My guest today is Gary Moody, mediumship apprentice, spirit artist and anthropologist. All of these attributes are combined in Gary’s anthropological research which is focused on his own development as a medium within a global spiritualist community. One of the things that fascinates me is the way non-physical consciousnesses interact with physical consciousnesses, the way we perceive and are influenced by them and how this process changes as we make it more conscious. This is a topic Gary is exploring in his own body and mind and provides some practical insights about. One of the guiding principles of this podcast is that of disbelief - don’t believe in anything, experiment, have your own experiences. One of the interesting things about Gary’s approach is that despite having many experiences some of us - myself included - would interpret as interactions with non-physical consciousness, he maintains a scientifically admirable ambiguous attitude, at once open to the possibility that spirits are real, while allowing for the possibility that our experiences of them arise from deep psychological material. Ultimately Gary’s focus is on how we can improve people’s well-being and mental health rather than the reality of the experiences. We eventually turn to questions about studying mediumship including spirit art in an academic context with Gary introducing several academic fraemworks applied to the study of mediumship

Connect with Gary via email [email protected] or on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/garyjmoody?igsh=MXY0eDZuczhzanplMg==

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Today I am speaking with two engaging and insightful medical professionals from Brazil, the sisters Fernanda and Marianna Schveitzer. We talk about their book Self-Care: A dynamic approach to integral health. Fernanda is a physician specialised in occupational medicine. Marianna is a nurse and university lecturer with a PhD in Science and post-doctorate from the school of nursing at the University of São Paulo.

Anybody who has dealt with health issues know that health is a fundamental pillar of being able to live a joyful and productive life. If we want to complete our life mission, it helps us to be in good health.

So in this conversation I explore some of the key aspects of the integral health model that Fernanda and Marianna have developed and that includes many practical ideas we can all put into practice. We also discuss some broad picture questions about the tension between personal health needs and universal systems and how physical and non-physical factors come together in health.

If you find this topic interesting and would like a chance to go more in depth and connect with Fernanda and Marianna you can join our book club in which we are reading their book. We meet once every month until June 2024 and you are welcome to join at any time. The easiest way is to join the WhatsApp group of the club using this link https://chat.whatsapp.com/KxwYh7nEFlo7YHcdla8jBY

You can find self-care resources that Fernanda and Mariana have prepared on their website: https://www.autocuidado.org/blog

The 1st Australasian Pacific Conference on Parareurbanology and Serenology, is happening from 18-20 October at the Adelaide Convention centre. If you want to understand some of the global changes in consciousness that are currently happening, find ways in which to support them with greater serenity and meet consciousness explorers from around the world that you will want to attend this event. You can find more information at this link: https://apc.isicons.org/welcome/

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Understanding our Past lives can profoundly change the trajectory of our personal evolution. When we start to realise that our actions and attributes in past lives influence our manifestations and experiences now, it helps us shift our perspective from one stuck in a single human existence to that of an immortal consciousness going through a series of related human lives.

I know many people who have identified some past existences in general terms. A fisherman in medieval Greece, a Native American fighting against the colonisers, a maid in Japan many centuries ago and so on. It seems much rarer for people to be able to study in detail a precise personality who is them expressed in a former human being. For this reason I am delighted to be having this conversation today with someone who has been able to do just that.

The name of my guest is Dr Giuliana Costa. Giuliana is a geologist based in Johannesburg South Africa and works in the mining sector. Relevant to this conversation she has been exploring her own consciousness through the lens of conscientiology since 2010. As well as the book that we are discussing today, Autobiography of a consecutive personality, Giuliana has written a number of entries for the encyclopaedia of conscientiology, including on topics such as slavery and genocide that as you will discover are quite significant to her past life.

You can find Giuliana's book Autobiography of a Consecutive Personality here

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My guest today, Jörn Schmidt, is the coordinator of Extracons, a research organisation that focuses on the study of ET consciousness through the consciential paradigm, I.e. a paradigm that centres consciousness rather than matter and treats consciousness as a multidimensionally manifesting intelligence.

The study of extraterrestrial consciousness is a fringe field within the fringe that is experiential consciousness research. Most people who pursue OBEs or mediumistic communication with non-physical people do so to connect with deceased loved ones. ETs seem literally “alien” to us, like complete incomprehensible strangers. Why would we want to connect with them out of the body? This is one of the questions I discuss with Jörn. A side effect of the fringe nature of this phenomenon is that not many people share their experiences. In fact, in reviewing my book I was reminded that I had censored myself and not included all the phenomena I experienced, because I did not understand them and thought they might sound too fantastical. Which given some of the other fantastical things I talk about in my book is saying something! One of the points Jörn makes is that it is important for us to share our experiences. That is the only way we can develop the kind of data set necessary to deepen our studies and understandings.

You can find out more about Extracons here: https://www.extracons.com/in%C3%ADcio/english-1/

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I invited today’s guest, Alexandre Zaslavsky, because he regularly publishes and speaks about the question of science in the kind of self-applied consciousness research that conscientiology promotes, or for that matter any other discipline promotes that purports to explore states of consciousness or bioenergy in a scientific way. Yoga for example has called itself a science of consciousness ever since it was introduced to the Western world in the late 19th century.

So the question is, how do we apply scientific principles to what are ostensibly subjective, intra-psychic experiences? Over the years I have noticed in myself a definite resistance every time I hear people refer to conscientiology and projectiology (or Yoga) as “science”. Is it appropriate to call something science that is not based on any objective evidence? And that does not even attempt to establish such evidence? Sure, if you have had out-of-body experiences you can have evidence for yourself. But this is not something you can demonstrate to anybody else. Does science not demand us to provide objective evidence? I think this is a common understanding we have of science, and although I know that science is not necessarily about evidence, but about models, hypotheses and refutation, I am also influenced by this popular image of it. So I really appreciated the opportunity to explore these issues with Alexandre. Topics we talk about include the role of experiments in our own personal evolution and what distinguishes experiments from experiences, the role of consciential laboratories and what it means to make our life a laboratory of our own existence, and ultimately of course whether it is appropriate to call conscientiology a science. I hope you enjoy the conversation.

Find out more about the Centre for Higher Studies of Conscientiology here

https://campusceaec.org/

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In August 2022 I visited the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam. I had discovered it accidentally when looking around the city on Google Maps. The name immediately intrigued me and once I discovered that it consists of a museum and library focused on the history of alchemy and other alternative North African and European spiritual schools and freedom of thought I knew I’d be spending some time there.

The Embassy and its invaluable library are the result of the private initiative of a Dutch businessman Joost Ritman who was inspired in his interests in spirituality by the writings of a German mystic and scholar Jacob Böhme. My interviewee Dr Lucinda Martin describes Böhme as the most important thinker that you have never heard of and and by the time Lucinda has outlined his influences across the ages you may be just an incredulous as me that you never heard of him. Lucinda is the Director of the Ritman Research Institute and Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, the core collection of rare books and manuscripts held at the Embassy. Originally from the US, she has worked for over 20 years in European universities and research institutions. Her books and articles focus on religious dissidence, especially the contributions of these thinkers to modern human rights.  Lucinda is both eloquent and passionate and offers an excellent introduction to some of the key holdings of the library at the Embassy.

Explore the Embassy of the Free Mind including its library collection and a virtual tour of its displays here: https://embassyofthefreemind.com/nl/

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This episode is something a bit different as I am being interviewed by Jack Grabon. Jack is a fellow consciousness explorer based in the US. We met years ago through our shared study of conscientiology. Jack is a psychotherapist and nutritionist with Masters degrees in social and work and applied nutrition. He is also looking at creating his own podcast focused on anomalous or paranormal experiences of consciousness. This has not launched yet and Jack is kindly letting me use this conversation here.

Our conversation ties in nicely with episode 52 where I spoke with Jessica Corneille about Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening experiences, because Jack and I discuss a mentalsoma projection that I had more than 20 years ago. A mental somatic projection can also be referred to as a cosmic consciousness experience and it can profoundly alter the way we see ourselves and the world.

I chose this experience because it was very significant to me, but also because it was quite pure which makes it especially useful for analysis. By pure I mean that it was not caused by drugs, breath work or any other stimulus one can attribute with significantly altering our biochemistry. All that was involved was relaxation and energy exercises, something that some people would not even consider to be real.

Factors like group contagion or hetero-suggestion can also be ruled out. I had the experience during a projective techniques workshop and on that day the goal was indeed for us to have a mental soma projection. But I had low expectations. This was the last of a 4 day workshop and on none of the previous 3 days had I been able to induce the kind of projections that were intended. So I had no expectation of things being any different this day. It is also relevant that I was the only workshop participant that day. So it was only me and the very low key, matter of fact instructor. All I did was lie down and move energy (and if you want to know more about what that involved check out episodes 1 and 53 ) and out of nowhere I experienced a profound alteration of consciousness, deeply shifting the locus of my self-identity for the next 30-40 minutes.

It is a fairly slow conversation as Jack was keen to see what triggers there may be in a person’s life for such experiences. I don’t know that we have the answers, but I do think that studying these experiences is going to be crucial if we want to understand what consciousness is, how it ended up in human form and how we can make the most of our current life.

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Hello and welcome back to the Multidimensional Evolution Podcast with me Kim McCaul. After a hiatus I am looking forward to bringing you some more interesting conversation in 2023. Episode 54 will kick the year off with a returning guest in Colm Holland. I spoke with Colm on episode 38 in 2020 about his books The Secret of the Alchemist. If you listened to that episode you may recall that I had some hesitation about speaking with Colm then because of my misgivings about Christianity, a religion that shaped Colm’s early life and I found still echoed in his book. In the end I was glad to have had a really interesting conversation with Colm about his fascinating life trajectory and his move from church based Christianity to the study of alchemy and Jungian psychology to guide his life path.

It seems only fitting that Colm has now introduced me to a book he has edited on behalf of the deceased author Geoff Roberts that questions the very foundations of the Christian origin story.

No matter where you stand on the story of Jesus - whether you believe in the historical character, believe that there is a spiritual Christ, agree with Geoff Robert’s that the entire story was plagiarised from other existing stories or something in-between. There is no denying that few narratives have shaped human history and consciousness as dramatically as the story of Christianity. Even if you are an atheist, a Muslim or a Buddhist, in one way or another Christianity will have impacted you. Our calendars and global festivities are shaped around alleged life events of Jesus Christ and the world’s pre-eminent super power prides itself on being a “Christian nation”, a concept that clearly means different things to different people. So I think understanding it’s historic origins is an extremely valuable pursuit. One question I find intriguing is why it is Jesus of Nazareth and not someone like his much better documented contemporary Apollonius of Tyana who has ended up becoming the figure head for this world defining cult? What is it about this story that has led it to shape the minds and cultures of billions of consciousnesses over the past 2 millennia? Could it be true that our history has been shaped entirely by a fiction? This is the question we explore in this conversation.

And just a note on something I omitted to clarify during the interview. Colm occasionally references Q. Because in recent years the letter Q has come to be associated in much public discourse with the Qanon movement, it is worth pointing out that in biblical studies the letter Q is derived from the German word Quelle for source, ie it relates to the original source of information. Having clarified that it is also fun to point out that the foundations of Christianity and Qanon actually share quite a few qualitative parallels, but that is a whole other topic.

For now I hope you enjoy this conversation.

Find out more about Colm and his work here: https://www.colmholland.com

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Imagine being able to transform yourself into someone whose simple presence can bring calm and balance to all kind of environments and social situations. In your family, at work, or anywhere in public. Someone who works hand in hand with the extraphysical helpers for whom you provide an intraphysical entry point for multidimensional assistance. This is a role we can all take on. Not through some mysterious spiritual practice or by becoming saintly, but by attending to our inner emotional life and by developing a consistent practice of working with our energetic body. It is this latter aspect that is the focus today.

Understanding and consciously working with our bioenergies, also known as chi or vital energy, can have a bit impact on our life. It adds to our purpose in life, enabling us to assist many more people than we otherwise could, because our healthy energy is a resource that can support others who are struggling. Regular energy work also greatly enhance our quality of life, helping us have greater vitality, stay more focused and balanced, and generally grounded in life.

Bioenergy work has been my passion for a long time now, but it is not a subject I often get to discuss in detail with people. So I was delighted when I was approached by today’s guests, Marlon Muraro and Fabiana Cerato who wanted to come on and talk about Bioenergetic Mastery. Marlon and Fabiana are volunteers with a conscientiology research organisation called Reaprendentia. If you are new here and don’t know about Conscientiology Marlon and Fabiana do give a brief explanation about it at the beginning of our chat. It is a framework for understanding multidimensionality that I have drawn in for over 2 decades and I still think it is one of the best ways for dissecting and understanding multidimensionality we currently have available to us.

Marlon Muraro is an accountant, Cambrigde certified English teacher, barista, poliglot and world explorer currently living in Bangkok, Thailand. He has been a volunteer of conscientiology since 2008 and an instructor since 2015.  Fabiana Cerato is a polymath with backgrounds in architecture, Positive Psychology, Didactics and Methodology, Project Planning and Building. She has been a self-knowledge researcher and Conscientiology instructor since 1997. She is also a mother of two daughters. Currently she is an entrepreneur, interpreter and writer.

Contact Marlon [email protected]

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Spontaneous spiritual awakening experiences (I would call them cosmic consciousness experiences), are subjective experiences characterised by a sudden sense of direct contact, union, or complete nondual merging or experience of oneness with a perceived ultimate reality, the universe, “God,” or the divine. They can arise in response to some kind of practice such as meditation, or as in the case of my guest today completely of their own accord.

Jessica is a Research Psychologist specialising in spontaneous spiritual awakening experiences. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Psychology (Distinction) from the University of Greenwich, where she focused her studies on induced and endogenous exceptional human experiences. With a passion to bridge the worlds of science and spirituality, her mission is to challenge the default pathologisation of awakening experiences by helping to inform and encourage mainstream psychology to look beyond the current designated spectrum of ‘normality’, to encompass the transpersonal as something that is intrinsic to the human experience. She is also dedicated to helping individuals come to the realisation of their highest human potential, and fulfils part of this mission both as a Kundalini Yoga teacher and contracted leadership and empowerment coach. Jessica has presented her work at a number of academic conferences, including with the British Psychological Society. She also works for the Scientific and Medical Network, is a member of the Galileo Commission steering committee, and a collaborator of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium and Spiritual Crisis Network. She runs regular peer-support groups for individuals undergoing spiritually transformative experiences, in central London.

-International Spiritual Emergence Network (ISEN): https://www.spiritualemergencenetwork.org

-The Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN, USA): http://www.spiritualemergence.org

-The American Centre for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE, USA): https://aciste.org

-Spiritual Crisis Network (SCN, UK): https://spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk

The Galileo Commission: https://galileocommission.org

If people would like to find an online community to discuss their spiritual experiences more openly, they can join the Blue Lotus sharing circles: https://bluelotusnetwork.com/

Or Spiritual Awakenings International sharing circles: https://spiritualawakeningsinternational.org

Please note: these sharing circles are not specifically designed around the themes of spiritual emergence / emergency, but rather welcome conversations around varying forms and degrees of spiritually transformative experiences.

Jessica's in-person sharing circles in London, which she hosts with the Psychedelic Society: https://dandelion.earth/events/628f4e75aa27e9000c0f2f2f

The article we discuss is here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720579.

Jessica is currently recruiting people for a study observing the effects of awakening on addiction. If you would like to participate in that or her other studies, or simply get in touch, you can do so via her email [email protected].