Spiritual Psychology With Renee Mckenna

Black Lives Matter is confronting America with one aspect of our collective shadow: institutional racism and the legacy of slavery. Shadow, a term coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, is all the things that our ego self doesn't like. Individuals, organizations, and nations all have shadow. Carolyn Myss suggests that we all share four aspects of shadow; the victim, the saboteur, the wounded child and the prostitute. Owning shadow takes courage and humility, but integrating our individual and national shadow is an healthy process that makes us grow, mature and evolve. All light casts a shadow and the brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Depending on our willingness to face or avoid the truth, the more power for constructive or destructive power we hold. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Spiral Dynamics is a powerful and comprehensive system for understanding the world view and outlook of others, particularly people who are different from us. The system is based on years of psycho-social research and has important implications for human evolution and changing personal, business and social institutions. I can't wait to share this really practical tool for deepening and shifting how we understand the world. Learn more about Spiral Dynamics Leo at Actualized.org See the spiral of Spiral Dynamics here. Ken Wilber Integral Life website Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select "Write a Review." Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode! Support Spiritual Psychology on Patreon. Renee's book, workbook and guided audio series "Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing." is now available on Amazon and Kindle. Awaken the wisdom of your authentic self wi

The world is self organizing. Out of seeming chaos rise brand new forms and solutions. Emergence, synergy and attraction are universal laws that drive the infinitely creative force of evolution. Forget predictions and projections. The past is a terrible indicator for the future, unless we care to repeat it. Sometimes things need to fall apart to be put back together correctly, or the old way needs to dissolve and compost to nourish new growth. Never fear, we each have a part to play in this unfolding drama and there is much to hope for individually and collectively.  This podcast is inspired by Daniel Schmachtenberger's talk at Emergence Conference 2016.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

No one gets our of here alive. Healing and maturing our relationship with death can deeply inform the quality of our life. Renee talks about the concept of a "good death," how to make peace with this most natural process and the power and healing death experiences have brought to her clients and in her own life. The moment of our death may be the most important moment of our lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Connecting with the elements of nature is a rich and nourishing experience. We each have elements we resonate with: sun, sea, forest, earth, fire, moon. Discovering our own relationship with elements is an ancient practice that provides direct access to wisdom and life energy.  Making this connection is easier than you think.  If you want to discover your own connecting with nature and the elements in it, follow this guided meditation from my book Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Growing on a soul level is our work in this lifetime and the hero’s journey is like an instruction manual for how to do it well. In the traditional hero’s journey, there is a terrible demon or dragon ravaging the countryside. The hero goes on a quest to save the village. He challenges his own imitations, slays the dragon and brings back the treasure which the beast has stolen. He returns the treasure to the village for the benefit of everyone and becomes a hero. Through the work of Spiritual Psychology we learn to become our own hero or heroine. Taken as a map for our own inner experience, each aspect of the hero’s journey represents a part of ourselves. The dragon is our presenting problems. The village is our life circumstance. The hero or heroine is us. How is the pandemic calling each of us to grow individually? Is there a collective hero's journey for the world culture, with Covid-19 as the dragon calling us to face our fears and change? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsycholo

Soul retrieval or inner child work is a powerful technique for integrating and healing unresolved emotional material at the root of anxiety, depression and many of the bad habits and addictions that cause us problems. Repairing our internal relationship with ourselves is central to being a fully functioning adult. As we shift how we manage emotional parts of ourself, our relationship with others and the world at large improve as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Life is a verb, a great cosmic dance. Everything in the material world is made of consciousness. More than that, everything has consciousness. This is the foundation of animism. The life force permeates all of creation. When we experience life as a conversation with all that we encounter, our outlook and our experience of people, places and things changes radically from separation and isolation to connection and inclusion. Here's a link to the teepee I built on Lake Shasta. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Provocative questions about what we feed ourselves mentally and emotionally. Renee talks about mindful consumption of movies and TV as part of self care and looks for deeper motives in the choices we make to feed on fear and drama. Is media like food for our minds? How does the information we take in effect us? Lots of us are obsessed with news and spending more time than ever in front of our screens as we shelter at home.  Some food for thought in challenging times.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Change is a challenge, but also an opportunity for something new. On the other side of Covid-19, will we move into the pregnant possibility of the unknown? Or, attempt to return to "life as usual," even if it doesn't work for us anymore? We are being called to grow individually and collectively. We each have a part to play in co-creating our post-pandemic world. This is an opportunity we may not want to miss. I promised a link to Charles Eisenstein's essay "The Coronation" and a link to his interview "A Epidemic of Control," on the Youtube channel Rebel Wisdom. You can also read the trending article, "Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting," by Julio Vincent Gambuto. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Is it OK to be peaceful or even happy, when people in the world are suffering? Should we feel guilty about our good fortune in the face of another’s pain? Hiding what’s good in our lives so others won’t feel bad is not helpful. Renee talks about the pitfalls of empathy, the power of compassion and the complexity of karma. Each person has their own unique journey on a soul level. While it’s important and even imperative to have compassion for the suffering of others, if we move too deeply into empathy then we lose our own ground.  We can get stuck in projecting our ideas of suffering onto others and get pulled out of our own power. Then we’re rendered incapable of being genuinely helpful to those in need.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

The Coronavirius pandemic is effecting everyone. Great difficulty can bring out the best or the worst in us. It's easy to be swept up by media panic and social anxiety. When we focus only on the uncertain future, we become reactive and distressed. Renee talks about the healing power of being fully present and how bringing our best self into this crisis will co-create the future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. In times of difficulty or great change prayer is a valuable source of guidance, wisdom and help to ourselves and others. It is natural to be concerned about our physical health and our material needs as the CV-19 pandemic unfolds. But we cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the necessity of caring for our emotions, minds and spirit in crisis. Renee talks about her own powerful experiences with prayer and describes many different ways to pray.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

The recent Coronavirus outbreak has encouraged a culture of fear and many are experiencing a level of panic and angst that is excruciating. Being a sensitive person has benefits and risks. The upside is compassion, intuition and deep awareness. The downside is unconsciously absorbing the emotions and energy of others. Renee talks the concept of energy matching and how we can protect ourselves on a spiritual and emotional level and redirect our fears into positive, constructive action using the principle of transmutation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Emotional honesty is more than just telling the truth, it's a willingness to self reveal and a dedication to being vulnerable and transparent. When we are emotionally honest we give up the control we feel by keeping things to ourselves and open to the power and life force that flow through the truth. Show up, tell the truth and leave the results to God (or Goddess, or Universal Source or consciousness or...) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

The grace of God or connection with the Universal Life Force is always available to us - exactly where we are right now. It is only in being open, honest and authentic that we are most able to receive. Culture, parents and religion might teach us that we need to prepare ourselves to meet the Divine by acting in ways that others feel are "appropriate." The idea of needing to be different, better or appropriate before approaching God is not only damaging and destructive - it is a lie. Higher Consciousness seeks connection with us constantly. Each moment we breath in and breath out we are in conversation with the Life Energy that is our true nature.  Conscious connection with Divinity is most available to us when we are vulnerable and able to take it in. No preparation needed. We are always good enough for God. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

Guilt is a potent motivator, but it can be debilitating. Renee talks with Scott Hutchinson about what she calls unearned guilt and how to make peace with gaps we experience in prosperity and poverty in our lives. How do we participate in creating our own life experience and how can we compassionately relate with the less fortunate? How can we come to deeper understanding of our interrelationship with other and our individual path of personal growth? --- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select "Write a Review." Then be sure to let us know what you loved most about the episode! Support Spiritual Psi-Kology on Patreon. Renee's book, workbook and guided audio series "Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing." is now available on Amazon and Kindle. Awaken the wisdom of your authentic self with these 15 transformative processes of Spiritual Psychology. Spiritual Psi-Kology combines the an

"Within every human heart lives a place where we long for union. This place is the undefended self." - Susan Thesenga Most of us live from a place of defense, trying to avoid getting hurt or exposing our vulnerabilities. How do our defenses actually make us prisoners of our own limited ideas? How do we close our selves off from receiving the good life has to offer? This podcast will challenge you to bring your authentic self into the world and trust that your own unique configuration of brokenness and brilliance is perfect in this moment right now. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritualpsychology/message

All the talk about intentions and goals in the new year can take us away from the truth of right now. Can we find the courage to live authentically and be willing to try new things? Are we willing to suck in order to get better? Can we trust that we are part of something larger than ours individual selves and believe that things are unfolding for us. Our choices and our attitudes co-create our reality, but we can only be who we are right now and that is enough.

We gravitate towards the light in the dark time of year, but we really gravitate toward something deeper.  This episode explores tradition as a human need and the power of ritual as a conversation with the larger Universe. Food for holiday thought. --- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select "Write a Review." Then be sure to let us know what you loved most about the episode! Support Spiritual Psi-Kology on Patreon. Renee's book, workbook and guided audio series "Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing." is now available on Amazon and Kindle. Awaken the wisdom of your authentic self with these 15 transformative processes of Spiritual Psychology. Spiritual Psi-Kology combines the ancient healing and wisdom traditions of Shamanism and Buddhist philosophy with the best of Western psychology to create a powerful medicine for the mind, body and spirit. If you'd like to learn more ab