Evolving Spiritual Practice

Voice dialogue is a psychotherapeutic technique based on the view that we are composed of many sub-personalities or ‘voices’. That is why it is referred to as the psychology of selves as opposed to the mono-self view. Through the help of a facilitator we learn to speak in the 1st person from different ‘voices’, exploring their unique wisdom, benefits and downsides. Ultimately we discover we are not actually identified with any one of these sub-personalities but rather all of them held within awareness. Trilby Fairfax began her journey with voice dialogue over 40 years ago and has facilitated thousands of sessions. 

You can find Trilby’s website here: www.transformingdialogue.com/

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In this episode I talk with Michael Garfield (host of the Future Fossils podcast, and Complexity podcast) about the Weirdness of this moment in history. Technology is steadily making its way towards, and eventually inside our bodies (desktop, to laptop, to smart phone, to brain implants, to biological computing) and this is causing many people to freak out. This process began with the use of the first tools but has gained momentum in the last 50 years. Michael challenges our assumptions about the boundaries we draw between ourselves, technology and the natural world and the distinctions we make between living and ‘non-living’ systems. How do we stay sane in a Weird moment in history defined by unstable climate, economy, pandemic, social structures and technologies? Just when we acclimatise to a ‘new normal’ the global snow globe gets shaken up again and we scramble to make sense once again. Surfing and sailing become the appropriate metaphors for riding and navigating this kind of turbulence. 

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In this episode we explore the relationship between Shiva and Shakti in Non-Dual Tantra in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person perspectives. Non-Dual Tantra playfully mixes and harmonises these fundamental perspectives: 1st person (I am Shiva and Shakti), 2nd person (I worship Shiva and Shakti as deities) and 3rd person (Shiva and Shakti as described in the rich philosophy and theology of Non-Dual Tantra). Ben Williams is a scholar / practitioner of Indian religions and the history of Śaiva tantra. He has received extensive training in Indian philosophy, literature, and aesthetics in Sanskrit sources. Ben received a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont, a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and completed his PhD in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Hinduism at Naropa University, where he co-created a low-residency MA program in Yoga Studies. Ben also serves on the academic advisory council of the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute, which is dedicated to the preservation of scriptural and philosophical texts of classical India.   you can find Ben's patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/closereadings For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/ My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms P and C owned by Ralph Cree 2021

In this conversation with author and Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh we explore the practice and cultivation of the 7 classic virtues (justice, prudence, temperance, courage, love, hope and faith) that have been central to Western culture for the last 1000 years, and prior to that in simplified form dating back to ancient Greece. These virtues are the tools for harnessing the value energy of 'The Good' (as in the Good, the True and the Beautiful as described by Plato) this leads to the creation of a robust Soul and character that enables us to navigate the tempestuous seas of life and death. The virtues have mainly been associated with the moral instruction and obligations of traditional Christianity and we argue that they are just as important in a modern and postmodern / progressive context and are the antidote to the nihilism which is afflicting much of contemporary culture (currently more people commit suicide than die in wars and natural disasters combined!)

To find out more about Steve McIntosh’s work please visit: https://www.culturalevolution.org/ and https://www.stevemcintosh.com/

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Iboga is a potent psychedelic plant native to Central West Africa. For the Bwiti and Pygmy people, Iboga has been used for thousands of years for physical and spiritual healings, self-discovery, and to study the Art of Living. It is also very successful in freeing people from addictions to substances like opiates and negative behaviours like OCD. Levi Barker has been working with Iboga for 12 years, and has worked at the Iboga Wellness retreat centre in Costa Rica for the last 6 years helping many hundreds of people through Iboga ceremonies. He has travelled to Gabon several times to study with an indigenous shaman and has undergone the gruelling traditional Bwiti Iboga initiation in the jungle. 

To find out more about the Iboga Welness retreat centre please visit: www.ibogawellness.com

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In this conversation with spiritual teachers Linda Groves-Bonder and Saniel Bonder we discuss some of the key attributes of a 21st century spiritual practice. We pay particular attention to healing the spirit / matter split that is so prevalent in many pre-modern traditions East and West and continues into modernity where spirit is completely stifled and we are left with an entirely mechanistic view of life. We also explore the different experiences of Awakening: waking up as transcendent formless awareness up and out of life, and waking down as formless awareness intimately expressed as matter in the ultimate paradox of the Heart. Saniel and Linda teach, and live from the view that there is no final destination called Enlightenment or Awakening. Awakening is simply a ‘2nd birth’ and what follows is an unending evolutionary unfolding of ever greater complexity and nuance. Another key aspect of their teaching is that it is based around mutuality - we are all in this together and as teachers they help facilitate our own learning and understanding rather that pour doctrine into us as is so common in the traditional context.

For more information on Saniel and Linda’s work please visit www.sanielandlinda.com and www.humansuninstitute.com

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In this conversation with Integral psychotherapist Mark Forman we explore the differences between psychotherapy and spiritual practice and the specific contexts when each of these methods is most appropriate. For example your meditation practice may bring up psychological issues that your meditation teacher will likely be unqualified to help you with and you would get more effective help from a psychotherapist. If you are having transpersonal experiences with meditation or psychedelics then a psychotherapist may not have the relevant skills to unpack them. Unfortunately many spiritual traditions and teachers claim that meditation and psychedelics are the complete answer to everything in your life, and lots of ‘spiritual’ people wreck their personal and family lives by neglecting psychotherapy. On the other hand if you only explore psychotherapy then it’s likely you will never tap into the depths of experiences beyond your personality that are brought forth by spiritual practices. 

For more information on Mark Forman’s work please visit http://www.drmarkforman.com/

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In this conversation with Donald Clark we explore his 4 year journey with the Wim Hof method and cold water therapy. Donald has been working with the Wim Hof breathing techniques in conjunction with cold showers, ice baths and his experimental modifications to a chest freezer creating a plunge pool with temperatures as low as -7 degrees centigrade. We focus in particular on the psychological and transpersonal experiences that can be opened up by cold water techniques and what to do with them.

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This is a recording of a lesson I taught on the panoramic awareness technique in meditation. This technique is different to the use of focused attention as used in following the breath for example. Panoramic awareness is effortless, always in the present moment, luminous, free and endlessly fascinating. We don't make awareness happen as it is simply a fact of our identity and we find out through practice that it is actually the essence of our sense of self.

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In this conversation with Jeff Salzman we explore how incorporating the three major worldviews of Traditionalism, Modernity and Postmodernity into ourselves can expand our identity, making us stronger, wiser and more empathetic. These three worlviews are tearing each other apart in the 'culture wars' out there in mainstream culture. This culture war is repeated inside the psyche of individuals too. We can heal these wounds by understanding and feeling the unique benefits of each worldview while moving away from their unique downsides.

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For more information on Jeff Salzman's work please visit www.dailyevolver.com and the 'Daily Evolver' podcast

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In this episode I explore the spiritual side of strength training and long distance running with Gary Hawke. We are often led to believe that Yoga is the only 'spiritual' form of exercise out there. But what if you feel an affinity with the life of a yogi but are not drawn to classical yoga? Any type of exercise, from solo forms like strength training to team sports, can bring us to a collision with the infinite when used intentionally as a technique of ecstasy. This conversation explores the subtle art of expanding your identity through exercise and sport.

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How do you pray when you don’t believe in a wise old man who lives in the sky? Are deities out there in the universe or are they archetypal forms of our own psyche and does it actually matter which is true? What’s the difference between the law of attraction and prayer? What are the similarities and differences between meditation and prayer? Christian contemplative prayer, The meaning crisis of modernity, The shortcomings of the neo-advaita teachings in relation to prayer, How to traverse periods when we feel no connection with our muse.

Lynn Evans is a lifelong mystic and spiritual practitioner, whose life’s work has been to deeply explore the nature of being, awareness and transformation, always through the lens of direct and embodied human experience. Lynn can be contacted by email at [email protected] or on Facebook @embodiedawakeningUK 

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You will find exceptions to these generalisations. With that caveat here we go: Different traditions say different things about who we are, and they often contradict each other. Could it be that they are all right but have a part of the truth that they are trying to hold up as the whole truth? If we use the metaphor of each tradition being a musical note, each moment presents itself as the different notes integrated into a chord. That is the oneness of our identity. It can be hard initially to get any traction with this mushy oneness blend until we have seen the manyness as well. Our identity can be separated out in a great many ways but let’s look at the 3 main ones that crop up in spiritual traditions and psychology. Our individual personality - you know the one we love and hate! Mother Nature - if you don’t believe Mother Nature is part of your identity try not eating, drinking and breathing and see how that works out for you. Formless awareness- awareness is a rather bland word but it’s all we have in English. Awareness is formless because it has no colour or shape, and no simple location, yet it is unmistakably a key aspect of our identity. Awareness is not just an “it” we can talk about but is also an “I” as the core of subjectivity. Western psychology tends to lean towards our limited personality being the only real identity. It doesn’t often deal with our transpersonal nature. Ecology tends to lean towards Mother Nature being the only real identity. We are the web of biological connections, seamlessly integrated into our environment. We are Mother Nature. Many meditation eastern traditions lean towards formless awareness being the only real identity. This is because formless awareness is the only unchanging part of our identity throughout our lives or moment to moment. Just because it’s permanent doesn’t mean it’s better than our ever changing personality or ever evolving Mother Nature. Is a stone better than a flower? Try making music with just one note and it’s pretty crap. Each moment is 3D, technicolour, surround sound etc. Do you want your identity and life to be a rich piece of music or a one note monotone? A chord is still one thing, one moment / our identity presented in its totality all at once. But a chord is also made of several notes. Once you’ve seen the notes on their own you better understand what makes the chord. Even though all these aspects of your identity are present simultaneously, each will naturally come to the forefront at different occasions when appropriate. When your 4 year old son proudly shows off his Lego model to you he wants you to reach out with your personality and warm him up with your appreciation and affection. He doesn’t want or need you to sink into formless awareness and present him with silence. When meditating it is entirely appropriate at different stages along the path to zero in on formless awareness rather than meditate over identified with your personality. If you a sitting on a mountain peak it’s appropriate to revel in the miracle of you shared embodied identity as and with Mother Nature. Enjoy your life in 3D folks.

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The esoteric spiritual traditions excel at delivering a 1st person experience of divinity: the deity is not just out there (3rd and 2nd person perspective) but also in you and me….we are that in the 1st person. Modernity has keenly focused on the objective world, the 3rd person perspective, and helped us fall in love with amazing intelligence and beauty of Nature. But, that awe and devotion is directed outwards towards Nature. What if we do a 180 degree shift and recognise the 1st person experience “I am Nature”. Evolution is one of the biggest ideas in modernity. It’s not just about ‘the survival of the fittest’, but is also an exhilarating unfolding of greater complexity within ourselves, culture and nature. What is it like to feel this creative evolutionary urge as our own identity? Could this be a solution to the meaning crisis of modernity? Could this be a path of ‘spiritual’ practice for atheists?

 

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Ben Calder is the founder and primary practitioner at the Centre for Integral Health in the town of Shrewsbury in England where he helps clients with Kinesiology, Bowen technique, Access bars, Nutrition advice, NLP, qigong, Allergy testing, meditation and Mcloughlin scar tissue release. 

We talk about how to approach integrating the health of our body, heart, mind and spirit. Ben has been practicing Qigong for 30 years, is a long time meditator and has been a professional kinesiologist for 18 years. In this conversation we focus in particular on nutrition, epigenetics, the relationship between the practitioner and client, the importance of flow, how spiritual bypassing can ignore health, and how to stay sane and healthy during coronavirus lockdowns.

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Paul Witcomb about his journey. Topics covered are: his job as a psychiatric nurse in the NHS, his training with Dan Millman (author of the peaceful warrior), NLP, Hawaiian shamanism, Generative Change, and meditating throughout the day. 

 

For more information on Paul’s work please visit the Generative Practice Group on Facebook 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Jon Freeman about his journey. Topics covered are: Jose Silva and training in the Silva method which teaches people do develop their intuitive abilities with respect to health, integrating the insights of quantum physics into our worldview, and spiral dynamics training and teaching.

 

For more information on Jon’s work please visit the Facebook page Access to Possibility and www.spiralfutures.com

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Lynn Evans about her journey. Topics covered are: Chi Kung, Transcendental Meditation, Waking Down in Mutuality with Saniel and Linda Bonder, how interpersonal relationships within a spiritual community can be a crucible for awakening, how deep tissue massage can access, open up and heal trauma held in our bodies, how giving language to feelings can lubricate their movement and health, the non-separation of our personal and transpersonal identities and the sacred and profane. 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Gary Hawke about his journey. Topics covered are: bodybuilding, yoga, love as the essence of spirituality, long distance running, Integral theory (the good things about it and the limitations), Critical Realism and the work of Roy Bashkar, drama therapy for shadow work, Gary’s experiences in psychotherapy and then transitioning to becoming a therapist himself. 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Sanji about her journey. Topics covered are: life as a Sanyasin at the Rajneesh community in India, whether Gurus are relevant in our contemporary era, subtle energy massage with Michael Barnett, Bob Moore, PsychoSynthesis, Trillium Awakening, Spiral Dynamics, and what lies beyond waking up to the Ground of Being. 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Nick Osborne about his journey. Topics covered are: his work helping the effectiveness of groups dedicated to social and environmental change, his tour of 30 eco-villages and intentional communities in Europe and North America, permaculture, the Transition Town movement, Extinction Rebellion, the Occupy movement, Deep Adaptation, Craig Hamilton and Evolutionary Enlightenment, how to prevent our egos from hijacking group work, psychotherapy, and meditation. 

 

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Here are some instructions for a few meditation postures that I have used at different times in my life. At the end I also list a few useful bits of equipment to aid your meditation practice. Getting the correct posture is a crucial first step when engaging in a meditation practice. 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Barbara Hunt about her journey. Topics covered are: Sufi retreats, Buddhist silent meditation retreats, sacred music, Evolutionary Spirituality with Craig Hamilton, nutrition and her work with Vital Detox based in Glastonbury UK, 5 rhythms dance, the More to Life program, a Course in Miracles, evolutionary buddies, and Thomas Hubl. 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Stuart Verity about his journey. Topics covered are: Theosophy, Vipassana meditation retreats, his 3 visits to the Kumbh Mela religious festival in India, psilocybin mushrooms, drinking Ayahuasca with the Santo Daime Church, Tai Chi and Chi Kung, his post graduate degree in Integral theory at JFK university, and studying Dzogchen with Daniel P Brown. 

 

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Meditation is a very effective relaxation technique, and for many people this is the goal of their practice, and a worthy one. It can also be a technique for realising something more radical: waking up from the dream of exclusive identification with your personality (often called ‘the self’ or ‘ego’ in meditation literature). This sounds quite odd, disorientating and even scary. I am going to demonstrate that this is actually everyone’s experience all the time whether they know it or not, and is the most natural and easy way to be. We will discover that we actually have a greater capacity than we usually assume. What I am about to describe is not a philosophy. It’s a direct, living experience that is there for you to find for yourself. You don’t have to obliterate your personality through austere and cruel practices, it’s more a case of looking carefully and honestly at what is actually happening in your moment to moment experience. Once, you have woken up to what lies within, beyond and behind your personality, you have more freedom to be creative, and be more open to what other people and life have to offer.

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Tessa Martin about her journey. Topics covered are: Iyengar yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Mondo Zen with Jun po Roshi, the value of spiritual friends and community on the journey, how yoga benefits meditation, and the benefit and a power of silence. 

 

For more information on Tessa’s work please google Tessa Martin Yoga Newbury UK. 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Layman Pascal about his journey. Topics covered are: the art of practice, yoga, Zen Koan practice, relationships helping you grow emotionally, how practice can help us navigate the chaos that is potentially coming more and more in the future, practices that use our sensory experience as a conduit for enriching our lives, how to train our minds by reading material we don’t yet understand, making visual diagrams in order to help us coordinate out thoughts. 

 

To find out more about Layman’s work you can reach him on the Integral Global facebook page and also you can watch his video series called the Integral Stage on Youtube. 

 

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I would like to offer my story as a lesson in both the blessings and the perils of psychedelics use, may it benefit those others walk this path. I feel like I can now come out of the closet as someone who has been an enthusiast and keen practitioner with these substances for many years. I believe opinion is shifting on this topic because many very successful mainstream public figures, for example Steve Jobs, Sam Harris and Joe Rogen have spoken of the contribution these substances have made to their lives and as a result people are less quick to write off everything else you say or do if you mention that you are partial to a few magic mushrooms every now and then. The public are realising that these are not merely play things for recreational use at music festivals, giving users a bizarre but fundamentally useless experience, but are also powerful catalysts for genuine transformation.

 

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Ralph Cree interviews Barbara J Hunt about her book and process 'Forgiveness Made Easy'. Barbara shares her wealth of experience guiding clients through her 90 minute forgiveness process which draws upon visualisation, sentence completion and a large tool box of psychotherapeutic techniques. Forgiveness is a simple idea but like every powerful practice is difficult to do. In this interview we explore the nature and impact of forgiveness as individuals and collectively and the A-Z of how to do it. 

 

For more information on Barbara's book 'Forgiveness Made Easy' please visit www.forgivenessmadeeasy.co.uk 

 

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This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Donald Clarke about his journey. Topics covered are: Mixed Martial Arts, The Wim Hoff method, ice baths, psychotherapy, psychedelics (in particular 5meo DMT), Vipassana, and Integral Theory.

 

For more information on Donald’s work please visit www.floateffect.co.uk 

 

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Could a world spirituality be the first ever complete spiritual path? Our contemporary moment presents us with a pluralism of truths and I believe it is time to make a world spirituality that brings together the distinct strengths developed in the many cultures of our planet’s history. The great gift of our era is that we have all the various spiritual traditions available to us, and we can watch them compete with each other and see which is most appropriate and effective in different circumstances. The truths revealed in the three domains of spirituality (physical, subtle and formless) are so powerful and attractive on their own terms that they can turn people in to ‘true believers’ of the ‘one legitimate path’. I am agreeing that these truths are powerful, I know because I have done 25 years of sustained practice in all three of them and intend to continue to do so for the rest of my life. But I am calling for us to take the next step and combine them to make something new and even more powerful. It is an experiment, and we don’t know the outcome for sure, but I believe it’s a risk worth taking. Let’s see how this plays out on the global stage. The proof will be if it creates human beings capable of bringing greater goodness, truth and beauty into the world?

 

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

 

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This is an introduction to the Evolving Spiritual Practice podcast giving you an idea of what to expect. By ‘Spiritual Practice’ I mean any activity that expands your sense of identity, for example meditation, contemplative philosophy, prayer, yoga, martial arts, psychedelics, transpersonal psychotherapy, fasting, visualisation, lucid dreaming, conscious parenting, forgiveness and much more. By ‘Evolving’ I mean that everything develops and adapts over time. Most of the spiritual traditions that have spawned these transformational practices emerged hundreds and often thousands of years ago in the pre-modern era. Modernity (rationality and science) and post-modernity (cultural diversity and the information age) are hugely influential historical periods that have happened since then, and I believe that contemporary spiritual practice needs to integrate the insights of these two worldviews as well as the premodern in order to keep being relevant and adaptive in a changing world.

 

For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk

 

To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree

 

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