The Deep State Consciousness Podcast

Emotional Embodiment Meditation, with Nicole Schnackenberg

Nicole's guided meditation from the August Unbreaking the Mirror group.

This Being Human, Addiction with Ronnie Aaronson

 

Ronnie Aaronson is a psychotherapist specialising in the treatment of addiction, focusing particularly on alcoholism. She is the author of Addiction, This Being Human, a book she was inspired to write by societies dehumanisation and 'othering' of people struggling with certain 'unacceptable' addictions.

Ronnie is also a founder of The Swan Project, a charity set up in Bristol to help people struggling with alcoholism. The charity utilises the skills of trainee therapists to provide low cost treatment to an incredible number of people. What makes this model particularly fascinating is that it's replicable anywhere.

 

 

Escaping the Psychology of Statism, with Antony Sammeroff

Psychologist, therapist and host of the Scottish Liberty Podcast Antony Sammeroff joins me to discuss his presentation, The Psychology of Statism. Antony first explains how he came to hold his unconventional anarchistic views on government. He then talks about the psychological factors that prevent people from rationally and reflectively engaging in dialogue but rather lock them into their existing points of view. Finally, putting his therapists hat on, Antony talks about the role of resolving trauma in freeing ourselves to embrace a wider spectrum of ideas and becoming able to communicate more effectively with others.

Show Notes

Get Antony's free ebook Procrastination Annihilation

The Scottish Liberty Podcast

Antony's Enrich Your Life YouTube Channel

Read Antony's article How to Change Someone's Mind

Antony mentions Stefan Molyneux and Lloyd deMause for their work on childhood trauma, peaceful parenting as the way to create a better society. Here are three playlists (the first one features Lloyd) on that topic.

The Origins of War in Child Abuse

The Truth about Spanking

The Bomb in the Brain - The True Roots of Human Violence

Antony also mentions trauma therapist Dr. Robert Scaer

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Recovery from Fibromyalgia, with Linzi Kemp

Twelve years ago Linzi Kemp developed Fibromyalgia, a debilitating condition of chronic pain and fatigue. This led her on an inner journey of self healing, ultimately becoming a student of The Rudra Devi Technique. Now fully recovered, Linzi works with this spiritual/emotional based approach to help others emerge from chronic pain.

Details of Linzi's work here

 

Alien Encounters with Simon Small

 

Simon Small returns to the show to discuss the UFO/alien encounter/abduction experience. Simon has been fascinated with this most confusing of phenomenons for most of his life, due to his own 'encounters'.

I was interested to draw on his experience as a contemplative mystic, to see what insights approaching the phenomenon from that perspective has given rise to. Can we point to an objective reality underpinning these experiences? Are they the same as the old Fairy faith? Why do some people find them spiritually transformative and others horribly abusive? What's going on with disclosure? We explore these questions and more.

Get Simon's book, Star Pilgrim, on Amazon (UK) (US)

 

Spirituality and Pyschotherapy, with LuAnn Keener-Mikenas

LuAnn Keener-Mikenas is a writer and psychotherapist who has also pursued spirituality for the past thirty years. We talk about what the integration of these things looks like, the cultivation of a deeper and more secure sense of being and the implications of this on a personal and societal level

 

LuAnn's therapy site

 

LuAnn's writing site

 

Ascension Meditation, with Thomas Howell (Ishtar Ishaya)

Thomas Howell (Ishtar Ishaya) is a teacher of Ascension Meditation. In this interview he takes us through his fascinating life, from recalling early spiritual experiences, through tragedy and a near death experience, to spiritual exploration and a settling on Ascension

Thomas explains that he chose Ascension as a practice as it seeks to charm the mind with praise, gratitude and love, as opposed to using control or discipline. He found this gentle approach opened up profound states of non-dual awareness

Details of Ascension meditation and Thomas' other work (he teaches meditation and offers services in person and online) can be found at - http://www.ascension-meditation.com/ and http://www.awakenedlightastrology.com

Conscious Branding with Barnaby Adams

Barnaby Adams is a graphic designer whose interest in non-dual spirituality has led him to develop the concept of 'Conscious Branding'. We talk about how a sense of authenticity can be brought into advertising services and the different kind of connection this creates with customers.

Find out about Barnaby's work

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On Realising the Political is Personal, with Fiona Robertson

 Senior Living Inquiries facilitator Fiona Robertson comes back on the podcast to talk about her essay, 'On Realising the Political is Personal'. We discuss how our political positions are inextricably linked to our core beliefs about life, both in terms of the positions we hold and the dogma or open mindedness which we hold them.

We go on to discuss how cultivating a relationship with a sense of self which is deeper than the opinions we hold can allow us to drop our addiction to certainty and engage with people in a more relational way. We ponder what the implications of this would be for our polarised political climate.

Read Fiona's essay, On Realising the Political is Personal

 

 

Encounters with Jesus, with Tim Freke

Tim Freke talks about the impact he's seen his book The Jesus Mysteries has had on people, often facilitating them re-finding their relationship with Jesus. Tim also talks about how, in contrast to other mythicist books, his is not an attack on Christianity but rather at attempt to reform it.

Details of Tim and Peter's book The Jesus Mysteries