In this episode I am joined by Ishtar, an independent mediation teacher, mystic, and spiritual guide.

Ishtar shares his unusual childhood including near constant encounters with ghosts, early spiritual experiences, astral journeys, and precognitive dreams.

Ishtar details his life of spiritual seeking, years of intensive meditation practice, encounters with the cult groups, dark nights of the soul, and more.

Ishtar also recounts the car crash which both killed his mother and plunged Ishtar, at 13 years old, into a near death experience that would change his life forever.

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Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep278-the-mystic-ishtar

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Topics include:

00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Ishtar’s unusual childhood

02:16 - Early encounters with ghosts

04:35 - Distress of constant ghost encounters

05:33 - Becoming Sherlock Holmes for ghosts

07:19 - Discovering the personality

10:48 - Beginning to suffer and developing roles

12:48 - Becoming a good faker

13:21 - Car crash, NDE, and the death of Ishtar’s mother

23:34 - Anger towards God

24:08 - A strange silence and bliss

26:59 - Grief and searching for transcendence

29:43 - Beginning of spiritual seeking

31:03 - Meeting local psychics

31:48 - Considering careers

33:12 - A powerful palm reading

36:15 - The mad monk inside

37:07 - 6hrs of practice each day

38:36 - Past life memories and spiritual proclivities

43:33 - Out of body experience

45:38 - Astral travel to floating cities

48:12 - Shaft of light

49:38 - Precognitive daydreams

50:17 - Further precognition

53:39 - Reading “Autobiography of a Yogi” and praying to Babaji

56:52 - Joining the Ishaya Foundation and living in ashrams

01:02:39 - Leaving the ashram and entering a dark night of the soul

01:05:44 - Repercussions of leaving a cult group

01:07:40 - Suffering returns and facing death

01:09:42 - The magic returns and teaching meditation

01:11:47 - Meeting his future wife

01:13:21 - A tough 2016

01:14:19 - Breakthrough to fully merging with everything

01:14:56 - Visions of Tuscany and experiences of blended time

01:19:20 - Reconciliations and purifications

01:19:43 - Leaving Portland and move to Portugal

01:21:47 - “I” vs “we”

01:22:52 - How did Ishtar spend his daily 6hrs of meditation?

01:26:18 - Spinning the wheels of meditation and trying to force results

01:27:40 - Powerful psychedelic experience

01:30:40 - Ishtar reflects on losing his mother at age 13

01:32:42 - An experience of maternal reconnection and affirmation

01:34:38 - Inner child work

01:36:11 - Mother’s embrace in Florence

01:37:44 - What does Ishtar’s teach

01:38:54 - Ishtar’s recent spiritual breakthroughs

01:41:40 - Psychic powers are not the bullseye

01:43:25 - Ishtar’s concluding thoughts and advice

01:47:29 - Christopher Wood, the stick peddler

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To find our more about Isthar, visit:

- https://www.ascension-meditation.com/

- https://www.awakenedlightastrology.com/

- https://www.youtube.com/ishtarishaya

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For more interviews, videos, and more visit:

- https://www.guruviking.com

Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James