Welcome to “Healing From Within.” I am your host Sheryl Glick (http://sherylglick.com) author of
The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares
stories of spiritual awakening spiritual communication healing energies
miracles and a way to know your soul presence for intuitive guidance and
direction. Today I welcome a former guest of the show Arjuna Ardagh to
discuss his book Radical Brilliance an innate quality within each of us
that can easily get covered by conditioning and diminish our personal
power to thrive and evolve as we can accomplish when aligned to our true
nature as soul beings.
As our listeners well know Sheryl and her guests seek to share intimate
stories and insights into the metaphysical nature of human and spiritual
aspects of life, for by knowing how life actually works we may develop
greater self-awareness and master our emotions so we can find liberation
and freedom from the outside world and experience peace happiness joy
positivity and a productive life journey using our innate inner
resources.
In today’s episode of “Healing from Within” Arjuna Ardagh (https://www.www.radicalbrilliance.com) author of the
Translucent Revolution as well as eight other books offers a compelling
and practical model for the hidden components which together make up the
components for creating a brilliant life. Supported by cutting edge
research into brain chemistry, nutrition and “bio hacking,” Ardagh
offers us not only a map to navigate the ever expanding field of
research and methodology for developing spiritual talents with tools,
techniques and lifestyle enhancements to help you reach the most
brilliant version of yourself.
When Arjuna is asked to think back to his childhood or young adult life
to remember a person place or event that may have made a lasting
impression on him he describes his family as well as the different
phases that his life has been through: being raised by a predominately
intellectual family…seeking freedom from that conditioning through
spirituality …exploring various kinds of psychotherapy in his twenties,
and finally exploring how to make money and to create worldly success.
He talks about the hollowness of each of these pursuits and then
questions what would actually create a life of deep fulfillment. This is
his journey of discovering real happiness.
In his book Radical Brilliance describes a cycle of different kinds of
subjective experience and brain activity which he says will make someone
innovative and original.
We discover that not all thoughts are created equal. We distinguish
between repetitive, imitative thoughts, things that we may have heard or
read from other people and the rare occurrence where a new fresh and
original impulse arises from the depths of our being. We explore the
parallel between Newtonian and Quantum physics: in one case things are
predictable, the other case they are not but lead us into a world of
magic. Perhaps if we knew more effectively how to access the origin of
original thoughts we would inevitably lead a brilliant life.
We explore four different phases of subjective experience, activity and
brain functioning, which while very different, when they co-exist can
lead to brilliance. I would think that brilliance means illumination of
the truth of who we are as spiritual beings having a physical life and
responding often to the prompts and pressures of the outside world often
forgetting that within us is the innate wisdom and guidance of Universal
Spirit and eternal life.
Kute Blackson wrote the foreword to your book suggesting that brilliance
is actually our natural state but it gets covered over by conditioning.
You talk about that in the book as different kinds of blockage. We
understand that the brilliant cycle, as described in the previous
chapter, is mostly theoretical and what we actually discover in human
lives is various ways that the cycle gets stuck.
