We live in a time where there are many paths to increasing our awareness.

The information age has really changed the game for those who feel called to go on the journey of self discovery and realization.

The people I know who seem to have went the deepest, usually try a bunch of things and then eventually commit to one tradition or pathway to really focus their energy. This focus creates a capacity for depth that seems to be harder when people are dabbling in many things.

Today's guest Delson Armstrong is quite unique in that he has been verified to reach the highest levels of many different systems. Verification is when someone like a master within a tradition provides confirmation of your depth of experience.

He has mastered the levels of Samadhi mentioned in the Yoga Sutras, received the six degrees of kriya under the lineage of Hariharananda, as well as the seven degrees of kriya under the lineage of Panchanon Bhattacharya. He has also mastered the eight jhānas and attained the ability to entered into the state of Nirodha Samapatti or cessation.

As a Dhamma teacher and author, this diversity of depth and experience is incredibly rare and gives him a unique perspective to guide students on their path to deeper awareness and realization.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/the-path-to-unconditional-freedom

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And the inner gold that comes with it

I was recently in a text thread about how to find truth in our current times?

There has never been more people with microphones in history telling us how to live, what to believe, and what is happening in the world.

Although this diversity of information has created an immense amount of opportunity and freedom, it's also made discernment more important than ever.

This is true whether we're trying to understand what's happening in the world or the wisdom we choose to follow for our growth.

Today's guest Nadine Kreisberger has a unique perspective on this topic. As a counselor and consultant on her own journey of self exploration, she has spent the past 25 years studying many wisdom traditions, psychology, and geopolitics to help herself and others discover what she calls "the inner gold." The inner gold is our deepest essence and gifts that we come into this experience to discover and contribute.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/discovering-your-inner-wisdom-and

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I think a lot about how to integrate working on consciousness in the business world.

Some people view these things as best kept separate, but this idea or path never resonated with me.

If we're going to spend so much time in the working why not use that as an opportunity for Self discovery?

A lot of people think we are going through a shift in human consciousness. Many people think this is a necessity if humans want to continue to live here. I agree with both.

The question is how do we usher in a more harmonious way of being and society? If consciousness is part of the solution, I don't expect large portions of the population to all of a sudden become renunciates. It seems like we're going to need more and more efforts to integrate consciousness work with existing parts of life like work in ways where the sum is greater than the parts.

I love learning about this intersection and people who are pushing it forward. Today's guest Scott Shute is doing exactly that. Scott is the co-founder of Changing Work and was the first head of mindfulness and compassion at LinkedIn.

His story is a powerful one that demonstrates how our calling often starts as a seed in an unexpected place before it can blossom into something bigger. Scott was a customer operations executive who volunteered to host a meditation session at LinkedIn for employees. One person showed up to the first session. But he kept at it he was still VP of Customer Operations and gradually he became known inside the company for leading meditations. Eventually this turned into a full time position pioneering mindfulness and compassion internally at LinkedIn.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/cultivating-consciousness-at-work

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A convo with my dear friend Mark on playing the non-linear space

What if success wasn't just about picking good bets, making good decisions, and working hard?

This is the traditional narrative and I've come to believe it's missing an integral part of the pie. Oftentimes, this can lead us to what today's guest calls "counterfeit success" where everything on the outside looks great, but their personal lives and inner experience is a different story.

Today's guest is my dear friend Mark Krassner. Mark Krassner is a 2x founder and executive coach who brings a fresh approach to the art of achievement, contribution, and fulfillment.

As a coach, he began to notice a distinct pattern where some of his clients toiled away following the traditional narrative achieving mediocre results while others seemed to experience wild success with flow and ease.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/the-reality-algorithm-and-predictable

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How Vibes Shape our world.

I see the world of energy (Qi) as the next frontier for many fixtures of the human experience.

Many traditions, including RenXue where I have studied for the past 4 years, see Qi as the fundamental building block of reality.

The more we understand it through widely accepted means like Science, the more humans will be able to work with it to create a more compelling experience.

Today's guest scientist and author Garrett Yount has been studying energy and its impact on healing for the past 20 years. His interest began when he started to experience clairvoyant phenomena as a child. This eventually led him to a career in advancing our understanding of molecular neurobiology, consciousness and extended human capacities. Through his research he has performed extensive experiments with spiritual healers and biofield practitioners from around the world.

His new book Why Vibes Matter: Understand Your Energy and Learn How to Use it Wisely covers in depth his experiences as a researcher in this field and the large body of available research on the subject.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/understanding-the-new-frontier-of

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What if learning who we are creates a more fulfilling life than getting what we want?

I heard this question posed on a podcast with today's guest and it pretty much sums up the entirety of my experience over the past few years. Nothing has been more enriching than the deeper exploration of the nature of Self and learning to embody that more fully so that it can be expressed in the world.

Today's guest is Joe Hudson, founder of the Art of Accomplishment platform and executive coach.

Highlights of the episode for me were:

1. Why making life and business spiritual practice is so compelling
2. How you can think about creating a container in the business world that fosters spiritual growth
3. Why many companies fail at creating thriving businesses that help employees grow
4. The power of letting go of trying
5. How he thinks about the Art of Accomplishment as a platform for change and empowerment

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/how-to-use-business-for-spiritual

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Why is it that we can be doing something, and our mind starts to think about something else involuntarily?

Is this a helpful part of the human experience? A nuisance?

The nature of mind-wandering is something that scientist Arnaud Delorme has been investigating for the past 20 years. In this conversation, we explore what he has learned as well as some of the main questions the scientific community is trying to understand around the nature of mind. Arnaud recently released a book on this topic and his research called Why Our Minds Wander.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/why-our-minds-wander-with-scientist

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There are some people I just love listening to talk.

Today's episode is one of those people.

David Perell is an entrepreneur, writer, and creator of the renown online course Write of Passage which helps aspiring writers transform their lives by writing online.

A lot of people know David on the internet because of his prolific writing and content creation, but what I was interested in learning about is how the shifts in David's personal and spiritual life fuel his creative endeavors.

In this conversation we talk about David's journey with his faith and how it's empowered him to be a better leader and step even more deeply into his purpose. It feels like many people I talk to these days have difficulty feeling aligned with their purpose. A big part of my personal hypothesis is that uncovering this is a process that occurs naturally once you begin to do the inner work and remove the impediments that make it easy to embrace what you love.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/david-perell-on-faith-creating-from

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Today's guest is Stephen Zerfas, the Co-Founder and CEO of Jhourney.

Five years ago Stephen found himself crying tears of joy after stumbling into a prolonged state of ecstatic bliss on a meditation retreat.

Up until this point, most of the retreat was migraine-inducing so he wasn't sure how he had landed in this profound place. After the retreat, he was interested in how to recreate this experience whenever he wanted. Through many months of personal experimentation and research, he realized that these states are available to all humans on demand. In fact, you don't even need to be a long-time meditator!

In this conversation, we discuss the Jhanas and how Jhourney is going about making them more accessible. Interesting ideas include:

1. An overview of the Jhanas and why we should care
2. How meditation as far as what has been brought to the West is still largely unexplored
3. The history of why these experiences went from very popular to obscurity and are now emerging yet again
4. The different schools of insight including dry vs. wet insight
5. His learnings collecting the largest scientific dataset on Jhana meditators in the world
6. How technology can enhance this age-old tradition
7. Arguments against pursuing the Jhanas and his response
8. How access to the Jhanas has the potential to change the world

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/what-are-the-jhanas-and-how-can-they

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Today's guest Sarah McCrum is the author of the book Love Money, Money Loves You. Sarah's background was that she studied energy with Chinese masters for 20 years eventually opening a Qigong center in London. In 2010, she experienced spontaneous contact with the energy of money and began to receive information about its essence and what it wanted to communicate to humans. She began to transcribe this information and eventually, it became the contents of her book.

Although this may sound like an absurd idea to many people, channeling is responsible for many profoundly impactful books such as A Course In Miracles which we covered in an earlier podcast. The idea is that all things are made of energy, including beings and energies on higher planes, and if we can open to and connect with these energies we can begin to receive and transmit information. This is the same exact way a radio works.

I've read Sarah's books and the ideas are pretty revolutionary. It really makes you question everything you thought you knew about how money works. Some concepts it covered which we discuss in this episode include:

1. How money is actually in unlimited supply
2. Its purpose to facilitate exchange, connection, and expansion
3. The role of relaxation and enjoyment in aligning with the flow of money
4. How it's not inner abundance vs. outer abundance, but both
5. Why so many of us are unconsciously blocking money from flowing into our life
6. Why spiritual teachings about money cause many people unnecessary difficulty
7. How to find love and joy in money

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/the-energy-of-money-has-a-very-different

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