Intelligent Spirituality + Human Optimization

Peerless Series

Are you at the mercy of your thoughts, emotions and programming?

 

The Peerless Series covers getting centered, grounded and cultivating personal agency. Take a 15 week journey with me…I’ll give you practical guidance and effective techniques to master your mind & emotions, one lesson at a time.

This is the fundamental beginners series that underpins all intermediate and advanced series.

 

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Mastery Series

I’ll give you the tools, perspectives and techniques to stop being a passenger and get in the driver’s seat.

 

Weekly audio lessons cover a range of topics, from mood management, attitude adjustment, getting the upper hand with thought loops, meditations to remove deep programming, busting out of cherished ruts and more.

If you haven’t taken the Peerless Series, I recommend you do because you’ll have a solid foundation for this course, but it’s not required.

 

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Being Human: Are you Pro or Amateur?

Are you still operating from your mind’s default mode? Your mind isn’t the enemy. It’s just a tool you haven’t learned to use. Being human isn’t a hobby, it’s a vocation.

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The Covid Pandemic is an Opportunity for Massive Personal and Spiritual Growth

I’m in lockdown. Coronavirus has completely unwoven the fabric of my life. So why am I so damn excited? Grinning from ear to ear. Of course, you couldn’t tell because I’m all masked up. The pandemic chaos is creating the most powerful energetic ground to make deep, fundamental changes in our lives. To move the immovable. To change the immutable. In a sense, to establish a new incarnation in the same body.  READ >>

Confusing Spiritual Awakening with Getting Rid of Unwanted Mental Programs

Have you ever wondered if getting rid of all your mental programming would result in the ability to see reality directly, and unfiltered? Would it lead to spiritual enlightenment? READ >>

Managing Emotional Intensity in a Crisis

The unfolding covid-19 crisis, racial tensions and financial uncertainty is flooding us with personal and ambient emotional intensity. You can go where those rushing emotions take you, or you can practice mastery. READ >>

The Truth About Parenting (and about growing up)

Whether you’re a parent or not, this is important for everyone. A lot of the issues that come up in parenting are really not even about our kids, but about ourselves — how we process our own childhood experience, our unconscious beliefs about our childhoods.  READ >>

Sudden spiritual enlightenment — are you kidding?

How to cope with sudden spiritual awakening. Because it’s not all rainbows and samadhi pie.

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Karma Accelerator

What happens to karma after spiritual enlightenment? After enlightenment, my karma unwound with breathtaking speed. I also noticed that I catalyzed the karma of those… READ >>

Physical Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening: What Happens to the Body After Enlightenment?

Who knew spiritual enlightenment would be so physical? The body can also go through massive changes and when that happens, you can experience some really… READ >>

Format Your Hard Drive: Brain Hemispheres Go Offline

Spiritual awakening can bring on a major reformatting of your brain, a bit like wiping a hard drive. It’s not uncommon to hear people speak… READ >>

Checking in or checking out?

How to jump back in the petri dish of humankind. Like many people who wake up, I went through many phases of working within this… READ >>

Still Asleep?

Spiritual Seekers Series: Deep Dream Diving with Beautiful Sleepwalkers. 

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The Dream Within the Dream

Is there any point to telling dreamers that they are dreaming? I get the call around 2am and rush to put some clothes on, trying… READ >>

Seeking Enlightenment in Lieu of Getting Yourself in Hand

Are you using spirituality and the search for enlightenment as an excuse not to fix your mental, emotional, relational and financial problems? The experience of… READ >>

Dead or Alive?

From which point are you asking questions? Are your questions living or dead? Questions that come from the mind are dead questions. It doesn’t mean… READ >>

The Difference Between Enlightenment and Having Spiritual Experiences

So far I’ve spoken pretty much exclusively about having, surviving and integrating radical spiritual experiences and not so much about enlightenment. Let’s talk a little… READ >>

Ultra Sensory Chronicles

Psycho or Psychic? Is there any way to have a sane, sensible convo about being Ultra Sensory? Some of us are born this way and sometimes spiritual awakening kicks everything into high gear. Always interesting, but not always a good time.

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Reader Q&A: Sex After Kundalini Awakening

Will having sex after Kundalini awakening cause further activation? While I’m interested in having sex with my husband, I’m terrified that it will get things… READ >>

Ultra Sensory: How My Body Perceives and Reacts to Lightning

I can’t really describe what it feels like to have your energy sphere collapse. I tried to bring it up again, fortify my boundary, but… READ >>

Ultra Sensory Q&A: “I’m suddenly seeing light and patterns I never saw before”

A reader writes: “Lately I have been seeing things that I didn’t see before. Vibrating/moving/cascading light in surfaces and atmosphere. It all started about a… READ >>

Siddhis: Psychic Telepathic Communication Through Touch

Life after sudden spiritual awakening: So, you’re already dealing with sudden spiritual awakening…that’s weird enough, right? But some of you will also gain psychic abilities… READ >>

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