The Mystical Made Practical

Now that we know that if we want to make real progress on our soul path, we need to add the spiritual dimension so we can answer the deeper questions that we have. But we also know that we can't reach the spiritual world with conventional methods of investigation. We need some kind of tool to be able to communicate with the spiritual dimension. With all that help and support available to us If we want to work directly with the spiritual world, it's vital to have some way to communicate with it.

In today's episode, I talk about the main tool that we all have to be able to communicate with the spiritual world: our intuition. I'll be covering what I think it is, how it works, what information we are getting and why it can be so challenging to work with it. I also a free guide to help you build a rapport with your intuition and learn how you best receive intuitive information. It will help you if you are new to working with your intuition, or if you have been able to use it occasionally but would like to strengthen the connection and be more conscious with receiving. Check it out below.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

• My definition of intuition
• How intuitive is different from psychic
• If there is any type of intuitive information that is more important than another
• Why intuitive development isn't really about developing your intuition
• The one thing we need to do in order to successfully work with our intuition

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Practical Mystics Facebook Community

FREE Guide To Building A Rapport With Your Intuition

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So what is the spiritual world and why does it feel different from the physical world? It feels like this separate thing "over there" that we're drawn to but at the same time aren't sure about. We have a deeper knowing that it's important somehow but are hesitant to dive in.

In this episode, I'll be clarifying what I mean by the material or physical world and the non-material or spiritual world, and why understanding the spiritual world is important for our soul growth. I'm also going to touch on how I don't think they are as separate as they seem and what I think the main reason we stop ourselves from working with the spiritual and how we can move through that obstacle.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

• Why the physical world feels more 'real'
• We're not as solid as we seem
• The limits of the physical world in understanding all of who we are
• The viewpoint that limits us and what to do about it

Resources in Today's Episode

Piaget

Hands of Light

Welcome back to The Mystical Made Practical Podcast!

For many of us who have been working at becoming more soul-conscious, we get to a point where traditional methods of self-inquiry don't answer all of our questions. We start to feel a deeper connection to something bigger, a world that's beyond the material or tangible, but we have a limited understanding of what it is, how to work with it, or how it can help us.

In this series, my guests and I will be discussing the non-physical or spiritual world. There seems to be a lot of disjointed and sometimes obscure information about this world, and this series is meant to shed light on this world and connect things up so we can navigate and work with this world for soul growth with more confidence.

• What is out there
• Who is out there
• How do we access it
• Is it safe
• Who's out there to help us
• Who is out there to not help us
• How do we work with it for soul growth

• The physical world vs. the non-physical or spiritual world
• Intuition
• Mapping "Over There"
• Psychic Information
• Channeling
• Spiritual Guides
• Ghosts and other things that go bump in the night
• …and more!

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When we talk about living our purpose, our human selves want it to be in a specific, concrete form. It's so easy when we are doing this work to come back to "I can see that my soul purpose is to grow as a soul and express that, but what does that look like on the ground?"

And while living our purpose happens in a concrete way, it doesn't need to be as specific as our human selves think. It may be more helpful to ask ourselves, how do I translate what's happening on the ground into soul growth?

In this episode Taking The Contents Out Of The Container, I'm going to discuss how it's the experiences we need, not the specific situations we encounter that are important to our soul selves, how we confuse our human needs for our soul needs and why that can trip us up, but also, how they work together to allow us to do our soul work.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

• Why form is more important to our human selves than our soul-selves
• The two important ways we need to define what we mean by experiences
• What these experiences provide for both our human needs and soul needs
• The difference between the human level and the soul level
• How to work at both the human and soul level for growth

Resources In Today's Episode

Practical Mystics Facebook Community

Martha Angelini's Website

Episode Summary

Knowing how our souls need to grow is a huge part of living our soul purpose. But knowing it alone won't help us make the important consciousness shifts that allow us to grow as a soul. For that, we need everyday experiences to transform knowledge into wisdom.

In Episode 5: Shifting With a Clutch - How Our Everyday Experiences Shift Our Consciousness we are going to talk about what experiences help us do this and in what ways. I explain why I think it's important for a soul-self to have human experiences, and touch on the deeper significance of why we are doing our spiritual work in this way. I will also be doing little myth-busting about how spiritual practices fit in with this work.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

• How spiritual or consciousness practices aren't the experiences I'm talking about
• The different functions these experiences provide
• What experiencing theory is and how it helps us as soul-selves
• The deeper connections we are creating using our everyday experiences

Resources in Today's Episode

• The Four Agreements
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As spiritual beings having a human experience we feel that we are here to be more and do more. We want an on-the-ground, what we can do to live our purpose.

Today, I'm going to be discussing what everyone on this path wants to know: what our soul's purpose really is, or what we are trying to accomplish for our souls' growth. Spoiler alert: it isn't a specific calling or vocation. I think we are here to become aware of how our soul is trying to grow, and expressing that. But what, specifically, are we trying to learn as soul-selves? And, how do we find that out?

In Episode 4, Where Have I Seen This Movie Before?, I'll discuss what it is our soul-selves are growing around. I also touch on what we are really doing as we grow, and the deeper significance of why we are trying to learn and grow.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

• How our growth is not random or non-specific
• How our soul growth information is organized and how it is stored
• How we can access this information
• The deeper reason why our souls are looking to grow
• How life patterns are soul patterns
• How we can recognize soul work in our lives

Resources in Today's Episode

Wholeness And The Implicate Order by David Bohm

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith

Carl Jung

Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss

Bonus: Journey of Souls by Michael Newton

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In the world of consciousness, the soul-ego relationship seems to be a constant battleground with the focus on having our souls overcoming the ego if we want to become more conscious. In episode 2 I talked about how challenging it can be to make these shifts in consciousness that are part of our soul growth, and that what can make it challenging is the push back we get from our ego-minds. But is the relationship really one where the ego-mind is the enemy and is out to stop the soul from growing and expanding?

In this episode, I discuss how I think that they aren't enemies but are, in fact, allies who are working together.

• We don't grow as soul-selves despite the limitations of our ego-minds and body, but because of them
• How the mind-body system (ego) provide a place to learn and lessons to help teach our soul-selves
• Our soul-selves embed their areas of growth within that system to help guide and shape the soul
• How our systems provide the learning space and specific challenges our souls requires for growth
• How our human systems provide the impetus for growth beyond that space

Carl Jung

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From Episode 1 we discussed that the choices we made throughout our lives are all in line with shifting our consciousness so we can make conscious soul-guided choices.

In this episode, I address that even though we want to make these soul-guided choices and do it consciously, we struggle to do so and stop ourselves from doing what we want to do. I discuss the major choices that we need to make as we shift our consciousness using the lock analogy from Episode 1. I talk about what the challenges are, how these challenges change as we become more conscious, and what we need to do in order to make those choices.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

• What major choices we need to make to shift our consciousness and why they are challenging
• Why becoming more conscious makes this process seem harder and not easier
• When our ego-minds need to realize they aren't running the show
• The difference between a "leap of faith" and a "soul leap"

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• Each time we get in and exit the lock, we are becoming more conscious which means going from not knowing what's going on to knowing what's going on. From not knowing the consequences of our choices to knowing the consequences of our choices.
• Our ego-minds need to recognize and acknowledge that they aren't running the show. They haven't run the show since your soul-self made the choice to grow and got into the lock.
• We shed the protective layers that our ego-minds provided us, and now we are effectively being ourselves in the world. It's a level of vulnerability we haven't experienced before. It's a soul leap.

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Episode 1

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Do you wonder what your soul purpose is? For many of us on our awakened path, we come to a point where we want to make life choices that are aligned with our deeper purpose. However, we feel stuck in making those choices because we struggle to understand what our purpose is.

This is the first episode in the series Soul Purpose: Beyond A Calling. This series is about seeing how our soul purpose is more than a job, career, or even a calling. Over the next 6 episodes, I'm going to take you through important topics like consciousness shifts, soul and ego relationships, and soul themes to demonstrate soul purpose is a process of conscious creative expression, what that means, and what we need to know to make the conscious choices that are both aligned with our soul purpose and grounded in our everyday life.

In this first episode, we're going to talk about how you are already living your soul purpose. I discuss how your soul path is a series of choices that are there for the growth of your soul-self, and how you have been making these soul guided choices your entire life. I demonstrate how we go through these stages of consciousness to help us gradually, but fully awaken our ego-minds to our souls' growth needs in order to make conscious, soul-guided choices.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

• What stops us from seeing that we are already living our soul purpose
• How your soul-guided life didn't start (or end) with your awakening
• Our soul's purpose is a much larger process that is focused on the growth of our soul-selves
• What that process looks like from a big picture view using a lock analogy

Ideas Worth Sharing

• I don't think you are making the choice to start a purposeful or soul-guided life after awakening. What I think is actually going on is that we are making the conscious choice to continue.
• The way I think of it, what we refer to as awakening is our souls waking up our ego/mind to the soul's existence.
• Our soul selves wake our ego/minds up to their presence and force. But not all at once. It's not a Frankenstein switch from unconsciousness to total enlightenment.

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Welcome to my podcast The Mystical Made Practical! Every other week we'll discuss spiritual and metaphysical topics to make them accessible and concrete so they can be applied to your everyday life.

I break down the larger concepts into manageable episodes as part of a series, offering insights, giving examples and exercises as a way for you to explore your own unique path.

It's for you if:

• You are passionate about your spiritual development
• Want to integrate the needs of your spiritual self with the needs of your human self
• Want to live a more soul-guided life while still living in the world

Have a listen if you:

• Are curious about seeing spiritual or metaphysical concepts in different contexts
• Would like to try new techniques
• Would like flexible frameworks to help embody your spiritual practice