I had two interviews with the Truth Has No Sides podcast in August. The first interview went up in September. We explored some of the spiritual journey and various related topics.
In this second interview, we focused more on the process and the role of healing. First, I talked about atman & sattva, then soma, then stress & trauma and healing. I talked about technology trends showing a rising tide and global trends in consciousness. I touched on the resolute intellect and the issues with psychedelics.
Thank you for this! This is the most optimistic conversation I have had the pleasure to listen to in many months.
You’re welcome, Kerri. It’s easy to get caught up in the collective angst rising to be purified and to lose perspective. The bigger picture helps. 🙂
I listened to your podcast, it was interesting and clarified some things for me. However, I heard you mentioned something like, you know a lot of awaken people who believes in conspiracy theories. I am always in the assumption that when one is awakened that they can discern truth. How come they are fallible just the same for a person who is not awakened? So what is the use of doing modalities to help us get awaken? I thought being awaken will have spontaneity of thinking and doing the right action, because they can discern truth from falsehood. After listening to your podcast, I feel in the end we need to have our own discernment and not blindly follow or believe an awaken person because they too are subject to the entanglement of this relative world. They still have growing up to do.
Hi Lynette
Yes, your closing advice is decent. We should never blindly follow anyone. And it’s a big red flag if they expect you this.
After an established awakening, there is the potential for the resolute intellect to come online and for people to discern very accurately. However, we remain human. Remaining shadows can distort our perspective in some areas of life. Ken Wilber spoke of “wake up, grow up, clean up.” It’s not like we suddenly become perfect.
I can assure you that awakening is very valuable for quality of life, but it’s not instant and we have to be real about it. I’ve posted quite a few articles on the topic, including when I’ve had falling outs with teachers who acted inappropriately and refused to address it. You’ll also see the ASI badge on the right sidebar – this is a group designed to help address ethical issues in spiritual communities. Adyashanti has also written some excellent material on some of these realities.
If you’re going to support people through the process, you want to inspire them, but also be real about it. If you expect perfection out of the gate, you’re creating a barrier to living it now. 🙂
I can add that being awake in consciousness doesn’t necessarily make us awake to collective shadows. Thus, we can be awake but get caught up in the collective fear, like others, for example. But as perception refines, we begin to see such dynamics in play. Then those layers become conscious too, so we’re not caught the same way. We can still experience them, but these cease being drivers, like so much of the untangling process we all go through.
Thank you for your response. You serve as an inspiration to me. With regards to shadows, it can be analogous to receiving a phishing email, where one is awake and still clicked on the phishing email, and the hard drive gets hacked, so the awake person needs to clean it up, because there are impurities left behind. This is my take when you say shadow, is it close enough?
Kinda, Lynette. Only that the shadows are emotional/energy, like a friend visits and dumps on us. (only this is happening collectively) Do we take it on because it’s not conscious or because we feel obliged to “help”? Or do we allow it to go by and dissipate? Do we have healthy boundaries or not? Like that.
If we do take it on, then we’re more inclined to click that email and get infected, etc. These things can behave like an infection. 🙂
Great conversation, thank you David. Very interesting about the technology-shifts, and uplifting.
Thanks, Kjetil
I used to work in the tech sector, so have stayed aware of some of those trends.
Also, I’ve been following Tony Seba’s work for some years, first writing about his predictions about 7 years ago on my other blog.