This podcast is Part 2 of 4 in my discussion with David Verdesi. You can watch Pat 1 here.

David Verdesi had daily mystic vision as a child. At 14, he left home in search of their meaning and travelled all over the world for 30 years, researching and comparing his own experiences with those of 120 mystics, yogis, cave-dwellers, saints and genuine enlightened beings, Siddhas from the mountains and jungles of India and Xian immortals from China and Southeast Asia, the Shamans of Central and South America and Africa, the Mystics of old Europe and the mysterious saints of the northern Steppes of Russia, Tibet and Mongolia. This training and experience have given him a deep understanding of the individuation process, altered states of consciousness to the realization of wholeness. He has produced a three-part video series on his experiences called In Search of Superhumans, and he regularly travels to teach, lecture and mentor others on the path.

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Why Pursue Spirituality and for Whom

6:15 Suffering – Trauma, Disempowerment, desperately looking for love

8:46 Carl Jung, Spirituality is not found in visualizations, but in making unconscious conscious

11:15 Buddha’s 1st Noble Truth is “Realization of Suffering.” The Beginning of Spiritual Awakening is realization of your own suffering / pain, the Core of your psychic identity is what propels you, Destroy the narcissistic identity, the truth shall set you free

15:24 Buddha’s Universal, Psychological Truths and Influence of World Religions

18:13 Making the “Why” of Your Pursuit Conscious, Shedding all the Spiritual Trappings

21:05 Spirituality as an Escape, Narcissistic Fantasy of Power

24:01 Free Will, Self-Fulfilling Prophesies, Epigenetic Memories

27:42 Examine Yourself to Reveal Truth

33:37 Abrahamic Religions, the Maharishi, Gandi, and the modern Guru,

40:22 Masters, Gurus, and Spiritual Fantasy Projections

44:55 Authentic Spirituality, Inner Whispers, Reconnecting with Our True Selves

56:40 Spiritual Thread, Anchor Practices, Reclaiming Sovereignty and Sense of Self

1:00:21 Discerning Who is Hearing the Voices, Silent Stillness

1:02:56 Consciousness and the problem of the mind and brain

1:07:20 Spiritual Root, Look at Your Mind, Not This Not That

1:10:28 Spiritual Fabrications About Food, Drink, Smoking, and Sex

1:16:15 Spirituality vs the Alternative

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