A State of Mind

By Julian Royce

We feature provocative, in depth conversations leading thinkers on topics including meditation and mindfulness, non-dual spirituality, psychedelics, psychology, ecology and sustainability and eudomain... more

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June 13, 2021#78- Wilderness, Somatic & Psychedelic Therapies with April Pojman
Julian talks with April Pojman, a wilderness and somatic based trauma informed therapist. Topics range from what trauma is and why being in touch with one's body is essential to healing to the role that psychedelic medicines can play in healing.
Learn more about April at:
http://www.lions-breath.com/home.html
Topics:
April shares how she works with a Somatic orientation, with wilderness and with psychedelics - and ways these three are all similar

EMDR Trauma therapy

What is Trauma in context of psychology and therapy?

April's experience with NGOs and policy work

Somatic

Psychedelics

Wilderness

Ketamine and Cannabis assisted therapy and what that can look like

The stigmas and stereotypes around Cannabis and how different it is in the context of therapy

Why she named her practice Lions Breath Counseling.
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A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
Support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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48min
May 26, 2021 #77 - Empowering Creativity with Janis Dochterman, Expressive Arts Therapist
Julian speaks with Janis Dochterman, an expressive arts therapist.
Learn more about Janis and her many offerings here:
www.WEWILDE.live
https://boulderhearttherapy.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/170271004528071

Click this link to participate in the Ways of Looking Research study on the relationship between meditation practice preferences, personality traits, and the use of psychedelics. No psychedelic experience is required for participation.
https://www.ways-of-looking.com

Learn more about Tiny Temples:
https://www.healingearthhomes.com

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A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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1h 11min
May 13, 2021#76 - The Beacon Calling You Home with Ena Vie and Howard Lipp of Ka-aela Rafaana Ministry
Julian speaks with Ena Vie and Howard Lipp of Keala Rafana Ministry.
Learn more about their work and connect with Ena and Howard at:

www.enaandhoward.com

https://www.kealarafana.com

https://www.enavie.com

Instagram: @enavieandhowardlipp

Facebook: Ena Vie and Howard Lipp
Topics:
Addictions

How we are addicted to our thinking

Plant spirit medicine and Psychedelics as anti-addiction medicine

Music as sanity - how Howard grew up as a musician

Howard's experience in an Addiction treatment center and how an experience with 'Soma' helped him to overcome the roots of his addictions

The Soma in this case may well have been derived from Amanita muscaria

Ena's life story of growing up in a strong Christian community and eventually breaking away from that

The importance of community and how their ministry is about creating a positive loving community

Authentic self - what it is and how to discover it

How to know what to do

Traditions and living lineages - the need for spirituality and traditions to evolve with each generation, rather than holding to a fixed view of how it is supposed to be. Howard shares from his Hebrew culture how the Torah and other scriptures are meant to be living and evolving with each generation.

Everything is energy consciousness
There is a beacon calling you home.
It is the song of your soul.
Come listen with us a while.
We will help you hear the music.
The song of your essence,
the divine spark that’s you,
is the song that calls you home.
Keala Rafana
(www.enaandhoward.com)
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A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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1h 31min
May 02, 2021#75 - Wild Horses (& goats!) with Kate Neligan, Equine-Partnered Life/Career Coach, Speaker, Author & Healer
Julian speaks with Kate Neligan. Kate works as a coach and brings people and groups to spend time with horses and goats as part of her coaching.
Learn More about Kate Neligan at:
https://www.consciousrockstar.com
https://www.facebook.com/KateNeliganEquineCoach/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdlnr9HUkHO1uZ_703EnUgg
https://www.instagram.com/kateneliganequinecoach/
Click this link to participate in the Ways of Looking Research study on the relationship between meditation practice preferences, personality traits, and the use of psychedelics. No psychedelic experience is required for participation.
https://www.ways-of-looking.com
Topics:
Introduction 0:00- 8:12:
Ways of Looking Science study on the relationship between meditation practice preferences, personality traits, and the use of psychedelics.

Julian's bout with Covid
Conversation with Kate Neligan 8:33:
Equine and goat assisted coaching

Loves animals

Taming - gentleing

'Power with'

Fun theory - that people will do more if its fun

Bring teams from Corporate America to spend a day with the horses

Emotional intelligence

'taming' or 'breaking' a horse - Kate prefers to call it 'gentling'

Wild horses

Re-Wilding

Kate is starting to train other Equine coaches
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support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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55min
April 17, 2021 #74 - Life Awake with Ori Zimmels
Julian is joined by Ori Zimmels, a spiritual teacher and guide.
Ori offers coaching, mentoring and guiding as well as leading groups.
Learn more about Ori's work and contact him at https://www.lifeawake.com
https://www.instagram.com/ori.zimmels/
https://www.facebook.com/ozpicious
Topics Discussed:
- Spirituality and what it is
- Being a 'seeker', looking for truth, exploring different paths
- Efforting and Effortlessness
- India
- Spirituality as Developmental
- Importance of having a guide or teacher who actually cares about you
- Spirituality as a developmental path of getting to deeper and deeper identities
- Making Decisions from rightness or true Self and distinguishing that right choice from when one is dis-regulated
- Differentiating 'self' or 'true self' from 'self image'
- Self and Authentic Impulse
- Non-duality
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1h 26min
April 11, 2021 #73 - Lama Sarah Harding & Translating Buddhism for the Modern World
Lama Sarah Harding joins Julian to share stories of her life and work as a practitioner, scholar, Lama and translator of Buddhism.
About Sarah Harding: Sarah completed the first three-year retreat for westerners at Kagyu Ling, France, 1976–1980 and later served as a translator at Kagyu Shenpen Kunkyab, Santa Fe, 1980–1992. She was a founding member of Kalu Rinpoche’s International Translation Group in 1987 and has taught the Tibetan language to hundreds of students over the years, including creating a popular Tibetan language correspondence course. She retired from Naropa University in 2018 after twenty-six years of service. She continues her written translation work from her home in Boulder, Colorado. Tsadra Foundation fellow since 2000.
Topics:
Sarah Harding shares stories from her life
Issues of Translation
Discussion of Vajrayana Deity Yoga Practice and her translation of Creation and Completion
Neuroscience and Buddhism
Emptiness and Compassion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Harding_(lama)
https://www.tsadra.org/translators/sarah-harding/
https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Completion-Essential-Tantric-Meditation/dp/0861713125/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Sarah+harding&qid=1617929276&sr=8-4
https://www.amazon.com/Machiks-Complete-Explanation-Clarifying-Expanded/dp/1559394145/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=machig+complete+explanation&qid=1618097981&sr=8-1
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A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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1h 36min
March 26, 2021 #72 - Kyle Buller of Psychedelics Today
Kyle and Julian discuss the history, present and future of psychedelics. Kyle is the co-founder and director of education and training at Psychedelics Today.
0:00 - 5:31 Intro
5:54 Conversation with Kyle
Topics discussed:
- Psychedelics Today
- History of Psychedelics
- Stan Grof and Holotropic Breath Work
- Kyle shares his story of a near death experience at age 16
- Rick Strassman and DMT - Over Use and Right Use
- Julian shares about the Psychedelic Sitter School
https://psychedelicstoday.com
www.settingsunwellness.com
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A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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1h 36min
February 28, 2021#71 - Psychedelic Secrets of Buddhism with Mike Crowley
Mike Crowley is the author of Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana. He has been practicing and studying Tibetan Buddhism for over 40 years and after over 20 years of study and practice was recognized as a lama by his teacher. He is currently writing a new book on Psychedelics for Buddhist and Buddhism for Psychonaughts.
O:00- 10:57 Introduction
10:58 Conversation with Mike Crowley begins
Partial List of topics in order discused:
Soma, the ancient ritual drink of the Vedas

The Caste System and Vedic rituals

To even touch a Mushroom was forbidden in the ancient Laws of Manu

The War on Drugs and Cultural Taboos

Pema Lingpa, biography and Mike Crowley discovering a terma treasure from Pema Lingpa inside of a prayer wheel

Longchenpa

The importance of Amrita or the 'nectar of immortality' in Vajrayana Buddhism

Robert Thurman, Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner

Death and Deathlessness, Ego and 'ego death'

Non-duality, Emptiness and Oneness

Panca - Amrita 'the five fold amrita' that later became the English word 'punch'.

Duncan Creek Farm Retreats in northern California
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Drugs-Buddhism-Psychedelic-Sacraments/dp/0907791743/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=secret+drugs+of+buddhism&qid=1614022592&sr=8-2
https://www.facebook.com/groups/411470896733379
https://www.facebook.com/SecretDrugs
A State of Mind Podcast: www.astateofmindplay.com
A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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1h 41min
February 18, 2021#68- From Therapist to Guide with Jeff James Howard, LPC
Jeff James Howard, LPC joins Julian discussing the state of psychotherapy, being a soul guide, some of the problems with 'cancel culture' and the adolescence of United States culture writ large, vision fasts in the desert, men's work, danger of bypassing one's own past and unsustainable ways of trying to achieve transformation - list of topics below
Feb 18 republished with Edited Intro -
0:00- 5:40min Intro
5:40 min - 68:00min - Conversation with Jeff
Topics:

Transitioning from psychotherapy to being a soul guide

Inside the Kiva

Finding our life's purpose and calling

The difference between 'you have a unique gift' and 'what do you want to be when you grow up?'

The stories we grow up with

Introjects versus leading with genuine longing

Why Jeff went into therapy as a client

Bill Plotkin, Depth Psychologist, Wilderness Therapy, Amos Valley Institute and the Patho Adolescence - how many of us never really grows up and become initiated adults in the world.

That the Insurrection at the Capital, the Me Too movement, BLM are developmentally in their adolescence and young in their process

The School of Lost Borders

Wilderness Vision Quests

"We don't go out into the woods to find ourselves or discover new parts of ourselves or become a new person. We go out to be with who we already are."

Psychiatric drugs and the risks and disfunction in our current medical system

Men's Work

Making Messes and cleaning them up skillfully - rather than being a people pleaser or a yes man or trying to be nice all the time

Black Mirror episode where someone can be 'canceled' and literally disappear from the perception of all the other people around them, effectively being exiled from humanity itself.
Learn more about Jeff at:
https://www.threeleavescounseling.com
https://drdansiegel.com/biography/
A State of Mind Podcast: www.astateofmindplay.com
A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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1h 10min
January 29, 2021#67 - Social Media & Smartphone Addiction: The Power of Looking Within - Part 2 with Craig Salerno, LPC
Julian and Craig discuss social media and smart phone use from the perspective of addictions. This is part two of our conversation.
Topics in order
0-7:00 - Intro

7:00 - Conversation with Craig

Cell phone addiction

Social Dilemma documentary

Craigs view that the recovering addicts are the wisdom holders here

Julian's dream of tentacles from iPhone into my head the night he had an iPhone for the first time

Definitions of mind being beyond limits of physical body- existing in relationships. Dan Siegal's definition of mind.

Moving Internally to work with this issue rather than external regulation

What we are up against - how our capitalist system preys on our addictions - and incentivizes consumption and addiction

The role of Intention and the limits of our Will Power and Desire in stopping and Addiction

No evidence that intention and desire, excitement and enthusiasm correlates to success in stopping an addiction

The ways in which Social Media can begin to seem more 'real' than real life

What are the unmet needs that an addiction seems to be or is meeting

The role of Core emotional needs

Sense of pervasive emptiness in our culture

Phenomena of looking up people through social media, like your ex's current partner

The need to be careful with what information we are taking in

How to work with impulse to an addictive habit such as checking your phone
https://www.ladbible.com/news/weird-researchers-say-mobile-phone-use-is-changing-the-shape-of-our-skulls-20190615
https://www.thesocialdilemma.com
Learn more about Craig Salerno:
https://craigsalernocounseling.com
A State of Mind Podcast website: www.astateofmindplay.com
Learn more about Julian at www.julianocean.us
A State of Mind Counseling: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
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45min

FAQs about A State of Mind:

How many episodes does A State of Mind have?

The podcast currently has 133 episodes available.