Inner Truth with David Newell

Co-founder and co-spiritual director of Spiritual Arts Institute, Dimitri Moraitis is one of the leading metaphysical teachers in the world.

Originally trained in motion pictures and television, Dimitri was pursuing a promising career in directing and producing, having received an Academy Award nomination for his film short Don’t Let It Bother You. When he was twenty-five, Dimitri had a profound spiritual awakening that changed his life. About a year later, he met his co-founder Barbara Martin at a dinner party and knew that night Barbara was the spiritual teacher he had to study with.

With Barbara, he is co-author of the international bestseller Change Your Aura, Change Your Life, Communing with the Divine, Karma and Reincarnation, The Healing Power of Your Aura and their newest book Heaven and Your Spiritual Evolution, the subject of this week’s conversation.

RJ Spina is a metaphysical teacher, author and speaker. In 2016, he became permanently paralyzed from the chest down requiring emergency life-saving surgery. He was simultaneously diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, autoimmune disease, and autonomic dysreflexia.

After being told he would be unlikely he walk again, he spent 100 days in hospital following a self-led series of meditation and visualization practices that healed his body in remarkable time. In his new book - Super Charged Self-Healing - he shares what he did and how the same process is helping thousands more overcome chronic conditions.

Time is something that none of us can escape, yet few of us completely understand. 

In her new book - All The Time In The World - Lisa Broderick breaks down the science behind the human construct of time, and teaches how to change your perception of time to increase productivity, satisfaction and joy. This state of “focused perception” is the key to manipulating our construct of time.  

Lisa Broderick earned a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke. She is a Transcendental Meditation (TM) Sidha, attended the Monroe Institute for the exploration of expanded states of consciousness, and studied imagery and dream reading at the American Institute for Mental Imagery with noted author and teacher of Western spirituality Dr. Gerald Epstein for fifteen years.

Steve Taylor PhD is the author of 13 books on psychology and spirituality, and is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. He is the current chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society.

His books include his new book The Clear Light, Waking From Sleep, The Fall, Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, The Calm Center, The Leap and Spiritual Science. His books have been published in 20 languages, and his articles and essays have been published in many  academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including The Psychologist, Philosophy Now, The The Journal of Humanistic Psychology and The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.

He regularly appears in the media in the UK, including on Radio 4’s The Moral Maze, BBC Breakfast, BBC World TV, Radio FiveLive and TalkRadio. He writes blog articles for Scientific American and for Psychology Today. 

His latest book - Extraordinary Awakenings: When Trauma Leads to Transformation - is the subject of this episode's discussion on the power of trauma to lead to spiritual awakening.

Sasha Kerman is a transformational life and business coach who helps guide people to live more fearlessly, take control of their destiny and achieve their deepest dreams.

Having overcome clinical depression and spent time in a psychiatric hospital, she has since recovered following multiple healing and therapeutic modalities which she integrates into her work with clients today.

A dear friend of mine, in this week's conversation we touch upon the transformational power of being witnessed, the secrets we keep to ourselves and the healing power of confronting our shadow.

Jeremy Narby, PhD is an anthropologist and best-selling author of The Cosmic Serpent as well as a co-author of Plant Teachers with indigenous elder Rafael Chanchari Pizuri. He became an early pioneer of ayahuasca research while living with the Ashaninca people of the Peruvian Amazon in the 1980s. He studied anthropology at Stanford University and now lives in Switzerland.

In Plant Teachers, Jeremy and Rafael co-explore indigenous and scientific perspectives on both ayahuasca and tobacco and their ceremonial and medicinal usage. In Plant Teachers, Jeremy and Rafael hold a cross-cultural dialogue that explores the similarities between ayahuasca and tobacco, the role of these plants in indigenous cultures, and the hidden truths they reveal about nature. Juxtaposing and synthesizing two worldviews, Plant Teachers invites readers on a wide-ranging journey through anthropology, botany, and biochemistry, while raising tantalizing questions about the relationship between science and other ways of knowing.

Dear Friends,

A short podcast from me this week to let you know about exciting future developments with Inner Truth as well as my top 5 books of the year so far.

Links for the books mentioned:

Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians by Barbara Marciniak

The Seven Gates: Seven Steps Beyond Self-Awareness by Dr. Frances Yahia

The Kybalion by Three Initiates

The Archer by Paulo Coehlo

Labours of Hercules: An Astrological Interpretation by Alice Bailey

Much love,

David

Paul Selig attended New York University and received his master's degree from Yale. A spiritual experience in 1987 left him clairvoyant. Selig is one of the foremost contributors to the field of channeled literature working today. He is the author of Beyond the Known: Realization and the Mastery Trilogy. He offers channeled workshops internationally and serves on the faculty of the Esalen Institute. 

Paul's profound gift is to channel the unfiltered wisdom of The Guides—higher beings who exist beyond the borders of traditional human understanding—and share it with the world.

The Kingdom is the third in Paul's current trillogy of books. The first two books of the Beyond the Known series urged readers to step beyond their own understanding and enter into the transformational work this knowledge demands. This process of growth and transformation finds its ultimate completion and fulfillment in The Kingdom as readers are invited to dwell in a world transformed by a new understanding.

Bob Thurman, is a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings and the first Western Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

A charismatic speaker and author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, Bob was named by The New York Times the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism, and was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri Award in 2020, for his help in recovering India’s ancient Buddhist heritage. Time Magazine chose him as one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1997, describing him as a “larger than life scholar-activist destined to convey the Dharma, the precious teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, from Asia to America.”

His latest book - Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life - is the catalyst for a conversation that roamed across Buddhism, Eastern mysticism, philosophy and beyond.  

Theoretical Quantum Physicist Dr. Amit Goswami is a revolutionary amongst a growing body of renegade scientists who, in recent years, has ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly inexplicable findings of curious experiments and to validate intuitions about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life. A prolific writer, teacher, and visionary, Dr. Goswami has appeared in the movies What the Bleep do we know!?, Dalai Lama Renaissance, as well as the award winning documentary, The Quantum Activist.

In his new book - The Quantum Brain- Amit and consciousness researcher Valentina Onisor explain the great exploratory power of consciousness-based quantum science, and minutely describe its numerous implications for scientific disciplines such as neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Goswami and Onisor also show how this new science can change our lives for the better.