😂✨🙏😁That was F……ing amazing!!!! So many things I took from this one today and last week! Feel honored and blessed 😇 that you take time to share your vulnerability and courage to Bee 🐝 who you are!!!!! Lots to ponder!!! Soooo appreciate your humor 😂! I’m Aquarius ♒️ rising and Gemini ♊️ sun ☀️ and Venus(very much in my head)……among many other lovely t square placements…..but no one gets me! When I listen to your stories I feel I belong and see the humor 😂and love of life! Thank you Adam!!! Truly!🙏✨🙏
Wow, that was an interesting story.. Mabey astrology and those ceremonies could be combined and people would learn more about their charts and selves, and mabey work on questions their charts bring up. Usually drugs are to soothe painful emotions. I did pot as a teen, and don't regret it, since there was no other recoirse. Life us an adventure! 👽🌹❣️💜😍
the two sides of the coin feel very leo/aquarius (though im sure it extends above and beyond). just as leo is governed by the sun, i sometimes imagine aquarius as the void. it can be a terrifying place, in that place of non-existence, but how liberating too.
So awesome Adam ❤, thank for having the courage of a Lion 🦁 and heart ❤️ of Gold to share your personal experiences and how it has guided you to deeper spiritual truths 🙏!
Loving this series ❤️ I can definitely feel the underlying essence of your approach to your talks through these stories, which is something that has always drawn me to your channel.
22:40 That’s a GOOD one, boss. And, yeah - I forgot that sin is originally defined as a misstep: It’s not actually evidence of someone being evil, or even evil activity. Hell, sometimes it’s not even taboo. Was talking with God last night, and was asking some big questions, like literally what is the purpose of the journey I’m on, you know? It didn’t take long for me to conclude that it was about complete acceptance, since that’s all that will be left for me to experience in my final moments. It wasn’t a morbid realization either. It was actually inspiring. About as inspiring as your own Ayawaska journey.
I experienced a shift very similar to your story - there is nothing to hold onto, no ground. Then a shift to an unconditional presence. Thank you, Adam 💜
I really appreciate when you share your experiences and learnings and insights. And coincidentally just yesterday I read an expose documenting many harmful abuse patterns that happened over decades in the Shambhala community that were literally ignored or disregarded. I agree with you that at our essence, we are not good or bad. But actions do cause harm and it feels dissociative to come to a place that disregards the relational effects of actions. Some of these teachings of emptiness can be used as spiritual bypass. Speaking as someone who took refuge and attended retreats and teachings in Buddhism for several years while I attended dying patients as a hospice nurse. I studied the source texts, and some of the profound teachings on emptiness are a reminder that nothing is fixed in essence, everything that exists is dependent on what came before and is changing and becoming something else.
Good points...and two things can be true... I have also witnessed people bypassing spiritual truths bc they use the idea of spiritual bypassing, ironically, as an excuse to disregard spirituality...staying fixed in wordly dramas...and developing a sense of self-righteousness in their own worldly "goodness," so it really can and does go in both directions, which is why spiritual life is always about holding the tension of these oppositions...but yeah I think your point is a really good one!
Thanks Adam, good lesson. I travel vicariously in your descriptions as I won't be going down that path. The focus on spiritual growth is one of my concerns too. You're a good teacher, thanks for sharing....YES.
This was such a brilliant share. I received so much. And you are not just heady in that response to the knowing about being the empty space. It is something I have worked with for a long time and felt I somehow needed to change. You sharing about the coin was a huge reframe for me, holding up a mirror to what I already knew and connecting it to that fear part. Thank you so much. I love your astrology shares and wisdom. These videos are my favorite though! 🥰🤗
Thank you. Interesting sync with what's been going on on my life--I've been studying Buddhist philosophy over the past several months and reconciling my beliefs regarding soul and spirit.
this is heaven - this culmination and realization came to me in a very different way, but this knowing changed and continues to change everything for me in the most blissfully cathartic way
I’m currently meditating on all of what you just spoke on as I draft a writing sample for my applications to grad school. The investigation is not so much on the spiritual topics, but how they can be communicated regarding x or y or z issue. Really appreciated the experience-grounded me
How about a capri judgement always lacking something to be great at any quality? I'm a capri too, doubled ruled as my asc is aquarius. So I can review myself in your beautiful sharing. Very grateful for your thoughts ❤🙏🏼 Kind off... been there, done that!
So beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your very personal experience, Adam. I’ve got the similar understanding from a different spiritual teaching but the impact on my life is the same: liberating and feeling worthy. ❤❤❤
Thank you for your insights, Adam. The release of this video is so synchronistic with what has been on my mind lately. A couple weeks ago I started reading The Soul’s Code by James Hillman, it left me with things to ponder on. With these thoughts and ideas floating around in my psyche it felt like the Universe kept placing me in situations with others where I found myself speaking on the topics to do with our Soul and its purpose, the meaning of life, what are we here to learn and/or experience. I enjoy all your content and I think you’ve mastered the art in finding that balance between being relatable and galaxy brain. I also find it easier to share these types of videos with my non-astrology-but-still-spiritually-minded friends. Thank you! ❤
These meditations on plant medicine ceremonies, wisdom teachings, and astrology are gold. Maybe you should add even more to your plate and set up a separate channel devoted to these discussions! (Joking of course! But what a thought...) Never got down with the jungle juice, but I've been fortunate in enjoying similar powerful experiences with other kinds of entheogenic and psychedelic plant medicines in ceremonial and therapeutic spaces. The most profound of these led to something so simple that many might wonder why it took a shaman doing reiki on me in deeply altered state for it to occur. Most of my life I had this mental container containing all the reasons my parents were failures at parenting. These were indisputable facts, corroborated by my older half sister (both of us Aquarius Suns--go figure!). She too had been a terrible sibling. What I couldn't see, of course, was that they were just ordinary people, making do with the tools they had the best they could. This was the piece of insight I never quite fully made until I was 41 and laid out flat with this old man doing his shivery energy finger-tap over my aura or whatever. I was worried he was tiring himself out, but then he started talking to me about his folks from way back, their Depression-bred hardnesses but also their singular beauty despite the outward wrecks of their lives as they aged; he spoke of the generations of blind struggle, of life's relentless forward motion to protect what it creates, however crude its methods, because those were simply all that was available. It must be said my parents were not physically abusive, my father restraining himself mightily out of fear of his own capacity to inflict pain (which I didn't know until adulthood). But my childhood was weighed down by an atmosphere of cutting and insulting language, so I largely kept to myself in this dynamic, and started keeping score, the way the body does but also the mind, when it's hypervigilant from an early age. What I couldn't see was my parents' many struggles to get through the day because I was busy with my own. Sure, I was exposed to things no child should be; they knew it too, and still know. This knowing that has weighed upon them for decades is so big, they cannot fully speak it. And one thing I learned in this wall-shattering experience was that they don't ever need to. They were already middle-aged when they had me; they didn't have the tools that I can look up online today and simply parrot to get by (which method I'm not insulting: we're in a world where we make do, we always have been). Some people come into the world, they have an energy very difficult to contain. My father inherited his father's wildness, a crude but charming vitality, like a dirty-kneed angel riding a raging bull. My grandfather cheated relentlessly on my grandmother, brawled for fun, gambled, drank, hunted, felled trees--all in an ordinary day. And yet everybody loved him, because he was joyful, and there was no hiding what his sons would as adults despair to hide from their peers, their spouses, their children, even themselves. He was simply born to this thing, this karma, this daimon, whatever--this intensity of life force that in time overtook a boy whose childhood was helping his prematurely aged parents and many siblings scratch out a mean existence on a thin-soiled bayou farm. The passion he and my grandmother had for one another until their dying days is a thing most would envy (which isn't to say their marriage lasted). And my grandmother died never telling me whether she still believed our native ancestors before Columbus are remain burning in hell for all eternity. Or if she remained certain I would share in the same fate. I have nothing against her and love her as I do my parents. Her sweetness came from simple joys; her meanness from fear for those she loved. She never even knew Jesus' last words until I shared with her a poem by a secular Jew, a poet privileged with book-learning she simply didn't have. The world has always been confusing and difficult as well as joyful--a cycle of trial and forgetting, of stress and grasping, for comfort, for recognition, in fleeting moments. Now, we can look up all the right things to do and say and worry at getting them right, like checking off a list we save on our phones. Do we really expect this will always be so? We need to remember how to talk each other as the frail mortals we all are, and listen too. This is what I learned that night. A couple weeks later, I called my father for the first time since I had moved across the country (again). It was to reset things between us, and it was simple: I tell him, hey, I want to share with you what my experience was growing up. This was novel. My voice held no judgment; it wasn't about him--it was just sharing a story, where he was a key player but also far from the main character. This encouraged him to do likewise, same thing. What had never happened until two years ago was this storytelling, without rancor, without blame, without sentimentality. Did he then magically transform into whatever ideal of fatherhood, or even personhood, I might have built up in my mind? Nope. Did I take the initiative to open up simple directness to a man who's lived mostly by instinct and a remarkable capacity for innocent charm and smoldering anger? Did he respect that? Did this person, desperately prideful as most of us are, mirror the newfound confidence I displayed in straight-talking without judgment? Yes. What does this have to do with Adam's talk? How are we ever to have a human experience unless we can speak to each other past our padded and siloed comfort zones of preferences and judgments that, really y'all, we don't even come up with for ourselves? If this is too long, and surely it is (what the hell am I even doing with this)--go read some Flannery O'Connor! Seriously. It's the same damn thing. Should you decide, nah, she's old, long dead, a white Catholic lady from Georgia, well, that's just being fussy and scared to be cracked open a little.
Existence proceedes essence is the belief of existentialist…. Essence proceeds Existence. Cause effect. Subjective objective. Intangible tangible. You can’t deny Essence. That’s denying archetypes and “God and Spirit”
Well, you most certainly CAN deny essence since that is a huge part of Buddhism...but for me I was seeing essence and emptiness and a kind of archetypal opposition, a both/and, simultaneous paradox
Fantastic episode, thank you.
You’re lovely man, you’re truly a wonderful contribution to our lives.
Thanks for this.
😂✨🙏😁That was F……ing amazing!!!! So many things I took from this one today and last week! Feel honored and blessed 😇 that you take time to share your vulnerability and courage to Bee 🐝 who you are!!!!! Lots to ponder!!! Soooo appreciate your humor 😂! I’m Aquarius ♒️ rising and Gemini ♊️ sun ☀️ and Venus(very much in my head)……among many other lovely t square placements…..but no one gets me! When I listen to your stories I feel I belong and see the humor 😂and love of life! Thank you Adam!!! Truly!🙏✨🙏
Wow, that was an interesting story.. Mabey astrology and those ceremonies could be combined and people would learn more about their charts and selves, and mabey work on questions their charts bring up. Usually drugs are to soothe painful emotions. I did pot as a teen, and don't regret it, since there was no other recoirse. Life us an adventure! 👽🌹❣️💜😍
these are so interesting and insightful! thank you for sharing
I know a few people who have been through Ayahuasca. Your experience was unique but similar to what I've heard. Thanks for sharing.
Well there are lots of different experiences that people have, honestly...even my own are remarkably diverse!
the two sides of the coin feel very leo/aquarius (though im sure it extends above and beyond). just as leo is governed by the sun, i sometimes imagine aquarius as the void. it can be a terrifying place, in that place of non-existence, but how liberating too.
I liked this a lot. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
So awesome Adam ❤, thank for having the courage of a Lion 🦁 and heart ❤️ of Gold to share your personal experiences and how it has guided you to deeper spiritual truths 🙏!
Loving this series ❤️ I can definitely feel the underlying essence of your approach to your talks through these stories, which is something that has always drawn me to your channel.
I so relate to the cap moon with an odd sense of humor ..
22:40 That’s a GOOD one, boss. And, yeah - I forgot that sin is originally defined as a misstep: It’s not actually evidence of someone being evil, or even evil activity. Hell, sometimes it’s not even taboo.
Was talking with God last night, and was asking some big questions, like literally what is the purpose of the journey I’m on, you know? It didn’t take long for me to conclude that it was about complete acceptance, since that’s all that will be left for me to experience in my final moments. It wasn’t a morbid realization either. It was actually inspiring. About as inspiring as your own Ayawaska journey.
I experienced a shift very similar to your story - there is nothing to hold onto, no ground. Then a shift to an unconditional presence. Thank you, Adam 💜
Currently passing your book around in my friends circle. Everyone is now interested
Ahhhh, THE VOICE. Listen to it, even when it doesn’t make sense. It has saved my life a number of times.
I really appreciate when you share your experiences and learnings and insights. And coincidentally just yesterday I read an expose documenting many harmful abuse patterns that happened over decades in the Shambhala community that were literally ignored or disregarded. I agree with you that at our essence, we are not good or bad. But actions do cause harm and it feels dissociative to come to a place that disregards the relational effects of actions. Some of these teachings of emptiness can be used as spiritual bypass. Speaking as someone who took refuge and attended retreats and teachings in Buddhism for several years while I attended dying patients as a hospice nurse. I studied the source texts, and some of the profound teachings on emptiness are a reminder that nothing is fixed in essence, everything that exists is dependent on what came before and is changing and becoming something else.
Good points...and two things can be true... I have also witnessed people bypassing spiritual truths bc they use the idea of spiritual bypassing, ironically, as an excuse to disregard spirituality...staying fixed in wordly dramas...and developing a sense of self-righteousness in their own worldly "goodness," so it really can and does go in both directions, which is why spiritual life is always about holding the tension of these oppositions...but yeah I think your point is a really good one!
Thanks Adam, good lesson. I travel vicariously in your descriptions as I won't be going down that path. The focus on spiritual growth is one of my concerns too. You're a good teacher, thanks for sharing....YES.
This was such a brilliant share. I received so much. And you are not just heady in that response to the knowing about being the empty space. It is something I have worked with for a long time and felt I somehow needed to change. You sharing about the coin was a huge reframe for me, holding up a mirror to what I already knew and connecting it to that fear part. Thank you so much. I love your astrology shares and wisdom. These videos are my favorite though! 🥰🤗
Sin came from archery term when you missed your target.
Thank you. Interesting sync with what's been going on on my life--I've been studying Buddhist philosophy over the past several months and reconciling my beliefs regarding soul and spirit.
Deeply grateful for you sharing these stories 🦋
this is heaven - this culmination and realization came to me in a very different way, but this knowing changed and continues to change everything for me in the most blissfully cathartic way
I’m currently meditating on all of what you just spoke on as I draft a writing sample for my applications to grad school. The investigation is not so much on the spiritual topics, but how they can be communicated regarding x or y or z issue. Really appreciated the experience-grounded me
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing those profound experiences
How about a capri judgement always lacking something to be great at any quality? I'm a capri too, doubled ruled as my asc is aquarius. So I can review myself in your beautiful sharing. Very grateful for your thoughts ❤🙏🏼
Kind off... been there, done that!
Thank you, Adam. This has been very helpful❤
So beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your very personal experience, Adam. I’ve got the similar understanding from a different spiritual teaching but the impact on my life is the same: liberating and feeling worthy. ❤❤❤
Thank you for your insights, Adam. The release of this video is so synchronistic with what has been on my mind lately. A couple weeks ago I started reading The Soul’s Code by James Hillman, it left me with things to ponder on. With these thoughts and ideas floating around in my psyche it felt like the Universe kept placing me in situations with others where I found myself speaking on the topics to do with our Soul and its purpose, the meaning of life, what are we here to learn and/or experience.
I enjoy all your content and I think you’ve mastered the art in finding that balance between being relatable and galaxy brain. I also find it easier to share these types of videos with my non-astrology-but-still-spiritually-minded friends. Thank you! ❤
So simple yet so profound and difficult to embody. Thank you for sharing. Beautifully said ☯️🤍🖤
The jokes gone too far, Capricorn problems I was thinking too. 😂😂😂 The courtroom in your head, I’m like welcome to everyday of my existence.😂😂😂😂
Amazing! Helps me so much…as if I went through it myself, I now know what you are sharing!
These meditations on plant medicine ceremonies, wisdom teachings, and astrology are gold. Maybe you should add even more to your plate and set up a separate channel devoted to these discussions! (Joking of course! But what a thought...)
Never got down with the jungle juice, but I've been fortunate in enjoying similar powerful experiences with other kinds of entheogenic and psychedelic plant medicines in ceremonial and therapeutic spaces. The most profound of these led to something so simple that many might wonder why it took a shaman doing reiki on me in deeply altered state for it to occur.
Most of my life I had this mental container containing all the reasons my parents were failures at parenting. These were indisputable facts, corroborated by my older half sister (both of us Aquarius Suns--go figure!). She too had been a terrible sibling. What I couldn't see, of course, was that they were just ordinary people, making do with the tools they had the best they could. This was the piece of insight I never quite fully made until I was 41 and laid out flat with this old man doing his shivery energy finger-tap over my aura or whatever. I was worried he was tiring himself out, but then he started talking to me about his folks from way back, their Depression-bred hardnesses but also their singular beauty despite the outward wrecks of their lives as they aged; he spoke of the generations of blind struggle, of life's relentless forward motion to protect what it creates, however crude its methods, because those were simply all that was available.
It must be said my parents were not physically abusive, my father restraining himself mightily out of fear of his own capacity to inflict pain (which I didn't know until adulthood). But my childhood was weighed down by an atmosphere of cutting and insulting language, so I largely kept to myself in this dynamic, and started keeping score, the way the body does but also the mind, when it's hypervigilant from an early age.
What I couldn't see was my parents' many struggles to get through the day because I was busy with my own. Sure, I was exposed to things no child should be; they knew it too, and still know. This knowing that has weighed upon them for decades is so big, they cannot fully speak it. And one thing I learned in this wall-shattering experience was that they don't ever need to. They were already middle-aged when they had me; they didn't have the tools that I can look up online today and simply parrot to get by (which method I'm not insulting: we're in a world where we make do, we always have been).
Some people come into the world, they have an energy very difficult to contain. My father inherited his father's wildness, a crude but charming vitality, like a dirty-kneed angel riding a raging bull. My grandfather cheated relentlessly on my grandmother, brawled for fun, gambled, drank, hunted, felled trees--all in an ordinary day. And yet everybody loved him, because he was joyful, and there was no hiding what his sons would as adults despair to hide from their peers, their spouses, their children, even themselves. He was simply born to this thing, this karma, this daimon, whatever--this intensity of life force that in time overtook a boy whose childhood was helping his prematurely aged parents and many siblings scratch out a mean existence on a thin-soiled bayou farm.
The passion he and my grandmother had for one another until their dying days is a thing most would envy (which isn't to say their marriage lasted).
And my grandmother died never telling me whether she still believed our native ancestors before Columbus are remain burning in hell for all eternity. Or if she remained certain I would share in the same fate. I have nothing against her and love her as I do my parents. Her sweetness came from simple joys; her meanness from fear for those she loved. She never even knew Jesus' last words until I shared with her a poem by a secular Jew, a poet privileged with book-learning she simply didn't have.
The world has always been confusing and difficult as well as joyful--a cycle of trial and forgetting, of stress and grasping, for comfort, for recognition, in fleeting moments. Now, we can look up all the right things to do and say and worry at getting them right, like checking off a list we save on our phones. Do we really expect this will always be so?
We need to remember how to talk each other as the frail mortals we all are, and listen too. This is what I learned that night. A couple weeks later, I called my father for the first time since I had moved across the country (again). It was to reset things between us, and it was simple: I tell him, hey, I want to share with you what my experience was growing up. This was novel. My voice held no judgment; it wasn't about him--it was just sharing a story, where he was a key player but also far from the main character. This encouraged him to do likewise, same thing. What had never happened until two years ago was this storytelling, without rancor, without blame, without sentimentality. Did he then magically transform into whatever ideal of fatherhood, or even personhood, I might have built up in my mind? Nope.
Did I take the initiative to open up simple directness to a man who's lived mostly by instinct and a remarkable capacity for innocent charm and smoldering anger? Did he respect that? Did this person, desperately prideful as most of us are, mirror the newfound confidence I displayed in straight-talking without judgment? Yes.
What does this have to do with Adam's talk? How are we ever to have a human experience unless we can speak to each other past our padded and siloed comfort zones of preferences and judgments that, really y'all, we don't even come up with for ourselves?
If this is too long, and surely it is (what the hell am I even doing with this)--go read some Flannery O'Connor! Seriously. It's the same damn thing. Should you decide, nah, she's old, long dead, a white Catholic lady from Georgia, well, that's just being fussy and scared to be cracked open a little.
Cooool thanks for sharing Adam!!
"But wait a second..."... I was thinking exactly the same thing!!! :-)
Nobody describes the experience better ++
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Existence proceedes essence is the belief of existentialist…. Essence proceeds Existence. Cause effect. Subjective objective. Intangible tangible. You can’t deny Essence. That’s denying archetypes and “God and Spirit”
Well, you most certainly CAN deny essence since that is a huge part of Buddhism...but for me I was seeing essence and emptiness and a kind of archetypal opposition, a both/and, simultaneous paradox
I would like to participate in a ceremony at some point. Any recommendations?
Nimea Kaya in Peru :)
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