Josef Shapiro

The Heart of Soul

Religion EN ↓ 128 episodes

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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Author

Josef Shapiro

Category

Religion

Podcast website

www.clearandopen.com

Latest episode

May 16, 2025

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Episodes

What Plants Don’t Know About Being Human (HOS53) 12.05.2023

Hi, it’s Josef and thanks for listening to The Heart of Soul Podcast. We’re back from our break and dive spontaneously into the increasingly popular subject of shamanism, a topic with which I have a lot of firsthand experience. We cover both the allure and power of shamanism as well as the risks and limits from Edenity’s perspective. This discussion includes the critical pre-trans fallacy brought...

Why You Should Thank Your Partner For “Making” You Crazy (HOS52) 24.03.2023

All episodes are now available on YouTube ! We’ve got even more to say about sexualized relationality and so the series continues. Topics today include polyamory, what healthy interdependence looks like, the four kinds of intimate communication, the impact on men that they come out of the opposite sex, the difference between sensitivity and vulnerability, sex work, how patriarchy is a compensation...

How Religion Is Still In Your Bedroom (HOS51) 17.03.2023

All episodes are now available on YouTube ! We continue today our subseries on sexualized relationality. Topics include the origin of the split between our second and fourth chakras, the importance of triggers in relationships, yin and yang dynamics in romance, and much more. Rabbit holes include how parenting, sex, and money are the most confused domains for humanity, how Judaism, Christianity, a...

Sexualized Relationality (HOS50) 10.03.2023

All episodes are now available on YouTube ! We continue our series on relationality and begin a sub-series in the domain of sexualized relationality. In this episode, how the conventional idea that compromise is the foundation of relationships is immature, how the inauthentic self splits the second and fourth chakras in third, why what feels good or bad doesn’t work to guide relationality, how eve...

Healthy Self-Based Relationality (HOS49) 03.03.2023

All episodes are now available on YouTube !  In this episode, self to self relationality, melting control to experience the raw chaos of reality, how narcissism and altruism are equally wound-based, how real love is always a transaction whether you believe it or not, and how we can only be responsible for ourselves and responsive to others. We explore what it means to start from a “me and you...

We’re All Codependent (HOS48) 24.02.2023

In this episode, redefining codependence in a way where none of us is off the hook, how you cannot wash a brain, how the mind is our first protection mechanism, a prediction for how our society dead-ends with artificial intelligence from yours truly, and of course, many other psychospiritual and philosophical rabbit holes. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for l...

Do You Create Your Reality? (HOS47) 17.02.2023

In this episode, we begin a three part series inside a series of unknown parts. You do the math. The data set is three things that clog up relationality and the first item up for bid is the idea that we create our own reality. Is it true? If you believe it, does it make it true?  We examine this idea as well as revisit the Renaissance philosophy you probably forgot because it wasn’t made mean...

The Architecture of Relationality (HOS46) 10.02.2023

In this episode, we begin a new series of unknown number of episodes, perhaps because the topic is relationality: a yin domain where delving into the unknown is not just a good idea, but required. We start off with a radical definition of relationality that completely recasts what a relationship is, how it’s not a noun just like everything else, and why alternative frames for relationality dead-en...

The Five Angel Souls & Why You Don’t Want To Be One (HOS45) 03.02.2023

In this episode, we complete the conversation about soul species and cover the five Angel Soul species, beginning with a revisiting of the ontogeny of all souls; that is, how we all came into being in the first place. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Pleidian Through Andromedan Soul Species (HOS44) 27.01.2023

In this episode, we continue the conversation about soul species and cover the upper middle section of the array, from Pleidian through Andromedan souls.  Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Betelgeuse Through Sirian Soul Species (HOS43) 20.01.2023

In this episode, we continue the conversation about soul species and cover the middle section of the array, from Betelgeuse through Sirian souls. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Where Your Soul Came From (HOS42) 13.01.2023

In today’s episode, a three part series on soul species begins. Surely one of the most fun aspects of Edenity, Stace and Josef give you descriptions of each soul species along with celebrity examples so you can begin to identify them yourself. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Essence Isn’t Energy or Love Ain’t No Thang (HOS41) 06.01.2023

In today’s episode, we continue the creation-relationality thread with some key principles that underlie working with chakras: the difference between energy and eichor, how love has no opposite, how the notion that everything is energy is limited, more on how the third eye works, and Edenity’s revision to the common phrase, “Let go, let love."

Why You Can or Can’t See Ghosts (HOS40) 30.12.2022

In today’s episode, creation-relationality continued with the architecture of chakras, chakral breathing, how intuition works, and much more. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

The Necessary Descent into Personal Hell (HOS39) 23.12.2022

In today’s episode, where Sagehood and Sainthood meet in the now, heretofore known as “ennowment dynamics,” how the hero’s journey for millennia has shown us the importance of turning toward discomfort, and the major discovery that there are actually only six chakras. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Inference Karma’s Gonna Get You (HOS38) 16.12.2022

In today’s episode, what relating with God is actually like, how karma comes from the failure to infer the will of God, how that karma then informs reincarnation and incarnational imperatives, and much more. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

The Wounded Will (HOS37) 09.12.2022

In today’s episode, how our wounds are reducible to a wounding of the personal will, the poisonous notions of altruism, sacrifice, and unconditional love, parent projections onto God, and much more.  Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

God Only Says “Yes” (HOS36) 02.12.2022

In today’s episode, why sagehood is a prerequisite for sainthood, how the Divine only ever says “Yes,” how God requires inference rather than obedience, and the three different ways we heal our will in the three different hoods. Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Do You Own Your Life? (HOS35) 25.11.2022

Today’s episode is devoted to Sainthood, as will be at least the two that follow. We reframe devotional spirituality to be about willful body ensoulment rather than giving up one’s personal life, or anything else you’ve heard. This includes how your life belongs to the Divine, but you get to live it, how unconscious motives must be known in order to truly have free will, how the Divine doesn’t car...

Nondual vs. Predual (HOS34) 18.11.2022

In today’s episode, part two from our previous discussion on Edenity’s take on enlightenment. What happened in 2012 and why it matters to you, the difference between the predual and the nondual, how the ego is a unalistic verb rather than a dualistic noun, the hidden dualisms inside nondual paradigms, and much more! As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thank yo...

Enlightenment vs. Mental Body Ensoulment (HOS33) 11.11.2022

In today’s episode, we do a deep dive into Sagehood and the differing metaphysical assumptions between traditional zen and Edenity’s take on mental body ensoulment. Especially important is how Edenity’s take on healing the fear of not-being allows for an integration of the impersonal realm traditionally owned by zen with the personal world of the human. As always, please listen to this podcast fro...

Who Was Jesus’ Father & Why Does It Matter? (HOS32) 04.11.2022

In today’s episode, an alternative story to what we’ve been told about Yeshua the Nazarene, aka, Jesus. We add a psychoemotional dimension to a religious narrative to arrive at a spiritually useful picture. We context the relevance of this story with the rise of Christian theocracy and its origins as opposed to Yeshua’s actual original teachings which are a part of the paradigm of Edenity. As alwa...

Reincarnation Revisited (HOS31) 28.10.2022

In today’s episode, we continue our conversation from last time about reincarnation. We move from the macro to the micro and discuss how we setup incarnations in our self interest for soul-level healing, how at the deepest level there is no victimhood at all in Life, the nature of karma in the context of reincarnation and self-forgiveness, and how as we unconsciously sow, we consciously reap. As a...

Consciousness and Reincarnation (HOS30) 21.10.2022

In today’s episode, we explore Edenity’s metaphysics on reincarnation, a subject that goes back at least 4,000 years. Can you reincarnate as a cockroach if you do bad things as a human? Why do we think being a cockroach is so bad anyway? Do cockroaches fear being reincarnated as humans? Some of these questions we explore in this episode. We also address who or what is reincarnating in eastern dhar...

Enheartenment: Earth as Heaven (HOS29) 14.10.2022

In today’s episode, we take a deep dive into the ultimate state of consciousness for the paradigm of Edenity; that is, enheartenment. If you remember from our previous episodes on the elements of a paradigm, all models have an ultimate state of consciousness whether they explicitly state it or not.  Related to this, we also explore some metaphysics of metaphysics and how essence, form, and ex...

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