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Do you have a strong sense that there’s something more? More to reality? More to you? Do you feel the weight of your childhood and cultural conditioning and despite having worked to shrug it off, see that it somehow remains? Do you intuit that the world could be a much healthier place? Have you learned about and tried different practices only to dead-end, leaving you to wonder, “Is this it?” Have the models you’ve learned left things out, left your deepest questions unanswered? The emotospir ...
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Managing a small team or business comes with a unique set of challenges. With limited resources and man power - it's easy for things to often times feel chaotic and out of your control. How can you as a leader accomplish your goals while keeping your team engaged, effective, and accountable? This podcast will give you practical strategies that you can implement now to lead your team or business to reach it's fullest potential.
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What would happen if everyone on the planet were to experience God directly? What would have to happen for that to be possible? Why have philosophers spent thousands of years trying to prove the existence of God yet failed? Today we discuss these and other existential questions, including the limits of reductionism, the real definition of a false g…
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COVID 19: The pandemic of fear, unconsciousness, a non-vaccine, and a bad flu
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All episodes are now available on YouTube! You didn’t ask for it, but we have to do it: Edenity’s take on the COVID 19 pandemic. Of course, it’s over (I saw it on television) and you’re tired of hearing about it, but I promise you’ll hear a fresh perspective. In addition to this, we’ll assign the six things that make us crazy to the six chakras, as…
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Kundalini, Shakti Transmissions, and Sorting Saint from Sage
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Today’s episode is a continuation of the last one on Shamanism and we address kundalini awakenings, energetic transmissions of all kinds, and the important reasons why Sagehood and Sainthood must be distinguished from each other in order to fully realize the depths of each. On June 17, 2023 in the Clubhouse App, our friend Eric Grace will host a ga…
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What Plants Don’t Know About Being Human
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Hi, it’s Josef and thanks for listening to The Heart of Soul Podcast. We’re back from our break and dive spontaneously into the increasingly popular subject of shamanism, a topic with which I have a lot of firsthand experience. We cover both the allure and power of shamanism as well as the risks and limits from Edenity’s perspective. This discussio…
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Today’s episode is, like the last series, from my course, “The Art of Asking Questions.” We talk a lot about the importance of deep listening and using questions to get to the heart of the matter in this conversation, with some interesting real-time examples. I’m a business coach, spiritual educator, and therapist and I specialize in helping leader…
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Why You Should Thank Your Partner For “Making” You Crazy
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All episodes are now available on YouTube! We’ve got even more to say about sexualized relationality and so the series continues. Topics today include polyamory, what healthy interdependence looks like, the four kinds of intimate communication, the impact on men that they come out of the opposite sex, the difference between sensitivity and vulnerab…
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How Religion Is Still In Your Bedroom
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All episodes are now available on YouTube! We continue today our subseries on sexualized relationality. Topics include the origin of the split between our second and fourth chakras, the importance of triggers in relationships, yin and yang dynamics in romance, and much more. Rabbit holes include how parenting, sex, and money are the most confused d…
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All episodes are now available on YouTube! We continue our series on relationality and begin a sub-series in the domain of sexualized relationality. In this episode, how the conventional idea that compromise is the foundation of relationships is immature, how the inauthentic self splits the second and fourth chakras in third, why what feels good or…
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All episodes are now available on YouTube! In this episode, self to self relationality, melting control to experience the raw chaos of reality, how narcissism and altruism are equally wound-based, how real love is always a transaction whether you believe it or not, and how we can only be responsible for ourselves and responsive to others. We explor…
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In this episode, redefining codependence in a way where none of us is off the hook, how you cannot wash a brain, how the mind is our first protection mechanism, a prediction for how our society dead-ends with artificial intelligence from yours truly, and of course, many other psychospiritual and philosophical rabbit holes. Please listen to this pod…
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In this episode, we begin a three part series inside a series of unknown parts. You do the math. The data set is three things that clog up relationality and the first item up for bid is the idea that we create our own reality. Is it true? If you believe it, does it make it true? We examine this idea as well as revisit the Renaissance philosophy you…
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In this episode, we begin a new series of unknown number of episodes, perhaps because the topic is relationality: a yin domain where delving into the unknown is not just a good idea, but required. We start off with a radical definition of relationality that completely recasts what a relationship is, how it’s not a noun just like everything else, an…
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The Five Angel Souls & Why You Don’t Want To Be One
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In this episode, we complete the conversation about soul species and cover the five Angel Soul species, beginning with a revisiting of the ontogeny of all souls; that is, how we all came into being in the first place. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.…
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Pleidian Through Andromedan Soul Species
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In this episode, we continue the conversation about soul species and cover the upper middle section of the array, from Pleidian through Andromedan souls. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.By Josef Shapiro
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Betelgeuse Through Sirian Soul Species
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In this episode, we continue the conversation about soul species and cover the middle section of the array, from Betelgeuse through Sirian souls. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.By Josef Shapiro
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In today’s episode, a three part series on soul species begins. Surely one of the most fun aspects of Edenity, Stace and Josef give you descriptions of each soul species along with celebrity examples so you can begin to identify them yourself. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.…
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Essence Isn’t Energy or Love Ain’t No Thang
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In today’s episode, we continue the creation-relationality thread with some key principles that underlie working with chakras: the difference between energy and eichor, how love has no opposite, how the notion that everything is energy is limited, more on how the third eye works, and Edenity’s revision to the common phrase, “Let go, let love."…
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In today’s episode, creation-relationality continued with the architecture of chakras, chakral breathing, how intuition works, and much more. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.By Josef Shapiro
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The Necessary Descent into Personal Hell
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In today’s episode, where Sagehood and Sainthood meet in the now, heretofore known as “ennowment dynamics,” how the hero’s journey for millennia has shown us the importance of turning toward discomfort, and the major discovery that there are actually only six chakras. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listeni…
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In today’s episode, what relating with God is actually like, how karma comes from the failure to infer the will of God, how that karma then informs reincarnation and incarnational imperatives, and much more. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.By Josef Shapiro
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In today’s episode, how our wounds are reducible to a wounding of the personal will, the poisonous notions of altruism, sacrifice, and unconditional love, parent projections onto God, and much more. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.By Josef Shapiro
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In today’s episode, why sagehood is a prerequisite for sainthood, how the Divine only ever says “Yes,” how God requires inference rather than obedience, and the three different ways we heal our will in the three different hoods. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.…
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I offer weekly member webcasts, online courses, and mentorship at clearandopen.com because it’s my truth that – with the right tools – anyone can eliminate the people, money, and time problems holding them back in business. And I share parts of these webcasts and courses on this show because I want to help you, too. This series is from the course e…
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Today’s episode is devoted to Sainthood, as will be at least the two that follow. We reframe devotional spirituality to be about willful body ensoulment rather than giving up one’s personal life, or anything else you’ve heard. This includes how your life belongs to the Divine, but you get to live it, how unconscious motives must be known in order t…
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I offer weekly member webcasts, online courses, and mentorship at clearandopen.com because it’s my truth that – with the right tools – anyone can eliminate the people, money, and time problems holding them back in business. And I share parts of these webcasts and courses on this show because I want to help you, too. This series is from the course e…
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In today’s episode, part two from our previous discussion on Edenity’s take on enlightenment. What happened in 2012 and why it matters to you, the difference between the predual and the nondual, how the ego is a unalistic verb rather than a dualistic noun, the hidden dualisms inside nondual paradigms, and much more! As always, please listen to this…
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I offer weekly member webcasts, online courses, and mentorship at clearandopen.com because it’s my truth that – with the right tools – anyone can eliminate the people, money, and time problems holding them back in business. And I share parts of these webcasts and courses on this show because I want to help you, too. This series is from the course e…
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Enlightenment vs. Mental Body Ensoulment
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In today’s episode, we do a deep dive into Sagehood and the differing metaphysical assumptions between traditional zen and Edenity’s take on mental body ensoulment. Especially important is how Edenity’s take on healing the fear of not-being allows for an integration of the impersonal realm traditionally owned by zen with the personal world of the h…
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Who Was Jesus’ Father & Why Does It Matter?
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In today’s episode, an alternative story to what we’ve been told about Yeshua the Nazarene, aka, Jesus. We add a psychoemotional dimension to a religious narrative to arrive at a spiritually useful picture. We context the relevance of this story with the rise of Christian theocracy and its origins as opposed to Yeshua’s actual original teachings wh…
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In today’s episode, we continue our conversation from last time about reincarnation. We move from the macro to the micro and discuss how we setup incarnations in our self interest for soul-level healing, how at the deepest level there is no victimhood at all in Life, the nature of karma in the context of reincarnation and self-forgiveness, and how …
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In today’s episode, we explore Edenity’s metaphysics on reincarnation, a subject that goes back at least 4,000 years. Can you reincarnate as a cockroach if you do bad things as a human? Why do we think being a cockroach is so bad anyway? Do cockroaches fear being reincarnated as humans? Some of these questions we explore in this episode. We also ad…
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The Tragedy of our Incurious Conditioning
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We begin a four part series today from my course entitled “The Art of Asking Questions”, which you can find at courses.clearandopen.com. I’ll talk about the nature of curiosity, our poor conditioning about learning and what to do about it, how embarrassment can be productive, and a lot more.By Josef Shapiro
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In today’s episode, we take a deep dive into the ultimate state of consciousness for the paradigm of Edenity; that is, enheartenment. If you remember from our previous episodes on the elements of a paradigm, all models have an ultimate state of consciousness whether they explicitly state it or not. Related to this, we also explore some metaphysics …
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Money, Meaning, Manifestation & Metaphysics
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In today’s episode, we explore the metaphysics of money. We begin the conversation with the fantastical question of whether Jesus owned his clothes and why that question was of international importance about 1700 years ago. The subject of money leads us to explore competence and caring as the basis for healthy work and the difference between money …
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If I Were President & Preparing To Die
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In today’s episode, we’re concluding our discussion of politics by answering the question we received about how an Edenity president would rule. We received another question about how each of the hoods (Personhood, Sagehood, and Sainthood) prepare us for death, and that conversation lead to some very rich places. As always, please listen to this po…
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In today’s episode, following our foray into politics last time, the subject of wokeness. Topics include cancel culture, institutional racism, perception vs. reality, the dead-ending of self-image polishing and finally, the death of critical thinking and the need for “critical feeling” to take its place. As always, please listen to this podcast fro…
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This is the third and final part of the excerpts on excellence from my course entitled Embodied Values and Virtues, which you can find at courses.clearandopen.com. In this installment, we relate excellence to the 5 stages engagement, which you may remember from previous episodes, and the dead-end of striving. Then we connect passion work and soulma…
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In today’s episode, “How does a spiritual person relate to politics?” Like last time, this single question takes us on a journey from the right/left, realism/idealism split, to the separation of church and state, to Christian Nationalism, the quagmire of corporate invasion of politics, the failure of democracy as a system, free will and free won’t,…
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Today is part two of a three-part series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” We’re focusing on excellence and apply this to the domains of soul-mates and passion-path today, the person and work that is inextricably intertwined with your destiny. Spoiler alert: doing your best with what’s in front of you is the path to get there,…
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In today’s episode, just because something happens, does it mean it was meant to be? It’s a simple question that requires a complex answer that leads us to the Akashic records, the nature of free will and destiny, passion-path, how we’re here to cultivate beauty, bounty, and meaning, and much more. It’s a fascinating conversation that resolves some…
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This episode is part one of a series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” The topic today and in the next two episodes is excellence, and it’s quite relevant to the “quiet quitting” stuff we’re hearing about in the news these days. In this episode: why never giving up is bad advice, how will-based excellence isn’t sustainable, an…
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The Psychospirituality of Relationality
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In today’s episode, the psychospirituality of relationality, how your first mate is God, your second yourself, your third your passion path, and your fourth, your partner. We’ll be unpacking and exploring what that means, I promise. We also present one of the most practical aspects of Edenity, spacer-types, which is every bit as valuable as astrolo…
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This episode is part three of a series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” We continue the conversation about compassion today by deconstructing the ubiquitous judgment of judgment in our world, and how counter-intuitively accepting and investigating your own judgments can lead to authentic compassion.…
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We continue our series on sex and spirituality, and today we address the perennial question, “What do women want from men?” in a way that offers a productive solution path after millennia of challenge. We go on to talk about the difference between men and women as a function of yin and yang dynamics and the challenges of relationality that come out…
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Deconstructing False Ideas About Compassion
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This episode is part two of a three part series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” We continue the conversation about the limits of repressing feelings, fear or otherwise, and the process of dead-ending principles by living them out to their logical extreme. Then we transition from courage to compassion and deconstruct some of …
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The Error of Self vs. Other in Romance
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We’re continuing our series on sex and spirituality, now focusing on intimate relationality. In this episode, we address the “needs of self vs. needs of other” issue that morality, religion, philosophy, and spirituality have wrestled with for thousands of years…and resolve it. That’s our frame for going deeper into the content of codependence, as w…
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The last series was excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues,” and we’re following suit. This episode begins a three-part series taken from the hour that followed. We talk more about courage and move onto the next virtue on the list, compassion. We talk specifically about the importance of not repressing fear, which is the most common …
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This episode continues our series on sex and spirituality with part three. In it we cover codependence and recast the tragic lives of the glorified preteens, Romeo and Juliet. We also address the three primary kinds of connection in intimate relationality, considerations for masturbation health, what might be in the way of you attracting a soulmate…
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This episode completes our four-part series on courage, excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” Today we explore “the cake and eat it too” dynamic, the necessity of diagnosing root causes, living paradigms all the way to their logical conclusion, the red herring of confidence, and finally, to wrap up the series, the punchline: get i…
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This episode continues our series on sex and spirituality. We explore the impact of an emotion-first, will, mind and body second paradigm on this topic. This leads us to subjects that include how will drives codependence, the spirituality of lust, the innate self worth of the soul, and much more. As always, please listen to this podcast from the be…
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