphonic--Journeys Into Sound (Feb 2025). For more information about Mike and to connect with his wonderful work, please see:  https://mikefiorito.com/. This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-312-mike-fiorito-ufo-symphonic-journeys-into-sound Have a blessed week!
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Mar 19, 2025 • 1h 11min

Episode 311: Joshua Reichmann: "The Realized Light of the Twelve Dimensions"

Joshua is the author of The Realized Light of the Twelve Dimensions: Cosmic Rebirthing and Our Celestial Destiny (2024), which is the subject of this podcast.  He is also a film director: Tenzin (2021), which addresses the struggles of Tibetans.  He has practiced and taught traditional Tibetan Buddhism, holographic recapitulation, psychic integration, and healing at temples, spiritual centers, and group retreats for more than 10 years.   He offers Akashic readings, and is a Pleiadian Channel, contemplative therapist, and multidisciplinary artist.  He holds a course on how to work with the Akashic Records and invites you to contact him directly for more details or to book a session at:  Joshreichmann@gmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Joshua-Reichmann @Joshreichmann This podcast is available on your favorite platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-311-joshua-reichmann-the-realized-light-of-the-twelve-dimensions Have a blessed week!
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Mar 5, 2025 • 1h 7min

Episode 310: Tobias Churton: "The Books of Enoch Revealed"/The Watchers/Metatron

Tobias Churton is Britain's leading scholar of Western Esotericism.  He is a filmmaker, composer and founding editor of the magazine Freemasonry Today.  Appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005 to serve as a faculty lecturer in Western esotericism, he holds a master's degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore.  Invited to contribute to the debates and published work of Prof. Gabriele Boccaccini's world leading "Enoch Seminar" in 2018,  The Books of Enoch Revealed is the second of two books inspired by the latest Enoch scholarship, and joins Churton's prolific list of 28 books, commissioned and written, that include biographies of Elias Ashmole, William Blake, Aleister Crowley, and G.I. Gurdjieff.     This podcast focuses on his newest release:  The Books of Enoch Revealed: The Wicked Watchers, Metatron, and the Fruits of Forbidden Knowledge (2025). For more information about Tobias, please see:  https://tobiaschurton.com/1_home.html This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-310-tobias-churton-the-books-of-enoch-revealedthe-watchersmetatron Have a blessed weekend!
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Feb 20, 2025 • 1h 9min

Episode 309: Hari-Kirtana das: Bhagavad Gita/Timeless Principles of Transcendental Knowledge

Hari-kirtana das is the author of two books on yoga philosophy, In Search of the Highest Truth:  Adventures in Yoga Philosophy (2017) and Journey Into the Bhagavad Gita:  A Guide to Exploring Timeless Principles of Transcendental Knowledge and Integrating Them Into Your Life (2024)--the latter being the subject of this podcast.  Hari has been practicing devotional and other yogic disciplines for over 40 years and is a frequent speaker on the relevance of yoga's ancient wisdom to life in the modern world.  He is lived in yoga ashrams and spiritual communities, and has a 800-hour yoga teacher certification form the Jivamukti Yoga School. You can learn more about Hari-kirtana and his many other offerings at:  https://hari-kirtana.com/coming-events/ and you can download a free chapter of his book on the Bhagavad Gita here:  https://hari-kirtana.com/books/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-309-hari-kirtana-das-bhagavad-gitatimeless-principles-of-transcendental-knowledge Have a blessed weekend!
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Feb 5, 2025 • 1h 2min

Episode 308: Robert Falconer: Porous Mind/Spirit Possession/Internal Family Systems/"The Others Within Us"

Robert Falconer is a pioneering consultant and international educator in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy.  He brings over five decades of transformative psychological expertise and a heartfelt commitment to healing and understanding the complexity of human experience.  Falconer has authored several influential books including Many Minds, One Self, co-written with IFS founder Richard C. Schwartz.  Falconer's book The Others Within Us, the subject of this podcast, is a groundbreaking work which centralizes "porosity" as a key component to healing. Falconer draws from personal experience and extensive clinical practice.  He is a respected international trainer who has led workshops in many countries, including Australia, Japan, Pakistan, Mexico, China, Europe and Canada.  He has also taught all over the US, including the Fort Beltnap Sioux and Northern Cheyenne reservations.  Falconer champions a holistic view that recognizes the inherent spiritual nature of psychological healing.  Now in his mid-70s, Falconer remains an active teacher and thought leader.  His work challenges Western therapeutic paradigms and advocates for a more comprehensive understanding of human consciousness.   For more information about Richard, please see:  https://robertfalconer.us/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-308-robert-falconer-porous-mindspirit-possessioninternal-family-systemsthe-others-within-us Have a blessed weekend!
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Jan 15, 2025 • 49min

Episode 307: Andrea van de Loo: "The Pressing Stones"/Ancestral Trauma

Andrea was born during WW2 in the Netherlands.  She experienced a traumatic childhood given her father's participation in the Nazi SS which cast a long shadow over her life.  Despite these challenges, she embarked on a journey toward healing.  Her search took her across the globe, where she eventually found solace, purpose and community.  In The Pressing Stones, Andrea relates eighty years of her life exploring her deeply intimate and emotional journey, exploring family, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, motherhood, psychedelic therapy, addiction recovery, and the generational aspects of war.  It also presents a personal portrait of life in Auroville, the "City of Dawn," dedicated to the spiritual visions of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.   Andrea's story illustrates how freedom, joy, peace of mind, and happiness are possible, as we face our deepest truths and emerge from our darkest tribulations.   For additional historical information on elements of Dutch collaboration with the Nazi SS and active participation in the Holocaust, please see:  https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/netherlands-greatest-number-jewish-victims-western-europe/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-307-andrea-van-de-loo-the-pressing-stonesancestral-trauma    
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Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 9min

Episode 306: Dr. Edi Bilimoria: "Unfolding Consciousness: Exploring the Living Universe and Intelligent Powers in Nature and Humans"

Dr. Edi Bilimoria DPhil, FIMechE, FEI, FRSA was born in India and educated at the universities of London, Sussex and Oxford.  He presents an unusual blend of experience in the fields of science, the arts and philosophy. This podcast focuses on his latest  four volume work: Unfolding Consciousness:  Exploring the Living Universe and Intelligent Powers in Nature and Humans which constitutes a watershed in the history of science, contrasting Science with Ancient Philosophy on Consciousness and Man, drawing on a galaxy of world-class authorities.   Edi has published a multitude of other informative articles and papers in the disciplines of science, engineering, and esoteric philosophy.  In 2007, his book The Snake and the Rope was awarded the Book Prize by the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN).  HIs present work was awarded the SMN's Grand Prize. Note: This four volume work, owing to the efforts of previous podcast Guest Tim Wyatt (see episode 300) will be condensed into Consciousness Came First:  Revealing Evidence for Universal Intelligence and Mind Beyond the Brain due to be published in December 2025 by Collective Ink Publishing. For more information about Dr. Edi, please see his informative website:  https://edibilimoria.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-306-dr-edi-bilimoria-unfolding-consciousness-exploring-the-living-universe-and-intelligent-powers-in-nature-and-humans Have a blessed 2025!

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