Connecting Minds

Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/15-dr-aimie-apigian/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yL4zRs21_Zs

In this episode of Connecting Minds we have Dr Aimie Apigian and we talk about how stress and can lead to overwhelm and subsequent trauma that can get imprinted into our nervous systems. Pretty riveting stuff and very relevant to the current stressful environment.

Dr. Aimie is a Board-Certified Preventive Medicine Physician who specializes in trauma, attachment and addiction medicine, and optimizing our nervous system to feel our best and do our best. After throwing herself into finding answers on how to help her foster-adopted son as he struggled with severe emotional and behavioral issues, she started to see how much of trauma is biology, not psychology.

After 6 exhausting years the pieces came together for her son, and as he successfully shifted into feeling loved and understood, she then developed chronic fatigue and autoimmune issues, and discovered her own trauma patterns at the root of it. By what she calls, “biohacking trauma, attachment and the nervous system,” she has found it is possible to rewire the insecure attachment, trauma patterns and accumulated stress that is stored in our bodies.

In addition to running her medical concierge focus on bio-hacking the nervous system, She is the founder and director of Family Challenge Camps, a weekend intensive for families, and is the founder and CEO of Trauma Healing Accelerated, an LLC dedicated to providing education and courses for those wanting to help themselves and/or their children.

She has written a Roadmap to Accelerating the Rewiring of Trauma Patterns, runs the Intentional Parenting for Attachment 3 month program and has created self-guided online courses including the Shift To Calm Aliveness course to get people started with the basics of Somatic Experiencing, a powerful body-based therapy. She loves seeing the change happen that can happen so quickly by working directly with the body and optimizing one’s biology for connection and aliveness.

Links to Dr Aimie’s website and resources:

Website: https://draimie.com/

Shift to Calm Aliveness course: https://traumahealingaccelerated.mykajabi.com/Shift_to_Calm

Bio-Optimize Summit: https://bio-optimizesummit.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFNUriSZ4iaJkh8VDG0ElzQ

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/draimie/

Trauma Healing Accelerated: https://www.facebook.com/traumahealingaccelerated

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lMoAPIp26wU
Shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/14-ricky-varandas/

Ricky Varandas is the host of The Ripple Effect Podcast and The Union of The Unwanted podcast. In this episode we talk about censorship and some other stuff we need to talk about more ;) Make sure you tune in!

Links to Ricky's podcasts and social media:

The Ripple Effect Podcast: https://rvtheory6.podomatic.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RvTheory6
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RvTHEORY6
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ripple-Effect-Podcast/429013297211868
Union of the Unwanted Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-union-of-the-unwanted/id1543392645

Topics discussed on this episode:

• How Ricky got into podcasting.
• Censorship on social media.
• The Plandemic film - check out the series here: https://plandemicseries.com/
• Event 201.
• The person who invented the PCR test used to diagnose C0V1D says it is being misused.
• The trauma the current crisis is inflicting upon children.
• The stupidy of face masks.
• Lies about statistics of infections and deaths.

Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/13-matthew-pallamary
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JECvEsw5hqw

Matt Pallamary (Mateo) is an award winning writer, musician, and sound healer who has been studying shamanism all of his life and incorporates shamanic practices into his daily life as well as into his writing and teaching.

In this episode we talk about Mateo’s exploration of shamanic cultures and their medicines, including Ayahuasca. We also talk about other cool stuff, so tune in as there are many gems of wisdom from Mateo’s decades-long study of shamanism, sound healing, and plant medicines!

Links to Mateo’s books, website, and social media:

Website: http://mattpallamary.com
Books: http://mattpallamary.com/writings/
Mystic Ink Publishing: https://mysticinkpublishing.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattpallamary
Amazon author page: http://t.co/wo9nR2vYsf?amp=1

Topics discussed on this episode: 

• Mateo’s background and his explorations with psychoactive and consciousness-expanding substances.
• His experience with Ayahuasca ceremonies and shamanism in Peru. The Dieta and other plants he’s worked with.
• The time between psychedelic experiences is where the real work gets done.
• How working with the medicine (Ayahuasca) can help you get past the mind/head/ego and become more heart-centered. Becoming essence-centered allows you to see you are the creator of you own ego, which is a set of coping strategies designed to help your survive in the world.
• Our primary wound is abandonment.
• Stanislav Grof’s perinatal matrices. 
• The two basic fears we have - entrapment and abandonment.
• The difference between LSD and Ayahuasca.
• Why it’s so important to do Ayahuasca with an experienced shaman/facilitator in a ceremony.
• Mateo’s  experience with Huachuma (San Pedro) and Peyote.
• How sound can be used for healing. Mateo talks about his work with sound healing as a musician. The importance of energy and intention.
• The plant Dieta and becoming one with the jungle.
• The importance of integrity for facilitators.

Shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/12-charlie-robinson
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-Z_BHE0py38

Charlie Robinson is the author of The Octopus of Global Control and the new book with Jeff Berwick a.k.a The Dollar Vigilante, The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire. We a talk about his books and his research into conspiracies intended to keep us subservient slaves to a select few people who orchestrate world affairs. This is an incredibly important episode for you to listen to in full. Please check out Charlie's work, it is sure to make you rethink some fundamental views you may hold about the world you live in ;)

Links to Charlie's books, podcast, website, and social:

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire: https://www.amazon.com/Controlled-Demolition-American-Empire/dp/B08M21XKJ5

The Octopus of Global Control: https://www.amazon.com/Octopus-Global-Control-Charlie-Robinson/dp/1521818495

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macroaggressions/id1501964274

Octopus book website: http://theoctopusofglobalcontrol.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/macroaggressio3

Topics Discussed on this episode:

They are way too many gems from Charlie in this conversation to list them. A small sample of the topics covered include: 

• How Charlie got into his research and how it lead to him writing his first book, then with Jeff Berwick on the second one.
• The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
• Who are the globalists? What are the up to?
• Why you should be interested in these topics.
• What causes politicians to make seemingly terrible decisions for the people.
• The role of child abuse in politics.
• False flag terror attacks.
• The use of propaganda in the media to sway public opinion.

Watch this interview on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/sL17AtT7Kxk
Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/11-chris-bache

Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.

Chris is a father of 3, a Vajrayana practitioner, and lives in Weaverville, NC.

You can contact Chris at chris [at) chrisbache (dot--com].

Links to Chris' books and other resources:

LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven

Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life

Chris presenting on reincarnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlCMfEOmsrY

Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind

The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness

Website: https://chrisbache.com/

Chris' academic publications: https://youngstown.academia.edu/ChristopherMBache

Topics discussed on this episode: 

• Chris discusses his 20 year journey of exploration of his consciousness during 1979 - 1999.
• His discovery of Stan Grof’s work and how that catalysed his high-dose LSD work.
• The protocol he used, based on Stan Grof’s research.
• Chris’ first book, Lifecycles, which is about reincarnation.
• Chris gives us an overview of what happens to us when we take low and high doses of LSD. 
• We confront The Shadow - fears, worries, early traumatic experiences all the way back to infancy and the womb.
• The death-rebirth process.
• Ego death.
• The high-dose protocol initially developed for terminally ill cancer patients.
• CoEx systems and the Perinatal level of consciousness, and how accessing them through LSD can have therapeutic potential.
• What happens after one dissolves the CoEx systems and Perinatal matrices. 
• The practices that allowed Chris to integrate the his experiences into daily life.
• The middle and later stages of Chris’ journey and how the content of his sessions changed and developed.
• The Diamond Luminosity.
• Deep time and the birth of the Future Human.
• Chris’ attitude towards his own death, and the lack of fear associated with it.
• The reasons Chris decided to stop with his LSD work.
• The challenge of integrating the entire journey after stopping the sessions. 
• Chris’ plans for the future in terms of teaching and producing more work.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YHfO7sSxymo
Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/09-marty-leeds

Today on Connecting Minds we have Marty Leeds - author, musician, and content creator. His work covers  symbolism, mythology, numerology, gematria and sacred geometry. We talk about seeing the fingerprints of the Creator in the mathematics of the world around us, the human body, and even in various sacred texts like the Bible. Fascinating stuff!

Links to Marty's website and YouTube channel:

Marty's website: https://martyleeds33.com/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjcYXazpAS5g9uUEeQMAC4Q

Topics discussed on this episode: 

• Marty’s background and work.
• The mathematics in the world around us.
• The fingerprint of the Creator found in the human body, for example on the hands.
• The hidden numerology in the Bible and other sacred texts.
• What is gematria?
• The number 666.
• The significance of Pi.
• The shift in the English language that allowed encoding of certain numbers into various words and phrases.
• Chess and the various things it encodes.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tG_qsCV3zwk
Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/08-kyle-buller

Today on Connecting Minds we have Kyle Buller. He is one of the co-founders of Psychedelics Today, alongside Joe Moore. We discuss Kyle’s near-death experience and how it shaped his pursuit of exploring Transpersonal Psychology, Breathwork, and other non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Kyle's interest in exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness began at the age of 16 when he suffered a traumatic snowboarding accident. After this near-death experience, Kyle’s life changed dramatically. Kyle subsequently earned his B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology from Burlington College, where he focused on studying the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness by exploring shamanism, Reiki, local medicinal plants and plant medicine, Holotropic Breathwork. Kyle has been studying breathwork since October 2010.

Kyle earned his M.S. in clinical mental health counseling with an emphasis in somatic psychology from Prescott College. Kyle’s clinical background in mental health consists of working with at-risk teenagers in crisis and with individuals experiencing an early-episode of psychosis and providing counseling to undergraduate/graduate students in a university setting. Kyle also facilitates Transpersonal Breathwork workshops around the New Jersey area.

Links to Kyle's websites and social media:

Kyle's website: http://www.settingsunwellness.com/
Psychedelics Today: https://psychedelicstoday.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/settingsunwellness/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SettingSunWell

Topics discussed on this episode: 

• Kyle’s background, his near-death experience (NDE) and how it changed the trajectory of his life.
• His explorations with non-ordinary states of consciousness.
• Breathwork and its healing potential.
• What is Spiritual Emergence?

This Hope guided meditation is from the end of our conversation on the last episode of the Connecting Minds podcast. 

Enjoy!

Watch the full episode in video: https://youtu.be/NL6STpEe6RY

Shownotes here:  https://christianyordanov.com/07-michael-sapiro/

It's a great honour and privilege to present our guest today, Dr Michael Sapiro. We talk about why we suffer and how to use his ACORNS methodology to help us through it. We end the episode with Michael's Hope guided meditation!

Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, Dharma teacher, writer, meditation researcher, and former Buddhist monk. He is on faculty at Esalen Institute, is a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is completing a study on time travel, hope, and love with Dr. Julia Mossbridge of The Institute for Love and Time. Dr. Sapiro completed his postdoctoral fellowship in advanced psychology at the Boise VA Medical Center where he specialized in rural health, PTSD, and combat trauma. Dr. Sapiro is often on podcasts, and teaches nationally on the art and science of transformation, expanded human capabilities, self-care, and nondual meditation for personal and community growth. His work integrates meditation practices, psychology, noetic sciences, and social justice, and is dedicated to personal awakening for the sake of collective and planetary transformation. He can be found at michaelsapiro.com.

Links to Michael’s resources and social media: 

Website: https://www.michaelsapiro.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_mike_boise/

Guided meditations: https://www.michaelsapiro.com/resources/#meditations

Link to essay mentioned: https://medium.com/@drmichaelsapiro/down-play-or-walk-away-how-my-dog-socialized-me-to-be-wiser-and-kinder-during-covid-19-5b06bfc0ea0a

Topics discussed on this episode:

• Mike’s background and the work he does as a clinician and researcher.
• The non-dual teaching.
• Why are humans suffering so much? Craving, contention, ignorance.
• Recognition is a medicine.
• Practicing love, compassion and forgivess is an antidote to contention, anger and hatred.
• What are our true needs that our destructive behaviours are trying to fulfil?
• Self-awareness is the first step.
• ACORNS: From Awareness to Action – An awareness and compassion-based model for living a life of wisdom and ease
• Awareness
• Calm
• Open-hearted
• Reflect – clarity of situation, what needs are not being met?
• Now what? Ready to problem solve..
• Skillful action – take the action you just discerned as wise
• Applying ACORNS to tough issues such as grief, loss of a loved one, or our own mortality.
• The power of loving kindness.
• Psychedelics can give us a glimpse into the oneness that we all are.
• Individual awakening and the radiating presence and love it brings facilitates healing and transformation for others.
• The Bodhisattva vow.
• We end with the Hope Guided Meditation.