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Dancing Paradox Alex Hickman
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4.9 • 13 Ratings
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Alex Hickman explores Truth through conversation.
He aims to bring an holistic array of guests with different outlooks and backgrounds, offering alternative views on the nature of reality.
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Shiv Sengupta | Spiritual Sobriety, Anarchy And The Antidote
Shiv Sengupta is the author of 3 books in his Advaitaholics Anonymous series:
Sobering Insights For Spiritual Addicts - https://amzn.to/3XX4gkW
A Manifesto For Spiritual Anarchy - https://amzn.to/41iqzo2
An Antidote For Spiritual Enlightenment - https://amzn.to/3YTHjjD
We covered a lot of ground in the conversation.
Shiv's Links
Website - https://advaitaholics.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064326446937
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@spirituallyincorrect
Alex's Links
Website - https://alexhickman.co.uk/
Writing - https://dancingparadox.substack.com/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/alexhickman
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Jed McKenna | Refiner’s Fire
A reading of Jed McKenna's poem, Refiner's Fire.
WEBSITE
➣ https://www.alexhickman.co.uk
WRITING
➣ https://dancingparadox.substack.com/
CONNECT
➣ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/alex_hickman/
➣ Twitter | https://twitter.com/alex_hickman1 -
Gilad Karni | Aligning Self, Spirituality And High Performance
Gilad is a former pro-basketball athlete and captain of the Israeli national team. He also served as an operative in the Israeli Special Forces, as is a custom in his homeland.
He has been on a journey of self-exploration and now guides individuals and organisations to dissolve the limitations they built around themselves.
I love Gilad's openness and willingness to engage on a human level about the issues we face as a society whilst remaining grounded in the deeper aspects of reality.
"Success, just like love, was never meant to be conditioned. Love doesn't need a reason, and success doesn't need an object. My guidance will support you to consciously engage in deep, meaningful, and purposeful work your True Self is here to do, BUT it will no longer be the means by which you seek joy, peace, freedom, and success. Rather, the natural fullest expression of your True Self."
We spoke about various topics, from non-duality to the human nervous system and nutrition, amongst many other things.
Gilad's Links
Website - https://karnigilad.com/
Business Bodhisattva Article - https://karnigilad.com/business-bodhisattva/
Alex's Links
Website - https://alexhickman.co.uk/
Substack - https://dancingparadox.substack.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/alex_hickman1 -
Isaac Shapiro | Direct Enquiry Into The Nature Of Self
Isaac Shapiro is an internationally known spiritual teacher. Over the years, Isaac saw the extent that trauma pervades human functioning, making the felt sense of the Truth of who we are difficult to live. He now includes a somatic approach, which is quite rare and refreshing in Advaita / 'eastern' communications.
Isaac runs "Meetings in Truth', sharing with other that there is awareness, unraveling all the misunderstandings that have crept into our understanding. A deep cleaning of ideas and beliefs.
“All we have is the sensory experience of this moment, NOW. This moment is only an experience to us. That’s all we have. The world, time, space, our own bodies and each other are all an experience to us.”
Isaac's Links
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@meetingsintruthwithisaacsh8598
Website - https://isaacshapiro.org/
Alex's Links
Website - https://alexhickman.co.uk/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/alexhickman
Substack - https://dancingparadox.substack.com/
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Edward Hirsch | The Cultivation Of Presence
Edward Hirsch has a B.A. in philosophy from Queens College, NY (followed by two years of graduate work in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin), and an M.A. in Transpersonal Counselling from John F. Kennedy University, CA.
He studied over six years with Hameed Ali and his senior students. Hameed was the founder of the Diamond Heart School, where he learned the embodied Practice of Presence and a deep integration of spirituality and psychology.
Earlier, he was a student of Adi Da for about two years, living up on his land but not part of the inner circle. There, the emphasis was more on the role of guru and grace, as well as deep spiritual recognition of radical Truth. As Da’s radical teachings deeply resonated with his own intuitions, the teaching stayed with him long after leaving Da as his guru.
He has studied and practiced in many traditions, East and West, North and South, including esoteric Christianity, kundalini yoga, and to a lesser extent, shamanism. He continues to keep abreast of developments in the contemporary spiritual landscape, including teachings of a wide variety of views, but mostly aligning with nondual, embodied, nondenominational, evolutionary, and integral approaches, finding ways of integrating seemingly opposite points of view in a broad sense of Sacred Mystery.
A quote by Ed :- "Presence is the Open Secret, hidden in the plain obviousness of (uninspected) ordinary experience. And the simple Practice of Presence that supports the alchemy is also hidden in just that way."
We spoke about Ed's life and simplified the seemingly complex ideas of spirituality and non-duality.
The passion for his craft is clear.
WEBSITE
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Chuck Hillig | Piercing The Dreamstate
Chuck Hillig is a modern spiritual teacher, author and licensed psychotherapist whose clarity of expression has earned him the admiration and praise of many notable writers and lecturers in this area.
Chuck writes personally and directly about the essence of non-dual spirituality and presents its astonishing truths to the average reader in ways that are totally unique, completely accessible and absolutely life-changing.
Using his studies in both eastern philosophy and western psychology, Chuck’s “Enlightenment Quartet” presents a world view that shows his readers how to fully live a truly enlightened and authentic life in the 21st Century by waking up to who they really are.
WEBSITE
➣ https://www.alexhickman.co.uk
WRITING
➣ https://dancingparadox.substack.com/
Customer Reviews
Jim Anon
Very thought provoking.
Found this podcast through The Unslaved Podcast.
Thanks for the work you do.
Business as usual chaps
Thankyou fellas for a very user friendly podcast spoken and put across for the man in the street , which is ideal for me at this stage ;)
Mr
Great podcast - love the initiative and content