I started reading the new testament the other day. My intention was to read the actual words of Jesus to really understand what he taught. I was disappointed. As a result I do not reference Jesus as a role model or spiritually enlightened person. Here are a couple of examples of Jesus behaving in ways that we refer to in today's language as "othering": When Jesus sends his disciples out to preach the good news of the coming kingdom of God, he explicitly tells them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans”2 (Matthew 10:5, emphasis added). And another... Matthew 15:21-28 21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” 25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said. 26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” 27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” 28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment. FYI - Gentiles are non-Jewish people. If you go anywhere to investigate this deeper you will likely come to a christian web site that tries to help us 'make sense' of what Jesus says. I would say this endeavor is much like trying to sympathize with the divisive rhetoric that Donald Trump uses. Maybe I should turn on Fox news to have their pundits explain to me what Trump really meant? Sometimes I find it unproductive, and sometimes even unhealthy, to understand what's driving people to speak or act in harmful and malevolent ways. I'm certain there is always some traumatic past behind that story. So 'hate the sin, not the sinner'. Anyways, Jesus is not an example of an exemplary person. But with some counseling, he could overcome his erroneous and unethical tendencies. We all have our own impression of people (our projections). Sometimes those projections are negative, and sometimes they are positive. But when our projections are out of alignment with the true expression of that person, it is either harmful to us, that person, or those who rely on our assessment of said person. With that said, I find the positive projections of Jesus to be unhelpful. If anything, I can understand why admiration of Jesus is so prevalent for conservatives: Jesus models what it means to take care of our own people (family, race, religion, nation) and to treat outsiders as second class citizens, or less than human in some cases. I have a role model to offer in his place: Mo Zi, a Chinese philosopher who is well known for his emphasis on universal love. See the wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi No historical figure is perfect. There are several things about Mo Zi I don't really like. For example, he disliked music for some reason. I can't agree with that, but maybe that's something I would be willing to try to understand as opposed to overt bigotry.

Loved this conversation! I'm so grateful that you've given space for Alicen to speak her mind and share her visions. 🙏🏽

Thank you thank you THANK YOU for having me on your podcast! I'm so grateful for every minute of this conversation 🙏🏽

I want to believe brave authentic connection will save the world 🌎

Mahaya is amazing - thank you for sharing this!

What an interesting conversation! Given the far prevalence of left leaning people in spiritual spaces, having someone speak, for the right, was an interesting and valuable exercise. You did say that you didn’t challenge him on every last thing that he said, and that it would not be fair for you to do so in post production, but I have no such moral qualms doing it in the comments! I don’t want to incite an angry canceling mob, but Walsh’s comments about all therapists being female spiritually raised an eyebrow for me, and when he said that western or European culture was the most superior (in the context of excellence versus equality*), I had to rewind to make sure I heard him correctly. Lastly, his dismissive attitude towards men discussing their feelings in favor of activities, and purpose struck me as simplistically myopic. It is likely true that most men feel more comfortable bonding with other men in the context of an unrelated activity, like sports or hunting or building a house, but it seems unwarranted to jump from this to the notion that a real man wouldn’t tell another man his feelings, or engage in practices around that. These kinds of more indirect bonding activities have their place, but they are not the entirety of what it is to be a relating man in the world. The classic male alexithymia/autism/ADHD should not negate the value of learning practices to address it. Anyway, just my complaints. I did appreciate a lot of what he had to say as well.

PLEASE start holding zoom circles 🙏

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She’s great eh. Thanks for the interview and see you soon

As I was listening to You guys are so balanced in understanding eachother. The tiger comes out for me a lot it used to be a my default emotion but I try to reserve it for places it needs but if it spend to long surprsssing then I think it takes a lot of conditional work, a lot as you guys say healer I don’t think the answer is to change completely but to understand where it is coming from If it is validated then one should express immediately or when doable. Not everyone has the ability to think critically and afford the ability to consciously elevate. A lot of archetypes are engained in the daily bodies and for some reason the spirit is attatched to it. Sweden is so priviléged in a way so their influence might alleviate a lot of sicknesses within western society. I hope you guy give knowledge to spaces that need this. The spirits are suffering with a lack of knowledge on how to prepare for spiritual warfar. Sometimes pseudo science is hard to unpack because it is felt and to be able to articulate it in a very tough time Where we are more detached from self Enlightenment in western society can cause alot of problems when one is trying to socialize once .. barriers are broken

Listening to an atheist speak about not having sacred rituals is RICH LOOOL GET JESUS GET BAPTIZED TAKE UR FIRST COMMUNION GET MARRIED HAVE A CHILD i cant stop laughing look at other religion's they have "rituals" because they focus on more then them selfs people all over the world have turned there back on religion and started worshipping them selfs 😂 Good luck with life essay n safe travels

Technical: You speak ever so softly, and still your voice is competing with the background noise, I mean background music... so I struggle hard to make out and comprehend your words, which I'd really love to hear!

"The most surrendered person in the room is the leader" - what a powerful statement! and it rings so true to me.

From what I gather, it's a Taoist idea of leadership: leading by following, often by non-action.

What a finish. Profound stuff guys, thanks for showing up and digging deep ❤

This was beautiful to watch! It was very courageous of you to show this process to everyone. I'd have difficulty doing that myself! Also I love the insight at 50:37. On an unrelated note, and a little less positive, I find your intro music very disquieting! It reminds me of a scary movie or something. I might actually mute and use subtitles for that part in the future, because it just really doesn't work for me.

wtf did i just watch?

Good luck with your journey. I'm 9 months sober this month.

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Why do use the K in magic?

I am happy with this podcast, circling is the best for me, the stories help me to egt more context and deepening, learn to know more people/leaders

11 minutes and still noone has said wth 'circling' actually is.

This is the first video of your I've watched. Great content, and thank you. A tiny bit of constructive criticism - I find that music playing over people talking quite unpleasant, distracting and off-putting. I find it much easier to watch videos where there is no music playing at the same time as someone talking. And I reckon this particular kind of music is probably only liked by a relatively small proportion of the people who would be interested in this kind of content.

Stay away from drugs, kids.

Snooze festival

I understand better the feeling I got when I did the base course with Els a few weeks ago ...... nobody said "why aren't you leading?" but I thought it a few times ...... the experience leaves some marks but it was also so very much teaching, cause parallel frustration came out and in the turmoil of it she made me understand that I could lead with whatever I had in the group ... It was the best way to really learn it ... Next times on I was full of love for the practice

Super cool podcast. Though i do feel you just spend 40 minutes talking about a concept and its implications, without describing how is works? Is circling about sitting and looking each other in the eyes for some time? Is there further action to this practice? greetings from dk

This video coaching was quite good at showing how to implement a practice of exploring one’s trigger with another. Thank you all for your vulnerable and personal sharing. The person I was watching it with was so inspired by the fact that 2 people could explore a trigger in such a caring and compassionate way. I value the slow, exploratory process, which is how I also work. I like asking for the impact on the other from what has just been shared/revealed by one partner. Some thoughts and feedback as a relationship coach and observer of the session, if you’re looking for that... 1. I assumed it would be a coaching session to get to the heart of an upsetting situation. It was more an exercise, a practice, in exploring a past trigger. Maybe it would be useful to set an upfront context that this video isn’t about addressing a present trigger, but an exercise to practice exploring triggers in general. (I’d also really love to see Susan do a live coaching session with a couple in conflict-or any two people. I’ll be a guinea pig if you need one.) 2. I noticed that you had each of them come up with a separate past trigger. Then you went back and forth with each of them. For me, that seemed a bit complicated. My suggestion would be to stick with one person for a complete process and then go to the next person. Nevertheless, it worked in the end. 3. I know it was less than an hour, however, I would like to see some “accessing the influence of the past/childhood” related to the triggers. There may have been some quick reference to that, which I don’t recall.

New favorite phrase. "Look at you down there with your yelling." 😂

This was a very good exploration into using triggers as tools for growth, healing, connection

Good thoughts and insights - Helping to bring together a more cohesive view that includes both psychology and awakening contexts..?

Trigger Warning: Music is on 600% volume Actual content is on 10% volume...

Sooo true 👏🏻

Currently, I’m amusing myself by picturing the Ministry of loneliness of the UK. Imagining some stereotyped DND basement dweller with poor hygiene, but probably it’s just another really normal-looking bureaucrat in a suit.

Oh man, love this!

Yeah the parent thing. Have you got a coat? No, dont want one. Please take one. No, im fine. 3 days later. Sniff. Cough. Shiver. Cry. That is why im caretaking because now im your damn nurse too! 😂

Love the content and the positive, accepting chemistry among the host and guests! As a man in his mid-life crisis taking these lessons to heart will benefit me immeasurably.

Great way to start your meditation is just LISTENING TO ALL THE SOUNDS AROUND YOU

Now imagine how good your connections could be if you didnt speak in code.

Dude, your video explains exactly why you ain’t getting no pussy! Lmao

The form of noting meditation I learned is only noting sensation - categorizing it into one of 3: see, hear, or "feel" (every sensation that's not seeing or hearing.) Thought would usually be "hear" (as you hear the words internally) but sometimes "see". Emotion would usually be feel (the warm glow of love, the tight pain of fear.) So it was wild to see your four categories. It seems somehow less honest to note something so poorly known. "I don't know if it's happiness or heartburn, but I know my chest feels warm."

have some consideration for the listener, talk with some enthusiasm

Ideology/ (ˈmɔːfɪk) / noun. the idea that, through a telepathic effect or sympathetic vibration, an event or act can lead to similar events or acts in the future or an idea conceived in one mind can then arise in another , this reflects in our social engagement aka the filter bubble

btw the video thumbnail is so good ❤

Also I’m not sure why I was recommended this but it’s cool I was. I have some constructive criticism if you’re willing to listen. You should probably have a prewritten and loosely rehearsed script with videos like this so you make sure you highlight all point you need to make and are able to know what’s going to come on next and have time to mentally prepare the next point without needing to read, think, “um..” and then finally start talking about your point. It’s better pacing to keep attention and have your audience actively listening, your pacing was a little slow so it was easy to get distracted while watching. Once you have a script you spend a lot less mental effort weighing how exactly you want to illustrate something happening and are able to dedicate that effort toward getting your point across and if there’s anything extra you want to add, or how it could relate or be relevant to another topic. Good vid tho I liked the topic and the depth covered.

I read the title as “The Nothing Game” with “easiest way to expand your consciousness” and I’ve been watching like video essays on video games lately so I legitimately thought this was a video essay for a game called the nothing game. 🤣🤣🤣 Interestingly surprised thought, and a good reminder to meditate.

It's weird that I stumbled upon this, cause I'm balls deep in an interpersonal therapy group and I feel like this is exactly on theme. 👁👄👁

This is so good