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Welcome everybody! This is Pt. 1 of a series livestreamed every Wednesday night @ 8p EST (on youtube, twitch, fb, & twitch, links below) covering John Vervaeke's groundbreaking Awakening from the Meaning Crisis lecture series. The original series can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ Being that this lecture series is 50 episodes long, we'll be cove...

Welcome back everyone! In this episode I'm joined by my great friend and bandmate, DJ, drummer for American Dharma.  Join us as we explore the power of art, music, and flow, as a way of sharing inspiration, enriching life, and expressing one of the most effective ways we may respond to the myriad existential crises facing our world today.  A few highpoints from this episode: DJ and I discuss how t...

In this episode of Actuali podcast, we consider how humanity may orient itself to most constructively face the many myriad challenges of our time. With the help of Nate Hagens and Daniel Schmatchenberger, we explore how unconditional love provides us a way to address the root of the myriad crises humanity and our planet face in these times of social breakdown and compounding existential threats, a...

In this episode we continue our readings of poems written in the beginning of the rona virus event, from April to September 2020. May these poems aid in the cultivation of peace, and encourage your own creations, meditations, and realization of dreams. Be sure to Like and Subscribe, and join us everywhere podcasts are found. Links to Spotify, Apple and more on our homepage @ Anchor. FM/Actuali Joi...

In this episode, I'm joined by my great friend, Jesse Neal, guitarist for our band, American Dharma. Enjoy a sneak preview of one of our upcoming songs, 'Bayou', plus Jesse's reflections on the 3-day silent meditation retreat he recently took part in. We discuss the art of meditation, the ongoing nature of self-realization, and more. Really enjoyed the places this conversation went, and I'm excite...

Welcome everyone! In this episode, we enjoy the sounds of nature by a local creek (recorded in ASMR quality!), as we practice Wim Hof breathing and share in a deep, guided meditation. - I hope these meditations are of use to you. I've found it helpful to incorporate Wim Hof breathing with meditative practice, as the technique brings one so quickly into a serene, clarified state. - Not to mention t...

In this episode, I share a conversation with singer/songwriter, Jade Tremba, a multi-talented artist here in the NE Panhandle of beautiful WV.  We discuss finding oneself through art and expression, her adventures in Jamaica, the meaning behind One Love and reggae music, as well as a share a quick jam where we throw down an off-the-cuff rendition of Bob Marley's 'Sun is Shining'. You'll also...

Welcome back everyone! It's Poetry Night Vol. 4! In this episode, I share 33 poems written in the midst of quarantine during the beginning of the corona virus event. I hope these words find you well, bring peace, encouragement, and act to inspire your own creations. Poems shared run from February 27th through March 30, 2020. Listen to the end for special ASMR outtakes at the end of the episode! Th...

In this episode, I share a story of a meeting marked by synchronicities, and the thoughts that this meeting inspired, regarding awakening through authentic being, particularly in uncertain times as these.  Even amidst the chaos and uncertainty of our times, I am seeing so many bright souls awakening to a unifying purpose, a way of attending to life that transcends division. Towards the end of...

Welcome back everyone! (Anchor is now partnered with Spotify. Video for this episode is available there, as well as YouTube). In this episode, I reconnect with an old friend and fellow seeker, to hear account of his recent experience with the sacred plant medicine known affectionately as Mother Ayahuasca.  Shaun takes us through the story of his three ceremonies with the sacred, and pote...

Welcome back everyone! In this episode, I reconnect with an old friend to hear account of his recent experience with the sacred plant medicine known affectionately as Mother Ayahuasca. Known for it's powerful psychedelic, spiritual, and healing properties, this brew has been used ritually since ancient times, and only in the past couple of decades has its use become known to the wider world. Shaun...

Happy 2022! Ep. 40 is here and the subject is resolutions.  Rather than repeat advice that is already readily available, we will charge up our inspiration by tapping into our core convictions. In this episode, we consider how resolutions can be like revelations, how to pick back up after faltering, and how we may redetermine our outcomes by returning to the inspiration behind our resolutions.

Welcome back everyone for this special guided meditation!  In this episode, we celebrate Global Meditation Day with a Meditation of the Heart, a way of meditation that allows us to cultivate a heart-centered awareness.  Through the watching of mind from the heart, with unconditional acceptance, we practice how to deepen our resonance with the shared intention of millions who are meditati...

In this episode, poet and artist Heartbreak J.I.M. (Journey's in Mind)  discuss art as a service to humanity, how showing more love to world can  help correct for division and negativity, as well as share our thoughts on poetry, spirituality, self-care and empathy, and more!  This was such a uplifting and fun conversation, so it's a great honor to share with you!  Enjoy the sho...

Welcome back to Actuali! In this episode, I invite Visionary Artist and Poet, Juliana Garces to share her insights on how we may integrate our spiritual experiences into our daily lives. We discuss her profound lucid dreams experiences starting from a young age, which led her to meditation, yoga, and working with sacred plant medicines for spiritual purposes. We also discuss her incredible visiona...

Welcome back everyone! In this episode, I share a dialogue with artist and organizer, Morgan Aditi Devi. With cicadas buzzing in the background and the soft movement of the creek we sat beside, we discussed a heart oriented approach to activism, how cicadas teach us how to shed our shells and fear of death, the wonder and challenges of being human, and how to relate to ourselves, and the wider wor...

Hey everyone, welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, we practice a breathing technique invented by 26-Time World Record Holder, Wim Hof, known as The Wim Hof Method, and follow this with a guided meditation.  Wim's method has been shown in scientific study of its effects, to decrease inflammation, fight disease, and encourage the release of beneficial hormones, as well as the chemi...

Welcome back! In this episode, part III of our Phase-Shift series, we hear from three courageous, challenging, and empowering speakers, Bill Hicks, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Daniel Schmachtenberger, to support our continued inquiry into the potential of a phase-shift for the human species. We know what happens when we fragment, fall apart, and turn against one another, but what happens when we inste...

To catalyze and reunite. From this episode: "For hundreds of thousands of years, we humans have been able to skirt the precipice, and become evermore social, cooperative, and creative beings. We excel when we come together, and now we must more than ever help catalyze that process of reunification. We have at our advantage the fact that we have now become this global, interconnected species - now...

Welcome back everybody! In this episode we begin our consideration of the many-layered existential crisis humanity faces, as well as the the potential of phase-shifting as a species to avert the danger of civilization level collapse. During this episode I bring up a dialogue between Ayishat Akanbi and David Fuller on Rebel Wisdom, titled 'Identity and Empathy', where Ayishat makes a great distinct...

Welcome back to Actuali! In this episode, we begin by addressing the current crisis facing our world, this dark night of soul in America, and this beautiful chance we have to go beyond our labels. By widening our frames of reference, to see beyond our teams and tribes, our ideas and labels, we may remember what we are first and foremost: children of the cosmos, of earth and star. For the sake of h...

Hey guys! Welcome back to Actuali! In this episode we begin renewed, at 3am no less. Join us as we delve into a deep late night reverie, enjoying pensive thoughts and poetry. Poems in this episode: In Song, Autumn Sings, Afternoon Songs, Ancient and Immortal, Flower Life, Serene, A New World of Freedom Thanks for tuning in! Join us on IG! @Christopher. Kinley and @Actuali. Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome back to Actuali!  We continue our exploration into the deepest questions of life, to understand our relationship with the deepest, most fundamental aspects of reality, that we may come to know ourselves truly, and be our Actual I. In this episode, we are utilizing a simple technique which involves only being aware of one's breathing during meditation, noticing thought...

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! This is Episode 28 - The Isness of Existence: Excerpt: As we get a sense of the isness of  existence, and we recognize the Truest, Deepest Sense of Self, we  realize once and for all, we are not the images we hold of ourselves,  nor is anyone else. Of course, we build impressions of everyone we  encounter, but as we come to  know that we ar...

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode we pick up where we left off in Ep. 26 - Going Meta, Buddhist Metta, and now we continue where we left off in our inquiry, to delve ever deeper into the direct experience of this phenomena of awareness. From the episode: "Laden over this most primary sense of awareness, we all have these filters we perceive through, our different histories, and expe...