Deep Transformation

Ep. 15 (Part 2 of 2) | Zen teacher Diane Musho Hamilton brings us home to the simple essence of Zen: to practice as one, without reference to past or future. This heartfelt conversation covers many topics: waking up to our true nature, grief and practices that help us work through it, the tension of “difference,” healing the rift between female and male, the role of ayahuasca and peyote, the ever more subtle process of purification, and a beautiful recitation of 14th century Sufi poet Hafiz’s poem, “I Have Learned So Much.” Allow yourself to be reminded how simple things can get if you let them and how, as Diane says, “We’re all just growing up together.” Recorded on September 13, 2021.

Diane Musho Hamilton is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 30 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition. As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system and won several prestigious awards for her work in this area. She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills. Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her latest book is Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.

“What does it mean to be human?”

• Grief: being present with it and practicing with it (01:01)
• How shamanic practice can let us see pure radiance in others (07:46)
• The power of ritual in times of grief (08:48)
• Grief and integral practice (12:20)
• What is the role of a specifically female contemplative teacher? (19:03)
• Confronting the feminine shadow (22:59)
• The neverending, ever more subtle practice of purification (aka Ken Wilber’s “cleaning up”) (25:32)
• What do women want from men? (30:11)
• And what do men want from women? (34:40)
• Peyote, forgiveness, and healing the rift (38:04)

• Roger Walsh, The World of Shamanism*
• Hafiz, The Gift, translated by Daniel Landinsky*
• Dan Brown, meditation master and teacher 
• Dogen Zenji, One Continuous Mistake (Shoshaku Jushaku) in Dōgen
• Ram Dass quotes
• Don Quixote
• W.E.B. Du Bois, sociologist, author, activist
• Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan*
• Diane Hamilton, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart*
• Diane Hamilton, Everything is Workable*
• Diane Hamilton, The Zen of You and Me*
• Two Arrows Zen, Salt Lake City Artspace Zendo
• Two Arrows Zen, Torrey, Utah

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 14 (Part 1 of 2) | Zen teacher Diane Musho Hamilton brings us home to the simple essence of Zen: to practice as one, without reference to past or future. This heartfelt conversation covers many topics: waking up to our true nature, grief and practices that help us work through it, the tension of “difference,” healing the rift between female and male, the role of ayahuasca and peyote, the ever more subtle process of purification, and a beautiful recitation of 14th century Sufi poet Hafiz’s poem, “I Have Learned So Much.” Allow yourself to be reminded how simple things can get if you let them and how, as Diane says, “We’re all just growing up together.” Recorded on September 13, 2021.

Diane Musho Hamilton is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 30 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition. As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system and won several prestigious awards for her work in this area. She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills. Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her latest book is Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.

“What does it mean to be human?”

• Diane’s opening at seventeen to “what does it mean to be human?” (02:43)
• Buddhadharma, Integral, and Big Mind (05:10)
• The urgent need for us to wake up to our fundamental unity (10:37)
• How Ken Wilber’s developmental stages and states fit in (15:20)
• The heart of Zen Buddhism: an utterly coherent reality, free of separation (19:37)
• Differences between Diane’s teachings & practice and traditional Zen: creating space for ego development (20:51) 
• Zen’s contribution to conflict resolution: radical first person, sitting together as one (24:11)
• Looking at climate change in an Integral way, from 1st-person, 2nd-person, and 3rd-person perspectives (26:21)
• Zen teaches peace is in the present without reference to past or future (29:33)
• The difference between meditation and flow states, and manifesting from the place of Big Mind (33:57)

• Diane Hamilton, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart*
• Gabriel Wilson, Kimberly Loh
• Diane Hamilton, Everything is Workable*
• Diane Hamilton, The Zen of You and Me*
• Two Arrows Zen, Salt Lake City Artspace Zendo
• Two Arrows Zen, Torrey, Utah
• Chögyam Trungpa
• Gail Hochachka, “Finding Shared Meaning in the Anthropocene: Engaging Diverse Perspectives on Climate Change”
• Dennis Genpo Merzel, Big Mind Big Heart*

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 13 (Part 2 of 2) | Dan Millman has shown us how to live with both a peaceful heart and a warrior’s spirit for forty years. His new book Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit shares his reflections on the extraordinary experiences that shaped his evolution from youthful dreamer to spiritual teacher. Dan’s first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, was a bestseller and adapted into a feature film. Dan is a former world trampoline champion, Stanford University gymnastics coach, martial arts instructor, and Oberlin college professor. His 18 books are published in 29 languages. Dan has traveled widely, teaching in over thirty countries. To learn more about his books, events, online courses, and free life-purpose calculator, visit www.PeacefulWarrior.com.

Dan Millman, a man who has devoted his life to mastery—in sports and in the arena of life itself—and author of the book that opened doors for so many, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, published in the 80s, talks about inspiration, talent, discipline, mastery, ordinary life, and his own path, practices, teachers, and new book, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest. Humorous and humble, Dan embodies the peaceful warrior way, centering his life around service, sharing his wisdom, and living the question, “What needs doing right now?” Recorded on October 20, 2021.

“There are no ordinary moments.”

• Dan’s teachers: the professor, the guru, and spiritual technology (01:37)
• On cults (07:52)
• The first 5 levels of consciousness: blind belief, conventional reality, St. Ego, the philosopher, disillusion (13:22)
• Dan’s daily practices and the 4-minute meditation on the process of dying (22:46)
• The fundamental foundation of the peaceful warrior’s way (25:17)
• The Zen of ordinariness (27:07)
• Dan’s teachers: the warrior-priest, David Reynolds (29:13)
• On gratitude (33:41)
• Approaching life as an experiment and action inquiry (39:04)
• Carlos Castaneda’s four natural enemies of man: fear, clarity, power, and old age (41:02)
• Dan’s guiding question (45:26)

• Adi Da, American spiritual teacher
• Carl Jung, “...making the darkness conscious.”
• Arthur Deikman, pioneering psychiatrist*
• The 4-minute Peaceful Warrior Meditation
• The Ten Ox Herding Pictures from the Zen tradition
• Dan Millman, The Life You Were Born to Live*
• David Reynolds, Constructive Living*
• Bill Torbert, Action Inquiry*
• Carlos Castaneda’s the 4 enemies, The Teachings of Don Juan*
• Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity*
• Dan Millman, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit*
• Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior*
• PeacefulWarrior.com

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 12 (Part 1 of 2) | Dan Millman, a man who has devoted his life to mastery—in sports and in the arena of life itself—and author of the book that opened doors for so many, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, published in the 80s, talks about inspiration, talent, discipline, mastery, ordinary life, and his own path, practices, teachers, and new book, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest. Humorous and humble, Dan embodies the peaceful warrior way, centering his life around service, sharing his wisdom, and living the question, “What needs doing right now?” Recorded on October 20, 2021.

Dan Millman has shown us how to live with both a peaceful heart and a warrior’s spirit for forty years. His new book Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit shares his reflections on the extraordinary experiences that shaped his evolution from youthful dreamer to spiritual teacher. Dan’s first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, was a bestseller and adapted into a feature film. Dan is a former world trampoline champion, Stanford University gymnastics coach, martial arts instructor, and Oberlin college professor. His 18 books are published in 29 languages. Dan has traveled widely, teaching in over thirty countries. To learn more about his books, events, online courses, and free life-purpose calculator, visit www.PeacefulWarrior.com.

“There are no ordinary moments.”

• The deepest source of Dan’s inspiration (05:32) 
• How do we develop talent? In sports—and in life (06:46)
• The heart of Dan’s motivation: What’s the bigger picture? Asking “What do I do?” instead of “Who am I?” (11:25)
• The importance of gaining self-knowledge (Know thyself): otherwise we make the right choice for the wrong person! (12:51)
• On discipline, the Marshmallow Experiment, and using failure as a stepping stone (15:15) 
• The learning curve of mastering...anything (18:18)
• There are no ordinary moments: practice everything (24:21)
• How self-mastery leads to a path of service (27:37) 
• Practicing happiness (33:05)
• Helping others, helping ourselves: connecting heaven and earth (36:08)

• Dan Millman, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit*
• Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior*
• PeacefulWarrior.com
• Dan Millman, The Hidden School*
• Dan Millman, No Ordinary Moments*
• The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment on delayed gratification
• Picasso, “It took me...a lifetime to paint like a child.”
• Roger Walsh’s essay, Contributing Effectively in Times of Crisis
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow*
• Groundhog Day movie
• Ramana Maharshi, I want to give people what they want...eventually they may want what I want to give them.
• Sri Nisargadatta, Not this, not this, not this.
• Joseph Campbell, “Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.”
• Adyashanti, spiritual teacher and author
• Golda Meir, “Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.”
• Ram Dass, from Be Here Now: “Just because you are...experiencing waves of bliss...is no reason to not know your zip code.”*

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 11 (Part 3 of 3) | Cosmological explorer Chris Bache tells what he discovered on his extraordinary journey, doing 73 high-dose LSD sessions over a period of twenty years. Motivated by a passion to find out more about the universe, Chris became intimate with the ocean of suffering in our collective psyche, the death/rebirth cycle, the preciousness of individuality, integrating consciousness at very high levels of energy, and the future of humanity. Chris explains a universal intelligence met him every step of the way. A modern-day Odysseus, who has explored realms far beyond our normal perceptions of reality, Chris’ presence is profoundly compassionate, grounded in a uniquely deep trust in the love and intelligence of the universe. Recorded on October 25, 2021.

Chris 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 Board of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of non ordinary 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.

• Pitfalls on the path and how to keep grounded (01:22)
• The sickness of silence: doing psychedelic research in a psychedelic-phobic society (07:09) 
• Is there an end state? Every opening is a portal to another opening (09:00) 
• Dissolving into pure luminosity, an endless progression (12:00)
• “Diamond vision” outside of time/space and the Bardo reality: seeing through the eyes of the future human (14:20)
• The diamond luminosity condition (18:07)
• Words from the Great Mother (24:29)
• The creative intelligence and the evolution of the collective psyche (27:31)
• The profound genius, the depth of love, and the purposeful intent of the universe (29:40)
• Discovering we can trust ourselves profoundly—our individual minds as well as the greater reality (37:26)
• Letting go of the fear of death: death is the great liberation (43:23)

• A.H. Almaas, Runaway Realization, The Alchemy of Freedom*
• Dharmakaya: the clear light of absolute reality
• Pure Land Buddhism
• Stanislav Grof, The Cosmic Game*
• Vajrayana practice
• Chris Bache, LSD and Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven*
• Chris Bache, The Living Classroom*
• 7-week online course on Chris’ book: Exploring the Cosmic Mind Through Psychedelics (Shift Network)

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 10 (Part 2 of 3) | Cosmological explorer Chris Bache tells what he discovered on his extraordinary journey, doing 73 high-dose LSD sessions over a period of twenty years. Motivated by a passion to find out more about the universe, Chris became intimate with the ocean of suffering in our collective psyche, the death/rebirth cycle, the preciousness of individuality, integrating consciousness at very high levels of energy, and the future of humanity. Chris explains a universal intelligence met him every step of the way. A modern-day Odysseus, who has explored realms far beyond our normal perceptions of reality, Chris’ presence is profoundly compassionate, grounded in a uniquely deep trust in the love and intelligence of the universe. Recorded on October 25, 2021.

Chris 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 Board of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of non ordinary 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.

• Individuality is the great beauty. One of the great gifts of the universe. (01:11)
• Awakening to your bond with the universe (06:53)
• Using psychedelics for healing, spiritual awakening, cosmological exploration: You don’t need to shatter time to spiritually awaken (10:21)
• Stabilizing states of consciousness and Chris’ practices today: meditation, the being of practice, grounding (13:51)
• The shift taking place at the collective archetypal level (17:10)
• The death and rebirth of humanity and the emergence of a changed humanity (17:57)
• The global crisis is a crisis of consciousness: growing into our full soul being (19:15) 
• The birth of the future human and the awakening of the soul (25:59)
• Seeing the human transition to come from the place of Deep Time (31:50)
• The sacred question: How can I serve other people and make this knowledge useful to other people? (33:17)
• The transmission and healing that come from deep practice (36:54)
• 7-week online course on Chris’ book: Exploring the Cosmic Mind Through Psychedelics (38:44)
• What has been the reaction to Chris’ book? (39:43)
• Psychedelic therapy (42:02)
• The essential work of integration (43:24)

• Ramakrishna, the longing to be separate in order to worship the Mother
• Vedanta, one of six schools of Hindu philosophy, the end of the Vedas
• Chris Bache, Dark Night, Early Dawn*
• Chris Bache, LSD and Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven*
• Duane Elgin, Choosing Earth. In 2006, Duane received the international Goi Peace Award in recognition of his contribution to a “global vision, consciousness, and lifestyle.*
• Ian Stevenson, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect*
• Chris Bache, Lifecycles*
• Kenneth Ring, Heading Toward Omega*
• Chris Bache, The Living Classroom*
• 7-week online course on Chris’ book: Exploring the Cosmic Mind Through Psychedelics (Shift Network)
• Roger Walsh, Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics*
• Tim Read & Maria Papaspyrou, Psychedelics and Psychotherapy*

* As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases.

Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 9 (Part 1 of 3) | Cosmological explorer Chris Bache tells what he discovered on his extraordinary journey, doing 73 high-dose LSD sessions over a period of twenty years. Motivated by a passion to find out more about the universe, Chris became intimate with the ocean of suffering in our collective psyche, the death/rebirth cycle, the preciousness of individuality, integrating consciousness at very high levels of energy, and the future of humanity. Chris explains a universal intelligence met him every step of the way. A modern-day Odysseus, who has explored realms far beyond our normal perceptions of reality, Chris’ presence is profoundly compassionate, grounded in a uniquely deep trust in the love and intelligence of the universe. Recorded on October 25, 2021.

Chris 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 Board of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of non ordinary 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.

• How WEIRD cultures looked at reality through a monophasic lens clear up till the 1960s—only taking waking reality seriously—whereas other cultures have a polyphasic perception that includes induced altered states, from dreams, meditation, plant medicine, etc. (01:39)
• Psychedelics, a most potent way to induce altered states with profound spiritual applications, and introducing Chris Bache, cosmological explorer (04:42)
• What motivated Chris to begin his quest? The passion to understand our universe and not only the personal unconscious but the collective unconscious (11:19)
• 20-year journey following Stan Grof’s protocol, 73 high dose LSD sessions (13:21) 
• The model of individual awakening and accelerating personal development led to a much broader, collective field of healing and transformation (14:16)
• Intimate relationship with the divine said the book (LSD and the MInd of the Universe) needed to come forward now, even though it exposes so much (16:22)
• The value Chris found in the experience of personal and collective suffering: a cycle of suffering, breakthrough, purification, and ecstasy of insight (17:09)
• Consciousness was waiting every step of the way on this journey to bring ecstasy back into time/space consciousness (21:18)
• The ocean of suffering in our collective psyche (23:53)
• From transpersonal to being an instrument for the transformation of collective consciousness (28:37)
• Using psilocybin would be wiser, gentler—less explosive, less shattering (32:42)
• In Chris’ death/rebirth experiences: what actually dies? (34:36)
• Each different substance has a different range in opening us up (37:39)
• The shamanic persona (39:36)
• Every step deeper into the universe is a step into a higher level of energy: stabilizing consciousness at extremely high levels of energy (41:39)
• Death and rebirth is stage specific: at each gate there is a sacrifice asked (42:13)
• The concept of death yields to the concept of purification (42:54)
• What doesn’t die? (43:34)
• The birth of the diamond soul (45:54)

• Chris Bache, Dark Night, Early Dawn*
• Chris Bache, The Living Classroom*
• Chris Bache, Lifecycles*
• Chris Bache, LSD and Mind of the Universe (Diamonds from Heaven)*
• Grof Legacy Training
• Erika Bourguignon, a founder of the field Anthropology of Consciousness, and a premier anthropological authority on trance, possession, and altered states of consciousness
• Stanislav Grof, Realms of the Human Unconscious*

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 8 | An extraordinary, heartfelt conversation with spiritual practitioner, teacher, activist, Integralist, and author Terry Patten, who was at the time facing his own mortality following a recent diagnosis of a rare and aggressive cancer. An inner radiance shines forth as Terry, with much graciousness and candor, discusses the call to “get real”—not only personally but also collectively; his deepened perception of the “amazing grace of existence;” the directionality that has guided much of his life; and action inquiry: working on becoming next-stage human beings by experimenting with being the best people we can be. A touching and transformative talk, Terry conveys the deepening understanding coming from living on the edge and transmits a “radical okayness” with everything. Recorded September 21, 2021.

Terry Patten was a philosopher-activist, author, teacher and coach, community organizer, consultant, and social entrepreneur. Most recently Terry published A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries—a book summarizing his life’s work and offering an approach to facing the problems of our time. Over the last fifteen years, Terry devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness: facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. Terry co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute in 2008.

“I want us to recognize our tremendously strong impulse to draw a conclusion, to think we know. But it’s in the NOT knowing—the inquiry, the curiosity, the humility, the beginner’s mind—that we create a real opening.”

• The call to “get real,” personally and collectively; waking up to the miracle of existence (04:17)
• With the diagnosis, the burden fell away (21:44)
• Mortality versus morbidity: many sufferings are worse than death (31:02)
• The directionality that guided Terry’s life and wanting to be “good” (41:11)
• Encountering his root guru, Adi Da (44:50)
• The importance of being kind (46:54)
• Let’s bend a knee to something greater than ourselves and LISTEN (53:43)
• The radical okayness of it all (55:52)
• Action inquiry and evolving into a new stage of human development (56:27)

• Terry Patten, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries*
• The nonprofit organization A New Republic of the Heart invites spiritual practitioners and change agents to learn, practice, and collaborate in becoming the next-stage human beings who can rise to our collective moment.
• Terry Patten.com
• Rumi, “The Beloved,” The Way of the Sufi*
• Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise*
• Adi Da, American spiritual teacher
• Aldous Huxley, “Try to be a little kinder.”
• His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Compassion and the Individual
• Joanna Macy, The Great Turning or the Great Unraveling: It’s Our Choice
• Brightening Every Darkness, 4-part webinar offered in the last weeks of Terry’s life, with Terry, Diane Hamilton, Indra Adnan, and Craig Hamilton

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 7 | In this lively, eye-opening conversation, intuitive and oracle Colette Baron-Reid talks about how intuition is available to each one of us and how we can use it to navigate our lives, about why we need to practice radical acceptance now more than ever, about facing our shadow to find our biggest gifts and liberate our lives, about what it takes to cultivate hope and override fear, and about the transformative power of the Twelve Steps. Colette’s deep, practical, psychological wisdom comes like a transmission: “I am not a mistake. Nobody is broken. I trust in my partnership with the Universe. Who can I impact in a positive way?” Colette also tells stories from her past with verve and humor, and we discover how she came to be the wise and popular teacher, guide, and healer she is today. Recorded on November 22, 2021.

Colette Baron-Reid is an internationally acclaimed Oracle expert, thought leader, and speaker in the personal transformation space. With over 30 years of experience as an Oracle & intuition expert, Colette’s greatest joy is teaching people they can have a direct and personal dialogue with the Universe to help them create their best lives. Colette is a best-selling author of multiple life-changing books including The Map, published in 27 languages. Her popular meditation apps and Oracle Card decks are worldwide hits, and she was the star of the hit TV series, “Messages from Spirit” and highly popular Hay House call-in radio show, “Ask the Oracle.” Colette is also the founder and creator of Oracle School—where people learn to transform their lives using Oracle Cards as a guidance system.

“We are in co-creative relationship with a conscious Universe.”

• What is intuition? (07:42)
• Colette’s early years: finding out she was Jewish, her psychic Scottish nanny, and all the confusing things that led to addiction (10:59)
• Tasseomancy, Spirit and symbolism, ancient practices of divination, and how nature speaks to us (18:40)
• An inherited sense of lack of safety and Colette’s book The Map (20:26)
• The evolutionary gift is in the shadow (21:07)
• Our invitation right now in these times of pandemic is to be present to all of it and not judge any of it: radical acceptance (23:24)
• What do we do with our anger and how do we make it work for us? (28:28)
• Filling our minds with what is important: who can I impact in a positive way? (30:29)
• Compassion and kindness...micro steps are the way to change (31:50)
• Make curiosity your superpower (34:43)
• Hold life as an experiment: we’re not always going to get things right (35:12)
• How we weaponize our emotions, project feelings, and create polarization (36:59)
• Respons-a-bility plus trusting in our partnership with the Universe is where hope lies (39:54)
• Colette’s spiritual awakening: I am not a mistake. Nobody is broken. And the fundamental flaw fallacy (41:12)
• Being hopeful is harder than being fearful (47:31)
• How Colette found her path as a healer: “it chose me” (49:54)
• Following the crumbs is the evolution of Colette’s world (54:04)
• The power of the Twelve Steps could change the world (56:46)
• Today’s problems are yesterday’s solutions (1:00:40)
• The need for nuance and innovation in our conversations (1:02:28)
• Step 3 and Step 11: Surrendering to the will of the divine (1:05:15)
• Service is enlightened self-interest (1:08:08)
• Colette’s daily practices to help her stay in touch with Source (1:10:01)
• The underestimated effects of practicing gratitude (1:12:03)
• The Twelve Steps in a nutshell (1:13:03)

• Colette Baron-Reid.com, Colette’s books, The Oracle School
• Helen Palmer, Enneagram expert
• Ryan Goldman’s Enneagram*
• Wayne Dyer, author and speaker in the fields of self-development and spiritual growth
• Princeton University, The Global Consciousness Project
• Colette Baron-Reid, The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life*
• Jungian psychology, and the concept of active imagination
• Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces*
• Bruce Lipton, The Wisdom of Your Cells, The Biology of Belief*
• Ruth King, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out*
• The fundamental flaw fallacy
• Colette’s Oracle School of transformation
• Thomas Hubl, Gabor Mate on collective trauma
• Eco-psychology
• The Haindl Tarot
• Leigh Spusta and iAwake Technologies’ Alpha Arising
• Brother David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness.org

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell

Ep. 6 (Part 2 of 2) | In this inspiring and empowering conversation, Rick Hanson spells out how we can use positive, self-directed neuroplasticity to hardwire our brains in order to become happier, cultivate virtues, deal with cravings, become deeply grounded, turn our desired states into stable traits, and more. Neurodharma is Rick’s conceptual creation: a marriage of neuroscience, psychology, and contemporary wisdom that offers individuals who are out to make a change for the better an impressive and effective brain hacking toolkit. Rick’s own gentle wisdom, compassion, clarity, kindness, and humor shine in this truly groundbreaking (for most of us) dialogue, making him a wonderful exemplar of the peaceful, loving, altruistic, and effective person practicing neurodharma can help us to become. Recorded September 20, 2021.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is an expert on positive neuroplasticity, a clinical psychologist, a New York Times best-selling author, and a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. His books include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture, and have been published in 30 languages. He has lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. Rick's work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. Rick loves wilderness and taking a break from emails.

“We need to actively work with the mind to pull weeds and plant flowers.”

• 2 major obstructions to speeding our growth (01:04)
• Gradual cultivation, sudden awakening, gradual cultivation (06:08)
• Bodhidhamma: practice is like a wagon with 2 wheels (06:39)
• What are the crucial qualities of heart and mind that are essential to cultivate? (10:32)
• Who has lit the fire in Rick’s heart? (12:48)
• Truly wise person: Peaceable, friendly, fearless (15:31)
• The importance of trusting our own minds (19:09)
• What are Rick’s daily practices? (22:26)
• Paying attention to the subtleties of craving (23:55)
• Focusing on a sustained felt sense of the ground of all; recognizing the extraordinary generosity of the arising moment (27:40)
• How does Rick understand the act of transmission? 29:16
• Reverse engineering desired qualities to yourself (31:39)
• What are Rick’s priorities for the future? (35:21)
• Self-directed neuroplasticity: 3 foundational practices (36:59)
• Re-establishing the 3 enabling conditions of healthy human politics (38:09)
• Playfulness, to include curiosity, makes us receptive to lasting change (41:08)

• Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, Zen monk and teacher who founded the first Zen Buddhist monastery outside of Asia
• Bodhidharma, Buddhist monk credited with bringing Buddhism to China
• Ram Dass, Life in Balance: A Path to Equanimity and Peace
• Joseph Goldstein, American mindfulness teacher
• Thich Nhat Han, Vietnamese monk, exemplar of embodied wisdom, peace activist
• Christina Feldman, Boundless Heart*
• Tara Brach, Trusting the Gold*
• Carl Rogers, pioneering humanist psychologist
• Rick Hanson, author of Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture*
• Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, whose mission is to offer skillful means for changing the brain to benefit the whole person and all beings in a world too full of war.

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos

Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell