Elevating Consciousness | Inner Work & Contemplative Practice in a Time of Meta-Crisis

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  Stephen Jenkinson - Facing Mortality: Parkinson's, Ibogaine Therapy & the Art of Letting Go 18.09.2026 1h 2min

  Stephen Jenkinson is a former palliative care worker, cultural activist, and writer whose work explores the intersection of death, grief, meaning, elderhood, and ceremony. He has spent decades helping people navigate grief, death, and dying — both as the former director of palliative care at a major Canadian hospital and afterward through his Orphan Wisdom School, which seeks to cultivate deep life skills in an age of cultural fragmentation. A recovered theologian, builder, stone carver, and ...
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  Physically Paralyzed, Spiritually Free: Disability, Awakening & The Meta-Crisis | Kabir Kadre 04.09.2026 1h 44min

  Kabir Kadre is the executive director of Open Field Awakening, a nonprofit initiative exploring how wisdom, human development, and collective practice can help humanity navigate the meta-crisis. For more than two decades he has worked at the intersection of organizational leadership, contemplative inquiry, and social transformation. A quadriplegic since a spinal cord injury in 2002, Kabir brings a deeply embodied perspective to questions of interdependence, vulnerability, care, and huma...
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  Chris Bache - What 73 High Dose LSD Trips Revealed About Consciousness & Reality 07.08.2026 1h 30min

  Christopher Bache is a professor emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and an Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Trained at Notre Dame, Cambridge, and Brown, Bache spent seven years earning a PhD — a process that turned him into a hardcore agnostic. He then began a 20-year self-experiment taking high-dose LSD using protocols develope...
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  What Meditation Misses: Circling, Psychedelics & Tantric Awakening | Andrew Venezia 10.07.2026 1h 49min

  Andrew Louis Venezia is a meditation and Circling teacher, coach, and writer based in Amsterdam, whose work presents Circling and related practices as a path of Tantric awakening and integration. After experiencing a life-changing encounter with Awakened Interbeing during a retreat for his Master's degree cohort, Andrew embarked on a three-year research project exploring the intersection of relational practice and awakening. It was during this period that he discovered Circling. He has since ...
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  De-Armoring with Reichian Breathwork | The Therapy of Wilhelm Reich | Lydia Becker 26.06.2026 1h 38min

  Lydia Becker is a therapist, instructor, and midwife with over three decades of experience in Skan-Reichian bodywork. Rooted in the tradition of Wilhelm Reich, her work uses breathwork and bodywork to release emotional and physical tension held in the body — supporting people in softening long-held patterns, breathing more fully, and rediscovering their natural aliveness. In 1988, she became a licensed midwife — and it was through her midwifery work that Lydia experienced the power of breath ...
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  Ken Wilber: Losing his Wife to Cancer, AI, Longevity & Metamodernism VS Integral Theory 29.05.2026 1h 55min

  Ken Wilber is a philosopher, author, and the creator of Integral theory. He is considered by many one of the most influential thinkers of our time, whose writings have been translated into over twenty languages and have profoundly impacted domains as varied as business and medicine, psychology and ethics, politics and religion, art and education, and personal relationships. His AQAL (All Quadrants, All Lines) framework attempts to map human reality across four quadrants, multiple stages of de...
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  Why the World Needs a Second Renaissance to Solve The Meta-Crisis | Sylvie Barbier & Rufus Pollock of Life Itself 15.05.2026 1h 39min

  Sylvie Barbier and Rufus Pollock are the co-founders of Life Itself — a collective of pragmatic utopians committed to practical action for a radically wiser, weller world. Sylvie is a French-Taiwanese ritual artist whose work synthesizes Eastern and Western philosophies and aesthetics, creating contemporary rituals where the audience takes an active, interactive role. Rufus is an entrepreneur, activist, author, and long-term Zen practitioner who has founded several successful for-profit and n...
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  How to Access Deep Bliss and Wellbeing with Jhana Meditation - Stephen Zerfas 24.04.2026 1h 35min

  Stephen Zerfas is the CEO and co-founder of Jhourney — a tech startup scaling transformative meditation through a data-driven lens, guiding complete beginners into deeply absorbed meditation states known as the jhanas in less than a week. Stephen discovered the first three jhanas through his own practice and, upon learning of their profound history, made it his mission to bring them to as many people as possible. He has since trained with leading jhana teachers including Leigh Brasingto...
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  How to Find Real Belonging in an Age of Hyper-Fragmentation - O.G. Rose 10.04.2026 1h 52min

  Daniel Garner is a writer, philosopher, and one-half of O.G. Rose — the philosophical and literary voice he shares with his wife, Michelle Garner. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Uno Press Lab Prize, and has been featured in literary publications including The Iowa Review, The William and Mary Review, and Broken Pencil. Daniel has been involved in writing over a dozen books including "The Conflict of Mind," "The Map Is Indestructible," the "Belonging Again" series...
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  The Ancient Blueprint for Community Building in an Age of Disconnection | Richard Flyer 06.03.2026 2h 1min

  Richard Flyer is a community weaver and entrepreneur who has devoted his life to exploring how spirituality, local relationships, and practical action can renew communities, building ecosystem networks from the ground up. Deeply influenced by Sarvodaya Shramadana's grassroots mobilization of 15,000 Sri Lankan villages, Richard champions bottom-up regeneration rooted in local relationships, spiritual practice, and everyday service. His work spans founding Vecinos Unidos in San Diego, leading t...
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  Astrology Explained: A No BS Guide for Astrology Skeptics | Daljeet Peterson 19.12.2025 1h 30min

  Daljeet Peterson is an astrologer, Human Design analyst, and author exploring how ancient and modern systems of meaning can guide us through times of transformation. His work bridges astrology, Human Design, and the Gene Keys as complementary maps of consciousness — tools for aligning with one's deeper purpose and participating more consciously in the collective evolution of our species. A former television editor turned cosmic cartographer, Daljeet brings a storyteller's sensibility to...
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  Decoding The Neurobiology of Connection: Understanding Autonomic State & Vagus Nerve Health | Natureza Gabriel 05.12.2025 2h 1min

  Natureza Gabriel is an ancestral neuroscience pioneer, developer of Autonomics, and founder of Hearth Science — an organization and community offering tools, trainings, and practices that help people cultivate nervous system fluency and deepen their experience of wellbeing. At the heart of his work is Autonomics, an animist cartography of living autonomic physiology shaped by over three decades of collaboration with more than one hundred mentors and advisors across 25 healing traditions...
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  Saving Lineage Wisdom: Integral Theory, Tibetan Buddhism and the Future of Religion | Pema Dragpa 14.11.2025 2h 2min

  Pema Dragpa is a dharma teacher, author, and ordained Tibetan Buddhist Lama who graduated with honors in Philosophy and Religious Studies from New York University in 2002. Since 2004 he has served as a resident teacher at Padma Samye Ling, a meditation retreat center founded by the Nyingma Dzogchen masters Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. In 2010 he was formally ordained as a Lama by the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches. He is also a senior ed...
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  Transform Through Tummo Breathwork & Deity Yoga - Peter McEwen 17.10.2025 1h 43min

  Peter McEwen is an ordained Nyingma yogi, meditation coach, and founder of The Field, an organization teaching tantric methods to practitioners navigating contemporary life demands. Since 1993 he has studied under Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Tulku Orgyen P'huntsok, Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche, and Bruce Tift, and has completed the traditional Vajrayana three-year retreat curriculum. Peter writes The Current on Substack, sharing essays and tools from thirty years of integrating contemplative prac...
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  The Interbrain: Ending Memetic Warfare & Collective Dreamweaving - David Rug 12.09.2025 1h 54min

  David Rug is a metaphysician, civilizational theorist, and visionary storyteller on a journey of transmuting childhood wounds of social fragmentation into memetic medicine for the human family. Sensitized to the pains of social division and disconnect early in life through his parents' divorce and the increasingly political fracturing of his family field, he set out on a quest to understand the root causes of conflict and miscommunication. While completing his bachelor's degree in physics at ...
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  Dr. John Churchill - A Full Spectrum Path to Planetary Awakening: Four Turnings of Buddhism to Sacred Humanism 29.08.2025 1h 52min

  Dr. John Churchill is a psychologist, dharma teacher, and founder of Planetary Dharma — an integrally informed community embracing the vows and path of the Bodhisattva, committed to elevating human consciousness and collective transformation. John holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from William James College and is a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. His journey into Buddhist psychology began as a monk at Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, where he undertook an in-depth study...
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  Artistry, Emotional Processing, & Acting as Spiritual Practice | With Somatic Alchemist Ali Tataryn 25.07.2025 1h 36min

  Ali Tataryn is a counselor, somatic educator, and coach who guides clients through somatic-emotional release and helps them map their internal emotional landscapes for healing and self-development. She is the founder of Relational Dojo, a space where kind humans come together to co-create curious and courageous conversations, and co-founder of Sacred Somatic Events, a sober somatic dance experience inviting participants into full-spectrum self-expression. Her primary training is in counselin...
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  Awakening Beyond Spiritual Idealization: Cessation of Mind, End of Suffering & Guru Worship | Delson Armstrong 11.07.2025 1h 38min

  Delson Armstrong is a maverick meditation teacher and author. At age 16, disillusioned with conventional life, he embarked on a pilgrimage to the Himalayas, where he spent 6 to 8 hours a day practicing meditation, studying sacred texts, and receiving guidance from masters across multiple lineages. Through this intensive training Delson developed the rare ability to enter nirodha-samāpatti — a meditative state marked by the complete cessation of perception and feeling — for extended peri...
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  The End of Meditation: Awakening Tech, Pragmatic Dharma & the Culadasa Controversy | Dor Konforty 06.06.2025 1h 48min

  Dor Konforty is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, investor, and awakening teacher dedicated to distilling the first principles of the dharma and bringing them to every aspect of human life. He spent most of his twenties conducting interdisciplinary brain research in academic settings, and his thirties as an entrepreneur and CEO in the decentralization space—applying his neuroscience background to envision more collaborative, non-zero-sum human networks. In parallel, he has devoted thousa...
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  From Avoidance to Deep Intimacy: Leaving Monastic Life & Developing Secure Attachment | Daniel Thorson 23.05.2025 1h 24min

  Daniel Thorson is a former monastic, podcaster, writer, and coach. He spent five years as a resident at the Monastic Academy and has accumulated two years of silent retreat experience. Daniel is a certified Aletheia Coach and Circling facilitator whose work weaves together embodied inquiry, attachment-based healing, philosophical exploration, and relational presence. For many years he hosted the Emerge podcast, a pioneering platform that helped catalyze what many now call the liminal web. He ...