Almost Awakened

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Almost Awakened: 035: Historical Pandemics Apr 11, 2020

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Mekael and Bill in lieu of the Covid19 Pandemic decide to do a brief historical dive into major pandemics in human history.
RESOURCES:
https://www.mphonline.org/worst-pandemics-in-history/
https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html
https://www.history.com/news/pandemics-end-plague-cholera-black-death-smallpox
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
https://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreaks-history#1
https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/worst-pandemics-in-history

Almost Awakened: 034: Energy Healing With Holly Hope Mar 31, 2020

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We sit down today with Holly Hope and discuss her energy healing practice. We discuss the skepticism around this practice, how drums are made and used in healing practices, the use of energy crystals, and the real life scucess stories Holly has been part of.
You can find Holly at http://thebeautyofperspective.com/

Almost Awakened: 033: Rob Barnes and Astrology Mar 21, 2020

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Mekael and Bill sit down with Astrologer Rob Barnes to discuss Astrology. Is it legit. What is Astrology. And how can it be helpful.
RESOURCES:
https://www.astrologybyrob.com/
https://astro.cafeastrology.com/natal.php

Almost Awakened: 032: Chris Finnegan – Music as a tool to Awaken Mar 21, 2020

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Mekael and Bill sit down with local DJ and Music lover Chris Finnegan to discuss how Music has power to awaken us. How it soothes the ego by helping us through the lyrics live in our past and future and with the music it brings us to present. We discuss reggae music in particular and also discuss the deconstruction of systems.
Artists:
Dirty Heads
Rebelution
Iya Terra
Nahko
Tubby Love
Stick Figure
Little Stranger
Iration

Almost Awakened: 031: LSD, Hash House, Sex Ed, and Assisted Masturbation Mar 07, 2020

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Today Mekael and Bill discuss their recent visit to the Hashhouse, Bill’s unrelated Food Poisoning, the recent news on huge doses of LSD and how to raise children in a divorced mixed faith arrangement. Lastly Bill and Mekael wrestle with a father who masturbates his mentally and physically disabled adult child.
http://whyimasturbatemyson.blogspot.com/2016/05/why-i-masturbate-my-profoundly-disabled.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-woman-accidentally-took-550-times-the-normal-dosage-of-lsd-case-report-details

Almost Awakened: 030: EMDR with LaDawn – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Feb 29, 2020

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Today Mekael and Bill sit down with EMDR Therapist LaDawn and discuss Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Discussing how this therapeutic approach deals with trauma and help patients to heal and repair.

LaDawn Dewitt

What is EMDR
How Does EMDR Work?
EMDR Taking a Closer Look

Almost Awakened: 029: Scott Jeffrey – A Conversation Around Shadow Work Feb 18, 2020

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Scott Jeffrey is an author and is the founder of CEOsage, a transformational leadership agency and resource for self-actualizing individuals. Scott is a voice of wisdom in several fields and one of those is Shadow Work. You can read Scott’s guide on Shadow work HERE. In today’s conversation we hear Scott’s wisdom around why we hide and why we create unhealthy mechanisms to protect ourself. What it means to start waking up and want to face one’s shadows. What to do when one is confronted with their shadow in the tense moment. And for the Newbie how to intiate and step into doing shadow Work.
RESOURCES:
A Definitive Guide to Jungian Shadow Work: How to Get to Know and Integrate Your Dark Side
HuffPost article on Shadow Work – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shadow-work-the-beauty-of_b_9440912
Website dedicated to Shadow Work – https://lonerwolf.com/shadow-work-demons/
Welcome to Shadow Work – https://shadowwork.com/
Another shadow Work Guide – https://individualogist.com/shadow-work

Almost Awakened: 028: Jared Clavin – My First Year With Alcohol Feb 08, 2020

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Jared Clavin belonged to a religious system where alcohol was forbidden. Then Jared discovered his system didn’t have all the answers. As he begin questioning his faith he in turn had to question all the things his faith told him were good and were bad including alcohol. Once Jared stepped away from the faith of his Childhood he was now free to experiment for the first time with alcohol and to as an adult navigate and figure out this scary thing. We talk today about Jared’s written blog post on his journey titled “My First Year with Alcohol“. ‘Jared tells us about his good experiences, his bad experiences, what a hangover feels like, what alcohol does as a social lubricant, and how he managed discovering what he liked and what he didn’t and how to do this thing in a healthy and responsible way.
RESOURCES:
https://medium.com/@jaredclavin/my-first-year-with-alcohol-11281cabd5ef
Casual Drinking, Problem Drinking & Alcoholism
How to Drink Responsibly and Enjoy Alcohol
How to drink responsibly
How to Drink Responsibly at That Party and Still Have Fun
How to Get Past the College Phase and Drink Alcohol Like an Adult

Almost Awakened: 027: Body Image and Body Shame Feb 01, 2020

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Mekael and Bill discuss Body Image today. How different Genders perceive their bodies, what things we humans feel shame over, and How we can be healthier in how we treat others and ourselves.
RESOURCES:
Body Image: Not Just About Your Body: Jessi Kneeland: TED
Battling Our Bodies: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Body Images
Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report
It’s Not Just Girls. Boys Struggle With Body Image, Too
Defining the new male ideal
Women’s Ideal Body Types Throughout History
Building self-esteem

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Almost Awakened: 026: Sex, Shadows, Kinks & Fetishes Jan 25, 2020

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Mekael and Bill discuss three things today. First they review some of their thoughts from last weeks conversation with River about ethical non-monogamy. Second Bill discusses some recent Shadow work including a sound bite from the hit TV show Criminal Minds. Lastly Bill and Mekael discuss Kinks and Fetishes including Bills discovery and sharing of how own kink.

RESOURCES:

MindHunter TV Show

Criminal Minds TV Show

101 KINKY THINGS – AN EXTENSIVE LIST OF KINKS AND FETISHES

Dacryphilia (Crying kink/Fetish)

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