1210: The Ego is a Clever Monkey

This episode begins with the idea that pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you—and uses it as a doorway into bhakti: not just emptying the mind, but making room for something sacred to actually live within us. Raghunath and Kaustubha reflect on "reentry" after ...  Show more

The meaning we find in scripture often reveals more about our motive than the text itself. This episode explores the uncomfortable truth: that we don't just read scripture—we often recruit it. Nearly any philosophy can be bent in the direction we're already leaning. Raghunath and ...  Show more

In this week’s episode, Gareth and Kim dive into a transformative discussion designed to reshape listeners' understanding of the often misunderstood 'ego'. Prepare to journey into the depths of self-identity and unravel the intricate ties between spirituality and i ...  Show more

Send us a textAs we established in the last episode explaining the spiritual ego, having a spiritual ego is...normal. It’s the ego mind’s survival mechanism of morphing and upgrading. But it might not have been what you had in mind when you set out on your transformational journe ...  Show more

When it comes to Spiritual Practices, Ram Dass poses the question, “why do we practice?” Raghu reads a passage from The Wisdom Teachings and Good Wishes of the Adi-Buddha Samanta-Bhadra which poses that the reality which is “the foundation of all is uncreated, uncompounded, indep ...  Show more

Benny R. Ferguson Jr. is an intuitive, channel, author, and coach (Facilitator of Higher Human Potentials). He is the founder of Consciousness Ascending, which supports Conscious Creators in Uncovering The Nature of the Source Within and Accelerating The Experience of Their Desir ...  Show more