Episode 14: The Gift of Superior Masculinity (Inquiries by Foca Yariv)

Masculinity is a gift to the world when it is present in its superior aspect. There is a lot of talk today about 'toxic masculinity', but I dare say that it is the rhetoric and opinions about this topic which are much more toxic. To understand the extent of the bias in the discourse on masculinity, you can start by imagining the social media storms that would be triggered if the word “man” in their stories would be replaced with any other category of people. It makes me wonder, where is the superior response to this bias from the strong, moral and virile men?<br/>Masculinity obviously IS in a crisis today, but it is not facing the kind of problems claimed by the 'woke' culture or the ones who are calling themselves 'feminists'.<br/>The problems that masculinity face today need a true masculine attention - one full of responsibility, discernment and accompanied by action. In this talk I am joined by Tantra teacher Foca Yariv, who has been guiding men’s groups and workshops, and raises the questions from the men he has met and from the challenges he has experienced.</p>

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Episode 13: Prepare Certain Skills for an Uncertain Future (Inquiries by Kalas)

What is more mysterious than the future? The future is a vast unknown, and in these times the emergence of new technologies makes life change at a rate we’ve never seen before. Are we ready?<br/>How can we prepare for this unprecedented acceleration? How to safely glide on the current and not crash-land in a sci-fi dystopia? How to navigate through life when everything is unpredictable?<br/>Tantric aspirant Kalas poses these questions in this episode. Questions that can only be answered if we dare to look into our relationship with transformation; a sensitive topic nowadays when most people are longing to hold on to the status quo. Continuous transformation, however, is one of the life's defining conditions and we will explore what it means in this episode. Welcome to this journey of self discovery!</p>

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Episode 8: The Forgotten Roles of Science and Spirituality. Is Science the new Religion? (by Advaitananda)

Today we are told to trust science completely - but true science never asked us to believe in it. On the contrary, true science always asked to be scrutinised because that is how science reaches perfection. In this episode I chose to take a boldly direct approach on the obvious signs of degradation of science simultaneously with the weakening of spirituality when they both refuse each other. Coming from an academic background, I have seen the best and worst of science from the inside. As a practitioner and teacher of yoga, tantra and meditation for more than 30 years, I have also seen and experienced spirituality from its very core. I aim to offer a perspective of how we can bridge the gap between science and spirituality, between logical reasoning and higher heart values. Considering that today science claims to be the owner of the absolute truth and religion tries to fight back, we need to reflect more on these topics.<br/>One of the most important lessons for us personally and as a society.</p>

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Episode 12: Demystifying Tantra - a Path of Spiritual Science (Inquiries by Foca Yariv)

Some say Tantra is a path of spiritualised sex, ignoring the fact that the Tantric system actually considers sex to be nothing more than an inferior instinct. Others, out of ignorance, blame Tantra for all decadence. Yet, there are also many hopes attributed to the Tantric system which is said to re-emerge in times of crisis to save humanity from its perilous decadence. Out of all these false hopes and damnation, Tantra appears to be a spiritual Frankenstein: a mix of sexual perversions solved with incense sticks and candles. <b>But what </b><b><em>is</em></b><b> tantra?</b> And why is it so often misunderstood?<br/>Having walked this path for 30 years myself, I picked up these questions brought by Tantra teacher Foca Yariv for this talk, where we aim to debunk some myths and inspire some people to try out this path for themselves. A path which, in our experience, is the most efficient methodology for those who dare to leave behind all preconceived ideas and truly want to accelerate their evolution!</p>

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Episode 11: The Hidden Costs of Motivational Schemes: The Road to Freedom or Enslavement? (Inquiries by Greg Garrett)

Widely used today (and the bread and butter of creating overnight gurus in human development), the “carrot and stick” schemes are said to be today's key to achievements and success. For this episode I invited Greg Garrett, co-founder of The Quantum Questions, to bring the voice of inquiry for all those who are caught on the treadmill of motivational schemes. He is one of those brave souls who started to question the control and empowerment that motivational schemes apparently give. Does it really bring the promised freedom? Or is it just a larger prison? We will look into the severe side effects of the deeply embedded “carrot and stick” motivation, the illusory pressure of “not having enough time” and how to transition from “burned out” to continuously burning.<br/>This is a warm invitation to take a step out of the hamster wheel and discover what happens when you give 100% to life. </p>

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Episode 10: Behind the Iron Curtain and Stolen Revolutions, Part 3: The Great Reset or A Great Awakening? (Interviewer: Sahajananda J. Porslund)

A friendly talk about the major phenomena arising in the world today with Advaitananda and Sahajananda J. Porslund. There is a battle between ’The Great Reset’ and ‘The Great Awakening’. Is there a real choice between these two alternatives? One of them, a social and political Frankenstein pushed forward by the elite, the other a whisper from the rising masses, conveniently labelled as conspiracy theory by social engineers. Maybe now is the time to look more closely into these issues before it’s too late and the frog is already boiled.</p>

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Episode 9: What Do We Cancel When We Cancel Culture? (Questions by Maria Porsfelt)

“What do we cancel when we cancel culture?” This question can easily get your fingers (and sometimes also your books!) burned in today’s environment of Political Correctness. In this episode, Maria Porsfelt, lead teacher at Tara Yoga Center with a degree in philosophy, dares to raise the question and Advaitananda demolishes the usual perspective drawing parallels between modern-day censorship in areas ranging from Social Media to children’s books, and the cultural revolutions in the USSR, China and Nazi Germany. Get prepared for one of the strongest moral tests of our generation!</p>

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Episode 7: Finding Courage to Look Beyond Corona (With guest Questioner: Thomas Egebøl)

Thomas Egebøl, an independent adviser and chairman, is a voice for many who are searching for ways to turn the apparent crisis into growth, on many levels, by courageously looking the storm straight in the eye. He joins me in this episode to get insights on the invisible enemy that the whole world seems to be united around - not ‘the virus’, but fear.<br/>We fear that everything will be different. We try to hold on to what we know, waiting for things to go back to ‘normal’, or at least, a ‘new normal’. But to make room for progress it seems that we need to take a hammer to the old and tear it down.<br/>Transformation and learning are always triggered by aspiration or, the other strong incentive, fear. In this talk we look into the amazing perspectives that are revealed to us if we remove fear along with the inner programming that makes us robotically react to it.</p>

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Episode 6: Behind the Iron Curtain and Stolen Revolutions, Part 2 - Our Ignored History. (Interviewer: Sahajananda J. Porslund)

In this episode, my guest Sahajananda J. Porslund, founder of Copenhagen Conscious Talks, joins me again to continue our talk on a subject that seems to become more and more important by the hour.<br/>History repeats itself when the lessons are not learned. And if we hide the lessons we definitely don’t have a chance to learn them. I was out on the streets when the revolution happened in Romania in 1989 and witnessed firsthand many things that did not go down in the history books. <br/>Now it is more important than ever to speak up and help others wake up. Despite talk about unity, democracy and science, what we see now is a totalitarian regime in progressive sheep’s clothing. <br/>Today, many of us put power and hope in creating a true society that is shaped from the inside out. We can do this by turning our attention inwards and facing our inner challenges - where we have no-one to blame and no place to hide from our responsibility.</p>

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Episode 5: Couple Relationships During Lockdown - Crisis or Ecstacy? (With Questioner Adina Stoian)

Who else to invite on this topic than my life-long lover and wife, Adina. Continuing our talk on crisis mentality in “Episode 2: How to Thrive in Times of Crisis?“, in this episode we look closer at crisis in the couple relationship.<br/>The lockdown has forced many couples to spend more time together. We used to complain about not having enough time together, then we were suddenly given more time than we could handle, and in the condition that society as a whole doesn’t even know how relationships work! <br/>Being together can brings problems to the surface, but where to find the solutions? <br/>There is a way forward, but it is not always the straight road. However, on the other hand, relationships are subject to very precise laws and principles, and can be transformed into what we aspire them to be. Not knowing how a relationship works, too often we quit at the first signs of trouble. Even though trouble is meant to be part of the next improvements.</p>

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