Modern Mantra Podcast

Rocket scientist and visionary Ben Haldeman is on a mission to create a blueprint of life on Earth and send it out into the universe.

In conversation with Nick, Ben introduces his astronomical venture LifeShip, the Noah’s Ark of the new space age, that has already sent the DNA of 500 species into the cosmos.

The intention? To back up Earth and spread life to the stars. The dream? To populate new worlds with these seeds of earthly life, consciousness and culture.

Tune in as Nick and Ben uncover the magnitude of this mission, and the giant leap of expansive opportunity and existential inquiry that LifeShip is launching humanity into.

Highlights
01:31 - Receiving a transmission to send seeds to the stars
10:23 - Introducing Lifeship: the Noah’s Ark of the New Space Age
16:20 - Making space exploration accessible
21:28 - Rippling life into the universe, from a capsule the size of a coin
27:23 - A democratized, decentralized movement for humanity
31:51 - The importance and responsibility of continuing life beyond Earth
41:06 - The roadmap from here? Earth guardianship, personal growth and human legacy
51:59 - When the universe teases you with alternative life paths

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What are endogenous & exogenous technologies, and how can this framework help us bring our ideas to life? Join Modern Mantra founders Nick and Elijah as they catch up on the concepts that have been circulating for them recently.

Elijah starts by sharing his recent explorations with music and plant medicine. Find out how making music has deepened his connection with nature, and expanded his understanding of endogenous tools: our inbuilt technologies, such as the breath and the voice.

Turning to the ‘exogenous’ - our external, tangible technologies - what happens as we start visualizing the invisible? Nick discusses the tech that could change the landscape for healers, & envisions what becomes possible when our inner dimensions begin to synthesize with the digital scape.

Tune in to get inspired by ancient wisdom, fresh ideas and new innovation for accessing your core essence, and unlocking the creative magic to start manifesting your visions into reality.

Highlights
02:24 Tapping into Icaros, the frequencies of nature
11:37 Endogenous and exogenous technologies
17:48 The body as an interface: ancient practices for recentering
23:15 Music making for intimacy with nature, self and others
30:50 Digitally visualising the human energy field
42:00 When modern science catches up with ancient wisdom

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Welcome to our first solo podcast! In this episode, Elijah creates space to authentically tune in and share what’s most alive for him right now:

What is abstraction and what are meta skills?

What significance do these concepts hold for entrepreneurs and creatives?

With the rapid evolution of our technological landscape, which skills will become obsolete, and which will remain of value?

When it comes to creating and manifesting your vision, we are living in times of abundance. As we step into the era of instant digital manifestation, entrepreneurship can be the vehicle for living your dharma - your life’s purpose – in its highest expression.

Tune in for a thought exercise in how to combine the best of humanity with the best of technology, as you begin exploring what abstraction and meta skills mean for you, your business, and your future.

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Whether you’re emerging from a plant medicine journey or from an  internal practice, there is a period of integration that follows. When rightfully honored, the integration is what truly crystallises the wisdom from your journey.

Amánda Efthimiou’s work is centered around medicine integration: both the initial transition in the ritualistic space, and longer term practices for assimilating your journey's learnings back into your life.

Amánda talks through the responsibility facilitators and providers hold in the psychedelic space, whilst highlighting how integration is equally important for 'non-substance' medicine practices.

Integration is an organic process which we are learning to lean into.  Amánda and Elijah share their experiences of honoring their intuitive approaches to integration, even when it doesn't match what’s been set in the group container.

Amánda shares her deep belief that ultimately, YOU are the medicine. No substance or practice does the work for us: these are simply tools to access and activate codes we hold inside.

Tune in for Amánda’s gracious wisdom and advice. This conversation holds value for anyone walking on the medicine path: facilitators, providers and journeyers alike.


About Amánda
Amánda Efthimiou is a mental health advocate, speaker & storyteller, and psychedelic wellness & integration educator. She has more than a decade of experience supporting leaders and creators that intersect health, art, science, and impact industries.

Committed to her values of integrity and reciprocity, Amánda also actively supports indigenous land sovereignty and ecosystems preservation. She was previously a Director for El Puente Foundation, which bridges indigenous wisdom traditions with contemporary applications of psychedelic medicine.

Amánda received her MSc from King’s College, London’s Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health program where she focused on the mental health outcomes of psilocybin used together with psychotherapy. She’s also completed the MIND Foundation’s Beyond Experience training in Psychedelic Integration.

Amánda is passionate about creating containers for people to share, integrate, and connect through her interdisciplinary integration workshops, all of which she facilitates via her company INTEGRA at transformational spaces worldwide.

INTEGRA was born from the need for people to find meaning and healing from their transformational experiences. Inspired by the convergence of sacred, traditional plant medicine wisdom and the scientific & therapeutic approaches using altered-states of consciousness, INTEGRA designs programs for the people and places that support psychedelic healing and transformation. Led with integrity, rooted in reciprocity, and promoting responsibility, we provide the tools, strategies and trainings using an embodied integration methodology inspired by the natural world.


Amanda's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amaiou/
INTEGRA: https://www.instagram.com/integra.guide/

In this episode: 
04:59 What is integration and why is it so important?

14:18 The stages of medicine integration: illumination, transition, activation and transformation.

18:03 Introducing Integra: creating opportunities for transformation and healing

23:56 Amanda’s personal journey of healing

35:20 How do you define medicine?

44:00 Designing integration and the permission to

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Theodore Bajard, the visionary behind RIMA, joins Nick to traverse the dimensions of consciousness and AI, art, spirituality and authenticity.

We’re stepping into a New Renaissance – a narrative which we are collectively writing as it unfolds. Nick and Theodore explore what the new paradigm might look like, and what role AI can play in this story.

Turning the lens inward, the pair look at the ‘cracks’ in our consciousness – the vulnerable gaps through which we can let the light shine. Theodore speaks to the importance and beauty of authenticity in storytelling, relating, and in becoming truly present.

With RIMA, Theodore dissolves the perceived boundaries between otherness, spirituality, performance and reality. Tune in to explore expansive perspectives on altered states of consciousness, tapping into your truth, and for a portal into the psychedelic realm of RIMA.


In this episode:

00:05:21 Between the conscious and the unconscious
00:12:46 Making life a work of art
00:19:19 How to become an agent of change
00:28:21 Can our tech be embedded with humanity?
00:34:28 Bringing the spirit realm to life with AI
00:49:24 Digital creators on a spiritual path
01:02:00 What's your compass for authenticity?
01:06:58 The cracks that let the light in
01:10:15 RIMA: Alchemising experiences into a transformative odyssey
01:31:07 Harnessing the power of symbology to rewrite your narrative


Theodore Bajard is an experience designer, art curator, and storyteller specialized in the language of dreams, the subconscious, and its applications to the human psyche. He is using the power of art, poetry and theater to create powerful transformative and immersive experiences. With 10 years of experience as art curator and art dealer in New York and Mexico, his passion has always been to create platforms and containers for artists to connect with an audience in an innovative way, exploring ways to create the future of art.

RIMA is a storytelling and artist collective creating fully-realized worlds blurring the lines between fiction and reality. RIMA is using the power of art to transform lives and create cinematic immersive sequences that connect participants to an expansive and vibrant reality. Each experience is remarkably innovative, fostering a fresh outlook, expanding participants' perspectives, and forging unbreakable bonds among people.

https://rimaexperience.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rimaexperience/
https://vimeo.com/849616627?share=copy

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What is a spiritual soup? Drawing from her 20 year healing journey, entrepreneur, radio and TV host Jennifer K Hill sat down with Nick to share her personal recipe.

A dark time in Jennifer’s youth catapulted her onto a path of personal development and spiritual practice. Later in life, her Aspergers diagnosis uncovered innate superpowers that deepened her understanding of human connection: transforming how she relates to others, and informing the algorithm behind her new business.

With Kabbalist teachings as her spiritual backbone, a principle of wholeness permeates Jennifer’s life approach. In this episode, Jennifer shares her integrative stance on all things from personal shadow and global consciousness, to science and AI.

Through daily rituals of ‘spiritual accounting’, Jennifer commits herself to ontological intentions, kind actions, divine trust and surrender, which is reflected in her very way of being. A true beam of light – tune in to hear timeless wisdom and entertaining, heartfelt anecdotes from this evolutionary thinker.

Jennifer K. Hill is an author, speaker, TV & Radio host, entrepreneur and thought leader. She has written two books, and has authored two popular white papers as well.

She built and sold her first company by the age of 38. She has hosted popular TV shows on Awake TV Network with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Rollin McCraty, Dr. Dain Heer, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. John Demartini, as well as many other leaders from around the world.

She has also moderated events including a 2020 talk at UCI with Dean Bill Maurer, Professor Don Hoffman, and Dr. Deepak Chopra. She recently hosted the Global Coherence Initiative’s largest event of the year with over 600 people from around the world, which featured Gregg Braden, Howard Martin, Dr. James Miles and several others.

When she is not hosting or speaking, she loves to give back and has built two schools in developing countries. She also recently started a new company, Om Heals in the energy medicine space to connect energy medicine practitioners with users using a proprietary algorithm developed over the past year.

03:00 Daily spiritual soup

13:30 What’s the relationship between attunement and manifestation?

18:07 A tale of divine trust and surrender

22:39 Fear of death vs feeling complete

26:51 Spirituality and science: a unitive narrative

34:18 Aspergers, superpowers, and spiritual accounting

45:48 What AI teaches us about ourselves

56:00 Tijuana adventures and the rubber band effect

01:07:15 Conversations with your inner child

01:15:00 Why embracing shadow is the key to wholeness

01:23:57 The “Audience Sex App Lady” story

01:27:48 On sweetening judgement

Find out more: https://www.om-heals.com

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What are endogenous and exogenous technologies, and how can this framework help us bring our ideas to life? Join Modern Mantra founders Nick and Elijah as they catch up on the concepts that have been circulating for them recently.

Elijah starts by sharing around his recent explorations with music and plant medicine. Find out how making music has deepened his connection with nature, and expanded his understanding of endogenous tools: our inbuilt technologies, such as the breath and the voice.

Turning to the ‘exogenous’ - our external, tangible technologies - what happens as we start visualizing the invisible? Nick discusses the tech that could change the landscape for healers, and envisions what becomes possible when our inner dimensions begin to synthesise with the digital scape.

Tune in to get inspired by ancient wisdom, fresh ideas and new innovation for accessing your core essence, and unlocking the creative magic to start manifesting your visions into reality.

Show notes:

• 04:52 Tapping into Icaros, the frequencies of nature
• 14:07 Endogenous and exogenous technologies
• 20:16 The body as an interface: ancient practices for recentering
• 25:46 Music making for intimacy with nature, self and others
• 33:24 Digitally visualising the human energy field
• 44:33 When modern science catches up with ancient wisdom

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Rocket scientist Ben Haldeman is on a mission to create a blueprint of life on Earth (from sacred plants to animal and human DNA) and send it out into the universe.

In conversation with Nick, Ben introduces his astronomical venture LifeShip, the Noah’s Ark of the new space age, that has already sent the genomes of 500 species into the cosmos.

The intention? To back up Earth and spread life to the stars. The dream? To populate new worlds with these seeds of earthly life, consciousness and culture.

Tune in as Nick and Ben uncover the magnitude of this mission, and the giant leap of expansive opportunity and existential inquiry that LifeShip is launching humanity into.

Ben Haldeman

Ben is a space entrepreneur involved in companies at the intersection of space, longevity, biology, and consciousness. He is founder of LifeShip, a community space movement with a mission to spread the seeds of life to the stars. LifeShip’s first mission is a DNA seed bank time capsule on the Moon. LifeShip’s products allow people to preserve and propagate their DNA, story, and digital twin avatar across space and time. Ben was an early engineer at Planet Labs where he designed the camera used on hundreds of satellites to record our changing planet. He built a global network of dozens of robotic telescopes to find new exoplanets at LCOGT. In grad school at UC Berkeley, Ben built instruments to look for life on Mars.

https://www.lifeship.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lifeship/
https://www.instagram.com/benlifeship

Show notes:

• 00:03:45 - Receiving a transmission to send seeds to the stars
• 00:10:23 - Introducing Lifeship: the Noah’s Ark of the New Space Age
• 00:16:20 - Making space exploration accessible
• 00:21:28 - Rippling life into the universe, from a capsule the size of a coin
• 00:27:23 - A democratized, decentralized movement for humanity
• 00:31:51 - The importance and responsibility of continuing life beyond Earth
• 00:41:06 - The roadmap from here? Earth guardianship, personal growth and human legacy.
• 00:51:59 - When the universe teases you with alternative life paths

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Darius Mora, CEO of Vitality Therapeutics, channels learnings from his personal healing journey to develop AI technology that can diagnose mental health conditions, giving individuals sovereignty over their personal growth.

What happens as we begin optimising our wellbeing with the aid of technology?

Speaking to the dangers of ‘living life like a self help book’, Darius recounts his own story of burning out despite hitting all the markers of a healthy and mindful lifestyle.

Given how unique and subjective our lived experience and learnt responses are, providing advice and emotional support to others becomes a delicate act.

With a growing demand for therapy and mental health care, how can we harness artificial intelligence to support the emotional evolution of humankind?

Darius and Nick unpack the responsibility that comes with integrating AI into the mental health sphere. They touch on the importance of ethical boundaries, and of awareness around our human, emotional fragility.

Finally, Darius lets us in on the profound realisations he’s had on his own path to growth, integrity and deepened connection.

Darius Mora is a dedicated advocate for mental health, and CEO of Vitality Therapeutics. His company focuses on creating groundbreaking technology that can diagnose depression through voice analysis alone. Driven by personal experience, Darius became deeply invested in mental health after facing a significant burnout episode. Through his own healing journey, he discovered the powerful potential of combining cutting-edge technology with time-honored wisdom to transform the way we approach mental well-being. Darius firmly believes that only when we are becoming the best versions of our selves can we really start serving the people around us, and contribute our gifts.

Website: https://www.dariusmora.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feeling.vitality/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vitality-therapeutics/

Show notes

• 11:58 The perils of advice-giving: navigating our individuated mind maps
• 17:20 Ethical boundaries and a safety net for AI
• 24:43 Is emotional attachment to digital spirits inevitable?
• 31:15 An emotional coach chatbot for mental health diagnosis
• 44:37 Burnout epiphany: zooming out to appreciate the macros of life
• 51:50 Integrity, change, and healthy attachment in relationships
• 1:01:46 What’s your biggest vector for personal growth?
• 1:05:23 Combatting avoidance tactics with shadow work

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Multi-talented Modern Mantra creative and designer, Nibras Ibnomer, joins studio co-founder Elijah for a conscious, emotive and fluid exploration that will resonate with all artists and creatives.

To begin, they discuss one of the biggest blocks to authentic self expression: fear of judgement, and our unconscious bias towards likeability. This programming permeates how we show up in the world, and ultimately, how we create. How to rewrite these codes?

Nibras and Elijah radically reframe the creative process from a holistic perspective: shifting the focus from the creative end-product, to how we create.

How can integrating embodiment practices and attunement rituals into our creative process support us in transcending the age-old trope of the suffering artist?

The conversation concludes with a deeper paradigm shift: the creator as a divine vessel for ideas and creations, not as owner. What can happen when you embody this approach in your own creative pursuits? Tune in to find out.

Highlights

• 08:38 Mirrors of Self: whose perception of us matters?
• 16:53 Internal like-ability programming, and how we self modulate
• 25:21 How do you feel in your body as you create?
• 29:21 Creating without suffering: rituals for coming home to the body
• 37:45 Holistic attunement practices for working as a collective
• 44:47 Divine creation: The artist as vessel vs owner

Nibras Ibnomer

Multi-disciplinary creative, venture designer, user experience designer, writer, and strategist. Working on moving towards ‘Humaning beautifully’: figuring out emotions, wellbeing, psycho-spiritual flourishing and sharing in many multi-media forms along the way. Recently a resident at Medley Berlin working on creating metaphor-based maps of healing modalities, tools and techniques. Previously a product designer in London and remotely with Cleo, Stint and others.

Connect with Nibras

Twitter: https://twitter.com/heynibras

Website: https://www.heynibras.com/

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