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Episode 4: The Inner World Revealed
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Leslie and Alex introduce listeners to two transformative tools that change the way people understand themselves: mushrooms and human design. They break down the science, the purpose, the myths, and the real benefits of both paths. This episode gives you a grounded way to explore your inner landscape and understand the systems guiding your growth.
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Introduction: Discovering Inner Strengths
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Welcome to Don't Trip on Your Cape, the podcast where Leslie, the founder of Align Living and Leadership, and her amazing co-host Alex from Much Love, dive into the very things that weigh us down, only to reveal those burdens are actually our greatest strengths.
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Together, they help listeners recognize that what feels heavy is often just your own unique superpower in disguise. So grab your cape, and let's explore how to wear without stumbling.
Unveiling Self-Awareness: Human Design & Mushrooms
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Hello, welcome to Don't Trip on Your Cape. I'm Alex. And I'm Leslie. Today we're exploring two different pathways that can bring you back to yourself in very different ways. We're going to talk a little bit about human design and a little bit about mushrooms.
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One of them gives you a map for understanding your energy and your choices and your patterns.
What is Human Design?
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The other opens the inner doorway to really understanding your emotional truth.
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and your subconscious stories so together we create a powerful conversation and a powerful partnership about identity purpose healing and self-trust absolutely uh alex and i kind of bring our own lived experience to these tools my lane is human design and their lane is among other things the world of mushrooms so what are your thoughts on that alex I'm excited because the thing that I like most about both of these things is they return you back to yourself always. It's not about, everything always is about starting with yourself, your blueprint for you. yeah I think of human design, and I've told you this before, kind of like your character sheet. And I feel like mushrooms are the thing when your character sheet doesn't have the answers. They help you go inside and help you maybe with healing your trauma. And we'll get into some of that. But they really work well together just like we do.
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Absolutely. So this episode is still going to follow the kind of the five part structure that we offer for all of our conversations. Another way of looking at the at the hero's journey. um But we're going to go a little bit deeper today on the topic. So it's really, we hope that this is really helpful in helping you understand yourself um at a level where change can actually happen.
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So let's get started. Want me to go first or you want to go first? We can start with human design. okay from Okay. human design is really kind of started as a theory. as systems of self-understanding go, it's a relatively new one. It came to us in the mid 80s and it was brought to us by a man named Ra-Aruhu.
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He was just a regular old guy named Alan. And he took a trip to Spain. And while he was already living a creative life, um he wasn't really seeking to build a new system.
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And then as the universe has the plan, everything changed. So he went into isolation Ibiza. And um during that time, he experienced...
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an eight-day download, a transmission that really changed not only the trajectory of his life, but also the trajectory of life for so many of the rest of us. And through that experience, he received the structure for what became human design.
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um I think one of the things that makes human design so fascinating is that it doesn't belong to one tradition. Often when we're exploring systems of understanding, there's a single school through which that lens develops. Human design is a fusion of many ancient systems. so there are but there are parts and wisdom from the Chinese I Ching, astrology,
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the Hindu chakra system, the Judaic Kabbalah, and quantum physics, and neutrino theory. So it's, I think for me, especially because I love the intersection of science and spirituality, that's one of the reasons that it personally resonated with me so significantly.
Applying Human Design for Life's Purpose
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um And then this fusion really gave birth to a completely different, new way of understanding human behavior, but also the energetic expression of who we are and what we're here to do. And it created a map that really explains how your energy operates, what motivates you, where you're consistent, where you show up variably, or in human design, we call that your openness, and how you're designed to make decisions in alignment with your life purpose.
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Does that resonate with your experience of human design? Absolutely. but i the i think the thing that I like the most about it is when I first was introduced to it was by you. And it you know had a couple of things about your path that you were talking about. And it was, I i was like, I'm a two five. And then I was like, oh, I don't get to pick. you have it it you You're designed. And then I went and it looked it up and that was what I was. And so for me, the fact that it is literally a design, it feels resonant and and aligns all these things about yourself that you don't know why you feel that way but it tells you that it's perfect one of my mentors is Karen Parker and she likes to remind us often that human design is not a labeling system while it is a system of archetypes it doesn't tell you who you are it helps you understand how you are and it's not about predicting your life you know some of these systems um especially astrology, people can feel like it's very predictive because obviously where the stars are in the sky is outside of our circle of control.
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But human design is really ah more about showing you the mechanics behind your life. And it helps you understand the difference between living as your conditioned self and letting the programming and the stories and the external pressures potentially to not really become the thing that's driving the bus, right? It's it's really more about living as your true self, which she also likes to say, we're each a unique once in a lifetime cosmic event. And when I heard that phrase the first time, it just resonated at the core. it It just made every single cell in my body sing. um
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And I think one of the most accessible points for understanding the archetypes of human design is learning your energy type. Um, there's many, many details and many layers of your human design and understanding that.
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But if you just understand your energy type and the strategy that, that is aligned for you as one of the five types of, um, ah one of the five archetypes in human design, you already get to show up with a bit more ease, which I know you've heard me say, ease is our birthright as human beings. where We are not really here to do it hard.
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And having said that, I know life can can feel really hard. So that's one of the things that really lights me up about sharing human design with folks is helping people understand how to access that ease more often. Right. and you get better Yeah. flipping on a cape Absolutely. Absolutely. Not tripping on your cape.
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So just to give a kind of a high level introduction to those energy types, if you're not already familiar and human design, we use five different archetypes, um generators and manifesting generators are here to respond, right? They're here to build what they love. And I love that, that last qualifier, because it's not just about being the worker bees, which is sometimes the analogy that's, that's thrown out there. but it's about understanding how to expand that thing that really lights you up.
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Projectors is another one of the energy types and they're here to guide. They're here to guide those of us that have responded and are in the building phase and they see so deeply into others.
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As a manifesting generator myself, i'm I'm one of the speedy builders in the world. I like to expedite the process. It's really hard for me to go slow because that's just not natural for me. So I i tell folks all the time,
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I love me some projector energy because they help put some boundaries on my flow and they help me ensure that my flow is focused in a way that feels aligned for me. Manifestors are here to initiate the movement. And sometimes people hear the word manifester and there's like this wah, wah, wah, if they're not, if that's not their energy type designation, because like, oh, I want to manifest, but we're all manifesting. We're all creating our reality with the story we're telling ourselves in every moment but manifestor types in particular are here to get the ball rolling and then the fifth archetype are reflectors reflectors as their name implies are here to show the rest of us how well we're doing what we're doing right they they are uniquely tuned in
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to the health of the environment that they're a part of. you know Statistically, generators and manifesting generators make up the majority of the population from a numbers perspective. um Next, more most common energy type are projectors.
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Manifestors make up about seven or 8% of the population. Reflectors make up less than 1% of the population. They are truly a rare breed. and so I like to remind folks, if you ever have the opportunity to meet a reflector, ask them how they're doing and then shut the mouth hole and open the ear holes and listen to what they report because how a reflector is doing in the world is a beautiful piece of feedback for how the community is really showing up.
Mushrooms: Ancient Tools for Modern Healing
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um And then I think it's important to remember that these aren't boxes, right? These are these are not Again, labels that you have to figure out how to show up as.
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These are indications of how you get to show up in alignment with who you are. So after you understand a little bit about how your energy wants to move through the world, if you're so inclined, um you can turn to our second tool that we're going to focus on today.
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And this is a tool that's been in humanity for much longer than most people imagine, right? There's a lot of talk about psychedelics and psychedelic assisted therapy and the opportunities, but psychedelics are not new. So tell us a little bit more about what your experience is with that.
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I want to start back like further than even modern humanity, really. um There's a theory that was start started by Terence McKenna, and it's funny name for it, but it's called the Stoned Ape Theory.
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And it the idea is that there was a jump in evolution of van mankind when we were following along on the planes eating mushrooms from the species of different animals, but our brains evolved. And so they've been around since before we had language for them or what we knew we were doing exactly. And that's partially where a lot of what we believe now, a lot of our evolving has come from. and you know, we can do that again as well. But it's been for a very long time before we even knew what we were doing. And then it kind of led further in to spirituality. it led into the jungles. it led into
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shamanism and curanderas and all all these different things and became a very spiritual tool over time. um We should definitely talk about too Maria Sabina. Maria Sabina is probably what a lot of us in the in the community call like the mother of mushrooms and the reason for that is she was ah she lived in a small community in Mexico and um her community they did all of these ceremonies around mushrooms even with young people children as even would be involved in these things because they believed it was not just about humanity but about spirituality and and that it's a birthright to be able to experience all of these from very young so within their communities when they have these things even children have smaller amounts and then as you get older you have more and more and it's an experience that the whole families and the whole tribes go along with to spirituality to connect themselves to more of each other, the land, animals, and there's a lot of other tools they use as well. But with Maria Sabina in particular, the reason we talk about her is because um there was a couple of people that went searching out these mushrooms. They had heard about them.
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And she was who they found. And unbeknownst to her, they were the ones that brought it back to the Western world. And there was a big article in Time magazine. And so she, we owe everything to her. It didn't really help her out very much at all. It kind of ah made her life pretty turbulent after that, because that was not her intention. But we really do owe her everything. So that's kind of some of the starts of where we know them from. um you know cataloged, so to speak, but they've been around forever and they're used all over the world in different ways still today.
Mushrooms: Pathway to Truth and Connection
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i love that you brought up the children. um I think one of the interesting pieces of trivia or or truths about human design is that Ra at one point said human design is here for for the children.
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And the idea being that if all of the adults can guide just one generation of children through the lens of their aligned energetic blueprint, the entire collective could evolve.
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just like that. And I think that's, sometimes that's not a piece of personal growth and and personal inquiry that we really think about is, you know, especially as we get after, you know, get into our adulthood, a lot of times our spiritual journeys, our personal exploration is an unlearning and a relearning, which takes energy, right? takes effort.
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can feel really hard, can feel really challenging. And if we're able to give these tools to the younger folks, um what a gift to the future generations to come.
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And the coolest part about it is they're, they just grow like that. Like they're just natural, you know, but whether you believe in the universe or God or humankind evolving from science, and spirit there's spirituality in them. There's a knowingness and a wisdom that, again, is they believe is your birthright. And i' I've come to believe the same thing as well, that connectedness. And I think about this, I'm sure you do too. What if you had known that that young when this is that really was your experience of everything? And they always connect you back to you. And we'll get a little bit into what you talked about of the the unknowing, where you have to come into the disruption and you have to actually end up breaking the systems down before you can sometimes build them up.
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So getting them in that early phase where you're building a foundation with these things is completely a gift to people. Absolutely. Can you talk a little bit about the the core of the mushroom opportunity not being so much about escape, but really more about connecting with your truth?
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Yes, absolutely. So one of the thing reasons i think that they're coming back as far as into the mainstream as well is there's a really a necessity that is a calling within all of us to return back to ourselves. And that's really why I think that they were...
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part of our evolving back when and they're coming back now but it's essentially what if you go on a mushroom journey or especially where they started like with Maria Sabina and stuff it's always an was about spirituality and internally journey and it's never about numbing um There's somebody that we're going to probably have on the podcast later on at some point that came to me because he was addicted to heroin.
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And so we talk a lot, because he's one my friends now, about how heroin would give you the numbing, but the euphoria. And so it was not a natural experience at all, because it was always chasing that new thing. Whereas mushrooms give you this connectedness to everything. There's no numbing. it is there's a he He would say he would...
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have a problem, go to heroin, it'll be good and no bad. Whereas now, a lot of the things he uses mushrooms for, he'll have a problem. There's not numbing, there's this barrier of love between him and the problem, so he can look at it with this connectedness. He can look at it from his own perspective and what he wants to do with it. And for myself, obviously, that's my experience as well from being raised in a cult and the mushrooms first telling me, you know, you're a human being with love, not a human being with a wicked heart. It's always back to a truer, more foundational message of love. Again, your birthright, that it returns you back to not tripping on your cape. You're born with a cape. You're meant to fly. You're meant to use your superpowers. And so often we are disconnected from that and they can return you back to
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your
Aligning with True Self: Tools for Disruption
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messages. And my favorite thing about them really is it doesn't matter your beliefs. They do not care. They they want to help you through whatever your belief system is, return to yourself. Everything, every single system, just like human design incorporates everything from the Kabbalah to Hinduism to chakras and all of the things. Mushrooms work in alignment with all of those things and also a million other things that we don't know that they know. But it's always...
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connection back to everything. And there's also certain kind of mushrooms, and we'll talk about this in later episodes and later times, that connect you, can connect you to the outside. So especially nowadays, human wiring is so new, we're evolving so much in so many different pathways. And one of the ones that is very prevalent now, and especially in our narrative at the moment is autism and neurodivergency and Tylenol and all those kind of things that they're talking about. But I really have my experience of neurodivergent people and loving them and grokking them is that they have a beautiful expression of superpowers. And being able to understand that is really important. But one of the things that a lot of non neurodivergent people have hard time with is going inside. Whereas neurodivergent people are often in tune with that. Instead, they our time going outside.
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And so there's a mushroom that can connect people to the outside in their environment. And this is really good for neurodivergent or autistic people to have that other ability that they sometimes need to develop. So mushrooms are all tools and connections. And one of the things I love, lastly, I'll say about them is they're always alive.
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So even if we i have tons of dehydrated mushrooms, if we were to rehydrate them and then take a little piece of it, it would start to grow mycelium again. And so they are collaborators because once they become a part of us, we are also 70% of water. They're now alive again and collaborating with us, and they are closer related to us DNA-wise than they are to plants. They're more animal. They're alive. And I mean, plants are alive too, but a different sort of consciousness, so to speak. And so they really do, like I said, it's all about connection. It's all about to yourself, but they are collaborating with you in that connection.
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that's one of my, another of my favorite things about the partnership of of these two tools is that it's, they were both born from profound insight, right? Different perspectives on that truth, different access points to that waking up to yourself, sort of, right? um One through revelation and one through our ancient relationship with the natural world. I think especially, you know, in this busy time of technology and, you know, large population numbers and all of those things, it can be easy to forget that we are a part of the natural world. And we are part of that quantum field of energetics. We are part of that mycelium network is of, of all things, you know, living in all kinds of different expressions and,
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Most people don't necessarily turned to either one when life is feeling grand, right? we're not We're not engaging in personal inquiry typically when things are feeling aligned. So these are tools that can help you break open, break through those um barriers that feel stifling, or to your point, create that insulation.
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that creates the safety. um Absolutely. Right. When something disrupts that story we've been living, what are the tools that we use to, to write the new, the new chapter?
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um And I think disruption is a nice place for us to kind of take the conversation. Right. So, you know, and just as in the hero's journey, there's an origin story and then there's this disruption um that creates some kind of provocation, right? one of my One of my teachers calls them sacred provocations, right? that that When the wind shit feels upside down and asks backwards, what is the gift? What is the God? What is the good?
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and you know, I think to to think about what is the beauty inside the chaos um is there is a really off option awesome opportunity to create realignment. um you know when when life When the life we've created feels heavy, um when relationships feel strained, when work feels draining. I was just in a coaching call with a community I'm a part of and
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the the teacher was talking about how we were talking about values. And one of the people in the group was talking about how I i value happiness. I value joy. And then the next inquiry was, and and so how how are you living your life? And the person was like, well, I'm in a shitty relationship. I'm in a shitty job and life, you know, yeah and it was like, well, that's, so that feels like a disconnect maybe on a surface level, but also,
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what is the access point for that thing that is your value? What is the access point for joy when things are feeling upside down? And some disruptions feel really dramatic, right? You get fired, someone dies, you know, those kinds of things. But more often than not, the disruptions are subtle.
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And so having that quiet knowing the whispers, this is not who I am anymore. i know you love to talk about listening to the whispers. i And sometimes the whispers telling you who you are, but sometimes the whispers reminding you who you aren't. I think that's a great way for you know, human design almost becomes a lifeline because it names the patterns, right? it it it it' It gives you that feedback. um You know, I share with folks a lot.
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I celebrate the pain in life and not, you know, from a masochistic perspective, but more from a, when we're feeling anger, frustration, bitterness, and disappointment, those are our cues that something is misaligned.
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And there also are clues, to what needs adjusting in order to get out of burnout, you know embody that abundance and feel seen and understood.
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One of the things I love about this disruption um idea is, you know, one of my favorite books is Conversations with God. And there's a part in there where he talks about, you know, you lost the job or these big disruptions. But really, you're the one that often wasn't invested anymore. You didn't start showing up with as much gusto because your alignment has shifted. And so often it does take a larger disruption until they align you notice your alignment has shifted, but it's really always our alignment that has been off. like you know you You know what happens, you first get a job, it's the best thing in the world, but then you grow. And maybe it is out of alignment with you or you're you're doing something else. and
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That's true for everything in life as far as if it doesn't grow with you, you will misalign to it. And so the disruption, as you said, that pain is really just a signal that we we have become out of alignment. We were the one that shifted the circumstances to give ourselves this message, this whisper back to yourself of, yeah, now it's gotten a little bigger, but that's because you're misaligned with this thing and this disruption is now giving you the opportunity and you can go back to human design and say where am i out of a line with my energy system and or you know i'm sure we're going to talk about this later and we're going to do a deeper episode or like our superpowers sometimes are sometimes things that we are hard on ourselves about like for example on myself When I was young, i was, you know, not a boy, not even seen as, yeah, I'm non-binary, but I wasn't seen in any way, shape, or form as ah anything but a girl, and girls had to be submissive, and my mom saw me as bossy. But I'm a natural leader, that's just who I am, and it is wired in several different ways in my human design to be a leader, and I was very hard on myself for that.
Human Design in Relationships and Personal Growth
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And so if I had known, like back to your point about children as a child, nah, mom, that's how I'm wired. Like I got all the gates and all the things to be this way.
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It's a lot of easier on yourself, but that disruption can be, okay, where do I need to go back to? And in this case, human design can give you that tool to go look at my wiring, am I out of alignment with that? And then in that case, if you are, then we can go back to mushrooms.
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Well, I think for me, one of the things that i human design helped me learn to not only give myself grace for in my expression, but also to celebrate this unique superpower I have is um my conscious son sits in the gate 51, which and traditional human design is called the gate of shock. And i have always, for as long as I can remember, been the person who just said the this that said the thing, right? Said the truth and put words to it. And you know younger me would find that feeling provoking to other people. And it was, you know there was this defense mechanism that I kind of put in place then with it, which was, well, it's the truth. And if you don't like it, that's a you problem, not a me problem.
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And then in my probably late 30s, I heard an interview with someone saying that, you know, truth without tact is cruelty. And that so hit my heart because it was never my intention to be cruel, but I was often truthful without the tact piece. And so intention does not negate impact. And at the end of the day, if the outcome was people were feeling hurt by this provoking, shocking truth that I was giving voice to, I had to take responsibility for my part in that breakdown. And you know one of my favorite ways to use human design is in is in relationship conversations. It's called a composite chart. And basically, you take your human design chart and someone else's human design chart, and you put them on top of each other to see how those energetic activations
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show up in community but because you are unique and I am unique. But this third thing that we create called we is equally unique and nothing about the energy is bad or good. There are no bad placements in your chart. There are no bad activations in your chart.
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But there is an optimal expression of that energy or there's an unbalanced expression of your of your energy. And I think oftentimes when we are confronted with those disruptions, which are a natural part of the human condition, right? We I share sometimes in my speaking about the cycle of disruption and disruption leads to expansion.
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which it will leads to liminality, which leads to expansion, which leads to more disruption. So the cycle itself, not good or bad, but there are certain parts of that cycle that feel really, really not great.
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yes And when they feel not great, usually that's because we're showing up in that unbalanced expression of these activations. And to your point, I think that's where tools like mushrooms can really support us.
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Absolutely. They're the thing that brings us back inside and gives you that internal message that you might need. And especially, you know, we talked about two examples of expressions of, you know, an unbalanced expression and an a balanced expression. You know, in some ways, there you might have looked at your blueprint and, you know, like, for example, in my case, I could have been bossy if I had an unbalanced expression of that in some ways. Like, that could have been a truth for me.
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And in that case, it can also help you look at yourself in a
Mushrooms and Neuroplasticity: Rewiring the Brain
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way. But people come to me for all different disruptions from everything from PTSD to ah dementia to all of these things, because it is wiring, you know, for in the case of human design as well. But that expression of that wiring can be changed. And even with Mushrooms, I love if you look at the universe and then and you look at how mycelium grows, it kind of looks the same. Also, then you can put your brain in that and that looks the same. And your nervous system, that also looks the same. It's all wiring and pathways and mushrooms work on that and make them more plastic have more plasticity.
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And so when that disruption happens, whether it be, and it's almost anything that they can have help with. genuinely i have not come across a thing yet I'm like nope we can't do that because they're amazing and that they're going where you need and they take you to stuff that you might not even think thought about one of the most famous documentaries fantastic one guy has a woman who had had an abortion many many years ago and she was doing a journey because she was um term potentially terminally ill and so she was trying to come to terms with some things and she didn't remember having this i think it was an unfortunate it have been a miscarriage either way she lost a child and um she didn't realize she had been carrying it all this time and in her journey she said she saw mary say i've been taking care of your child this whole time and it gave her this like peace so like i said it will use whatever you need and your belief system and it will connect you with the whole universe and give it back to you so when that disruption happens it can really and sometimes we don't know right we don't know i don't know what's going on sometimes because it's so deep and it can even it can even do that because it's just wiring that it has access to again yeah I I love that I I love that's also another parallel that I really appreciate the you know in human design you look at your body graph and kind of we think about like that hard wiring those connections of those energetic points to your point there's a neuro neurobiological hard wiring that happens in our brains and
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If we don't use those pathways, or we don't activate those pathways, or we don't nourish those pathways, that's not where the energy is going to flow. That's not where the electrical current is going to connect inside of our bodies. And these tools can bridge the gap, right? we The disruption brings us undeniably to a threshold.
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And then that threshold is an opportunity to explore, right? And and on that hero's journey, right? There's the origin, there's this the disruption that leads to the inquiry. And I think inquiry in human design begins with the architecture of your part of your chart, right? you You look at the body graph, you you learn your energy type, you learn your your aligned strategy, you learn your personal authority. And then a lot of people wanna go deeper and really kind of understand the parts of the the pieces of the chart, the centers of your of your chart and you know how those all all of those expressions can show up within you.
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But it's not really conceptual work. It's a tool for embodiment. And I think it teaches us how to move through the world in a way that really honors our unique design instead of fighting against it, or instead of trying so hard to be something we really just aren't, which so many of us I'm sure can relate to, especially, you know, as, as younger folks the older folks tell us who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to act and what we're supposed to do or the community at large or the society or, you know, all of those kind of influences. And I think you're, when you start to look at those pieces of human design, you look at your, your type is your energetic role, right? It tells you how you're,
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energy interacts with the opportunities that are presented to you. It tell shows you how your energy interacts with your relationships and the the people that you are in community with, but it also shows you how your energy interacts with your decision in life and those choice points. The, do I go right or left? Do I say yes or no?
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You know, those kinds of things can human design can really help us with that. um You know, and like I mentioned earlier, generators and manifesting generators, right? They respond to life. It's a that's the the the typical languaging for generators and manifesting generators is that their strategy is to respond.
00:34:34
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But in all honesty, all the energy types are responding to something. Generators and manifesting generators get to respond to a cue their external environment and use that gut feeling, that intuitive knowing of is that a yes or is that a no?
00:34:50
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And then the burdensome privilege of being a human being is we still have to make the choice, right? We get the knowing, we we hit we we hear the intuition intuition potentially, and then we still have to go take aligned action, right? Projectors are here to guide, but I'm sure many of you can relate to the idea of offering really aligned guidance to someone who's like, la, la, la, la. la so again, that human that human expression of how am I aligning with this natural relationship gift within me, this natural superpower I have.
00:35:24
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And then what do I make it mean? And how do I course correct? Those kinds of things are are, such, such exciting parts of why I want to share the system with folks, right? Manifestors are here to initiate a lot of, I've i've worked with several manifestors who are parts of teams and businesses, and they can get burnt out really quickly because they, after they initiate the great idea,
00:35:50
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then they are feeling pressured to go build the thing, right? mean, that's not really what what the manifesting, manifester types are here to do. They're here to create that spark. They're they're naturally tuned into that nonverbal creative flow that comes from the quantum field, that comes from the universe, that comes from God, wherever whatever source word you want to use.
00:36:13
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But it's nonverbal. to have to even explain it already slows it down, right? It's creative. So having to do something that someone else has initiated, not aligned for manifestors type, and it's a flow. So having to stop or having to slow down or ask for permission or have company on the ride, that can make manifestors feel very ah misaligned, um you know, and and reflectors are here to sense. I think, you know, I i actually just had a a client session with a reflector the other day and she's in partnership with a generator. And I, I listened to the stories and I'm like, man, that's gotta, you gotta hold some firm boundaries to be hardwired for reflection and sensing what's going on.
00:37:07
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when your composite energy is commingled with a generator type that's here to respond and move and do the thing, that the reflector, she just needs a lot of time on the clock to be able to tap into her inner knowing. and the generator is like oh i feel that sacral yes and i'm like let's do it you know it really goes to it's right and it's you know but it's not bad no and if you have this lens of understanding you can go make those choices that are in alignment with your natural rhythm with a bit more ease but when we try to live outside our rhythm that's when we feel disconnected to ourselves
00:37:49
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to To bring it back to just, you know, our overall theme, you know, we have superpowers. I think of it very much like Avengers assembling and like, you know, you're not going to have somebody doing someone else's job. Like, you know, the guy with the bow and arrow is not going to fly. Like, it's not a thing. here it It doesn't happen. You know, the Hulk, he can smash things and take a lot more damage. Whereas someone else who is a magic or wielder often they are one shot because they're just squishy. Like it's just different abilities that people have. And i I am not going to try and step into someone else's role knowing that at this point. But so much of the time we're like, I got to be the whole fucking team. Just me. And that's just not how it works. And we, you know, tell ourselves we're not good enough or whatever for not having someone else's superpower and not aligning to the fact that we have our own and That is our own thing. Like a reflector, it's so rare. How special is that? And how needed is it?
00:38:48
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And how much more should it be honored to be worked in the way that it needs to work? And again, like you said, there's no wrong, um you know, partnerships or anything like that. But it is honoring yourself and how you work within your Avenging Assembling team and your part and knowing your superpowers so that you don't trip on your cape and so that you're not spending extra energy. And it's not, doesn't feel like he's. It needs to feel like all of those things. And so for me, like, that's the perfect way to bring it back around to who are you in the team? What are your superpowers and your your type and all these things can tell you about it within human design. And you don't have to be anything other than you because that's how you were created or made yourself or whatever you want to believe about that.
00:39:30
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And your inner authority is your it's your decision maker. right? And i think especially as human beings in relationship with folks, right? We we sometimes make decisions based on outer authority.
00:39:43
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And I think our are energetics, while they are true and persistent and they are with us from the moment we are conceived, maybe even before until the moment we die and maybe even after, it's not always really loud. And that outer influence can get really loud. So being able to to tap into that next level of your energetics and understand, right? ah Emotional authority teaches patients with those emotional waves, right? You and I both have have access to that emotional authority. And i know at different times we've talked about, before you especially before you have this lens of understanding,
00:40:24
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you know, that the when you're on the high part of the wave, you're like, fuck yeah, let's go do the thing. yeah But emotional energy is not, the the benefit is to is to ride the entire wave and get back to
Inner Authority and Personal Decision-Making
00:40:37
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baseline. And that's actually when you have all the information. And I know, especially for me in my younger days, i'm probably not even so younger days.
00:40:46
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I can be on the high part of the wave and I can take action. And then the rest of the feedback comes through and I get back to baseline and in reflection, I'm like, oh, that was probably not the time to take action. Or i can be on the low part of the wave and make the decision and and not take action.
00:41:04
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And then the feedback comes back to baseline and I'm like, oh, that probably actually would have been a thing to take action on. So being able to start to understand those types of inner authority, it's just such a gift, right? Our, our sacral authority teaches us about our gut instinct. We have a actual part of our energetics that lives in our gut part region of our bodies, but it tells us yes or no.
00:41:32
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and yes our thought no right fuck yes we It does not give us a maybe. And it actually comes out verbally. It comes out as, uh-huh or uh-uh. And so often when we're young and we're learning learning speech and we're being taught how to be polite, already we're pulling generators out of that away from that inner authority by saying, you have to say yes, ma'am, or no, thank you.
00:41:55
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it's it That's already a modification of that intuitive wisdom, that inner authority. And splenic authority is another really interesting one, especially for me, because I've got i've got an open splenic center, but I've got seven hanging gates. So I've got like all these downed power lines waiting to connect with other people's splenic energy.
00:42:15
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But it teaches us, it's our it's our oldest energy center. it's the It's the center that permits us to evolve, right? It's the one that keeps us safe. And it teaches us about that quiet instinct,
Microdosing: Enhancing Brain Patterns and Growth
00:42:28
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right? That kind of whispers the truth long before it gets up here to the mental realm where the mind can catch up, but it's a pulse.
00:42:36
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It's not a wave. It's a pulse of energy. It's a one and done kind of opportunity for feedback. And if you're not listening or you can't hear it or other things are loud, you miss it. And then you're oftentimes experiencing that sense of not safety because you didn't hear it because or because you didn't listen to that inner authority of, and it's it's really, it's not even a yes or no. Splenic authority is a no.
00:43:03
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So either you hear the no or you don't hear the no, but kind of like, being a cave woman standing at the mouth of the cave, if there's a saber tooth tiger over there and you say to yourself, should I go outside? And you don't listen to splenic authority that says, no, you don't need a repeat message because you don't got to eat and you're the tiger's dinner, right? So like being able to to tap into those things, I think is just such a beautiful gift to get into deeper relationship with your own body.
00:43:34
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Absolutely. So it's really, you know, just thinking about human design as invitation to understand the patterns and then reclaim your alignment. And i think the inquiry that can come with mushrooms is parallel, but also unique.
00:43:53
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very much Mushrooms, the inquiries, it's so different because obviously every human is different and ah it'll go along with your wiring, but because it comes often at a disruption, there's different ways to use them as well. So you know just like your authority, you might in some cases want to microdose, you might in some cases want to journey, and they have different benefits in the way that they start to show up in your life. So we can start on microdosing side.
00:44:21
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because that's often the way that we have people start. And the best part about it is it's not really perceptual on like a, the number one thing people always think is you're gonna get high no matter what you do with mushrooms, but that's not how it works at all.
00:44:34
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So you just take a little tiny amount and um it varies the amount, but it's around 100 milligrams to start out with. And at that point, when you take it with food, it's non-perceptual, what it gives you is neuroplasticity.
00:44:46
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My favorite, especially living in Colorado, my favorite analogy to use is skiing. Because if you've ever been skiing, no matter where you've been skiing, you know when you get off the lift, it's the almost the hardest part of the whole day. Because you're going on the same path as everybody else and their skis or their snowboard has gone through. And so you can get stuck in the ridges that other people have made over and over again.
00:45:07
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Well, if you've gone skiing often enough, you've probably had a lift operator throw a fresh bucket of snow right on top of that. And then suddenly it's easier and you can steer where you want to go because there's not all those ridges. And that's kind of like how your brain works because our brains are wired for pathways. But a lot of times those pathways, as we talked about, are not wired the way we want them to be.
00:45:28
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Especially, you know, in my case, there are a lot of the people that come to me, i had PTSD, or if you have depression, if you have all those type of things. That's just wiring. It's just things that run on a default mode network. And so the second you take just ah that small dose, you are off that default mode network, and you have a fresh blanket of snow on your brain. and you're not in all of those normal pathways and ridges that you're always in, and you're free to build new ones or go on old ones or repair ones you might not have used for a while. And you still have to steer, but you're going to get to steer wherever you want to go instead of these like being stuck in the ridges that you might not want to be in. And that's why microdosing
00:46:08
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is such a beneficial thing because you only do it four days a week. It's not really perceptual, but somehow it starts to get rid of like that static of background noise, some of those inner messages that might be telling you you should, you should you you're shitting all over yourself and all of that kind of stuff. It also, like I said, depression and anxiety, and that's a...
00:46:27
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a very common, like so common, it's almost uncommon not to have it these days for a lot of people. And so I, my experience has, has been, it's a lot of that, again, not listening to the whispers, not getting through the the whole phase of the emotional pathway and all of those things and just not paying attention because that background static is so loud. And so if you miss that no from your spleen because you have all this static, you're not going to be able to get it. But the mushrooms, even at a microdose level, that is gone. And it's not a part of your every day to day narrative anymore. And so you're back in tune with your messages, yourself, your emotional arts and all that. That's what I love about it is it's so background and yet it gives you back to yourself so fully, so completely in the wiring in the way that it does. But then, you know, if there's still deeper stuff, because, you know, we have deep trauma with a big D instead of just day-to-day anxiety and depression, that's when we start getting into the journey side of things. And that's where it starts at about...
00:47:32
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Depending on the person, a couple grams, and then you go up to like five grams, 10 grams. If you're really, ah ah you don't really usually have to take that much. But what it is, the more that I've learned is there's um a resistance to the vulnerability that we often need to access those inner messages, that things. And we shut ourselves off to those on a day-to-day basis.
00:47:55
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a lot, especially the earlier on we did it, the deeper it might be buried. And so to be able to get through the veil, so to speak, and to the other side of where your ego is more offline and you can access those things, you can start to go up on the doses. And then you will have, you know, so many things from traveling through the universe to visuals and fractals and colors, but inner messages and inner things. And it's quite phenomenal, all of the different journeys that people have told me they've had and the experiences they've had and the ways that it gives you back to you. But the coolest part is after you have a journey, you still have that neuroplasticity for 21 days. And it stays with you because it's really literally we rewiring you.
00:48:39
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for your whole life. I think of it kind of like a defrag. If you've ever had a computer where your files are all over the place and it's like somebody just came up and re rewired and then cleaned everything up and it your systems are running smoothly again. And so it's it a beautiful way that when after you have that disruption and you're starting to have the inquiry, it's like, all right, here's all your messages. this and things and This is your cue. And it usually gives you the biggest ones first, but it's always with this sense of love and euphoria and
00:49:10
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the whole universe has you back and oneness and ah feeling that Some people don't have often or have never experienced. That was certainly my experience before having them the first time. i had never experienced that. And so it also gives you something to aim for in the future as far as it will not only give you those messages, but the tools of you don't have to feel like that anymore. And this is what you can feel like and gives it back to yourself in that way as well. And yeah, so that's a lot about how they will help get you back to yourself.
00:49:43
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I think things came up for me when you were talking the first being that the, the access for emotional regulation with micro dosing is spectacular.
00:49:54
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And so many of us are walking around with that background static. And it's kind of like white noise at, you know, by the time we get into a adulthood, we don't even notice that it's there, but it's still taking up energy to not focus on it or to work really hard to put our focus outward instead of inward. And I know at least for me, um you know, when you first suggested that i needed to microdose, I was like, dude, I've done all kinds of stuff with that. I know what it's like, like, i you know, but my experience was always, it first of all, it was not spiritual. I was much, much younger and it was macro dosing. Right.
00:50:34
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So i really, know, you don't know what you don't know, but now having had the experience and much gratitude to you for persistently inviting to the opportunity. I'm really, i am so grateful because they're, you know, especially in the spiritual community, we talk about the silence and you know, getting quiet. And I thought I knew what that was. I thought I knew what that meant. I thought I knew how to do that, but without that background static in my own realm, i know on a deeper level, I know more and I'm able to do it with, with, um,
00:51:17
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more wisdom, more, more keenly. It's just, it's truly been a gift for me and not because I was dealing with big T trauma, not because I was paralyzed by anxiety or debilitated by depression or any of those things, because those were not my challenges, but that background static was the challenge I didn't even realize was still there.
00:51:39
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and i I, think the other part of it too is, you know, from a journey's perspective, we think we know what the landscape of our psyche is, right? If we fancy ourselves self-aware and we fancy ourselves, you know, we're already doing the work.
00:51:55
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This just takes us to that next level if we're so inclined go there. And it really excites me in ways I can't quite explain that the science is catching up what with what some humans have known for millennia. And we're able to quantify the benefits. You know, so many people want to poo-poo on these kinds of tools because there isn't some kind of quantified evidence to validate their usefulness.
00:52:30
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And especially now, we're we're getting some really... well-reputed reports from very highly esteemed research labs that can show people now about things like the neuroplasticity and the benefits of being able to actually see how neurons that that fire together wire together, right? We can say that cute little phrase, but like, if you don't really know what that means because you haven't lived the experience, it's just a cute little phrase that you can let roll off your tongue. But to be able to hear someone show up with resistance based on whatever their stories or their own experiences are, even for me and myself, right? Like I thought I knew what I was talking about.
00:53:17
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I did not. I knew a part of it. Right, I knew a part of it. um You know, the the science geek in me just really gets excited about the fact that we can we can share quantifiable benefits to these kinds of tools now.
00:53:35
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And the most quantifiable thing is experience, you know, like your own experience and my experience and people other people sharing their experiences, which is partially why I love my job so much is often people do come to me And they don't know what the problem is so much. And it could be background static or all of these things. And we don't always have the answers, even for ourselves or for another person.
00:53:58
Speaker
But you do, the messages are there. The wiring is there. And getting rid of that that's noise. But more importantly, one of the things that I've noticed the most when people come to me is they are not in tune with themselves at all.
Natural States of Ease and Alignment
00:54:13
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And it's not because they don't want to be, and it's not because they're not interested in it, but it's because so much of who we are, we don't pay attention to because we've been taught that and we've accepted that ease is not our birthright, that we everybody's stressed out, everybody's hustling, everybody's doing all of these things. And that just doesn't have to be the truth of it for anybody. But more importantly, you don't have to hustle yourself.
00:54:39
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for ease and worthiness and inner peace and all of these things, you can have it overnight. And then it will start giving you those messages that will give it to you, you know, more peacefully and more permanently and deeper and, you know, exponentially, so to speak. And the science will continue to back these up. But every person that does it now is helping us further that science and share their experiences and that's what i love is we are we are the movement right now making the the pathways that are going to show everybody else the way that it's happening these doctors the science our experiences are all overlapping and think it's important to acknowledge that the version of ourselves that we thought was true it's not that it was wrong right it's kind of like um
00:55:27
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looking at a sapling in the forest and then going back and visiting it 25 years later and seeing this grand sturdy tree in the same spot. The sapling wasn't wrong.
00:55:40
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It was just a underdeveloped or a newly developed experience of the tree. And I think in our, you know, in all of these inquiries, human design mushrooms and, you know, many more others,
00:55:53
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giving ourselves the grace to be the sapling and then also giving ourselves the support and the space to grow into the Redwood is just, it's such a gift to humanity.
00:56:05
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Absolutely. And both of these tools work so well with each of those things and give you, you know, your different insights into different parts of the
Integrating Human Design and Mushrooms for Growth
00:56:14
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process. And then they can support you on a day-to-day level, depending on where you're at.
00:56:19
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And like you said earlier about, conjunction of doing the the two profiles too. Doing it with someone else and having someone else travel with you on this pathway and being able to exponentially further your energy and even having mushrooms with other people. It's really a beautiful way to grow your community, grow the depth of humanity. But it's one of the things that I love the most between these two things is how much it helps you grok for yourself, another person, the entire universe. There have been journeys where God, love, whatever you want to call it, has taken me by the hand and we've gone through the stars. like it is it is an amazing the experience that I never would have again dreamed of wanting to have, but it is life changing and that I carry that with me. And there were so many revelations in that particular journey. But
00:57:08
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I would have not have known to do that, but it's such a wonderful thing. And then you share that experience with someone else and then they tell you they're very deep, mystical, amazing things. And then we expand the universe by the very essence of who we are and these mystical things. And, you know, we're here to evolve everything. And I think that's what they're going to help us with both of these things. Yeah. Shaping us from the inside out. And then expressing the shift which becomes inevitable right i think that's that's also something that really excites me so we we you know we start with that origin we experience the disruption we engage in the work and the inquiry and then the shift happens and for me the shift in human design not
00:57:56
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always a dramatic one, right? It might, it might be different, especially with journeys, but, but for human design and with my experience, not only personally, but also with the people that I get to share it with, it's a series of incremental decisions where you stop abandoning yourself, right? You, you shift away from that programmed experience and you,
00:58:21
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stop pushing beyond your limits and instead you really begin listening to that inner voice, right? That honoring of the timing that is right for you and trusting your design. Again, that unique once in a lifetime cosmic event, it can't be wrong, but the shift is quiet at first.
00:58:45
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yeah You kind of start noticing when something feels wrong in your body, even though it might be very familiar. and you start noticing those, those inner messages, those quiet whispers, right. That you like to refer to.
00:59:01
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and instead of rationalizing the misalignment with our mind, right. That programming, that conditioning that we talk about it, you start noticing which relationships are draining and which ones are expansive. um And you pay attention to those subtle signs that with an embodiment that really has always been there, but really hasn't always been leveraged in a way that feels successful in a way that feels beneficial. And when human design becomes real for a person, that is, it is such an honor to have a front row seat to someone's integration and transformation for me, right? It's, it's when that,
00:59:46
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self-awareness turns into self-direction, right? And in my business, I talk about three pillars of personal improvement. It's awareness, accountability, and aligned action.
00:59:58
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And that awareness piece, I think a lot of us can get stuck in, in our spiritual exploration. Like we know a lot of shit about a lot of shit. We've read books, we've attended webinars, we've listened to podcasts. We've done all of the things to access the information But when we can take ownership for how that awareness really serves our unique oneness and then take aligned action that expresses that.
01:00:31
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When those choices strengthen ourselves and we move out of survival mode and into that thriving expression, right? When you stop forcing yourself into roles that really don't fit And you start to choose alignment over obligation or expectation, right? Sometimes people expect the shift to feel like a breakthrough, right? We talk about breakthroughs all the time.
01:01:00
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Yes, and, right? it's It's not always, we were talking with a friend a couple weeks ago and and we were talking about expansion, the expansion process. And I was like, well, expansion that happens too fast is an explosion, right? Like, you said and I was like, good I not heard it put that way, but it's exactly right.
01:01:18
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But when we actually experience the expansion in an aligned way, it's the sense of relief. It's this coming home to self, right? It's a softening. And I think there's this real opportunity to acknowledge that that part of transformation is the access point that gives us the opportunity to grow and be and create whatever versions of ourselves um is meant for us.
01:01:52
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It's an unfurling, you know, because you're starting to really like, not just know who you are, but accept it and choose it and live it on purpose with purpose. Yeah, absolutely. So talk a little bit about the shift that happens with mushrooms.
Spiritual Pathways: Mushrooms and Greater Possibilities
01:02:08
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It's similar is a lot of the time as far as you start to notice things more. I call i call mushrooms the gateway drug to spirituality because a lot of times people come to me and to be completely honest, I came to mushrooms going, let you know, party on, like, let's do thing. Colors, fractals, I want to see it.
01:02:25
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But mushrooms are always like, all right, let's party. But also, you're going to get a side of spirituality with it. There's never a time that doesn't happen. So I often call them the gateway to spirituality because the shift starts to go, okay, what else? There's more. that This is, okay, my background noise is gone. i'm paying attention to these things. I'm not as depressed because I'm not doing the things that... You know, I'm i'm working in alignment. I'm taking that action. But there's more. And it starts to and expose you to more of not just yourself or other things, but beliefs. Because the disruption often comes because something's not working for us, right? And a lot of the times, the things that aren't working for us...
01:03:05
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are maybe things that have been given to us with the best of intentions by people that love us, but they're not for us, you know? And so sometimes you're going to have to step outside of maybe something that, it you know, we talked about inside pain and outside pain. It might be for you, but it might hurt someone else.
01:03:23
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And so that also, for me, is part of the shift that mushrooms give you and even... human design is that they're starting to give you back to yourself, but they're starting to also make you see that there's more that is meant for you and that not ah you may have to leave some things behind. You're going to grow into a bigger parts of yourselves and we'll get into integration as well. But the shift really to me that they start to bring is this awareness, this opening that everything that I've known, i'm those are not maybe the things that are going to make me as happy as I thought. And there are new things that
01:03:54
Speaker
are making me happier that I didn't know and what else could there be? and it starts to really expose you to, especially in the journey side, when you start to journey, you will have undeniably mystical experiences that are, cannot be explained,
01:04:11
Speaker
in normal ways, you know, science cannot always explain it, but I have stepped outside of time and seen things happen and then had them happen later. Knowingness, there's so much about it that it starts, the shift really starts to go, okay, this is not all there is. And what I see is actually only a very small portion of myself and life and the universe and everything else. And so it starts to be a shift of,
01:04:36
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everything you talked about, you know, alignment of people, alignment of my job, alignment of my choices, but then it becomes, and what else? And that's pretty much my favorite thing about it is when people start to ask the what else.
01:04:49
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In NLP, we talk about two different kinds of motivation, and away from motivation and a towards motivation. And as you were talking, i was hearing that idea of kind of before these tools are introduced to your life, a lot of times we're motivated to move away from the pain, move away from the thing that doesn't feel right. And after these tools are introduced into your life, we can often be motivated by a towards yeah opportunity.
01:05:17
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Well, especially because, and again, i my experience was very dramatic and it wasn't an easy path at all. And so for me, I didn't really have anything to aim for. it is hard to go, oh, I want to be happy.
01:05:31
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What does that look like? What does that even feel like? Is that even possible for me? But if you have felt a thing... it is so much easier to then conjure up what and something to aim for and a knowing like fuck yes fuck no is clear but sometimes your fuck yes especially in the beginning is so much of a settle you're settling for so much less than you really deserve because it's incrementally better and you and you think that that's enough but a lot of what mushrooms can do is give you the feeling of an actual what it really feels like to be happy what it really feels like to have euphoria what it really feels like
01:06:07
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to see yourself in almost any situation mushrooms can take you there and that's one of the best parts about it is the wiring starts to change and it starts to move like you said towards things that you could not have imagined maybe without these tools so you mentioned integration earlier can you speak a little bit more about the impact of mushroom work in the integration process Yeah, um especially as we get into the next section of integration, but integration is really where everything starts to you don't, like you said, you don't can't just know a thing, you have to align to it and then do the thing and be the thing and all of that. But Integration is such an important part because my first mushroom journey was 20 years ago. And there are still things from that that you go back to and write down that I am still integrating because you cannot get all of the messages of the big, especially the big journeys. And you will grow and understand yourself more. And so integration comes from everything from sound bath to journaling to counseling to
01:07:15
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all of these different things, talking about your experiences, but it becomes more of a lifestyle of spirituality and knowing yourself and returning back to yourself and knowing when you need the defrag again and making sure you're keeping up with your microdosing so you don't get this background static again. and Integration really becomes about a knowing of your birthright and then being able to say it's a lot easier to live that because I have these tools that will align me. And then when I'm in any way or form misaligned, it can just bring you back into that. And then eventually once you know you're, especially during the aligned times, if you take these tools and mushrooms and stuff, they can then project you on a path.
01:07:56
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to integrate towards the future of, you know, one of the most times I've laughed in my entire life is when I'm on mushrooms and hanging out with friends and just the the euphoria and connection and all of that. You feel that integration into your life of creating those experiences on purpose with where you're dropped your vulnerability and you are in this spiritual place is such beautiful, beautiful, experience to have as an integration in your life with your your friends, your family, everything.
01:08:28
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And that's the the impact, right? we've We've kind of moved through that arc of of the hero. And you know after that origin and the disruption and you know all all of these different parts, we get to make the impact. And i I love that that is such an important part of your guidance with mushrooms. I think especially as you know, psychedelics have become more popular and they're becoming more mainstream.
01:08:58
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The experience is what gets the spotlight. But for me, and especially after, you know, being in partnership and learning from you, I think the integration is such a significant part of the benefit of these tools, because, you know, kind of to the point earlier, you can know a thing, but if you don't do something that feels aligned for you with the thing that you know, if you haven't integrated it, if you haven't taken aligned action with it, you can't be making the kind of impact that you're really here to make.
01:09:34
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Still tripping on your cape? I'm sorry? You're still tripping on your cape? Yep, still tripping on your cape, right?
Improving Decision Quality with Human Design
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The impact of human design shows up in the quality of your decisions.
01:09:45
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And I think there's, you know, we we make these choices that feel true instead of choices that feel convenient or choices that are truly in aligned with who we are instead of choices that are aligned with other people's expectations or the roles and the responsibilities that are thrust upon us, right? You stop negotiating your boundaries because your boundaries become non-negotiable and they're determined by what's aligned for you, right? You
01:10:19
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communicate with clarity instead of reactivity. i can still work on that one for sure. Create those healthier dynamics more often with people around you because you're no longer operating from that from that insecurity or that external pressure. And I think that that impact, that alignment can show up in our relationships. It can show up in our work.
01:10:44
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um we start really making, seizing those opportunities based on alignment instead of expectation, then all of a sudden that, you know, magic trifecta that we talk about, it's right people, right place, right time and a knowing and that opportunity for living in alignment, it isn't about perfection, right? You certainly know me well enough to know I am all about the practice, not the perfection. um And it's about that integrity with yourself.
01:11:18
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So I think when that impact shows up on purpose, that's some feedback where we can really start to make, um you know, live our purpose with power.
01:11:32
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And also, like, I'm listening to you and I'm thinking about the idea of resilience. Like, resiliency is so underestimated, especially in these days, because it really takes a lot of resilience to stick to your guns, to, you know, have that impact, to do things aligned, to not trip on your cape. Because being a superhero is not easy. Like, you're obviously, the entire implication is things are hard. There are battles to fight. There are things to do. And we are not on this plane of existence.
01:12:00
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it Like we said, ease is our birthright, but it's ease in making a difference. It's ease in going through difficulties. It's ease in challenging difficult conversations and relationships and boundaries and all of these things. And really, they help you have this resiliency to trust yourself within yourself and always know that you're gonna have the tools to go back to, to really give you that ah those aligned actions, to use your superpowers the best that you
Community Growth and Resilience through Alignment
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can. And that you're also going to... One of the things I like about both of these things is...
01:12:34
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we both should were on the same podcast together. You were there for, you know, human design. I was there for mushrooms. I feel like a line they're aligned together, but also they bring people into your life that are aligned.
01:12:45
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And, you know, mushrooms are a mycelium network. i Once you learn about other people's human design, you know, you know, their superpowers. It's very much, they're both Avengers assembly sort of, you know, tools as well as that you can build your community and that The more you also have resilience within yourself when you are around other people that are doing the things and have their own resiliency and their own superpowers. and So that's the other thing I think about the impact that they make on our lives is they're helping you with emotional regulation. They're helping you with a million things. But all of that is building resilience because as a human being, to do harder things and the more you grow, the harder the thing is going to get. You have to have that resilience to keep going and to believe in yourself and to know that no matter what does come to you, you have a blueprint of how things you work in these situations and what it looks like for you to show up optimally. And then if stuff goes backwards and you don't know where to go you always have mushrooms to turn back to to help you go back inside.
01:13:46
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yeah In ah quantum human design, we talk about nine different aspects of resiliency. And as i as you were talking and I was kind of reflecting on those nine resiliency keys, i think mushrooms support us in in those same ways. it's It's vitality, it's courage, it's decisiveness, it's authenticity, self-trust, emotional wisdom.
01:14:10
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lovability and self-worth. And I think when we start to see our resiliency as expressions of those nine different parts of our of the human condition, right? Those nine different aspects of how we see ourselves, all of a sudden we get to reflect that back to other people and mushrooms can support us and with those same nine resiliency keys in a different way. And it's just such a Again, it's such a power partnership, um you know, for personal growth and and expansion that doesn't feel like an explosion necessarily.
Navigating Self: The Hero's Journey
01:14:47
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know Well, and ah I mean, every once in a while, I think you do have these giant, yeah you know,
01:14:55
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level up, so to speak. But that is also a part of the human experiences. Sometimes, I mean, we talked about one of mine where I was like, I get it now. And you do have those jumps. And that is also a part of like, once those happen, we will talk more and more about what that looks like. But you have the blueprints again, you have these keys and resiliency.
01:15:14
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i don't know, I think it might have been you that helped introduce me to the idea with, I know specifically through human design, but me so the resiliency has become more and more important to me as far as, because life is not easy as far as when you do hard things, you've got haters. It's always going to happen. Like the the harder of the thing you do that one of my favorite quotes is you got haters, good. That means you stood up for something in your life.
01:15:38
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And resiliency is a part of that. And anytime you are going to live your life for you and make an impact and do big things, you are going to pat haters. You're going to piss some people off. But it's going to make such a difference in your own life and by virtue of that, then other people's lives. And they will also...
01:15:56
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Enable their superpowers and start to do the thing as well. I just love the way that they work together and I love the way that when we see people go through the whole arc with either one of them, especially together, the way that their hero's journey is so obvious to me with both of them and how they make it all work.
01:16:15
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Yeah, you definitely get something really powerful when you weave these tools together. I think, you know, as as we mentioned at the beginning, human design can give you the map and mushrooms help you explore the territory.
01:16:28
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And those things working in harmony, um, really helps us understand not only the patterns that shape us, but also to release the ones that no longer fit, right? It's the map that shows you who you are and the doorway that helps you return to who you are, right? like Like you like to say, they help you remember who you are. Say it say it right, I always mess it up.
01:16:53
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remember who you are before the world told you to be. It's not my quote. It's one I found, but it's become someone one of very sad you know know well known for. but It's the first chapter of my book because we forget. And it's all about, that's one of the things, um the further you get into spirituality too, is there's a belief that we all know everything, but we come here to forget so that we can remember again. So. Right. And this combination really helps people, you know stop tripping on their own capes, right? It helps them step into that alignment, that clarity and that,
01:17:22
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authentic expression that really the world is better for. So let's bring it home.
Conclusion: Simplicity and Self-Attentiveness
01:17:30
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If you have been listening today and you probably feeling that both human design and mushrooms really lead to the same place, um let us bring you back into that relationship with yourself, right? so one gives you structure, the other gives you access, one brings you clarity, the other gives you depth.
01:17:50
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right? And no matter where you begin, you are truly choosing to meet yourself more honestly. So if you're just starting this journey, let it be simple, right? We we talk often, simple is not always easy, but complicated is not required. So you don't have to decode your entire chart, right? You don't have to plan a hero journey. Start with awareness and pay attention to where your energy feels strained, right? Pay attention to what your body is telling you and pay attention to those moments where you feel abandoned by yourself, right? Because these are the small observations that create the momentum.
01:18:35
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And as you notice your patterns, start to trust that clarity will always lead you someplace meaningful, right? It's clarity is the direction and clarity is the alignment and clarity is the power.
01:18:51
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So it gives you back that authority over your own life. And we're here for you. If you have questions and comments and we go deeper on these things, we'd love to know because these are the two of the most important things to us and we can't wait to talk more about them.
01:19:09
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All right. Well, thanks again for joining us on this episode of Don't Trip On Your Cape. And until next time, take care of yourself. See you, bye.
01:19:23
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01:19:38
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