The Heart of Soul

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/hosJosef Shapiro: https://www.clearandopen.comEric Grace: https://www.eric-grace.com Thanks for listening.

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/hosThanks for listening!

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.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/hosTo reach any of us:Josef Shapiro: clearandopen.comEric Grace: eric-grace.comCasey Keth: [email protected] for being a supporter of the podcast, we appreciate you!

The gift of suffering, soul age and consciousness capacity, transcendence, the enneagrammatic roots of Islam and Christianity, among other things.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 dazzle and delight our new members.So whether you want to tip us or become a member, or both, the link is: clearandopen.com/hosTo reach any of us:Josef Shapiro: http://clearandopen.comEric Grace: http://eric-grace.comCasey Keth: [email protected] for being a supporter of the podcast, we appreciate you!

To tip us or become a member please visit: clearandopen.com/hosToday, 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/hosTo reach any of us:Josef Shapiro: clearandopen.comEric Grace: eric-grace.comCasey Keth: [email protected] for being a supporter of the podcast, we appreciate you!

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

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-connectionThanks for listening.

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.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-connectionThanks for listening..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.