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The Higher Self DialoguesWhat Happened After I Met My Spiritual GuideWhat happens when a die-hard physicalist who explains everything with brain chemistry and physics, wakes up to a glowing figure at the bottom of the bed… In this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I pick up the thread of my own spiritualawakening exactly where I left it: the morning after a clairvoyant session when the promised “spiritual guide” actually turned up. No breaks in consciousness, no dream haze - just a full-on encounter that shattered every neat, materialist explanation I’d clung to for years. What You’ll Learn The Moment Ever...
2025-12-0313 minThe Higher Self DialoguesRev. Alison Chisholm Trower: Holding Your Nerve on the Spiritual RollercoasterUnder a full and clear November sun in Fulham Palace’s ancient walled garden, surrounded by wisteria, pear trees, and the occasional curious bee, something quietly magical unfolds. In this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I sit down with Rev. Alison Chisholm Trower - a OneSpirit Interfaith minister, poet, and facilitator of the monthly One Light Gatherings in Notting Hill. We explore what it really means to stay “screwed in like a light bulb” when life feels like the front seat of a cosmic rollercoaster: exhilarating, terrifying, and rarely in your control. What You’ll Learn
2025-11-2645 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Trillionaire Mirror: Wealth as a Call to Collective AwakeningWhat if the path to a trillion dollars isn't a spiritual sin, but a stark reflection of the world we've all chosen to build? In this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I grapple with Elon Musk's headline-grabbing deal and the dawn of the first trillionaire - not through moral outrage, but a higher self lens. Diving into inequality's roots, the sovereignty in every transaction, and how extreme wealth mirrors our inherited systems, this reflection challenges us to question: What choices sustain this reality, and what must we shift to envision something more equitable?
2025-11-1920 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Tale of Two Clairvoyants (Part 3)I continue to recount my astonishing 2005 session with Joy the clairvoyant - my first and only brush with psychic reading. A lifelong doubter wary of divination, I sat perplexed as Joy revealed childhood memories, recent bedside encounters, and a guardian presence promising direct contact. I share the warmth, tears, and energy healing that Joy brought, plus the cryptic message that surfaced later. What You’ll Learn Embracing the Unexplainable: How to hold space for experiences that defy rationalisation without forcing belief. Recognising Internal Resonance: Practi...
2025-11-1213 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThree Things About ‘Abundance’ I’m Burning This Bonfire NightWhat would happen if, instead of celebrating bonfire night with fireworks and sparklers, we used it to burn away the illusions that hold us back? In this episode, I explore the symbolic power of fire as a tool for letting go and why this Bonfire Night is the perfect moment to release the myths around “abundance”. So much of modern spirituality tells us that wealth and success are simply a matter of believing and manifesting. But what if that story is incomplete? I look closely at why the popular abundance narrative can lead...
2025-11-0514 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Tale of Two Clairvoyants (Part 2)What if a single, inexplicable moment could change how you see the world forever? In this episode, I return to the Tale of Two Clairvoyants for part two - a story woven from journals, memory, and a sense that something just beyond the ordinary is trying to be heard. I pick up where the last chapter ended: a strange and vivid morning experience, a chance connection with old friends, and two separate clairvoyant messages pointing to one person. What follows is an extraordinary six-hour encounter that leaves sceptic me unable to simply wr...
2025-10-2915 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Tale of Two Clairvoyants (Part 1)What if the hardest part of telling your story isn’t what happened, but where to start? In this episode of Higher Self Dialogues, I share a moment that changed everything. Through my lens of journals, archives, and long-buried encounters, I revisit a mysterious message and how the universe was trying to get my attention. What You’ll Learn Finding Your Beginning: How choosing a starting point can shape the story you tell and the way you see your own journey. Memory and Meaning: Why...
2025-10-2215 minThe Higher Self DialoguesSeeing Beyond Sides: Finding Humanity in the Immigration DebateHow do we stay human when the world feels divided? In this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I step into one of the most emotionally charged issues of our time – immigration – and explore it through the lens of the higher self. Moving beyond the politics, policies, and headlines, this conversation looks beneath the surface, past the noise and fear and reconnect with the shared humanity at the heart of the debate. Through reflective inquiry, research, and spiritual insight, I explore how divisive issues like immigration can become opportunities for growth and deeper unders...
2025-10-1524 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Spiritual Turn: The Beginning of a Materialist’s AwakeningHow does a hardline materialist end up on a spiritual path? In this new series of Higher Self Dialogues, I begin by sharing my own story of transformation, one that kicked up a notch in 2005. At that time, I saw life largely through a materialist, physicalist lens - everything explained by science, reason, and logic. Yet what unfolded was an unexpected journey, at times painful and at times exhilarating, that led me toward spirituality, the higher self, and a radically new way of seeing reality. This season is not only about tellin...
2025-10-0816 minThe Higher Self DialoguesCould AI Help Humanity Spiritually Awaken? (Season 1 Finale)In this final episode of Season 1 of The Higher Self Dialogues, I turn to a question that feels both strange and inevitable: could artificial intelligence, perhaps our most physicalist creation, actually assist in humanity’s spiritual awakening?From the corridors of data science to the deep inner paths of being, I reflect on how AI, born from a worldview that excludes the soul, might paradoxically become a doorway to the soul’s recognition. Not because it contains spirit itself, but because it may force us to confront what physicalism leaves out - and what we've left behi...
2025-07-2711 minThe Higher Self DialoguesWill there be a Third World War?In this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I turn toward one of the most urgent and uneasy questions of our time: are we heading towards a Third World War?From a quiet conversation in a Cambridge restaurant five years ago to the growing global rhetoric of conflict today, I reflect on the rising sense that something profound is nearing - a storm, perhaps, but also a turning point. Drawing on both worldly observation and the Higher Self perspective, I explore how this moment of collective uncertainty is not just political, but deeply spiritual.
2025-07-1317 minThe Higher Self DialoguesMeeting Your Own Devil FaceIn this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I explore one of the most painful and paradoxical stages of the spiritual journey: when you meet your own devil face.What happens when, despite your best intentions, you become the one who causes harm? When your actions don’t match your ideals, and you play the very role you thought you’d transcended - the betrayer, the deceiver, the one who breaks hearts rather than heals them?Drawing on personal experience and deep reflection, I share how these moments aren’t signs of spiritual failur...
2025-07-0627 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Challenge of DefencelessnessIn this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I explore the subtle but powerful dynamics of defensiveness - both in our personal relationships and in the wider world, as a key to understanding the challenge of spiritual and psychological transformation.Drawing from lived experience and inner reflection, I suggest that what often appears as conflict or resistance is, in many cases, the result of unseen fear, inherited mistrust, and a misreading of reality that causes us to defend when no real threat is present. And yet, ironically, these very defences can create the danger they were...
2025-06-2917 minThe Higher Self DialoguesSpiritual Transformation: The Immigrant’s Journey of NaturalisationIn this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I explore the experience of spiritual transformation through the unexpected lens of the immigrant journey — not as metaphor alone, but as a deep parallel to the often disorienting passage of changing one's state of being.From the quiet confusion of arrival, through the long process of acclimatisation, to the slow gaining of inner residence and recognition, I trace how the path toward the higher self is not one of instant enlightenment, but of gradual naturalisation into a new way of being.I suggest that what we...
2025-06-2215 minThe Higher Self DialoguesSmall Power, Quiet Strength: Facing a Changing World from WithinIn this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I reflect on the disempowerment many feel when faced with the scale of change needed in our world, and why that feeling, while understandable, isn’t the whole truth.From the vantage of the Higher Self, let's explore the quiet, often invisible realm of “small power”: the subtle acts, the private alignments, the daily refusals to harden or turn away. These are not minor gestures. They are the bedrock of transformation.I suggest that what we often mistake for a failure of hope is really a call...
2025-06-0819 minThe Higher Self DialoguesFalling Apart, Falling into PlaceIn this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I explore the deep, often disorienting transformation our world is undergoing - a transition where the old world order appears to be collapsing, even as a new, more integrated culture quietly begins to take form.From the perspective of the Higher Self, we look at globalisation and artificial intelligence not as inherently good or evil, but as instruments of a deeper evolutionary process. Though both appear deeply flawed in their current expressions, they also hold the keys to a more unified, spiritually attuned civilisation - if we can...
2025-06-0121 minThe Higher Self DialoguesMilitary Defensiveness Helps Create What it Seeks to AvoidIn this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I examine the instinct to protect ourselves through strength, whether militarily, politically, or psychologically, and ask what it truly costs us. Why do we place so much trust in walls, weapons, and alliances to keep us safe? And what if those very strategies are helping create the conflicts they claim to prevent?Through a nuanced consideration of global defense systems such as NATO and the Iron Dome, this episode explores how our fixation on security often stems from fear rather than wisdom. That fear not only shapes our...
2025-05-2514 minThe Higher Self DialoguesWhat's Behind the Hyper-Masculine and Feminine?In this episode of Higher Self Dialogues, we explore the fear, confusion, and deep defensiveness that often arise when we talk about “masculine” and “feminine” energy—not as gender identities, but as spiritual polarities within each of us. Why do so many people reject the idea that they contain a masculine or feminine side? What is this fear really protecting? And what might happen if we allowed ourselves to integrate what we've spent years resisting?Moving beyond stereotypes and binaries, this episode invites you to understand the divine masculine and feminine as natural forces—present in the cosmos...
2025-05-1809 min
The Higher Self DialoguesCarrying the Ache for a Better WorldWhat do we do with the longing for a better world - one that feels more peaceful, more humane, more whole? In this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I explore the deep ache many of us carry in times of crisis, and the hidden transformation that suffering invites us into, both personally and collectively.From the soul-weariness of spiritual longing to the bitter truths of our global systems, this episode invites us to stay present in the pain, not to escape it. We are midwives to a new world, and our presence - grounded, clear...
2025-05-1114 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Fears Around Others Telling Us Who We AreOur spiritual and sexual poles are changing, and this is expressed in and through individuals and changes in the world that happen very quickly at times, and people get afraid, and feel like their identities are being taken away, or under threat. The recent UK Supreme Court Judgement on the meaning of the words "man", "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010, reveals these fears exist underneath the surface. In this episode, I talk about the underlying dynamics and what we can do about them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...
2025-05-0416 minThe Higher Self DialoguesIssues of the Day from a Higher PerspectiveThe view from Higher Self is like the view from a mountain top compared to one that's buried deep in the forest - so much is clear, expansive, connected. But living in the polarised world can be a challenge, which calls for taking a position, a limited perspective. How can this be squared? This episode introduces something that I've been developing and finding my way with recently, which is critical spirituality, and how to bridge the gap between duality and non-duality in the here and now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
2025-04-2717 minThe Higher Self DialoguesThe Struggle of the MindWhen it comes to Higher Self - especially in moments of purely spiritual experience - the mind naturally tries (and understandably so) to make sense of it, to categorize it, even to claim it as part of its domain. But this simply doesn't work.In this episode of the Higher Self Dialogues, I reflect on how the mind grapples with what is, by nature, beyond its grasp. Higher Self isn’t something the mind can fully hold or explain - and from the vantage point of higher self, the mind’s effort to do so can seem a...
2025-04-1923 min
The Higher Self DialoguesHigher Self is not a PartIn discussing and speaking about or from higher self, it's all too easy (and entirely forgiveable) to speak as though it is a "part" of the self, something to integrate. But this is not the case... In this episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, I explore my own error and over-focus on discussing higher self as being a part of self. From the higher self perspective, this is quite strange. 🌀 Themes:Spiritual connectionAwakening and alienationFeeling like an outsiderSoul searching and identityH...
2025-04-1229 minThe Higher Self DialoguesFeeling Abandoned by the Higher SelfAt times on the spiritual road, your Higher Self seems to abandon you. It can cause a "dark night" of the soul, who feels the pain of separation from the source of one's own being. But is it really so? In this episode, I get to grips with this subject and share what happened with me recently, and my own experience of disconnection from Higher Self Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-04-0429 min
The Higher Self DialoguesYour Higher Self Wants You!Whilst the journey "to" your Higher Self seems like a struggle, your Higher Self actually wants to connect and overcome separation. Your Higher Self wants You! But many things get in the way of this connection. In this episode, we explore what is going on... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-04-0235 min
The Higher Self DialoguesThe Strange Lonely Wanderers of the Higher SelfWelcome to this very first episode of The Higher Self Dialogues, where I share my own journey with Higher Self, and speak from this to you and your own Higher Self. Until we connect with Higher Self, we're like strange little lonely wanderers, running around bumping into everything, getting hurt. The Higher Self journey is one of gradual freedom and release from the struggle of life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-3133 min
The Take OnHow Man Utd Need To Raise The StandardsMcTominay saves ten Hag! Man United were very close to losing again. Arsenal finally beat Manchester City! Eden Hazard announces his retirement! Prime Hazard vs Prime Salah! Welcome to another episode of The Take On! Flex, Anton Ferdinand, Danny Murphy sit down to discuss the Arsenal vs Man City game. What does this game do for Arsenal’s confidence and mentality? Should Kovacic have been sent off? Man United won 2-1 against Brentford with a late winner from McTominay. Can Man United afford to lose him? Tottenham are top of the Premier League going into the International Break after winning 1-0...
2023-10-1146 min
The Martinus Cosmology PodcastEpisode 29: “The Christmas Gospel” – a new publicationMary McGovern interviews translator Anton Jarrod about his first translation of a book by Martinus – “The Christmas Gospel”. It will be published for the first time in English on 10th December. When Martinus gives his lecture on “The Christmas Gospel” on 10th December 1944, the world is still in the darkness of war and largely unaware of its most abhorrent horrors. But its end is approaching and there is a glimmer of light. And it is this light in the darkness that is perhaps the very subject of Martinus’s cosmic retelling of the nativity. For him, the gospels...
2019-11-2911 min
F-Stop Collaborate and ListenBrenda Petrella - Vermont and Outdoor Photography SchoolWelcome to Episode 131 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. For the full liner notes, visit my website.
This week's episode features a nature photographer and educator living in the State of Vermont - Brenda Petrella. Brenda is the owner of Outdoor Photography School and is a passionate advocate for the Nature First Photography movement. Equipped with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Brenda's goal is to get more women out doing nature and landscape photography. She runs a YouTube channel where she inspires others to love the natural world through photography.
Brenda and I explored several...
2019-10-231h 19
The Martinus Cosmology PodcastEpisode 11: Martinus’s unique contribution to modern spiritualityBased in London, Anton Jarrod is a writer and researcher, focusing on and specializing in modern spirituality from 1850 onwards. He is the author of Martinus Cosmology and Spiritual Evolution (2017), which looks at Martinus’s ideas about the evolution of the human being in relation to the Gospel narratives of the life of Jesus, the archetypal human being. He is currently working in the field of sociology, exploring the relationship between spirituality and the world of work. (See www.antonjarrod.com) In this podcast Mary McGovern interviews Anton Jarrod about what he considers Martinus's unique contribution to modern sp...
2018-06-0246 min
Pound 4 Pound Boxing ReportPound 4 Pound Boxing Report 8/8/14 - Let the Hype For Hopkins vs. Kovalev Begin!!!August 8, 2014
On this episode of the P4P Boxing Report:
Boxing Recap
- Sergey Kovalev's KO over Blake Caparello and Kovalev's big fight coming up against Bernard Hopkins.
- Brandon Rios defeats Diego Chaves by 9th round DQ in a fight ruined by the inept refereeing of Vic Drakulich.
- Jesse Vargas is the benefactor of hometown judging (again) as he defeats Anton Novikov.
- Andre Dirrell makes his return to the ring.
- Thomas Williams Jr., is given his moment to shine... and flops big time!
Boxing Previews
- Danny Garcia vs. Rod Salka
- Lamont Peterson vs. Edgar S...
2014-08-081h 48
The Iconocastthe Iconocast: Vincent Harding (episode 46)In this interview, Joanna and Jarrod interview Vincent Harding.
Vincent Harding is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is chairperson of the Veterans of Hope Project, which he founded in 1997 with his late wife, Rosemarie Freeney Harding. As longtime activists and teachers, the Hardings began their work in the Mennonite Church in Chicago, Illinois, in the late 1950s and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1961 to join with Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the southern freedom movement. Vincent Harding occasionally drafted speeches for Martin Luther King, including his f...
2013-05-0646 min