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Love Walks HereEpisode 8. Challenges of Embodying Love in a Changing WorldIn this episode of "Love Walks Here," hosts Maryn and James discuss the challenges of embodying love amidst significant societal changes.James shares his struggles with adapting to a rapidly changing world, particularly the discomfort of leaving his routine and the impact of global events on his personal life. He reflects on the interconnectedness of life, using examples like supply chains and the environment. Maryn adds her perspective, considering the broader implications for America and the role of love in holding boundaries and supporting others through their karmic experiences. Both emphasize the importance of awareness, resilience, and the...2025-06-0938 minLove Walks HereEpisode 7. Embodying love and navigating the "wild unknown."Episode 7. In this episode of "Love Walks Here," hosts James and Maryn discuss the the challenges of embodying love and navigating the "wild unknown."Maryn shares her experience with chronic anxiety and how Incarnational Spirituality exercises, like the "touch of love," have helped her manage it. She also reflects on the collective stress and the need to shift from a victim mindset to one of empowerment and creativity. James adds insights on the physiological responses to anxiety and the importance of community and hope in facing challenges. Both hosts encourage listeners to embrace the present and imagine a h...2025-04-2432 minLove Walks HereEpisode 6. The challenges of embodying and anchoring love during tumultuous times.In episode six of "Love Walks Here," hosts James and Maryn discuss the challenges of embodying and anchoring love during tumultuous times.Maryn shares her struggles with offering guidance through her Substack, questioning the appropriateness of her support amidst societal upheaval. James uses the metaphor of different waders to illustrate the depth of their discussions and the need for adaptability. They explore the balance between addressing immediate needs and maintaining a long-term vision. Both emphasize the importance of meeting people where they are, whether in grief or seeking stability, and the role of community and neighborliness in navigating...2025-03-2427 minLove Walks HereEpisode 5. "Defiant humanism" - the importance of humanizing others and finding community.In episode five of "Love Walks Here," hosts James and Maryn discuss discuss the concept of "defiant humanism" as presented by David Brooks, emphasizing the importance of humanizing others and finding community.They explore the impact of social media on self-centeredness and the challenge of seeing the sacred in the world. Maryn highlights the generational differences in perception, noting the prevalence of self-centeredness among younger generations. They delve into Incarnational Spirituality, which encourages seeing the sacred in all aspects of life, including nature and others, and the potential for collective growth through mutual respect and love.. L...2025-03-1728 minLove Walks HereEpisode 4. Love walking in our lives through the experience with illness and transformation.In episode four of "Love Walks Here," hosts James and Maryn discuss Love walking in their lives through the experience with illness and transformation. Maryn reflects on profound changes following her recent bout of COVID, emphasizing the need to navigate transformation with love. James shares his struggle his body's response to external changes. They both talk about an energetic shift, likened to a wave, and discuss the concept of "sacred disruption" as a necessary process for growth. Despite the challenges, they find solace in the idea that love is present, even in difficult times, and emphasize th...2025-03-1024 minLove Walks HereEpisode 3. Souls, Sovereignty, and expressing Love.In episode three of "Love Walks Here," hosts Maryn and I explore Incarnational Spirituality, focusing on the idea of souls incarnating into bodies, the need for sovereignty, and the importance of relationship in expressing love.We also delve into the idea of authenticity, arguing that different expressions of self in various relationships are authentic. The conversation highlights the importance of empathy, grace, and the interconnectedness of all beings.Love Walks Here a podcast is about embodying love in our lives.Love Walks Here the Substack blog project written by Maryn is done in a “De...2025-03-0332 minLove Walks HereEpisode 2. What is Love?In this episode of "Love Walks Here," Maryn & I discuss the concept of embodying love and the challenges of defining love in various contexts.Maryn shares her experiences of love as a boundary-setting force, emphasizing that love can involve saying no. We explore the idea that love can coexist with boundaries and that love is not permission to be permissive. The conversation highlights the importance of boundaries in maintaining healthy relationships and the nuanced ways love manifests in different forms.Love Walks Here a podcast is about embodying love in our lives.Love Walks...2025-02-2421 minLove Walks HereEpisode 1. Bringing the wisdom of Incarnational Spirituality out into the worldIn this first episode we talk about the origins of Love Walks Here.Love Walks Here is part of a creative project of Lorian with the intention of opening Incarnational Spirituality to an audience that hasn’t found us yet. Love Walks Here the podcast is about embodying love in our lives.Love Walks Here the Substack blog project written by Maryn is done in a “Dear Abby” question and response style.We believe this will be a new and creative approach to bringing the wisdom of Incarnational Spirituality further out into the wor...2025-02-1728 min
Lorian’s 50th Anniversary PodcastReflections on Lorians 50 Year Legacy with Rue HassWelcome to Lorian’s 50th anniversary Podcast, a series of podcast conversations with those who have been part of that 50 years from the initial founding of Lorian to the present day. Today’s guest is Rue Hass.Rue is a Spiritual Life Path Coach, Intuitive Mentor, author and Lorian faculty member. Her background includes university teaching, training in psycho-spiritual philosophy, and energy psychology. She was ordained as a Lorian minister/priest in 2011. I'm your host, James Tousignant. I hope you enjoy our conversation.2024-03-1754 minLorian’s 50th Anniversary PodcastReflections on Lorians 50 Year Legacy with Jeremy BergWelcome to Lorian's 50th anniversary podcast, a series of podcast conversations with those who have been part of that 50 years from the initial founding of Lorian to the present day. Today's guest is Jeremy Berg. Jeremy is the Executive Director of the Lorian Association. He is also owner of Lorian Press LLC. Jeremy is the author of The Gathering Light, Faerie Blood and artist for The Card Deck of the Sidhe and The Subtle Activism card deck. Jeremy has taught at both the secondary and post-secondary level and has been a college dean and vice president. He is...2024-02-1243 minLorian’s 50th Anniversary PodcastReflections on Lorian's 50 Year Legacy with Freya SecrestWelcome to Lorian’s 50th anniversary Podcast, a series of podcast conversations with those who have been part of that 50 years from the initial founding of Lorian to the present day. Today’s guest is Freya Secrest. Freya is the Education Director of the Lorian Association. She is a Spiritual Director, adult educator and Lorian priest. She lived at the Findhorn community in Scotland for three years, subsequently teaching with Dorothy Maclean on themes of Cooperation with Nature. I hope you enjoy our conversation.James2024-01-1437 minLorian’s 50th Anniversary PodcastReflections on Lorian's 50 Year Legacy with David & Julie SpanglerIn 2024, the Lorian Association will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. Starting this Fall, Lorian is offering a series of podcast conversations with those who have been part of that 50 years from our initial founding to the present day. This series of conversations ‘kicked-off’ with a live Free Webinar on November 9, 2023 - “Reflections on Lorian's 50 Year Legacy - with David and Julie Spangler” hosted by James Tousignant.The Lorian Legacy podcast series continues in 2024, drawing upon multiple voices, hearts, and perspectives to share the Association’s 50-year legacy. The first podcast in the series will be David and...2024-01-141h 28
Uncommon ConversationsRooted and Resiliant - in conversation with Freya Secrest and Maryn SpanglerIn today's episode James is joined by Lorian Faculty members Freya Secrest and Maryn Spangler. Together they share their inspiration for their new event titled Radiant and Resilient, and excitement in offering this opportunity to the Commons Community and the public at large.In a world where our dominant experience can be one of overwhelm and separation, it becomes more and more important for each of us to make choices that help foster connection and stability. Join Maryn Spangler and Freya Secrest in this focused 10-day discovery to explore how we can stay rooted and connected...2023-11-0431 min
Caravan ConversationsA Year of Living Miraculously - In conversation with Sanaa Abouayoub and Morgan FontaineA Year of Living Miraculously is a year-long offering of conversations with Caravan community members who have been exploring The Caravan of Remembering by Daniel Goodenough.Each month we invite individuals to share their experiences and what it means to co-create the journey of their life’s mission, and the ways they have integrated their reflections from the book into their own lives.Todays guests are Sanaa Abouayoub and Morgan Fontaine.2023-05-2338 minUncommon ConversationsPresent Day Mystery Schools - applied holistic living with William Bloom and David SpanglerWhat once were the Mysteries might now be called “applied holistic living,” living in a manner that blends both the physical and non-physical sides of our nature and of the world. Indeed, the function of any true Mystery school is not to revel in mysteries but to make the world less mysterious, more known, more understood in ways that enhance our ability to work collaboratively with the forces of creation because we are one of those forces. The function of a Mystery school is revelation and empowerment.This is what David seeks to do in Lorian, and it also...2023-05-1242 minCaravan ConversationsA Year of Living Miraculously - In conversation with Daya HarrisA Year of Living Miraculously is a year-long offering of conversations with Caravan community members who have been exploring The Caravan of Remembering by Daniel Goodenough.Each month we invite individuals to share their experiences and what it means to co-create the journey of their life’s mission, and the ways they have integrated their reflections from the book into their own lives.Todays guest is Daya Harris. As a psycho-spiritual and transition coach Daya supports people in a kind, gentle, and positive with living an authentic, heart-filled, peace-based life while healing old, past, negative stories wh...2023-03-1415 minCaravan ConversationsA Year of Living Miraculously - In conversation with Carissa & JamesIn 2023, our monthly podcast is called “A Year of Living Miraculously” as a follow up to last years podcast, “A Year of Living Dangerously.” We could say that what was dangerous to the ego last year becomes this year’s miracle. Our format has shifted some, as we are now beginning to meet with members of the Caravan community who have been exploring the questions in the book for some time.We (James and Carissa) are interested in the lived experiences of each person we speak with, and the ways they have integrated their reflections from The Carava...2023-03-1431 minUncommon ConversationsInternet Incarnation - Embodying Wholeness in CyberspaceIn today's episode David Spangler, Maryn Spangler and James Tousignant discuss how the teachings and tools of Incarnational Spirituality provide a way to partner with the Internet in awareness and integrity. There is a distinct parallel between the experience of the subtle worlds and that of the internet, as both represent an energy environment. Maryn, David and James will be exploring these parallels, and how to hold our sovereignty and embody our wholeness in an upcoming Lorian class titled "Internet Incarnation - Embodying Wholeness in Cyberspace"Maryn is an embodiment coach. She supports people in becoming...2023-02-2846 minCaravan ConversationsHow can you choose anything other than your life's mission?Welcome to week fifty-two, our final week!This week, we complete A Year of Living Dangerously with a reflection on choosing anything but our life mission, something that is within us from the beginning and doesn't originate in the horizontal world. Excerpt:Here in Caravan, I ask, is there a life that makes sense to live that does not include the reason we were sent? Can you conceive of choosing anything but your life mission?”The man replied, “Depth psychologist James Hillman addressed this question in his book The Soul’s Code. He ref...2023-01-1313 minCaravan ConversationsLife mission brings out the goodness in life and our ability to make a differenceWelcome to week fifty-one. This week David reflects in his expedition journal about the way that life mission brings out the goodness of life and the ability to make a real difference.ExcerptWhen I think about life mission and the basic goodness of people, I wonder how anyone could be doing their life mission and not be in a space of gratitude and kindness. Life mission brings out the goodness of life. Life mission keeps our eyes full of wonder and the beauty of life. If I think of all the times I looked around...2023-01-0711 minCaravan ConversationsOur life mission is a being that lives in both worldsWelcome to week 50. This week Jun shares about the co-creative aspect of life mission. Jun moved wood in the fire with his cane as he began again, his voice just loud enough to be heard. “Our work in Caravan assists our horizontal world selves in the work of embodying our life missions. Together with the One that sent us, we create a container for the work in the horizontal world. There is another kind of miracle that happens with this. Something is created that is a kind of life. We co-create the being of our life mission. Like ou...2022-12-3109 minCaravan ConversationsReflections on the timeless nature of CaravanWelcome to week forty-nine. This week David reflects on the timeless nature of Caravan.Excerpt:I saw Caravan moving through this universe outside of time, holding us, calling us to honor our agreement with the One that sent us. I felt the unending patience and grace of the work in Caravan. I felt the currents of collective mythic and cultural stories moving through the personal life missions of the hundred billion lives said to have lived in our world over its history. In a way that I have no words for, I felt my place in...2022-12-2313 minCaravan ConversationsLiving one’s life mission is a process, not the end product.Welcome to week forty-eight. This week, David reflects that living one’s life mission is a process, not the end product.Excerpt: We're told we travel for eternity and Caravan. We adjust as many times and as often as we need to. This leads me to believe that living my life mission is a process, not the end product.Life mission is a journey and preparing the container for spirit. It's not so important that the big dream becomes a reality in this world, it's important that we're about the business of moving toward that vision or...2022-12-1812 minCaravan ConversationsLife Mission - Company of PlayersWelcome to week forty-seven. This week, David reflects on the coming together of a new company of players for his life in the horizontal world. Excerpt: I reflected again on Viola’s wish in Shakespeare in Love to spend her whole life dreaming if she could do it in the company of players. She meant fellow actors. When I set out to do design and illustration, these incredible beings were my company of players, and I had come to love them. Now, I was being called to a new company of players. I thought each domain or life mi...2022-12-1811 minCaravan ConversationsTelling your higher storyWelcome to week forty-six. This week, David listens to someone sharing around a campfire and reflects on the process of telling a higher story. Excerpt: We stopped next to a campfire and listened as an elegant man completed a story. The pilgrims of Caravan appeared to have returned to dressing in more or less modern attire. The work with life mission moving through time seemed to be complete for the moment. As the man finished speaking, I realized it was his story. His was a story of a life between two worlds. He asked...2022-12-0209 minCaravan ConversationsEach moment is an opportunity for the One to touch your worldWelcome to week forty-five. This week, Jun invites David to remember the sacred trust of life mission, and that each moment is an opportunity to embody our greatness.Excerpt:Jun stopped in front of me. He looked for a moment at Verity, still sitting next to me, then looked directly into my eyes. “When you return to the horizontal world,” he said, “remember that your life mission is a sacred trust and spiritual practice. Your work this twilight morning in Caravan and for eternity is always this. Remember as you work with your campfire. Remember as you move throug...2022-11-2509 minCaravan ConversationsLife mission will call you to make the tough choicesWelcome to week forty four. The week, Jun invites us to reflect on those moments when we choose to bring ourselves back from the shadows and fears, and how this transforms us.Excerpt:“Your work is to transform within,” he said, “to prepare the container for the Beloved. The days when you bring yourself back are the days when you face your fears and doubts and the depths of your shadow. Everything that keeps you from your brilliance will be there in front of you. Every time you bring yourself back to your agreement with the One, that is the...2022-11-1814 minUncommon ConversationsIs Incarnational Spirituality a contemporary mystery school?Today's episode presents a conversation between David Spangler and James Tousignant in which James and David discuss a recent electronic newsletter by William Bloom, on the question of what is a contemporary mystery school?You can find William's electronic newsletter at https://williambloom.com David is the spiritual director of Lorian, a spiritual explorer, teacher, writer, game designer, husband, and father. His work with both his non-physical colleagues and his Lorian associates has led to the development of Incarnational Spirituality.James is the host of Uncommon Conversations, a faculty member and ordained minister of Incarnational Spirituality. His pas...2022-11-1539 minCaravan ConversationsReflections on vision, mission and purposeWelcome to week forty-three. The week, David reflects on his investigation into vision, mission and purpose.Excerpt:Perhaps vision is a kind of revelation about what we’re assigned to do that we combine with the reality of our life. This will involve the missions of others. It would include our personal uniqueness, the uniqueness of the time and the environment we’re born to, and the involvement of untold numbers of people around the world.This morning, I think mission is personal, a task or assignment I’m designed for and sent here with, my destiny. Like a...2022-11-1114 minCaravan ConversationsWhat larger myth have we agreed to take our place in?Welcome to week forty-two. The week, David reflects on myth, the myths he has known in the world in the context of the larger myth he has agreed to take his place in.Excerpt:As I drove toward the used bookstore section of downtown Chicago, I thought about the myths of the world I knew. I thought about classic myths of Greek gods and goddesses. Inwardly, on the screen of my imagination, I reviewed Arthurian legends and the myth of the Wild West that were so much a part of my childhood. I returned to the aspect of...2022-11-0411 minCaravan ConversationsCreativity can help us not be the sum of our pastWelcome to week forty-one. This week, David reflects on the ways creativity can help us not be the sum of our past, so we can make new choices and allow a new future to emerge.Excerpt:Still as Pir Vilayat wrote, “If life is creative, then we are not simply the effect of our past.” We’re capable of creating a life mission from the song of our soul that is not the sum of our wounds, even if our life mission is a solution to a wound.I want to do this ashes work. I want to honor...2022-10-2810 minCaravan ConversationsConnect to the possibility of remembering, as a lucid witness your yesWelcome to week forty. This week, David experiences himself as a lucid witness to his life in the horizontal world and agreeing.Excerpt:Verity touched Anni and me on the arm. She looked into our eyes, and something met in the space between us. Something in my forehead reached out to meet something from hers . . . and something began. Verity turned and began walking. Anni and I joined her, walking a pace or two behind, a triangle moving through waves of Caravan’s pilgrims.I remained aware of walking within Caravan’s world and simultaneously moving into the strea...2022-10-2112 minCaravan ConversationsDo you know when your inner beings are on the move?Welcome to week thirty-nine. This week, David reflects on how resistance shows up in his life when he is moving in the direction of his life's mission.Excerpt:I had something real to do, and though some part of me wanted to rebel, that something was always there. Real to me outside that emergency room and with Kairos, that something the heart of hearts knows and calls to, that transcends who I think I am, what I think I know and especially what I fear. Longing and a sense of calling had tugged at me, and because I c...2022-10-1413 minUncommon ConversationsGenerational differences in focus - societal change or personal developmentToday's episode presents a second conversation between David Spangler and his daughter Maryn Spangler on generational differences in focus: societal change or personal development.David is the spiritual director of Lorian, a spiritual explorer, teacher, writer, game designer, husband, and father. His work with both his non-physical colleagues and his Lorian associates has led to the development of Incarnational Spirituality.Maryn is an embodiment coach. She supports people in becoming a clear channel of their whole soul selves and to create a life in alignment with that. She does this through somato-emotional integration and healing, energetic integrity practices...2022-10-1136 minCaravan ConversationsA life mission is never decided by a single decisionWelcome to week thirty-eight. This week, Jun invites Caravan explorers to reflect on the choices, large and small, that our life mission asks us to make each day.Excerpt:Jun leaned back on his heels. “The horizontal world beckons, shiny possibilities calling simultaneously from every direction. Life mission is a narrowing. Life mission will call you to make the tough choices. Itwill always test you. It will make you choose, and it will ask this every single day. The deciding factor in whether or not you will manifest your life mission is your ability to choose every day. A li...2022-10-0712 minCaravan ConversationsThe Bodhicitta vow and life missionWelcome to week thirty-seven. This week, Savitri invites people sitting around the campfire to reflect on the Bodhicitta vow and its’ relationship to life mission.Excerpt:“Do you remember the Bodhicitta vow?” Savitri answered. “Boddi has to do with primordial essence, and chitta has to do with the heart. The Bodhicitta vow is coming from the primordial essence of the heart with compassion for all sentient beings. This is a fitting vow for life mission work. It isn’t a requirement to be on the path of your life mission, and it would certainly be in harmony with it. I can’t...2022-09-3010 minCaravan ConversationsGetting tuned up for our place in the plan of the universeWelcome to week thirty-six. This week, David explores two aspects of life mission - life mission coded within us like an acorn and we are part of a larger whole, like an instrument in the orchestra of life.Excerpt:Here in Caravan, I ask, is there a life that makes sense to live that does not include the reason we were sent? Can you conceive of choosing anything but your life mission?”The man replied, “Depth psychologist James Hillman addressed this question in his book The Soul’s Code. He referred to what he called the acorn principle...2022-09-2313 minCaravan ConversationsWhat role does 'meaning' have in your life?Welcome to week thirty-five. This week, Verity invites David to reflect on the role of 'meaning' in his life.Excerpt:Verity turned to me. “You want to know what this means,” she said. “While what something means often is everything, it does not always serve to know immediately. As we walk, allow these questions to sit in your heart for now. Allow the question of meaning itself to move with you.”I thought that meaning and decisions could always be found together. We decide based on meaning. Sometimes something outside tells us what something means. Sometimes it’s the meani...2022-09-1810 minCaravan ConversationsWhat do we know now about our life's mission?Welcome to week thirty-four. This week, Savitri invites those sitting around a campfire to reflect on the journey they embarked on in Caravan and what was packed in their bags. We are invited to reflect on our journey so far in this email course and what we now know.Excerpt:“What do we know now?” she asked. “Here and in the horizontal world? Where are we now in our calling? These questions are always with us. They are why we return to Caravan to remember. As you begin your pilgrimage, consider how you would like it to end. It is a...2022-09-1115 minCaravan Conversationsis your life orchestrated to help you see something?Welcome to week thirty-three. This week, Davide reflects in his expedition journey on the layers of meaning brought to his attention at Caravan, and the question of what he loves.Excerpt:Verity’s questions have me spinning a bit. Her questions about the horizontal world are a bit unsettling. I expect to be questioned in Caravan. The events in Caravan have layers of meaning and call me to interpret them symbolically, metaphorically, and archetypically. I’m not used to thinking of my horizontal world life as though it was orchestrated to help me see something. That I would imagi...2022-09-0412 minCaravan ConversationsInclude everything in your life mission explorationWelcome to week thirty-two. This week, Verity encourages David to include everything in his life mission exploration - interests, passions and even the things that seem like the 'ten thousand things' instead of the One thing. It all has useful information in your life mission exploration.Excerpt:Verity looked back toward Caravan. “Come, come again,” she said, then she turned to look directly at me. “You have put yourself in quite a state, have you not? You are on the right track and asking good questions. You can relax a little. It is serious, and there is room for hum...2022-08-2815 minUncommon ConversationsCultivating a New Gaian Ecology - Collaborative Incarnational Subtle ActivismIn addition to bringing you the stories of fellow Lorian's, we would like to share with you what's new and exciting in Lorian's learning offerings.In today's episode Timothy Hass joins me in conversation around the Lorian's new year-long ChaNGE Training Program - Cultivating a New Gaian Ecology. ChaNGE is an immersive, experiential and, we hope, transformational training in Collaborative Incarnational Subtle Activism.The ChaNGE Training Program is focused into four streams:Developing a personal Practice to deepen our attention, intention and foundational skillsEmbodying the New Gaian Human/Standing ActivistStepping into our place w...2022-08-2620 minCaravan ConversationsWhat would it like to sent on a mission to do the One thing?Welcome to week thirty-one. This week, David imagines what it would be like to be sent on a mission by his king and queen to do the 'One' thingExcerpt:“The Lord works in mysterious ways.” If I remember in each moment my reason for being here, then the legacy will belong to the One that sent me.Rumi said, “It is as if a king sent you to a foreign land, and you did a thousand things, but not the one thing you were sent to do.”I’ve been sent on a mission and I feel I’ve d...2022-08-2209 minCaravan ConversationsLiving the life we're sent to live will create a ripple in our worldWelcome to week thirty. This week, David reflects on the something "great" he would choose to be a part of.Excerpt:From my time in Caravan I know we’re sent, and that there is meaning to our lives. We don’t have to create a company or institution. To live the life we’re sent to live will create a ripple in our world.A character in a movie I saw talked about the effect of being part of something great. He said all it takes is a moment, being part of something great, and nothing in your...2022-08-1509 minCaravan ConversationsWhat if the Angel of Death were with me, here, now?Welcome to week twenty-nine. This week, David reflects on who he would have to become so that, at the end of his life, he could walk calmly towards what is next.Excerpt:Now as I write, I wonder: If I stood before the One that sent me, how would I feel about what I’ve designed for my life? How would I account for what I’ve done with the design given to me? Until Verity called me to Caravan, had I ever thought about the design I was given? Had I ever thought in terms of what co-de...2022-08-0811 minCaravan ConversationsThe call of your heart of heart - designing your lifeWelcome to week twenty-eight. This week, David continues to explore designing his ideal life and the call of his heart of heart.Excerpt:It occurred to me then, that I could not just design my day. Days sat within the context of weeks, which sat within the context of months, within a year. Over the average week how would I design a day, and how then, was a week built? How do I create my ideal? How did weeks create months, within a year of my heart’s ideal? How would my ideal accommodate the ebb and flow of...2022-07-3113 minUncommon ConversationsEmbodying your best self - two generations perspectiveToday's episode presents David Spangler and his daughter Maryn Spangler in conversation on embodying your best self.David is the spiritual director of Lorian, a spiritual explorer, teacher, writer, game designer, husband, and father. His work with both his non-physical colleagues and his Lorian associates has led to the development of Incarnational Spirituality.Maryn is an embodiment coach. She supports people in becoming a clear channel of their whole soul selves and to create a life in alignment with that. She does this through somato-emotional integration and healing, energetic integrity practices, and deepening the experience of embodiment. She...2022-07-2829 minCaravan ConversationsWhat would your ideal day be?Welcome to week twenty-seven. This week, David begins to creatively explore designing his life and his ideal day.Excerpt:I had design work to do for the studio, and the only design I had the heart for was this life, my new life now in the horizontal world. I realized it was more a chain of events that had swept me to the place I found myself, than any conscious choice. In the moment of deciding I must have thought I was choosing. It was only in retrospect that I could see I’d been carried by a curr...2022-07-2411 minCaravan ConversationsCommitting to the process of life missionWelcome to week twenty-six. This week, David reflects on the life force necessary to show up to life mission, and the commitment needed to discover what is next for him.Excerpt:I returned to threading the edge of Caravan, holding memories both simultaneous and layered. What Jun had said earlier moved deeper into my heart. I thought about life mission as trust, vow, and spiritualpractice. I thought about my life in the horizontal world and the tests of life mission. I felt the weight of the life force necessary to show up every day to my intention to l...2022-07-1709 minCaravan ConversationsIf you could choose your life now, how would you design it?Welcome to week-twenty five. This week, David reflects on what it would mean to design his life by choice. How would he design it?Excerpt:As I prepared to get ready for my day as a designer, I realized I had never designed this day, this life, at least not with intention. This was just where I had wound up. My life was great in so many ways, and Iknew in my bones how blessed I was. It even had some elements of what I had dreamed of in my earliest memories. When did it happen, that I f...2022-07-1008 minCaravan ConversationsHow to feel the clues to your life's mission coming together like threads?Welcome to week twenty-four. This week, David sees and feels the clues to his life mission coming together, like threads. In the practice section, we continue to explore the process from last week, including Step 3.Excerpt:I saw the “ten thousand things,” code for choices without number. I felt the clues from the campfires moving in and through the eddies, moving now toward a choice. I felt the pieces, the threads of the weave, and their hints of possibility. Art, science, spirit, and life mission wove themselves together with all the other passions of my life. I felt the d...2022-07-0514 minCaravan ConversationsLife mission practice: reticular activating systemWelcome to week twenty three. This week, David and Anna explore the reticular activating system as a way of understanding the blueprint within us for our life's mission. This week's edition come with a practice that we'll follow up on next week.Excerpt:“I’ve been asking why, out of all the possible life missions I could notice, why this life mission, and why this person? Why did I even notice? I could have gone right past it. What chain of events or synchronicity brought this person and life mission to my life and awareness? I could chalk it u...2022-06-2709 minCaravan ConversationsThe context of life mission as our compass through the shifting sands of lifeWelcome to week twenty twenty-two. This week, David reflects in his expedition journal about the context of life mission, the difference between purpose and mission and life mission as our compass through the shifting sands of life.Excerpt:It’s clear in Caravan that this mission is to be the foundation of our life in the horizontal world. It’s the underlying grid for the structure of our life. It’s meant to be the context for every decision we make in this life.The first difference between purpose and mission is the source of each word.Mi...2022-06-2008 minUncommon ConversationsLucinda Herring - part 2: What does it mean to co-create with Nature, our Bodies and the Earth at the threshold of death?Lucinda Herring returns to the podcast to continue our conversation. Lucinda has studied with David Spangler since the 1990’s, received her Masters in Spiritual Direction from Lorian in 2009, and was ordained as a Lorian priest in 2011. She has an eclectic spiritual path – blending Anthroposophy, the Ceile De tradition, and thirty years as a Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner with her Incarnational Spirituality/Sidhe/Gaian focus and practices today.Lucinda considers herself a Gatekeeper, helping others navigate life’s thresholds and passages in ways that build resiliency and co-creative connection with Gaia, nature and the subtle realms. She has focused on both ends o...2022-06-1823 minCaravan ConversationsWill this move me closer to or away from our agreementWelcome to week twenty-one. This week, Savitri, a Caravan Guide, asks us, as we sit around the campfire, to reflect on our life choices and with each decision we make if this will move us closer to our agreement with the One or away from it.Excerpt:Savitri turned to watch the fire for a moment. Then, as if hearing something land in us, she went on with the lesson. “What if for each choice and decision in your life you had a context to choose from? Consider this question as that context. Ask yourself with each decision you...2022-06-1408 minCaravan ConversationsWhat would a year of living dangerously mean to you?Welcome to week twenty. This week, David reflects on what it would mean to consciously 'live dangerously' and how risking for his life mission might be the safest thing he could do.Excerpt:I remembered a movie called The Year of Living Dangerously. This title always stirred something in me. What I wanted to know was what a year of living dangerously meant to me. It had the perfume of a romantic notion when it drifted though my mind usually. That night I wanted to know if it carried the possibility of a year of really living. What wo...2022-06-0712 minCaravan ConversationsLooking for clues through noticing what you noticeWelcome to week nineteen. This week, David reflects on the process of looking for clues about life mission through what he notices, is drawn to and loves.Excerpt:What I loved, I noticed. Looking back, it was difficult to tell which came first. Maybe that was itself a key. Sometimes, I loved what I was drawn to, which was why I noticed. What drew me when I didn’t love what I noticed? What was happening when something I noticed led later to a growing love for it?I began to have a different relationship with the way...2022-05-2911 minCaravan ConversationsWhat have you wanted during your lifetime?Welcome to week eighteen. This week, Kairos invites David to reflect on what he has wanted during his lifetime, and to reconnect with what he wanted as a child and a teenager.Excerpt:I sit at the edge tonight as we are about to begin, thinking about the many things I have wanted over the course of my life, a question Kairos left us with. I could say they changed since I was young, and yet that isn’t entirely true. Most of what I want now, I’ve wanted all my life.Kairos asked me what I beli...2022-05-2411 minUncommon ConversationsLucinda Herring - part 1Todays’ guest is Lucinda Herring. Lucinda has studied with David Spangler since the 1990’s, received her Masters in Spiritual Direction from Lorian in 2009, and was ordained as a Lorian priest in 2011. She has an eclectic spiritual path – blending Anthroposophy, the Ceile De tradition, and thirty years as a Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner with her Incarnational Spirituality/Sidhe/Gaian focus and practices today. Lucinda considers herself a Gatekeeper, helping others navigate life’s thresholds and passages in ways that build resiliency and co-creative connection with Gaia, nature and the subtle realms. She has focused on both ends of life, working with children a...2022-05-1919 minCaravan ConversationsWhat does it mean that life mission is personal?Welcome to week seventeen. This week, David reflects reflects on where he has avoided the question of life mission and also the personal nature of life mission.Excerpt:It felt good to shower and feel the water running over my physical body. It felt good to be back in the horizontal world, and I was inspired by my trips to Caravan. Moving between Caravan and the horizontal world, I could no longer ignore the call. I knew my life wasn’t right. I wasn’t happy. Still, I avoided the tough questions. I hadn’t recognized that I’d been in...2022-05-1511 minCaravan ConversationsHow to connect to the being of your life's missionWelcome to week sixteen. This week, Jun, a Caravan Guide, explains the nature of the being of life mission and how we may connect with it.Excerpt:Jun stood next to me then. He touched my shoulder for a second as he continued. “Yes, the being of your life mission is with you here in Caravan. It is a part of you, has been with you from the beginning,and does this work with you. It also is a being with its own integrity. It is timeless, as you are. You can ask for its help here as you...2022-05-0811 minCaravan ConversationsLife Mission - For the love of the gameWelcome to week fifteen. This week, David reflects on the saying "for the love of the game" in relation to his life's mission.Excerpt:“For the Love of the Game.” I used to hear that phrase in reference to Michael Jordan. I thought he represented something that was important for me to understand. Can we really do our life mission without on some level being in touch with this “love of the game”?When I think about why I’m here and how I would bring this love of the game to my work in the world, the love of...2022-05-0312 minCaravan ConversationsWho do you think is doing their life's mission?Welcome to week fourteen. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering,Excerpt:On the way to the hotel where the man was speaking, I asked Anna, “Have you been thinking about who you thought was or is doing their life mission?”“Yes, from time to time. Why?”“It’s a place to begin talking about what life mission means. You said you wanted to know.“I feel some of the writers I love might be doing their life mission. There are people who fight for something that strike me as having found something. Life mission? I’m not so sure...2022-04-2408 minCaravan ConversationsWhat else is there for you to remember?Welcome to week thirteen. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, Verity helps David prepare to bring his life mission work more fully into the horizontal world.Excerpt:Use all you have learned here to continue discerning your own life mission. You still have more to remember to begin your work with Anna in the horizontal world. As you tour your country teaching people to work in the field, use the movement of your life to remember. Ask yourself who you are there. What else is there for you to remember? What have you learned in Ca...2022-04-1910 minCaravan ConversationsManifesting life mission in this world often comes down to communityWelcome to week twelve. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, Savitri shares about people in our lives and our environment in relation to life mission.Excerpt:She asked, "When we look to this vision of our purpose and mission, and who we surround ourselves with, there is a correspondence between them. It makes a difference in the end. It changes the course of our lives. Our mission simply cannot be done without the influence, inspiration, and support of the right people. The question of whether or not we manifest our mission will come down to th...2022-04-1210 minCaravan ConversationsWhat life mission clues are found in how others describe you?Welcome to week eleven. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, David ponders others would say about him that would give a clue to his life's mission.Excerpt:How would my current friends in the horizontal world describe me? Distracted, I imagine. A little out of it, not too engaged, somewhere else. That would all be true. I've been in both worlds and not at all adept navigating yet. I don't think that's what Verity is asking.They might also say creative, open, questioning, and driven many ways. Seeking something, wanting to be different. They wou...2022-04-0210 minCaravan ConversationsThe being of your life missionWelcome to week ten. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, David explores life mission as a 'being', as Jun gives him some pointers.Excerpt:I wanted to be able to go inside myself and call the being of my life mission. If the being of my life mission is present in my time in the horizontal world, then is it also with me in Caravan?Jun stood next to me then. "Yes, the being of your life mission is with you here in Caravan. It is a part of you, has been with you fro...2022-03-3005 minCaravan ConversationsThinking about the how of life mission while still asking whatWelcome to week nine. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, David, in conversation with Anna, reflects on the question of "how" to live their life's mission.Excerpt:I said, "How do we live our life mission in the world? Once we remember our agreement with the One that sent us, how do we live it? How do we actually bring life mission into form? How do we make it real and tangible and practical?"To think about the 'how' while still asking 'what' could prevent us from considering something that seemed too daunting.""What I...2022-03-2007 minCaravan ConversationsIs life mission for all times and places?Welcome to week eight. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, David reflects in his expedition journal about whether life mission is for all times and places, or just for the 'lucky few.'Excerpt:I remember a woman around Savitri's campfire asking, "Can the idea of life mission survive hard times? Is this an idea that only works in a good economy for the well-off?"Savitri answered, "It is tempting to think so. Yet this is only the apparent side effect of your current culture. Having a purpose in life is as old as hum...2022-03-1210 minCaravan ConversationsChoosing life mission firstWelcome to week seven. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, David contemplates the relationship between his to-do list and his life's mission.Excerpt:It was morning again when I returned to the horizontal world. I was surprised to be back, apparently for an intermission. As I took my time getting ready for the day in the horizontal world, I paused to appreciate the beauty of early morning. It was reassuring to see the sun rising in the sky. It was even more reassuring to see it higher above the horizon in the sky.As I...2022-03-0808 minCaravan ConversationsWhat do you know about your 'essential nature'?Welcome to week six. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, David listens as Savitri and a young girl have a conversation about Right Livelihood in Buddhism and how it relates to our essential nature.Excerpt:"Right livelihood calls us to be in service to something larger than ourselves.The Eightfold path also calls for the liberation of all sentient beings. I feel that this path also reminds that to be here at all is a great opportunity. Wouldn't that make it important to honor our reason for being here?"Watching her as she talked, Sa...2022-02-2708 minCaravan ConversationsWhat you thought would always be in your life?Welcome to week five. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, Verity asks David and others in Caravan to explore what they thought would always be in their lives, and then consider how this relates to their life's mission.2022-02-2211 minUncommon ConversationsSally FoxTodays’ guest is Sally Fox. Sally is a writer, coach, consultant, and artist. She has taught leadership development and coached professionals thirty-years, only to refocus her business on storytelling and helping others craft a more soulful, creative path for themselves after midlife.Sally holds a Ph.D. from the Fielding Graduate University as well as an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Beyond her academic training, Sally has continued her love for learning through training in improvisational theatre, clowning, and sound healing.She chronicles her journey in her upcoming book tentatively called Peonies, Poetry and Paint, Meeting th...2022-02-1744 minCaravan ConversationsWhat is the deep ache in your heart?Welcome to week four. In this excerpt, David describes how Caravan moved, in near silence, a community deep in contemplation. Nearly everyone walking that night appeared to have something weighing on his or her heart - a sea of pilgrims moving together, more inwardly focused than anything else.The collective mood of reflection moved David to ask "what the deep ache in my heart meant for my place in all of this?".2022-02-1207 minCaravan ConversationsWhat do you truly love?In today's episode Carissa and James share their reflections on an excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, where David experiences the collective movement of Caravan, as inviting him into deep reflection. This movement also seems to trigger in him an experience of his own longing.2022-02-0507 minUncommon ConversationsConrad SatalaToday's guest is Conrad Satala. Conrad has been a psychotherapist in Transpersonal and Transformational Psychology since 1976. He is also a full active elder shaman, a Nab’eysil in the Tz'utujiil Maya Traditions in his village in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. He has followed the journey with David Spangler since his time at Findhorn and fully support the principles of Incarnational Spirituality as the core of our livingness as a human being. Conrad lives in Fort Wayne, IN and Santiago, Guatemala CA.2022-02-011h 01Uncommon ConversationsAnna GatmonToday's guest is Dr. Anna Gatmon. Anna is a visionary educator and spiritual innovator. She comes from an eclectic background that spans the US, Israel, Sweden, France. Her rich life experience includes careers as a fashion model, founder of an alternative Elementary School, a counselor, speaker, and an author. She is the creator of the Expansive Community, a membership for changemakers, who are committed to creating spiritual material abundance in all areas of their life and in the lives of the people they live, work and play with. Anna holds a doctorate degree in Transformative Learning from the California Institute...2022-02-0124 minUncommon ConversationsSøren HaugeOur guest today is Søren Hauge. Søren has worked as a spiritual teacher since 1981. He's published over 20 books, two of which are available in English. In 2015. He published the Wild Alliance: Awakening your Inner Angel and Sidhe, in 2020, he published Finding Your Elven Heart: working with the inner realm of the Sidhe. Soren has also developed his own path as a spiritual coach specializing in Soul Flow, Sidhe Wisdom and Energy Psychology.2022-02-0142 minUncommon ConversationsTimothy HassToday's guest is Timothy Hass. Timothy is an ordained Lorian priest, teacher, author, and serves on the Lorian Association Board of Directors. Timothy is a trustee of WILD and has engaged subtle allies on behalf of WILD projects around the world. He is dedicated to helping people fully incarnate and apply the teachings practices and insights of Incarnational Spirituality in their daily lives. His recent book, the Wonderful World of the Home, is a fine example of his experience and wisdom.2022-02-0138 minCaravan ConversationsIts up to us to explore the mysteryWelcome to week two. In this excerpt, David has encountered someone who is claiming to tell people their life mission. He reflects on how the work of Caravan does not do this and that is up to each of us to explore the mystery of who we are.2022-01-2807 minUncommon ConversationsOrigins of the Lorian AssociationIn this episode I talk with David Spangler, the Spiritual Director of the Lorian Association, about the origins of Lorian.2022-01-1926 minUncommon ConversationsLorian and WILDToday's guests are David Spangler, Timothy Hass, and Vance Martin. David is the spiritual director of Lorian. Timothy is a Lorian faculty member and Trustee of WILD. And Vance is the president of WILD. WILD combines on the ground projects with subtle activism and policy interventions to achieve lasting protections for Earth's wildlife, and wild places. You can learn more about WILD by going to WILD.org. In today's episode we'll be talking about WILD and its ongoing connection and relationship with Lorian.2022-01-0759 min
The HuPerson PodcastDeveloping 6.0 leaders requires deep practiseDeveloping 6.0 leaders requires deep practise. It is our birthright to not just manifest our unique signature, but also to up level it at all levels of the structure of mind.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-10-2512 minThe HuPerson PodcastConversations you were made forWe explore the Conversations You Were Made For. The search image of a 4.0 leader will inevitabily lead to 4.0 solutions. If you are coming from a 4.0 context, you will need to filter your search image as the emerging 5.0 will be outside of your awareness.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-10-2507 minThe HuPerson PodcastBuild into our biology is quantum awarenessAs we reach the limits of how much we can upgrade a chip, we have to go to quantum level for the upgrade.https://thehupersonproject.com/ Credit: Lindsey Stirling - Between Twilighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50Gb3bPNI8https://www.lindseystirling.com/home2021-10-2505 minThe HuPerson PodcastTectonic build up in businessPressure builds up when upper levels of the tectonic plates move slower than the lower levels, resulting in earthquakes. Businesses and enterprises are facing a similar build up of pressure.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-10-2502 minThe HuPerson PodcastThe calling of business as mysteryThe beauty of business is in its mystery. Leaders that are intruigued by the mystery will be unitive innovative leaders who bring in a different kind of coversation.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-10-2509 minThe HuPerson PodcastCultivating your unique signatureTo cultivate and curate that unique signature, we are asking for a whole different level of education, training and development. Its integral to personal development to be aware of be more masterful of culture norms and future that wants to happen.https://thehupersonproject.com/ Credit: Lindsey Stirling - Between Twilighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50Gb3bPNI8https://www.lindseystirling.com/home2021-10-2504 minThe HuPerson PodcastBusiness as KoanSelf and culture and natureare liberated together or not at all. We are seeing the seperation of ecological, social and spiritual divide. We need to look at business as a koan. How to be presencing? Whole hearthedly, with effort and sweatnesshttps://thehupersonproject.com/ Credit: Lindsey Stirling - Between Twilighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50Gb3bPNI8 https://www.lindseystirling.com/home2021-10-2508 minThe HuPerson PodcastNew Structure Of MindJapanese moveable walls and the pandemic. Why contribute your unique signature?https://thehupersonproject.com/Credit: Lindsey Stirling - Between Twilighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50Gb3bPNI8https://www.lindseystirling.com/home2021-10-2506 minThe HuPerson PodcastWe are built to grow our awarenessIndustrial age education doesn't prepare you to continuously evolve. It is our birthright to continue to grow our awareness.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-07-2704 minThe HuPerson PodcastDoing business from a whole new levelThe nature of jobs have changed, we are moving away from the hierarchical job bound by job descriptions to a more entrepreneurial world with 6.0 leadership. With so much information available and accelerated by Covid, businesses need to embrace a new operating system.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-07-2706 minThe HuPerson PodcastDeveloping the skills needed for the HuPerson Operating SystemOnce you are awakened to the HuPerson Operating System, you will still need to be developing the skills needed on an ongoing basis.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-07-2702 minThe HuPerson PodcastRemedy for team fragmentationWhat can we learn from Apple's innovation and dominance of the mobile phone market in such a short space of time? How do you remedy team fragmentation? By cultivating one's unique signature. Bringing life mission work interrupted the burnout and brought in a new relationship to your unique signature to your work.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-07-2708 minThe HuPerson PodcastBecoming less certain with your certaintyIn this episode, we look at how leaders need to embrace becoming less certain with certainty. We talk about why we need to move away from a binary thinking into a unitive way of thinking.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-07-2712 minThe HuPerson PodcastShell oil decisionShell oil is being sued in the the Dutch court for contributing towards climate change. If business do not shift their operating system there will be a judgement made if they are contributing towards climate change. In this episode we talk about how black swan anomalies can become the new paradigm. The rules of engagement for businesses need to transform accordingly and businesses need to see the whole.https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-07-2715 minThe HuPerson PodcastUnitive Innovative LeadershipIn this episode, we discuss why 6.0 leadership required unitive innovative leaders. We look at the difference between 4.0 leaders vs innovative 6.0 leaders operating using a new structure of mind. We look at what is true innovation. 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The HuPerson PodcastUnitive Innovative LeadershipIn this episode, we discuss why 6.0 leadership required unitive innovative leaders. We look at the difference between 4.0 leaders vs innovative 6.0 leaders operating using a new structure of mind. We look at what is true innovation. We explore why innovative leaders are unitive.
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https://www.lindseystirling.com/home 2021-07-2728 minThe HuPerson PodcastThe HuPerson Operating System as Medicine for BusinessThe HuPerson Podcast is a deep dive into how a new way of knowing is developing holistic, innovative leaders at all levels of the organization and changing the way business does business.This podcast is hosted by James Tousignant. The HuPerson Podcast features founders of the HuPerson Project, Jill Taylor, Daniel Goodenough and Shelly Cooper. https://thehupersonproject.com/2021-07-2619 minThe HuPerson PodcastThe HuPerson Operating System as Medicine for BusinessThe HuPerson Podcast is a deep dive into how a new way of knowing is developing holistic, innovative leaders at all levels of the organization and changing the way business does business.
This podcast is hosted by James Tousignant. The HuPerson Podcast features founders of the HuPerson Project, Jill Taylor, Daniel Goodenough and Shelly Cooper.
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