Awakening the Below Podcast

Oholomo and Jack explore the idea that much of our suffering comes from the desire to control, understand, and manage life rather than fully experiencing it. We argue that genuine spiritual growth is less about attaining some transcendent ideal and more about surrendering to uncertainty, embracing all aspects of experience, and becoming more fully human. Topics covered: * Letting go of the need to...

Oholomo and Jack talk about how the Above and Below meet in the Middle, resulting in an integration of spiritual realization with ordinary daily life. Topics covered: * Present-moment awareness and memory difficulties * The “Above, Middle, Below” model of awakening * Witness consciousness and emotional detachment * Spiritual superiority/arrogance * Therapy alongside spiritual practice * Different...

Oholomo and Jack dive into the raw, real-time experience of redemption rising unbidden from the depths, and why the spiritual mainstream keeps getting suffering wrong. Topics Covered: * When the underworld comes to you — ancestral emotions surfacing uninvited and what to do (or not do) with them * Synchronicity as invitation: Netflix, a long-lost phone call, and the doors that are always opening t...

Do you find yourself waking down instead of waking up? Oholomo and Jack explore the rarely-mapped territory of descending into the body, psyche, and underworld — and why it may be the missing piece in modern spirituality. Topics Covered: * Why inner healing must come before unleashing the body’s energies * How even enlightened teachers can have dangerous blind spots around the body and desire * Ab...

In this episode, Jack sits down with Oholomo to discuss their shared experiences of “awakening the Below” — a spiritual path that moves downward into the body, the earth, and the underworld rather than ascent and transcendence. Topics Covered: * Oholomo’s kundalini reversal experience * When the mainstream spiritual frameworks don’t fit * The distinction between “Above” and “Below” spiritual paths...

 Hello and welcome to The Awakening the Below podcast. This is a series of conversations between the spiritual teacher, Jack Morrigan, and me, Oholomo. Together, Jack and I give voice to the underbelly of the awakening process. We talk about what we call The Below — that is to say, the difficult emotions, traumas, strange bodily ailments, spirits, ghosts, ancestors, demons, the imaginal, the soul,...