The War Is Over: Making Peace With Your Mind with Byron Katie #142

TOPICS DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE:

• How Luke found Katie (after being dragged there by his father)
• When Katie hit rock bottom
• How a chance run-in with a cockroach completely changed Katie’s (and Luke’s) life
• Coming to terms with the fact that the world is a projected image of our thoughts
• Our motivation to ease the world’s suffering
• Katie gets labeled enlightened – but she says, “I’m just someone who knows the difference between what hurts and what doesn’t.”
• Everything in life is awesome… if you choose to frame it that way with your thinking
• Sparing ourselves from the desire for approval
• Our futile attempts to argue with reality… and why we always lose
• The irony of struggling to win love and approval
• Why it’s called “The Work”
• Luke gets completely raw & vulnerable about some resentment he’s working through right now, going through the 4 questions & turnarounds of The Work to show you how the magic happens
• The life-changing work done at Katie’s Turnaround House
• A Mind At Home With Itself, Katie’s commentary on the Diamond Sutra, one of the great spiritual texts of the world

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East By West: Ayurveda Meets Paleo Conscious Cuisine w/ Jasmine Hemsley #140

 TOPICS DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE:

• Becoming more conscious about food
• Growing up with a Filipino mother & English father
• Creating a healthy family bond around food
• Coming up with SO MANY amazing recipes
• Utilitarian eating VS being a foodie
• The creative process
• Combining the Paleo-Primal way of eating with the Ayurvedic diet
• Gut health
• Cooking tasty meals that include organ meat
• Why some people need animal protein in their diet
• Appreciating your food
• Where hunger begins & cravings end
• Emotional eating
• Sound bathing & the effects of sound on your blood
• Marrying East + West
• The nutritional difference between some cold & hot foods
• Meat as medicine
• The science of living
• Simultaneous & incredible inventions throughout history (How did different civilizations build pyramids at the same time, without contact?!)
• Vedic architecture
• The proper pace for eating (“There are no teeth in your tummy”)
• Food combining; it’s better to have good digestions and a bad diet than it is to have bad digestion and a good diet

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You Are Your Own Guru: Meditation For The Masses With Light Watkins #139

TOPICS DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE:

• Urban escape room & evasion course
• How to succeed in meditation (without really trying)
• Changing the conversation around meditation
• Why Light’s book is accessible for the everyman & experienced practitioners
• Reframing writing as a practice
• Dealing with criticism (& laughing at negative reviews on Yelp)
• How Light (a young man from Alabama) first got into meditation in the 90s
• Experiencing Light’s first “meditation orgasm”
• Thom Knoles, a maharishi (or pre-eminent master-teacher) of Vedic Meditation
• Why meditation is only effective when it’s a daily practice
• Becoming a good teacher (“You don’t have to beat Michael Jordan to coach him to a championship.”)
• Training in India
• Listening to our intuitive voice
• Your energetic economy
• Having many choices VS knowing the right choice (for you)
• The early, rocky stages of a meditation practice
• Stress relief & meditation
• Fun fact: we all have the same number of thoughts
• Appreciating beauty
• Calming the fight or flight reaction
• Why Light keeps his services accessible and affordable
• How Light prays

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EpiEnergetics: The Miraculous Healing Powers of Donny Epstein #138

TOPICS DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE:

• Everything in reality is a function of a binary code of energy and information
• The magic of manifestation
• What EpiEnergetics means
• Experiencing reality differently (and then getting drugged)
• Working across the street from Ken Wilber
• Benefitting from the different levels of consciousness
• Spirituality & experiencing the divine as a reward for adding value to others
• The lack of spirituality in (some) religious structures
• Accessing intelligence
• Spiritual escapism
• The “Network” - a spine-based, life-enhancing natural healing method
• The relationship between emotional intelligence & physiology
• Why ‘immune system’ is an antiquated term
• The purpose of an emotion
• Developing children into thinkers
• ‘Having cancer’ VS ‘cancering’
• Moving from the lower mind to the upper mind
• Your thoughts & your nature
• Addiction, reward, pain, & certainty
• Transpersonal vigilance (watch Donny discuss it more here)
• The purpose of soul
• Taking care of those who’ve lost their way
• Expanding the model of healing
• The difference between a psychotic and a genius

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Vaccine Safety Vs. Science: Facts And Fiction With Del Bigtree #135

• Learning how to ask questions, think more critically, and decide for ourselves
• Producing a debate between Monsanto’s head of toxicology Dr. Donna Farmer and GMO activist Jeffrey Smith
• How Del first learned about the CDC whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson
• The scientific fraud and cover up surrounding MMR vaccine studies
• Why Dr. Thompson is the “cleanest whistleblower you’re ever going to have”
• The fine line between being an advocate for truth and driving yourself insane
• Why the vaccine debate seems to be different from any other controversial topic
• How some people on the Left seem to be trying to shut down free speech these days
• Why Del considers himself a consumer advocate
• Getting kicked out of the Tribeca film festival
• Robert De Niro’s role in the story
• Donald Trump & vaccines
• The mandated adult vaccine program that’s in the works
• 75% of advertising on television comes from Big Pharma
• Why science is the one place where consensus is meaningless
• Big Pharma’s stranglehold over the vaccine conversation and lobbying
• The “religion” around doctors, medical knowledge, and vaccines
• Why a child in America is 70% more likely to die before adulthood than the other 20 richest nations in the world
• The first generation of children in America who probably will not live to be as old as their parents
• The BIG change in vaccinations that happened in 1986 (that made it impossible to sue due to injury from vaccines)
• The autoimmune crisis in this country
• The scientific method for evaluating the safety of a drug – which ZERO childhood vaccines have ever done
• The people who are killed by vaccines annually
• Playing devil’s advocate
• The 15 childhood vaccines that have NEVER been studied for a link to autism
• What’s wrong with the “herd immunity” argument
• Del’s dream of a truly independent vaccine safety research organization to hold Big Pharma accountable
• How our species is evolving backwards
• The difference you can make as an individual – not part of a herd

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The Psychology Of Style With Lauren Messiah #134

• How Lauren kicked my ass and got me to start the podcast
• Our five-year relationship and multiple attempts at couples therapy (including a stay at the Onsite Workshops)
• How we’ve evolved since ending our relationship
• Lauren’s first fashion memory
• Being a perpetual not-fitter-inner
• Growing up multiracial & feeling like you don’t have a tribe
• Using style to carve out her own space
• Being a voice for people who feel misunderstood
• Going to fashion school and then not becoming a designer
• Inadequacies in education
• Moving from the east coast to the west coast
• Becoming a stylist and finding the School of Style
• Blogging about fashion in 2005
• Why Lauren stopped celebrity styling & started personal styling
• Being a servant VS serving
• Style being a huge pain point for so many people
• How a job with Nickelodeon changed Lauren’s life trajectory
• Clothing as a way of communicating your values
• Lauren’s evolving brand & relationship with style
• Living your best life
• Putting yourself in badass mode
• Being the Oprah of fashion
• The science of getting dressed
• How men can represent their true self on the outside
• Lauren’s current self-help journey

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Miracle Medicine: My Stem Cell Journey with Dr. Amy Killen #133

A full report of my journey from LA to Utah: 

• At the airport
• On the plane
• Off the plane and reporting from Uber
• At the secret hot springs with podcast listener Kia Miller, how she became a listener, her 3 top recommendations for keeping healthy, spiritually and emotionally centered
• The day after arrival and off to Docere Clinic

Interview with Dr. Harry Adelson

• The ABCs of stem cells, and how it's the body’s own natural drugstore 
• What’s the deal with FDA’s paranoia?   
• The risks involved with stem cell therapy
• The conditions most often improved with this type of therapy
• “A busy doctor means a bad doctor”: Dr. Harry’s no-repeat business model
• Aftercare therapy, and the importance of bodywork, mobility and healthy lifestyle changes
• Neurodegenerative diseases and how injections into the brain work towards cell growth factor 
• Other fringing benefits of stem cell therapy 
• The difference between fat-derived cells and bone marrow cells 
• PRP therapy explained 
• Autologous Vs. Allogeneic: Understanding the derivatives of stem cells, where they come from if not from your body, and the U.S. regulations around it
• What's with the tourism factor when it comes to stem cell therapy, and how the U.S. differs from international approach 
• What are exosomes, and how they are made 
• Umbilical cord storage
• Cross-species stem cells: are they still a thing? 
• Step-by-step walkthrough of my treatment today
• Lifestyle recommendations

Interview with Dr. Amy Killen: 

• More on what is PRP therapy, and how it differs from stem cells 
• What happens when you inject stem cells into a man’s "unit", and why I’m having her do it to me
• The fact that 40% of women suffer some form of sexual disfunction 
• The O-Shot and why she injects stem cells and PRP into vaginas, and why she has not administered that treatment to herself 
• How the O-Shot improves the power and duration of female orgasms
• The secrets of the vampire breast lift 
• How hormone function affects your sexual health 
• What are bio-identical hormones, and are they really natural?
• How diet affects hormones, and the #1 food ingredient that kills men’s testosterone levels 
• Is having too much iron in the body bad for men? And how to get rid of it
• The benefits of rubbing testosterone into your genitals, for men and women 
• What’s the purpose of this P-Shot I’m getting, and where exactly she’ll be injecting my private parts with stem cells 
• The secret cure to premature ejaculations that you can order on Amazon under $20
• The power of GAINSWave treatment for erectile disfunction
• Are erection drugs safe? And what are the side effects? 
• How she convinced her husband to be her guinea pig for some of her experimental therapies 
• What causes hair loss, and how to fix it with stem cells
• How to use stem cells and PRP to get a non-surgical facelift, and how she’s going to inject my face and scalp 
• What happens when airpot security catches you with a penis pump  
• Lifestyle recommendations

Real time report of my post-treatment journey: 

• The day after and tech used to speed up healing
• Back to LA and full recovery mode
• A run down of my entire biohacking recovery therapy
• 5-weeks later report

For more about this show, click here.

Miracle Medicine: My Stem Cell Journey with Dr. Harry Adelson #133

A full report of my journey from LA to Utah: 

• At the airport
• On the plane
• Off the plane and reporting from Uber
• At the secret hot springs with podcast listener Kia Miller, how she became a listener, her 3 top recommendations for keeping healthy, spiritually and emotionally centered
• The day after arrival and off to Docere Clinic

Interview with Dr. Harry Adelson

• The ABCs of stem cells, and how it's the body’s own natural drugstore 
• What’s the deal with FDA’s paranoia?   
• The risks involved with stem cell therapy
• The conditions most often improved with this type of therapy
• “A busy doctor means a bad doctor”: Dr. Harry’s no-repeat business model
• Aftercare therapy, and the importance of bodywork, mobility and healthy lifestyle changes
• Neurodegenerative diseases and how injections into the brain work towards cell growth factor 
• Other fringing benefits of stem cell therapy 
• The difference between fat-derived cells and bone marrow cells 
• PRP therapy explained 
• Autologous Vs. Allogeneic: Understanding the derivatives of stem cells, where they come from if not from your body, and the U.S. regulations around it
• What's with the tourism factor when it comes to stem cell therapy, and how the U.S. differs from international approach 
• What are exosomes, and how they are made 
• Umbilical cord storage
• Cross-species stem cells: are they still a thing? 
• Step-by-step walkthrough of my treatment today
• Lifestyle recommendations

Interview with Dr. Amy Killen: 

• More on what is PRP therapy, and how it differs from stem cells 
• What happens when you inject stem cells into a man’s "unit", and why I’m having her do it to me
• The fact that 40% of women suffer some form of sexual disfunction 
• The O-Shot and why she injects stem cells and PRP into vaginas, and why she has not administered that treatment to herself 
• How the O-Shot improves the power and duration of female orgasms
• The secrets of the vampire breast lift 
• How hormone function affects your sexual health 
• What are bio-identical hormones, and are they really natural?
• How diet affects hormones, and the #1 food ingredient that kills men’s testosterone levels 
• Is having too much iron in the body bad for men? And how to get rid of it
• The benefits of rubbing testosterone into your genitals, for men and women 
• What’s the purpose of this P-Shot I’m getting, and where exactly she’ll be injecting my private parts with stem cells 
• The secret cure to premature ejaculations that you can order on Amazon under $20
• The power of GAINSWave treatment for erectile disfunction
• Are erection drugs safe? And what are the side effects? 
• How she convinced her husband to be her guinea pig for some of her experimental therapies 
• What causes hair loss, and how to fix it with stem cells
• How to use stem cells and PRP to get a non-surgical facelift, and how she’s going to inject my face and scalp 
• What happens when airpot security catches you with a penis pump  
• Lifestyle recommendations

Real time report of my post-treatment journey: 

• The day after and tech used to speed up healing
• Back to LA and full recovery mode
• A run down of my entire biohacking recovery therapy
• 5-weeks later report

For more about this show, click here.

Own The Day: Total Human Optimization With Aubrey Marcus #132

 TOPICS DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE:

• What motivated him to take on the commitment of personal growth and development in the first place
• How he funded his company Onnit, and the broad philosophy around it 
• Why creating a movement is more important than creating a business 
• What is his morning routine and how he generates the power to achieve greatness in life 
• Rebounding and why he’s made that a part of his daily practice  
• Why he recommends a high fat, high fiber, low sugar diet 
• How fat is needed for proper hormone production 
• The top 5 foods to avoid, and how to find the hidden toxins in your diet 
• Walking the fine line between keeping a clean diet and being a control freak 
• How he creates a zen productivity station in his office, and his surprising secret weapon 
• The importance of proper office posture 
• The secret to creating a healthy company culture at Onnit, and how that supports their bottom line
• Why he personally does the firing as CEO rather than outsourcing it 
• Onnit’s hiring philosophy
• How he manages productivity and dealing with overwhelm
• The importance of sex and creating a healthy lifestyle 
• The downside of pornography, and the benefit of making your own 
• Why he feels naps are crucial to our sleep schedule 
• The power of human connections, and which one of those connections connections is most important 
• What he’s learned from his 17 Ayahuasca journeys, and the risk and the benefits involved in that practice 
• How to avoid fake jungle shamans 
• The story of the time he OD’d on Kambo frog poison 
• Lifestyle recommendations 

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The Water Wars Trilogy, Part Three: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Nature’s Greatest Gift w/ Mukhunde #131

• The meaning behind his name, and his first experience with spring water
• How Mukhande took his love of water and turned it into a thriving, and unique business
• How most spring waters on the market are processed, and what that means
• The story behind his first water collection as a business
• His journey in procuring water rights
• Why he believes real spring water is the superior choice for personal and environmental well-being
• His business model, the challenges and cost of growing the business
• The reason behind why most water available to us is processed
• The mainstream effort to discourage our autonomy
• The unfair and erroneous media attacks that have been directed at Mukhunde personally
• Best resource to locate springs in U.S.
• The new delivery locations for the LA area, and his goals for expanding nationally
• Lifestyle recommendations
  
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The Water Wars Trilogy, Part Two: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Nature’s Greatest Gift w/ Seth Leaf Pruzansky #130

• How Seth got into spring water, and went on to start his own company 
• What is TDS and why a water lower in minerals is a better option 
• How the geographic location and the type of rock spring comes from determines the overall quality of that water 
• The difference between surface water and ground water 
• Why it’s important to lab test the water in some cases to make sure it’s safe 
• Primary water, and why it’s the most absolutely pure water on the planet 
• The fact that the Earth actually makes water
• The pros & cons of tap, filtered and bottled water
• The environmental destruction from corporations, and how it will take conscious entrepreneurship from small businesses to change the course
• The challenges his company faced with regulations to bring unprocessed water to market
• How the water industry affects the environment: the good, the bad and the ugly 
• How Seth discovered how to make non toxic plastic bottles for his company Tourmaline Spring 
• How you tell a specific spring is safe 
• Why the media has recently attacked the spring water industry 
• How there’s no such thing as free water
• Lifestyle recommendations 

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The Water Wars Trilogy: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Nature’s Greatest Gift, Part One, Daniel Vitalis #129

• Daniel and I catch up as he shares his observations from the past 10 years of foraging, his podcast, and the new new direction of his work 
• The non-cohesive world of ecology stewardship, and how environmentalists & hunter-gatherers are at odds with each other
• How GMO and glyphosate spraying affects our wild food sources
• Wild vs. Farmed, and why establishments can’t sell game meats
• Fake news and all the false propaganda lately about natural spring water: why is the media attacking it, why is the media so afraid of it? 
• Are the big beverage corporations behind the media’s effort to discredit this very natural practice of drinking water from the Earth
• Is water actually alive? Does it have consciousness? What’s this energy we know as water? 
• Where does Spring water actually comes from? 
• What is raw or living water? 
• How filtering water has its pros and cons
• The chemistry behind why water tastes flat   
• The hydrological cycle of water, and the difference between well water, aquifer and spring water
• What are the possible dangers of drinking spring water? How to vet the spring
• The FDA lobbying to call tap and well water “spring” water. Turns out that most of the bottled water you drink is not from a spring, it’s never even seen a spring 
• The environmental impact of the bottle water industry 
• The health impacts of drinking plastic water 
• Are some plastic bottles worse than others for you and the environment? 
• What is wrong with tap water and can we trust the government that sell it to us? 
• Do fracking chemicals, and nuclear waste and fluoride end up in our bodies? 
• Pharmaceutical drugs and how they don’t always get filtered out from municipal water
• We focus on fluoride and find that it might not be so great for your teeth and could in fact have deleterious results in your health in general 
• What about the risks of showers, baths, steam rooms and hot tubs
• The risk of tap water in bottled drinks: wine, beer, etc 
• Daniel’s trip to a water plant, and the shocking discoveries he made there 
• What filters work, if any
• Are reverse osmosis and distilled waters toxic? 
• Are alkaline water machines legit?
• If you have to drink bottled water, which ones are the best? 
• Lifestyle recommendations

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The Top Secrets To Longevity & Living The Best Life Ever With David Wolfe #128

• Fresh bio-dynamic vanilla beans, and the iconography pattern that is created when Cacao and Vanilla are grown together
• What is the Longevity Now Conference, and why it’s so hip
• His background skills with marketing, public speaking, and how he developed his massive success
• The power of social media to broadcast your message
• How the teachings of Rudolf Steiner and biodynamic farming revolutionized his world
• His sleep regimen, and how he spends his early waking hours
• The unlimited university of information we have access to
• Stem cell treatments explained, David’s experience, his mom’s instant improvement from arthritis, and my own recent treatment
• The miracle healing of urine injections
• The effectiveness of alternative cancer healing centers centers in Mexico
• His history of traveling around the country, and the miracles he’s seen
• Conspiracies that are not theories like the 911 pentagon story, and the indoctrination & deceptions we are sold by those in charge of protecting us
• How truth and hope always wins
• David’s new book The Beauty Diet
• EMFs and whether grounding and earthing tech are legit
• The best ways to limit blue light exposure
• How health and wellness trends have changed over the years
• Lifestyle recommendations

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Breaking Free Of Negative Patterns With The Hoffman Process, Feat. Tim Laurence #126

• How Tim first got involved in the Hoffman Process?
• Who was Bob Hoffman, and how did he come up with this stuff?
• The Quadinitry concept, and why it’s the key to unlocking our potential 
• The Hoffman cycle of transformation: awareness, expression, compassion, forgiveness to generate new behaviors and deep inner change
• The importance of taking responsibility and establish healthy boundaries 
• How we take on negative patterns and more importantly, how we break them 
• What are some of the typical family roles that we take on, and how do they shape our lives as adults
• The stories we carry about our parents that may not be true and causes to be stuck
• How can we live from our more authentic, spiritual self?
• The phenomenon of transference, and how it hurts relationships 
• The role that surrender has in the Hoffman Process, and how does it differ from submission and compliance and just giving up
• How the Process approaches addictions 
• Does positive visualization actually work? And is it possible to break passed the subconscious limitations we impose upon ourselves by doing it 
• What effects that being a facilitator had on him 
• What are some tools that he personally uses when anxiety and pain comes up 
• Lifestyle recommendations   

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Supercharge Your Mind With Neurohacker Collective, Featuring Daniel Schmachtenberger #118

• Daniel's homeschooling experience, and how his parents used facilitation of interests vs. curriculum to maximize his potential as a human
• How kids are born with innate fascination, and the consequences of not supporting their curiosities with intelligent foundational facts 
• The current educational model and how it trains us to be sharp cogs in an industrial world, hindering unique genius actualization
• Why a large number of Millennials aren't having kids 
• Why the smartest people tend to be employees and not entrepreneurs
• Epigenetics and the perpetuation of generation trauma as consequences slavey, genocide and other social moral problems from Imperialism
• Post-modernism, biases, partial truths, and the dangers of using metrics to simplifying complex systems 
• The artificial demands of a broken Capitalism, why we are running a race towards the apocalyptic cliff, and alternatives for the future
• All human being alive today have some degree of mental illness, and what we can do about that
• Depression, addictions, empty-fulfillment and other problems that stem from hyper-stimuli 
• The longing for authenticity and meaningful human interactions 
• The pursuit of happiness and the foley of looking for it "out there"
• The importance of integrating psychiatry and pharmacology to understand and up-regulate the human networks and bio hardware 
• The origins and the vision of Neurohacker Collective for decreasing suffering and increasing capacity & positive disposition  
• Defining drugs, and what distinguishes legal from illegal
• Top smart drugs and nootropics, why and how they work, and some of the risks and benefits involved in their use 
• Taking empowered responsibility through self education 
• The importance of addressing the foundational aspects of wellness over using biohacking to patch & support a shitty performance 
• His favorite biohacking tech tools 
• Geoengeenering, chemtrails, and the effect it has on our brain and biology
• What is environmental psych, and how to biohack it  
• Lifestyle recommendations

Cosmic Vibration And Kundalini Rising With Guru Singh #113

• What is was like to grow up as a third generation yogi
• A fascinating story of how his family were early adopters of Eastern teachings 
• What the yoga LA scene was like in 1969 when he met Yogi Bhajan 
• What it was like to hang out with spiritual giants like Mutkananda, Satchidanandanda, Osho 
• What his first yoga class was like 
• Did Yogi Bhajan have super human powers? And do spiritual masters use metaphysical tricks to capture the attention of devotees 
• How to be magical yet still logical 
• The importance of learning to quiet the brain mind in order to access to the Total mind
• How to navigate challenging emotions of anger, loss and despair
• How he got his spiritual name and the relevance it has to him all these years later 
• Why he believes language is such a powerful tool for transformation 
• The fact that even enlightened Masters are still humans and make frequent mistakes 
• Uncovering the science behind Kundalini yoga
• How mantras, music, and sound vibrations raise our consciousness 
• The powerful effects of yogic breath work, and why it's so important to make this practice a part of your life 
• His secret to always tuning into to Universal wisdom when teaching his classes
• How he used intuition to receive the cosmic downloads over the years 
• How to stay humble and not let your spiritual ego take over your true personality
• The importance of ego as a part of who we are, and why it's pointless to try and fight it 
• The surprising reason he wears a turban and his spiritual wardrobe choices   
• Tips for keeping the brain active and fully expanded 
• The surprising connection between highly active meditators and schizophrenia
• Lifestyle recommendations

Ending Injuries, Pain, And Infertility With Cold Lasers, Featuring Arne Grinsted #110

• How he turned his passion for healing people and electrical engineering into a laser company
• How he found scientific resources to start building lasers in 1982, before the internet 
• The fact that Einstein envisioned laser therapy long before they ever came to fruition
• The mechanism of healing and the fast production of ATP created by this type of laser 
• How Arne healed a sprained ankle in one day using a laster he made himself 
• The different classes of lasers and what they do
• What is the Gigalaser, and how it helped 200 out of 300 infertile women get pregnant 
• How lasers have the ability to heal wounds, sports injuries, and even brain conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s 
• How to overcome the restrictions of big pharma and the medical industry as an inventor of alternative therapies
• Lifestyle recommendations 

Modern Mindfulness: Finding Real Love With Sharon Salzberg #99

 TOPICS DISCUSSED ON TODAY'S EPISODE:

• We talk about the fact that she’s been meditating exactly as long as I’ve been alive
• What it was like for her to travel to India for her first 10-day Vipassana meditation, and why she went the route of the buddhist tradition, while so many of her contemporaries leaned toward Hindu-based teachings
• Why she never chose to take on a special spiritual name, or wear guru costumes, and how she has managed to avoid the trappings of a spiritual ego
• The value in taking a ‘householders’ approach to spirituality
• Then Sharon treats us to a short ‘idiots guide to Buddhism’ where she breaks down the origins of the tradition and some of its teachers
• Why she still chooses to live in NYC some of the time, and what value a big city holds for spiritual growth
• Her views on social media and device addiction
• The fine line between making a positive contribution to the world and being a fanatical activist 
• How she has discovered the path to freedom from the mind, and why she’s devoted her life to teaching it
• The fact that in life pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional
• We explore the idea that mindfulness is not passive, but rather surrendered action
• How to become free of negative attachments 
• What is the hungry ghost, and how we can avoid being trapped by our desires
• How reincarnation effects our lives
• Sharon’s views on the value of the 12 Steps Program 
• We talk about Real Love, her 10th book and what role compassion toward ourselves and others plays in our lives 
• Lastly Sharon gives us her prediction on where the current spiritual movement is taking us, and how she’s hopeful for the future state of mankind’s evolution 
• Lifestyle recommendations

Free Native: Manifesting The Metaphysical With Lacy Phillips #96

TOPICS DISCUSSED ON TODAY'S EPISODE:

• Ego as the shadow, the unconscious mind and how to control it without letting it control you
• Her story: how at 25 decided to throw out everything she knew about manifestation and decided to start listening to her own intuition, and what her higher power was telling her
• How she developed her own process of manifestation that she now teaches to clients
• How she uses NLP in her practice
• Discussions on what the Ego really is
• The film The Secret, Abraham Hicks, and whether or not the law of attraction is real 
• How to develop self worth
• Manifesting what you want yet not defining yourself by externals and materialism
• How she developed the vision of your brand and work
• Why she chose the word manifestation over life coaching, or training, or many of the common words we hear
• Should people feel guilty for making money out of teaching spiritual material?
• How she survived her many dark nights of the soul
• How to overcome issue like abandonment, the shadow self, and inner child early trauma
• How to rid ourselves co-dependency issues and how we got them to begin with
• How to overcome low self-worth, shame, and limiting beliefs
• Getting rid of negative thoughts about our bodies 
• What’s up with the current awakening of powerful, yet feminine women in the ‘now age’ of our current spiritual movement
• How she finds balance in the feminine energy of her content and teaching while still being a badass business woman
• Her morning routine
• Lifestyle recommendations

The Walking Dead And The Path of Enlightenment With Jeff Kober #94 & #95

• The story of how he moved to Hollywood to become an actor
• Acting for the art vs. for the ego
• Creativity and bringing your A game to the set: you gotta practice excellence and presence at all times
• What it was like to play such dark roles in walking dead and sons of anarchy while being a spiritual teacher
• The idea that Evil needs to exist for Good to have something to do. Evil is absolutely there to encourage Heroism
• How as a human you need your ego to survive, but when you live through the ego, you are at the mercy of its demands
• Finding the middle path between Mother Theresa and total apathy
• How challenges are a vital component to personal advancement
• The demands of our animal nature, and finding ways to tuning in to the still voice and flow of life that is moving through us
• The challenges of being Humans in the present time, and the responsibility of knowing the truth of ourselves to the greatest extent as possible in order to positively affect the whole of consciousness
• What he learned on his many spiritual pilgrimages to India
• What is the main difference in western culture vs. India?
• How to avoid building a spiritual ego, and getting caught up in the trappings of being ‘special’ or enlightened 
• The power jazz and state of creative flow that it embodies
• How he used Black Sabbath’s music to get into a character
• Psychedelics as a spiritual pursuit vs attaining enlightenment on the natch
• The hidden meaning of Alcoholics Anonymous’ symbolism
• Why the Vedic teachings of non-duality are so powerfully transformative
• How sex dissolves ego boundaries and is the highest form of connectedness
• What it was like to walk across India with the saint known as Sri Maharshi
• Clearing up the misconception that paying for spiritual teachings is wrong
• How to avoid spiritual bypass, and face the difficult truths about yourself 
• The fact that the key to life is in learning how to be a giver, rather than a taker
• Lifestyle recommendations