Josef Shapiro
The Heart of Soul
Do you have a strong sense that there’s something more? More to reality? More to you? Do you feel the weight of your childhood and cultural conditioning and despite having worked to shrug it off, see that it somehow remains? Do you intuit that the world could be a much healthier place? Have you learned about and tried different practices only to dead-end, leaving you to wonder, “Is this it?” Have the models you’ve learned left things out, left your deepest questions unanswered? The emotospiritual paradigm of Edenity addresses issues like these from an entirely different basis than other psycho...
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Josef Shapiro
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May 16, 2025
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Episodes
You’re Not Here To Be Happy (HOS78) 10.11.2023 1:16:30
You’re not here to be happy, that’s why it seems so elusive. The sooner you give up on its pursuit, paradoxically the more fulfilled you’ll be. This is the realization we explore today. We begin by exploring free will with an incisive explanation as to why so many neuroscientists argue that it doesn’t exist these days. If you haven’t watched us on Youtube yet, this is a great opportunity to see th...
What If You Can’t Relate? (HOS77) 03.11.2023 1:27:12
What if you had no idea how to relate with other people? What if the “you” who learned to relate with others did so from a necessary, but inauthentic seat of being destined to cause confusion, difficulty, and suffering in your relationships? What if there were a way to embody the soulful you that automatically related with people with ease? These are the questions we explore in today’s episode.&nb...
Intimacy Is Primarily For Healing Wounds (HOS76) 27.10.2023 1:13:59
Before exploring the essential nature of intimacy and what it's for, we examine the paradigmatic distortions at the root of the Palestine-Israel conflict, which is a geopolitical relationality catastrophe that predictably cannot resolve until the root issues are addressed. On the subject of personal relationality, we discuss the critical surrender to intimacy as a vehicle for healing childhood wou...
How Everything Is Real… (HOS75) 20.10.2023 1:22:20
What if everything were real, and some things were just realer than others? How would that orientation change how you moved through life? That’s the realization du jour in this series. We look at the opposite point of view, absolutism, in eastern dharma and western religion and arrive at how there is no black and white, only shades of gray. Woven through this episode is also the theme of relationa...
There Are No Negative Emotions (HOS74) 06.10.2023 1:27:56
What if there were no such thing as a negative emotion? What would happen if you related to yourself and others in this way, every moment of every day? This is the realization we explore today, including the difference between homeopathic and allopathic relationships to emotion, the dangers of transcendence, how every negative feeling emotion is actually a cry for help, and, a word from a new spon...
God Says “Yes” To All Your Prayers! (HOS73) 29.09.2023 1:22:23
How could it be that God answers all your prayers? Well, the key distinction is the difference between the perceived self and the soul. We address the ancient question of “Why does God allow evil in the world?”, the “and” between creationism and evolution, how Divinity cannot not be involved in your life, and much more. Thanks for listening.
The Removal of You From Other (HOS72) 22.09.2023 1:13:29
We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today is a two for one on realizations: “That you’ve projected on people so much you’ve never really known them” and “That you’ve played victim for most of your life.” To address the first, we need to blend Personhood and Sagehood, and demonstrate that in one way you can never truly know anyone, including yourself...
The Concept of Concepts (HOS71) 15.09.2023 1:26:01
We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today’s realization: “That things are not our concepts of them.” This is one of our first Sagehood episodes in a while. We address the difference between pure Zen and Edenity’s take on enlightenment, as well as other variations out there, the difference between transcendence and healing algorithms, the metaphysica...
Where There’s a Will, There May Not Be a Way (HOS70) 08.09.2023 1:29:07
We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today’s realization: “That your will won’t take you where you need to go.” We discuss the difference between your true needs versus what you think you want, the removal of wound-based will in each of the three hoods, the key difference between playing victim and the true innocent victim in us, the will-based root...
Why Are You Here? (HOS69) 01.09.2023 1:01:45
We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today we take on the issues of destiny, purpose, and fate. How does one shift the track from their conditioned fate to a healthily reconditioned soul-destiny? How can we take responsibility for our incarnational imperatives if we don’t even know what they are? These questions and more frame our conversation today....
Realities You’re Missing Out On (HOS68) 25.08.2023 1:24:26
The realization du jour that we explore today is “That you’re missing out on the vast majority of reality on emotive and spiritual levels.” We discuss what it’s like to read unconscious emotional motives, how the backlighting of nonduality changes your experience of truth, how abiding with Divinity changes your experience of meaning, and much more. We begin with a question from one of our listener...
How and Why You’re Unnourished (HOS67) 18.08.2023 1:31:00
Today we tick two more realizations off the list we began in the last episode: that your relationships are not really nourishing you and that your parenting was far worse than you thought. These realizations are proving to be rich discussion topics filled with rabbit holes inside of rabbit holes. My favorite of these is how the existence of a cookie still has the power to collapse the Cathol...
Your Unconscious is Running Your Life (HOS66) 11.08.2023 1:17:34
We begin a series today based on a list of realizations that Edenity reliably evokes in people, the first being that your unconscious is running your life. We discuss how behavioral psychology was based in reducing human beings to animals, why humanistic psychology was a reasonable but impotent successor, how numbing behaviors are rewarded in our society, how our unconscious defines the parameters...
Why Triggers Don’t Need Warnings (HOS65) 04.08.2023 1:33:55
In today’s episode, unpacking a tweet from the tragically late Sinead O’Connor, deconstructing what “cutting edge” psychology tells us to do with triggers and why it’s the exact opposite of what Edenity would say is healthy, how life begins with chaos in every moment and why that matters, what we shouldn’t learn from the new Barbie movie, and of course, much more. Thanks so much for listening.
The Metaphysics of Relational Love (HOS64) 28.07.2023 1:12:39
In today’s episode, some essential metaphysics we all should have learned in high school: yin and yang dynamics. Much more than a cool symbol that makes for a hackneyed tattoo, yin and yang underlie all things, but the concepts are especially relevant in human relationality, though rarely appreciated as such. We refer to a handful of charts during the podcast which are helpful to see, and you’ll o...
Empathy, Sympathy, & the Psychologization of Society (HOS63) 21.07.2023 1:29:04
In today’s episode, we discuss the psychologization of society and how, true to human form, esoteric and advanced concepts are distorted into the opposite of their original intent. This dynamic also applies to the concepts of sympathy and empathy, which are distortions and dilutions of how the human heart operates when fully healed. In that spirit, Edenity offers a new concept called “resompathy”...
Why You’ll Never Be Happy…And It’s Not Your Fault (HOS62) 14.07.2023 1:30:12
We’ve talked about happiness before but not yet thoroughly deconstructed it. It turned out we didn’t need to, because a recent article by a Finnish psychologist did it for us, just not on purpose. We interpret this article on the “secrets of happiness” through the lens of Edenity and reveal the three components of happiness that beautifully correspond to core truths-in-service in Personhood, Sageh...
The Not-So Hidden God (HOS61) 07.07.2023 1:28:03
If God is in all places at all times, why do most people not experience It? Edenity has thirteen reasons for you to consider. That’s our discussion today on the "Not-So Hidden God." We begin with the reason why we’ve related to God as a “to believe or not-believe” issue since the dawn of civilization and explore some very real reasons why our protection mechanisms have a vested interest in n...
Astrology, the Enneagram, Rage vs. Healthy Anger, and More (HOS60) 30.06.2023 1:38:28
Today is a special episode as it has our first guest, which we hope to make a regular occurrence. Christine joins us with some very thoughtful and heartful questions. We discuss the difference between the birth and conception signs in astrology and how that relates to the primary and and integration enneagram types, the emotive causes of physical disease, the difference between anger and rage, wha...
When Past Lives Are in the Present (HOS59) 23.06.2023 1:18:09
Today is a special episode dedicated to one of our listeners. We explore the importance of distinguishing between the fear of being and the fear of not-being in order to process each completely, the difference between a transcendence algorithm and fear-healing one in Sagehood, how past life residual issues can affect us this life, and much more. If you have challenges you want addressed on the sho...
Why the Abundance Mindset Fails (HOS58) 16.06.2023 1:09:48
This episode completes our money conversation from last time. We address why spiritual people tend to have money problems, what coming from an emotional lack looks and feels like when relating with money, the unholy marriage of money and compensatory will, money vs. meaning seeking, and of course, much more. Tomorrow on June 17, 2023 in the Clubhouse App, our friend Eric Grace will host a gatherin...
Money in an Age of Willful Subjectivism (HOS57) 09.06.2023 1:28:15
We introduced the topic of money back in episode 28, carefully parsing out Edenity’s definition. We revisit the topic today and address money in the subjectivistic social, political, and economic contexts of today. On June 17, 2023 in the Clubhouse App, our friend Eric Grace will host a gathering of EBE ensoulmentors to talk about Edenity and answer questions for participants. That will be at 10:3...
Why God Won’t Fit Inside Your Mind (HOS56) 02.06.2023 1:28:36
What would happen if everyone on the planet were to experience God directly? What would have to happen for that to be possible? Why have philosophers spent thousands of years trying to prove the existence of God yet failed? Today we discuss these and other existential questions, including the limits of reductionism, the real definition of a false god, the difference between religion and spirituali...
The pandemic of fear, unconsciousness, a non-vaccine, and a bad flu (HOS55) 26.05.2023 1:12:36
All episodes are now available on YouTube ! You didn’t ask for it, but we have to do it: Edenity’s take on the COVID 19 pandemic. Of course, it’s over (I saw it on television) and you’re tired of hearing about it, but I promise you’ll hear a fresh perspective. In addition to this, we’ll assign the six things that make us crazy to the six chakras, as well as the thirteen qualities of an Edeni...
Kundalini, Shakti Transmissions, and Sorting Saint from Sage (HOS54) 19.05.2023 1:13:19
Today’s episode is a continuation of the last one on Shamanism and we address kundalini awakenings, energetic transmissions of all kinds, and the important reasons why Sagehood and Sainthood must be distinguished from each other in order to fully realize the depths of each. On June 17, 2023 in the Clubhouse App, our friend Eric Grace will host a gathering of EBE ensoulmentors to talk about E...
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