12 Psycho-Spiritual Tools For Spiritual Warfare

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12 Psycho-Spiritual Tools For Spiritual Warfare | TCM #133 (Part 1)
https://media.blubrry.com/thecosmicmatri...M133_1.mp3

Laura and Bernhard share and discuss the 12 main psycho-spiritual tools that they find necessary during these times of spiritual warfare. These tools will not only help you in your immediate everyday life, but they can also help the world without pulling you into our collective darkness, cynicism, and black-pilled mindset.

Furthermore, they discuss a powerful vision of a Sufi Mystic about the state of the world that confirms Laura’s prophetic dream, Sri Aurobindo’s and Rudolf Steiner’s warning over 100 years ago, how we need a deeper spiritual revolution and a shift in consciousness, and more.

Show Notes Part 1:
    Why this is a spiritual war
    Our whole civilization has its origin in the spiritual world
    There are unseen occult spiritual forces manipulating humanity
    Rudolf Steiner and Sri Aurobindo on the spiritual forces
    Laura’s prophetic dream a year before the plandemic hit
    The victim/blame trap is at the core of the matrix control system, keeping people in a lower state of consciousness (David Hawkins)
    Trauma as gateways for hostile forces
    The vision of “The Wall” by a Sufi Mystic in deep meditation
    Light Beings are waiting for us but are not doing the work for us
    Humanity is not able to handle the full light of the Divine.
    Tool for PsychoSpiritual Work:
    1. Holding the tension of opposites (and the misconceptions about it)
    2. Shadow Work (what it is and what it is not)
    3. Healing Trauma (with self-reflective questions)
    4. Embodiment Practices and Grief Work with practical suggestions

In Part 2 (only for members), we go deeper into:
    We need a deeper spiritual revolution and a shift in consciousness
    Sri Aurobindo’s and Rudolf Steiner’s warning 100 years ago (The rise of a tyrannical socialist world state and the Destruction and Decline of the West)
    More Tools for PsychoSpiritual Work
    5. Critical Thinking and the Trivium
    Understanding the main logical fallacies
    6. Knowing your true self vs your conditioned personality and fragmented parts (and how to do it)
    7. Virtues > Virtue Signaling
    The main virtues to embody and how to work with them
    8. Being of Service
    The Yoga of Works, the Gita, and Karma Yoga
    9. Compassion but not blind compassion
    How blind compassion comes from the selfish part and is not about others
    The importance of boundaries
    10. Understanding occult forces and wetiko
    How to know the difference of what to reject (entities) and what to integrate (shadow, fragmented parts)
    11. Psychic Self-Defense
    Clearing techniques, how to deal with the projection of others
    12. Aspiration to the Divine and how to work with prayer

https://veilofreality.com/2024/06/20/12-...33-part-1/

Transcribed by Whisper
- Hello everyone, welcome to your newest episode
of the Cosmic Matrix podcast with your host myself,
Laura Matsu and my husband Bernhard Günther.
And on this episode, we are going to be offering
12 psycho-spiritual tools for spiritual warfare.
So in this episode, we're basically going to share
and discuss the 12 main psycho-spiritual tools
that we find are necessary during these times
of spiritual warfare.
And these tools will not only help you
in your immediate everyday life,
in your relationships with the people around you,
but it will also help the world.
So as you can see, there's a lot of collective darkness,
there's a lot of cynicism, a lot of people are in this
very negative, what we call black pilled mindset
that's dominant lately.
Because, and I can understand why,
the past few years have been really difficult
for almost everyone physically, emotionally, spiritually.
The positive side of this is it seems that more and more
people are becoming aware that this is a spiritual war.
But what does that actually mean
for this to be a spiritual war?
We're gonna cover that in this podcast.
We're gonna talk about how we see this spiritual war
playing out in the spiritual realms.
We're gonna talk about our own personal experiences
with that, as well as quote other spiritual masters
and what they had to say about the spiritual war
that we're in in these times.
So while many people talk about the spiritual war,
I've just noticed that there seems to be very little offered
as far as solutions, except for maybe pray.
But ultimately, we believe that we can only win
the spiritual war by raising collective consciousness,
by evolving consciousness.
But again, how do we actually raise consciousness
and what does that entail?
So that's what we're gonna cover in this podcast
through these tools that we feel are essential
for raising consciousness in times of spiritual warfare.
And these tools are not only to help you individually
in your life, but also help you navigate these times
with more ease and the way that we see it,
the more of us who individually raise our own consciousness,
the more that we help the world.
So we all have a piece and a part to play
in this spiritual war through raising consciousness.
That's the only way that we're gonna get out
of this situation.
But before we go into that,
I just wanna make a quick announcement.
We are going to begin registration for another round
of Embodied Soul Awakening, which is our 14-week program
in psychospiritual self-work.
The registration is gonna open in about a week.
So if you want to join or get more information about that,
you can go to thetimeoftransition.com.
That's thetimeoftransition.com.
And you can sign up to the waiting list.
And we'll also put the link in the show notes, right?
- Correct.
- Okay, perfect.
And that is going to be a round that begins
in September, late October.
Okay, so let's just talk first about,
maybe you can just give them an overview
on why this is a spiritual war,
how this relates to spiritual forces,
and how they work through us.
- Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, for people who have been listening to our podcast
and familiar with my work,
I've been talking about this for many, many years.
It ties into the hyperdimensional aspect of reality
and the hyperdimensional matrix control system.
But basically, a spiritual war means,
based on non-physical forces influencing humanity
or working through humanity.
So the war is on unseen levels.
And all the different esoteric spiritual traditions
have talked about this in their own ways
throughout the ages.
But we don't recognize it
in our very Western materialistic view
of the modern world right now, so to speak.
We're kind of stuck in five sensory perception.
But what we're actually seeing on the 3D physical level
is the manifestation of occult, hidden spiritual forces,
manipulating humanity from non-physical realms,
and they are working through humanity.
That's the key point.
So spiritual warfare is not necessarily out there
like we see it maybe in the physical reality,
but the key point to understand
that it works through humanity
and ultimately through ourselves.
Hence, we really want to also emphasize in this episode
on the tools to help you navigate the spiritual war,
because it is not to be externalized.
It happens within and without at the same time.
But what we see on the physical level, again,
is the manifestation, is the effect,
the cause is in the spiritual realm.
- Yeah, and Rudolf Steiner had a really great quote
where he basically summarized this,
and he says, "Our whole civilization
"has its origin in the spiritual world.
"That's where plans are made
"that govern our life on the physical plane.
"Down here, we only see how one event after another
"takes place according to physical laws,
"but the great spiritual causes are hidden from us.
"It is events on higher planes of existence
"that bring about physical events."
So spiritual wars manifest physical wars.
What happens in the spiritual realms
manifests in the physical realms,
but it begins in the spiritual realm.
It's basically the point that we're making.
- Yes, and here's a very great quote by Sri Aurobindo
from his Integral Yoga as well.
I have mentioned it before in various writings
over the years, but it really encapsulates
the idea of the spiritual war
and what we see on the physical reality is just the effect.
And he writes, "Look at all that is
"and has been happening in human history.
"The eye of the yogin," which is the spiritual adept,
"sees not only the outward events and persons and causes,
"but the enormous forces
"which precipitate them into action.
"If the man who fought were instruments
"in the hands of rulers and financiers,
"these in turn were mere puppets
"in the clutch of those hidden occult forces.
"The apparent freedom and self-assertion
"of our personal being to which we are
"so profoundly attached conceal a most pitiful subjection
"to a thousand suggestions, impulsions, and forces
"which we have made extraneous to our little person.
"Our ego boasting of freedom is at every moment
"the slave, toy, and puppet of countless beings,
"powers, forces, and influences in universal nature.
"When one is habituated to see things behind,
"one is no longer prone to be touched
"by the outward aspects or to expect any remedy
"from political, institutional, or social changes.
"The only way out is through the descent
"of a divine consciousness,
"which is not the puppet of these forces,
"but it is greater than they are."
And that's really the aim of the great work,
to anchor the divine force within ourselves,
to bring forth our soul being the psychic being,
to become a conscious transducer of divine will.
Hence, as within, so without.
That's how we really change the world,
through the deeper psycho-spiritual work
of this divine embodiment.
- Yeah, exactly.
So as long as we're stuck in a traumatized,
dysregulated state, looking for external saviors,
the external saviors we get are gonna be a reflection
of our traumatized, dysregulated state.
So this is why we're suggesting a change of consciousness.
And we also have to realize that,
I think that the darkness has increased,
or at least the unconsciousness has increased.
Or, you know, I've read some quotes.
I think it was from a, I forget who it was from,
but basically how spirits of the underworld
have basically erupted right now,
when we don't honor our relationship to the divine.
These dark spirits from the underworld will take over.
So we need, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist
to look at it.
Like even the other day, I was reading about Plato
and his idea of beauty, truth, and goodness,
and how these were the foundations of a virtuous life.
And just reflecting on how far we have gone
from these fundamental values that indicate a good life,
or a life well-lived, or a virtuous life,
whatever you wanna call it.
And I think we're seeing this loss of the sacred,
this loss of the relationship to the divine.
We're seeing the symptoms of it everywhere.
And I do think even this pull towards a lot of people
suddenly becoming Christians,
and deciding that they need religion in their life
is part of this aspect of people realizing
that they need deeper meaning
besides what the modern world has prescribed to them.
- Exactly.
It's an exoteric approach.
What we need is an esoteric approach.
- Yeah, we need a change of consciousness.
Our being needs to change.
So instead of even looking for like,
"Oh, if I just go to church every Sunday, I'll be fine."
If that creates a change within your being, then yes.
But if you're just going there and out of routine,
and you're going there asleep and checking your phone,
or whatever it is you do,
it's not creating that change of consciousness.
So whatever you do, it has to create a change of being,
and that's the change of consciousness
that we're pointing out needs to happen.
And then that's where we can actually come
and create real, or come to the better solutions
and create real changes from a change of consciousness.
It's like that quote by Albert Einstein, I think it was,
is that you can't solve a problem
from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Yes.
I just wanna, before we continue,
I just wanna pipe in real quick,
because you made a really important point.
What we see even now, just real quick on the political level
with all the different candidates,
elections coming up here in the US, craziness,
but all over the world,
people debate who's better, who's worse, whatever, right?
They play the role, but they're still only a reflection
of the general collective consciousness of the people.
- Exactly. - Right?
So that's why this whole voiding yourself out of it
is not gonna change much unless we become the change.
- Yeah, and I also do think that depending on the people
who decide to step up and become leaders,
I would argue truly spiritualized people
don't tend to get into politics, period.
They tend to do other things
and find other ways to be of service.
However, I'm also open to the idea
that through the aspiration of certain leaders
and through our change of consciousness,
certain leaders can also have higher forces
or dark forces working through them too.
So that's the kind of essential point
that you were making earlier,
is that we're all being influenced by malevolent forces
and benevolent forces.
And depending on our level of consciousness,
our level of being in our own self-awareness
is what forces are we aligning with, basically.
- Exactly, and the more we are, going back to the point,
the importance of the psychospiritual work,
because the more we are driven by unconscious shadow,
unconscious trauma, unconscious conditioning,
socially, culturally, a childhood wounding,
whatever it may be, the easier we're manipulated
by the hostile, quote-unquote, negative forces.
- Exactly. - But the more we can bring forth
our true self, our true soul being,
the more we become channels for higher divine beings.
- Yeah, like for example,
you can just notice this in yourself.
When you're not in a great mood,
when you're feeling down and out or dysregulated or anxious
or just in a dark mood,
you probably tend to gravitate towards things
that match that behavior.
So for me, for example,
when I'm feeling really anxious and dysregulated,
this is the worst thing you can do, by the way,
I'll be doom scrolling on Twitter
and be consuming more of news and clickbaity headlines
that actually make me feel worse.
So we tend to also gravitate towards things
that affirm our level of consciousness.
So it does take an act of will,
it does take an act of self-awareness to be like,
hey, what's going on with me?
What am I noticing in my body?
How am I feeling?
And then do something that will actually help
change that feeling or mitigate that feeling
rather than just worsen it.
- It requires a certain level of self-awareness, basically.
- Yeah, which is what we're gonna be going into
and talking about in the first hour
when we talk especially about embodiment and healing traumas
that a lot of us aren't aware of our actions
and the effect that it's having on our body,
on our mental state, on us spiritually.
And I think we really need to be aware of that,
especially in this internet age.
I think the internet has become
almost like a shadow battleground
of all sorts of dark forces
and it's taking away our creativity,
it's taking away our life force,
it's distracting us from what we really need to do.
So that's just as a side note.
Okay, so I'm gonna talk about this dream that I had.
It was actually in late 2019, I remember,
because it was when I first moved to the US.
So I moved here in 2019 to be with Bernhard
and this was not a normal dream.
I don't even think I had a lot of very clear dreams
back then, but this dream was crystal clear.
It was very different energy to the usual dreams I have,
which are usually kind of a mixture of my childhood
with some absurd element in it.
So there's different types of dreams too.
So I just wanna point that out,
that we have dreams that are an aspect of our own psyche
and then we also have dreams that I think are prophetic
or even tuning into something
that was about to happen in the future.
So I consider this dream to be more of a prophetic dream.
It didn't have anything to do
with anything going on in my life at the moment.
And so this dream I had in 2019,
I was basically observing the earth from the outside.
So I was like above, I could see the whole,
I could see the whole planet, I could see the whole earth.
And I saw this spiritual battle happening in the heavens,
like above the earth, which manifests the chaos
that we see happening in the physical plane.
So in this dream, I saw a black grid
that was about to surround the earth.
And I was being told as I was observing this black grid,
what was actually happening on earth by a mentor.
And he basically showed me that on the earth currently,
there's a super mental consciousness,
which means a spiritual consciousness
that leads to the divinization of the material world.
So it's like a higher self-awareness
that could cause a collective
and global spiritual awakening.
It was trying to bring itself down onto the planet.
And I saw this higher state of consciousness
as a grid of illuminating
and pure light encompassing the earth.
But then there was this imprisoning black grid
overlaid onto this illuminating light
that was preventing this from anchoring on the planet.
And I was told by this mentor
that there was one main program
that was preventing this higher state of consciousness
from coming down onto the earth.
And that was the victim-savior dynamic.
So you see this dynamic everywhere,
especially in what we call the oppression Olympics.
So, you know, everywhere in woke culture,
you see this oppressor-oppressed narrative.
People only see that
through the oppressed-oppressed narrative.
That's where this whole conversation about white privilege
and having to apologize for your privilege comes from.
It's all based on this oppressor-oppressed dynamic,
which has its roots in Marxism.
So this is an aspect of cultural Marxism.
And the main issue with this
is that it keeps people in a state of disempowerment.
It keeps people also just blaming the outside world
for the conditions of their life.
That's the primary issue of it,
is that you're disempowered as long as you think,
oh, the reason why I'm not doing well
is because the government, or because I'm not privileged,
or because of my race, or because of my gender, or whatever.
You know, because then you're depending
on the outside world to change before you can feel better.
And that's just a fundamentally disempowering position.
And so this state of disempowerment
also cuts people off
from tapping the state of higher consciousness,
which is where guidance from the divine,
angelic beings, and other benevolent beings
can be experienced.
And I find this really interesting
because David Hawkins also talked about,
in his book, "Power Versus Force,"
that when you're below a state of 200,
which is a fundamental state of disempowerment,
it's a contracted energy field,
you tend to blame the external world
for everything that's going on with you.
And the moment that you actually access acceptance
and you accept your situation,
you take responsibility for it.
You reverse the energy field
from a contracted state to an expanded state.
So in this dream, I saw that to stop people
from developing this higher awareness,
they are not just killing them
because then they would just enter
the reincarnation cycle again,
but they were essentially traumatizing them
so that they become disconnected from their essence,
also known as their true self.
You could also think of it as their soul,
which is the connection that they need
for their higher self or their angel
to reach them through.
So by traumatizing them and disconnecting from their soul
and the guidance of their angels and the divine,
it turned souls into portals for hostile occult forces
to keep them enacting their agenda through the earth
via constant stream of divide and conquer.
And it was interesting because at the end of the stream,
they ended up going after and killing the mentor
who told me this, and I won't say who it is,
but a few years later during the whole COVID craziness,
I watched that mentor fall for much of the most divisive
of woke ideology himself, also fall for the vaccine.
It was like the dream showed me
that the darkness would get to him too.
And I didn't even know that back then.
But then when I saw it play out later,
I was like, oh my God, like that was like-
- What was it, excuse me, 2019?
- 2019, yeah.
And so what we're going to also refer to,
Bernhard's going to read in a moment,
is that a Sufi mystic also described a spiritual battle
as a wall of some sort.
And this wall basically disconnects people from the light.
And this wall has been built by humans, by us,
our ideologies, our shadows, our unconsciousness,
our ignorance, and our deliberate turning away
from the light, meaning that humans created it,
and therefore we can also dismantle it.
And this isn't really not an easy journey,
but we have to take it in our own way,
with our inner work, with our spiritual practice,
so that we can realize this light within ourselves
and dismantle whatever is in the way
that's subduing the light from entering our hearts.
So we really need to become spiritual warriors,
and in order to dismantle this grid or this wall,
and the only thing that's going to help us
win this spiritual war,
which is what manifests these physical wars,
is a change of consciousness
that allows each individual to remember their true nature
as a divine spark of God.
So it's a change of being that needs to happen.
You can read all the spiritual books in the world,
you can pray every single night,
but unless your being changes, it doesn't matter.
It's just your mind playing tricks on you.
So that's what we're going to give advice for.
And we're going to, yeah, if you could talk about also
the Sufi mystics' interpretation, it's very interesting.
- Yeah, I want to comment,
because it's really fascinating, your dream.
And I remember it as well when you shared it before.
But what you said, it's really extremely prophetic,
very insightful, even some very deep,
esoteric, occult mechanisms or laws are happening there.
The idea of the matrix trauma installment program,
we talked about this before.
By traumatizing people,
disconnecting them from their soul and guidance,
from their own angels, from the divine,
from their creative spirit,
it turns people literally into portals
for the hostile forces.
And that is how the spiritual war works.
It works through us.
That's really the main, it's key point.
As long as you only externalize the evil out there
and you think your virtues,
that's how also the majorities forces
or where Tico gets to you.
But I really want to now share a very fascinating vision
of a Sufi sheik, a Sufi mystic
by the name of Lulilin Bon Lee called The Wall.
We have talked about this, I think over a year ago
and mentioned it briefly in one of our podcasts,
but now in light of Dora's dream
and everything else that's happening in the world,
it gives tremendous insight into the state of the world
and more importantly, what needs to be done
to heal the world and heal ourselves.
So it's a long text,
so I'm kind of just quoting some major aspects of it
and then we'll comment and talk more about it.
So here goes the vision of The Wall.
In deep meditation, I came to a wall.
I know this wall.
I've seen it many times before in meditation
and waking visions.
It is a high brick wall.
I know what it is on the other side of the wall,
a world of light, but there's no way through.
There's no doorway, no ladder, no break in the wall.
When I come to the wall, I walk along it
and then I have to turn away,
back to the narrow streets of this world.
Sometimes I've made every effort
and clambering to the top, looked over the wall,
or I've just felt what is there,
endless expanses of light and the beings of light
who live there, and yet always I have to come back,
back into this world, so constricted and full of shadows,
the half light of our existence.
In the summer of 2008, I spent three weeks
on the other side in that world of light.
It was a crazy time.
I was very ill and hardly slept.
When I went to bed and closed my eyes,
I was in the world of light.
There was no need to sleep, no possibility of sleep.
There was so much light, light upon light.
Sometimes during the day too,
I was fully awake in the world of light.
I could see our world from the other side,
see its loves and hopes and dreams,
its worldly power structures and places of prayer.
I could see the spiritual essence of every tree and flower
and the patterns of darkness in which people are so caught.
And I saw the beings of light that are waiting for us,
that want to help us,
and I saw how we have forgotten them.
I saw the sticky substance of forgetfulness
that covers us and drains us away,
or drains away any membranes we may have have.
I saw how other beings of darkness
that belong to this world also drain our light,
keep us caught, cover us in greed and desire,
hatred and anger, and I saw that this is how it is.
But I could not live forever in this world of light,
even though I longed to.
There was too much light.
It burned into my consciousness.
It did not allow me to sleep.
I knew I had to come back.
My body and mind could not live any longer
in that world of light, and it was not yet time
for me to fully die.
I knew this, even as I longed to be released,
even as I pleaded and complained,
was angry and resentful.
I had to come back.
My body and mind had to be healed
from being exposed to such an intensity of light.
And afterwards, over the weeks and months that followed,
this is what slowly happened.
But why was I shown it like this, always a brick wall?
It is not a river of forgetfulness,
a veil of light, or a rainbow bridge.
It is made of bricks, and bricks belong to this world.
And then suddenly, it dawned on me.
This wall was made brick by brick by human beings.
It is not a natural separation between the worlds.
It has been purposely built by people,
by their ideologies, laws, and power structures.
Humanity had purposely created a wall of separation
between the physical world and the world of light.
And it had been built so long ago
and been so effective that we all accept it.
Now we live in the shadow of this wall
without even noticing it.
Nor do we realize that we have been denied
our heritage of light.
We have been conditioned to accept the world of shadows
and half-truths we call life,
without even realizing that we are cut off
from the world of light.
This has become our heritage.
We have successfully stranded ourselves from the divine.
It is so long since the light was here
that we have almost no memories,
even in our ancestral consciousness,
of how to live in the light.
We've learned how to live in the shadowlands of our culture,
how to manipulate and deceive.
But in the light, there can be no manipulation or deception.
There's too much light.
We have to learn once again how to be honest and truthful,
how to be sincere and open,
how to take real responsibility.
This is the only way to live in the light.
There are and have been pockets of light,
but these harbingers of light do not appear to last.
They self-destruct, destroyed by drugs, for example,
or are swallowed back into collective,
sold out to materialistic values.
Sadly, much of the New Age spirituality
that brought the light
and the practices of spiritual traditions from the East
soon became corrupted and self-serving.
We know in our depths that humanity and the world itself
cannot survive much longer without the light
that comes directly from the source.
Everything else has become too polluted and corrupted.
The heart of the world is bleeding,
and the soul of humanity is crying out.
We need this light in order to see our true nature
and the true nature of life.
And life needs this light in order to heal and transform,
so that together we can make the next step in evolution.
So in this extended text,
then he also goes on to describe
how the light of the divine could destroy the wall.
Even the light beings,
these powerful beings could destroy the wall,
but it is up to humanity to turn to the divine
and dismantle the wall,
since they or we have built it over thousands of years.
So it's up to us to learn our lessons,
not wait for others to save us, basically.
Why?
Because it was a conscious choice to separate from God
and the worship of ego, as he says.
This all is now also manifested
and strengthened by the dark forces, right,
that feed on humanity
and tag into all that is corrupted within us.
So through the rise of the wall,
we've also given the dark forces more power
that sustain the wall.
As he said, he saw powerful light beings
on the other side as well,
but they are not going to just to bail us out
or destroy the wall for us.
This is our task again and our spiritual lesson,
hence the necessity to engage in this inner cycle,
spiritual work, to bring forth the light within ourselves,
which will destroy the wall.
But he also mentioned that currently humanity
would not even be able to handle
the full light of the divine.
We need to open ourselves,
or we need to open ourselves to it progressively
via the inner work and the aspiration to the divine
to hold this extremely high frequency of the divine light.
And I want to finish with one last quote.
He says, or writes,
"The Sufis describe how we need actually separation
"between the worlds.
"70 veils of light and darkness,
"or the glories of His face would burn away everything.
"As I know from my own experiences,
"the light of the divine is too dazzling
"for us to perceive it directly.
"Its energy is too strong.
"This is one of the reasons why spiritual life
"is a slow process, a gradual lifting of the veils.
"As one develops spiritual strength,
"becomes more and more able to bear the light,
"but these veils filter the light.
"They are not a wall that cuts off from it."
So really understanding that there is a natural separation
between the spiritual world of pure light
and the human consciousness out of necessity.
There needs to be gradual evolution
because we would not be able to hold,
to anchor the full light, it would literally destroy us.
It's like trying to put in 1000 volts through a cable
that can only hold two volts or something like that,
it would burst.
But what we have now going on,
there's an artificial separation,
the wall created by us and maintained by us
and then reinforced by hostile dark forces
that is not natural, that we need to dismantle ourselves.
- Yeah, and I think that this is why spiritual,
powerful spiritual experiences can only be experienced
in little increments for most people.
I know when I have had my most powerful
spiritual experience, it's extremely disorientating.
It's very hard to manage a certain level of consciousness
that's very different from your baseline level
of consciousness in the real world.
Stalinist Grof even talked about how we can slip
into a spiritual emergency where we can go basically insane
from experiencing these peak experiences.
And the way that I see it is like, for example,
say if you take an extremely traumatized,
let's just say an animal for the purposes
of this reflection, extremely traumatized animal
and then you bring it into a house that's safe
and loving and unconditionally caring towards it
and it gets all its needs met.
Is that animal gonna be able to suddenly receive
that love right away?
No, it's not.
It's actually gonna bite the owner.
It's gonna freak out.
It's gonna growl, you know?
And that's kind of our relationship
when we're deeply traumatized to the divine
is that we can't, no, it's true.
We can't actually contain it because of our own trauma,
because of our own core beliefs, because of our own wounds.
And I also see that a lot of people,
especially because of all the loss and death
we've had over the past few years,
their hearts are shut down from the grief as well.
- But even the Sufi mystic in his vision of the wall,
as he entered the world of light,
he wasn't able to sustain it himself, was too strong.
His body was disintegrating.
But he made what also came to me,
because we did a reversal in the old ways of religions,
even spirituality was about escaping life,
escaping into the afterlife, escaping maya
and transcending, getting out of body, away.
But we need to reverse, as Sri Abandhan Mother has said,
we need to actually break the wall
and bring down divine, the supermental consciousness
that you also perceive, that wants to descend,
that wants to anchor itself in the earth
and transmute and spiritualize life, mind, and matter.
But it happens gradually, but it's about anchoring the force,
not going to it, not going and leaving the world
and leaving the world behind.
And that was the lesson he learned as well.
He so badly wanted to just stay up there,
but from a divine perspective,
no, the work is to be done here in the shadows
to bring down the light.
- And I've had little moments of that
in my own spiritual practice,
only when I was really meditating hours a day
and doing yoga a day.
But I've had moments where even my consciousness
burst out of my body and I could feel the consciousness
of the whole room.
And there's a part of your ego that freaks out
when you have these experiences.
Like if you were to be blasted
with the unconditional love of the divine,
there's a part of you that will freak out.
That's what I think he's pointing at.
Okay, so let's talk about the practical tools
that we think are really necessary
for this change of consciousness.
And the reason why we point at psychospiritual work
is because we need the psychological work
along with the spiritual work
in order to create a truly embodied change.
So when we do psychological work without spiritual work,
then we often end up digging in the mud
and we always end up in our childhood.
It always ends up somewhere in our childhood,
most of the time.
However, spiritual work expands that point of view
and lets us know that there's a future self,
a higher self that's also pulling us forward.
And it also opens us up to the spiritual sciences
and the spiritual realms,
that there are benevolent forces as well as hostile forces.
And we need to know how to navigate these
through changing our level of being,
through clearing out the traumas and wounds
that keep us identified in unconsciousness
so that we can align with these higher forces.
So one of the main things,
which we'll just briefly touch on,
is holding the tension of opposites.
So for those who want a more in-depth description of this,
check out our previous podcast.
I think it was two podcasts ago or maybe one podcast ago,
How Can We Heal This Polarized World?
Basically, Jung's idea on this
is that the psyche always has pairs of opposites.
So we have light and dark, feminine and masculine,
positive and negative.
And these inner forces must balance
in order to create a third thing.
And a third thing is a transcendent function of the self,
which is, i.e., the growing of consciousness.
So you see this tension of opposites going on
constantly in the polarization in the world.
Mainly, actually, we see it in America at least,
and actually now the whole world,
this whole liberal and conservative side of it.
And the thing is, is the far left
is creating more of the far right.
And that's the kind of the pendulum swinging
between the opposites.
And the real work,
which we talk about more in-depth in this podcast,
is to, rather than just being like,
"Oh, I used to be a woke leftist,
"and now I'm a right-wing conservative."
Like, that's you identifying with one side of the opposites.
And it creates fanaticism,
and it actually strengthens the other side.
That's the problem.
So the more extreme the far left goes,
the more a far right will naturally emerge.
- And vice versa.
- Yeah, so what we're trying to suggest is,
rather than identifying
with either sides of these polarities,
however they show up in your life,
beyond just liberal and conservative,
if you can hold this tension,
which involves shadow work,
which involves withdrawing your projections,
which we'll talk about in a moment,
then you start to create a growing of consciousness,
a third way, a third path that wasn't there before.
- And I also wanna just point out
there's sometimes certain misconception
when people just intellectualize the process
of what it really is about,
holding the tension of opposites.
Hence, again, if you're not aware of it,
what it means, check out our previous podcast.
But holding the tension of opposites
is not an intellectual exercise.
It is not that the truth is in the middle
of two extremes, for example.
That would be the middle ground fallacy, not necessarily.
It also doesn't imply neutrality nor inaction.
A lot of people mistake this concept
of holding the tension of opposites
for just being impartial and neutral and all that.
That's not the case either.
It also doesn't imply non-action.
So it's very important to understand,
as Laura just mentioned,
it's a deep inner psycho-spiritual process, really.
- It's an inner process.
It's not an external one.
- Exactly.
And that creates, from an esoteric perspective,
through the friction, holding the tension
within the alchemical fire that gives birth
to the third force out of the two.
- The transcendent function,
which is a connection to the divine,
which is growing in consciousness, i.e. the self.
- Exactly.
So that's kind of it in a nutshell.
- Okay, and one of the foundations,
which brings us to our second tool, is shadow work.
So we have so many podcasts about this.
But the reason that we're pointing this out
is because the world seems to have descended
into a collective identification with the shadow.
One of the shadows I think we're dealing with collectively
is actually the shadow of totalitarianism,
which is showing up on both sides,
really predominantly on the left.
And mainly we see it because people are just getting
triggered and projecting onto the other side
all the evil they see in the world.
So in order to hold the tension of opposites,
this begins with engaging in shadow work.
And you can see this actually.
So simple practice, like let's even take about
what's going on in America politically,
which we speak to because we're in the US right now.
You can see, can you see parts in the left side
and the right side living within you?
Even the parts that you don't like.
So on the left, you see this kind of controlling,
woke ideology.
On the right, you see this kind of dogmatic,
fundamentalist, Christian vibe.
It's kind of, I mean, there's many different ways
it plays out, but we need to be comfortable
with noticing our own triggers,
our own projections towards the other side.
And rather than just making a tweet that this side
is responsible for all the evil in the world,
can we reflect on what's going on within us?
So this means becoming curious about our triggers
and projections towards other people.
We also have a masterclass about this.
What is it called?
Embodied Shadow Work and the Path of Individuation.
We go on this really in depth
in our Embodied Soul Awakening program,
but it's basically noticing your triggers and projections
and learning how to withdraw them.
And in doing so, we grow in consciousness.
So some reflection questions is what kind of people
or groups trigger a strong emotional reaction within me?
So you're looking for the ones that have the most charge.
That's where you would wanna begin.
What kind of emotions come up when I think of this group
or person?
And then reflecting what are the particular traits
that this person or group has
that really trigger me the most?
So already you have to start to become honest with yourself
because if we're identified
with a self-righteous part of ourselves,
then we'll be like, well, I'm never like that.
I'm not like that.
So it takes humility.
It takes curiosity to even begin this process
because automatically a lot of us want to identify
as a good person.
So looking at the shadow is by nature uncomfortable.
- I just wanna add to that also,
shadow work is not easy.
It's messy.
It's not contemplation.
It brings up a lot of stuff we don't like to feel.
Ties into holding the attention of opposites.
And also your mind will rationalize
and justify your self-righteousness
of why these other, your projections, what not.
And this is also exactly where the so-called forces tag
or where Tico tag into you to give you justifications
or all kinds of reasons on why to project a hate
on the other side.
- Yeah, you'll feel like sh*t at first,
but the more you do this,
the more that you actually start to retrieve qualities
of your own self.
And not only that.
So say if you get triggered
by people calling you certain names.
Like, so if someone calls you like a bit*h or stupid
or whatever, something that is classically deemed to be bad,
if you do shadow work on that part of yourself,
then when someone else projects that on you,
you're not gonna explode.
You're not gonna blow up.
You might just be like,
"Oh yeah, I can be a little bit of an asshole sometimes."
Okay.
And so you also become more immune
to other people's shadow projections.
So it's a very powerful piece of work,
but it doesn't feel good at first.
And that's how you know you're doing it actually right.
'Cause it feels like you're swallowing poison.
So you wanna reflect on the traits that you see
in groups of people or a person that trigger you the most.
Then asking yourself,
"Who do these traits remind me of?
Like, when have I experienced this before?"
And that usually opens a gateway
to what parts of your personal history are being triggered.
So kind of going back into childhood dynamics,
we tend to get really triggered by traits of people
who hurt us the most, usually our parents.
And if they are our parents,
you wanna reflect on how you may personally
have had those traits,
at least in potential within yourself.
So this is where it gets a little bit more nuanced,
but another thing that I see,
so say if you had a parent who was lying all the time,
and then you decided to take up the opposite trait,
and you'd be like,
"I'm gonna be truthful 100% of the time."
First of all, it's not possible.
You're never being truthful 100% of the time.
Meaning like when you go to the grocery store
and someone asks you, "How are you feeling?
Are you being truthful 100% of the time?"
Or you just say, "Good, I'm feeling great."
So another way that the shadow gets exiled
into the unconsciousness is that
we identify with the other side of the polarity,
and we don't accept the other side within us.
Does that make sense?
- Yes. - Yeah.
So you wanna reflect on how you could see yourself
expressing the trait that you find disgusting
in other people, at least in potential.
And if you can't see it in potential,
then maybe even reflecting on experiences
where that trait would be useful.
So let's just take like the experience
of like being a bit*h, for example.
Sometimes, especially for women,
if you're like being harassed by a guy on the street,
like this happened to me actually in my travels
when I was traveling internationally,
sometimes being a bit*h and being a bit rude
is the only way that you can make them go away.
So you're looking for the gold within these shadow traits.
And this is just a primer.
There's exceptions to this.
There's also archetypal evil,
which you should not integrate,
but you want to begin to reflect on this in the world
because it actually doesn't feel good long-term
to just keep projecting your shadow.
Your ego may feel good temporarily,
but then you're living in the unconscious mud
of your shadow all the time,
and it's like this dark cloud that follows you.
- Okay, so this is also a really important topic,
and one that we can mainly just give suggestions for,
but is really an ongoing process, which is healing trauma.
And the reason why we're talking about this
is because the past few years
have been quite traumatic for many.
I've noticed that many people live in a state of chronic
fight, flight, or freeze that can sometimes be hard
to detect.
They might not even know that they're in this state.
So it can show up in doom scrolling,
like spending just hours scrolling on the phone.
It can show up in avoiding life.
It can show up in depression, low energy,
all sorts of chronic illness.
Procrastination can be an aspect of that.
So big T trauma, which is a major event,
like a death, a major abuse, et cetera,
is too much, too fast.
So something happened that was too much
for you to integrate in the moment,
and then it gets stored in your body.
Whereas little T trauma, also known as developmental trauma,
is when too little has happened for too long.
So you haven't gotten the right love and support and care
that you need to be healthy for too long.
And so some essential tools for this.
I mean, number one, I really wanna note
what they call in polyvagal theory
called the social engagement system.
So healing trauma in isolation
is not as effective as connecting to others,
reaching out to others for when we need support.
It's such a crucial aspect of this.
And not just getting a therapist,
even though we do recommend that,
that can be great tool for support.
But when you're feeling down, when you're feeling stressed,
do you have someone you can talk to?
Do you have an outlet for that?
Like it's so critical,
and I think we're becoming so overly isolated
because the moment that we engage
with our social engagement system,
it actually creates a parasympathetic response
that relaxes us and makes us feel safe.
So it gives us a cue of safety,
the moment that we share about our experience
to another person and we feel heard.
So it's so crucial to build
these kinds of relationships and networks.
And if you don't have them to seek them out,
to look for them,
and another essential tool would just be being aware
and tracking your nervous system on a day-to-day basis.
So noticing your habits, what gives you energy?
What makes you feel calm?
What habits help you gain energy,
get life force to do what you need to do?
What habits tend to trigger your stress?
Do you have ways that you can trigger states of relaxation?
When you're dealing with certain strong emotions,
what skills or tools do you have
that can help you calm down
or process that emotion consciously?
So for example, is if your work is a state of stress,
do you have ways that you can create moments of relaxation?
Or maybe do you have boundaries
that you could implement in your work
so you don't overload yourself?
Can you go for a short walk
or engage in some breathing exercises
after a stressful moment to wind down?
So paying attention to your nervous system
on a day-to-day basis is the way that you can regulate it.
And if you just notice yourself just chronically,
just drained, and you don't have the energy
to do what you need to do with the day,
and you end up going to bed,
and then when you finally in bed,
you just get this cortisol surge and you can't go to sleep,
then this is something to really focus on.
And we also wanna look at how stress and trauma
can make us live in a state of hypervigilance all the time.
So this hypervigilance,
meaning you're looking for signs of danger
and you're constantly looking for the next thing
that can go wrong.
So noticing, like what do you orient to,
meaning what do you focus on in your environment?
Are you constantly looking for signs of danger
or are you orienting towards cues of safety?
So for example, I think a lot of people
tend to end up in doom scrolling
because of what happened in the past few years.
And they're like, oh, what's the next PSYOP?
What's the next thing that the deep state is gonna do?
And they're orienting towards signs of danger
and hypervigilance,
and then they're creating more stress in their bodies
rather than orienting towards cues of safety,
which should be spending time in nature,
showing affection to a pet or someone you love,
finding things that bring you joy
and make you feel calm and safe and relaxed,
like curling up in a cozy blanket, whatever it is,
you wanna notice what you're consuming
and how that affects your own inner state
and how can you orient towards things
that make you feel a sense of safety
instead of constantly looking for the next thing to go wrong,
which also leads me into the last,
another connected point,
and then we'll just maybe cover one more point after that,
and we'll leave the rest for the second hours.
But embodiment practices and grief work are really important.
So these are tied together.
So a lot of people ask me, how can I grieve?
And we can only get into grief
when our body feels safe to do so.
So if we're in a chronic state of fight, flight, freeze,
we're operating in a state of survival,
and the body is storing
and holding onto the repressed emotions
while we're just focusing on like,
how can we get through this day?
So the grief won't come up if you're in a state of survival.
So we need to soften into the tension in our bodies
in order to release those emotions.
So having some sort of daily practice,
whether it's breath work or yoga, qigong, dance,
somatic meditation, all of these we do in our course,
but you can also do it on your own too.
There's like so many free resources out there,
even on YouTube alone,
but you need the will to actually engage in this.
You need to break out of your own patterns.
You need to realize that
even though it takes some inner friction
to do something that's outside
of your regular everyday kind of pattern,
when you do it, you're gonna feel better,
and it's gonna help you significantly.
And if you're not the kind of person
who has enough motivation or will
to engage in a spiritual practice,
what about just taking a hot bath
without phones or distractions,
just noticing what you feel in your body?
Dancing is also free.
Massage, acupuncture can help too,
but whatever you do,
it's ideal to have some sort of daily practice
or at least a few times a week
that you're connecting to your body.
And embodiment in general means resting your awareness
in your body on a day-to-day basis
and doing check-ins throughout the day
and honoring what your body needs.
So a lot of us tend to live in the head,
live in the mental realm,
and we avoid everything from our neck down.
And this is also encouraged
when we live in an era of media consumption,
which just keeps us in the head,
keeps us with more information.
So if that's not something that you're used to,
these spiritual practices can get you accustomed
to resting the consciousness in your body.
I also want to add to that,
embodiment is really key.
So embodiment is not just also exercising.
We can also use exercise as a trauma response,
you know what I mean, to dissociate,
actually build more muscle, arm, and all of that.
But what's key point of embodiment,
it also actually has its root word in soul integration,
really embodying your soul, your true self,
but conscious embodiment practices,
like Laura just mentioned.
And I want to really emphasize the importance of movement.
I've gotten more back into movement practices,
dances, particularly ecstatic dance, five rhythm dance,
you can do it at home.
And the key point of movement practice
is to get out of our habitual way
of moving or sitting or doing things.
We have all these patterns that although we get,
they kind of mirror almost our ingrained patterns
of thinking, behaving, speaking, our whole psychology, right?
So the more we break out of these patterns
through the movement,
we also open up neural pathways in the brain,
which can actually heal trauma and release things.
And dance or any other things
are very, very powerful in that regard.
So whenever you do any embodiment practice
or movement practices,
don't distract yourself while listening to a podcast or music,
while you dance, obviously listen to music,
but have a certain awareness within yourself as well
of how you move so you get more in touch
with your physical body as well.
- Yeah, and we'll have to save the rest,
critical thinking and occult forces for the second hour.
But I just wanted to add on to something
that you said as well.
You know, going for,
so if you're someone who's like in a chronic state of freeze
and you have these symptoms that I'm talking about,
which mainly is like procrastination,
checking out, doom scrolling, low energy,
often what you need to do is you need to get
into the sympathetic, meaning an activating action
in order to down regulate.
So you can't just like go from like doom scrolling
to like sitting and breathing.
That could actually just make you feel worse.
So what I recommend and something I think we even have
to practice in our course is to go for a walk without,
I mean, if you want music, it's fine.
Like as long as it's like more calming music,
but go for a walk and orient towards signs of beauty,
orient towards the goodness in the world.
So like notice the trees, notice the flowers,
notice the people who are smiling and in a good mood
and just notice how that feels.
Because a lot of us, I noticed this hypervigilance
I was just sharing about.
We will go to like the grocery store
and like a state of like paranoia and stress.
And then that creates more stress in our bodies.
And then we get home and we're burned out
and we just doom scroll.
So this is a moment to moment awareness
of noticing what you tend to place your awareness on
and how that affects the emotions in your body.
So taking these conscious walks where you orient
towards signs of beauty and safety in your environment
is really powerful because you're both getting
into a sympathetic response, which then gets you
into a down regulating parasympathetic response.
So essentially you create energy
in order to calm yourself down or you activate yourself
in order to calm yourself down.
And as well, you're learning how to pay attention
what you orient to and how that affects your body.
So- - Excellent points.
- So yeah, we kind of went a little bit over
on this first hour.
So we're gonna save these last two points
for the second hour.
So for those who are new to our podcast,
we always create a second hour to the podcast.
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And in the second hour, what we're gonna talk about
is critical thinking and also understanding
occult forces in Wetiko.
And we're also gonna talk about
how why these political candidates are reflection
of the level of consciousness of the people.
Surya Abindo's warning of a socialist one world government,
the importance of developing true virtues
as opposed to virtue signaling.
How to access the true self.
Another skill as well that we find as crucial
for these times is the importance of being of service
and having compassion for others, but not blind compassion.
And we'll talk about what that is.
And then we'll cover some basics of psychic self-defense
and how to work with prayer in this spiritual war.
- Exactly.
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