Deep Transformation Podcast: Self - Society - Spirit

06/06/2026

Warren Farrell: "...the boy looks in the mirror and he sees that his nose or his hair or his eyes are a lot like his dad's eyes and he's being told that the dad is a narcissist or irresponsible or a liar. When he feels that half of his genes are his dad's genes and this dad's genes are those of a liar that's irresponsible and a narcissist, that's child abuse."

🎙️ Episode 234
When One S*x Loses, Everyone Loses: Warren Farrell on the Boy Crisis, Dad-Deprivation & Healing the Gender Divide

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Trailer Transcript:

The worst thing you can do for a boy or a girl is, after a divorce, for a mom to say some version of, "I'm not with your dad anymore because he's irresponsible. He's a liar. He's a narcissist." And to understand what the damage of that is, is the boy looks in the mirror and he sees that his nose or his hair or his eyes are a lot like his dad's eyes and he's being told that the dad is a narcissist or irresponsible or a liar. When he feels that half of his genes are his dad's genes and this dad's genes are those of a liar that's irresponsible and a narcissist, that's child abuse. That that boy is absorbing it is a form of child abuse. I know that many people don't—they're just venting about the anger they have to their divorced spouse, but be aware that that anger has a deep impact when that person doesn't feel he can talk about what's wrong with his dad that therefore may be wrong with him.

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06/02/2026

Warren Farrell: "The most important single thing to prevent the boy crisis is really not father involvement. That's the second most important thing...."

🎙️ Episode 234
When One S*x Loses, Everyone Loses: Warren Farrell on the Boy Crisis, Dad-Deprivation & Healing the Gender Divide

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Trailer Transcript:

The most important single thing to prevent the boy crisis is really not father involvement. That's the second most important thing. The most important thing to prevent the boy crisis is people—couples knowing how to communicate so effectively that they are constantly deepening their love so there are many fewer divorces, because it's the divorces and the bad communication that leads to the divorces, that leads to the lack of father involvement, that leads to the boy crisis. So let's prevent the boy crisis at its root cause level, having stronger families with better communication and the children experiencing role models of good communication on the part of their parents that they can then take to their peers and their children and their loved ones.

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05/30/2026

“We’re all in this together. We’re all in the same family boat.”

🎙️ Episode 234
When One S*x Loses, Everyone Loses: Warren Farrell on the Boy Crisis, Dad-Deprivation & Healing the Gender Divide

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/warren-farrell-one-sex-loses-everyone-loses-boy-crisis-dad-deprivation-gender-divide/

Renowned thought leader, speaker, and prolific author Warren Farrell has a passion for getting the truth out about issues that matter deeply—issues with enormous human consequences that might begin to heal if people better understood the forces driving these trends: the boy crisis, fatherlessness, the cultural tendency to vilify men, and the lack of healthy and effective communication between men and women. Warren has authored several data-driven bestselling books that go right to the heart of these matters, and in this conversation his expertise is clearly evident, right alongside his dedication to do everything he can to shift the evolution of the harmful idea that women are good but men are bad.

Warren has put himself on the line time and again to stand up for fatherless boys. He puts out a clarion call to couples to communicate with care, so that a father can be involved with the raising of a child, and in his books and workshops, Warren offers concrete steps to minimize children’s trauma, such as his four must-do’s after a divorce and the caring and sharing practices he teaches couples around accepting criticism without getting defensive. Immensely insightful, immensely practical, Warren points the way forward through a territory that has become murky, difficult, and hateful. Guaranteed, you will learn things about our contemporary culture you didn’t know before, and be inspired to do what you can to heal the disastrous divide between the sexes. Recorded September 25, 2025.

Warren Farrell provides compelling data about dad-deprived youth, the boy crisis, the gender divide, and what we can do about all of it.

05/27/2026

“We can be in the lap of the beloved and still enjoy life—loving everything from that place.”

📺 FULL video now available on YouTube:
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In the last episode of the Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas, Bedazzled Mind, Boundless Heart: Living as the Love We Always Longed For, Hameed explores what happens when we reach the beloved: we fall in love with everything and discover that all of our soul’s qualities were borrowed from the beloved all along. Recorded April 9, 2026.

• The nonbeingness of the beloved has to be experienced—you can’t get there with mind
• On this path, the heart opens and you fall in love with everything
• Mystical poverty is when the soul recognizes it has nothing of its own
• We have always loved the beloved—we just didn’t know it
• Reality itself is pure intimacy

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): “We can be in the lap of the beloved and still enjoy life—loving everything from that place.”----❤️ Our podcast is a labor of love...

05/24/2026

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): "...we recognize that everything we loved before, we were loving the beloved. We just didn't know it."

🎙️ Episode 233
Bedazzled Mind, Boundless Heart: Living as the Love We Always Longed For

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/a-h-almaas-path-of-love-series-bedazzled-mind-boundless-heart-4/

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Deep Transformation’s Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas begins with an overview of Hameed Ali’s Love Trilogy — Love Unveiled, Nondual Love, and The Inner Beloved — to orient us on the spiritual path of love unique to Hameed Ali and the Diamond Approach, then delves into the profound and deeply touching topics Hameed addresses in his most recent book, The Inner Beloved, published in February 2026.

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Trailer Transcript:

And we recognize that everything we loved before, we were loving the beloved. We just didn't know it. We saw some of this expression, and we loved that. We were really loving the beloved, but we were thinking that we were loving that form. But, that form is nothing but the luminosity of the beloved, the formation out of the beloved. And that's the harmony that comes out. It brings back the fact that we can be at the lap of the beloved, and still enjoy life. Love everything. And from that place of the beloved, everything we love is an expression of the beloved. As the mystics say, "Wherever you go, you see me. Whatever you see, that's my face."

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05/21/2026

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): "...it is bedazzled with the mystery that recognizes that it just cannot be understood."

🎙️ Episode 233
Bedazzled Mind, Boundless Heart: Living as the Love We Always Longed For

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/a-h-almaas-path-of-love-series-bedazzled-mind-boundless-heart-4/

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

Deep Transformation’s Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas begins with an overview of Hameed Ali’s Love Trilogy — Love Unveiled, Nondual Love, and The Inner Beloved — to orient us on the spiritual path of love unique to Hameed Ali and the Diamond Approach, then delves into the profound and deeply touching topics Hameed addresses in his most recent book, The Inner Beloved, published in February 2026.

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❤️ Our podcast is a labor of love funded solely by co-hosts Roger and John; these podcast episodes are not monetized. If you enjoyed this episode, please help us keep these meaningful conversations alive by supporting us through: https://deeptransformation.io/donate/

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Trailer Transcript:

The heart has its own knowingness which many traditions understood—the heart knowledge is not the same as mind knowledge. But, this is very distinctly clear as a heart knowledge, where the mind cannot touch, cannot reach. The mind in some sense—the usual of what we call mind, the thinking, reasoning mind—it can only comment about that it can only sort of—at the beginning, it's not even comment. It's just bedazzled. It's like, the mind, "Behold, what the heart has taken us to!" And it just gets bedazzled and odd because it's beyond it. So, the mind is not necessarily having trouble with it, but the mind is—instead of having an understanding, it is bedazzled with the mystery that recognizes that it just cannot be understood.

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05/16/2026

“We can be in the lap of the beloved and still enjoy life—loving everything from that place.”

🎙️ Episode 233
Bedazzled Mind, Boundless Heart: Living as the Love We Always Longed For, with A. H. Almaas

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/a-h-almaas-path-of-love-series-bedazzled-mind-boundless-heart-4/

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In the last episode of the Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas, Hameed explores the themes he introduced in the later chapters of his new book, The Inner Beloved. Hameed clarifies the role of mind on the path of heart (the mind is bedazzled and awed; the heart open), and details what happens when we reach the beloved, like “falling in love with everything” and experiencing the absolute as a “coming home” (even though there’s no one there!). We learn that, on the path of love, no matter what we do or don’t do, a heart-driven force beyond the mind is pulling us onward. Once we arrive, we realize the beloved has always been there—which is why our heart has been longing for the beloved all along.

Hameed explains that on the path of love, nonduality becomes intimacy—reality itself is pure intimacy, he says—and in fact, the nonbeingness of the beloved is the ultimate truth of reality. In a state of mystical poverty, we discover that all we are and have ever been has been borrowed from the beloved. The culmination of this Path of Love Series ends very beautifully, the love and intimacy of the beloved pervading Hameed’s words and the images he conjures for us. “The world is simply the luminosity of the beloved,” Hameed says. In listening to him, we share in some of the wonderful sense of coming home he experienced, a little of the radiant luminosity, too, and his own ongoing excitement over the ever unfolding mystery of the divine. Recorded April 9, 2026.

05/14/2026

"To toss out the great traditions is one of the most enormous mistakes we could make."

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In Episode 232, Zen for a World on Fire: How Zen Helps Us to Wake Up, Grow Up & Rise to the Challenges of Our Time, Diane Musho Hamilton & Gabriel Wilson, co-authors of Waking Up and Growing Up, bring forward the untold benefits of innovating Zen to include Western psychology, neuroscience, and interpersonal skill building. Recorded July 24, 2025.

• The ideal spiritual practice involves “waking up” and “growing up”
• What is “growing up?” Straight up ego development
• How do we respond to what’s happening—without imagining it shouldn't be happening?
• Holding the vision that we are fundamentally one when engaging in social activism
• Including interpersonal skill building as a part of our Zen practice
• Preserving & innovating Zen: are we innovating too much?

“When you can take a perspective on your own perspective… that’s where the gold is.”In this potent and profound conversation Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel...

05/13/2026

Diane Musho Hamilton: "...what do we really need to evolve in order for it to really take root here in our culture?"

🎙️ Episode 232
Zen for a World on Fire: How Zen Helps Us to Wake Up, Grow Up & Rise to the Challenges of Our Time, with Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel Wilson

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/diane-musho-hamilton-gabriel-wilson-zen-for-a-world-on-fire/

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Trailer Transcript:
..Even with all of our innovation and all of our freeing of bodies and minds, that there's still suffering. And I think that Buddhist practice is just one of the most insanely genius ways to work with what it means to be a human being. So I hope that we can continue to see the practices take root in the West, and that people can find solace through the practice. That's what my future vision is, is that they continue. I think the dharma is going to find its way in the West. It has an interesting way of adapting to these cultures from India to Tibet to China to Japan to Europe, and I trust that evolution. But I think that I would encourage people who do practice to really take that kōan of preservation and innovation seriously like Gabe was—like what do we really need to evolve in order for it to really take root here in our culture?

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05/12/2026

Gabriel Wilson: "...the coalescing of Eastern and Western traditions and intelligence does provide, at least in my experience, a very robust enlivening powerful experiment that I want to be a part of."

🎙️ Episode 232
Zen for a World on Fire: How Zen Helps Us to Wake Up, Grow Up & Rise to the Challenges of Our Time, with Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel Wilson

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/diane-musho-hamilton-gabriel-wilson-zen-for-a-world-on-fire/

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Trailer Transcript:

Diane has done, and continues to do, a very interesting—let's call it an experiment. We're doing an experiment where we're preserving the tradition and we're innovating and we're bringing in shadow work. We're bringing in emotional development work. We're bringing in, "Hey, Gabe, your relationship to authority. Let's look at that. There's actually a certain way that you're relating to your own power that's just creating a separation and has a defensiveness in it that may be from the past. Let's look at that, and see if we can break down a barrier and tie a knot." So, just the coalescing of Eastern and Western traditions and intelligence does provide, at least in my experience, a very robust enlivening powerful experiment that I want to be a part of.

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