Beyond Stardust

What happens when the economist who helped build the global power system wakes up to what he was really doing? In this episode, I sit down with John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, to pull back the curtain on the hidden systems shaping our world and what it actually takes to change them.

We go deep on the mechanics of global economic domination, the current political climate, and why this moment in history is a genuine inflection point for humanity. John also shares his shamanic journey and the teaching that has guided everything since: the world is as you dream it.

This conversation bridges the seen and unseen, the political and the spiritual, and the question of what each of us can do right now to help shift humanity toward a life-affirming future.

As Chief Economist at a major consulting firm, John Perkins was advisor to the World Bank, UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, and government and business leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.

Before that, he apprenticed with shamans when he lived in the Amazon rainforest from 1968 to 1971 and has since studied with shamans from many different cultures. His eleven books on economics, shamanism, and transformation have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 70 weeks, sold millions of copies, and are published in at least 38 languages.

You can find John Perkins's work, newsletter and more on his website: https://www.johnperkins.org/

You can pre-order his upcoming book "The Art of The Steal: Trump and the Economic Hit Man Presidency" (If you order as a pre-sale at this site, you get 10% off and a signed copy) here: https://www.eagleharborbooks.com/events/5475420260908

In this episode, Corina LaVonne sits down with Julie Cloutier for a heartfelt and expansive conversation on awakening, awareness, and the journey of self-realization.

Julie shares her path from childhood wonder, through profound experiences of trauma and grief, to the recognition of awareness as her True Nature.

Together, they explore the illusion of separation, the role of thoughts and emotions within consciousness, and the simplicity that lies at the heart of awakening.

This conversation moves beyond spiritual concepts and into the lived experience of integrating realization into everyday life, offering a grounded yet profound exploration of unconditional love, inner peace, effortless living, and the freedom that emerges when we recognize what has always been here.

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Julie Cloutier is a conscious mentor guiding those who are awakening to their infinite nature — and learning to live from that recognition fully, in their human experience.Through the dismantling of beliefs and the somatic release of contracted emotional energy, she opens her clients to the inner peace that they truly are.She also supports those called to actualise their highest potential from this recognition — whether through a heart-centred business, creative expression, or the full aliveness in their relationships and daily life.

Julie can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@juliecloutierchannel,

on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/julie.cloutier.freedom/

and at https://www.juliecloutier.com

Julie's interview with David Bingham can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd27rNaflB4&t=3503s

In this episode, Corina welcomes back Katja Niedermeier for part two of their conversation, diving deeper into her teachings and unraveling the old ways of understanding manifestation. Together, they explore the nature of ego and the subtle illusions it creates, revealing how what is often taught as “manifestation” can actually reinforce a sense of separation and control. Katja shares a radically different perspective where true creation is not personal, but an expression of divine consciousness, and where nothing needs to be forced or managed. This conversation opens a deeper understanding of Christ consciousness, the role of awareness in dissolving ego patterns, and what it means to live in alignment with a natural, effortless flow beyond desire, lack, and striving.

Movie mentioned: The Men Who Stare At Goats

Connect with Katja:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/K8.Katja.Niedermeier

Instagram: @thekarmabusiness https://www.instagram.com/thekarmabusiness/

In this episode, Corina sits down with Katja Niedermeier for a deeply expansive conversation on awakening, consciousness, and the true meaning behind the Bible when it’s seen beyond dogma.

Katja shares her journey from perceiving life through the lens of the “3D matrix” to recognizing the subtle illusions that keep us identified with stories, and how reading the Bible from a place of openness revealed something entirely different than what she had been taught.

Together, Corina and Katja explore what it means to live as Effortless BEing, how desires naturally fall away in alignment with truth, and the difference between ego-driven manifestation and divine flow.

This episode invites a shift in perception—where even concepts like time, suffering, and chaos are seen as part of infinite consciousness—and points to the simplicity of what’s already here when the mind’s narratives are no longer taken as truth.

Recommended Films:

The Case For Jesus

Cloud Atlas

Interstellar

Connect with Katya Niedermeyer:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/K8.Katja.Niedermeier

Instagram: @TheKarmaBusiness https://www.instagram.com/thekarmabusiness/

In this episode, Corina LaVonne explores the nature of consciousness and the role we play in the characters life and personality path.

She dives into popular spiritual and self-discovery systems like human design, astrology, and numerology, sharing her personal journey with these modalities and why she ultimately chose to unplug from them.

While acknowledging the insights these tools can offer, Corina invites listeners to look deeper—beyond labels, categories, and belief systems—to recognize their true nature as infinite consciousness.

Through discussions on manifestation, beliefs, timelines, and the illusion of separation, she encourages listeners to reclaim their innate power and remember that the most important truth is this: reality is being created through them. 💎

Resources:

• Corina LaVonne's Website
• Understanding Human Design

In this episode, Corina speaks directly to this moment, how to navigate a troubling appearance of the world while staying anchored in the truth of who and what we are.

Corina unpacks why understanding “it’s all an illusion” is not a bypass or an invitation to ignore what’s arising in lived reality, and how that misunderstanding has caused harm.

She looks at love and light beyond the spiritual clichés, what they actually are, why they’ve been misunderstood, and how they are the key to holding, meeting, and transmuting apparent darkness without collapsing into fear or dissociation.

There is so much more woven into this conversation, but know this: this is an essential episode for right now, for those who want to stay awake, grounded, and truly in love while the world feels anything but simple.

You can find Corina here: links.corinalavonne.com

Beyond Stardus email: [email protected]

In this episode, Corina shares her spiritual journey through a new lens. One that brings compassion and clarity to why people enter certain belief systems and cling to modalities as if their life depends on them.

Corina reflects honestly on her own relationship with spirituality, naming where it genuinely opened her into freedom and where it quietly kept her bound.

She explores how spiritual practices can become commodities, how identity can form around “doing spirituality,” and how she eventually recognized she was in a subtle, narcissistic relationship with spirituality itself.

This is a raw, grounded conversation about discernment, liberation, and what it actually means to be free.

You can find Corina here: https://links.corinalavonne.com

This is part 2 of our two-part celebration of completing A Year of Miracles ,

our lived, breathed, feminine interpretation of A Course in Miracles.

In this two part series, Sammy and I go deeper into what it actually takes to remember your true nature… and why it’s not always pretty, light, or easy.

We talk about ego resistance, self-sabotage, upper limits, and the very real work of showing up when you don’t want to.

We explore how awareness dismantles old identities brick by brick, how invitations from life reveal where we’re still buying into fear, and how community makes this journey not only possible, but profoundly beautiful.

This conversation is about remaining love, not choosing between love and fear.

About recognizing yourself as both infinite and human. About letting contraction serve expansion. About realizing there’s nothing to fix, only something to remember.

Whether you’ve done AYOM, are halfway through, or have never touched A Course in Miracles in your life, this series stands on its own.

If you’re on a path of awakening, self-honesty, and embodied truth… this one’s for you.

Come celebrate the journey with us.

To join Inner Bloom and A Year of Miracles (Women Only) Join here: corinalavonne.com/shop/Innerbloomfounder

This is part 1 in a 2 part series. Sammy and I are celebration our completion of A Year of Miracles, our interpretation of A Course In Miracles Workbook. We are celebrating us, those who have finished AYOM with us, those still on the journey, and those who are yet to join.

In this first part Sammy discuss how this project has transformed us, The nature of "invitations" into the ego version of the human experience, the mirror of reality and so much more.

Even if you are not a part, and especially if. you are not a part of A Year of Miracles, this episode is for you. You get a more in depth picture of what we did in this class, and there are beautiful realizations and examples of new ways to see the world in this episode alone. Come celebrate with us!

To join A Year of Miracles and Inner Bloom (women only) use this link: corinalavonne.com/shop/Innerbloomfounder

In this episode of the Beyond Stardust Podcast, Corina Lavonne invites you into an honest, grounded exploration of non-dual awakening and what it actually means to integrate realization into everyday life.

Through personal insight and lived experience, she shares how awakening can be subtle, how emotional waves become teachers, and how returning to awareness dissolves struggle.

This conversation is for anyone who’s seen Truth, but is learning how to live it, reminding you that the deepest knowing has always been within you. 💎

You can find Corina and her links here: https://links.corinalavonne.com