This is a powerful episode, and we have to provide something of a trigger warning. In this episode we do address trauma, sexual abuse, childhood abuse, and healing and overcoming from these things. 

Host Ben Decker is joined by  award-winning actress, and actually  award-winning philanthropist as well, AnnaLynne McCord. Ben and AnnaLynne first met working in the field of modern-day abolition, through a network of anti-human trafficking organizations.   Over their 10+ year friendship, they both deepened their passion and love for inner-healing, healing of the mind, body, and heart through spirituality and meditation.

AnnaLynne is now the founder of The Love Storm, a mass meditation initiative aimed at raising the collective energy against slavery of the mind and the body.  Hear AnnaLynne's journey to earn her first $1 million by age 23, how, through forgiveness and metta lovingkindness meditation she was able to reconcile with the traumatic abuse she had endured in her childhood, become an inspirational figurehead for the movement toward personal liberation from sexual abuse, childhood trauma, and religious trauma.

Hear Ben Decker's take on reincarnation, his perspective of an esoteric and an exoteric teaching. He shares the teaching that reincarnation from an exoteric perspective has always been taught as a literal death and rebirth, while an esoteric teaching posits that reincarnation is symbolic for the reality that all living beings are of one life and infinite points of view. The teaching of reincarnation has always served the purpose of helping us see ourselves in  another person's shoes; different races, different genders, different life circumstances, as a means to support us in learning how to love one another as ourselves. 

Show Notes:

THE LOVE STORM is a global initiative founded by AnnaLynne McCord raising awareness on human-trafficking in an educational and empowering way. By hosting mass meditations in over 20 cities around the world, The Love Storm aims to lead the conversation that we must fight slavery from the inside out.  Join the movement today at TheLoveStorm.com

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Contact The Modern Spirituality Podcast:
Host/Executive Producer: Ben Decker
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Producer:
Linda Michaelson
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Associate Producer:
Ansley Weller
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