Inner Truth with David Newell

Stripped back, intimate, and self-told, Humans Of Inner Truth is a podcast series where you hear courageous people talk about their own self-discovery experiences, their soul-encounters, and their own stories of personal revelation.

Humans is here to inform + inspire, to reveal the beauty in the mystery of life, and most of all, to help each of us to connect.⠀

This episode, Ollie Kristian tells the incredible story of healing from beauty obsession through the use of the plant medicine Iboga. Travelling to the USA, he took a flood-dose of the medicine, something typically reserved for the most chronically addicted patients. The experience and the result was nothing short of remarkable.

Enjoy!

Got a story you'd like to share for Humans? Get in touch through Instagram or Email.

Last week I asked the community for your questions on psychedelics + today's podcast tries to answer them.

In this week's episode with plant medicine expert Isa Gucciardi, you'll discover:

• How to know if/when plant medicine is right for you
• How to frame and phrase your intention
• The best way to set yourself up beforehand
• How to interpret the experience afterwards
• What practices help get the most out of the journey
• The most common mistakes + how to avoid them
• Some incredible stories of breakthrough insights + emotional healing

Enjoy!

How would you fancy 10 days sat crossed-legged, meditating 10 hours a day, in silence?

No phone, no journal, and no mates. Just you and your thoughts for company.

Sounds like hell right?

It's got a fancy name – 'Vipassana' – but I like to call it the '10 day suffer fest'.

Vipassana means to 'see reality as it is' and in that regard, it definitely delivers.

A ridiculously hard but insanely rewarding experience, Vipassana will show you things about yourself and the nature of reality that can take decades to figure out in the real world.

In this week's pod I talk about my comedic and mostly unbearable foray into this unique self-discovery experience.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• What Vipassanna is and what it involves;
• How 10 days feels sat in the same spot;
• Why all pain is in the mind + how you can transcend it;
• How you can uncover unhelpful thought patterns/beliefs + nuke them;
• What life-changing insights the experience gives you; and
• The god-like super powers you get from Vipassana

With poisonous snakes, emotional tantrums, and an unhealthy dose of cloud animal spotting, this is an ambitious attempt to persuade you to consider do something rather radical – spend an awful lot of time with yourself.

Enjoy!

Festival season may be far behind us now but soon we'll be considering our options for Summer 2019.

Each year more incredible outdoor fiestas bubble up and its often the long-running micro-festivals that provide some of the most epic and transformational weekends.

Leading the pack is the amazing Noisily Festival, an inclusive haven where underground music thrives and self expression flourishes.

Rooted in the electronic music scenes, Noisily has more recently been expanding into a celebration of psychedelic art and culture in a society which is increasingly looking within for happiness and fulfilment, and away from material goods and money as the definition of success

I caught up with one of it's co-creators - Lachie Gordon - to talk about how they are making the festival better and better every year and why 2019 is the year you should visit.

Check out their site for tickets at https://noisilyfestival.com/

Manex Ibar is a visionary shaman and healer who specialises in Human Design as well as a number of other modalities including energetics, shamanism and genetics.

In this amazing conversation, a continuation of our first last year, we spoke about the energy body as a collection of frequencies (expressed through your chakras) and how consciously modifying these frequencies can create dramatic shifts in your perception and therefore actions in life.

We explore the energetics of the body, expressed through the 9 chakras that are seen using the Human Design spirit science system, and talk about how each of these colour the way the we see the world depending on how open and closed they are.

There are ways we can interact with our chakras, through sound and vibration, that can dramatically alter our energy field.

Manex has recently launched a unique line of essential oils – called Frequence Life – that have been specifically designed and engineered to help you open certain chakras and keep your energy field optimised.

Boom! Its a New Year and we are off to a fresh start with Inner Truth. Happy 2019!

It's typically this time of year that we contemplate what has past and what will come for us over the next 12 months. All the life reflection, breakups, new romances, job searches, seem to come to fruition at this time.

So I thought it would be fun to kick things off with someone who makes predictions for a profession. Tarot is something has fascinated me for years, in particular its connection to archetypal psychology and Carl Jung's work on the collective unconscious.

Do we all contain within us archetypes and stories that play out over our lives? Joseph Campbell's famous work on the Hero's Journey (the inspiration for Star Wars) certainly indicates so.

So I reached out to one of the foremost and talented Tarot card readers in the world (Elaine Mary Collins) to talk about everything to do with the system as well as make some predictions for 2019.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What Tarot is and how it was developed;
• What a reading is really showing you;
• How Tarot connects to the mind-matter quantum model of the universe;
• Mind-bending synchronicities you can experience from Tarot;
• What are archetypes and how do we express them in daily life;
• What are the predictions for 2019;
• How to get started in Tarot and use it for inform your life

Enjoy!

Elaine runs retreats across on the island of Ibiza as well as seeing clients in person or via Skype. She makes regular visits to London and Los Angeles and is invited to various other destinations with her work.

For information on workshops or speaker opportunities, please contact her via her website (www.elainemarycollins.com).

One Year No Beer and its Co-Founder Ruari Fairbairns are taking the world by storm.

The 30, 90 and 365 alcohol-free challenges set by him and the OYNB platform have proved insanely successful over the last three years, with tens of thousands of completions and a 95%+ success rate at keeping people off the booze.

Testimonials from participants that have completed the challenges are absolutely fire so I sat down with Ruari to talk about how they are doing it, why it's so successful, and why going alcohol-free is only the beginning.

There's some great advice and encouragement if you're considering going sober. I went fully sober six months ago and I probably could have benefitted from OYNB myself rather than the solo-effort I made!

Inner Truth listeners can get 25% off any of the OYNB plans using the code "INNERTRUTH".

Wow. What a year it's been!

Incredible to think Inner Truth only launched to friends and family in January this year and now we stand at 58 episodes with tens of thousands of downloads.

It's hard to believe that somehow I ended up interviewing some of my favourite artists (Nick Mulvey!), writers, and most inspiring leaders in the conscious field.

Most of all its been amazing to start conversations in this area, build a wonderful audience, and connect with so many amazing souls along the journey. Its always the reflections that you have on the episodes that light me up and its incredible when people are inspired to take action from something they've listened to on the show.

So to say thank you in some small way, I put together a Best Of Inner Truth 2018 highlights show. Its bumper length (2 hours) and packed with some of the best wisdom shared over the year from everyone including Shaman Durek, Jamie Catto, Ruby Warrington, Nick Mulvey + more!

I hope you love it!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Following on from my solocast a few weeks back on the Toad Medicine (5-MEO-DMT), I'm continuing the psychedelic series with a two-part episode on the increasingly popular psychedelic vine ayahuasca.

In this episode I talk about my funny, crazy + very intense experience on a 10-day ayahuasca retreat in Peru and unpack all the essentials from:

• What ayahuasca is
• What happens when you take it
• Why people are doing it
• How to prepare mentally and physically for it
• Setting your intent
• What ceremony is like
• How to make sense of your experience
• Integration back into normal life
• Realizing your kinship with plants

You can find all the things I mentioned in the episode here.

Got a question? Hit me up on Instagram.

Leo Consendai is London's top Sound Meditation teacher + author + speaker as well as the Founder of the #1 Sound Meditation app Third Ear.

We sat down this week to talk about the ongoing sound revolution, including:

• The science + spirit underlying sound meditation
• The benefits (reduced stress, increased creativity, a greater sense of harmony)
• Entrainment vs entertainment
• What and how you can practice at home + on the move
• Bio + life-hacking exercises to help you beam like the sun

His free sound meditation app Third Ear is an absolute peach + highly recommended.

Now is the time to get yourself GONGED.