Growing up in the troubles in Belfast, Snuff describes his unsettled childhood, which gave him an insight into the way that the world works and a perception unlike many others. He moved to London in his later teens and started to question his microwave dinners and decided to become a vegetarian. This opened the door to pursuing health and seeking more knowledge in finding true health. He came to many observations early on with the back to front nature of society's structure and was well aware that the narrative was not as it was being made out to be at the start of 2020. We dive into where he stands now with the ongoing narrative and he shares different antidotes to the unnatural ways in which we are living. So much information is delivered here so settle into it and enjoy.
Excited to have Corey on the podcast as he details the avenues and roads he's travelled down, as well as touching on his perspective on what is happening in the world at the moment and where it may lead. We talk about being sensitive as a child, to getting into martial arts, the entrepreneur mindset, plant medicines/psychedelics, kriya yoga, meditation and the knowledge of keylontic science and the freedom teachings.
He has surely had a vibrant experience and surprisingly to some, after many years working in ceremony with plants and psychedelics, has concluded to step away from working with them. We talk about reconnecting to God, fasting, opening to different dimensions, dedicating oneself to truth and the overview of the spiritual path. This is a great episode if you want to learn more about a perspective and experience down these specific teachings and discoveries.
Episode 22 welcomes Cassandra Legiehn who discusses her journey into the pandemic, breaking up from an abusive relationship just before it started and then stumbling into what she would describe as even more abuse from the state. She draws parallels between these two experiences, her journey through and out of an abusive relationship through working on herself and what it means to be able to see things more clearly right now.
In this episode Sarah shares her process of recognising the multiple matrixes that we reside within. Firstly, to the 3D - third dimension, which is known as “the usual way of doing things round here”, existing in this society and going along with it, not questioning too much, until one can get to the point of perspective to really see it for what it is.
But her journey didn't stop there, like so many others who go through an awakening, she found herself in the world of spirituality and then going even farther along to waking up to the excessive nature of the "spiritual matrix", which is a whole other concept.
On the journey of seeking truth and finding out who she truly is, we touch on learning about Base 12 mathematics, false narratives and false stories and the process of having to completely let go of who she built herself up to be. Again, that old chestnut when your entire world is ripped apart through the journey of waking up.
If you're not sure about what any of these terms mean and are interested to know more, we invite you to pull up a pew and tune in to the very simple and elegant explanations from Sarah. Truth seekers stop at nothing to start remembering all. Enjoy...
Episode 20, Faiz shares his journey through a life of crime, prison and drugs. We talk about his father's death at the age of 12 and how that changed him, finding himself in prison for the first time at the age of 17, withdrawing from heroine, travelling, prison stories, the life of dealing drugs, to a big change in the winds when he found his religion in prison in Turkey.
He closed the door of crime fully with his journey to mecca, asking for forgiveness from Allah, as well as journeying with Ayahuasca and finding a deeper spirituality in his life. This is a truly colourful story about someone who fell into a life of prison and crime and managed to completely turn his story and his life around. So many gems of wisdom shared through Faiz's challenging life story. Enjoy this episode!
We welcome Antarma in this episode to share his journey with us. Travelling through various different practices from the Sufi, Hindu, Shamanic, and African traditions, he then finds his way focusing on one path. Antarma is a musician and is inspired by many guru's, yogi's and yogini's. Watch out for the release of his debut album in summer 2021.
This is quite a philosophical conversation about accepting each other and our different paths, getting in touch with the divine mother, remembering beauty and joy, coming back to your centre, the play between the divine masculine and feminine and his journey into music and mantra from a young age. Hope you enjoy this super insightful episode.
We welcome Shivani to share her tales with us in the next episode of our podcast. Shivani learnt much of her resilience from a young age and was instilled with an attitude of non-attachment to life when her cousin and best friend died in her teenage years.
Going into a career as a fashion model, equipping her with more resilience tools, she was recommended to see a spiritual healer. Over the past two years, he helped her to realise what she wants and how to be true to herself and her own morals and values.
She spent part of the lockdown on her own in India - the most amount of time spent on her own, which also catalysed a process of working on shadow aspects of herself, doing the work, realising her worth and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Enjoy this episode where we break down what spirituality is along with so many other insights.
Hailing from Romania, Georgie went against the restrictions of her upbringing and shares her adventurous nature with us. From having a near death experience at the age of 8 in water, to going through a traumatic relationship in her teenage years, to the amount of lessons learnt in moving to a new country and city; London and journeying through so many different spiritual paths to coming back home to herself and finding her power and truth. Enjoy these sharings from Georgie.
Lama tells us about her wondrous journey into healing her auto-immune disease through the use of plants. Her illness was triggered by one singular traumatic event and she was chronically ill for 10 years, finally being diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis.
Regardless of her doctor's advice on taking immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of her life, she temporarily left her job and followed her heart to Columbia to heal through plant medicines instead. This is a beautiful journey of Lama connecting with nature, with herself, finding her true nature and purpose and becoming more whole on this journey of being human.
Movement medicine man Muti tells us about his journey as a teenager coming from the hood and finding his way out through dance and using dance as a means to heal his trauma. At such a young age, he has definitely lived out many lives, we discuss his near death experience at the age of 12 as well as other mystical experiences he had whilst traveling, his relationship with psychedelics and finding God again after his second ego death. This is a juicy episode, enjoy!
[This episode was filmed in Mumbai, apologies for the Indian surround sound throughout which kind of adds to the atmosphere].
Chant your heart out. Roshmin talks to us about how he stumbled into his Buddhist chanting practice that he has been keeping up for the past 12 years and how it changed many aspects of who he was. He describes the fundamentals of Buddhism and how it works not just at an individual level but impacts our communities too and he tells us how his practice helps him to have a strong inner life force regardless of what is surrounding in his outer world. Enjoy learning more about Buddhism in practice with this episode!
Shardai opens up about how she tackled the state of depression that she experienced from her teenage years up until her mid-20s. Transitioning from a DJ and party girl to stumbling into the medicine kambo at a festival and using that to heal and her journey to then becoming a healer and holding sacred space for others with kambo for the past 7 years. We discuss the use of plant medicines in bringing ancient knowledge forward to us and things to consider before embarking with them and kambo. Hope you enjoy this episode from our medicine woman.
Emm discusses her awakening journey with us in this episode, which was triggered by a life-changing incident where she was almost sexually assaulted. The direction of her life and who she defined herself to be crumbled after this point and she had to build herself up anew. We talk about how she stepped away from her troublesome past, her depression after the incident, how she found tarot and used it as therapy and different shades of becoming when you wake up. Enjoy the episode.
Bilkis talks to us about leaving her job in the city to follow her life purpose in tackling gender stereotypes in schools. How depression tied into this transition, going against the grain of what society tells us and how she dealt with prejudice, using it to fuel her life’s work.
Our botanist Chris delivers the goods on all things plants, herbs and plant medicines. He talks to us about his connection to plants and the healing properties they have. He also opens up about his transition from working as a building constructor to finding a more fulfilling path that brings more happiness, not just for himself but for his family too and breaking the cycle of trauma that was passed down to him and finding the light within.
Niaby discusses her transition from working as a stockbroker to becoming a medium, yes she sees dead people! How illness urged this transition in career, her journeying with Ayahuasca, which she has taken 10 times and dealing with the fear of humiliation in talking about these mystical experiences.
J.Müller reads a paragraph on astrology from the book, Autobiography of a Yogi.
Josh discusses his transition to a plant-based diet 5 years ago, the search to find his "people" and releasing himself from the view of polarity that he was experiencing life within.
Tom talks about his interest in self-development since the age of 22, the resources that helped him to live within truth and his more recent kundalini awakening.
In episode 6 of The New Monks, Attia discusses how Burning Man created a space for growth on her journey, her insights with Mama Ayahuasca, and how vipassana was one of the hardest things to have accomplished.
