There's a paradigm shift happening in healing that most people are missing - and without understanding it, you'll keep hitting the same ceiling no matter how much inner work you do.

You've been told that healing is an individual journey. Fix yourself first, then help others. But what if this entire framework is keeping you stuck at a developmental stage that can never access the deepest states of consciousness, embodiment, and transformation?

Dr. John Churchill - clinical psychologist, 15-year Tibetan meditation practitioner, and founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute - has spent 25 years mapping why individual healing approaches plateau and what actually unlocks the next evolutionary leap in human development. 

This Episode Reveals the Missing Key That Changes Everything:

• Why your nervous system has a biological ceiling when healing happens in isolation - and how to transcend it

• The hidden reason trauma isn't personal but multi-generational, cultural, and civilizational - affecting your capacity for awakening

• How attachment wounds create an invisible barrier to accessing mystical states, no matter how advanced your spiritual practice

• Why even successful therapy can only make you "a functioning member of a dysfunctional culture" - and what comes next

• The evolutionary shift from hero's journey individualism to collective awakening that unlocks planetary consciousness

• How community healing rewires your nervous system in ways solo work cannot achieve

• The integration of cleaning up (healing trauma), growing up (developmental maturity), waking up (spiritual realization), and showing up (service)

• Why understanding humanity as a single organism fundamentally changes your healing trajectory

This isn't about adding community to your healing journey - it's about recognizing that the deepest states of consciousness, the most profound embodiment, and the transformation our world needs can only emerge through collective awakening.

Without this paradigm shift, you'll remain in what Churchill calls the "pre-collective" stage of development, unable to access the planetary awareness and heart-centered intelligence that represents the next phase of human evolution.

This conversation doesn't just offer new techniques - it provides the framework that makes all your previous healing work finally integrate and unlock the transformational states you've been seeking.

Connect with Dr. John:

Website: https://www.planetarydharma.com/

Instagram:@PlanetaryDharma

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Raj:

Instagram: @raj_jana

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