On this episode of Know Thyself Podcast we are joined by Paramahamsa Vishwananda, for an intriguing conversation on the reality of self realization, samadhi, and performing miracles. He shares his story of awakening at a young age, revealing the divine interactions with Mahavatar Babaji that shaped his life forever. He reveals what lies at the heart of humanity's search for happiness, and how we can make every day heaven on Earth. He discusses the truth about being a guru: from spiritual ego, experiencing anger, and the importance of the guru. Andre and Paramahamsa Vishwananda also discuss achieving harmony in romantic relationships, aligning ourselves to the will of the Divine, and finding your own unique path of self realization.




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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:38 Humanity's Search for Happiness
5:27 Self Realization & Exploring the True Nature of Self 
8:06 Shift from the Mind to the Heart
16:01 Parmanhansa’s Spiritual Lineage
19:47 The Journey of Our Souls' Awakening
24:46 What Comes After Self-Realization & Making Paradise Here and Now
27:58 Childhood Awakening through Mahavatar Babaji
39:33 Who Mahavatar Babaji Is
40:54 Discernment on the Spiritual Path
43:49 Experiencing Samadhi & Cosmic Consciousness
48:37 Being Initiated into Kriya Yoga
49:50 Becoming a Guru & Performing Miracles
52:47 Navigating Ego Traps as a Guru
54:06 The Role of a Guru 
55:15 Do you Experience Anger?
57:37 Devoting Ourselves to Something Greater
59:55 Balance of Effort and Grace
1:02:03 Achieving Fearlessness on the Spiritual Path
1:05:01 The Spiritual Ego's Slippery Slope
1:08:36 Divine Design: The Greater Plan of Consciousness
1:10:57 Yogic Lineages: What Draws Us to Certain Paths
1:18:49 Romantic Relationships on the Spiritual Path
1:21:25 Conclusion


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Paramahamsa Vishwananda is the founder of the international organisation known as ‘Bhakti Marga’, which means the ‘path of devotion’. It is through Love and with Love that Paramahamsa Vishwananda has inspired a global community to share His wisdom, teachings and spiritual practices with the world.
All of Bhakti Marga’s efforts and offerings are dedicated to supporting His mission of awakening bhakti in everyone to live a life of devotion to God.




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E84 - Paramahamsa Vishwananda: The 3 Paths of Spiritual Purification To Go From Your HEAD To Your HEART

The Know Thyself Podcast is a place to dive deep into the perennial questions of life; such as “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?” and “What is my purpose?”
Each week the host André Duqum connects with various teachers, spiritual leaders, doctors, heart-led creators and storytellers on topics such as the true nature of ‘Self’, consciousness, philosophy, health optimization, and personal growth.
These conversations are aimed at supporting individuals on their awakening journey, reducing human suffering and providing actionable tips for experiencing a truly liberated and fulfilling life. The Know Thyself Podcast is here to reveal ancient wisdom applicable for these modern times.

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Psychologist and Relationship Expert Sadia Khan reveals the #1 reasons that are keeping us single and how to navigate the mess of modern dating. She and André delve into the complexities of modern dating and explore key aspects that contribute to its challenges. From deciphering the intricacies of choosing the right partner to overcoming past traumas and establishing healthy relationship templates, this episode offers practical advice and insights to set yourself up for romantic success.
Sadia breaks down the often-debated topic of the "Boss Babe" mentality versus the biological clock, exploring tension between personal aspirations and pressures related to relationships and family planning. She also reveals the top green flags to look for in a partner, understanding someone's love language, and navigating polarity in relationship. 
Finally, they shed light on the often-misunderstood aspects of gender dynamics in hetero-sexual couples, addressing the common misconceptions men may have about women's perspectives and needs, fostering empathy and understanding between genders.


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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro 
1:33 Why Modern Dating is a Mess
7:10 How to Set Yourself Up For Success
9:57 The Trouble with Social Media, OnlyFans, and Narcissism 
17:27 Choosing the Right Partner: How to Align Your Values & Behaviors
20:34 Overcoming Trauma & Making a New Template for Relationships 
22:59 Why Some Long-term Relationships Fail
30:05 Boss Babe Mentality vs The Biological Clock
37:03 The Problem with Seeking a Partner 
40:11 Polarity in Long Term Relationships 
42:08 Green Flags in Relationship 
44:08 Dealbreakers & Falling in Love with Someone's Potential
51:10 Love Languages & Giving/Receiving Balance
1:00:10 Self Sourcing Happiness after Success
1:02:42 Knowing Yourself & Facing Your Shadow 
1:03:34 The #1 Hack to Personal Growth 
1:06:56 How to Know When to Leave
1:10:30 The Truth About Cheating & Attraction 
1:16:17 Men Don’t Understand This About Women 
1:19:11 Do You Need A Leader in a Relationship?
1:20:25 Women Don't Understand This About Men
1:29:28 Release Desire and Gain Self Control
1:31:53 Conclusion 


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Sadia Khan is a relationship coach who has dedicated her social presence to helping individuals and couples navigate the complexities of modern relationships. Her passion for helping people build fulfilling and lasting connections has guided her on this meaningful journey.


Sadia holds a BSc in Psychology, Master's in Education and Developmental psychology, Qualified Teachers Status, Diplomas in Psychotherapy, Advanced CBT, Psychoanalysis, and Inner Child Healing. 


Her academic training and extensive practical experience allow her to offer well-rounded and evidence-based guidance. 


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E97 - Sadia Khan: How to Avoid the Traps of Modern Dating & Attract Aligned Love

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Dr. John Churchill joins the podcast today to walk us through the process of human development: from infantry to enlightenment. He shares a deep understanding of the spiritual awakening journey and how we can best optimize ourselves for this process. He lays the foundation for the conversation by describing our planetary cycle and how it related to our own development. revealing the "Fourth Turning" our planet is currently in and it's greater global implications.
He describes the personal ascension process in 3 stages: growing up, cleaning up waking up - and how by deepening our understanding of these phases we can lay a strong foundation for our spiritual awakening.


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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:49 The Wheel of Time: Understanding Earth’s Cycles
10:18 Organizing Ourselves For Planetary Change
18:54 Emergence: How to Optimize Yourself For Synchronicity 
22:22 The Fourth Turning: Our Current Planetary Cycle
35:05 Transitioning From the Head to the Heart 
39:10 Levels of Human Spiritual Development Explained
1:18:35 Healing Childhood Trauma: The Cleaning Up Process
1:25:32 Understanding the Attachment, Relational, & Self Systems
1:36:09 Visualization Practices for Healing Relations
1:48:50 How to Wake Up & See the Oneness
2:01:22 The True Nature of Self
2:09:10 Merging Growing Up, Cleaning Up, Waking Up
2:17:50 Specific Practices for Raising Your Consciousness
2:18:18 Developing Processes to Cover the 3 Stages
2:32:15 How to Embody Your Highest Self Today
2:40:45 Conclusion


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Born in London, Dr. Churchill's interest in psycho-spiritual development, Integral theory, Contemplative studies, Western Esotericism, and Mahayana Buddhism began in his adolescence, eventually leading him to spend several years as a Buddhist monk at Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland. During this time, John received the esoteric Planetary Dharma transmissions that would in time unfold as his contribution to a planetary fourth turning teaching.


For the last 25 years, John has developed a a Fourth Turning Planetary Dharma practice which includes the somatically based contemplative practice path; Embodying the Open Ground, that integrates psychodynamic healing, adult development and meditation. 


John holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from William James College, and is a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine.


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E96 - Dr. John Churchill: How To Wake Up & Show Up For A Planet That Needs You

Born and raised as a pastor's son, Aaron Abke had a unique lens into religion from a young age. This led him ultimately on a spiritual journey of leaving the church and diving into the wisdom teachings of the world and eventually finding what felt most resonate to him. 
In this episode, we'll be decoding the mystery of Jesus Christ's life and how his true teachings can help us on our awakening journey. He goes past the 2,000 year old dogma and misinterpretation surrounding Jesus (or Yeshua) in order to unveil how we can awaken christ consciousness within us. 
Aaron describes the evidence hidden in the dead sea scrolls, the secret teachings of the Essenes, and messages in the actual Bible itself, for an intriguing conversation aimed at bringing truth back to the name of Jesus and supporting you on your own journey.


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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:12 Reinterpreting the Life of Jesus
6:47 The Dead Sea Scrolls that Redefined Christianity
14:59 How the Essenes Lived: Ritual & Natural Law
23:03 The Missing Years of Jesus’ Life: What Actually Happened
30:04 Fundamentalism vs Mysticism 
30:56 Addressing the Triggers & Contraditctions of Christianity
36:49 How Jesus Performed Miracles: Sevenfold Path of Peace
44:16 Red Light Therapy: BonCharge
45:28 Seven Angels of the Heavenly Father
54:14 The End Goal: Merging Heaven and Earth
57:12 Second Coming of Christ: Resurrecting Christ Consciousness Within
1:03:41 Proof in the Bible that Jesus was an Essene
1:15:18 Initiation Process of the Essenes 
1:23:29 Reincarnation & Jesus' Past Lives
1:27:42 Was Jesus Vegetarian?
1:37:41 Fasting for Spiritual Purification & Wellness
1:43:52 The Argument of Jesus Eating Fish
1:46:17 Results of Following the “Jesus Diet”
1:55:04 Daily Prayer Process of Essenses
2:00:59 Beyond Dogma: Feeling The True Law of God
2:05:36 Apocalyptic Cult? True Meaning Behind The End of Darkness
2:14:58 Sharing a Prayer from the Essenes 
2:18:17 Finding Your Own Path
2:25:21 Conclusion
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Aaron Abke is a spiritual teacher and content creator, with a mission is to awaken this planet to the awareness of our oneness and collective destiny, which is called "4th Density Consciousness". This is Unity Consciousness; the awareness of Love and Oneness as the Highest Truth of the Universe.


Highly studied in The Law of One, Aaron teaches others how to integrate and embody this Truth in their Being, rather than merely learning about it. His aim is to provide humanity with the tools, knowledge, and practices needed to ascend our consciousness to the 4th Density Level.


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E95 - Aaron Abke: The Forgotten Teachings Of Jesus, The Essenes & Dead Sea Scrolls

Jim Kwik, Bestselling Author and #1 Brain Coach shares an effective guide in helping us transcend limits and unlock our brain’s full potential. At a young age, Jim adopted the identity of having a 'broken brain' after a traumatic brain injury damped his ability to learn. In this episode he shares the mindset and tools that helped him to overcome this label and become a master of his mind. 
He and André discuss simple hacks to harnessing your attention and improving your memory, revealing the information essential to learning faster and expanding your mental capabilities. 
They also discuss the mindset essential to having a fulfilling life: Jim explains that the reason most people are burned out is not because they are doing too much, but because they're not doing enough of what they love. He shares how he personally created a life of alignment, joy, and fulfillment from the inside out.


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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:00 Becoming Limitless: From Brain Injury to Super-Brain 
8:16 Harnessing Our Challenges as a Super Power 
12:39 Transcending Self-Imposed Limitations
18:48 The Secret to Fulfillment
22:54 Drawbacks of our Digital Age: Overwhelm & Distraction
29:10 #1 Hack to Harnessing Your Attention 
33:23 The Key to Learning How to Learn
45:45 Improving Memory Through Emotion
54:42 Understanding Your Own Unique Way of Learning
1:06:03 AI & Digital Dementia's Impact On Our Brain
1:15:47 Knowledge vs Wisdom
1:16:22 Cultivating the Perfect Environment for Wellbeing
1:19:19 Advice For My Childhood Self
1:20:14 Biggest Failure of our Education System 
1:23:07 The Value of Flowstate & Meditation 
1:30:12 Gaining The Courage to Be Yourself
1:35:23 Conclusion
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Jim Kwik is a world-renowned expert in memory improvement, brain optimization, and accelerated learning. After a childhood brain injury left him learning-challenged, Kwik created strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance. He has since dedicated his life to helping others unleash their true genius and brainpower. For over two decades, he has served as a brain coach to students, seniors, entrepreneurs, and educators. His work has touched a who’s who of Hollywood elite, professional athletes, political leaders, and business magnates, with corporate clients that include Google, Virgin, Nike, Zappos, SpaceX, GE, 20th Century Fox, Cleveland Clinic, Wordpress, and such institutions as the United Nations, Caltech, Harvard University, and Singularity University.

Through keynote speeches, he reaches in-person audiences totaling more than 200,000 every year; his online videos have garnered hundreds of millions of views. He is the host of the acclaimed “Kwik Brain” podcast, which is consistently the top educational training show on iTunes. KwikLearning.com’s online courses are used by students in 195 countries.

Kwik, an advocate for brain health and global education, is also a philanthropist with projects ranging from Alzheimer’s research to funding the creation of schools from Guatemala to Kenya, providing health care, clean water, and learning for children in need. His mission: No brain left behind.

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E94 - Jim Kwik: Being Distracted Wastes Your Potential, Do This To Sharpen Your Mind & Become Limitless

Gregg Braden is back this week for a closer look at unlocking the potential hidden in our very DNA. He and André discuss the profound power of the human heart and the possibilities that unlock through heart-brain coherence. By merging spirituality and science, Gregg gives practical tools and insights for healing trauma, self-regulating your biology, and harnessing the quantum field.
This episode is a continuation of our last, where Gregg laid the foundation for where we are at as a collective, facing the battle between our very humanness and the development of super technology. Gregg now dives deeper into how we can use that human potential to optimize our well-being and live our most vibrant life.


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0:00 - Intro
4:33 - The Value of New Perspectives
7:15 - Heart Intelligence and Power
13:25 - The Heart’s Neural Network
20:40 - Heart-Brain Coherence
31:55 - Cellular Memory Transfer
37:18 - Heart’s Electromagnetic Field
39:40 - Transcending Time & Space in the Quantum Realm
50:15 - Entanglement, Connectivity & Prayer
53:48 - Essence of Humanity
1:01:05 - Harnessing Quantum Field Power
1:03:22 - Remote Viewing & Accessing the Field
1:05:37 - Mirror Neurons & The Power of Visualization
1:09:35 - Heart-Based Problem Solving
1:14:30 - Dealing with Anticipatory Grief
1:17:36 - Earth School
1:21:16 - Transforming Pain Into Purpose
1:29:20 - Trauma, Neuropeptides and the Body
1:34:13 - Personal Identity and Self
1:40:41 - Cultivating Heart Power
1:46:53 - Ancient Gnostic Jesus Discoveries
1:53:12 - Manifesting Our Inner Potential
1:53:02 - Closing Gratitude


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New York Times best-selling author and scientist Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science, spirituality and the real world. Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist during the 1970s energy crisis, he worked in the 1980s as a Senior Liaison with the U.S. Air Force Space Command. In 1991 he became the First Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems. Since 1986 Gregg has explored high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to merge their timeless secrets with the best science of today. The author of 11 award-winning books published in 38 languages, Gregg has received numerous honours, including a 2016 nomination for the prestigious Templeton Award. He has shared his presentations with The United Nations, Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. military, as well as in media specials aired throughout the world. 


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E84 - Paramahamsa Vishwananda: The 3 Paths of Spiritual Purification To Go From Your HEAD To Your HEART

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