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Elevating consciousness is a podcast that helps you discover deeper levels of truth, meaning, and wholeness. Join us as we host emerging thinkers in the liminal space to bring you mind-expanding perspectives and insights. 

Elevating Consciousness Artem Zen

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Elevating consciousness is a podcast that helps you discover deeper levels of truth, meaning, and wholeness. Join us as we host emerging thinkers in the liminal space to bring you mind-expanding perspectives and insights. 

    Darcia Narvaez - How Child Development Impacts Human Morality

    Darcia Narvaez - How Child Development Impacts Human Morality

    Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology whose work explores the neurobiology of moral development, evolved parenting practices, and small-band hunter-gatherer societies. In 2020, she was identified as one of the top 2 percent of scientists worldwide in a recent analysis of 8 million scientists around the world. She is the president of Kindred World a non-profit dedicated to creating a wisdom-based worldview and the founder of the Evolved Nest a Kindred World initiative that integrates findings across various fields that bear on child development, child raising, and adult behavior while promoting optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation and sociomoral intelligences. She is the author of several books including the award-winning Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality. In this episode, we speak about the optimal environment for early child development and how our modern culture falls short of this, navigating order & chaos in parenting, the surprising truth about nature & nurture, how the collaboration and competition dynamic is related to left & right brain views of the world, contrasting views of wisdom, and so much more.


    🔗 [Links & resources] 🔗

    Darcia’s personal site - https://darcianarvaez.com/
    The Evolved Nest (site) - https://evolvednest.org/
    Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality by Darcia Narvaez - https://www.amazon.com/Neurobiology-Development-Human-Morality-Interpersonal/dp/0393706559
    Breaking the Cycle of Competitive Detachment (short film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATflgNvl-E
    Reimagining Humanity (short film) - ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_JR5fcrKkI&list=PLKSc66Q_SuJPviwCKee4mMaXyVm0TUFtM&index=21
    The Evolved Nest (short film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo54PdNnNPg&list=PLUh7caZTn4oAV5K6Pg8GLpK7GgMtxs_Tl&index=2&t=9s
    ( full list on YouTube page)


    📝 [Show notes] 📝

    0:00 - Introduction
    2:01 - An overview of Darcia’s work
    5:22 - The role of safety in morality
    7:29 - The optimal environment for early child development
    15:42 - The importance of breastfeeding & co-sleeping
    18:00 - How the modern world falls short of the evolved developmental niche
    25:45 - Navigating Order & Chaos in Parenting
    35:39 - What is the relationship between nature & nurture?
    41:32 - How life for indigenous people was different than it is in the modern world
    44:19 - Was war always a part of humanity?
    54:18 - Relating the collaboration & competition dynamic to left and right brain views of the world
    1:02:27 - Contrasting views of wisdom
    1:07:58 - Resources & tools for creating a more wholesome life
    1:14:07 - Learning to regulate our nervous systems through play
    1:17:10 - Why returning to the evolved nest is critical for the world



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    • 1 hr 18 min
    Bruce Tift - Psychotherapy, Relationships & Awakening

    Bruce Tift - Psychotherapy, Relationships & Awakening

    Bruce Tift is a psychotherapist, author, and long-time meditation practitioner. As a therapist he’s done his rounds – working in a psychiatric ward, social services, and maintaining a private practice since 1979. As a teacher, he taught at Naropa University for twenty-five years and lectured all throughout the world. He is also a Vajrayana Buddhism practitioner with over 40 years of practice under his belt. On his journey he has been fortunate enough to be a student of Chogyam Trunga Rinpoche and to meet a number of other realized teachers. He is the author of “Already Free” a fascinating book that explores the relationship between Psychotherapy and awakening. In this episode, we speak about the irresolvable paradox of relationship, what it means to be psychospiritually mature, stepping out of identification through immediate sensation, Individual vs couples therapy, nonduality & the Vajrayana view, and a healthier approach to awakening & liberation. 


    🔗 [Links & resources] 🔗

    Bruce’s personal site - https://www.brucetift.com/
    Already Free by Bruce Tift - https://www.amazon.com/Already-Free-Buddhism-Psychotherapy-Liberation/dp/1622034112
    Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki - https://www.artemzen.com/book/zen-mind-beginners-mind-by-shunryu-suzuki/
    Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6gyam_Trungpa
    What is Circling? - https://www.artemzen.com/what-is-circling/



    📝 [Show notes] 📝

    0:00 - Introduction
    2:10 - The pivotal events that put Bruce on the path
    6:32 - The relationship between psychotherapy (healing) and awakening
    13:01 - Bruce pulls the chair out from beneath me
    16:58 - The irresolvable paradox of relationship
    18:10 - Is it possible to heal and develop psychologically without psychotherapy?
    19:34 - What does it mean to be psychospiritually mature?
    23:30 - Holding developmental models lightly 
    25:55 - Learning to experience story-free anxiety
    35:23 - Stepping out identification through immediate sensation
    42:30 - Why struggle is a way not to deal with our lives
    53:43 - Individual vs Couples Therapy (navigating connection & separateness )
    1:06:29 - Using Circling/Relatefulness practice to understand your emotions and develop intimacy
    1:10:29 - Diving into non-duality and the Vajrayana view
    1:18:08 - A healthier view of awakening & liberation
    1:26:11 - The hard problem of consciousness


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    • 1 hr 29 min
    Richard D. Bartlett - Building Belonging

    Richard D. Bartlett - Building Belonging

    Richard Bartlett is a community organizer, entrepreneur & coach who helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations. Back in 2011, he was a part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a pivotal moment that set him on the path to becoming a key player in Enspiral - an organization that shares money, power & information to help its members do meaningful work. 

    He went on to found Loomio, a software that helps companies seamlessly navigate the intricacies of decentralized organization. Later he founded the Hum, a non-hierarchical management consultancy that’s rewriting the rules of how we work together. His latest venture is a community-building network and movement known as Microsolidarity. 

    In this episode, we speak about essential modalities & practices for community builders, building trust and accelerating personal growth through community, navigating the polarity of autonomy and belonging, collective intelligence, how to integrate vulnerability into the workplace, creating decentralized organizations and so much more. 


    🔗 [Links & resources] 🔗

    Rich’s personal site - https://richdecibels.com/
    Microsoldarity network and community building practice - https://www.microsolidarity.cc/
    Rich’s Consultancy The Hum - https://www.thehum.org/



    📝 [Show notes] 📝

    0:00 - Introduction 
    2:32 - How Rich’s upbringing led to his work with community building & team organization 
    6:50 - The importance of integrating traditional values 
    8:44 - Creating a pluralistic community with a capacity to hold many perspectives 
    19:16 - What is Microsolidarity?
    27:45 - How group size changes relational dynamics 
    30:35 - Essential modalities and practices for community builders
    36:25 - Insights from Enspiral and working in community 
    44:33 - Building trust and accelerating personal growth through community 
    47:22 - The challenges of visionary leadership
    54:51 - Navigating the polarity of autonomy and belonging 
    59:28 - Michael Levin, the superorganism, collective intelligence, and the illusion of being self-made
    1:08:40 - How to integrate vulnerability into the workplace
    1:17:20 - Creating decentralized organizations 
    1:26:40 - Additional resources for community builders



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    • 1 hr 31 min
    North Burn - Transforming Suffering

    North Burn - Transforming Suffering

    North Burn is a meditation teacher and practitioner. For the past fifteen years, he has devoted himself full-time to practice, primarily in Insight Meditation and Soto Zen schools, as well as other immersive settings.

    Collectively, he has spent five years in monastic communities, two years in silent intensive retreats, and several years in solitude and self-directed study. Some of the teachers who have influenced him the most include Joseph Goldstein, Greg Scharf, Leslie James, and Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi.

    In 2016, after the encouragement of his teachers, he began teaching meditation retreats. During the pandemic, he came up with the inspiration to start Boundless Refuge an annual 3-month silent retreat dedicated to transforming suffering into peace by practicing the middle way.  When not teaching or organizing retreats, he devotes substantial energy to meditation practice, engaging with spiritual mentors, and continuing his study of various spiritual modalities and traditions.

    In this episode, we speak about the benefits of long retreats & intensive meditation practice, Sutric vs Tantric perspectives on Dharma, the pros & cons of being open about spiritual attainments, integrating stories into spirituality, the relationship between psychedelics & meditation, and so much more.


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    • 1 hr 34 min
    David Loy - Transcending Not Enough

    David Loy - Transcending Not Enough

    David Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in Sanbo Zen tradition. He began zen practice in 1971 and finished the formal koan curriculum in 1988. For many years he has taught as a professor of Buddhist and comparative philosophy. Although he has retired from academia he continues to lecture internationally focusing primarily on the intersection of Buddhism and modernity and what they can learn from each other.

    Unless he is traveling, every Friday morning he guides an online meditation followed by a brief dharma talk. He is the author of many books including Lack & Transcendence, Ecodharma, and Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond. 

    In this episode, we speak about the fundamental problem of human existence through the lens of psychotherapy, existentialism & Buddhism, the limits of philosophy, integrating personal with collective transformation, addressing the meaning crisis, and so much more. 


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    • 1 hr 24 min
    Charlie Awbery - Reinventing Buddhism

    Charlie Awbery - Reinventing Buddhism

    Charlie Awbery is a meditation teacher and a longtime Vajrayana practitioner. In 2002 they were ordained in the non-monastic Aro gTer lineage. Informed mostly by traditional Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism their practice consisted of yidam, yogic song, chod, psycho-physical yogas, and solitary retreats. Aside from Buddhist practice they have trained in Gestalt psychotherapy and have worked in mental health services and international human rights organizations. After twenty-five years in traditional Vajrayana, they decided to co-found Evolving Ground - a community for contemporary Vajrayana practice. In this episode we speak about the difference between Sutric & Tantric view, the vehicles of Buddhism & their different endpoints, why the Sutric view can be problematic for householders, different perspectives on awakening, the Evolving Ground meditation community, integrating emptiness & form practices, and learning from transmission. 

    • 1 hr 40 min

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