The human being has always run on stories, what kind of stories are we telling about ourselves? What kind of myths are we using to contextualize our existence and to foretell its trajectory? How are we giving meaning to our lives?
We’ll talk with elders, lineage holders, seekers, scholars, and practitioners from diverse wisdom traditions to explore the precious convergence of the being, the psyche, and life itself, and how we can use the alchemy inherent to that meeting point for transformation.
Courting the mystery, weaving the story, and bringing it all back home to the body.
All Episodes
EP03: Mantra, Kundalini, and the Inner Guru with Gurumaa Dipti Rajkumar Baswar
What are the stories that we are telling ourselves about what it is to be a person? Host Laura Carrotti speaks on the need for context and coherence in our lives. She offers her working definition of spirituality and considers why the road to transformation requires us changing the story and practicing something different.
EP02: The Anatomy of the Being; Defenses as Distortions of Our Light with Paramita Oliveira
In this episode, Paramita Oliveira and I start on a micro-but-mighty odyssey. The terrain is tracing the ego’s development as a series of solutions and defense mechanisms. We’ll examine the structure of the personality, which was built around a being in development who didn’t have the protection or cognitive capacity to navigate life’s difficulties. In this episode we start to recognize these solutions and defenses as being a distortion of our essence.
The same way a prism separates white light into the full spectrum, the slings and arrows of this human experience fragment our light. Our fragmentation isn’t moral, its fundamentally human, but it can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and separate from our power. We will deepen in coming episodes and create a map that will lead us back to our wholeness using what in us is most unconscious and reactive as a doorway.
We welcome psychologist Paramita Oliveira for the initial conversation of a ten-part series on the study of the self. In this episode we outline a methodology that unites spirituality with psychology and understands the difficulties that present in our lives to be the result of a distortion of our essential energy into systems of defense. We'll set up for the study with an overview of the how childhood wounds create a prism effect, distorting our light, and how essential both study and feeling are to the rescue of our essence.
EP01: On Context and Coherence with Laura Carrotti
What are the stories that we are telling ourselves about what it is to be a person? Host Laura Carrotti speaks on the need for context and coherence in our lives. She offers her working definition of spirituality and considers why the road to transformation requires us changing the story and practicing something different.