Dawn of Discernment

My guest today is my friend Mollie Engelhart, a first for this podcast, although we have recorded a conversation previously from Sovereignty Ranch at the very first Confluence back in October 2023. Mollie Engelhart is a regenerative farmer, entrepreneur, chef, writer, and mother of five based in Texas. She is the founder of Sovereignty Ranch and The Barn, a farm-to-table restaurant rooted in nutri...

My guest on this episode is Mark England. Mark is a TEDx Speaker, cofounder and head coach of Enlifted. He has been researching, presenting and coaching on the power of words and stories for the past 19 years. Mark holds a masters degree in education and was an elementary school p.e. teacher before getting into personal development.  In this conversation, we talk about: mindset the language we use...

My guest today is my friend Dr Edith Ubuntu Chan, an expert in consciousness & human evolution, a Holistic Chinese Medicine Doctor, author, speaker. In our conversation, Dr Edith shares her journey that began in 2003 with a meditation-induced mystical experience that completely changed the way she viewed reality. As a result, she now devotes her life to “unlocking the secrets to our Human Pote...

Today my guest is Beth Martens, founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and business coach. In our conversation, Beth explains the nature of the programmes that seem to run our lives and how they intersect with our belief systems and the stories we continue to tell ourselves about ourselves and our lives. Once we understand these progr...

Despite its name and the fact that it requires us to face our ‘shadows’, the Dark Night is ‘a sacred Rite of Passage’, as Anné Klint, my guest on this episode explains. Join us as we dive into this seemingly scary topic to discuss why the dark night is not the same as depression and how to discern the difference. We also discuss: How to find meaning in our dark night(s) The collective ‘dark night’...

In our conversation, Cate Zoltan shares how she discovered and then healed her childhood trauma by attending Matthew’s Natural Mediation retreats. In the stillness and silence offered by these retreats, she discovered a way to re-connect to herself and resolve the trauma her body had been carrying. As a result, she is now committed to sharing her understandings with a broader audience so others ca...

Today’s fascinating conversation is with my friend Brendan Murphy in which we discuss the topics in his new book, Reverse Engineering the Afterlife. Brendan D. Murphy researches consciousness, post-mortem models, non-physical perception, and the origins of modern metaphysical narratives. As the creator of the Consciousness Transition Model (CTM), his work synthesises contemporary data with classic...

Join me for a fascinating conversation with my friend Kyle Denton. Kyle Denton is a Wisconsin-based community herbalist, medicine maker, herb shop owner, plant path facilitator, clinician and coherency theurgist, devoted to nature’s healing virtues. As founder of Tippecanoe Herbs and Root Radical Herbal Academy, his work blends Vitalism, Ayurveda, and Traditional Western Herbalism, and the mythopo...

In this conversation, returning guest and friend Matthew Zoltan discusses his transition from his years as a monk into healing with osteopathy, massage, and counselling with an emphasis on understanding how the body holds memories and expresses it through pain and other symptoms. We explore how certain symptoms indicate specific types of emotional/psychological issues and Matthew discusses his und...

In this conversation with my good friend Yerasimos Stilianessis, we discuss a number of topics that are of great interest to us both, such as parts work and Human Design, and how they help us discover who we are and how we can become the best versions of ourselves. Yerasimos shares how he has chosen not to follow the status quo, but instead to follow his own inner guidance, a path that was based o...

Liev Dalton has a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology, so he knows how the mainstream narrative is promulgated through the education system. Expecting to find real ‘science’, he instead found, to quote his own words, “reductionism, flawed theories, and a materialist framework that ignored the deeper forces shaping our well-being.” In our conversation Liev shares how he saw through the fla...

In our conversation Chance and I discuss many topics, including how systems of all kinds, especially the political system, swing from one extreme to another and how neither ‘extreme’ is able to actually find solutions. These swings are a pattern we need to recognise to better understand what may be happening in our own lives to bring it back into balance. Chance also talks about biofield tuning an...

In this second conversation with my good friend Jordan Grant (link to our first conversation below), we cover a few more logical fallacies and then dive into a conversation about the difference between ‘scientific realism’ and ‘instrumentalism’. But this is no dry philosophical discussion. As ‘big picture’ people, Jordan and I are both keen to help people understand the importance of getting to th...

Today my guest is my friend Emily Trinkaus who says she fell in love with astrology at age 13, thanks to Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, and has been a passionate student of the cosmic science ever since. She has practiced professionally since 1999, and offers online classes and personal readings to people around the world.  Emily’s gift is to translate the complex language of astrology into accessible...

In this wide-ranging conversation, Eileen explains why an understanding of the biofield is so important, especially for our health. We also discuss a couple of her recent posts, one of which is about learning to respond rather than react from the perspective of charge. In addition, we covered the energy of food, that ‘Digestion is electrical fermentation’, how we need to actually feel our feelings...

My guest today is my friend Jad Atik, the director and founder of FACT (Future Academy of Critical Thinking).Jad created FACT 2 years ago as a response to his view that children need to be taught to think for themselves, something they are not encouraged to do within the traditional school systems around the world.“Located in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic, the Future Academy of Critical Thinkin...

My guest today is Matthew Zoltan, creator of the Undo meditation app. Many of us are looking for new ways to heal ourselves. The most effective methods of healing require us to first understand our experience in our physical form, and re-connect with our own body, which is often where we hold the blocks, wounds and traumas. Join us for a fascinating insight into how Matthew discovered his meditati...

My guest today is my friend, Christopher Gardner, also known as Topher. As he says on his website:“TopherHq is the clearing house for all the curiosities and experiments that Chris’Topher’ Gardner has given his attention to. Philosophy and innovation are the primary drivers that populate this site’s content. Having over 20 years of professional experience with massage, coaching, construction, arch...

My guest today is my good friend, Mike Winner, who is a partner and technical director for Alfa Vedic, an off grid farm and wellness co-op focused on innovative solutions for a new era of self-mastery, health independence and personal sovereignty. Mike and Dr. Barre Lando host a weekly podcast called Alfacast that delves into a vast range of topics related to the new cutting-edge terrain of health...

In this episode, we begin by discussing some of the criticisms levelled against homeopathy and Lisa explains why those criticisms are misleading. We also cover a few other potential misunderstandings relating to homeopathy, including terms used to describe conditions people experience. Our conversation then veers into miasms, childhood illnesses, the energetic nature of homeopathic remedies and ho...

Today I’m joined by returning guest and friend, Jaya Simrit Kaur, an international spiritual healer and teacher, kundalini yoga and meditation instructor, sound healer, spiritual constellator, oracle, mentor, and mystic. Our topic today is Healing in Community. We’ve all come to learn that we carry unhealed wounds. We know that our healing is our responsibility, but that does not mean we have to g...

Alex Michael, a multi instrumentalist and music producer, is the mastermind behind the Conspiracy Music Guru and is as passionate about truth as he is about music. As Conspiracy Music Guru, Alex exposes the world’s greatest deceptions with lyrics that inform and teach, and, together with an understanding of the power of 432Hz, his music delivers a natural vibration which has had a profound impact...

Adam & Josh Bigelsen are two of the key voices in the effort to raise awareness of the fact that ‘terrain’ is not a theory, but a paradigm that has been proven over time by real results in the real world. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss: the real role of parasites, fungi and bacteria; how regenerative farmers understand the importance of a healthy microbiome for a healthy soil; h...

Today I’m joined by Philip Kinsella and Chris John Mayes to discuss their recently published book, The Eternal Avatar: Discovering Who & What You Really Are Beyond The Material Realm. I connected with Philip and Chris through our mutual friend Brandon Thomas, the creator of Ridiginal Publishing, who published their book. In our conversation, Philip and Chris talk about the many similarities th...

My guest today is my good friend Steve Falconer, a touring musician and music teacher. He's also a filmmaker, best known for his work on the Spacebusters video channels. His topics of interest are wide and varied: ranging from esoteric biochemistry, the Bible as allegory, and cell-salts - to exploring life after death, reincarnation, and magnetic light - to delving into cosmic secrets, Antarctica,...