The Three Petals

In today's episode, we'll take an initial look at what purpose means and why the search for it can become such a powerful source of struggle in our lives. From an early age, we receive countless messages from our families and society about who we should become, what we should accomplish, and what a meaningful life should look like. We can spend decades trying to fulfill these expectations while quietly wondering why the life we have worked so hard to create still doesn't feel entirely like ou...

In today's episode, we're going to explore power dynamics and the emergence of hypermasculine culture. Over the past six thousand years, much of human civilization has developed within a framework shaped by violence, warfare, and the struggle to acquire land, resources, and influence. These conditions fostered a worldview in which leadership was often equated with the ability to exert power over others. Strength came to mean domination, authority became associated with control, and vulnerabil...

In today’s episode we’re going to explore the existence of suffering and pain. We look at the world around us and we see war, people dying of starvation, homelessness and so many other forms of violence. It’s so overwhelming. It’s so huge that we feel helpless against the immensity of it all, and I will tell you, we are all in some level of shock because of this and that shock keeps us numb to our internal reality and contributes greatly to our sense of helplessness which only contributes mor...

In today’s episode we’re going to explore the importance of needs in our lives. Having awakened to the idea that there is more, one of the important challenges we will face is actually understanding what we truly need. We’ve been told by society what we should need, but many of us, especially those of us in the early stages of the spiritual path, don’t actually have any idea what we actually need as a human being on a daily basis. Episode Breakdown: Part 1: Do I Have Needs? Part 2: Needs vers...

In today’s episode we’re going to explore the the existential experience we call the Core Wound. It’s an unconscious tension that's been with us our whole lives, living just below the surface of awareness, but influencing everything we do because we will do anything and everything not to experience it. Episode Breakdown: Part 1: There Must be More Than This Part 2: Beginning to Name the Core Wound Part 3: Core Wounds and Masks Part 4: Core Wounds and Compensating Mechanisms Part 5: Basic Peri...