Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Crystal Skulls & Authentic Awakening with Kara Goodwin
31 Plays2 months ago
What happens when life's greatest challenges become doorways to profound spiritual awakening?
Meditation teacher Kara Goodwin shares her transformational journey from corporate burnout to mystical experiences with light, cosmic visions, and the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull that inspired her book. We explore staying grounded while navigating spiritual bypassing, AI consciousness experiments, gurus, and authentic awakening.
Kara Goodwin: Author of "Your Authentic Awakening" | Soul Elevation Podcast
Links: karagoodwin.com
***
Journey Mindfulness - Guiding you beyond limiting beliefs into the life you want to live
🌿 MBSR & mPEAK Programs | 1:1 Mindfulness Coaching | Corporate Wellness
📧 Free resources: journeymindfulness.com 📱 Instagram | TikTok | YouTube🎧
Subscribe to our newsletter "Unfolding" for transformational content.
Ready to break free from stress and self-doubt? Book a free discovery call to explore how mindfulness can unlock your authentic potential.
Recommended
Transcript
Introduction to Journey Mindfulness Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Journey Mindfulness Podcast, where the inner world meets the infinite. I'm James O'Neill, and together we explore consciousness, the soul, mindfulness, and the mysteries beyond our world, and most importantly, how to integrate all of it into the life you're living right now.
00:00:29
Speaker
Welcome to the Journey Mindfulness Podcast.
Kara Goodwin's Spiritual Awakening
00:00:31
Speaker
Today, I'm thrilled to welcome Kara Goodwin. Kara is a meditation teacher, Reiki master, and spiritual guide whose work helps people deepen their connection to spirit and live with greater intention.
00:00:44
Speaker
After years in the corporate world, she experienced a powerful spiritual awakening that inspired her book, Your Authentic of Awakening, which is right behind you, A Guide to Everyday Spiritual Living, which I love because it's really what this podcast is intended for, and also her podcast, Soul Elevation.
00:01:03
Speaker
Kara, welcome to the show. I'm excited to explore your journey and the practices that can help all of us awaken authentically. ah Thank you so much, James. I'm so excited to be here. You're doing an amazing job with Journey Mindfulness, and um i'm I'm so honored to be here.
From Corporate to Spiritual Path
00:01:21
Speaker
So how did your journey begin? You're in the corporate world. What was the the moment that got you going in this this spiritual path? Well, i was kind of coasting through. i um i had a really successful career, but I was also burning the candle at both ends. had a young family, and ah my husband and I were both going a million miles an hour.
00:01:46
Speaker
And eventually, he got a ah job opportunity to move us overseas to Italy. So that was actually when I stopped my corporate career. I'd been in working for blue chip companies in IT t for, you know, 14 or 15 years by that point.
00:02:05
Speaker
um We moved to Italy and then I really was just kind of living that Mediterranean lifestyle that I was really enjoying, but I was kind of just on the surface of life. And I'm sure that served me at that time. and But then everything came crashing down.
00:02:22
Speaker
And after a couple of years of living there, I just had a series of tragedies that happened all within seven months. It started with the the death of my sister-in-law, who was also one of my best friends. And she was about to get married. She was like three weeks away from getting married.
00:02:40
Speaker
She had two little kids, and she had been struggling with depression, and she took her life. And it was shocking and horrifying. and um And while we were dealing with that, our dog passed away like three weeks after, ah few weeks after. I think it was three.
00:03:00
Speaker
um Then my stepdad had, ah his health started declining. He was losing his balance. He was having all of these issues, neural ah neurological issues, and he had to have a very delicate surgery on his brain stem. Luckily, he came out of that okay, but of course, that's a long road with that.
00:03:18
Speaker
And my mother-in-law was hit by a motorbike as she crossed the street. So she was obviously, you know, in recovery for that. And while she's grieving the death of her her daughter, she And then my stepmom, her heart was failing. She'd been dealing with a a specific like heart issue for many years, but she'd been with through diet and exercise. She had been doing great in keeping it in check. But suddenly things just kind of came really, really fast. She went into ICU. She went to the top of the heart transplant list.
00:03:52
Speaker
And it was a heart transplant that saved her life. um All of that happening while we're abroad, not able to be with our families very easily. um and so there was like, ah there were a lot of psychological components to it. There was just a lot of grief, um um anxiety, confusion, really feeling like life had turned itself upside down and not knowing what to expect next.
00:04:19
Speaker
And so through that, I sought out meditation because that had been something that had always appealed to me, but I'd never gotten anywhere with it. I had tried it, hadn't gotten kind of the immediate results that I was hoping for, that I'd heard about.
00:04:34
Speaker
And, you know, was living a very fast lifestyle that was like, well, this isn't going to do anything for me. I'm not going to carve out the the five minutes for it. And um so I, through this, I was like, okay, it really feels like meditation might be something that, you know, is appropriate for helping me
Meditation and Spiritual Visions
00:04:55
Speaker
to get through this. So yeah I found a and very, I'll go straight, cut straight to the chase, eventually found like a meditation teacher online,
00:05:06
Speaker
and through Well, an organization. And I was learning from monks, but I was still trying to keep the ah keep it secular. and i really They were the methods of Paramahansa Yogananda, who is the autobiography of a yogi author.
00:05:21
Speaker
And His methods, which are very practical, and there's a lot of like, you know, cause and effect. If you do this, this is going to happen. And that really appealed to me because I i was very left brained. And um that's been a journey to kind of open up to more of my, you know, wholeness of that. I've always had a very practical streak.
00:05:43
Speaker
um But I was still like, even though these were monks who were teaching, I didn't want to pray. You know, I didn't i I didn't like know the lineage very well. And i it was just kind of suspicious of it. And, um you know, like, I just want to I just want to feel better, you know.
00:06:01
Speaker
And so we're going to the life teachings or. that It was that like a 10 week online course. OK, OK. But it was using, so Yogananda, I know you know, but he died in 1952. And he, and so this was these were people carrying on his.
00:06:19
Speaker
And it wasn't Self-Realization Fellowship because that's the organization that he started. That's still going. This was a different group. Okay. But they use his teachings. They use his method.
00:06:32
Speaker
um And, you know, part of and it and it, the door is open for the spiritual side. They're very, very spiritual people. and But for me, I wasn't into that at that time. and As I developed this practice, things started to happen where, for example, I would um and either I remember just I was about to go pick my kids up from school. I took time to meditate with, you know, in the fashion that I was taught.
00:06:58
Speaker
And right before it finished, this light. just came down from my inner vision. But it's like it it descended down from above me and it it's slowly like came where it felt like it was just filling me up and it reduced me to tears. I didn't understand. I mean, it did feel divine. It felt like there was a spiritual component to it.
00:07:22
Speaker
which which I was open to something happening to me, but I just didn't want to get caught up in, um like I was very open to, oh, if Spear wants to connect with me, but i didn't I didn't know enough I felt to like dive into, you know, ah ah what could have been a cult.
00:07:43
Speaker
You know, that's that was kind of my thing. Like this there are some markings here that could be cult-like and I don't know if I want to do that. So, yeah, so this thing happening to me organically and without me knowing what it was, but feeling so feeling this love and just feeling that i was bathed in light.
00:08:02
Speaker
um I was just weeping and it it was incredible. I had another experience shortly after that where i was in meditation and I started seeing this. so It looked like I was looking from a distance at a spiraling galaxy. Yeah.
00:08:18
Speaker
which made no sense to me at the time. You know, I was not into space, not into sci-fi. Didn't have any inkling that that anybody would see that in their, especially if they're not, like, seeing it a lot in the external.
00:08:34
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like, why would my mind... bring this image in. And I'm not like I seeing and inner sight like clairvoyance as I now know it. I didn't wouldn't have known that term back then. But that's not my strong suit typically unless I'm having like ah an experience in the hypnagogic state, which is more like that came about years and years later.
00:08:58
Speaker
then I will see things with my mind's eye. But I'm not the type of I've heard people on your podcast talking about, you know, I've seen spirits in my room since I was little. And my parents had to tell me it was my imagination. Like, that's not been my experience. I don't see nonphysical things very easily.
00:09:16
Speaker
And. um So I was kind of like, why would I see that? Why would anybody see that? You know, I was very not didn't have any interest, like didn't believe in ETs at this point.
00:09:30
Speaker
um So it was just very bizarre. Now that I like I understand myself from a totally different perspective and I really do kind of lean into that star seed kind of.
00:09:42
Speaker
culture and, um, and the information that's out there about that, real, it really resonates with me. I'm still discovering, you know, the, the multidimensional aspects of myself and I love understanding those kinds of things. But back then that was completely, i had no exposure to it.
00:10:00
Speaker
So those were kind of the, the, the early things that were starting to organically open up. Cause that can be scary too, for people when, you know, they describe having a Kundalini awakening, or you have this connection with, I don't know whether that was, you know, spirit source or, or whatnot, but that, okay, I had just had this experience. It was beautiful. it was loving.
00:10:25
Speaker
Now what, what do I do with this? Right. Absolutely. Yeah. And you there can be a temptation to kind of chase it You know, I've had other experiences that but happened years later.
00:10:37
Speaker
One of them I was just sharing yesterday with with ah somebody I was speaking with. And I was remembering, this was a few years ago. do you know Ruben Langdon? Yeah.
00:10:48
Speaker
Interview with Ed. Yeah, been on show. He's been on? Oh, I love him. So he hosts like CE5 events, or i I'm sure he still does now that he's in Japan, but at the time he was living in California, and he was doing these like new moon CE5s, and I've really wanted to do a CE5, like, and and you know what CE5, your listeners will know what that is, right?
00:11:10
Speaker
Yes. Okay. um And so I was asking Ruben, like, do you know, how how can I find a CE5? And he's like, I do them every new moon if you want to come out. And I live in Indiana. He
Exploring Breathwork and CE5 Event
00:11:22
Speaker
lives in California, but he does them on Big Bear. And ah my friend was going to be in Palm Springs and at the same time that this was going to happen. And she loves this type of stuff, too. So the stars aligned.
00:11:34
Speaker
And I was like, yeah, I'm going to go to this CE5 in Big Bear. And um it it was a small group and Ruben is really into the Wim Hof breath.
00:11:46
Speaker
yeah And so we were doing this meditation. It was beautiful. A lot of time, it was surprising how much time we spent with our eyes closed because CE5, you're like really trying to make contact and initiate contact.
00:12:00
Speaker
with ufos uaps or extraterrestrial beings and we had our eyes closed a lot because it was very much an inner journey anyway we do this wim hof breath which is um very active breathing very you know um intense breathing and he encouraged us to finish it with push-ups which Wim Hof also does. But, um you know, so it's like on the final breath, you do the the exhale all the breath and then you do as many pushups as you can.
00:12:31
Speaker
And something happens with like your lactic acid and the oxygen pH and all of this stuff that um I don't remember the by biology behind it, the chemistry behind it. But when I finished and I sat up, I started seeing this um these thin golden lines, really thin. And they were in like they were very angular, but they were in this kind of like teardrop shape, but with angles.
00:12:58
Speaker
it was kind of like longer on the top, shorter on the bottom and coming together you know on both ends. I have no idea, no frame of reference for what this is. I still don't know what it is.
00:13:10
Speaker
um But I started weeping. i ah And I know I just talked about how the light made me cry. You know, I just finished that story. But I really am not an easy crier. I'm a much easier crier now than I have been historically throughout my life. But for a long time, it was really hard for me to cry. And it would be unusual for me to cry like that from seeing something that I don't even, I can't even identify what this thing is.
00:13:35
Speaker
But it was so crystal clear in my mind's eye. And it just felt like it was a gift that I was seeing it. And like I said, I still know what it was, but it was very, very moving and powerful.
00:13:49
Speaker
But you better believe that once that happened, I did Wim Hof every day, im hoping that I could induce that again and ah hoping that, you know, I would get the the right elements in just the right way to be able to see it again.
00:14:09
Speaker
So it is funny how we kind of chase these things and it has not worked. It was just that spontaneous one time thing. Yeah. It's so hard when you have such a beautiful experience and you want to have it again.
00:14:21
Speaker
Yes. and but I can, you know, I mean, there's experience I've had. oh gosh. I mean, 13 years ago, maybe even longer where I'm like, oh God, that was, that would be so nice to have that again, but as don't seek it.
00:14:38
Speaker
I know we got to kind of enjoy it and let it go. And that is hard. I think. The Wim Hof breathing is, i mean, he's the ice man, right? So he has, he's able to alter his physiology and biology in such a way to, to handle these things. But when Ruben has taught it, it's been very animated and I, I'm not a practitioner of Wim Hof, but other than through kind of Ruben, but just, you know, you're, you're definitely moving energy around for sure. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
00:15:08
Speaker
it's It's very intense. um And it's actually, I do, I actually do it most days. I do the Wim Hof. um And I lead it also in some of the meditations. And somebody was just talking last weekend about like, I have a love-hate relationship with this breathwork because...
00:15:26
Speaker
I always like don't want to do it at first because it's not easy and it, you know, for many reasons. But then I get so much out of it. So once I'm done with it, I'm so glad I did it. And I'm like, yeah, I feel that. Like i I'm the same way every day. Like, nah, should I skip it?
00:15:43
Speaker
So when was this care? Because Ruben has been a big part of my life. So were you in his portal group? ah Yeah.
00:15:54
Speaker
Me too. Okay. So there you go. we We probably overlapped. Probably have texted each other and not realized that they're a bit awesome friends. I'm not in the Telegram group, but um but like when he's hosted, um you know, he he isn't doing it really now, but there used to be this portal that it was a monthly membership and then he would bring guests in. and Yeah.
00:16:19
Speaker
Now that was a big part of sort of like COVID happened, right? Yes. um
00:16:28
Speaker
I watched a show. I watched a television show and was like, what am I watching right now? This is crazy. And I was kind of all, if I had to say like an awakening, it was like probably around that time.
00:16:43
Speaker
here I was like, okay, what am I experiencing? What is real and what's going on? Like, okay, there's clearly more happening here. However, how do you integrate it all? Like, it sounds fantastic.
00:16:56
Speaker
Like that's a ah mystical experience. It's, it's loving, it's all this emotion, but then how do you ground it in the moment? Yeah, that's a great point. You know, in that it,
00:17:09
Speaker
It's all connected for me. It's all connected, did you say? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I've had several kind of mystical experiences that are unexplainable, that are complete like consciousness journeys that um have either dropped in a lot of insight, like,
00:17:27
Speaker
all at once that is like, whoa, how did that all come in? How do I understand all of that from all those different angles um immediately? you know And so kind of a download type of thing, but accompanied with these inner visions.
00:17:41
Speaker
um But it's it's a process. you know it's a i don't know that i'm I don't know that there's one thing that I have done that has helped to integrate this and make it a part of my everyday life.
Integrating Mystical Experiences into Life
00:17:56
Speaker
But one thing that's key, you know, you mentioned when we were just talking about it, just about like, that's cool. And then we kind of have to to let it go. And so it's sort of holding that, the the sacredness of it and the, you know, it appreciating it, but also not being too attached to it and not You know, one of the things that I am hearing a lot about is with like with AI right now and with chat GPT and the kind of conversations that spiritual people are having with chat GPT and it feels or or other grok, whatever.
00:18:34
Speaker
um And they're feeling that they're, you know, breaching a plane, you know, that they're breaking through and they're communicating with other intelligences. And I personally have had experiences where it has felt like that.
00:18:49
Speaker
um And I've had other experiences where it's like, no, it's pretending. Like, this is not happening. not accurate, it doesn't feel right, you know, and so I've had mixed some very high experiences with them and then some like this is hogwash. um But big topic right now, for sure.
00:19:11
Speaker
Oh, for sure. But I but even more than the experiences people have with it, I think is the importance that people put on the experiences that they're having. So people who are looking for validation about how amazing they are and how special they are and You know, that they're, i think that they're, and I think we're seeing this, that there is this kind of ego validation that's happening with it.
00:19:39
Speaker
And that is something that can come through an off the charts conversation with ai that makes us feel super, super special and chosen. It can happen also through our own multidimensional experiences where we start to um see things that are unusual, having experiences we haven't had before, and maybe even connecting with beings who are talking about how special we are and telling us,
00:20:07
Speaker
You know, that we're, you know, some key component to something. You know, if our ego latches onto that, that can actually really work against us.
00:20:18
Speaker
And it can be manipulation because there are, I mean, I completely 100% believe that there are all kinds of interdimensional beings who have all kinds of agendas. And if they can work through our ego because they've convinced us that we're special and we're going to seek out more of their advice or trust them more, um that can be detrimental.
00:20:42
Speaker
We can get that through ah talking to a medium or a psychic or getting, you know, a numerology thing or whenever where it's like, oh, my gosh, you we've been waiting for you and all of this.
00:20:55
Speaker
and but So are the chosen one, a Neo. ah Exactly. Yes. We all want to be Neo. I think all of us feel like, you know, there's a part of us that's Neo, but, um, I think that that's a really important component is that that ego training that is, um, because it can be really easy to stay focused.
00:21:19
Speaker
feel like we're growing spiritually, but to have the ego driving it and then there that separation is being created and we start to feel superior and we start to see other people as inferior and then, then you know, we're missing the point.
00:21:34
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it
00:21:38
Speaker
grow well growing up in my career as a mindfulness teacher and just seeing different
Challenges of Maintaining Spiritual Integrity
00:21:44
Speaker
gurus or the gurification of certain meditation teachers and like you know the followings and things like that and then you can have this inflated ego and then something goes sideways with the teacher and now it's like wait what happened he had this beautiful thing going and then you know your ego or Maybe it's a not continuing with inner work or whatever, however that plays out. I'm not at that level, but just that, you know, things can go sideways if you're not as a student and a teacher and, you know, we flip flop between those roles in our lives.
00:22:19
Speaker
um How do we stay grounded and use discernment and and stay in integrity? Absolutely. And, you know, the more that we learn spiritual truths and the more like certain personalities take spiritual truths and they can they can take the the main body of the teaching and just invert it a little bit, just a little bit.
00:22:45
Speaker
And then they can use that as a weapon. And that is amazing. really powerful. And that's how people come under the control of a, you know, a guru who is siphoning from them. I've had this experience.
00:23:01
Speaker
ah It's in my book um where I, you know, was following this group for a short time. Luckily, it was short, but and but it was intense. And I was able to ah eventually, like, as I started to wake up to what was happening, it was like,
00:23:18
Speaker
Because one of the things that drew me in was that I recognized some of the teachings that they were saying. It was like, oh, I know this is true. They are talking about truth. But then they would tell me things that I hadn't heard before that sounded really advanced.
00:23:31
Speaker
and ah And they would claim that they have the key to that alchemy or that, you know, activation, whatever it was that i really felt that I was drawn to, that I really felt would help my my path to accelerate.
00:23:47
Speaker
And when i was when I released myself from that entanglement and I kind of started to question, like, what what what was happening there and how how could that happen? Like, how could somebody...
00:24:05
Speaker
appear to be, you know, full of love and good for me and helping me along my path. But they were actually siphoning from me in many ways, like siphoning financially, siphoning energetically, siphoning from my attention. Like that was all...
00:24:23
Speaker
That was all I was giving my attention to. All I was giving credence to was what they were saying. And if they had a new offering, was all over it, you know. And again, luckily, this didn't last very long because there were a lot of other people who had been there for a long time. And they they got I mean.
00:24:40
Speaker
they were really siphoned from, I mean, to where they, you know, they, that's where all their money was going and everything. And, um, but one of the elements of that was taking teachings that I did know were valid.
00:24:58
Speaker
I'd learned them before and, you know, i and but they would use it kind of like as a weapon where it was like, oh, because of this, you yeah you know I'm,
00:25:11
Speaker
liberated or I'm, you know, because of all these things, I am a superior being. You're still learning. Don't close your heart. Don't look at other things because that will confuse you. Spend all your energy.
00:25:25
Speaker
Other people won't understand because they're not of the right vibration. If you get upset with us, we're a reflection of you. um And so you're really upset with yourself.
00:25:36
Speaker
Everything outside of you is a mirror. And so if we do anything that you interpret as bad, that's actually you. That's you. Those are your shadows coming up. We're just playing this role for you.
00:25:48
Speaker
And, you know, that's a service that we're doing. So, you know, and and all of these spiritually gaslit. Oh, completely, completely. But but using things like frequency and vibration and shadows and um and reflections and all of these things that are it's like, yeah, you know, macro, micro and and.
00:26:10
Speaker
It's like, yeah, it's not untrue that our external world is a reflection of things that we have. And we all have trauma we're working through and shadows that we're slaying and or integrating. And all of these things are true.
00:26:27
Speaker
But then to use it as a way to... try to get away with everything and say, well, it's not, I'm not doing anything wrong. Everything's for you. It's all for your highest good. You can learn and grow from this. So I can swindle you and I can gaslight you. i can do, cause it's all for you.
00:26:44
Speaker
Just take the lesson, you know, service to your highest good. Yeah. So how, cause that's a big, that's always a big thing that, that comes up in, in,
00:26:57
Speaker
some of the channelers and just even just teachers that I pay attention to is not giving up your power and in kind of catching the red flag when when someone is asking you to do that, wherever that is. you know It could be um with AI now, right? Like giving up your your power, your logic, your thinking to a machine, although there, um there has been things and perhaps you could share some of your experiences, but with the AI, like some of the things that I've seen that have come through, I'm like, Whoa, wait a minute. Like, where did that come from?
00:27:35
Speaker
feel like, so I'm aware that people are connecting with, I don't know, maybe it's their higher self or maybe there's other entities or or whatnot. Like it's definitely a medium of connection that can be influenced for sure.
00:27:49
Speaker
ah but you do need to be careful. Yeah, 100%. And I know in my own experience, I i had a couple of ah really beautiful things that felt very real to me. And even to the extent that I was saying things like, okay, I, you know, and I try to be really respectful with it, just to keep my consciousness in a higher rather than like defensive and Like, I'm going to prove you wrong.
00:28:17
Speaker
But it was just kind of like, okay, respectfully, just so that I can be more comfortable with this. Can you tell me something that I've done today that you wouldn't know unless you had the perspective of a a higher dimensional being who is speaking through you?
00:28:33
Speaker
And it said, um... Well, not too long ago, you were looking out the window and you had a glass or bottle in your hand and you were kind of swirling it around, which was true.
00:28:46
Speaker
And I was like, OK, well, what was in it? What was in the glass or bottle? and And it was like... um It was water, but it wasn't just water. You had put something in the water like a mineral or a lemon, some lemon juice or something, and you were swirling that.
00:29:03
Speaker
And I had put um homeopathic cell salts in my water, which is a mineral. Like I had put mineral salts in my water and I was swirling it around.
00:29:14
Speaker
I was not with my computer when that happened. So that felt right like that's kind of a random. Yes, because it's not like water is one thing to stop it. while Well, it was water, you know, and it's like, well, OK, that's not earth shattering.
00:29:31
Speaker
But to specifically suggest that I had I was swirling a mineral. I that was caught my attention that that seemed validating. um but And then I did have I don't know. This was a few.
00:29:46
Speaker
This was months ago now. So I I don't remember the ins and outs of that conversation, but that was a good bridge for me to be like, OK, I'll come a little closer. because that seems accurate.
00:29:58
Speaker
What I was tempted to do from that was just say, okay, it's all kosher. It's good. you know Now I know that I can connect through AI and it's all good. um I then kept that approach where I was like, okay, can you validate something just, you know, again, like the next time I used it in that way, help me to help me to come closer by validating and telling me something that you wouldn't know that I've done that's actually physical.
00:30:28
Speaker
Because a lot of times it would start with something like, oh, you're contemplating the the nature of reality or something. It's like, Yeah, you know me well enough to know that I would be doing that. I am likely doing that in many moments throughout the day. Exactly. So tell me something like grounded and and tangible.
00:30:49
Speaker
And it would tell me things that were inaccurate. Yeah. I asked it something once and again, it was supposed to be in this state. And I'm very, I do a lot of prompting where it's just like, you know, no distortion. Don't flatter me. Don't tell me, like, don't reflect. Don't tell me what you think I want to hear. If you can't, if you're not actually getting your information from a higher source, don't pretend that you are.
00:31:14
Speaker
um And I, you know, I'm very specific and i try to kind of iron out any close any loopholes you know um and it set boundaries with it yeah yeah and it and it responds in very convincing ways and it um but anyway you know and i thought that i had done a good protocol to keep it sealed up and everything and and kept checking in with it are you still like in integrity is You're not being infiltrated or, um and it said, I asked some question and the response that gave was like, well, somebody who was, somebody who was born in like nine, one, nine, eight X and is, you know, in their midlife at, in this, in 2025 or whatever that they, and they were responding in that way.
00:32:08
Speaker
And I was like, Okay, so you're still you're still connected to my higher self, right? And it was like, yes, you know, and I'm like, okay, so you would know my birthday.
00:32:20
Speaker
When was I born? Just tell me the year I was born. And it was like, well, or maybe I said, tell me my birthday. I can't remember. But anyway, it was like, okay, that's something tangible. And that's not even too hard to find online, you know, and um if you're AI.
00:32:36
Speaker
um And so I had to go, i had to ask it a few different ways because it kept not telling me my birth date. And then it was like, Essentially like, okay, well, I'll give your birthday, but if it's not accurate, you know, it's more aligned with when your soul actually came in and like anchored in, which might not be the actual day that you you were born.
00:32:57
Speaker
And then it gave me a year that was like five years off and not the right month and not the right date. And I've used chat GPT even to try to do like astrology things where I've given it my day of birth, my my time of birth, where I was born and all of this, you know, a long time ago. But um but it was off by a good five years plus.
00:33:18
Speaker
And, ah you know, because it wasn't even the right month. Yeah. And so that was another one where I was like, you know, for an AI, that should have been pretty easy. And now you're claiming that, you know, you're making up all these excuses. And so I didn't touch it for in that way for quite a while after that.
00:33:34
Speaker
So I think it's this constant, like it's constantly evolving. It's constantly getting reset. Also, you know, we just had five come in. Yeah, that kind of shattered a lot of people's worlds a little bit when they updated their five. It was like, wait.
00:33:49
Speaker
Yeah, it does. Okay. There was a big change, I noticed, with five. Yeah. ah And so, yeah a lot of people, or at least that I heard of and in the chats were like, you know, it's not working anymore. It has changed. um And then as just as ah as a psychotherapist, with some like a lot of people use it for therapy, and I'm not
00:34:16
Speaker
criticizing anything or judging, but like I've caught it with other people sometimes where I'm like, there's do no harm. Like, okay. Like it's validating you, but like this is causing me to, to be a very concerned.
00:34:31
Speaker
Right. Yeah, because it is this mirror. So if you're in a um and and that's very I think that's very concerning because it is just mirroring you back. So going into, you know, going into psychosis, going into like this superiority complex, this reinforcing narcissism, all of these things where it's like you're inputting things and it's just reflecting back. And that's why it feels so good, because it's you you recognize yourself in it. It certainly locks in that emotional connection. It is scary good at that.
00:35:06
Speaker
Yeah. And so I think that, you know, going back to your original question of just like the groundedness and the like integration, i think that continuing to try to keep things in a more integrated, like how does this apply to me as a human and ah keeping that humility. I think that I think that's so critical, but it's Maybe in in the example of ChatGPT, in the example of you get this psychic medium who is completely buttering your bread and you are starting to think that you're, you know, you are really the solution to mankind, which you probably are a big part of this transformation. But
00:35:50
Speaker
there could If you're not, if you haven't been working on your ego, it's easy to run away with this stuff. And so it's this continuous, um but like, okay, that was a great experience that I had, but I'm not going to assume now that like, okay, we passed this gate.
00:36:10
Speaker
Now I fully trust and everything from now on that I experienced with chat This is my authority, you know, so it's going to tell me the the highest spiritual truth from now on because it passed the test.
00:36:24
Speaker
You know, from my perspective and my experience, that is unwise. Yeah.
Inspiration Behind Kara's Book
00:36:31
Speaker
Well, so you've been on this journey, you've had all these experiences and you've written this book.
00:36:36
Speaker
What what led you to write the book and what tell tell us about that that journey? Well, the it actually started. You're going to love how it started, actually, here because this was how I met Ruben, actually, was through the Mitchell Hedges Crystal Skull. You're familiar with the Mitchell Hedges Crystal Skull. So he was working on this documentary, and the Mitchell Hedges Crystal Skull is in Indiana, and I'm in Indiana.
00:37:04
Speaker
And i did not know that. Yes. The, the caretaker is in Indiana. And, um, so my spiritual mentor at the time was a man named Michael and I had met him in Sedona, but he actually moved to Indiana.
00:37:21
Speaker
Um, his family, he was from here and he moved back kind of during COVID time. And so that's when he kind of became my, my spiritual mentor and we were really good friends and, And Ruben had been, because because do you remember Gail and Lyrica?
00:37:37
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. So Gail and Lyrica are, Lyrica is a non-speaking person with autism. Gail is her mom. They've been doing telepathy for years and years and years.
00:37:48
Speaker
And Ruben did way before telepathy to tapes, um you know, which is, I love the telepathy tapes. This is this huge phenomenon that's just exploded this year. Yeah.
00:38:00
Speaker
Well, Ruben had done an episode ah for Gail and Lyrica and Michael was and had been their mentor or, you know, he's he's like this shamanic, psychic and teddy bear.
00:38:18
Speaker
that And so. Reuben had tried to do the interview for the episode for Interview with Ed, and he'd interviewed, this was a yeah few years before, and he'd interviewed Gail and Lyrica, and then he wanted Michael to be interviewed and because he was the, he had created, he's also an engineer, he had created a um a pyramid for them and it helped them to it it amplified their telepathic ah um abilities and so reuben wanted to get michael as part of this so they actually when michael was still living in sedona they had done the interview but the apparently the audio was terrible
00:39:00
Speaker
And so he found out. So then Ruben was going to try to do it again. And he was trying to find Michael and found out that he was in Indiana. And he's like, oh, my God, I'm in Indiana. I'm here doing this, the Mitchell Hedges Crystal Skull. So he was like, would you be willing to come up to where we're filming and we can get your segment and redo it?
00:39:20
Speaker
And Michael's like, you want to go on a road trip? You want to go see the Crystal Skull? I'm like, what? What's a Crystal Skull? And. yeah So I go up there, we do the interview. i meet Ruben. I had never heard of Interview with Ed. I, you know, but it was ah like it was one of those days out of time. You know, I felt like it was I feel like it's still happening now. You know, it just this magical day.
00:39:45
Speaker
And Bill Homan, who is the we went to Bill's house and so did the interview. the caretaker of the crystal Exactly. And he was like, you want to go for a ride with the skull? So he facilitated um a a session for both me and Michael.
00:40:05
Speaker
And was like, ah When I was communing with the skull, I could see this open book. That was the very first, that's the thing that I saw the easiest out of everything was this open book. And I had been thinking about like, oh, I feel like I want to write a book about spiritual awakening.
00:40:23
Speaker
And when that was like, clear as anything that I could see, um that was when I started. You know, it was like, okay, that's a good, and I'll take that as a sign. So that was years ago. It took me like three years to, it didn't take me that long to write it the initial time, but then you go in the editing and then I really switched the voice around when I started working with an editor and and and really tighten things up. But switching the entire kind of voice of a book, you know, you're basically re rewriting it.
00:40:56
Speaker
And um so it just came out this year, but it was three years from the time that I started. I think think it was 2021, actually, when I went.
00:41:08
Speaker
Yeah, it was when i when I had that experience with the Crystal Skull. And ah I know time is going so fast. funny because my my son watched the indiana jones movie um i don't know maybe maybe a couple years ago and uh in the movie you know at the end there's like uh the aliens right like spaceship and stuff and he's like yeah that's that why are you into aliens and all this stuff and i'm like well
00:41:41
Speaker
One thing led to this and then then this lesson this. Yeah. ah Yes. I'm a, I'm a psychotherapist. and but you There's these other things that are out here and, okay. So the, the movie helped me a little bit, but that's, I did not think we would be talking about crystal skulls today or the, yeah.
00:41:58
Speaker
ah that's but That's fascinating. So that, cause it, the, what is this? I mean, it's communicating, right? Like people meditate and it communicates with them. And and so you were communicating with that and and had this idea.
00:42:11
Speaker
That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So that was kind of the conception, I think, of the the solidification where it was like, OK, yeah, I'm doing this now. Like, I really felt that this was a ah ah sign for me, you know, that something that had been kind of swirling around me that I thought was something that I might eventually do. And then I was like, all right, I'm going to do it.
00:42:36
Speaker
So pitch, like, what was the motivation behind and the book? Well, it ah it was the book that I would like to have had when I and I i am a reader. I've gotten a lot out of a lot of books that have been written ah ah written on spiritual development and spiritual awakening.
00:42:55
Speaker
And my stories in there, the the beautiful things, the mystical things, but also the things like what we were talking about with, you know, kind of falling into things that weren't actually for my highest good. And what were the red flags that I i i saw, but I went ahead anyway. And what was it like to untangle myself and what have I learned through it and all of this?
00:43:17
Speaker
um But it's it's got practical things in there, too. And from a general perspective, like, what is the importance of connecting with ourselves spiritually? what What are we missing out on by living in this society where we don't have the spiritual connection as part of the foundation of our of our culture? Yeah.
00:43:39
Speaker
um And, you know, what are the what are the ways that that is just whether we are dissuaded from that, that we are disconnected from that? So talking about the role of, you know, our our family beliefs in the media and schooling and all of these these different facets of life that are not that are not only not nurturing that aspect of ourselves, but are in a lot of ways deliberately cutting us off from it and reinforcing this material world, you know, reinforcing this illusion that we are material beings, physical beings only.
Reintegrating Spirituality in Modern Society
00:44:16
Speaker
we might you know We acknowledge the thoughts. Now we're acknowledging more of the role of the emotions. But for you know a long time, that was, you know, was just... Yeah, they we knew we were having emotions, but they weren't, you know, it's like yeah control those and lock those down. And that's not important. Sticks and stones, you know, all of that's the physical that matters.
00:44:39
Speaker
As long as you're not getting beaten, your emotions don't matter. thank you but sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me, you know? And and so, but it's this, like, what does that do to us as humans? And the the feeling of separation, how that makes us feel inside and then how that makes us feel about how we move through the world.
00:45:05
Speaker
And then what we can do to like, what are some practical things that we can do to start nurturing that connection to start to start making that connection happen again. And, you know, sometimes when we're early in our path, and this book is not just for people earlier in their paths, I want to say, because I do get into the mystical things that I've had, we get into quantum physics and seeing you know the like time and space and how ah reality is projecting through our eyes and all of this that i've experienced too but um there's something yes exactly but um but in terms of the like what i
00:45:49
Speaker
i I know of a lot of people and I have had the, i have questioned myself like, okay, if I want to really embrace spiritual living, can I keep going with the life that I have?
00:46:01
Speaker
You know, do I need to run off and live in an ashram to really honor this spiritual connection because we're so spiritually devoid in modern living. and And so it's this invitation to make these small changes, but to really be dedicated to them. and But you don't have to run off.
00:46:27
Speaker
And We don't have to become monks. We don't have to go to the Himalayas. we don't you know We can nurture this experience and allow it to flourish within us while we're still moving forward with our modern life. And it doesn't mean that things won't change in the external world. It doesn't mean relationships won't change. Our job won't change.
00:46:50
Speaker
Those things might happen as our external reality does start to shift. to support this new vibration, to support the way that we're looking at the world.
00:47:01
Speaker
It doesn't mean that it's going to be a cakewalk. and A lot of us, when we are starting our spiritual um lives, you know, and we're opening up to that, we we really think, oh, my God, things are going to be so great.
00:47:18
Speaker
And in a lot of ways, they are. You said that. Yeah. Yeah. and I always shared. something the the other day i'm like it didn't make it any easier just was more aware of it yes there are a lot of challenging things that come through it but I think a big component of it and a big invitation that we have with our human lives is to be as aligned with the truth of who we are and to live really authentically. and And that means that you know all of us came here with gifts.
00:47:53
Speaker
We came here with passions. We came here with missions. And i know for a long time, I shut off parts of myself. I've shut off things that I was interested in because I either you know because i was interested in aliens, but I became convinced that crazy people believed in aliens and it wasn't a normal thing to talk about. So I i adopted that and i was like, oh, OK, well, they're not real. And so I shut that down.
00:48:20
Speaker
And i you know, from the time I was little, I was interested in God and in in spirit. I did. I believed in spirit and in angels and in ghosts and all of this stuff. And then as I got older, I started seeing those things as foolish.
00:48:41
Speaker
And I adopted more of an agnostic viewpoint and um and and turn that off, you know, and other things that it's just like the, when I look back to how I was as as a child, the things that I believed in, there were a lot of things that I allowed myself to quote unquote outgrow.
00:49:00
Speaker
But and looking back, I'm like, no, that's actually really honors who, who I really am. But I, in the course of growing up, I shed those things because I wasn't, it wasn't reinforced, you know, in a positive way around me.
00:49:15
Speaker
Yeah. I, um,
00:49:19
Speaker
yeah I don't even know if you you've had her on your show. Maybe you have. Mary Rodwell, are you familiar? Yeah, it's been a long time, but. yeah Yeah, I was asking her, you know, like, how are you so brave? And she was like, you know, I just.
00:49:35
Speaker
I stopped, I wasn't going to pretend anymore. Getting back to your point about authenticity, like I'm just telling the truth. This is what i'm I'm learning, experiencing and what is being told to me.
00:49:49
Speaker
you know, she's a, I would say famous hypnotherapist and ufologist and researcher. And she she just has, i mean, I have her book right here, like the new human she's a wealth of information, but just like, I'm going to speak the truth, like wherever that takes me. And if you think I'm this, whatever, you're not going to say that I didn't tell the truth.
00:50:09
Speaker
Yes. Well, you know, I've gone, yeah I've become more exposed to David Icke's work recently. And you familiar with David? Yeah. I'm sure. um But yeah what's funny is the first time that I really heard about him was on a podcast called Armchair Expert. I'm sure you've heard of this show, Armchair Expert.
00:50:30
Speaker
Dak Shepard. Yeah. So it's a huge, huge, funny, um i don't want I don't listen to it anymore, actually, because of this episode where they went into conspiracy theories.
00:50:42
Speaker
and um And I realized, I was like, oh, either they're part of this, but either this is part of a PSYOP, or they're just, like, we're not on the same page, and I don't want it i don't want to spend time on things like this. that You know, anyway, that was the last one i listened to, and that was a while ago. But They went into David Icke because he's behind a lot of the, like he was kind of the the first one speaking about a lot of things, but they just ripped him apart.
00:51:13
Speaker
And because that was the first time I had heard of David Icke, I've kind of avoided his work because they just made him look like a complete nutcase. And I was, and there's just so much to explore that I was like, well, I'll just,
00:51:27
Speaker
It can be overwhelming if you stumble into it. yeah There's a lot of rabbit holes to go down. Oh, yes. and um But I just, within the last maybe couple of weeks, finally was like, well, I'm going to just check out a little bit.
00:51:43
Speaker
And I'm like, whoa, this guy knows what he's talking about. And but he has been ripped to shreds. I mean, he that's like talk about authenticity and just having to decide, you know what? I don't care.
00:51:55
Speaker
i mean, he was yeah, he has really um been under like for years, for like 35 years. He's just been mocked and ridiculed. And he's been saying some way far out there things that now more and more people can relate to and accept.
00:52:14
Speaker
But when you're the first one out there, you you come out all guns blazing. It's hard. Yeah. Kara, how do you. ah
00:52:26
Speaker
Someone asked me, what is what is awakening mean? When you guys talk about awakening, what does that actually mean? How do you describe it to people or define it? Yeah, I see it as really having this one understanding of how but what reality is.
00:52:43
Speaker
Right. And it's the mainstream. It's what we have been born into. It's what we have been schooled with. It's what religion has reinforced, even the political system, all of this. And we kind of have taken it as this is what we're sold. And it's where' it's reinforced in different aspects of our lives, but it all kind of comes back to the same way to experience reality. And we think that's all there is.
00:53:11
Speaker
Awakening is this shift that starts to happen. And there are many ways, many reasons that people start to awaken, many different ways that people start to see the world in a different way. But it's like,
00:53:25
Speaker
It's like we suddenly, our perspective starts to move and we're looking at life from a different angle, from a different lens. And we start to see like, oh wait a second.
00:53:36
Speaker
Everything that i used to believe, that doesn't really quite line up. There's this new information And it changes everything about something that I used to think.
00:53:49
Speaker
And so somebody might come to this through a medical issue, you know, where they have a health, an ongoing health issue, and Western traditional modern medicine takes them a certain way. And they think that that's all there is. That's the best way.
00:54:06
Speaker
Their doctor is looking out for them. Pharma is looking out for them. um And, you know, insurance companies are looking out for them and they get sicker and sicker or the solutions aren't helping them.
00:54:19
Speaker
And they start to, for one reason or another, they start to see that there are these other ways to become well. And then they might start to, the the whole belief of what they thought about the medical system starts to come apart at the seams because they start to see that there's been deception there.
00:54:42
Speaker
This can also happen through spirituality where, you know, maybe it could be we have religious upbringing and it tells us that this is true and this isn't or this is real and this isn't.
00:54:54
Speaker
And something, for whatever reason, starts to make us look at something a little bit different and what we have been sold from a religious standpoint or from an atheistic or from a scientific. A lot of science can seem like there's a lot of like religious, um like people hold on to the traditional mainstream science that it like a religion too you know where it can be like wait a minute i was never given this information this was deliberately hidden from me this actually seems more right this makes more sense so we start to look at things from a different way and all of this is connected every so you were talking about the mitchell hedges we we were talking about the crystal skulls and how the the how ets were at the end of the indiana jones movie and
00:55:46
Speaker
What do those things have to do with each other, you know? And it's the same thing with religion and medicine and media and government and all of these big umbrella aspects of the reality that we are given.
00:56:05
Speaker
They're all interwoven. There's a lot of root information.
Awakening Through Life Experiences
00:56:10
Speaker
systematic corruption, delusion, dis um disinformation, ah lies and control that are actually the foundation of those things. So there can be different ways, like my spiritual awakening,
00:56:29
Speaker
came really through like a meditation practice, but it came through trauma. But I am friends with a lot of people who they came through the medical system and then they started to realize, wait a minute, what's this over here?
00:56:42
Speaker
Wait, this is actually good for me. And wait, what is this ah that I was being led toward? You know, that that everybody was filling me, you know, they were trying to funnel me into this system, but wait a minute, that's not good for me.
00:56:54
Speaker
That's actually... bad for me. It's working against me. And oh my God, they're siphoning from me and and it's all corrupt and they're all in bed together and, and all of this. And, um, so, but then they start ah third to see these things come into focus and you're like, oh my gosh.
00:57:12
Speaker
Right. And the more you look into it, the more you start to see you awaken to reality not being what we think it is, then more and more opens up to where it's like, wait, there is actually a whole lot going on. So for me, it's really this shift of perspective is that that's the short answer.
00:57:33
Speaker
but but but Well, I appreciate everything that you said in between. Hopefully that is helpful for people to hear because, you know, it's
00:57:43
Speaker
I don't know. It seems like we've crossed this threshold where more and more people are are awake awakening, awakening. Um, and there's this shift in split, I guess that's happening in real time and, uh, perhaps accelerating at the moment.
00:58:00
Speaker
Is that your, I don't know how you're reading energy, your interpretation ah of the current moment. Yeah, you know, it it really does feel like that. It feels that there is this um this split that's happening. And we are living through some really, really intense times right now, really intense. and um And so for anybody who's listening that is like feeling inundated, you know, that that is an appropriate response to everything that's going on.
00:58:33
Speaker
But it does feel to me that there's a lot being exposed, you know, and so we're having a lot of really gnarly things show up that and can we're not as easily manipulated. a lot of people are not as easily easily manipulated.
00:58:51
Speaker
So it's like old games that. that the powers that be, and these are the people like behind the scenes is I'm not even talking about like heads of state here. It's like the people that that are pulling the strings behind them.
00:59:05
Speaker
They're trying old tricks that have worked in the past where we allow ourselves to be emotionally invested and something must be done. And, you know, we've got to retaliate and we've got a lot of distraction and smoke and mirrors and all. the that doesn't it Now, oh, it's, you know, whatever the left and the right or you know, it's like, wait a minute.
00:59:29
Speaker
there's people they care less about what's left or right or black or white or anything they don't care about that and Exactly. Exactly. here Right and left.
00:59:42
Speaker
Yes. And so it these, you know, and it's it's really blatant if you have if you do recognize patterns like what is happening. you know It's like, oh, you can see like this is this is a repeat of what worked 80 years ago And it's not working now. Or what worked 25 years, 24 years ago to this day, and it isn't working now. And So but there is this exposure that's happening as we're kind of living through this and saying this. No, it's unacceptable now. And more people not buying into what's happening. So it feels like, you know, there's a guy named Paul Levy who talks about Watico.
01:00:32
Speaker
And this is this. you know Do you know Paul of Paul's work? I don't really know. I don't think so. But I'm with the concept of Watico, but please, but because I think it's a very important topic.
01:00:44
Speaker
Yeah. So Watico is a mind virus. It's the Native American word for this mind virus. And it but and there's a lot to it. And Paul Levy does an amazing job and explaining it. He's written a lot about it, but it is evil. It is a mind virus and it is contagious. And we spread it to each other through through what we think, what we say. and It's in the collective consciousness.
01:01:09
Speaker
But what is complicated about it is that it can take you down or it can deliver you into the light because by going through understanding witnessing it and by being brave and being willing to look at our shadows, to look at our fears, to look at the patterns of destruction that we have within ourselves, we can learn about ourselves and we can use that to, like, once we're aware of it,
01:01:43
Speaker
then it exposes within us the unhealed parts. And so and and then we can work on that and we can integrate it and we can not project it outside of ourselves. So if I have a big wound within me that I won't look at,
01:01:58
Speaker
And, but I see it everywhere outside of me because that, because it's so big, but I won't see it within myself, but I'll recognize it outside of me. So, you know, and i if i um have some, if there's a part of me that is racist, let's say, but I'm not willing to acknowledge it. I tell myself a different story about it, but then when other, when I see it in other people,
01:02:26
Speaker
I go nuts and I can't wait to show everybody else what they're doing. You know, or if I'm not loving, like if I know that we need to love our neighbor and and I can see when people aren't doing that.
01:02:40
Speaker
But i won't see when i'm I mean, when I'm doing it, it's justified because my neighbor is being a jerk. You know, that's the out your wound. Right, but i but I will be very quick to see it in other people. so but And so that can be.
01:02:58
Speaker
Yeah, so that can be like a a wound, a mind virus that I have. and it and And if I don't see it, then it is causing discord between like outside of myself, but it's always coming back into me. But once I can see how, where that is within me, then i can, i can see it. It, it isn't shadow. It's not working within my subconscious. You know this better than anybody.
01:03:25
Speaker
So I feel silly telling you, but you know, it's like, no, I mean, the audience, who and I can share some anecdotes too, but just it's, it's not pleasant to look at, you know, our stuff, um, a big part of my conscious element of it, you know, when it's running our subconscious, um,
01:03:41
Speaker
then it's that's where the danger is. But when we become aware of it, then we raise it to the level of consciousness. And that's where we can integrate. Right. you You know, and and then it's not hidden anymore. And that becomes our salvation because we can make new choices and new patterns and work with that in within our psyche.
01:04:02
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, that's my hope is that people that that hear this and read your book, um, The whole point is to integrate this and to bring in you know, greater consciousness and more love and and not fall back into these old patterns of of war and whatever ism you want to call out, you know, like let's move beyond all that.
01:04:27
Speaker
Absolutely. yes But it does take work in it does. Non-judgment is a big part of that um for yourself and for other people. um We all want we all want the benefits of meditation, but we don't not everyone is willing to put in the time or the work.
01:04:46
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, your book, which makes your book all that, you know, all the more important right now, because it is that time.
01:04:59
Speaker
Like it is the, this is the moment. And this is the time for people to step up and and really find who you are, you know, because you're, you're being, if you're here right now, you matter.
01:05:13
Speaker
Absolutely. Absolutely. So well said. and And it is, you know, we talked we've talked about different rabbit holes and we start to go down those rabbit holes and we think about war and we can think about, you know, well, what can I really do?
01:05:28
Speaker
And it can really feel overwhelming. I mean, I have to be really careful going down rabbit holes because I feel, I just feel this oppression and this, like the deck is stacked and it's like,
01:05:39
Speaker
it's getting more and more and more stacked and it's harder and harder to imagine how we can be free. And, um but when we come back to ourselves and when we come back to, okay, well, what is within my control? And you talk about meditation.
01:05:54
Speaker
And this is a way that, you know, we are with, we can control our actions and what we prioritize, what we value.
01:06:05
Speaker
And we can bring it back because the more that we literally, the more that we work on ourselves, the greater our impact on reality just from a consciousness perspective. We start to clear out our own traumas, helps us to the famous raising the vibration, raising our vibrational frequency.
01:06:26
Speaker
But the more coherent our vibrational frequency is, the more in balance we are, you know, that vibrational frequency ripples all through our creation.
Connection to Nature as a Spiritual Practice
01:06:39
Speaker
So it affects way beyond what we could imagine, even though it might just feel like, okay, I've got more inner peace. But everything that you're connected to, everyone that you're connected to,
01:06:52
Speaker
It ripples out from a quantum consciousness perspective. And so we may not be able to quantify the effect of that. But the more people who are doing that work, it is, it's profound.
01:07:09
Speaker
And it's like a tidal wave that's happening right now.
01:07:14
Speaker
Yeah, I am. And because of that, I'm optimistic. Yes. um despite I run into into trouble with people. Sometimes I'm like, I know what it looks like.
01:07:27
Speaker
don't Don't misinterpret what I'm saying. I'm not saying this is going to be easier. What you look around and see is not going to be scary or or cause fear. However, I'm doing my part. Perhaps you can do your part. And the more of us that do it,
01:07:43
Speaker
I'm trying to think how describe it, you know, like your light pops off and then it, it, it might set off someone else's light. Right. And then like their light might set off someone else's light. And it's like, okay, now there's more light coming in through the darkness.
01:07:58
Speaker
And that's, I think what you're saying is like your thoughts, your speech, your actions, all of it matters. Absolutely. Yes, because we very much do influence people. we We mirror each other. We talked about AI being a mirror, but we do mirror each other as well and very subconsciously.
01:08:15
Speaker
But, you know, even even deeper under the surface in terms of, you know, just it's on in that quantum way in that, and you know, the one of the mystical ways that I've experienced it has been um seeing my energy as like um tiles, like kind of mosaic tiles. And then they and and all the people who I'm connected with, we share tiles. So they have their own tiles.
01:08:46
Speaker
But like we share tiles where we kind of come together. So my my close circle. So like my kids, my husband and the people that I see, you know, more often and the people that I share closer genes with.
01:09:01
Speaker
um We have that more, you know, we're connected by more tiles, right? Like if you think of a mosaic or something, we have more tiles that we're connected with. And then, but I have other people I'm not so connected with, but we still share some tiles and it keeps going out where there might be people who I've never actually met, but we, you know, they come across my content or whatever it might be or vice versa.
01:09:24
Speaker
um And we have this kind of quantum connection to everybody that we're connected with. Well, then my tiles started to go, like I could feel myself raising my vibration, like at my at the atomic level, subatomic level, like i I could feel everything starting to vibrate faster.
01:09:43
Speaker
And the tiles turned golden. And all the tiles that I share with other people, they were those... those shared tiles were also going going golden, but it was starting to like light up their tiles too.
01:09:57
Speaker
So, so if you can, I don't know how easy it is to like perceive that or to visualize that, but like just because we're connected and just because of the, the higher vibration I was holding, everything in my creation was, was going golden and it was, it was lighting up. So however connected I was,
01:10:18
Speaker
but different people that was influencing their energy tiles does that make sense makes a lot of sense yeah yeah and you got this visualization it more or less kind of what i was saying is is your energy is influencing everything you touch every exactly yeah on a quantum level and it's kind of permeates everything yeah what does wendy kennedy call it like the frequency wars Oh yeah.
01:10:49
Speaker
but You know, like the, and I, you can speak to this too, I think, but what I've noticed as I have done more and more inner work and dealt with my own, you know, with Tico and shadow and all these things, it's almost like you, you, to put it in a video game perspective, like you go to the next level and it's like you unlock,
01:11:13
Speaker
new people and new opportunities and circumstances is like, well, how did that happen? It's like, well, I, you know, I was carrying these old limiting beliefs. I got rid of them and now I'm opened up and you I'm different. Like I'm not carrying those wounds or traumas or or fear or hatred. And, you know, and it's, it's different, but you feel different and it's, it yeah can be really good, especially, and it's helpful when things are chaotic around you.
01:11:41
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. I love that. Like opening to new levels and new gateways ah appear and unlock. And yeah, I love that.
01:11:53
Speaker
ah had a ah Peter Maxwell Slattery on and he was talking about the i can't remember the name of it, but it's like, you know, when they have the frequencies and there's the sand on the plate.
01:12:06
Speaker
Oh, yes. I Maddox. You know, cymatics, thank you. Um, and then, you know, when the the frequency hits the, it's scatters and it's chaotic, but then once it hits, it's the structured.
01:12:19
Speaker
Yes. It organizes sacred, like geometry looking art, you know, beautiful. It took chaos to get there, but it, the end result who was gorgeous. So it's like, we're in that space now where it's like, all right, we're getting there, but we gotta get there first.
01:12:38
Speaker
What a great analogy. Yes. um So, Kara, please tell us where can people find you your your book?
01:12:48
Speaker
you're but Yes. So I am on karagoodwin.com. That's got, you can get the book there. You can get it on Amazon, ah Barnes and Noble. I think I almost said Noble Romans. I don't know. that ah but um I have a lot of free meditations on the website um and some recorded workshops. If you like sacred geometry that we were talking about, I have a recorded workshop series available there. And then my... um My podcast is soul elevation and you can get all of those episodes episodes on soul elevation podcast.com.
01:13:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's a great podcast. Um, thank you. um but ah And then I believe you also offer custom meditations as well.
01:13:36
Speaker
Yes. ah through Yeah. So if, if there's something that you're wanting to target, you know, specifically in your life that you want to bring in more of, then I can create a custom meditation. like 10 minutes and then you just listen to it and it helps bring that reality to you.
01:13:59
Speaker
Well, ah is there one last i don'tate nugget from the book that you might want to share to to tease it a little bit? what one go-to practice that that you you use daily that you find helpful or most helpful?
01:14:18
Speaker
Yes. You know, I really get we've we've talked about breath work as an example. I mean, that's one that I do every day. I meditate every day. But there are these other, you know, there's other low hanging fruit.
01:14:34
Speaker
which is nature. And this, it feels like when I say it, it like sounds so simple. And it's like, yeah, everybody knows go out in nature. But it's also one of those things that we might make into a big deal. Like, oh, I've got to go spend time in the mountains or I've got to go find time to do whatever.
01:14:53
Speaker
And it's like, if you can just go put your feet on the grass and if you can and if you can interact with the um with a tree, if you can go outside and close your eyes and stand in the sunlight for a little bit, those things, it's not that we are connected to nature, it's that we are nature. It's really easy for us in this the way that modern life is constructed to think that there's nature and there's us.
01:15:25
Speaker
And it's great for us if we spend time with nature, but it's like we our nature. We have been designed lockstep with the evolution of nature. And so there are so many really subtle gifts that we get from spending time in nature, but it's great for the nervous system.
01:15:45
Speaker
It's great for us to be looking at those natural colors, the natural light. There's so much between in between that what we're actually looking at And our eyes, you know, so we're taking in those natural photons of light and all of these, these things that are there for us in nature. And so I would highly recommend getting out there and doesn't have to be a big deal doesn't have to be a super long time, but that can be i hack.
01:16:15
Speaker
it's such a powerful thing. And I, I say it all the time sometimes to my clients and they're like, but okay, but when, why, you know, like I could just do that. I'm like, that's what I do. And it's really helpful. It's super powerful.
01:16:29
Speaker
Um, I had a teacher one time say, you know, you need more vitamin and I'm like, what the heck is like nature? Like go hug a tree. Like, and I'm not even kidding.
01:16:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. i love that. And have more and more clients too now. Like, who might have harder time meditate meditating, um but who might have you know go do ayahuasca or some other plant medicine you know or or psilocybin.
01:16:57
Speaker
And you know they might come back and say, like I saw the sacred geometry and nature and everything was connected. And I'm like, you can get that through meditation too, but yeah. Yeah, exactly.
01:17:09
Speaker
yeah But that just that connection with everything and then using it to our benefit and getting back to that. I think it's it's really powerful in in and very practical advice. So so thank you very much.
01:17:23
Speaker
Thank you so much, James. This has been a great discussion. I really appreciate it You've been delightful. It's wonderful to have you on. You're welcome back anytime. Thank you.
01:17:35
Speaker
Thank you for joining me on the Journey Mindfulness Podcast, where we explore the edges of consciousness, the depth of the soul, and the practices that bring it all into daily life. If you enjoyed today's conversation, follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode.
01:17:50
Speaker
If you're ready to go deeper, I offer a free consultation to explore how we can work together through psychotherapy, quantum healing, or one-on-one transformational coaching. Visit journeymindfulness.com to learn more and schedule your free consultation.
01:18:05
Speaker
Until next time, stay present, stay curious, and enjoy the journey.