Jeff Simmonds
Episode #6 Jeff Simmonds.
In this episode I speak with Jeff Simmonds.
We have a rambling conversation about leaving Christendom, his experience growing up both a Catholic and a Pentecostal. Finding his tribe in a bunch of Gnostics from 2000 years ago.
The social retardation of being a christian teenager and all the sexual repression associated.
I let Jeff go on a good old preach about the actual Jesus of the bible, upending the table of the nice Jesus. How to use music, satire and comedy to communicate with others.
Jeff’s new religion of Stoicism and how time is our most important commodity, yet we pretend it is not.
We listen to a spontaneous rendition of Jeff’s old and new original music and finish with the very curious fact that my guest cannot remember people’s faces.
Please enjoy this loud, unsanctimonious and random jaunt down a few roads in the life of Jeff Simmonds.
Paul Fletcher
In this episode I speak with Paul Fletcher.
What follows is more of a teaching from someone who is developing a way of articulating the loss of identity and finding the joy in following life.
In this extended conversation Paul covers: from doing life, to life doing you, moving through the stages of disillusionment, doing what life is asking you to do, the paradox of stepping into the gap between story and reality, finding more joy in life as you accept reality, the identity death experience, how life is always trying to wake us up, how love sees each other beyond the story into our essential character, forest school and how life heads towards abundance, finding your passion, and letting go and letting life.
Javed Mohammed
In this episode Javed and I enjoy a fireside conversation in which we delve into his life growing up in England in a Muslim family, getting out and finding freedom, the call to Aotearoa, New Zealand, finding your community, the underrated work of being a parent, how to manifest the life that you want, the performance trap, psychedelics and getting beyond fear, taking a personal stand in trying times, cryptocurrency and censorship, DJing, flow state and feeding the soul.
Bodhi Vincent
In this episode I join Bodhi Vincent on a rambling romp down the rabbit hole. We cover: soul awakening, from attainment to just being, being an outlier in society, the not knowing mind, the way we mask up from birth and societal conditioning, how we lose our soul from birth, Osho ashram adventures in India, being in love with the life that lives you, burning through the cargo of identifications, how we are already what we are looking for, getting over one's self and the illusion of everything, Highden Mystery School, moving forward as a species, art and the magic portal of the artist, what causes us to be on a soul path, and a bunch of personal stories and soul confessions between the two of us.
Teresa Dalton
Episode #2
In this episode I speak with Teresa Dalton.
We converse about the longing to be fully met, soul awakening, and how to turn up fully to your own experience.
We discuss staying in our own truth, loving and experiencing the world we want, and who we want to be in that world. We spend a lot of time talking about the importance of relationships, how to find the aliveness we want in them, and saying goodbye to relationships that are no longer serving us, or have had their season.
Also covered in some depth are our various experiences with conscious sexuality, the incarnate wisdom of our animal body, fear as a doorway to growth, the god wound, and embodiment practices for everyday life.
Tommy Benefield
It all begins with an idea.
In the first episode of this season of the locals, I talk with Tommy Benefield.
We cover ground of how to follow your instinct and your dreams, finding and losing faith, fatherhood and anger management, as well as addiction, the 12 step program and the role of plant medicine.
Tommy popped into my consciousness one morning after I had spent the good part of a year trying to figure out where and how this podcast comes to life. Like many things in my life, I tend to start with important but ultimately procrastinating stuff - the microphones, the business case, the high profile people I could try to reach. The breakthrough came when I dropped all that and just asked Tommy for the conversation.
There was a high degree of resistance to even starting this conversation (I wish to thank my girlfriend for holding me to this, and helping me calm down and just enjoy myself - thank you!).
So, without further ado, please enjoy our conversation.