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Scott Goolsby emerges from his writing as a modern-day seeker who transforms profound personal suffering into deep spiritual insight. He candidly recounts a harrowing battle that stripped away the familiar rhythms of life. What begins as a medical ordeal gradually reveals itself as a spiritual teacher—reshaping how he relates to his body, his expectations, and the very meaning of normalcy. 

“As burdensome, depressing, and annoying as it has been, CVS, Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, has also been one of the greatest spiritual teachers I have ever had. I have learned acceptance. I have acknowledged that this is how my life is now, and, unless I want to be miserable and fight a losing battle, I must accept it.”

“I have also learned patience. I must be patient with myself and with my body. Sometimes I have to cancel plans. Both important and unimportant plans. The disease doesn’t care what they are. But it’s here and I must be with it now. The plans can either wait or go on without me.”

“In many ways, CVS has given me a lot of freedom. It has made room for and called me to fully put in to practice the spiritual teaching of Buddhism, yoga, and Advaita Vedanta that I have been studying most of my life. It has given me new respect for the body, and a much greater appreciation for good health.”

In “Encounters with Ketamine”, Scott steps into the realms of consciousness-shifting medicine. After over two decades of depression and anxiety, he embarks on six guided ketamine infusions. These sessions, he shares, are nothing short of mystical—powerful visits to a crystalline, light-infused inner landscape where suffering transforms into a celebration of joy, universal love, and the dissolution of self. 

Together, these two deeply personal accounts reveal a man who integrates suffering and healing, medicine and mysticism. Scott’s journey is both raw and luminous—showing how chronic illness and psychedelic therapy can become conduits to embodied wisdom, leading to resilience, spiritual presence, and the ongoing discovery of self beyond suffering.

In our conversation with Scott Goolsby, we explore the often-overlooked shadow side of spiritual seeking—the emotional turbulence that can arise on the path. Scott spoke candidly about the waves of depression, disillusionment, and raw vulnerability that contrast sharply with popular notions of constant peace or bliss. His journey reveals that true transformation often involves moving through darkness, not around it—and that the path to awakening is rarely linear, tidy, or without pain.

Scott Goolsby’s Website:

https://www.scottgoolsby.com

Encounters with Ketamine:

https://www.scottgoolsby.com/encounters-with-ketamine/

Papaji’s profound teaching. “Stop the Search”

https://www.scottgoolsby.com/the-power-to-stop/

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Steven Martyn - The Sacred Gardener

M.A. (traditional plant use), B.F.A. honours, artist, farmer, wildcrafter, builder, teacher, writer, visionary.

Steven has more than thirty years experience living co-creatively with the Earth, practicing traditional living skills of growing food, building and healing. Steven created Livingstone & Greenbloom in 1986, Toronto’s first green landscaping company.

In 1996, he created the Algonquin Tea Company, North America’s premiere bioregional tea company. He has given talks and run workshops internationally for more than twenty years and taught plant identification and wilderness skills at Algonquin college for 11 years, and at the Orphan Wisdom School for eight years. In 2014, Megan and Steven started the Sacred Gardener Earth Wisdom School. Steven released his first book The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden in 2016, his second, Sacred Gardening in June 2017 and The Roundhouse in 2022. 

“After passing from my body when I was 19 I saw what my life purpose was, and that I had fallen well short. I was given back my body to fulfill a very specific purpose in this life. Since that time forty some years ago I have spent my life spreading the green gospel and bringing people back to be healed by our Great Mother Earth. I spent many years teaching traditional plant use and many more de-programing colonial thinking, opening peoples minds and hearts to a sacred relationship with land, and specifically with the plant people. I practice and teach forms of sacred agriculture and “wildculturing” that our ancestors have practiced since the Paleocene, that generate such abundance the land easily feeds our family, school and friends.”

His new book is Gnosis, and he says,

“In Gnosis we enter a silence so deep and still space is created for the animate world around us, to step up and tell us their story, how they birthed us, protected us, nurtured us and continue to do so. Our culture came about from our divine marriages to beings from other dimensions, from fire, to the materials of our arts; like agriculture, healing, ceramics, weaving, writing and mathematics, the origins of everything in our culture is sacred. The hope is that by getting back to these foundation stones of our culture we can rebuild a sacred reality once again as our ancestors did.”

Steven Martyn's book - GNOSIS: 

https://www.amazon.ca/Gnosis-Growing-Culture-Reclamation-Marriages-ebook/dp/B0FBHRFXB3/

The Sacred Gardener website:

https://sacredgardener.ca

The Sacred Gardener Workshops and Events:

https://sacredgardener.ca/workshops-events-2/

The Sacred Gardener Videos and Audios

https://sacredgardener.ca/listen-watch-read/

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Welcome to The FUN Layer — where joy isn’t just an emotion, it’s a practice.

The FUN Layer exists as a fundamental aspect of the human nervous system, though it can be obscured by thoughts, emotions, and reactions. People, therefore, often find it challenging to bring FUN into conscious awareness. The FUN Layer Course provides tools and techniques to both access and deepen within the FUN, making it accessible in every moment. The practices are ever-evolving, based on Improv principles, Unified Mindfulness techniques, and a grab bag of whatever arises in the moment. Join Amy and Certified FUN Layer Facilitator Gary in the vast, joy-filled effervescence that is the FUN Layer!

Perfectly Okay Website:  perfectlyokay.org

For more information about The Fun Layer contact Gary Falk: [email protected]

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Robert Fusco and Caren Horowitz discuss their relationship with The Urantia Book. From discovering the book, to the insights they received, this conversation offers an inside look into the dedication these two seekers have to the Mystery of Urantia. 

Thought Adjusters and Mystery Monitors: https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-107-origin-and-nature-thought-adjusters

The Urantia Foundation: Here you can read the book: https://www.urantia.org

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In this episode, we reconnect with scholar and author Pierce Salguero to continue our exploration of his recent book, A Lamp Unto Yourself, a guide to cultivating an inner path rooted in discernment and self-trust.

Our conversation then turns to his forthcoming book, Threads of Awakening, which invites seekers to engage multiple spiritual traditions through a personalized lens. As Pierce writes:

"For those just getting started, why not launch your spiritual journey with a balanced approach that supports multiple threads of discovery? Unlike other books that present Asian spiritual techniques as fixed traditions, this introduction teaches you how to develop a customized plan that fits your strengths, values, and individuality. The author introduces 16 of the most transformative techniques from Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese traditions, while providing a rich discussion of the history, philosophy, and experiential outcomes of these practices."

Blending insight, history, and lived practice, Pierce offers a fresh, integrative vision for awakening in a pluralistic world.

Pierce Salguero’s Website:

http://multidharma.net

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In this episode, Stefan and Gary experience Guided Shifting for themselves with the newly released free sample session. If you want to try it yourself, then you can access the full session here: https://www.guidedshifting.com/get-started . Afterwards, Stefan and Gary explore what their experience is like on the other side, and then Jason and Gary reconnect two days later to discuss what life has been like since the session ended.

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For seekers attuned to the subtle dimensions of the spiritual path, this episode opens a doorway into the living traditions of the East—practices and philosophies that have long offered maps beyond the mind, into embodied presence and inner stillness.

From meditation and movement to Nondual philosophies, these traditions offer more than techniques—they point to a different way of perceiving reality.

In conversation with author and scholar C. Pierce Salguero, we explore how ancient practices like yoga, tai chi, qigong, and various forms of meditation have entered Western consciousness—sometimes adapted, sometimes diluted—and how modern spiritual explorers might engage them with respect, clarity, and intentionality.

Without prescribing a path, Salguero offers a compass: historical grounding, philosophical context, and a gentle call to explore directly. This episode is an invitation to engage Eastern spiritual traditions not as borrowed rituals, but as living currents—vessels of awakening for those who feel the pull toward deeper truths.

As the title of his book reminds us, the ultimate teaching is always inward: Become a lamp unto yourself.

https://www.piercesalguero.com

http://multidharma.net

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We’re excited to welcome Jason Soll as our guest today on the Seekers and Finders Podcast to explore his transformative system, Guided Shifting: Awakening in 30 Minutes. This consciousness-expanding approach blends neuroscience, guided visualization, and somatic awareness to facilitate rapid shifts in perception—often within just half an hour. Jason brings a fresh, practical pathway to awakening that’s both accessible and deeply effective. In our conversation, we dive into the mechanics of Guided Shifting, how it helps break free from habitual thought patterns, and Jason’s personal journey into this powerful work. This is a conversation you won’t want to miss.

Guided Shifting website:  https://www.guidedshifting.com/

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The Cult Experience

Being in a cult is often a journey that starts with a search for meaning, belonging, or spiritual fulfillment but can gradually turn into an environment of control, manipulation, and isolation. Many who enter these groups don’t realize they are part of a cult until they are deeply entangled in its belief system, social structure, and often, its psychological grip. Along with Gary and Stefan the guests today, Phil Hirschi and Patricia Aubertin, who were part of the same group, will explore what it feels like to live under such influence—how devotion can be weaponized, how critical thinking is discouraged, and how personal autonomy is often sacrificed in the name of a greater cause. But perhaps even more challenging than joining is the process of leaving. The road to freedom is fraught with doubt, fear, and, for many, a complete rebuilding of identity, relationships, and beliefs. The four of them will share what it took to step away, the struggles they faced in reclaiming their independence, and the lessons they’ve learned in the aftermath. Their stories will offer insight, validation, and hope to those who have been through similar experiences or are questioning their own path.

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"Rastal is a pioneering consciousness researcher who demystifies inner peace by stripping away unnecessary spiritual baggage. Creator of the Deepening Framework and founder of the Amplify gathering, he's dedicated to making profound wellbeing as approachable as exercise or nutrition. By balancing awakening with a successful engineering career, Rastal demonstrates that lasting transformation requires neither becoming a monk nor sacrificing your authentic personality."

https://rastal.me

https://amplifygathering.com

https://thetelepathytapes.com