The Three Petals
This podcast will discuss aspects of the spiritual, evolutionary journey one takes from the dual state to a realized and awakened state. It will explore ways that one can do the transformational work for this realized, awakened state to happen.
Episodes
20 episodes
Episode 19: An Initial Look At Purpose
In today's episode, we'll take an initial look at what purpose means and why the search for it can become such a powerful source of struggle in our lives. From an early age, we receive countless messages from our families and society about who ...
Episode 18: Power, Control and the Hypermasculine Mindset
In today's episode, we're going to explore power dynamics and the emergence of hypermasculine culture. Over the past six thousand years, much of human civilization has developed within a framework shaped by violence, warfare, and the struggle t...
Episode 17: Exploring Suffering
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the existence of suffering and pain. We look at the world around us and we see war, people dying of starvation, homelessness and so many other forms of violence. It’s so overwhelming. It’s so huge that ...
Episode 16: What Do I Need?
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the importance of needs in our lives. Having awakened to the idea that there is more, one of the important challenges we will face is actually understanding what we truly need. We’ve been told by societ...
Episode 15: The Core Wound
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the the existential experience we call the Core Wound. It’s an unconscious tension that's been with us our whole lives, living just below the surface of awareness, but influencing everything we do becau...
Episode 14: Is There More Than This?: Starting the Journey
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the question “Is There More Than This?”. We’re in the first episode of the next series of explorations which I called Beginning the Walk. This monumental question seems to be one of the ...
Episode 13: What If It's Just This?
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the audacious question “What if it is just this?” What if there are no higher dimensions, no astral realms, no reincarnation, no divine plan, just this life, this world, these bodies, and the r...
Episode 12: Relationality Part 4
In today’s episode we’re again diving into one of the most profound, and often most challenging, aspects of our human experience: relationality. This will be the last in this series dedicated specifically on Relationality for a while. Though as...
Episode 11: Relationality Part 3
In today’s episode we will be diving again into one of the most profound, and often most challenging, aspects of our human experience: relationality. Today, we’ll be looking at triggers, the drama triangle, the empowerment dynamic, conflict-avo...
Episode 10: Relationality Part 2
In today’s episode we will be diving again into one of the most profound, and often most challenging, aspects of our human experience: relationality. We'll be looking at family dynamics from the view of parenting as well as the psychoanalytic t...
Episode 9: Relationality Part 1
In today’s episode we’re diving into one of the most profound, and most challenging, aspects of our human experience: relationality. We don’t exist in isolation. Every thought, every feeling, every identity we hold has been shaped in relationsh...
Episode 8: Angel of Love
This episode takes a vacation from the usual format and explores our incarnations as expressions of Love here to challenge the hypocrisy, lies and violence of this world. We do this by own our authentic nature as Angels of Love.
Episode 7: Levels of Physical Reality: Human Incarnation
In today’s episode we’re going to focus on one of the foundational aspects of this journey: physicality and embodiment. We’re used to the sensations of our physical body, but on the incarnationl side of the dual-non-dual equation, ther...
Episode 6: Levels of Awareness Part 3
In today’s episode we’re going to continue focusing on the foundational aspect of awareness. In the last two episodes, we explored awareness through the lens of evolution and those outlined by various spiritual traditions. We examined its incre...
Episode 5: Levels of Awareness Part 2
In today’s episode we’re going to continue focusing on the foundational aspect of awareness. In the last episode we looked at the levels of awareness that arises between species. Today we’ll explore the levels or states of awareness in humans a...
Episode 4: Levels of Awareness Part 1
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the foundational aspect of this journey: Awareness. We often assume we’re just aware or unaware, as if consciousness is either "on" or "off." But in reality, awareness exists in levels, like layers of a...
Episode 3: Non-duality - An Initial Exploration
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the foundational question: What is Non-duality? This will be an initial exploration into this complex-to-discuss yet so basic a concept. Non-duality might sound abstract or even mysterious, but...
Episode 2 – What Is Embodied Awakening?
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the foundational question: What is embodied awakening? We’ll explore its depth, its meaning, and through this and future episodes we’ll explore how it differs from other forms of awakening....
Episode 1: The Three Petals - The Pillars of Awakening
This episode of The Three Petals explores each of the petals: awareness, embodiment and relationality in more detail. Together, these three aspects, awareness, embodiment, and relationality, form what we might call the “threefold nature of bein...
Episode 0: Why Another Spiritual Podcast
In this episode, I introduce myself and share my vision for the podcast over the next three years, including the planned number of episodes and the seven major sections they’ll be organized into. I explore the importance of doing the essential ...