Nectar of Time

In this episode we discuss: Analytical thinking is often exposed as being "crippled by fear," where the compulsion to gather all the facts is a defense mechanism intended to control reality. This fear causes individuals to choose familiar pain or experience decision paralysis (like the scenario described in Sylvia Plath's poem) rather than confront the unknown and risk being wrong. I...

A New Year special on how and why you should upgrade your brain's operating system in 2026. Apple pushes OS software upgrades every year and you should too. Inspired by Blake Crouch's Recursion, featuring in my next podcast episode coming out shortly. Follow Nectar of Time on Instagram and YouTube .

In Today’s episode, we have Salih Yayar , the man behind the Haruki Murakami Art channel, book club, and podcast. Salih is a “ Murakamian ” - defined as someone who deeply resonates with the worlds created by renowned Japanese author, Haruki Murakami.  In this episode, we explore these strange worlds. Worlds that are odd but profound - isolating but deeply imaginative. There is some magic spell ca...

Step into the Hesse's Magic Theater of the Mind on Nectar of Time as this episode's guest Nev guides us through portals to the unknown with profound shadow work. Discover your personal "existential kink", the hidden ways you unknowingly perpetuate suffering, and learn to transform it into playful power. Follow Nev on Instagram . Follow Nectar of Time on Instagram . (00:00:00) Int...

An interview with Ma Anand Sheela, known for being the prolific former spokesperson of Rajneeshpuram in the 80s, working under Osho. She has been on an odyssey of love, with pain and chaos in its wake. Through those challenges, Sheela has remained steadfast in her beliefs. Her mindset is ironclad, and she has incredible wisdom to share with us. No matter how you feel about her past, she speaks bea...

Today's episode of Nectar of Time is with Colin Gerrard, an entrepreneur, director of award-winning short film 'Eli', and musician under 'Col Gerrard'. He is a master at communication, having led sales teams across the globe. I'm your host, as usual, Tamir Barzilai - I've been friends with Colin for almost 10 years. The theme if today's episode is authenticity. Some...

Today’s episode, Merchant of Masks, is an exploration of authenticity in a digital world that rewards acts of deception. Not only deception from others, but of yourself. Our featured guest for this episode is Logan Macnair - Logan is a criminology professor at Douglas College as well as Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His academic research is focused on radicalization, terrorism, extremism,...

Today's episode, Ghosts of Grief , is an exploration of grief , death, and the peripheral ideas that surround them. I've invited Mia Cosco, an old friend and research assistant at Harvard University to navigate these ideas. Mia specializes in helping people work through the emotion of grief, and she hosts unique events called Death Salons that are dedicated spaces to help people explore their feel...

Nectar of Time: episode four, hosted by Tamir Barzilai. This is a special episode dedicated to the topic of Dreams . Samantha Chung is a mindset and manifestation expert on a mission to help more people wake up and live fully as their authentic self. Moreover, Samantha delves into the frontiers of the mind and the phenomenons that permeate our daily lives - she does not shy away from the "unexplai...

Nectar of Time: episode three, hosted by Tamir Barzilai. Ian Coll is a Squamish, BC based entrepreneur, cinematographer, and a men's wellness facilitator. Ian helps create clarity and meaning in people's lives, employing shadow-work as tool to help them overcome lifelong obstacles. In this episode we discuss how to deal with these obstacles and how to navigate the constant flux of everyday life. Y...

Nectar of Time: episode two, hosted by Tamir Barzilai. Grant Shipway is a writer, lifelong student of literature, and host of the channel   @grantlovesbooks   - one of my favourite channels on YouTube with comprehensive analyses of great novels of the 20th and 19th centuries. Grant is an incredible voice of realism - a worldly individual rich with life experience and generous enough to share a sma...

The first Nectar of Time episode, hosted by Tamir Barzilai. Tyler Dorchester is a good friend of mine and also my barber of 7 years. He is a repository of literature, a published writer, and someone with a wide gamut of colourful experiences. We spoke about how life has its way of enmeshing us in its inevitable engimas, and we discussed how to navigate them, and if we should bother at all. I hope...