The Heart of Soul

Self-Authority: There and Back Again (HOS128)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, I’m joined by Eric Grace and our special guest, Frank, to discuss his journey of EBE which began way back in the days of 1.0. Topics include why the collapse of the first version of the paradigm was a good thing, cultic dynamics, how a paradigm can’t evolve if it’s protector mediated, how Sagehood and Personhood work can co-exist, the nature of healthy authority dynamics, and more.

And I have a secret. The podcast event of the season, episode 129 of the Heart of Soul with Stace Barron back in the saddle, is already dropped, but only for members. That’s right, podcast members got it early. The rest of you will have to wait until May 29 for this special episode where we do a deep dive into the overemphasis of yin and paradigmatic entropy. This is an important topic we’re doing a series on, so be looking for that.

Thanks very much to our podcast members. Our first second Sunday event was a hit. We had a great conversation about instinctual variants in enneagram type, the aforementioned excess yin issue, and a lot more. It was a beautiful and vulnerable conversation and I hope more of you will come next time.

Our next members-only second Sunday will be June 8, and we’d love to have you if you’re not already a member. If you want to support the podcast, the paradigm, and be part of cutting edge developments in Edenity in a two way conversation, and can spare 5 bucks a month please become a member. The deadline to become a member and be included in the next second Sunday is by the end of day Friday, two days prior.

So whether you want to tip us or become a member, or both, the link is: clearandopen.com/hos

Josef Shapiro: https://www.clearandopen.com

Eric Grace: https://www.eric-grace.com

Thanks for listening.

Psychedelic Manifestation Forgiveness Dead-Ends (HOS127)

Josef Shapiro — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, I’m joined by Eric Grace and our special guest, Chelsie, to discuss her journey of EBE. Topics include plant medicine and psychedelics, dead-ending, manifestation paradigms, navigating entertainment, forgiveness, doubt space, and more. Special thanks to Chelsie for being brave, vulnerable, and sharing her journey with such clarity and heart.

Thanks very much to our new podcast members for being early adopters. Our first members-only second Sunday will be May 11, and we’d love to have you if you’re not already a member. If you want to support the podcast, the paradigm, and yourself by hanging out with us in a two way conversation, and can spare 5 bucks a month please become a member. I’ve got some new infotainment material I’m saving for May 11 to delight our new members. The deadline to become a member and be included in the next second Sunday is by the end of day Friday, two days prior.

So whether you want to tip us or become a member, or both, the link is: clearandopen.com/hos

Thanks for listening!

Narcissism, Altruism, Mutuality, and Clear Thinking (HOS126)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 02 May 2025 09:00:00 -1000

Today, I’m joined by Casey Keth and Eric Grace to discuss the paradigms of Trillium and Waking Down, how narcissism and altruism are two sides of the same coin, and another exciting edition of Guess the Guru.

So whether you want to tip us or become a member, or both, the link is: clearandopen.com/hos

To reach any of us:

Josef Shapiro: clearandopen.com

Eric Grace: eric-grace.com

Casey Keth: info@caseyketh.com

Thanks for being a supporter of the podcast, we appreciate you!

The Gift of Suffering & How Puppets Can Help (HOS125)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -1000

The gift of suffering, soul age and consciousness capacity, transcendence, the enneagrammatic roots of Islam and Christianity, among other things.

So whether you want to tip us or become a member, or both, the link is: clearandopen.com/hos

To reach any of us:

Josef Shapiro: http://clearandopen.com

Eric Grace: http://eric-grace.com

Casey Keth: info@caseyketh.com

Thanks for being a supporter of the podcast, we appreciate you!

Embracing Existential Not-Knowing (HOS124)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -1000

To tip us or become a member please visit: clearandopen.com/hos

Today, I’m joined by Casey Keth and Eric Grace to discuss the wounded existential not-knowing, the loss of will, yin and yang in service, among other topics.

And I have a big announcement to make, we’re going to try something new. Our audience has been growing and we’re getting more and more questions, which we hugely appreciate…and I’m getting busier and the podcast is starting to feel a bit out of balance. Of course, we love doing it, but it does cost me money to host and about three hours per week of time. I think this podcast has provided an incredible amount of value at no cost whatsoever to the listeners and I’m proud of that, and I also want to even things out.

So I have two solutions we’ll try out. I’ve created an easy way for you to tip the podcast however much you want. And using the same link, you can become a podcast member for 5 dollars per month. What do you get as a podcast member? So glad you asked:

Obviously, the main thing you get is to support the paradigm and have the soul-level feeling of wholeness by paying a few bucks for the value you’re receiving. But you also get to participate in our new, monthly second Sunday live zoom broadcast. They’ll be held Sunday mornings Pacific time, so you folks in Europe can make it.

You can get reads, reframes, analyses, get your burning questions answered, and more. You’ll be part of the conversation as much as you want to be. Our first second Sunday event is May 11, 2025, so you have a little time to sign up before then. I think the value of this is way beyond five bucks a month, so I hope you’ll join us.

In addition, we may occasionally create members-only content in addition to that, and I will likely be reserving some of my funnier material for members-only contexts. For those of you who think I’m not nearly as funny as I think, that may be a downside, but I really think the second Sundays will be a beautiful coming together of like-hearted community that will make up for any of my failed comedic efforts.

So whether you want to tip us or become a member, or both, the link is: clearandopen.com/hos

To reach any of us:

Josef Shapiro: clearandopen.com

Eric Grace: eric-grace.com

Casey Keth: info@caseyketh.com

Thanks for being a supporter of the podcast, we appreciate you!

Beyond Existential Victimhood (HOS123)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -1000

Today, Eric Grace joins me again and we discuss what I learned from being bullied in a hardware store, the archetype of Freddy Krueger, overidentifying with compassion, stages of awakening, pseudo multiculturalism, and honestly so many other things I don’t even remember because I didn’t take notes.

And this will be my last plug for my new course that starts, April 17, 2025. It’s called The Art of Open Connection: Deep listening, insight and truth. If I’ve impressed you at all with my awareness and intelligence, I’ll let you in on something. I wasn’t always like this and it can be learned. It’s a function of relational curiosity, deep listening, and paradigmatic processing. This course will cover these topics and more, and I can help you see your blindspots to see what you’re missing. You’re invited to join and can learn more at courses.clearandopen.com/open-connection

The Right to Die, IVF, and Doing Hard Things (HOS122)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, Edenity’s take on assisted suicide, in-vitro fertilization, dealing with conflict, and of course another installment of GTG.

Also, I have a new course starting April 17, 2025. It’s called The Art of Open Connection: Deep listening, insight and truth. If I’ve impressed you at all with my awareness and intelligence, I’ll let you in on something. I wasn’t always like this and it can be learned. It’s a function of relational curiosity, deep listening, and paradigmatic processing. This course will cover these topics and more, and I can help you see your blindspots to see what you’re missing. You’re invited to join and can learn more at courses.clearandopen.com/open-connection

Thanks for listening.

The Insidious Use of Mind to Process Reality (HOS121)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -1000

Today, in addition to completing the EBE FAQ, a critique of Ken Wilbur’s integral approach, our broken political system and the immature electorate, existential control, state chasing, and much more. Of course, another edition of Guess the Guru with reigning champion, Eric Grace.

Thanks for listening..

Pain, Hunger, and the Rate of Change (HOS120)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -1000

Today, existential disorientation triggers from daylight savings time, more frequently asked questions about EBE, adult relating to parents, criteria that qualifies someone to help others, the balance between meeting people where they are versus pushing them to move through their issues, and much more.

Thanks for listening.

The Energetic Limits of Internal Family Systems (HOS119)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -1000

Today, Eric Grace and I take some listener questions about highly sensitive people and what a healthy relationship with parents looks like as an adult. We chip away at some frequently asked questions as well, including a juicy rabbit hole about the differences between EBE and Internal Family Systems which is the model that looks most similar to EBE from a distance. And Eric takes his first swing at a Guess the Guru meatball I toss him, all of that and more, coming up.

Thanks for listening.

Deconstructing Feministic Psychology (HOS118)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, a special edition of the podcast where I read a piece of couple’s psychology to my friend and colleague Anja Schugardt. I’m coining a term in the title of this episode, “Feministic Psychology” to encapsulate what’s going on here.

The piece I’ll be reading is by a woman named Nicole LePera, but she’s not the only psychologist out there synthesizing feminism into psychology and calling it a new paradigm, which if you understand paradigmatic processing, it isn’t. Synthesizing elements of two paradigms together doesn’t make a new paradigm and often creates messes where the two models contradict, as you’ll see.

Feministic psychology, also being popularized by a guy named Terry Real, is a good example of where woke sensibilities infiltrate mass consciousness. It’s subtle to the untrained, and that’s why I wanted to read this piece line by line for a woman’s perspective.

Lastly, Anja and I recorded this with an iphone on my lanai, so it’s not the quality you’re used to. Apologies for the wind distortion and hammock chain you’ll hear occasionally. And there is no video version of this podcast.

The Myth of Attainment (HOS117)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:00:00 -1000

Today, a very rich conversation with my friend and colleague Eric Grace, who you’ve heard before on previous episodes. We talk about many things, and continue some of the frequently asked questions about EBE already in progress, but the main theme is what I’m calling the “myth of attainment” and is a hypothesis that redefines what attainment actually is in sage and sainthood if one begins with personhood.

Thanks for listening.

What Will Authentication Be Like For Me? (HOS116)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, benchmarks on the path of EBE, demedications, what completion of EBE feels like, responsibilities of the facilitant, and other frequently asked questions as we continue this series.

And of course, another riveting installment of Guess the Guru!

Thanks for listening.

How To Become A Saint (HOS115)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, the distinction between creation- and creator-relational sainthood, objective vs. subjective reality in the context of spirituality, and some practical things you can do to deepen your relationship with Divinity. And of course, another riveting installment of Guess the Guru!

Thanks for listening.

Things, Not-Things, and Non-Things (HOS114)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, incarnational imperatives in service, (by request) definitions of duality, preduality, and unality, and a couple new revisions to some old Edenity prayers. We’ll do more on Sainthood in the following episode, but this is a beginning to follow the thread we began last time. And of course, another installment of Guess the Guru that surprised the hell out of Stace, so stay tuned for that!

Thanks for listening.

Sainthood: Whether You Like It Or Not (HOS113)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, some important Sainthood metacontext following our last episode and to set up for the following one: topics include the domains of authentication, origination, and provination; why it makes perfect sense that suffering must be addressed emotively, holoarchal versus hierarchical models for Divinity, and of course, another edition of Guess the Guru. Will Stace continue his winning streak? Listen to the end to find out!

Thanks for listening.

The Sugary Sweet Magical Neo-Vedanta (HOS112)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -1000

Today, our first episode of 2025, we debrief my experience at a spiritual community’s holiday party, and make paradigmatic sense of why there was too much dessert and not enough dinner. Yes folks, this is how powerful paradigmatic processing of reality can be. Join us for an exploration of a class of paradigms we’ve not explored before, and so coining the now canonical term, “Magical Neo Vedanta.”

Thanks for listening.

If the Grinch Could Do Metaphysics (HOS111)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today, the nature of holiday conditioning, why every mythology needs a virgin birth, the difference between real and true, deconstructing faith and belief, and back by popular demand, another edition of “Guess the Guru.”

The Rainbow at the End of the Bardo (HOS110)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today, the unalistic dynamic that unites the three hoods in enheartenment consciousness, the emergent soul-I, the reward that awaits you on the other side of the existential Bardo. Finally, our second installment of “Guess the Guru” to incentivize you to listen all the way to the end. Play at home and earn Edenity points!

Quick reminder that I’ll be on Eric Grace’s clubhouse tomorrow, December 14, 2024. I’ll be joining Eric and Gertrud Wunschmann in the Wholly Human house 11am PST. Hope to see you there.

Thanks for listening.

The Indulgence of Feelings (HOS109)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, feelings vs. emotions and the problem of indulgence, an AI version of Jesus coming soon to a confessional near you, catch and release paradigms, and of course much more.

Thanks for listening.

Let’s Play Guess The Guru! (HOS108)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Hi, it’s Josef and thanks for listening to The Heart of Soul Podcast. Today, deconstructing a passage from an enlightened teacher and making Stace play “guess the name,” (you can play along at home!), the seduction of shakti, and why sexual abuse happens so commonly among neo-Buddhist teachers.

And just a quick reminder, coming up soon in Eric Grace’s clubhouse: Soulful unfoldments w/Eric, Josef & Gertrud Wunschmann. We’ll be exploring what it feels like to be here as our soulful selves while fielding & responding to questions from members of the audience on Clubhouse in the Wholly Human house 11am PST Saturday, 12/14/24.

Communality Consciousness, Yin Divinity, & Emotive Bottoms

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, introducing communality consciousness, how Edenity would say that Trump’s election was God’s will but for a counter-intuitive reason, and what support actually means.

Election Debrief: What Counterintuitively Went Right (HOS106)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today, we debrief the results of the U.S. presidential election and what it means on a spiritual level. We revisit the will vs. love issue as played out between the two major parties, how Trump’s election is a long-term win, and more playouts of extreme subjectivism.

Thanks for listening.

Election Special: Beyond Political Bypassing (HOS105)

Josef Shapiro — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, a 2024 U.S. presidential election special! We discuss the referendum on greed vs. altruism before us, the difference between a republic and a democracy, the possibility of a government being redesigned while it’s still running, and perhaps most importantly the real meaning behind the 80s band “Devo.” I invited Eric Grace to join us today, and speaking of Eric:

I want to let you know about a future event being hosted by Casey Keth, Gertrud Wunschmann, and Eric Grace called Soultouching: Being Here Together. This will be a three day retreat in Germany, from February 7-9th, 2025 exploring how our personal lives unfold within Divine Being and how to engage with ourselves and others in new soulful ways. You can sign-up or find out more info at: www.soultouchingevents.com.

Lastly, I launched a separate channel for the podcast for clips produced by our friend Drew Martinez. Thanks very much, Drew! It’s a pleasure to see what a real professional can do, and we very much appreciate him donating his time to the Heart of Soul project. You can find the clips and shorts at https://www.youtube.com/@ClipsHeartofSoulPodcast.

These are very shareable, greatest hits, so if you’re looking to start some interesting conversation with your friends and family, share away! Drew is going back all the way to the early episodes and we’ll be adding some of the most powerful pieces to the channel, so you’ll want to subscribe to that channel if you want to stay tuned.

Thanks for listening!

The Essence, Form, and Expression of Everything (HOS104)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today, unality, preduality, and duality, from essence to expression with metaphysics wrapped up in a bow so tight, you’ll think it’s October 1st in Venezuela and Christmas came early. We make some deep cuts at love versus energy, that which is behind that which is behind all things, and how exactly human existence is an expression of Divinity.

Reality Summarized on a Page (HOS103)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, the most fundamental metaphysics of Edenity, how they relate to the three primary soul fears, and a one pager that sums up over 100 podcast episodes. Fair warning: we’re referring to a chart that I have included in the Youtube version, so if you’re audio-only at the moment, you may want to go to the video.

Thanks for listening.

Why We Choose Archetypal Soul Baggage (HOS102)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -1000

We cover the scintillating and often misunderstood domain of past lives, archetypal souls, and what it means to you today. Why would anyone choose to bring a piece of an archetypal soul’s baggage into a human life? How should we relate to this? How does incarnational attribute planning work? These questions, including rabbit holes like how Mother Theresa set the stage for the collapse of the Catholic Church, the holiness of Walmart cosplay, and the absurdity of the upcoming U.S. election, coming up.

Why People Don’t Do This Work (HOS101)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, we celebrate our 100th episode with the ironic question, “Why do so few people do this work?” It was the only idea that came to me, along with two special guests, and I honestly thought we’d talk about something else, but it turned out to be a rich and real conversation. Related to why so few people do emotive body ensoulment, the entre to Edenity, we discuss the effect of the stage of Yin Divinity that began in 2013, the aloneness inherent in the work, and whether or not doing EBE limits your dating pool. So open a bottle of something and join us in celebration, and I toast to you if you’ve listened to us talk for about 150 hours.

Celebrity Me/We Spacer Types (HOS100)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:00:00 -1000

By request, we go deeper into spacer types, the holy trinity of soul species, enneagram type, and spacer type and how they operate together, and for illustration purposes and fun, assigning types to assorted celebrities.

Thanks for listening.

Dark Energies as Wounded Will vs. Evil (HOS99)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, the fascinating and misunderstood subject of “dark energies.” Are there such things as demonic possessions and evil, parasitic influences from beyond? What are the governing dynamics of energetic predation of different kinds and how can you protect yourself from it? Will Venezuela have a second Christmas in December?

Thanks for listening.

Politics & the Power to Move Christmas (HOS98)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -1000

With the U.S. presidential election less than two months away, we offer some spiritual meta on politics today. How does one relate to politics spiritually? Why does it seem like the same people run the world everywhere and nothing ever changes? What soul species are drawn to government and why? And perhaps most importantly, what are the psychospiritual motives for a world leader to move a holiday?

Thanks for listening.

Who Needs Identity? (HOS97)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -1000

The nature and usefulness of identity is our topic today. Does the soul have an identity between lives? Is there such a thing as healthy conditioning? How is Yin Divinity affecting the fragility of identity and the emergence of soul? We also discuss the challenge of relating to Edenity in a testing mode that requires neither belief nor disbelief, a critical groove to find in the beginning. Lastly, Stace offers to teach a course on the premises of Edenity. If you’re interested, you can email him through edenity.org.

Thanks for listening,

The Rise & Fall of Nondual Seeking (HOS96)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -1000

We complete this recent, slightly interrupted series on Sagehood today with an unapologetic (see what I did there) comparison of various forms of eastern transcendental metaphysics and Edenity’s own Sagehood dharma. Topics include Edenity’s assertion of what we call the “pre-dual” versus the nondual, a key difference between awakening in men and women, and a possible future for enlightenment dharma that goes deeper than going upstream to just mind.

Thanks for listening.

An Apology for Arrogance (HOS95)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -1000

It’s been four months since we recorded and we are "forward." Thank you for your patience. Stace and I both were traveling at different times, I got Covid at one point, and various other things got in the way, but we are forging onward and it felt really great to record this one.

Not only did you have to wait four months for us to complete the series on Sagehood that we began, but we’re pushing that off a week with an emergent topic brought to me via email that I thought would be good to address while it was hot. That topic is a very old question of “How arrogant is it to say what we say and how we say it?” We’re well aware of how off-putting our conversations can be to some people and this is what we have to say about it in terms of gold and green.

Thanks for listening.

How Zen’s Illusion of Self is Illusory (HOS94)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today, we continue with part two of a Sagehood series which is surely one of my favorite episodes thus far. This one was really profound for me personally and I hope it’s as powerful for you as well but you’ll have to pay close attention as the distinctions are very subtle. We talk about what the Buddha actually taught compared to other enlightenment teachings, and then compare all of that to Edenity’s version of Sagehood. This is a realm where distinctions go to die in experience, but the importance of the initial assumptions and how they influence where you arrive in awakening are very much alive regardless.

Thanks for listening.

Four Kinds of Enlightenment Paths (HOS93)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, we begin a Sagehood series featuring four categories for enlightenment paths which make sense of an often confusing world of sagely teachings that aren’t metaphysically rigorous by our standards. We start by addressing the challenge of language from a Sagehood perspective and revisiting the issue of subjective vs. objective reality as context for this topic.

Thanks for listening

Why We Fear Intimacy (HOS92)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today, we complete the series on the thirteen principles of Personhood with more on codependence, compromise vs. negotiation, relatedness as a means to heal the fear of intimacy, how symmetrical issues work in romantic couples, and of course, much more.

Solving a Millennia-Old Philosophical Dilemma and More (HOS91)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, we warm up with why Edenity work doesn’t require integration, but digestion and how that’s different. We then continue our conversation from last time about Edenity’s challenge of traditional therapeutic boundaries and go on to cover the hugely significant resolution of revelatory vs. relative morality, and finish with a discussion of the universality of codependence.

Thanks for listening.

Limits of Therapeutic Boundaries & a Universal Morality (HOS90)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today, we continue our series on the thirteen fundamental assumptions of Personhood dharma in Edenity. We complete our deconstruction of altruism and other selflessness illusions and move onto a criticism of traditional therapist-client boundaries as impedimentary to real healing, and finish with the hugely philosophically important discovery of an emotive-based morality which we don’t complete until the next episode, so be sure to listen to 91 as well.

Thanks for listening.

Threatening & Offensive Truths, Continued (HOS89)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, we continue our series on the thirteen fundamental assumptions of Personhood dharma in Edenity. We discuss the misguided pursuit of happiness, what substance abuse is really about, the nature of authentic self-love, and the false notions of altruism, sacrifice, and unconditional love.

Thanks for listening.HOS

Foundational Principles of Personhood (HOS88)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, we begin discussion of the thirteen assumptions that Edenity’s Personhood dhama is based on. We’ve touched upon these ideas before but not gone through them in this more structured and thorough way. In this episode, we cover the first five which I’ll generally summarize: that we’re emotive being first, the four elements of human behavior, that there’s no such thing as a negative emotion, the need we have to feel felt as children, and the architecture of the emotional body.

Thanks for listening.

Embodiment of the Divine Human (HOS87)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -1000

Today: the split between humanity and Divinity, the nature of conditioning, the ramifications of the self as sacred and essentially emotive, and of course, much more.

Thanks for listening.

An Effeminate Jesus and the Pre-Psychologicality of Religion (HOS86)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today: how an allegedly effeminate depiction of Jesus draws yet another display of Christian contradictions and flawed metaphysics, the importance of understanding religion as pre-psychological, and how and why every religion ends up being the opposite of what its founder intended.

Thanks for listening.

Prana Pathways, Energy, and Essence (HOS85)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Today, chakras in the context of energy as downstream of essential emotivity, a revised treatment of the chakral system, chakral breathing techniques you can try, and much more.

Thanks for listening.

Time Travel, Simulation Theory, and Roe v. Wade (HOS84)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -1000

Hi, it’s Josef and thanks for listening to The Heart of Soul Podcast. You have to listen to the very end of this one to see how Stace magically ties together time travel, simulation theory, and the abortion issue. It’s a meta piece de resistance without any meaning in content for why they go together. Rabbit holes include the limits of brain-based consciousness models, the diagnostic delusions in western medicine, and why it might be good for you (and not just me) to be so frustrated with bad customer service that it makes you cry.

Thanks for listening.

How Coping and Self-Regulation Aren’t Good For You (HOS83)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:00:00 -1000

We’re back after the holidays and wasting no time deconstructing compensatory mainstream psychological tools made by and for unconscious protectors. Today, we focus on the domain of coping and spiritualized self-regulation and how it enables people to stay immature, and can harm children as well.

Thanks for listening.

How To Understand Everything (HOS82)

Josef Shapiro — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 09:00:00 -1000

Today, the secret to understanding everything. Finally, the answers you’ve been looking for! Of course, understanding alone won’t lead to fulfillment and questions are far more important than answers, but our topic today, the metaphysics of metaphysics will help you quite a lot if you can learn to see reality through this lens.

Also, we’re taking a break from recording at least for the rest of December. Stace and I both need some time off, but rest assured there’s plenty more to come. If you’re jonesing for a podcast, I do have another one called “Manage to Engage” that has some relevant crossover with Edenity, especially the later episodes. That podcast is more about the application of Edenity to the business world, which is always a fun tightrope to walk. There’s also a fair amount of pure zen sprinkled in there from that phase of my life. If you search for my name, Josef Shapiro, you’ll find Manage To Engage quite easily.

Until next time, happy all-the-days, and we look forward to reconnecting in 2024. Thanks so much for listening!

How Open Is Your Heart, Really? (HOS81)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:00:00 -1000

What if your heart were not nearly as open as you think? What if most of what we call emotions are actually superficial, downstream expressions of it? What if the way we relate to love, as something you give to or pour on another, is actually inaccurate? What if there were a way to open your heart so much you could barely stand it for a while, because that’s how closed it currently is relative to what could be?

Thanks for listening.

Are You Responsible For What You Don’t Know About Yourself? (HOS80)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -1000

You’re responsible for the contents of your unconscious. That’s the bad news, Edenity offers, but your reward is nothing less than the retrieval of your very soul in so doing. Rabbit holes include why some people are attracted to immortality, more comedy offered by the leaders of our world, how many shakes of the penis constitutes masturbation according to the Catholic Church, and a poem by yours truly about trigger warnings.

Also, the new website Edenity.org is live. If you are curious about what you read on the new website and hear in this podcast, Brie & Stace are available live on zoom every two months. They will answer your questions, help with confusions, hold space for your feelings and provide reflections. The first one will take place on Thursday December 7, 2023. You can register for those curiosity circles on the event page of edenity.org

Thanks for listening.

Your Life Isn’t Yours (HOS79)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -1000

Your life is not essentially yours, but you get to live it. That’s the Sainthood realization we discuss today. We talk about the qualitative difference between Sagehood and Sainthood awakenings, why doing the “hoods” in the prescribed order is important, the nausea of esoteric spirituality, how your soul-gifts are inevitably bound up in your emotional wounds, and as always, much more.

Thanks for listening.

You’re Not Here To Be Happy (HOS78)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:00:00 -1000

You’re not here to be happy, that’s why it seems so elusive. The sooner you give up on its pursuit, paradoxically the more fulfilled you’ll be. This is the realization we explore today. We begin by exploring free will with an incisive explanation as to why so many neuroscientists argue that it doesn’t exist these days. If you haven’t watched us on Youtube yet, this is a great opportunity to see the piece of lettuce stuck in my teeth the entire time. And on the subject of foibles, I am aware that my audio/video sync drifts toward the end of the episode. I had to use a backup mic while some equipment was in the shop. So you’re not losing your grip on reality if you experience that. Or you are, and it’s also out of sync. Both can be true.

Thanks for listening.

What If You Can’t Relate? (HOS77)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -1000

What if you had no idea how to relate with other people? What if the “you” who learned to relate with others did so from a necessary, but inauthentic seat of being destined to cause confusion, difficulty, and suffering in your relationships? What if there were a way to embody the soulful you that automatically related with people with ease? These are the questions we explore in today’s episode.

Thanks for listening.

Intimacy Is Primarily For Healing Wounds (HOS76)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -1000

Before exploring the essential nature of intimacy and what it's for, we examine the paradigmatic distortions at the root of the Palestine-Israel conflict, which is a geopolitical relationality catastrophe that predictably cannot resolve until the root issues are addressed. On the subject of personal relationality, we discuss the critical surrender to intimacy as a vehicle for healing childhood wounds, how polyamory is an understandable but immature flight from that truth, and how the pursuit of fulfillment in intimacy reveals what’s in its way.

Thanks for listening.

How Everything Is Real… (HOS75)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -1000

What if everything were real, and some things were just realer than others? How would that orientation change how you moved through life? That’s the realization du jour in this series. We look at the opposite point of view, absolutism, in eastern dharma and western religion and arrive at how there is no black and white, only shades of gray. Woven through this episode is also the theme of relationality and how absolutism collapses relational space, which we’ll likely continue in the next episode.

Thanks for listening.

There Are No Negative Emotions (HOS74)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -1000

What if there were no such thing as a negative emotion? What would happen if you related to yourself and others in this way, every moment of every day? This is the realization we explore today, including the difference between homeopathic and allopathic relationships to emotion, the dangers of transcendence, how every negative feeling emotion is actually a cry for help, and, a word from a new sponsor for your Edentertainment.

Thanks for listening.

God Says “Yes” To All Your Prayers! (HOS73)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -1000

How could it be that God answers all your prayers? Well, the key distinction is the difference between the perceived self and the soul. We address the ancient question of “Why does God allow evil in the world?”, the “and” between creationism and evolution, how Divinity cannot not be involved in your life, and much more.

Thanks for listening.

The Removal of You From Other (HOS72)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -1000

We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today is a two for one on realizations: “That you’ve projected on people so much you’ve never really known them” and “That you’ve played victim for most of your life.”

To address the first, we need to blend Personhood and Sagehood, and demonstrate that in one way you can never truly know anyone, including yourself. We cover the four general compensational strategies that our unconscious protection draws upon and for the second realization, the connection between absolutism and victimhood that’s quite subtle to appreciate. This is especially true when it comes to existential victimhood and how EBE as a psychospiritual paradigm addresses projection and victimhood in both content and context, which most paradigms don’t combine.

Thanks for listening.

The Concept of Concepts (HOS71)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -1000

We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today’s realization: “That things are not our concepts of them.” This is one of our first Sagehood episodes in a while. We address the difference between pure Zen and Edenity’s take on enlightenment, as well as other variations out there, the difference between transcendence and healing algorithms, the metaphysical limitations of nonduality and its subtle dead-end, and of course, much more.

Where There’s a Will, There May Not Be a Way (HOS70)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -1000

We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today’s realization: “That your will won’t take you where you need to go.” We discuss the difference between your true needs versus what you think you want, the removal of wound-based will in each of the three hoods, the key difference between playing victim and the true innocent victim in us, the will-based root cause of the 2008 financial crisis, and if that wasn’t enough, one way in which Adolf Hitler is more likable than Donald Trump.

Thanks for listening.

Why Are You Here? (HOS69)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -1000

We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today we take on the issues of destiny, purpose, and fate. How does one shift the track from their conditioned fate to a healthily reconditioned soul-destiny? How can we take responsibility for our incarnational imperatives if we don’t even know what they are? These questions and more frame our conversation today.

Thanks for listening.

Realities You’re Missing Out On (HOS68)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -1000

The realization du jour that we explore today is “That you’re missing out on the vast majority of reality on emotive and spiritual levels.” We discuss what it’s like to read unconscious emotional motives, how the backlighting of nonduality changes your experience of truth, how abiding with Divinity changes your experience of meaning, and much more. We begin with a question from one of our listeners about the challenges of breaking technology with one’s own energy field.

It's best to listen to episodes from the beginning and in order.

Thanks for listening.

How and Why You’re Unnourished (HOS67)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -1000

Today we tick two more realizations off the list we began in the last episode: that your relationships are not really nourishing you and that your parenting was far worse than you thought. These realizations are proving to be rich discussion topics filled with rabbit holes inside of rabbit holes.

My favorite of these is how the existence of a cookie still has the power to collapse the Catholic Church if just one of their leaders could think paradigmatically. Paradigmatic thinking, as we discuss, includes critical thinking, but critical thinking doesn’t necessarily include paradigmatic thinking. I mention a Christopher Hitchins video in the podcast here’s a link to that, in case you’re interested: https://youtu.be/yuGjcCByVyc

Your Unconscious is Running Your Life (HOS66)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -1000

We begin a series today based on a list of realizations that Edenity reliably evokes in people, the first being that your unconscious is running your life. We discuss how behavioral psychology was based in reducing human beings to animals, why humanistic psychology was a reasonable but impotent successor, how numbing behaviors are rewarded in our society, how our unconscious defines the parameters of our comfort zone, how the unconscious inevitably determines our values which is why we’re not supposed to challenge value systems, and much more.

Thanks so much for listening.

Why Triggers Don’t Need Warnings (HOS65)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, unpacking a tweet from the tragically late Sinead O’Connor, deconstructing what “cutting edge” psychology tells us to do with triggers and why it’s the exact opposite of what Edenity would say is healthy, how life begins with chaos in every moment and why that matters, what we shouldn’t learn from the new Barbie movie, and of course, much more. Thanks so much for listening.

The Metaphysics of Relational Love (HOS64)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, some essential metaphysics we all should have learned in high school: yin and yang dynamics. Much more than a cool symbol that makes for a hackneyed tattoo, yin and yang underlie all things, but the concepts are especially relevant in human relationality, though rarely appreciated as such. We refer to a handful of charts during the podcast which are helpful to see, and you’ll only find the video version on YouTube.

Empathy, Sympathy, & the Psychologization of Society (HOS63)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we discuss the psychologization of society and how, true to human form, esoteric and advanced concepts are distorted into the opposite of their original intent. This dynamic also applies to the concepts of sympathy and empathy, which are distortions and dilutions of how the human heart operates when fully healed. In that spirit, Edenity offers a new concept called “resompathy” as the needed solution.

Thanks for listening.

Why You’ll Never Be Happy…And It’s Not Your Fault (HOS62)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -1000

We’ve talked about happiness before but not yet thoroughly deconstructed it. It turned out we didn’t need to, because a recent article by a Finnish psychologist did it for us, just not on purpose. We interpret this article on the “secrets of happiness” through the lens of Edenity and reveal the three components of happiness that beautifully correspond to core truths-in-service in Personhood, Sagehood, and Sainthood.

These are the three primary strategies employed by nearly all humans that are tragically destined to fail, and we’ll also talk about how those failures are in another way successes. We complete by discussing the spiritual metaphysics related to quantum entanglement and why the universe started to expand 7.5 billion years ago.

Thanks for listening.

The Not-So Hidden God (HOS61)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -1000

If God is in all places at all times, why do most people not experience It? Edenity has thirteen reasons for you to consider. That’s our discussion today on the "Not-So Hidden God." We begin with the reason why we’ve related to God as a “to believe or not-believe” issue since the dawn of civilization and explore some very real reasons why our protection mechanisms have a vested interest in not experiencing God directly. There is no escaping self-interest.

Thanks for listening.

Astrology, the Enneagram, Rage vs. Healthy Anger, and More (HOS60)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -1000

Today is a special episode as it has our first guest, which we hope to make a regular occurrence. Christine joins us with some very thoughtful and heartful questions. We discuss the difference between the birth and conception signs in astrology and how that relates to the primary and and integration enneagram types, the emotive causes of physical disease, the difference between anger and rage, what happened in 2012 at the level of the Divine, and of course, much more.

If you’ve got questions and would like to be a guest on the show, just ask. You can reach us at josef@clearandopen.com Thanks for listening.

When Past Lives Are in the Present (HOS59)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -1000

Today is a special episode dedicated to one of our listeners. We explore the importance of distinguishing between the fear of being and the fear of not-being in order to process each completely, the difference between a transcendence algorithm and fear-healing one in Sagehood, how past life residual issues can affect us this life, and much more. If you have challenges you want addressed on the show, feel free to reach out to either one of us. Be brave. Your soul depends on it.

If you're interested to hear the recording from the recent Edenity Clubhouse event click here.

Why the Abundance Mindset Fails (HOS58)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -1000

This episode completes our money conversation from last time. We address why spiritual people tend to have money problems, what coming from an emotional lack looks and feels like when relating with money, the unholy marriage of money and compensatory will, money vs. meaning seeking, and of course, much more.

Tomorrow on June 17, 2023 in the Clubhouse App, our friend Eric Grace will host a gathering of EBE ensoulmentors to talk about Edenity and answer questions for participants. That will be at 10:30am Pacific Time on Clubhouse in The Wholly Human Club. Stace, Brie, Eric, myself and others will be there. When we get together, very interesting things tend to happen so I hope you can make it. Here’s the invite.

Money in an Age of Willful Subjectivism (HOS57)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -1000

We introduced the topic of money back in episode 28, carefully parsing out Edenity’s definition. We revisit the topic today and address money in the subjectivistic social, political, and economic contexts of today.

On June 17, 2023 in the Clubhouse App, our friend Eric Grace will host a gathering of EBE ensoulmentors to talk about Edenity and answer questions for participants. That will be at 10:30am Pacific Time on Clubhouse in The Wholly Human Club. Stace, Brie, Eric, myself and others will be there. When we get together, very interesting things tend to happen so I hope you can make it. Here’s the invite.

If you can’t make it and want to email questions for us to field, you can email me at josef@clearandopen.com.

Thanks for listening.

Why God Won’t Fit Inside Your Mind (HOS56)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -1000

What would happen if everyone on the planet were to experience God directly? What would have to happen for that to be possible? Why have philosophers spent thousands of years trying to prove the existence of God yet failed? Today we discuss these and other existential questions, including the limits of reductionism, the real definition of a false god, the difference between religion and spirituality, how zen creates attachment to unattachment, and much more.

If you can’t make it and want to email questions for us to field, you can email me at josef@clearandopen.com

The pandemic of fear, unconsciousness, a non-vaccine, and a bad flu (HOS55)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 26 May 2023 05:00:00 -1000

All episodes are now available on YouTube!

You didn’t ask for it, but we have to do it: Edenity’s take on the COVID 19 pandemic. Of course, it’s over (I saw it on television) and you’re tired of hearing about it, but I promise you’ll hear a fresh perspective. In addition to this, we’ll assign the six things that make us crazy to the six chakras, as well as the thirteen qualities of an Edenist. Stace only brought eight of these to the episode, and we brainstormed a couple more on the spot, and filled out the rest right after we stopped recording. Those qualities are:

Socially progressive
Fiscally conservative
Politically centrist,
Empirically rigorous
Sexual monogomous
Heartfully generous
Philosophically anti-collectivismic
Spiritually non religious
Existentially curious
Non-codependently relational
Emotively sober,
Soulfully embodied
Paradigmatically conscious

If you can’t make it and want to email questions for us to field, you can email me at josef@clearandopen.com

Kundalini, Shakti Transmissions, and Sorting Saint from Sage (HOS54)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 19 May 2023 05:00:00 -1000

Today’s episode is a continuation of the last one on Shamanism and we address kundalini awakenings, energetic transmissions of all kinds, and the important reasons why Sagehood and Sainthood must be distinguished from each other in order to fully realize the depths of each.

What Plants Don’t Know About Being Human (HOS53)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 12 May 2023 05:00:00 -1000

Hi, it’s Josef and thanks for listening to The Heart of Soul Podcast. We’re back from our break and dive spontaneously into the increasingly popular subject of shamanism, a topic with which I have a lot of firsthand experience. We cover both the allure and power of shamanism as well as the risks and limits from Edenity’s perspective. This discussion includes the critical pre-trans fallacy brought to us by philosopher Ken Wilber, how plants understand universal but not personal love, revisiting the difference between energy and emotion, the dangers of etheric parasites, and much more.

If you can’t make it and want to email questions for us to field, you can email me at josef@clearandopen.com.

Thanks for listening.

Why You Should Thank Your Partner For “Making” You Crazy (HOS52)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -1000

All episodes are now available on YouTube!

We’ve got even more to say about sexualized relationality and so the series continues. Topics today include polyamory, what healthy interdependence looks like, the four kinds of intimate communication, the impact on men that they come out of the opposite sex, the difference between sensitivity and vulnerability, sex work, how patriarchy is a compensation, and even more than all of that.

On June 17, 2023 in the Clubhouse App, Eric Grace will be hosting a gathering of EBE ensoulmentors to talk about Edenity and answer questions for participants. That will be at 11 am Pacific Time on Clubhouse in The Wholly Human Club. Stace, Brie, Eric, myself and others will be there. When we get together, very interesting things tend to happen so I hope you can make it.

Thanks for listening.

How Religion Is Still In Your Bedroom (HOS51)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -1000

All episodes are now available on YouTube!

We continue today our subseries on sexualized relationality. Topics include the origin of the split between our second and fourth chakras, the importance of triggers in relationships, yin and yang dynamics in romance, and much more. Rabbit holes include how parenting, sex, and money are the most confused domains for humanity, how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are basically the same, the little known difference between the virgin birth and the immaculate conception, and the real meaning of the water and wine magic trick.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Sexualized Relationality (HOS50)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -1000

All episodes are now available on YouTube!

We continue our series on relationality and begin a sub-series in the domain of sexualized relationality. In this episode, how the conventional idea that compromise is the foundation of relationships is immature, how the inauthentic self splits the second and fourth chakras in third, why what feels good or bad doesn’t work to guide relationality, how every relational space is co-created, and a lot more.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Healthy Self-Based Relationality (HOS49)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -1000

All episodes are now available on YouTube!

In this episode, self to self relationality, melting control to experience the raw chaos of reality, how narcissism and altruism are equally wound-based, how real love is always a transaction whether you believe it or not, and how we can only be responsible for ourselves and responsive to others. We explore what it means to start from a “me and you” place rather than “me me me” or “you you you” which is a lot more challenging than it sounds.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

We’re All Codependent (HOS48)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -1000

In this episode, redefining codependence in a way where none of us is off the hook, how you cannot wash a brain, how the mind is our first protection mechanism, a prediction for how our society dead-ends with artificial intelligence from yours truly, and of course, many other psychospiritual and philosophical rabbit holes.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Do You Create Your Reality? (HOS47)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we begin a three part series inside a series of unknown parts. You do the math. The data set is three things that clog up relationality and the first item up for bid is the idea that we create our own reality. Is it true? If you believe it, does it make it true?

We examine this idea as well as revisit the Renaissance philosophy you probably forgot because it wasn’t made meaningful for you in school, muse about what the failure of individual will would look like on a mass scale, distinguish subtle forms of existential control from the way we relate to reality, and generally just have a good time with the wish that you’ll enjoy the conversation.

The Architecture of Relationality (HOS46)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we begin a new series of unknown number of episodes, perhaps because the topic is relationality: a yin domain where delving into the unknown is not just a good idea, but required. We start off with a radical definition of relationality that completely recasts what a relationship is, how it’s not a noun just like everything else, and why alternative frames for relationality dead-end so quickly.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

The Five Angel Souls & Why You Don’t Want To Be One (HOS45)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we complete the conversation about soul species and cover the five Angel Soul species, beginning with a revisiting of the ontogeny of all souls; that is, how we all came into being in the first place.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Pleidian Through Andromedan Soul Species (HOS44)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we continue the conversation about soul species and cover the upper middle section of the array, from Pleidian through Andromedan souls.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Betelgeuse Through Sirian Soul Species (HOS43)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we continue the conversation about soul species and cover the middle section of the array, from Betelgeuse through Sirian souls.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Where Your Soul Came From (HOS42)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, a three part series on soul species begins. Surely one of the most fun aspects of Edenity, Stace and Josef give you descriptions of each soul species along with celebrity examples so you can begin to identify them yourself.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Essence Isn’t Energy or Love Ain’t No Thang (HOS41)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we continue the creation-relationality thread with some key principles that underlie working with chakras: the difference between energy and eichor, how love has no opposite, how the notion that everything is energy is limited, more on how the third eye works, and Edenity’s revision to the common phrase, “Let go, let love."

Why You Can or Can’t See Ghosts (HOS40)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, creation-relationality continued with the architecture of chakras, chakral breathing, how intuition works, and much more.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

The Necessary Descent into Personal Hell (HOS39)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, where Sagehood and Sainthood meet in the now, heretofore known as “ennowment dynamics,” how the hero’s journey for millennia has shown us the importance of turning toward discomfort, and the major discovery that there are actually only six chakras.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Inference Karma’s Gonna Get You (HOS38)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, what relating with God is actually like, how karma comes from the failure to infer the will of God, how that karma then informs reincarnation and incarnational imperatives, and much more.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

The Wounded Will (HOS37)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, how our wounds are reducible to a wounding of the personal will, the poisonous notions of altruism, sacrifice, and unconditional love, parent projections onto God, and much more.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

God Only Says “Yes” (HOS36)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, why sagehood is a prerequisite for sainthood, how the Divine only ever says “Yes,” how God requires inference rather than obedience, and the three different ways we heal our will in the three different hoods.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Do You Own Your Life? (HOS35)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -1000

Today’s episode is devoted to Sainthood, as will be at least the two that follow. We reframe devotional spirituality to be about willful body ensoulment rather than giving up one’s personal life, or anything else you’ve heard. This includes how your life belongs to the Divine, but you get to live it, how unconscious motives must be known in order to truly have free will, how the Divine doesn’t care what we do but why we do it, how emotospiritual maturity is a prerequisite for encountering the Divine, and much more.

Please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thanks for listening.

Nondual vs. Predual (HOS34)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, part two from our previous discussion on Edenity’s take on enlightenment. What happened in 2012 and why it matters to you, the difference between the predual and the nondual, how the ego is a unalistic verb rather than a dualistic noun, the hidden dualisms inside nondual paradigms, and much more!

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order. Thank you for listening.

Enlightenment vs. Mental Body Ensoulment (HOS33)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we do a deep dive into Sagehood and the differing metaphysical assumptions between traditional zen and Edenity’s take on mental body ensoulment. Especially important is how Edenity’s take on healing the fear of not-being allows for an integration of the impersonal realm traditionally owned by zen with the personal world of the human.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Who Was Jesus’ Father & Why Does It Matter? (HOS32)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, an alternative story to what we’ve been told about Yeshua the Nazarene, aka, Jesus. We add a psychoemotional dimension to a religious narrative to arrive at a spiritually useful picture. We context the relevance of this story with the rise of Christian theocracy and its origins as opposed to Yeshua’s actual original teachings which are a part of the paradigm of Edenity.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Reincarnation Revisited (HOS31)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we continue our conversation from last time about reincarnation. We move from the macro to the micro and discuss how we setup incarnations in our self interest for soul-level healing, how at the deepest level there is no victimhood at all in Life, the nature of karma in the context of reincarnation and self-forgiveness, and how as we unconsciously sow, we consciously reap.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Consciousness and Reincarnation (HOS30)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we explore Edenity’s metaphysics on reincarnation, a subject that goes back at least 4,000 years. Can you reincarnate as a cockroach if you do bad things as a human? Why do we think being a cockroach is so bad anyway? Do cockroaches fear being reincarnated as humans?

Some of these questions we explore in this episode. We also address who or what is reincarnating in eastern dharma and the flawed metaphysics that Edenity can replace with a more coherent picture, what heaven and hell really are, what consciousness has to do with the brain, and of course, much more.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Enheartenment: Earth as Heaven (HOS29)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we take a deep dive into the ultimate state of consciousness for the paradigm of Edenity; that is, enheartenment. If you remember from our previous episodes on the elements of a paradigm, all models have an ultimate state of consciousness whether they explicitly state it or not.

Related to this, we also explore some metaphysics of metaphysics and how essence, form, and expression are powerful ways to frame aspects of reality.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Money, Meaning, Manifestation & Metaphysics (HOS28)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we explore the metaphysics of money. We begin the conversation with the fantastical question of whether Jesus owned his clothes and why that question was of international importance about 1700 years ago. The subject of money leads us to explore competence and caring as the basis for healthy work and the difference between money and meaning seeking.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

If I Were President & Preparing To Die (HOS27)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we’re concluding our discussion of politics by answering the question we received about how an Edenity president would rule. We received another question about how each of the hoods (Personhood, Sagehood, and Sainthood) prepare us for death, and that conversation lead to some very rich places.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

The Misguided Woke (HOS26)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, following our foray into politics last time, the subject of wokeness. Topics include cancel culture, institutional racism, perception vs. reality, the dead-ending of self-image polishing and finally, the death of critical thinking and the need for “critical feeling” to take its place.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Spiritually Relating To Politics (HOS25)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, “How does a spiritual person relate to politics?” Like last time, this single question takes us on a journey from the right/left, realism/idealism split, to the separation of church and state, to Christian Nationalism, the quagmire of corporate invasion of politics, the failure of democracy as a system, free will and free won’t, and if that wasn’t enough, much more.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Was It Meant To Be? (HOS24)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, just because something happens, does it mean it was meant to be?

It’s a simple question that requires a complex answer that leads us to the Akashic records, the nature of free will and destiny, passion-path, how we’re here to cultivate beauty, bounty, and meaning, and much more. It’s a fascinating conversation that resolves some age-old existential questions that apply to all of us.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

The Psychospirituality of Relationality (HOS23)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, the psychospirituality of relationality, how your first mate is God, your second yourself, your third your passion path, and your fourth, your partner.

We’ll be unpacking and exploring what that means, I promise. We also present one of the most practical aspects of Edenity, spacer-types, which is every bit as valuable as astrology, the Enneagram, or other kinds of typing systems, and critical for healing emotional wounds. In addition, we cover some non sis-gender yin and yang dynamics.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

What Women Want From Men (HOS22)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -1000

We continue our series on sex and spirituality, and today we address the perennial question, “What do women want from men?” in a way that offers a productive solution path after millennia of challenge.

We go on to talk about the difference between men and women as a function of yin and yang dynamics and the challenges of relationality that come out of them.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

The Error of Self vs. Other in Romance (HOS21)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -1000

We’re continuing our series on sex and spirituality, now focusing on intimate relationality. In this episode, we address the “needs of self vs. needs of other” issue that morality, religion, philosophy, and spirituality have wrestled with for thousands of years…and resolve it.

That’s our frame for going deeper into the content of codependence, as well as bringing forward the concept of the split between the second and fourth chakras as the root of most intimate relationality problems. We also introduce the key distinction between responsiveness and responsibility, talk about how we unconsciously attract partners based on wounds, how the body is inside the soul as flesh-based expression, and more.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

How Relationships Never Fail (HOS20)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -1000

This episode continues our series on sex and spirituality with part three.

In it we cover codependence and recast the tragic lives of the glorified preteens, Romeo and Juliet. We also address the three primary kinds of connection in intimate relationality, considerations for masturbation health, what might be in the way of you attracting a soulmate, how to know if you’ve used sexuality as a medication, the ethics of claiming your unborn fetus as a carpool passenger, and a lot more.

Love vs. Will-Based Sexuality (HOS19)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -1000

This episode continues our series on sex and spirituality. We explore the impact of an emotion-first, will, mind and body second paradigm on this topic. This leads us to subjects that include how will drives codependence, the spirituality of lust, the innate self worth of the soul, and much more.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Sex and Spirituality (HOS18)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -1000

We continue to use the existing context we’ve set to examine some societal issues. This episode begins a series on sex and spirituality. We struggled to remember the list of six issues that humans are confused about during recording, so here it is now: sex, death, love, money, power, and God. You can count us getting to all of these subjects eventually. Today’s episode just scratches the surface of where sex, love, personal power, and God intersect.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Karma and Manifestation (HOS17)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -1000

This episode is “examples of commonly held truths continued,” if you will, where we examine and revise traditional notions of karma, the use of intentional will to manifest, and related to that, what happened in the 2013 changeover.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

The False Notion of Altruism (HOS16)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -1000

Last time we talked about soul age and how it relates to people’s general relationship to truth. Today in my interview with Stace Barron we go smaller into commonly held societal truths.

Topics include why we can’t change our outsides without changing our insides, the false notions of altruism, unconditional love, and self-sacrifice, and the importance of examining unconscious motives at the root of all human behavior.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order

Truth and Soul (HOS15)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -1000

Consider for a moment that there is truth, there is relationship to truth, and then there is our relationship to our relationship to truth. That’s our topic today: looking at how our take on truth is developmentally configured related to soul age; that is, the number of incarnations an individual soul has had here.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

The Limits of God (HOS14)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we delve more deeply into the repercussions of a God that is only Omnipresent and not Omniscient or Omnipotent. The discussion takes us into an examination of atheism, religion, and how the Divine doesn’t will to manifest like we commonly think.

This leads us to address more wrinkles of absolute truth previously addressed, the difference between belief- and discovery-based orientations toward life, the nature of evil, and of course much more.

As always, please listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

De-Negativizing the Self (HOS13)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we introduce the sense of the three I’s: the God-I root of everything, the Soul-I as the child of the God-I, and the local personal I as a child of the Soul-I. These are esoteric structural metaphysics of Edenity itself, going upstream of what Edenity offers to why it’s offered.

This frame serves as an introduction for a series we’ll do on enlightenment in general and spiritually significant events of all kinds. We talk about the history of paradigmatic negativation of self vs. holoarchical view that includes the self as Divine, and the reasons self has been mistakenly seen as impedimentary to spirituality. Other rabbit holes include the tragedy of transcendence and the bold assertion that God is omnipresent but not omniscient, or omnipotent.

Please remember to listen to these episodes in order and from the beginning.

What Cults Actually Are (HOS12)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -1000

This episode completes a three-part series as we zoom out and explore what a cult actually is and is not. The heart of the matter is how one defines victimhood and personal responsibility, especially given the premise that we’re responsible for the contents of our unconscious, which we previously offered.

Related to this, as always, it’s important to listen to these episodes in order and from the beginning. Thanks for listening.

Mea Culpa (HOS11)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -1000

We continue this three-part series with Stace revealing his previous errors of tough love and reality refraction that stemmed from his own wounding that we covered last time and resulted in the collapse of his teaching in 2015.

The content of this episode is challenging so we hope you hear it with a soft heart and an open mind. As always it’s important that you listen to this podcast from the beginning and in order.

Recovering From Guru-itis (HOS10)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -1000

This episode begins a sort of three-part series. Stace is going to tell you his personal life story as it relates to the origin of Edenity, including his own childhood wounding and how his own innate gifts in many ways made things more difficult for him. One of Edenity’s unusual principles is that the greater the child’s gifts, the greater the childhood wounding because of the degree to which their needs are not met.

This episode sets the context for Stace’s fall from guru grace when he dead-ended his own earlier version of Edenity, as an expression of an earlier version of himself, which we go into more deeply in the next episode.

What makes this story about you, is that for all of us, our weaknesses are inevitably distorted expressions of our strengths, and we cannot forgive ourselves for, and heal our wounds, until we can fully own our gifts.

Please listen to these podcasts from the beginning in order.

Spiritual Buffet Indigestion (HOS09)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 27 May 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we finally get through the spiritual buffet issue, but of course, there’s much more to talk about around that. We talk about the necessity of paradigmatic constructive criticism, the judgment of judgment, the relationship a soul has with a paradigm, what happens in enlightenment related to conditioning in a world of conditions, how organized religion twists itself into pretzels to maintain popularity, but moreover the damage a person does to themselves when they pick and choose elements from incompatible paradigms and attempt to live by them.

Please listen to this podcast from the very beginning and in order. Thank you for listening.

The 9 Elements of All Paradigms (HOS08)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 20 May 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, Stace presents perhaps the most universally applicable and powerful aspect of Edenity: The 9 Elements of a Paradigm. This model applies to all philosophies, models, religions, spiritualities, etc. and is a powerful tool to augment your CQ, or consciousness quotient, which we also discuss.

It’s really best to listen to this podcast from the very beginning and in order. Thank you for listening.

An Adam & Eve Revision (HOS07)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 13 May 2022 05:00:00 -1000

In this episode we cover a lot: How all paradigms have at least some truth, a recasting of the Adam and Eve myth, the origin of the universe according to Edenity, the difference in self-awareness between humans and animals, the limits of seeing consciousness as a function of the brain, Edenity’s take on Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, the nature of the consciousness changeover that happened in 2013, and of course much more.

We also spend a good amount of time on the domain of men and women and how the lack of understanding and appreciation of yin strength, or "yinth," contributes to the patriarchy and so much suffering in our society.

Please listen to this podcast from the very beginning and in order. Thank you for listening.

The Personal Self as Spiritually Sacred (HOS06)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 06 May 2022 05:00:00 -1000

Last time we explored two of the three ways that distinguish Edenity from other paradigms. The first was that we are responsible for the contents of our unconscious, as challenging as that may be. The second was that human beings are emotive before they are willful, mental, or physical. Today we complete the three-part series with an exploration of the premise that the personal self as spiritually sacred.

Rabbit holes include how hippies ruined meditation, the limits of Buddhistic Psychology, the true meaning of metaphysics, and of course, much more.

Please remember that it’s really best to listen to this podcast from the very beginning and in order. Thank you for listening.

Responsibility for the Emotive Unconscious (HOS05)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -1000

Today we begin a second three-part series to lay down some additional meta-framework. These three items are the fundamental ways in which Edenity is different from all other paradigms. In this episode, we cover the first premise, which is that as humans we are responsible for the contents of our unconscious, as well as the second premise, that we are at root emotive beings, before we are willful, mental, or physical beings, at the level of soul.

As usual, we fall into some fascinating rabbit holes related to the history of consciousness, how different paradigms circle around this issue, the difference between healing causes and treating symptoms, victimhood, the limits of mainstream psychology, and a lot more.

Please listen to this podcast from the very beginning and in episode order.

Love Isn't Energy (HOS04)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In this episode, we continue the three-part series on the core reasons our species is confused, with an addendum to one of our previous topics, addressing the nature of Divine as holoarchichal rather than hierarchical. This is of particular importance if you want to have an experience of and not just a belief in the Divine.

Then we go onto to complete the series, and explore the idea that love is not primarily energetic, but emotive, which like the other two premises we’ve covered, changes everything. In this way, emotion is not the problem for humanity, but rather the foundation, but never before appreciated as such.

We recommend you listen to the episodes in order.

Different Strokes For Different Soul Ages (HOS03)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -1000

Today, we continue the meandering three-part series on the core reasons our species is confused, covering a lot more than just that. We delve into reincarnation, the concept of soul age, how soul needs differ depending on their phase of development, why religion works for some people and not others, how personal growth is actually about dead-ending, and much more. We recommend you listen to the episodes in order.

The Confusion About Hierarchies (HOS02)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -1000

In today’s episode, we begin part one of a three-part series on the core reasons our species is confused. If that sounds like an oversimplification, then buckle up, because you’re going to hear Stace Barron reframe literally every problem in the history of humanity.

We’ll talk about the limits of mind, the difference between a hierarchy and a holoarchy, the nature of emotion as it relates to soul, and a lot more.

It’s best to listen to these episodes in order, as we’re beginning with some very high-level metaphysics on purpose and building on what we’ve covered before.

Why Are We Here? (HOS01)

Josef Shapiro — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -1000

Edenity is an enormously sophisticated worldview that provides radical insight into every aspect of the human experience. We recommend you listen to the episodes in order, and let us take you on a journey with an open mind and a curious heart. It’s a journey for us, too.

In this first episode, we use the question of why we’re doing this as a jumping-off point to explore how paradigms affect our relationship to reality, the long history of the negativization of self, the evolution of consciousness, and more.

All episodes also are available on YouTube.