Best Soul Dojo Podcasts (2025)

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Do You Want To Know: What It Is? (HOS155) 1:25:20

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20d ago1:25:20

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Stace and I revisit the 1999 film, The Matrix today, its impact on the evolution of Edenity, how it addresses all three hoods in a way I’d never seen before, and some of the most powerful psychospiritually significant parts of the film. To support the podcast as a member, you can go to content.clearandopen.com. In addition to early releases, chat a…

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Can the Soul See Itself? (HOS154) 1:07:45

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More dharma cookies today. Topics include the unselfconsciousness of ensoulment, the loss of existential control, how transcendence cuts off the bottom three chakras, the responsibility of leadership, how the perception of love changes based on maturity, and much more. Members get this one a week early. To support the podcast as a member, you can g…

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Improvement vs. Transmutation (HOS153) 1:20:12

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Stace and I unpack more dharma cookies today. Topics include the difference between improvement and transmutation, why Preduality can make emotion seem distant, how beavers make great metaphors and not only dams, the remarkable etymology of the word “deserve,” the approximation of real self-worth with energetic confidence, and a lot more. To suppor…

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A Tale of Two Dojos (HOS152) 1:55:31

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Eric joins me today and our main focus is on the subject of paradigmatic rigor and the tricky balance of holding objective standards while meeting people where they are subjectively. I didn’t say this in the podcast, but there’s a contextual headline I’ll offer here: there’s a common content and context confusion problem in so many domains in our w…

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The Fraudulence of Selflessness (HOS151) 1:16:59

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Stace and I decode a handful more of dharma cookies today. The actor we were trying to recall in the beginning was Jeff Daniels, by the way. Topics include transcendence, responsibility for the unconscious, triggers, and what I titled the episode somewhat arbitrarily, the fraudulence of selflessness. To support the podcast as a member for just 5 bu…

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The Real Cost of Rent-a-Friends (HOS150) 1:19:31

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Ashley joins us again today to cover some more specific highlights of yin-in-service. Themes also include accountability, guilt, rent-a-friends, and the yin and yang sides of apologies. Podcast members get this one early. To become a member for just 5 bucks a month, you can go to content.clearandopen.com. In addition to early releases, you get acce…

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Yin-in-Service vs. Yang-in-Service (HOS149) 1:28:23

2M ago1:28:23

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Today, how all soul species are here to sort out the love vs. will question, the real source of the fantasy of good vs. evil, how religion has been the tool of Gephians, Edenity’s take on transgender, and much more, it was a dense episode. Two quick notes: the concept that the war between the Cahrpacians and Gephians is yin-in-service vs. yang-in-s…

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No Objective Reality, No Morality (HOS148) 1:04:49

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Stace is forward on the podcast today and we context the mess of the world today in terms of the post-truth era that began in the Renaissance, providing what I think is some much needed meta. Subjects include the rise of subjectivism, the degradation of morality parallel to the loss of objective truth, and of course a lot more. Podcast members get …

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Dead-Ending Willful Athleticism (HOS147) 1:41:32

3M ago1:41:32

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Joining me today is a new guest, Ashley, who’s been doing EBE a little over a year. We have a rich and lovely conversation about her process, the nature of enlightenment, Ken Wilber, Landmark Education, athleticism as a medication and the overall theme that emerges is the holy dead-ending of willfulness, something we both performed excellently if y…

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“It Feels Like” a Podcast (HOS146) 2:01:24

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Joining me again today is regular guest, Eric Grace. First, I should mention we recorded this the day before Jimmy Kimmel’s show was reinstated by ABC, that’s a win for free speech we celebrate. We talk about that, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, democracy, corporate narcissism, capitalism, welfare, my personal crusade about the phrase “It feels…

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The Trifecta of Edges (HOS145) 1:35:11

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Joining me again today is special guest, Eric Grace. Today’s topics include trailing, middle, and leading edges, self-care, sacred union and destiny work, and the dead-end of subjectivism. This episode does not drop early podcast members to reward their support because I didn’t get it done in time, but usually would. We had a lovely Second Sunday e…

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Members Only: Demeds & Existential Doom (HOS144) 1:48:35

4M ago1:48:35

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Joining me again today is special guest, Eric Grace. Today, we complete a handful of psychologization items leftover from a previous episode, including the concept of blaming the victim, self-sabotage, compromise, and more. We have a spontaneous and spirited debate about the future of our species on this planet and finally discuss demedications and…

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Muppet Psychodynamics & Third Eye Emergence (HOS143) 1:36:30

4M ago1:36:30

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Joining me again today is special guest, Eric Grace. In this episode, we somehow weave together psychodynamic analysis of children’s television, especially of muppets, with what was supposed to be our main topic today, the opening of the third eye as a result of EBE work. We also go down a brief rabbit hole about the loss of meaningfulness in conte…

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The Paradigmatic Pollution of Psychologization (HOS142) 1:45:31

4M ago1:45:31

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Joining me again today is special guest, Eric Grace. In this episode, we comb through a list of psychological terms that have trickled down into mainstream consciousness and give you Edenity’s metaphysical take on them. These terms are ways in which the paradigm of psychology has become an implicit value system in our society, largely in distorted …

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The Courage to Leave Good for Great (HOS141) 1:48:43

4M ago1:48:43

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Joining me today is special guest, Eric Grace. It’s been a while since he’s been on and we had a wonderful discussion about the challenge of demeds, especially the common situation of women leaving safe men where emotional needs aren’t met, we also talk about authority projections, how to be an effective student of Edenity, and a lot more. This epi…

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Allness, Authority, & Accusations (HOS140) 1:22:20

5M ago1:22:20

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We continue down the list of dharma cookies. Topics today include allness vs. oneness, authority projections and accusations of EBE being a cult (again), how you cannot transcend your soul-I, parent projections onto God, joy vs. happiness, This episode drops wicked early to podcast members to reward their support. To become a member for just 5 buck…

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Apology About Yin-in-Service Treatise (HOS139.5) 4:27

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Please note: I recorded this apology long after HOS141 was recorded in which I refer to the Yin-in-Service Treatise criticism and 141 has not yet been released to the general public (but has to members). I was still in the process of sorting through things when 141 was recorded. So if you listen to 141, where I criticize the criticism, you may be r…

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The Terror of Needing Love With vs. From (HOS139) 1:21:04

5M ago1:21:04

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We continue down the list of dharma cookies. As these cookies cover many different things, I’m titling the episode based on what comes to me as one of juiciest ones. We cover some new ground on the distinction between needling love with vs. needing love from today which I thought was profound. Other topics include state-chasing, living in the flow …

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Free Will vs. Freedom of Will (HOS138) 1:20:09

5M ago1:20:09

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We continue down the juicy list of dharma cookies today. Topics today include learning by immersion, free will, choices vs. decisions, toxic altruism, and more. This episode drops nearly 2 weeks early to podcast members to reward their support. To become a member for just 5 bucks a month, you can go to content.clearandopen.com. In addition to early…

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What Does Serving Love Mean? (SS03) 17:03

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit content.clearandopen.com Thanks to everyone who made it, and especially to Rebecca for starting us off on the inquiry of what it means to serve love. See you next time! This is the recording of our July Second Sunday zoom.By Josef Shapiro

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Is Embarrassment Bad? (HOS137) 1:35:14

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We take on a controversial subject today by request. Stace and I are aware of occasionally using real life situations as examples that may trigger embarrassment in people, even though we don’t mention them by name. So what’s the deal with that? Is that mature, ethical? How do we make that work metaphysically? Do we succeed, or is it a complex justi…

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The Compass of Your Soul (HOS136) 1:34:24

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We dig up an old model inside Edenity not previously discussed on a podcast, called soul nodes: north, south, east, and west orientations for our journeys through life, with slight variations for men and women. Topics today also include a reinterpretation of Genesis, how religion is divorced from reality, authority projections onto EBE, and what it…

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Do You Know What Love Is? (HOS135) 1:08:50

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The subject of today is the nature of love: what codependency is, healthy anger, why the loss of control is necessary for relationality, taking the altruism out of “I love you,” the unholy bond of love and happiness, and of course much more. This episode drops early to podcast members to reward their support. To become a member for just 5 bucks a m…

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Self-Authority: There and Back Again (HOS128) 1:24:29

7M ago1:24:29

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Today, I’m joined by Eric Grace and our special guest, Frank, to discuss his journey of EBE which began way back in the days of 1.0. Topics include why the collapse of the first version of the paradigm was a good thing, cultic dynamics, how a paradigm can’t evolve if it’s protector mediated, how Sagehood and Personhood work can co-exist, the nature…

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Psychedelic Manifestation Forgiveness Dead-Ends (HOS127) 2:18:21

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Today, I’m joined by Eric Grace and our special guest, Chelsie, to discuss her journey of EBE. Topics include plant medicine and psychedelics, dead-ending, manifestation paradigms, navigating entertainment, forgiveness, doubt space, and more. Special thanks to Chelsie for being brave, vulnerable, and sharing her journey with such clarity and heart.…

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Narcissism, Altruism, Mutuality, and Clear Thinking (HOS126) 1:44:39

8M ago1:44:39

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Today, I’m joined by Casey Keth and Eric Grace to discuss the paradigms of Trillium and Waking Down, how narcissism and altruism are two sides of the same coin, and another exciting edition of Guess the Guru. Thanks very much to our new podcast members for being early adopters. Our first members-only second Sunday will be May 11, and we’d love to h…

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The Gift of Suffering & How Puppets Can Help (HOS125) 1:58:35

8M ago1:58:35

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The gift of suffering, soul age and consciousness capacity, transcendence, the enneagrammatic roots of Islam and Christianity, among other things. Thanks very much to our new podcast members for being early adopters. Our first members-only second Sunday will be May 11, and we’d love to have you if you’re not already a member. If you want to support…

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Embracing Existential Not-Knowing (HOS124) 2:03:50

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To tip us or become a member please visit: clearandopen.com/hos Today, I’m joined by Casey Keth and Eric Grace to discuss the wounded existential not-knowing, the loss of will, yin and yang in service, among other topics. And I have a big announcement to make, we’re going to try something new. Our audience has been growing and we’re getting more an…

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Beyond Existential Victimhood (HOS123) 2:17:17

9M ago2:17:17

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Today, Eric Grace joins me again and we discuss what I learned from being bullied in a hardware store, the archetype of Freddy Krueger, overidentifying with compassion, stages of awakening, pseudo multiculturalism, and honestly so many other things I don’t even remember because I didn’t take notes. And this will be my last plug for my new course th…

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The Right to Die, IVF, and Doing Hard Things (HOS122) 1:38:18

9M ago1:38:18

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Today, Edenity’s take on assisted suicide, in-vitro fertilization, dealing with conflict, and of course another installment of GTG. Also, I have a new course starting April 17, 2025. It’s called The Art of Open Connection: Deep listening, insight and truth. If I’ve impressed you at all with my awareness and intelligence, I’ll let you in on somethin…

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The Insidious Use of Mind to Process Reality (HOS121) 1:42:38

9M ago1:42:38

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Today, in addition to completing the EBE FAQ, a critique of Ken Wilbur’s integral approach, our broken political system and the immature electorate, existential control, state chasing, and much more. Of course, another edition of Guess the Guru with reigning champion, Eric Grace. Also, I have a new course starting April 17, 2025. It’s called The Ar…

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Pain, Hunger, and the Rate of Change (HOS120) 1:42:31

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Today, existential disorientation triggers from daylight savings time, more frequently asked questions about EBE, adult relating to parents, criteria that qualifies someone to help others, the balance between meeting people where they are versus pushing them to move through their issues, and much more. Thanks for listening. This is a public episode…

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The Energetic Limits of Internal Family Systems (HOS119) 1:36:17

10M ago1:36:17

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Today, Eric Grace and I take some listener questions about highly sensitive people and what a healthy relationship with parents looks like as an adult. We chip away at some frequently asked questions as well, including a juicy rabbit hole about the differences between EBE and Internal Family Systems which is the model that looks most similar to EBE…

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Deconstructing Feministic Psychology (HOS118) 55:08

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Today, a special edition of the podcast where I read a piece of couple’s psychology to my friend and colleague Anja Schugardt. I’m coining a term in the title of this episode, “Feministic Psychology” to encapsulate what’s going on here. The piece I’ll be reading is by a woman named Nicole LePera, but she’s not the only psychologist out there synthe…

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The Myth of Attainment (HOS117) 1:27:23

10M ago1:27:23

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Today, a very rich conversation with my friend and colleague Eric Grace, who you’ve heard before on previous episodes. We talk about many things, and continue some of the frequently asked questions about EBE already in progress, but the main theme is what I’m calling the “myth of attainment” and is a hypothesis that redefines what attainment actual…

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What Will Authentication Be Like For Me? (HOS116) 1:27:25

11M ago1:27:25

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Today, benchmarks on the path of EBE, demedications, what completion of EBE feels like, responsibilities of the facilitant, and other frequently asked questions as we continue this series. And of course, another riveting installment of Guess the Guru! Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribe…

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How To Become A Saint (HOS115) 1:31:05

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Today, the distinction between creation- and creator-relational sainthood, objective vs. subjective reality in the context of spirituality, and some practical things you can do to deepen your relationship with Divinity. And of course, another riveting installment of Guess the Guru! Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to di…

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Things, Not-Things, and Non-Things (HOS114) 1:28:38

11M ago1:28:38

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Today, incarnational imperatives in service, (by request) definitions of duality, preduality, and unality, and a couple new revisions to some old Edenity prayers. We’ll do more on Sainthood in the following episode, but this is a beginning to follow the thread we began last time. And of course, another installment of Guess the Guru that surprised t…

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Sainthood: Whether You Like It Or Not (HOS113) 1:35:56

12M ago1:35:56

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Today, some important Sainthood metacontext following our last episode and to set up for the following one: topics include the domains of authentication, origination, and provination; why it makes perfect sense that suffering must be addressed emotively, holoarchal versus hierarchical models for Divinity, and of course, another edition of Guess the…

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The Sugary Sweet Magical Neo-Vedanta (HOS112) 1:25:46

12M ago1:25:46

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Today, our first episode of 2025, we debrief my experience at a spiritual community’s holiday party, and make paradigmatic sense of why there was too much dessert and not enough dinner. Yes folks, this is how powerful paradigmatic processing of reality can be. Join us for an exploration of a class of paradigms we’ve not explored before, and so coin…

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If the Grinch Could Do Metaphysics (HOS111) 1:24:07

1y ago1:24:07

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Today, the nature of holiday conditioning, why every mythology needs a virgin birth, the difference between real and true, deconstructing faith and belief, and back by popular demand, another edition of “Guess the Guru.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.cle…

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The Rainbow at the End of the Bardo (HOS110) 1:28:55

1y ago1:28:55

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Today, the unalistic dynamic that unites the three hoods in enheartenment consciousness, the emergent soul-I, the reward that awaits you on the other side of the existential Bardo. Finally, our second installment of “Guess the Guru” to incentivize you to listen all the way to the end. Play at home and earn Edenity points! Quick reminder that I’ll b…

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The Indulgence of Feelings (HOS109) 1:27:13

1y ago1:27:13

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Today, feelings vs. emotions and the problem of indulgence, an AI version of Jesus coming soon to a confessional near you, catch and release paradigms, and of course much more. Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscrib…

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Let’s Play Guess The Guru! (HOS108) 1:27:07

1y ago1:27:07

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Hi, it’s Josef and thanks for listening to The Heart of Soul Podcast. Today, deconstructing a passage from an enlightened teacher and making Stace play “guess the name,” (you can play along at home!), the seduction of shakti, and why sexual abuse happens so commonly among neo-Buddhist teachers. And just a quick reminder, coming up soon in Eric Grac…

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Communality Consciousness, Yin Divinity, & Emotive Bottoms 1:22:45

1y ago1:22:45

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Today, introducing communality consciousness, how Edenity would say that Trump’s election was God’s will but for a counter-intuitive reason, and what support actually means. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe…

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Election Debrief: What Counterintuitively Went Right (HOS106) 1:15:05

1y ago1:15:05

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Today, we debrief the results of the U.S. presidential election and what it means on a spiritual level. We revisit the will vs. love issue as played out between the two major parties, how Trump’s election is a long-term win, and more playouts of extreme subjectivism. Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with…

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Election Special: Beyond Political Bypassing (HOS105) 1:27:07

1y ago1:27:07

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Today, a 2024 U.S. presidential election special! We discuss the referendum on greed vs. altruism before us, the difference between a republic and a democracy, the possibility of a government being redesigned while it’s still running, and perhaps most importantly the real meaning behind the 80s band “Devo.” I invited Eric Grace to join us today, an…

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The Essence, Form, and Expression of Everything (HOS104) 1:20:52

1y ago1:20:52

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Today, unality, preduality, and duality, from essence to expression with metaphysics wrapped up in a bow so tight, you’ll think it’s October 1st in Venezuela and Christmas came early. We make some deep cuts at love versus energy, that which is behind that which is behind all things, and how exactly human existence is an expression of Divinity. This…

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Reality Summarized on a Page (HOS103) 1:23:40

1y ago1:23:40

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Today, the most fundamental metaphysics of Edenity, how they relate to the three primary soul fears, and a one pager that sums up over 100 podcast episodes. Fair warning: we’re referring to a chart that I have included in the Youtube version, so if you’re audio-only at the moment, you may want to go to the video. Thanks for listening. This is a pub…

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Why We Choose Archetypal Soul Baggage (HOS102) 1:21:25

1y ago1:21:25

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We cover the scintillating and often misunderstood domain of past lives, archetypal souls, and what it means to you today. Why would anyone choose to bring a piece of an archetypal soul’s baggage into a human life? How should we relate to this? How does incarnational attribute planning work? These questions, including rabbit holes like how Mother T…