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This is  Reflections Epsisode on the topic of Generational Trauma.

Generational trauma can be understood so simply by the fact that every child is too busy waiting to hear "I'm sorry" to understand the power of gratitude and every parent too busy waiting to hear "thank-you" to understand the power of apology.

To paraphrase Fred Rogers: "So many people have helped us both, have loved us into being", to be here in this moment, as we read and reflect on this together.

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A Reflections Episode covering three spoken word pieces I have uploaded to the Eyes Wide Open Life YouTube channel recently:

The Pilgrim
We Bring Each Other Medicine
They Might Have Told Us.

Reflections episodes are designed to slow us down and bring us into the private secret of the present moment, a change for contemplation to connect with something which exists both deep within us and also far far beyond ourselves.

I also include a reading of the Opening chapter Preface of my upcoming book GameChanger, A working hypothesis on life, consciousness and the potential of human existence.

There are other great pieces loaded up to the Eyes Wide Open Life YouTube channel and also another 5 Chapters of the Game Changer book to preview.

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My guest this week is Andy Schmookler,  prize winning author, speaker and former radio talk-show host and former Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia and the author of several books on his articulate and well elaborated theories on the Human Condition, how we ended up as a species in such a state of dis-ease and turmoil and how the forces that shape our current dysfunction were inevitable and are still addressable.

Andy has lived a life dedicated to his cause of sharing these insights with the past two generations, a charge that arrived one fateful day 50 years ago, to which he has invested his life fully and left nothing on the field.

As you will hear, Andy was struck by much the same lightning bolt that I once was, and drank from something of the same aqueduct of insight that I recognise.  Our languages are a little different, and we have a few key differing intuitions about human nature, but I have taken the time to read portions of Andy's work and he is articulate, intelligent and pointing to something that is undoubtedly worth noticing.   

The result of his efforts were 6 books, which had some reception but less than Andy expected and less than it rightly deserved. 

We are a distracted species, living in overwhelming time.

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This week I am joined in conversation with Avigail Gimpel.

Avigail is a mother of 6, college lecturer and author of Hyper Healing - a book dedicated to educating teachers, coaches and primarily parents of children with symptoms that would fall under the blanket diagnosis of ADHD.

 My guest  is a voracious relentless researcher, who has a gifted husband and 6 gifted children all on the spectrum and is committed to leaving no stone unturned in her quest for deeper understandings and solutions -  Something you will hear come out very clearly as we meander enjoyably through our conversation.

We Discuss:

• Instant gratification type personalities
• Living with ADHD Kids or Partners
• The flaws of the Education System
• The Importance of Diet
• The false diagnosis of ADHD as a condition 
• The wide array of ADHD symptoms with varying underling causes

Our personal journeys of Actualisation require self-acceptance and integration through Inner Child Healing.  So many of us are struggling in our life paths, in relationships, in careers that simply do no stimulate us, or feel alien in a culture that seems filled with other people who seem more well-adjusted to all those things than we are.  Ultimately all of us except the absolutely vanilla core of the mainstream, are on the spectrum, one way or another.  The entire human species is undergoing individuation as we transition into the next phase of evolution.   A big part of understanding ourselves and taking ownership of our own inner child and accepting our nature is captured in the core of this conversation.

As a culture we have spent the last 30 years trying to work out how to fix children that were not adapted to the traditional academic K12 education model.  The kids were never broken.  An education system that expected children to sit still for hours at a time and learn by wrote was always woefully, outdated, inept and was in fact the problem that should never have existed in the first place.

 Education after all is the lighting of a fire, not the filling of a cup.

The book  Hyper Healing is subtitled The Empowered Parents Complete Guide to Raising a Healthy Child with ADHD Symptoms. 

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This episode is an edit clip from The Walled Garden Podcast where I was a guest recently.  The interviewer is a collaborator and friend of mine, Australian Poet and Philosopher Simon Drew.

As you'll hear from this interview Simon is a thoughtful host who is incredible at holding space for rich and meaningful conversation.

 We discuss:

• The project of bringing Mysticism and Science together intelligently and elegantly, without doing a disservice to either.
• The nature of skewed incentives and how that has affected public trust of institutions and degraded public discourse.
• The daring leadership of asking difficult questions, sitting with paradoxes and how important these are in the service of progress and evolution of consciousness.
• Actualisation, and what that can mean for both individuals and our species as we stand on the brink of an impossible moment.
• The kind of trouble the human race is facing, the tendency towards fatalism or apathy, and what we can do about this in the context of self-ownership and what it means to come from Love not from Fear.

Simon is the founder of The Walled Garden - a global community of philosophers, artists, and seekers who are dedicated to the pursuit of Truth, Wisdom, Virtue, and the Divine wherever they may be found.

Simon is also the host of The Walled Garden Podcast, the flagship of a growing network of podcasts centring on topics ranging right through the spectrum of the humanities, including philosophy, theology, mysticism, mythology, poetry, history and spirituality, a community I am planning to become an active part of.

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This episode is a direct and unfiltered window into a revision week of the Eyes Wide Open Life Alchemy Program.

The audio for this episode one of the recent fortnightly group call with the participants and it is a summary of everything we have covered and been practicing to date, wrapped up in one clean lesson which provides clarity, context and inspiration for how to engineer a life of meaning and fulfilment.

It is completely unedited, but he message is so relevant and poignant that a few of the members of the current working group taking part in the alchemy program encouraged me to release this on the podcast. 

I reached the end of 2021 quite burnt out and I sat  just before the new year to work out where I had gone wrong, and what I needed to do to never been in this position again.

I don't believe in resolutions or ambitions. I believe in Actualisation and Integration, Being and Becoming, and meeting the road along the way, I believe in leadership and coming from Love, and I believe in practicing stillness and mindfulness.

I distilled all of my philosophy, my understanding of human behaviour, biology, metabolism, and all my spiritual sensibilities and worked out how to follow that with Authenticity and how to teach other people to do that.  The result was the Alchemy Program.

The Alchemy Program is a 6 part program that runs until mid-June.  It is based on a combination of Agile principles and the philosophy I apply in my own life to pursue a life of purpose and meaning.  

The context to help orientate to what you are about to hear is that the Alchemy program logo is a honeycomb hexagon, a six sided cell, with each side representing one of the six focuses: 

• Make Space, 
• Invest Well, 
• Honour the Cycles, 
• Transmute  Energy and Story, 
• Receive More to Give More and 
• Live my Purpose.  

The results are phenomenal.  The chaos and drama and over spend of energy has been replaced by steady cadence, a time for everything, clear focus on short and near term objectives and a total paradigm shift.  The Alchemy Program prescribes the What we need to do, the Way we need to do it, the How and Why it works and the guidance on When to invest energy, when to go with the flow and when to withdraw.

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In this solo episode we cover two insights around the Depp Heard Trial that firstly would not have occurred to most people, but also which I believe have implications to us as society, especially given the mounting mental health crisis and the rapidly deteriorating forum of public discourse and specifically the farce of Social Justice movements and the sentiment supporting it.  We discuss from a psychological and philosophical perspective how this is the natural end to a destructive cycle and what that could mean for our future.

We also discuss:

• how the Pandemic evaporated off the news cycle,
• the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the power of Propaganda
• the Will Smith Slap at the Oscars
• Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter and remediate public discourse online
• the psychological power game of the Victim and Social Justice paradigms
• the psychological effect of Redeemers and Scapegoats
• The normalisation of dysfunction.

I also share details of the exciting upcoming event with Sarah Elkhaldy on the 18/19 May.

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The renowned creator of the perennially popular cafeausoul.com, and always young at heart Kari Hohne joins me for a discussion on Taoism, Poetry and the language of Jungian and mythical archetype.
 
We explore the paradox of Being and Becoming, of acceptance and above all the power of connecting with and living from a place of Authenticity.  We discuss what Kari has learned over a lifetime of exploration and practice in this area has revealed, about what oracles and even our dreams can teach us if we learn to listen.
 
Kari is the author of seven books  on using music, dream analysis and ancient traditions in the context of self-help.
 
Kari's translation of the I Ching has been developed and available for years now as an Online oracles, and a key source of inspiration and guidance to thousands of people daily.
  
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I am joined in conversation with acclaimed mediator and peacemaker, and exceptional human being Doug Noll.

Doug is the author of several books on the subjects of De-escalation and Emotional Competency.  He is the co-founder of the Prisons for Peace Project the recipient of countless awards from his 22 year legal practice and more recently with his work in Peacemaking and the Prisons for Peace initiative which is now running in several countries.

Doug is an inspiring, warm, compassionate, intelligent and highly driven individual with a lot of wisdom and insight to share about his areas of extraordinary skill and expertise, namely Emotional Competency, and how to master one's emotions.  Above all, Doug is authentic. 

Doug and I discuss his life of overcoming significant disability and adversity, a childhood of neglect, his successful legal career, subsequent awakening, grief, connecting with purpose and specifically how finding your purpose does not have a time-limit.   

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"What is this thing about?
What is Life about?
How does this work?
What is this game we're playing? 
How can I best play the game?
How can I get what I want out of it?
How can i make sure I am living the life I am supposed to live?"

These are the questions that drive my guest.

This episode is an inspiring conversation with Nic Gregoriades, author, entrepreneur, elite men's coach, senior instructor at Subconscious BJJ in North Hollywood and host of the popular and rising podcast The Nicholas Gregoriades Show.

Nic's Life is an authentic lived example of the idea that success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal and he is infectiously passionate about rejecting a life of mundanity.  We discuss Nic's worthy ideal of being a consummate student of life, embarking on and embracing the adventure of life.  We cover topics like regret, pursuing purpose, leadership, actualisation and the power of decisions.

Nic is also the author of the book Aligned - The Modern Mans' Guide to True Health, Wealth & Fulfilment.

His ethos is captured by a quote of his:
"All of Life is Story, you might as well make it a good one!"

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