In this episode, poet and artist Heartbreak J.I.M. (Journey's in Mind)  discuss art as a service to humanity, how showing more love to world can  help correct for division and negativity, as well as share our thoughts on poetry, spirituality, self-care and empathy, and more!  This was such a uplifting and fun conversation, so it's a great honor to share with you!  Enjoy the show! J.I.M. creates some super chill music, as well, under the alias HBJ_007, and is open to collaboration with other artists! .. Find his music here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-hbj-experience-vol-1/1588192812 .. Follow Heartbreak J.I.M. on social! @ instagram.com/heartbreak_jim & twitter.com/heartbreak_jim .. And his music page @ instagram.com/hbj_007/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

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Ep. 38 - Journey's in Mind w/ Heartbreak J.I.M. - Poetry, Healing Division, & Art as a Service

Welcome back to Actuali! In this episode, I invite Visionary Artist and Poet, Juliana Garces to share her insights on how we may integrate our spiritual experiences into our daily lives. We discuss her profound lucid dreams experiences starting from a young age, which led her to meditation, yoga, and working with sacred plant medicines for spiritual purposes. We also discuss her incredible visionary art, her experiences with astral travel, as well as working with Ayuhuasca, and we get to hear a wonderful transcendent poem as well. A Disclaimer is appropriate here: In no way is this podcast or the speakers involved advocating for the illegal use of any substance, nor for irresponsible use in anyway; rather, we encourage ways of reaching transcendent spaces through legal means, by following all applicable local laws. We further advise utilizing methods such as breathing techniques, meditation, and yoga, that do not require substances at all. If one is interested in plant medicines we absolutely advise following local laws, and only using in a legal, safe environment under the supervision of a licensed therapist or religious institution. We also wish to encourage a spiritual approach to sacred plant medicines, and for those interested to do their homework in order to be aware of natural and legal methods for achieving such states, and what to be prepared for. Practices involving breathing techniques, yoga, meditation, and more are all capable of allowing the practitioner to rise to transcendent realms of experience without any substances involved, and we recommend learning these methods above all. In this episode we cover some of these safe and legal techniques, as well as share some incredible experiences! Enjoy the show! This episode is also available on youtube! Join us @ https://youtu.be/X6StjAlcsEI Check out Juliana's work! @ JulianaGarcesArt.com Follow Juliana: instagram.com/JulianaGarcesArt facebook.com/JulianaGarcesArt --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 37 - Juliana Garces, Visonary Artist - Lucid Dreams, Plant Medicines, and Enlightening the World

Welcome back everyone! In this episode, I share a dialogue with artist and organizer, Morgan Aditi Devi. With cicadas buzzing in the background and the soft movement of the creek we sat beside, we discussed a heart oriented approach to activism, how cicadas teach us how to shed our shells and fear of death, the wonder and challenges of being human, and how to relate to ourselves, and the wider world in a more loving way. Due to a rather amusing hardware glitch there are some points in our dialogue where a word or two gets cut off. Fades have been added in some spots to soften the transitions between cuts. Thankfully, the flow of our dialogue remains, and this made for some fun outtakes towards the end. Thank you Morgan, for sharing in this dialogue, and all of you for joining us! Now begins the Cicadas Cadence ? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 36 - Morgan Aditi Devi & the Cicadas Cadence

Hey everyone, welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, we practice a breathing technique invented by 26-Time World Record Holder, Wim Hof, known as The Wim Hof Method, and follow this with a guided meditation.  Wim's method has been shown in scientific study of its effects, to decrease inflammation, fight disease, and encourage the release of beneficial hormones, as well as the chemical compound DMT,  a very intriguing side-note. DMT, or dimethyltryptamine, is known to occur naturally in our own bodies, as well as many plants.  It has been shown to be released in larger amounts in the body during dream-time, as well as during the birth and death experience. In recent studies, DMT has been found to be constantly active in our brains in quantities as high as serotonin, and as such is now theorized to be central to our experience of conscious awareness. [Disclaimer:  The information provided in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to encourage or advocate the use of illegal substances found outside one's body.] Wide ranging benefits from this simple daily practice include: More Energy, a Boosted Immune System, powerful and natural anti-inflammatory effects, Better Sleep, Autoimmune Disease Relief, Fibromyalgia Relief, Arthritis Relief, COPD Management, Post-treatment Lyme disease, Migraine Relief, Overcoming Incurable Maladies such as Multiple Sclerosis, Help with Asthma Management, Lowering Blood Pressure, Improved Metabolism, Increased Sports Performance, an Excellent Workout Recovery, and more, and those are just the physical benefits! Mental benefits include: the decreasing of mental stress, overcoming depression, increased willpower, boosted focus and concentration, improved mind body connection, increased happiness and creativity, and a more peaceful state of being.  The Wim Hof method has even been scientifically proven to allow the practitioner conscious activation of the autonomic nervous system, something previously thought impossible. Contents of this episode: Part 1 - Intro to the Wim Hof Method Part 2 - A Guided Breathe-Along with a Wim Hof Tutorial Part 3 - A Guided Meditation led by yours truly Enjoy the show! Chris --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 35 - Wim Hof Breathing & Guided Meditation

Welcome back! In this episode, part III of our Phase-Shift series, we hear from three courageous, challenging, and empowering speakers, Bill Hicks, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Daniel Schmachtenberger, to support our continued inquiry into the potential of a phase-shift for the human species. We know what happens when we fragment, fall apart, and turn against one another, but what happens when we instead Unite in One endeavor, to create a more peaceful, bountiful future for the children of tomorrow? With Bill Hicks, we consider: what happens when we see through Eyes of Love? We have previously explored how we can come to see people and the world around us through superficial impressions, stereotypes, and low resolution place-holder images. With Jiddu Krishnamurti, we consider: what happens when we see beyond the distinction of the observer and the observed? For we have come to see each other as images of each other, and rarely do we meet each other in the moment, truly, without preconceived notions limiting our capacity for sharing in mutual understanding. With Daniel Schmachtenberger, in a clip of his conversation with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom, we consider the potential that the human species is itself in a phase-shift scenario. In short, Daniel describes an analogy between how the human species has decimated so much of the environment, in a way similar to how caterpillars are known for doing on a smaller scale. Though, caterpillars also "butterfly", that is, they metamorph and become major pollinators and super stewards of the environments they nearly wipe out. Though if we had never seen a caterpillar butterfly, we would have never known of such a potential to go from decimator to ultimate-steward of one's environment. Join us, as we dive deep into this inquiry, to consider how we, as individuals and as a species, may cease the tragic downward spiral, and instead make that great leap upward together! May we spiral to ever-higher lvls of being, to live in ever-greater synchrony with our environment and each other. ? Music in this episode 'Swaying Lights' provided by the artist, Astral Pilot. Thanks for listening! Enjoy the show! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 34 - Phase-Shift III - Eyes of Love

To catalyze and reunite. From this episode: "For hundreds of thousands of years, we humans have been able to skirt the precipice, and become evermore social, cooperative, and creative beings. We excel when we come together, and now we must more than ever help catalyze that process of reunification. We have at our advantage the fact that we have now become this global, interconnected species - now interacting and interrelating - a part of a global society that can, if we are courageous and persistent, become more united in common cause than we are divided by those nefarious interests who stand to gain in power and profit by turning peoples against one another. We may yet succeed. The hope is slim, but failure is truly certain if we do not try to stop this downward spiral. The countermove to the tragic downward spiral is a great leap upward together, and it begins within each one of us."  Enjoy the show! - Follow on IG at @Actuali.pocast  - and @christopher.kinley  - On facebook @ facebook.com/Actuali.podcast/ #meditation #phaseshift #selfrealization #healing #awakening #presence --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 33 - Phase-Shift II - To Unite

Welcome back everybody! In this episode we begin our consideration of the many-layered existential crisis humanity faces, as well as the the potential of phase-shifting as a species to avert the danger of civilization level collapse. During this episode I bring up a dialogue between Ayishat Akanbi and David Fuller on Rebel Wisdom, titled 'Identity and Empathy', where Ayishat makes a great distinction between being "woke", and the process of awakening. Here's a link to that: https://youtu.be/PmKz0cmunP0 I also mention Jordan Hall's ongoing series, 'The Civium Project', which can be found here: https://youtu.be/yXBAtdyBto0 And Daniel Schmachtenberger's talk on the principle of emergence, from the Emergence Festival, is here: https://youtu.be/eh7qvXfGQho Lastly, the absolutely essential 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis' series by John Vervaeke, which I wish every human being could have the chance to hear, can be found here: https://youtu.be/54l8_ewcOlY Enjoy the show! Follow on IG at @Actuali.pocast and @christopher.kinley facebook @ facebook.com/Actuali.podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 32 - Phase-Shift I

Welcome back to Actuali! In this episode, we begin by addressing the current crisis facing our world, this dark night of soul in America, and this beautiful chance we have to go beyond our labels. By widening our frames of reference, to see beyond our teams and tribes, our ideas and labels, we may remember what we are first and foremost: children of the cosmos, of earth and star. For the sake of hope, though I do sense us skirting the precipice, I also speak to a sense light on the horizon, as more and more come to deep life-affirming realizizations of what we really are, sparking off new lights, radiating brighter and brighter, their every heartful action rippling out. I pray enough of us can unite in the all-agreeable common cause of Love itself. To that effect, I wrote a poem, an older version of which I read on here some months before the corona virus event begin (Ep. 17). In this episode, the poem/prayer is presented in a new light, in perhaps a somewhat more refined form, with further explication of its meaning. I hope you find in it some cure for life's anxieties as they naturally arise in these changing times. It is a call to our unconditional love.  Though, this is no common gesture, and the most challenging posture to take, at least initially. It can be said that it waits for each of us, to awaken through us, as what we truly are. Though, this is just an invitation, as we come here to see for ourselves. For we fear this potential, for it eradicates the ego, and all our fear driven attachments and drives. This is the most courageous step one can take in life: to die before death, though we do so that we may be reborn again, within this life, ever-brighter, evermore the Truth of our highest Self. There are few ways to share this. Poetry is one. I hope this finds you well. Poems in this episode include: 'Next Lvl / A Prayer', 'Afternoon', 'Emergence', 'Timeless Transitions', 'Remembering'. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 31 - A Tenuous Balance

Hey guys! Welcome back to Actuali! In this episode we begin renewed, at 3am no less. Join us as we delve into a deep late night reverie, enjoying pensive thoughts and poetry. Poems in this episode: In Song, Autumn Sings, Afternoon Songs, Ancient and Immortal, Flower Life, Serene, A New World of Freedom Thanks for tuning in! Join us on IG! @Christopher.Kinley and @Actuali. Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 30 - The Dance of Duality

Hello everybody! Welcome back to Actuali!  We continue our exploration into the deepest questions of life, to understand our relationship with the deepest, most fundamental aspects of reality, that we may come to know ourselves truly, and be our Actual I. In this episode, we are utilizing a simple technique which involves only being aware of one's breathing during meditation, noticing thought distractions, and patiently returning attention to our breathing.  This allows us to get an experiential sense and build up a bodily memory of what Now, this very present moment, feels like without our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions laden over it. In returning our awareness to the Now we build up this sense which allows us to be freed of the impact of thoughts and feelings, gradually, and evermore over time as we deepen our practice.  And breathing, is a very simple, benign (not emotionally loaded) focal point for attention that is grounded here in the present, so it is a perfect anchor point for attention to return to. So, join us as we deepen our facility for returning to this all loving, healing, peaceful and free sense of presence, through the simple, effective mode of attending to our breath.  Soon, a deep breath to the stomach will come naturally to you, to ease any troubled moment. Love you guys!  Hope you all safe and sound during this trying time.  Feel free to call into the show through the free Anchor app if you'd like to talk, or have any questions! Your Host, Chris P.S. If you haven't already, I invite you to join us on our social media channels.  Just search for Actuali podcast on Facebook and Actuali.podcast on Insta!  See you soon! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 29 - The Grace of Meditation

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! This is Episode 28 - The Isness of Existence: Excerpt: As we get a sense of the isness of  existence, and we recognize the Truest, Deepest Sense of Self, we  realize once and for all, we are not the images we hold of ourselves,  nor is anyone else. Of course, we build impressions of everyone we  encounter, but as we come to  know that we are not our self-images, we  understand this of others as well. The drawing is not the thing, the map  is not the territory, the menu is not the food, a tree is not the word. Words  are mere low resolution place holders, icons for actual existence, and  the only way to experience actual existence, as was eluded to of Neo in  the Matrix when he awakens as the One.  This metaphor is ancient, and it  describes the moment one awakens to the underlying, actual nature of  reality, and sees beyond their programming and conditioning, beyond the  projections, the approximations, the representations, to experience a  sense of oneness, of unity with everything around us. #podcast #meditation #awakening #selfinquiry #selfrealization #mindfulness --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 28 - The Isness of Existence

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode we pick up where we left off in Ep. 26 - Going Meta, Buddhist Metta, and now we continue where we left off in our inquiry, to delve ever deeper into the direct experience of this phenomena of awareness. From the episode: "Laden over this most primary sense of awareness, we all have these filters we perceive through, our different histories, and experiences, different challenges, accomplishments, and struggles, preferences and styles of interacting, but we all share the same experience of awareness that all of this occurs in, and through that, the same capacity for suffering, as well as the same capacity for overcoming, for creativity and co-creativity, for partnership, for love, and through love, the same capacity for consideration, for going beyond judgement to understanding, and forgiveness. This same sense of awareness upon which our frames of perception are laid over, this that is ultimately empty of features, is as consequence also too full of potential to describe, is something so vast in its implications it can never be adequately named, is something we still may dance around just the same.  We can beat around the bush, so to speak, to at least somewhat effectively point towards what no words can say, because though it is ineffable, indescribable, this space of awareness remains something we ourselves can directly experience. And this experience of life and awareness that we share, through the knowing, the consciousness of this very moment, this is the doorway to the Unification of all Verses, that answers this Universal conundrum, why am I here? What is life? The door is your sense of self, the sense of being here in this moment, right now." Enjoy the show! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 27 - Beyond the Matrix - Tis the Season 2019

How can we see past our images of each other, to know each other as we are this moment, regardless of our different beliefs, as the always-changing ongoing miracles we truly are?  Can we be without a prebuilt image of another, while still holding a prebuilt image of ourselves? Behind descriptions of who we are according to traits, such as I am a [this profession], [this nationality], [this religion], with this name, these accomplishments, who is the I that has them?  When we say, I am this or I am that, I like this, I like that, Who is the Actual I? Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, we explore how we may drop the images, and see how we need not be attached to the ideas we hold, as they are simply tools we can use to interact with the world.  Rather than allowing the ideas that appear in our minds to be our masters, we make peace with this figment of self we've come to mistake for the most fundamental Truth of our being. It's time to get back in the driver seat. Let us embrace this paradox, that we are no-thing with room enough for everything, that we are limited only by our imaginations.  Let us see how we exist prior to these personages, these mirages / cast images, these projections of ideas we've accumulated over time.   We are not these jumbles of thoughts and memories of experiences.  We are the knower of all experiences!  The awareness before, behind, that continues on after each experience.  We are this that has always been here, unaffected.  But let's not get ahead of ourselves!  Join us on the deep dive into this most fundamental mystery of life:  Who are we beyond these images?  Who is the Actual I? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 26 - Going Meta - Buddhist Metta - Tis the Season 2019

Thanksgiving has passed and we have officially kicked off the Season of Giving. This is the first part of Tis the Season, a multi-part special series where we celebrate this magically, sparkly time of year, sharing new insights, inquiry, and wonder. We're kicking it off and getting holly and jolly up in here!  So grab your elf ears and mistletoe and let's rile up some good vibes for this special time of year. Today, we talk Thanksgiving, mac n cheese, and gratitude. Keeping it light with this episode. May you listen and be joyful! Thanks for tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 25 - Mac n Cheese n Thanksgiving - Tis the Season 2019

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, we share the deep relaxation and opening of awareness that meditation allows. We delve into the sense of spaciousness around the breath to attune and resonate consciousness with the presence of this very moment. Here at Actuali, we practice what is known as the Direct Path, through self-inquiry style meditation, which invites us to be most immediately, and directly aware of presence itself, to identify the True ground of our being that is before all thoughts, ideas, conceptions, self-image. We delve into the deepest, most direct experience of being itself, for from here, we may cultivate the peace we seek in life. Join us and be refreshed! Much Love. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Ep. 24 - The Heart of Meditation

Welcome to Actuali! (formerly Actualization Station) A Podcast on Self-Transcendence and Self-Actualization. Do you long to realize your highest vision of life? To be that change you wish to see in the world? If so, let's go! From Deep Dives into Life's Greatest Mysteries, to Inquiring Conversations, Poetry Nights, and Guided Meditations, Actuali podcast is here to share insights to help you get the most out of life. Let's change this world from the inside-out! Join the Movement on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter! Like, Subscribe, & Share to help the cast reach more people! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali.podcast/support

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