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- Get a Better Boat
- After the Ego
- Blinded by Fear
- Holy Moly
- Finding Gold
- Bible Me This
- The Pull
- Pearls
- Gems
- Bones
Get a Better Boat: Trustworthy teachings for difficult times
Read short overviews about each essay in Get a Better Boat • View Show Notes and listen to Get a Better Boat on Castos
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1 Jewels in the heart
Aug 15, 2023 • 00:02:34
About: Being present with what’s here now Judith Saly was communicating with Eva after she died. And Eva seemed to be saying that everyone there […]
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2 A simple test for life
Aug 16, 2023 • 00:03:15
About: Seeking connection versus separation When we align with anything other than our inner light, we create disharmony in the world. But equally important, we […]
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3 The Real Self vs the True Self
Aug 17, 2023 • 00:08:29
About: The reality of untruth In our quest to wake up, our mission is to travel the surprisingly long distance from our ego to our […]
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4 Finding the light switch: My husband, the ego and imposters
Aug 18, 2023 • 00:27:29
About: Using guidance to help each other The journey of a human being—the journey that all the lectures from the Pathwork Guide are pointing to—is […]
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5 From believing to knowing: The trip of a lifetime
Aug 19, 2023 • 00:09:11
About: Personal experience becomes our proof Are the Pathwork teachings—and in turn, my Phoenesse writings—essentially a philosophy? Perhaps. For according to Manson, “Philosophy is the […]
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6 Taking the more mystical way home
Aug 20, 2023 • 00:11:32
About: The faster way to heaven within Just as Kabbalah is the mystical arm of the Jewish tradition, there is a mystical form of Islam […]
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7 Two Martin Luthers, two kinds of faith
Aug 21, 2023 • 00:10:47
About: What salvation really means Before we begin on a healing journey in which we remove the obstacles that are blocking our inner light—remembering what […]
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8 It’s time to grow up: Maturing through stages
Aug 22, 2023 • 00:18:21
About: Moving into a new epoch As we enter a new era—the start of a new epoch, really—we are going through a time of crisis. […]
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9 After isolation: Approaching the Great Transition
Aug 23, 2023 • 00:22:53
About: Waking up to our true self The great longing of all humanity is to participate in the life that follows after going through this transition. Meanwhile, […]
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10 Paying attention: The life-changing process of waking up
Aug 24, 2023 • 00:22:32
About: Sorting out the parts of the self Waking up means all parts of the human psyche work together to shift which part is in […]
We Can Heal 2-book series
After the Ego: Insights from the Pathwork Guide on how to wake up
Read short overviews about each chapter in After the Ego • View Show Notes and listen to After the Ego on Castos
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1 The function of the ego in relationship to the Real Self + Introduction
Aug 1, 2023 • 00:21:31
What is the endgame of being human? Where are we all heading? What’s the point of life? Our goal is always one thing: to become […]
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2 What blocks the ego from connecting with the Real Self
Aug 2, 2023 • 00:37:03
Our attempts to find ourselves—to understand who we are, where we belong in the world, and how we can fulfill ourselves—require a certain amount of […]
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3 The ego’s cooperation with or obstruction of the Real Self
Aug 3, 2023 • 00:31:56
As we make our way along our path of self-realization, these words can act like a spiritual bulldozer for each obstruction we encounter in our […]
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4 How unconscious negativity stops the ego from surrendering
Aug 4, 2023 • 00:35:57
We have been looking at the relationship between our ego-consciousness and universal intelligence. When we are primarily functioning from our ego, we are going to […]
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5 Living with polar opposites and finding the good in being selfish
Aug 5, 2023 • 00:33:31
Unhappiness is an indication of sickness. Usually, though, we interpret unhappiness the wrong way, causing us to fight whatever we think is making us unhappy. […]
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6 Self-identification through the stages of awakening consciousness
Aug 6, 2023 • 00:39:30
Now let’s look at consciousness from a different angle. We humans have a hard time understanding that consciousness is something that permeates all of creation. […]
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7 Inner and outer experience
Aug 7, 2023 • 00:42:28
Many spiritual philosophies agree that experience is all-important. We could even say the true meaning of life is to experience it, in all its many […]
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8 Commitment: Cause and effect
Aug 8, 2023 • 00:39:35
Doing the hard work of deep personal self-development requires equal measures of courage and commitment, honesty and humility. The rewards we will receive—in proportion to […]
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9 Moving the mind to push the divine light spark into the outer regions
Aug 9, 2023 • 00:40:00
When a spiritual group forms, or really any kind of group, there will be difficulties that must be overcome. These are an expression of the […]
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10 The three states of consciousness
Aug 10, 2023 • 00:37:21
In this dualistic dimension, we speak of states of consciousness and energy as though they are two distinct things. But this is not correct. To […]
Blinded by Fear: Insights from the Pathwork Guide on how to face our fears
Read short overviews about each chapter in Blinded by Fear • View Show Notes and listen to Blinded by Fear on Castos
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1 The mother of all fears: Fear of self
Jul 1, 2023 • 00:30:50
The key to becoming who we truly are is this: We must overcome our fear of ourselves. This is the fundamental prerequisite for being all […]
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2 Fully facing our fear of loving
Jul 2, 2023 • 00:40:50
As we’ve probably heard by now, love is the greatest power there is. Every spiritual teaching or philosophy, along with every religious scholar and psychology […]
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3 Finding freedom and peace by overcoming fear of the unknown
Jul 3, 2023 • 00:22:02
Life is a trap, of a kind, stuck as we are in this struggle to overcome the duality between life and death. From this fundamental […]
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4 Finding true abundance by going through our fear
Jul 4, 2023 • 00:33:52
If we boil it down, there are essentially two philosophies about this thing we call life, and they are apparent contradictions. One imparts the perspective […]
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5 Giving up our fear-filled struggle to guard our secrets
Jul 5, 2023 • 00:28:13
Our greatest joy in life comes from giving, to whatever extent we are able. It comes from reaching our potential, we might say. On the […]
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6 The painful predicament of both desiring and fearing closeness
Jul 6, 2023 • 00:28:17
Our biggest struggle in life is the push and pull we face between our desire to overcome our loneliness and isolation, and our simultaneous fear […]
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7 How fear of releasing the little ego spoils happiness
Jul 7, 2023 • 00:32:28
Underneath our ordinary, neurotic, unconscious wrong thinking lies a difficult conflict embedded in all of humanity: We have a deeply ingrained longing to be happy […]
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8 Three things that underpin self-fulfillment
Jul 8, 2023 • 00:40:30
To have self-fulfillment, we need to be in harmony with ourselves and with life. There are three topics that form the basis for achieving this […]
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9 Our fundamental fear of bliss
Jul 9, 2023 • 00:32:57
Every person on Earth has an apparently nonsensical fear of bliss to some extent. Even though it makes no sense, there it is, and this […]
The Real. Clear. 7-book series
Holy Moly: The story of duality, darkness and a daring rescue
Read short overviews about each chapter in Holy Moly • View Show Notes and listen to Holy Moly on Castos
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1 Free will: The good Lord willing
Jan 5, 2023 • 00:20:30
Free will is a topic of great confusion for many. So which is it? Door Number One: people have no free will whatsoever—it’s all fate […]
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2 Ushering In Christ
Jan 6, 2023 • 00:08:36
What is the time of year that is most associated with Christ? For most of us, that would be Christmas. It is at that time […]
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3 Jesus Christ: Must we?
Jan 7, 2023 • 00:07:22
Through the work of self-purification, we will raise our level of consciousness to such a degree that we will be open for truth, about anything. […]
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4 Submitting & rebelling Christians
Jan 8, 2023 • 00:26:42
Having parents who are strong and right gives children a sense of security in the world. So part of the reason Submitting Christians accept their […]
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5 Grappling with duality
Jan 9, 2023 • 00:11:15
Everything about Jesus Christ is all about the fight for good. This includes the story of his life, the whole big reason for his incarnation—which […]
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6 Facing death & finding life
Jan 10, 2023 • 00:15:21
The big enchilada we need to deal with—really get our arms around—is death. Even if our lives were no longer filled with our many little […]
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7 God & creation
Jan 11, 2023 • 00:08:48
The order in which these important topics are presented matters. It will be this: God, the Creation, the Fall of the Angels, the Plan of […]
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8 Fall of the Angels
Jan 12, 2023 • 00:17:27
So how did these foreign layers come into being? Through the Fall of the Angels—for another name for these pure Godlike beings, or Holy Ghosts, […]
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9 Plan of Salvation
Jan 13, 2023 • 00:34:44
Now let’s take a closer look at what salvation by Jesus Christ really means. “Salvation,” of course, is another of those blinking words. Consider that […]
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10 War of the worlds
Jan 14, 2023 • 00:16:07
After he died, Christ returned to the world of spirit. There he gathered up his army of a relatively small number of specialized spirits and […]
Finding Gold: The search for our own precious self
Read short overviews about each chapter in Finding Gold • View Show Notes and listen to Finding Gold on Castos
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1 Occupation with self
Jan 18, 2023 • 00:07:36
The Right and Wrong Way to be Selfish It really would be good to spend more time thinking about yourself, said no spiritual person ever. […]
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2 Right and wrong faith
Jan 19, 2023 • 00:08:34
So many of us are sincere in our desire for spiritual development. But our faith is not whole. There’s this little smidge of doubt that […]
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3 The importance of forming independent opinions
Jan 20, 2023 • 00:07:34
Under the weight of our emotional baggage, many of us are carrying around opinions that aren’t actually ours. For sure, these might be valid opinions, […]
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4 Self-love
Jan 21, 2023 • 00:11:51
Any truth can be distorted into an untruth. This is, hands down, one of the most powerful weapons of evil. Complete untruth is not the […]
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5 Self-alienation and the way back to the Real Self
Jan 22, 2023 • 00:31:17
This state of self-alienation we are in—where we are truly not our real selves—is so pervasive, we don’t see the symptoms of it. We think […]
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6 Laziness as a symptom of self-alienation
Jan 23, 2023 • 00:03:42
We think that being lazy is a garden-variety fault. But we need to look deeper. It’s not something we can command away with our sheer […]
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7 Identification with the self
Jan 24, 2023 • 00:19:14
If we grow up and don’t develop identification with the self, we will create substitutes for the parents we originally identified with. Often we will […]
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8 Winner vs loser: Interplay between the self and creative forces
Jan 25, 2023 • 00:21:49
Living in this land of duality, we are continually harboring arbitrary either/or concepts. Some of these, we may not even be aware of. One of […]
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9 Self-liking: The condition for universal state of bliss
Jan 26, 2023 • 00:09:45
Our ability to land in bliss is directly related to our self-esteem—our ability to like ourselves. This equation must always come out even in the […]
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10 Intensity: An obstacle to self-realization
Jan 27, 2023 • 00:19:44
So let’s dive into yet another way we unwittingly block ourselves from making use of universal power. It’s more like a soul climate we’re speaking […]
Bible Me This: Releasing the riddles of Holy Scripture
Read short overviews about each chapter in Bible Me This • View Show Notes and listen to Bible Me This on Castos
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1 Understanding the Bible
Feb 15, 2023 • 00:25:22
When it comes to understanding of the Bible, including the Old as well as the New Testament, it can be interpreted on many levels. The […]
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2 Understanding myths
Feb 16, 2023 • 00:02:20
People are often mistaken about understanding myths. Over half of us think of them as inventions, fantasies, fairy tales or lies. The real meaning of […]
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3 Myth: Tower of Babel
Feb 17, 2023 • 00:10:13
We could write entire books just to explain this passage about the Tower of Babel, that’s how much it contains. For now, we’ll consider just […]
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4 Myth: Adam and Eve
Feb 18, 2023 • 00:23:35
The analogies and symbolism found in the Bible should not be considered as one-time historical events. They are being constantly recreated in our souls. If […]
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5a Biblical passages explained, Part One
Feb 19, 2023 • 00:27:49
Here are biblical passages explained by the Pathwork Guide. In this collection we uncover hidden meanings and unravel many of the riddles of the Bible. […]
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5b Biblical passages explained, Part Two
Feb 20, 2023 • 00:23:39
Listen and hear the Pathwork Guide’s answers. Bible Me This, Chapter 5b: Biblical Passages Explained, Part Two
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5c Bible passages explained, Part Three
Feb 21, 2023 • 00:24:12
In this collection of bible passages explained by the Pathwork Guide, we uncover hidden meanings and unravel many of the riddles of the Bible. Listen […]
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6 Commandments explained
Feb 22, 2023 • 00:18:48
The Guide offers insight for deeper understanding through the following commandments explained: 2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. 4) Remember the […]
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7 The truth of reincarnation in the Bible
Feb 23, 2023 • 00:03:57
The truth of reincarnation was on Jesus’ mind when he spoke of how we need to be reborn. It’s not hard to see that we […]
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8 Meaning of baptism
Feb 24, 2023 • 00:09:49
What is the deeper meaning of baptism? It is easy to see the symbolic meaning of baptism by water and spirit. Water represents eternally changing […]
The Pull: Relationships & their spiritual significance
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1 The cosmic pull toward union
Mar 3, 2023 • 00:11:47
There is a great cosmic pull in this world…The aim of this pull is to move us toward union…But if union is being looked at […]
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2 The counter-pull: Frustration
Mar 4, 2023 • 00:11:02
There is a feature in the human personality related to the pull that we tend to trot out on Opposite Day: it’s called frustration…Neither of […]
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3 The importance of how we communicate
Mar 5, 2023 • 00:14:48
Each human soul has a center from which the soul forces flow, and to which others are constantly responding. This is the command center governing […]
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4 The spiritual significance of our relationships
Mar 6, 2023 • 00:31:28
On this human plane of existence, individual units of consciousness exist and sometimes we all get along. Just as often though, conflicts arise creating friction […]
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5 Pleasure: The full pulsation of life
Mar 7, 2023 • 00:26:35
In truth, as long as we believe that our substitutes are all the pleasure there is, we’re not able to believe the full pleasure of […]
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6 The forces of love, eros and sex
Mar 8, 2023 • 00:36:05
People may be confused about a lot of different things, but most of us are somewhat confused about love. And sex. And then there’s that […]
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7 The spiritual symbolism and significance of sexuality
Mar 9, 2023 • 00:43:10
Everything we do, whether it comes from our innate, natural Godself or from our less-than-perfect humanity, has a deep spiritual significance. In fact, all of […]
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8 Mutuality: A cosmic principle and law
Mar 10, 2023 • 00:23:50
Nothing can be created unless there is mutuality. This is a spiritual law. It means that two apparently different entities come together to form one […]
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9 A venture in mutuality: Changing our negative will
Mar 11, 2023 • 00:13:03
Our soul substance is in constant motion; nothing that is living ever stands still. It moves and moves and moves. Then in comes an error […]
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10 Affecting and being affected
Mar 12, 2023 • 00:26:11
It stands to reason that we affect others in a particular way when we operate from our destructive levels. And of course, we are likewise […]
Pearls: A mind-opening collection of 17 fresh spiritual teachings
Read short overviews about each chapter in Pearls • View Show Notes and listen to Pearls on Castos
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1 Privacy & secrecy: A boost or bust for finding closeness
May 1, 2023 • 00:23:55
We all have needs: real, legitimate, have-a-right-to-have-them needs. One of these needs is for closeness. Another need, it turns out, is to have privacy. It’s […]
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2 Reading between the lines of the Lord’s Prayer
May 2, 2023 • 00:23:42
Within the lines of the Lord’s Prayer is everything—yes, everything—we need to live a glorious life. This is what makes the Lord’s Prayer the most […]
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3 Exploring the spiritual nature of political systems
May 3, 2023 • 00:27:48
We’re about to review the spiritual nature of political systems found on this planet. This includes monarchy and feudalism, socialism and communism, and capitalistic democracy. […]
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4 Debunking the curious superstition of pessimism
May 4, 2023 • 00:13:23
We humans are a superstitious lot. There is one insidious form of superstition—pessimism—that is the hidden culprit behind many of our disappointments in life… It […]
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5 Preparing for reincarnation: Every life counts
May 5, 2023 • 00:28:38
We each have a Book of Life and everything gets written down in it, for everything in every life counts. As such, every incarnation is […]
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6 Unwinding humanity’s relationship with time
May 6, 2023 • 00:21:23
Imagine we live in a great big house that has one room we don’t use, so it becomes a room for storage. We push a […]
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7 Basking in grace & not building on deficit
May 7, 2023 • 00:22:28
There’s an obstacle many face. It’s the tendency for people to build on deficit. This is intrinsically linked to this belief in an empty, poor, […]
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8 Articulating the power of the word
May 8, 2023 • 00:19:32
In the beginning was the word. Words, in fact, are the blueprint necessary for building any structure…Nothing in creation can exist unless a word has […]
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9 Why flubbing on perfection is the way to find joy
May 9, 2023 • 00:14:51
Whether we realize it or not, we associate a joyful life with a life of perfection. We can’t enjoy life if we’re not perfect—or so […]
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10 Two rebellious reactions to authority
May 10, 2023 • 00:14:50
We face our first conflict with authority at a very young age. Parents, siblings, relatives and later teachers all represent authority whose job is seemingly […]
Gems: A multifaceted collection of 16 clear spiritual teachings
Read short overviews about each chapter in Gems • View Show Notes and listen to Gems on Castos
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1 Expanding our awareness and exploring our fascination with creation
Jun 10, 2023 • 00:31:07
There are three conditions we need for expanding awareness of our true identity as universal spirit: 1) We have to be willing to tune into […]
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2 The evolutionary process and why we can’t stop it
Jun 11, 2023 • 00:19:23
We may periodically have the universal dream of either riding on a train or being about to take a train, anxious that we may miss […]
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3 How consciousness evolves between individuals and groups
Jun 12, 2023 • 00:15:32
The swing of the pendulum alternates between emphasizing individual and group consciousness. It has been in motion since mankind first set foot on planet Earth. […]
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4 Claiming our total capacity for greatness
Jun 13, 2023 • 00:20:02
As we humpty dumpty our way down the road of personal healing, we will increasingly come to believe that it’s possible to resolve our inner […]
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5 Facing our deepest fear and unfolding our greatest longing
Jun 14, 2023 • 00:22:06
It’s important not to push away our fears and longing when they surface; we’ll need to screw up the courage to feel the pain of […]
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6 Finding balance within instead of banking on outer rules
Jun 15, 2023 • 00:13:52
Balance doesn’t come by way of a mathematical formula; it’s not a fifty-fifty deal. There are no simple rules. For example, what’s the right balance […]
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7 Rolling with change and overcoming fear of death
Jun 16, 2023 • 00:13:55
If we hindered the cycles of physical change by somehow constricting space for physical expansion, atrophy and finally death would occur. We would destroy life. […]
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8 The pain of injustice and the truth about fairness
Jun 17, 2023 • 00:28:41
The pain of injustice contains much more than can be expressed by this word “injustice.” Because our pain is not just about injustice that is […]
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9 Why lazy is the worst way to be
Jun 18, 2023 • 00:14:47
The more we ramp up our commitment—and really mean it—and make an effort every day to find our blocks and distortions, the more energy and […]
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10 Spotting the tricks of our ego and getting over ourselves
Jun 19, 2023 • 00:17:21
Awareness doesn’t just show up, served to us on a silver platter; we have to fight for it. It won’t come easy or cheap. But […]
Bones: A building-block collection of 19 fundamental spiritual teachings
Read short overviews about each chapter in Bones • View Show Notes and listen to Bones on Castos
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1 Emotional growth and its function
Jul 1, 2023 • 00:24:54
To be in harmony, we have to walk straight in three areas: physically, mentally and emotionally. All three sides of our nature must work together, […]
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2 The importance of feeling all our feelings, including fear
Jul 2, 2023 • 00:31:19
Our defenses work by blocking access to our emotions, so they choke off our ability to get to our feelings. We’re going to need to […]
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3 The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask Self
Jul 3, 2023 • 00:10:30
One of the subtle bodies in every living person is the Higher Self, or divine spark. The higher one’s spiritual development, the faster these vibrations […]
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4 Three basic personality types: Reason, will and emotion
Jul 4, 2023 • 00:13:23
Our spiritual work, which comes in answer to our prayers, arrives in the form of a conflict or a friction which then activates some combination […]
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5 Intellect and will as tools or hindrances to self-realization
Jul 5, 2023 • 00:13:51
An important difference between our superficial intellect and our real self is that we can direct, manipulate and govern the intellect using our will; we […]
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6 The origin and outcome of the Idealized Self-Image
Jul 6, 2023 • 00:18:50
There’s a direct correlation between being unhappy and not believing in ourselves; our self-confidence takes a hit that is proportional to how badly we feel. […]
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7 Love, power and serenity in divinity or in distortion
Jul 7, 2023 • 00:27:10
There are three major divine attributes—love, power and serenity—that in the healthy person work as a team. They maintain flexibility amongst themselves so one never […]
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8 How and why we recreate childhood hurts
Jul 8, 2023 • 00:17:11
Children have more than just a desire to be loved; they want to be loved exclusively, without any limits. In other words, every child’s desire […]
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9 Images and the deep, deep damage they do
Jul 9, 2023 • 00:17:57
From practically the time we were born, we have been creating our own impressions about this thing we call life. The only problem is, most […]
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10 Unpacking the pain of our old destructive patterns
Jul 10, 2023 • 00:17:57
So let’s talk about pain, and more importantly how to dissolve pain caused by old patterns…The climate we grew up in affected us—it was like […]
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