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How can you help reduce racism, casteism, and other sources of discord in the world? You can start by understanding which of the six levels of consciousness – from self-centered to universal – you're at right now.

Then you can do your inner work to keep upgrading your level of awareness, which radiates out and affects everyone else. In this eleven-minute episode, I discuss this and other ways to help make the world (and your life) more harmonious!

Resources

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Ken Wilber

Free video: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening, Healing, and More. I lead you through all four types of my invocations!

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What kind of fool would dare a powerful plant spirit teacher like ayahuasca to give him her best shot?

That fool was me, back in June of 2009.

This is the story of how Mother Ayahuasca responded to my impudence with a challenging ceremony that taught me some much-needed humility. Yet, in the midst of overwhelming intensity, she was still kind enough to give me some ecstatic experiences and critical insights.

A few of these insights concerned my sexuality, and I share those near the end of my tale. I'll give you a heads up before I start on that topic, so you can listen without concerns about sensitive subject matter until then.

Resources

Free video: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening, Healing, and More. I lead you through all four types of my invocations!

Check out my #1 Amazon bestseller: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More.

• Available as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. (FREE if you're not yet an Audible member!)

• Also available as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover starting at $3.99, and included with Kindle Unlimited.

Every month, I give away a free one-year Awakening Plus membership to an "Awaken, Heal, and Thrive!" listener. Click here to enter!

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This is my tenth episode that focuses mostly or entirely on my experiences with master plant spirit teachers, especially Ayahuasca and San Pedro. The other nine are:

Divinity Puree - E48

My Unconditional Surrender - E34

How Much 5D Ecstasy Can You Stand? It's Here ... the Moment You're Ready - E29

My Soul Thief Awakening - E25

My Rekindled Love for San Pedro Ceremonies - E21

4 Early Plant Spirit Ceremonies - E16 Unconditional Love: Not What I Expected! - E9

Ayahuasca Overview - E8

My First Ayahuasca Story … Is Actually About San Pedro! - E3

How did getting diagnosed with candida launch me into an extraordinary breakthrough?

In this special 20-minute episode, I describe the life-transforming changes I've been enjoying from the ketotarian/anti-candida diet I've been on for the last month. They include 20 pounds of effortless weight loss, sharper memory, boosted vitality, consistent equanimity, and the disappearance of anxiety and depression.

This experience has given me a much deeper respect for the profound impact of my food choices on my mind, body, emotions, and everything else. Even if keto isn't on your menu, this episode should give you plenty of food for thought!

Resources

The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever by Mark Sisson & Brad Kearns

Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation: A Cookbook by Dr. Will Cole

Free video: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening, Healing, and More. I lead you through all four types of my invocations!

Check out my #1 Amazon bestseller: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More.

• Available as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. (FREE if you're not yet an Audible member!)

• Also available as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover starting at $3.99, and included with Kindle Unlimited.

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Momentum has been an essential key to manifesting success in every aspect of my life. In this 11-minute episode, I hope to inspire you by describing how momentum has helped me professionally and spiritually. I also share ten ways you can keep your own momentum going!

Resources

How to Build Momentum in Life (20 Tips for Gaining Momentum) - Dean Graziosi.

My Law of Attraction post.

Free video: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening, Healing, and More. I lead you through all four types of my invocations!

Check out my #1 Amazon bestseller: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More.

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• Also available as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover starting at $3.99, and included with Kindle Unlimited.

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How do you tame obsessive thoughts?

My clients and Awakening Plus members frequently ask me this question. Fortunately, I know three ways to reestablish mental serenity. I break them all down for you in this 11-minute episode:

1. Do the Embodied Awakening Invocation

2. Do the Two-Story Thought House Visualization

3. Let the thoughts run in the background while you focus elsewhere.

There's a good chance one of these methods will work for you!

Resources

My episode on the Embodied Awakening Invocation.

Free mini-course: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening and Healing

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It's easy enough to say "All is one" and contemplate this idea intellectually.

But what happens when you actually merge into "divinity puree"? What changes when you consciously experience that you are, and always have been, the divine beings that previously seemed so far above you?

I describe how this profound merging has transformed my life in this 12-minute episode, and talk about the paradigm-shattering ayahuasca ceremony that opened me to it. I also give you some tips on how you can experience "divinity puree" for yourself!

Resources

Check out my #1 Amazon bestseller: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More.

• Available as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. (FREE if you're not yet an Audible member!)

• Also available as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover starting at $3.99, and included with Kindle Unlimited.

Every month, I give away a free one-year Awakening Plus membership to an "Awaken, Heal, and Thrive!" listener. Click here to enter!

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Luke Skywalker couldn't believe his eyes when Yoda used the Force to levitate his X-Wing Fighter out of a Dagobah swamp. Like Luke, we all have a part that doubts the reality of radically new experiences.

In this 9-minute episode, I teach you how to honor this skeptical part and understand how it's trying to keep you safe – while not letting it stop you from breaking through to new levels of spiritual awakening!

Resources

Check out my #1 Amazon bestseller: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More.

• Available as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. (FREE if you're not yet an Audible member!)
• Also available as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover starting at $3.99, and included with Kindle Unlimited.

Every month, I give away a free one-year Awakening Plus membership worth $333 to an "Awaken, Heal, and Thrive!" listener. Click here to enter!

Free mini-course: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening and Healing

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The holidays can be joyous, but can also be stressful. If you need to chill out this holiday season, or anytime, this "Heaven Eleven" playlist might be just the thing! It's ideal to support your spiritual practice, or to help you bask in deep relaxation.

In this brief seven-minute episode, I recommend eleven of my all-time favorite ambient pieces, a "best of" from over 45 years of New Age music immersion. These pieces are also long enough that you can really sink in and let them take you away.

Resources

My "Heaven Eleven" playlist on Spotify

My Deep Relaxation playlist. It includes the Heaven Eleven, plus over 20 more similar songs.

My "Awesome Spiritual Music" post, for even more great songs!

Check out Benjamin's #1 Amazon bestseller: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More.

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The "Heaven Eleven" songs:

1. Buddham Sharanam - Deva Premal - 9:29
2. Breathing Space - Sacred Earth - 8:06
3. Shivaratri - Benjy Wertheimer, John De Kadt - 9:23
4. Letting Go - Shaman's Dream, Bluetech - 9:17
5. Khumjung - Ben Leinbach, Jai Uttal, Manose - 15:32
6. Gayatri - Vive - 8:20
7. The Sound Beyond the Sound - Benjamin Bernstein - 12:19
8. The Spell - Kevin Braheney, Tim Clark - 5:53
9. Time Travelers - Coyote Oldman - 8:04
10. Tingri Maiden - Jonn Serrie - 9:24
11. Sivasana (Surrender) - Suzanne Sterling, Christopher Krotky - 8:48

I'm always grateful for accelerated healing and spiritual awakening. And nothing gets this going more effectively than challenging catalyst!

This 11-minute Thanksgiving episode spotlights this idea, with special attention to the two basic life paths described in the Law of One: service-to-self and service-to-other.

Resources

The Law of One

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While this interview episode focuses on hope – and how Laura V. is healing from severe trauma more quickly and easily than she had thought possible – it does contain graphic descriptions that may upset some listeners. This episode is definitely not suitable for children, so please don't listen if you're under eighteen.

Even if you're an adult, if the thought of a five-year-old girl being pulled into a sex trafficking operation, then experiencing extreme abuse for more than eight years, is too much for you to bear, please stop right here.

Laura V, one of my healing clients, gives frank descriptions of her ten years as a victim of incest and sex trafficking. Her father, one of many men who abused her, sold her into sexual slavery when she was a young girl.

This 80-minute episode includes details of how she and many other children experienced severe abuse, which some did not survive. She also describes how Dissociative Identity Disorder has helped her cope with these traumatic experiences.

Laura discusses her experiences in the context of how she's healing from these traumas using quick and effective modalities, especially Internal Family Systems Therapy and my Instant Divine Assistance Invocations.

Both Laura and I have been amazed at how rapidly she's been healing during the sessions I've been facilitating for her. Our intention with this episode is to show you that, no matter how severe the trauma you've experienced, quick and effective healing might be possible.

After our interview, I'll give you a brief overview of child sex trafficking. This will help you put Laura's experience into a larger context. I've included links to Laura's recommended books and support resources for childhood sexual abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder below.

Laura offers these key takeaways from her interview:

1. No matter how long ago or how recent the abuse, no matter how minor or severe the abuse, healing is possible.

2. Healing doesn't have to be grueling, exhausting or hard. It can be quick, effortless, and uplifting!

3. With the Instant Divine Assistance Invocations and Internal Family Systems Therapy, you can confront, process and completely heal difficult and even terrifying trauma memories. And you can do it safely and quickly.

Experience had taught me that facing the terrors I experienced would put me in crisis. With Benjamin's skilled help, I faced those terrors and found compassion for my abusers and myself. After I transmuted those painful, burdensome memories, I found peace and joy on the other side. I did not have to recover from these sessions for even a few minutes!

4. There is hope. It is possible to find freedom, joy, and a future that is good. Your Higher Self, or God, is guiding you to that future every step of the way!

If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, you can get help at humantraffickinghotline.org/, or by calling 1-888-373-7888.

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Laura highly recommends these resources on childhood sexual abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder:

Discussing Dissociation site by Kathy Broady, MSW.

Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Techniques and Strategies for Stabilization, book by Dr. Colin Ross.

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation, book by Dr. Janina Fisher.

An Infinite Mind -- organization dedicated to support survivors with DID.

Child Rescue Coalition.

RAINN -- for adult survivors who need help recovering from childhood sexual abuse.

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Here are Benjamin's sources for the child sex trafficking information he gives after Laura's interview:

https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts

https://oese.ed.gov/human-trafficking-of-children-in-the-united-states-a-fact-sheet-for-schools/

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/151/1/e2022060416/190310/Exploitation-Labor-and-Sex-Trafficking-of-Children

https://ballardbrief.byu.edu/issue-briefs/sex-trafficking-of-youth-in-the-united-states

Also, Laura and I want to share this comment from my YouTube page:

IFS course work in Benjamin's membership is really an amazing tool. Laura and Benjamin just bring the possibilities to a whole new level in this interview. Benjamin is a genius at knowing what to bring to light and Laura is extraordinary as a being of light! These are two experts with big hearts. The interview was not upsetting to me in any way, it was a demonstration of how IFS works and not a scary interview just on child trafficking. The warning at the beginning is appropriate because some individuals may be triggered by any mention of such a horrendous crime. Do be aware that you can stop listening at any point if you do begin listening to the interview and want to stop, of course. -- @jeannieszaboky4204

Benjamin's Usual Resources

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