The YouMeVerse E10: Mind and Heart

The YouMeVerse Podcast

• Jeffrey and Odette discuss a Youtube video called “Samadhi – The Pathless Path”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu-Nw_ea9N4
• Samadhi can be understood as meaning enlightenment in yogic traditions. They compare the approaches of various spiritual teachers, including Alan Watts, David Hawkins, Neville Goddard, Dolores Cannon, and Abraham Hicks while discussing the video.
• Jeffrey notes the cultural conditioning which tends to impart a feeling of seriousness to self-presentation and to spirituality. Odette uses an example of Alan Watts singing to a plant as an example of freedom from this conditioning.
• A discussion about the importance of taking breaks during extended periods of focus leads Odette to share her musings about fascination. She shares how fascination seems to be a directing of mind energy and how there is a possibility of becoming endlessly fascinated or obsessed with feeding this mind-energy. She teases out an energetic difference between being fascinated with something and loving something, the difference being appreciation.
• Jeffrey shares how all our experiences contribute to a larger purpose that serves both ourselves and others. He and Odette recount a prior question Odette had about seemingly “tortured” or “troubled” artists such as van Gogh, Beethoven, and others, whose expressions seemed to come at the cost of inner peace. Jeffrey shares how expressions of the soul are from love and how trying/difficult/contrasting experiences often connect us to our sense of Source/God and self.
• Odette asks Jeffrey what more he wants to understand on his spiritual path, and he reflects on how his life experiences have largely answered his innermost questions. He shares that his primary focuses are on flowing loving energy and on finding the most joyous ways to express himself and share.
• Odette thinks out loud about the nature of oneness and stillness often associated with enlightenment, the intensity of many artists, the joyous bliss-state of many gurus, and about whether enlightenment isn’t any of those things.
• Jeffrey and Odette briefly discuss Plato’s allegory of the cave in relation to social media, spiritual awakening, and one's chosen path. An animated video about the allegory can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jmJGBJRlUQ
• Both Jeffrey and Odette invite your questions, which can be directed to them on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/youmeverse .
• Thank you for listening!