Inner Truth with David Newell

Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, Sufi dervishes, and more.

She is the best-selling author of The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark and Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, has appeared in The New York Times, People, and Publisher's Weekly, and on NPR, The Dr. Oz Show, and Oprah and Friends.

She has won critical acclaim from myriad spiritual thinkers including Neale Donald Walsch, Mirabai Starr and Christiane Northrup and been described as one of the "new role models" for our generation by The New York Times.

In this conversation we talk about her abrupt re-awakening in 2009, finding your soul in dark times, the epidemic of soul loss in society today, and how to find your center when all else seems lost.

This conversation was recorded before Covid-19 and seems eerily more acute in our current period of isolation.

Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time yet to come.

He is a Harvard Educated Theologian and author of:

• Money and the Soul's Desires

• Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

• Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble

In perhaps one of the most cosmically timed conversations in Inner Truth's brief history, we navigated a conversation through this current situation with the Covid-19 outbreak through the lens of 20-30 years of his work contemplating what it means to die wisely and correspondingly of course, what it means to live wisely.

These last couple of weeks Covid-19 has racked the world. Almost the entire Western populace is on lockdown with panic across financial markets, food buying and fears of a global economic recession. These are unprecedented times but were they unpredictable?

Many wisdom systems have pointed at 2020-2027 as a period of great volatility and transformation, Covid-19 is perhaps just the beginning.

In this week's special episode I caught up with internationally-renowned shaman and mystic Manex Ibar to make sense of these events in a wider picture and talk about what the invitation is for us now to move into a much deeper embodiment of love, community and creativity.

Mark Wolynn is one of the world's leading experts on inherited family trauma and its impact on our physical and emotional wellbeing.

After spontaneously losing nearly all his eyesight as a young man he made a miraculous recovery simply through uncovering and healing family trauma hidden in his subconscious. His recovery sparked a 20 year career into how unprocessed trauma in our lineage impacts of physical and emotional lives in the most profound of ways.

His book IT DIDN'T START WITH YOU: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle is one of the most authoritative reads in the field of how our DNA is coded from birth by the traumas and past experiences of our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so on through our genetic lineage.

In this conversation we talk about how science is essentially now proving karma through epigenetics, how your life is hugely codified by your genes and family trauma, and how to spot and heal those effects.

Most of what weighs us down isn't ours to carry. Various life events cause us to build up barriers to experiencing our true selves, and this can claim our power as individuals. This is particularly so if we've experienced trauma (i.e. everyone).

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing or EMDR is a powerful form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1990s in which one is asked to recall distressing images; the therapist then directs you in one type of bilateral sensory input, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping.

The process is aimed to replicate the natural phenomenon of eye movement that occurs during dream or REM sleep which allows us to process experiences and in this instance 'stuck' memories.

Lucinda Gordon Lennox is one of the top EMDR therapists in London. She helps people who present with either specific traumatic events that they wish to heal, or with troubling feelings that are hindering everyday life, or both, in order that they can shed what no longer serves them, discover their true selves, and fully sit in their power.

In this conversation we discuss what EMDR is, how it works, how it heals, and whether its right for you or anyone you know that's dealing with unprocessed experiences.

Panache Desai is a bestselling author, thought leader, and life catalyst whose presence and power of insight have transformed many thousand individuals, organizations, and companies. He has appeared with Oprah on her show Super Soul Sundays and has been praised by numerous spiritual leaders including Deepak Chopra.

His latest book You Are Enough launches right into the heart of the human challenge of feeling whole. He argues that the soul--whole, unbroken, at peace, and one with the life source--isn't a destination. It already exists within each of us, just waiting to be revealed. It is not something we have to work to develop--it is our birthright. And when we are in union with our soul, we experience a personal evolution that not only illuminates our individual cosmic purpose but helps us to engage the sense of purpose and presence necessary to remake the world itself.

In this conversation we dig into why we feel we're not enough, what this is doing to us as individuals and as a collective, and how we can shift out of this most challenging of core beliefs.

Paul Selig is considered to be one of the foremost spiritual channels in the world today. In his breakthrough works of channeled literature, I Am the Word, The Book of Love and Creation, The Book of Knowing and Worth, The Book of Mastery, The Book of Truth, and The Book of Freedom he has recorded an extraordinary program for personal and planetary evolution as humankind awakens to its own divine nature.

In this week's conversation we talk about how everything that happens in our life is a product of our vibrational and energetic accord with everything else. Many times we are confused with things that are taking place for us, but actually we are in direct energetic accord with those learning experiences.

In this week's pod we unpack how to make sense of those things so we can continue to lift our consciousness to greater and greater learning experiences.

Born in New York City, a spiritual experience in 1987 left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience he studied a form of energy healing and began to "hear" for his clients. Described as "a medium for the living," Paul has the unique ability to step-into and "become" the people his clients ask about, often taking on their personalities and physical characteristics as he "hears" them telepathically.

Paul's work is widely featured in a variety of media, including ABC News Nightline, Fox News, the Biography Channel series The UneXplained, Gaiam TV's Beyond Belief and the documentary film PGS: Your Personal Guidance System. He has appeared on numerous radio shows and podcasts including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Bob Olson's Afterlife TV.

HeatherAsh Amara is a teacher, speaker and author of the bestselling book Warrior Goddess Training. She has studied extensively in many spiritual practices an in particular the Toltec tradition under the tutelage of don Miguel Ruiz, bestselling author of The Four Agreements.

In her latest book, The Warrior Heart Practice she introduces a powerful Toltec practice to help reconnect with our sense of authenticity and inner-knowing and realign with our true nature.

The Warrior Heart Practice is a system based on the four chambered structure of the human heart. Walking through each of the four chambers―Feeling, Story, Truth, and Intent―one's learn to take stock of their current emotional and mental state and reframe their situation in a new healing light.

In this episode we walk through the process together to learn how to connect back into our innate capacity for inner healing.

Dr Kelly Neff is a social psychologist, author, professor, futurist and talk-radio personality who has a unique focus on the intersection of psychology, consciousness, and human sexuality.

She has spent almost a decade teaching thousands of people in her online and in-person Psychology of Human Sexuality courses at Saddleback College, CA. She lives in Denver and hosts the hit radio show, Lucid Planet Radio, on Transformation Talk Radio out of Seattle.

From her new book Sex Positive:

"Millennials and Generation 'Z' are rejecting traditional gender stereotypes and embracing tech as it revolutionizes virtually every aspect of our sex lives. The future is Sex Positive -- tolerant of individual choice and open to sexual freedom and exploration, but what does this mean for our sex lives and our definitions of love as we navigate this brave new world of sexual autonomy and self-discovery?"

Helen Morris is the Founder of Samsara Communications, a top PR agency focusing on wellness and conscious brands based in London.

Around five years ago she went through a monumental quarter-life crisis (read: Saturn Return) culminating in being house-bound for a month. In truth the crisis was a long time coming from many years of burning the candle in the PR business but also feeling astray and disconnected from her body, from her work, and from life in general.

Many listeners (and myself) have been through a similar experience and what makes Helen quite inspirational has been her process of personal healing whilst also building a fantastic new, conscious business.

Yet still, it's a struggle. In this week's episode we had a stripped back conversation about our dark nights, rebuilding life in the aftermath, dealing with ongoing pressures, boundaries, and conditioning, and why it continues to be a step-by-step journey each day.

She shares some hard won insights and lessons that continue to be learnt today.