Deep Transformation Podcast: Self - Society - Spirit

04/07/2025

“Full nonduality: not just nonduality between subject and object…but where nothing is separate from anything else—one indivisible medium of loving consciousness.”

🎙️ Episode 189
A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series (Dialogue 11, Part 1 of 2) – The Boundless Dimension of Divine Love: A Potential Available to Us All

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/a-h-almaas-wisdom-series-11-1-boundless-dimension-of-divine-love/

The eleventh Wisdom Series dialogue with A. H. Almaas brings us to the second turning of his teaching, into the boundless dimension of divine love. Hameed explores this nondual dimension in detail: its qualities, what it’s like to experience firsthand, and what the effects of such an experience are likely to be. This boundless dimension of loving consciousness is the first of the five boundless dimensions, though love continues to develop throughout them all. Hameed gives a beautiful account of his initial experience with this dimension, when divine love and light permeated all of reality. “Why don’t more people experience this if love is always there? asks co-host John Dupuy, and Hameed explains that it’s always there in potential form though not always manifest; the experience is there for when we are ripe for it.

Having awakened to this dimension, one can’t help but want everyone to feel this way, Hameed says, and this is the main reason spiritual teachers teach. Hameed describes the obstacles that prevent us from experiencing the reality of divine love, how it challenges our perceived separateness, and tells us that after experiencing this unity, returning to separateness is not a choice. It turns out that experiencing boundless love is not a panacea for enlightenment, but creates an upwelling of obstacles and a state where our boundedness feels even more restrictive than before. Hameed also relates how hatred and greed can exist in this reality of pure goodness, and tells us that it is here, in the ocean of love and light, that they are transformed. A wonderfully numinous, illuminating conversation. Recorded May 1, 2025.

03/07/2025

🎈 Happy Birthday!! 🎈 to our Deep Transformation Podcast: Self - Society - Spirit co-hosts Roger & John!

May blessings rain down upon you in great number as you circle the sun in your new year to come. In gratitude to both of you on your shared birthday for all you do for so many people – friends, family, colleagues, and all the thousands of Deep Transformation podcast listeners and viewers – bringing brilliance and light into the world with every good intention to heal, inform, and inspire.

We thank you and wish you the very best for your new year ahead!

The Deep Transformation team

02/07/2025

Sally Adnams Jones : "...So, we have that issue: the radicalization of young men back to a right-wing ideal of the 50s that never existed for anybody else but white men."

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🎙️ (Part 2) The Healing Power of Creating Art & Current Politics from an Integral Taoist Perspective with Sally Adnams Jones

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/healing-power-of-creating-art-integral-taoist-perspective-sally-adnams-jones-2/

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Trailer Transcript:

Social democracy is labeled as communism in America. It's not even accurate. But what we're up against is the misinformation and the lies that the tech bros are spreading about the failure of democracy. They never cite the beautiful examples we have of social democracies that are highly functional. So, they're using their digital abilities to grow right-wing platforms in other people's countries and they particularly are preying upon young men. So, we have that issue: the radicalization of young men back to a right-wing ideal of the 50s that never existed for anybody else but white men.

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30/06/2025

Sally Adnams Jones: "...So who would risk taking on the United States?"

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🎙️ (Part 2) The Healing Power of Creating Art & Current Politics from an Integral Taoist Perspective with Sally Adnams Jones

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/healing-power-of-creating-art-integral-taoist-perspective-sally-adnams-jones-2/

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Trailer Transcript:

Every single Canadian is deeply traumatized right now, I'll be honest. We know that we're 10% in size of your economy. We are the little brother here. There's no doubt if Trump wants to take us, he can. He's about to spend a trillion dollars on his military. He's got the biggest military in the world. We have been traditionally peacekeepers in the world. We have a very small military. It's less than 100,000 soldiers. We don't have the equipment you have. We know that if Trump wants us, he will take us, and that is very profound. We also know that nobody will come to our aid because NATO has been demolished successfully. So who would risk taking on the United States?
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26/06/2025

“Every single Canadian is deeply traumatized right now.”

🎙️ Episode 188
(Part 2 of 2) The Healing Power of Creating Art & Current Politics from an Integral Taoist Perspective with Sally Adnams Jones

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/healing-power-of-creating-art-integral-taoist-perspective-sally-adnams-jones-2/

Topics:
• How the movement between parts and whole, yin and yang, plays out in politics
• The threat to Canada’s sovereignty, what Canada is doing in response, and Canada’s unifying, integral leader
• How did it feel when Trump started talking about annexing Canada?
• Under the Trump regime, the U.S. has become an arms dealer
• How Sally’s growing up in South Africa under constant threat of civil war informs her views of fascism and the reversal of the American ideal of democracy
• Advice for political resisters: establish a line that cannot be crossed
• Coordinated resistance to the U.S. from external sources
• Global politics, macroeconomics, and the rise of authoritarianism
• Misinformation and the radicalization of young white men through the fourth estate
• New challenges we face with fascism, and why American tech bros think Western Civilization is under threat
• The future: who has control of the skies?
• What is the most strategic thing one can do?
• How do you stay grounded and balanced? Learning self-regulation, connecting with nature

24/06/2025

Sally Adnams Jones: "...At the lower chakras, masculine and feminine come together as procreative. At the higher levels of yin and yang, masculine and feminine come together as creative. So, it's a different scale of the same libidinal energy."

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🎙️ The Healing Power of Creating Art & Current Politics from an Integral Taoist Perspective with Sally Adnams Jones (Part 1)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/healing-power-of-creating-art-integral-taoist-perspective-sally-adnams-jones-1/

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Trailer Transcript:

At the lower chakras, masculine and feminine come together as procreative. At the higher levels of yin and yang, masculine and feminine come together as creative. So, it's a different scale of the same libidinal energy. A lot of people just get stuck in the lower chakras, and I've noticed like dating language, the yin and the yang in the dating pool is about how to specialize in one way or the other which is necessary for the third thing to be made, the baby, at the higher levels of creativity, and then mysticism, the marriage becomes internal. Yin and yang come together and make the third thing. Eventually, man and God come together and make the emergent inspiration, the mystical union.

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22/06/2025

Sally Adnams Jones: "...I really believe that we've lost contact when we start creating fancy narratives. That's a very sophisticated late stage. Meaning is built through work and love."

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🎙️ The Healing Power of Creating Art & Current Politics from an Integral Taoist Perspective with Sally Adnams Jones (Part 1)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/healing-power-of-creating-art-integral-taoist-perspective-sally-adnams-jones-1/

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Trailer Transcript:

I really believe that we've lost contact when we start creating fancy narratives. That's a very sophisticated late stage. Meaning is built through work and love. And so, once you've got the community harnessed in a shared endeavor, they can beautify their location somehow, whether it's a tapestry, whether it's a mosaic on a wall, whether it's a new concrete slab... whatever it is. And certain materials are traditionally gender-appropriate in communities like that. You have to be respectful. They feel pride. So, that's a whole new level of transformation, "Wow, look at that! We did that! That is amazing. I can impact my environment. I actually have that agency even though I thought I was stripped of all my agency."

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21/06/2025

“The basis of self-esteem is agency—and how you find agency is finding your hands, your heart, and your voice.”

🎙️ Episode 187
The Healing Power of Creating Art & Current Politics from an Integral Taoist Perspective with Sally Adnams Jones (Part 1)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/healing-power-of-creating-art-integral-taoist-perspective-sally-adnams-jones-1/

Dr. Sally Adnams Jones has pioneered the field of art therapy as an agent of transformation and healing, choosing to work particularly with people living with no economic infrastructure: refugees, and victims of natural disasters, genocide, war, pandemics, and more. What Sally has found is that creating art within a community works miracles for the dispossessed and traumatized, in that it provides an embodied, practical method of engendering feelings of pride, a sense of belonging, finding one’s voice, and perceiving the future as something one can affect and shape. In fact, this work is applicable to everyone everywhere—it is in accessing our creativity that we come to ask, “How do we start to build the world we need?” An Integral Taoist, Sally shares her perspective on the yin and yang of creativity, explaining that ultimately, creativity is emergence working through the human body.

At the heart of Integral Taoism is an understanding that the nature of emergence itself is to become aware of your polarity and integrate it. The more you do that, the more creative you become. The discussion transitions from the dance of polarity in creativity to how the polarities of yin and yang are playing out in politics today. Sally is a Canadian therapist and exceptionally well informed about politics—here we gain a perspective on current U.S. – Canadian relations and world politics that is revelatory. Recorded May 29, 2025.

Human creativity is essential for evolution and transformative for the traumatized as revealed by art therapy pioneer, Sally Adnams Jones.

20/06/2025

🎙️ Miranda Macpherson – Wake Up and Love: Becoming Vessels of Grace

📺 The FULL video of this conversation is now available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qq6wlNiI7k

Some of the topics discussed in this episode:
• Often the edgiest places are where the biggest openings happen
• For every realization you have to ask, what is its wisdom?
• How to navigate ordinary life without reconstructing an ego
• Ego relaxation as a practice
• Showing up and resting in God at the same time
• Being human is a “grace delivery device”

“There’s always more evolution, openness, clarification, expansion, and possibility—because God is exponential.”Miranda Macpherson – Wake Up and Love: Becomi...

17/06/2025

Miranda Macpherson: "...This is what I call the fourth dimension of grace, which is the embodiment of grace, the living of it. When we regard the beingness that we are with all of its various faculties, strengths, and weaknesses as a vessel... It's a vessel for the divine to express and pour more of itself into this world in a unique way."

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🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/miranda-macpherson-2-wake-up-and-love-vessels-of-grace/

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Trailer Transcript:

We are, ultimately, this being human is a grace delivery device. Our bodies, our hearts, our minds... (Roger: Oh, I like that phrase! That's nice.) This is what I call the fourth dimension of grace, which is the embodiment of grace, the living of it. When we regard the beingness that we are with all of its various faculties, strengths, and weaknesses as a vessel... It's a vessel for the divine to express and pour more of itself into this world in a unique way. We're not supposed to be the same. We're supposed to ignite one another!

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16/06/2025

Miranda Macpherson: "...It's the practice of what I call 'ego relaxation'—relaxing the mechanism that thinks it's the doer. It's an overdeveloped muscle we all have."

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🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/miranda-macpherson-2-wake-up-and-love-vessels-of-grace/

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Trailer Transcript:

It's the practice of what I call "ego relaxation"—relaxing the mechanism that thinks it's the doer. It's an overdeveloped muscle we all have. Relaxing the energy within our ego that thinks it has to get the grasping, "I need to get this," "I need to get there," "I need to get that." The becoming... you know, there's someone who thinks it needs to become something in order for something to happen or seek for something or it has to have a goal or it has to have some outward motion or it has to get rid of something that it believes should all this innocent misunderstanding of our separate somebody-ness... Come on, darling, let's just come back down to reality, shall we? Let's all settle down into the deeper truth.

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15/06/2025

“Being human is a grace delivery device.”

🎙️ Episode 186
Miranda Macpherson (Part 2 of 2) – Wake Up and Love: Becoming Vessels of Grace

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/miranda-macpherson-2-wake-up-and-love-vessels-of-grace/

Topics:
• After the ascent the descent; “coming down the mountain”
• The power of devotion
• A mantra carries with it the love, spiritual energy, and devotion of countless beings before us
• The power of pilgrimages
• Miranda’s practice now: Can I open my heart to all the suffering, let it be understood more completely, and be transformed?
• Wake up and love: ask “Is there anything in the way of me being openhearted and awake in the now?”
• Practicing with our blind spots
• Multitasking is a disaster for spiritual practice
• Ramana Maharshi’s transmission in the cave: Be nothing, do nothing, get nothing… be as you are. Rest in God.
• Ego relaxation as a practice
• Showing up and resting in God at the same time
• The divine dance—here we are, learning how to be the best human beings we can be
• The divine force always brings forth what is needed, but the gate is humility and surrender
• What helps us into a posture of humility?
• Appreciating Roger Walsh: do-er and be-er, curious and humble
• Being human is a “grace delivery device;” embodying grace—grace is alive!
• The importance of yes, of thank you

Miranda Macpherson shares practical wisdom on how to maintain an awakened state of grace while also showing up in today's world.