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“From my experience, when we are in our natural state of being, when we are in our unique vibration, we experience optimal health—but the further and further we get from our unique vibration, the more we create an opening for illness or dis-ease,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and integrative mental health coach, in this episode of Mental Health in a Modern World. Drawing on years of personal healing and thousands of client sessions, Greg Schmaus challenges the idea that more knowledge, consumption, or external achievement leads to wellbeing. Instead, he reveals how the essence of both healing and life itself is about letting go: subtraction, self-inquiry, and finding alignment with one's soul’s vibration.

Today, Greg Schmaus dives into the core of spirituality in a modern world, exploring how our inherited images of God—our Imago Dei—shape not only our spiritual outlook but also our archetypes of survival, our relationship with death, and ultimately our health. He unpacks how overstimulation, distraction, and “cheap dopamine” threaten our spiritual connection, and offers practical guidance for reclaiming intentionality, balancing creation versus consumption, and using meditative breathwork to access the heart—the true dwelling of the divine within us.

Tune in to Mental Health in a Modern World to discover how questioning your inherited beliefs—and living with deep intention—can unlock vitality, peace, and a greater sense of purpose.

5 Key Takeaways

Spiritual vitality in the modern world depends on tangible practices that align you with your unique vibration and empower conscious living. Start applying these today to transform your connection with yourself and the world.

1. Prioritize daily silence and solitude to access your soul and the divine—schedule intentional quiet time in your routine.

2. Immerse yourself in nature often so you can directly experience the living divine—go outside, truly witness, and connect.

3. Limit overstimulation, cheap dopamine, and distractions—put down your phone, reduce processed foods, and reclaim your focus.

4. Balance creation and consumption—commit to making something as often as you consume, even in small ways like cooking your own meals or creating content.

5. Set clear intentions for your actions and choices—before you eat, go online, or take any action, clarify your “why,” and choose consciously.

Memorable Quotes

"In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped."

"Our relationship with God, whatever our Imago Dei is—image of God—becomes the lens that we perceive all of reality through."

"When we are in our unique vibration, we experience optimal health, but the further and further we get from our unique vibration, the more we create an opening for illness or dis-ease."

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Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell (Translation) - https://amzn.to/3Vv1pdA

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What I have come to experience both in my own life and

in my coaching is that illness or dis-ease, which

we might all experience various forms of throughout our life, is

when we are out of alignment with our unique vibration.

When we are in our unique vibration, we experience

optimal health, but the further and further we get from our

unique vibration, the more we create an opening for

illness or dis-ease. In a world moving faster than our minds were

designed to handle, mental health is becoming one of the defining challenges of our

time. Welcome to Mental Health in a Modern World with holistic

health practitioner Greg Schmaus. After overcoming severe anxiety

and OCD in his own life, Greg dedicated the past decade to

helping others heal through a fully integrated approach to mental health,

combining lifestyle coaching, psycho-emotional healing,

mindfulness, and archetypal work. Over the years, he's facilitated

thousands of sessions, guiding people back to peace, clarity,

and a deeper connection with themselves. Each week, Greg shares powerful

solo insights, conversations with leading voices in holistic healing,

and immersive live coaching sessions that take you inside the healing process

itself. New episodes every Friday. Follow the show and start

reclaiming sovereignty over your mind in a modern world. Here's Greg.

Welcome back to Mental Health in a Modern World. So today we're

diving into the topic of spirituality in a modern world,

and this is one of my favorite topics, and I'm super excited to dive into

it with you. And so I'd love to start with just a little

passage that I opened up to in one of my

books this morning while I was going through my morning practice.

And this book is the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell. So it's

Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching. This is one of my

favorite sacred texts, and I opened up to a

passage this morning that I thought would be beautiful to

open our episode with and is very relevant for a lot

of the themes of the modern world that we're all working with.

And so this is the 48th passage, or the,

yeah, passage number 48 in the Tao Te Ching, or the

48th verse, so to speak. Yeah. In the pursuit of

knowledge, every day something is added. In the

practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped.

Less and less do you need to force things, until

finally you arrive at non-action. When

nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

True mastery can be gained by letting things

go their own way. It can't be gained by

interfering. Now, what I loved about this

passage for our episode today is actually just the

first section of it. In the pursuit of knowledge,

every day something is added. In the practice of the

Dao, every day something is dropped.

And there are other translations that say, in the pursuit of knowledge,

every day something is added. In the pursuit of wisdom, every day

something is dropped. And so we live in a world of

constant addition, constant adding, constant pursuing.

And so a lot of times we're continuously adding more and

more and more and more, and we think that it's gonna get us to where

we wanna be. But a lot of times it's actually the subtraction

or the removal of things that really gets us to the essence.

It kind of reminds me of the, I think it was

the sculpture of David where he was asked,

you know, how did you arrive at this beautiful sculpture of David? How

did you create this magnificent, this masterpiece?

And I think it was Michelangelo. So Michelangelo said, well, I

just chipped away everything that wasn't David,

right? So David was already there in the stone. And I

just chipped away everything that wasn't David. So

a lot of the true spiritual process or the spiritual

path is more of the process of removal, more of the

process of subtraction than any process of

addition. And now in our modern world, we're so

convinced and driven to consume and to seek and to

add. And so this passage was really beautiful in

bringing us back to The essence of the spiritual

process and the pursuit of the Tao. Every day something is dropped. We

continuously drop more and more of what's not us

till eventually we arrive at really the essence of who we are.

Now, our relationship with God, our

relationship with the Divine, is really the

essence of our relationship with life. So our relationship with

God, whatever our Imago Dei is— our

Imago Dei means image of God. Whatever our Imago

Dei or image of God becomes the lens that we

perceive all of reality through, right? So if we have

the God of separation from the Abrahamic religions, we

perceive our reality through that lens of separation.

If we have a God that is in, through, and all around,

then we experience this omnipresent God that is in, through, and

all around. All of creation. And so our

image of God, our belief around deity, is

really what informs our whole reality. It really

shapes our life and our perspective and our perception of all of

life and those that we're in relationship with.

Our Imago Dei, or image of God, is really the

original archetype that informs all other

archetypes. So for example, in previous episodes, we've

explored the 4 survival archetypes that are really

at the root of our healing journey. So these 4 survival

archetypes are the child, the victim,

the saboteur, and the prostitute. So our healing

journey is really our healing of those 4

survival archetypes. Think of those 4 survival archetypes

kind of like the 4 legs of a chair. Or the 4 legs of the

table that uphold our sense of safety, security, and

survival. Now, those survival archetypes are

greatly informed by our Imago Dei, greatly

informed by our image of God or beliefs around

deity. So for example, if our image

of God is God the Father from the

Abrahamic religions, well, that's going to influence our

child archetype. And one of the reasons is because when we're

children and we're introduced to God the Father, we

take our experience of our father or

our parental figures, and we project that onto God the

Father. So deep within the unconscious, on an archetypal

level, if God is the father, then we're projecting

everything that our child archetype carries in

relationship to our father. And our parents,

and we project that onto God. So if we have a

judgmental father, we experience a judgmental God. If

we have a loving, compassionate father, we experience a loving,

compassionate God. So whatever our image of

God is, if it comes from the Abrahamic religions in which

God is a parental figure that's outside of you, it's going

to leave room for the child archetype to project.

Whatever the experience of father or parental

figure is onto the divine. Now, the victim

archetype is all over the Abrahamic religions. So

if we take the Old Testament, for example, and the

religion of Judaism, which is what I grew up in, in my family of origin,

there's a huge imprint of the victim archetype in

the Old Testament, in the Bible. And

so the victim archetype is our relationship with power. And

within the Old Testament, there's always this sense of being victimized and this

idea of reward and punishment. So a lot of the scripture in the

Old Testament is this God of reward and punishment. You do something good,

you get a reward. Do something bad, you get a punishment. But what

happens in life when you do something good and you don't get the reward that

you're seeking? Or what happens if you experience an

unfavorable outcome? And you don't find something that you feel

like you did to deserve the punishment, so to speak, it

creates a lot of challenges and confusion with the victim

archetype if you have the Imago Dei that goes

back to the Old Testament. And so we have the imprint of the

child archetype with the Imago Dei, we have the imprint of the

victim archetype in a lot of the Abrahamic

religions. Now you can find this in all religions, I'm just pointing out some of

the ones that I've really worked through in my own personal life and are

very obvious for most of us in the Western world. So a big

influence of the victim archetype in the Judeo-Christian

religions. Now, the saboteur is very common in terms of

if we have this Imago Dei that wants

things from us, needs things from us, has desires

for us to do things or not do things or say things and not say

things. If we have this God that has all of these wants, needs, and

desires that we project, then it's going to lead

to the saboteur patterns of self-sabotage when it goes

against our intuition or if it goes against our

instincts. We have this imago Dei, we have these

ideas as to what God wants or needs or desires,

and we tend to override our internal power

of choice or our inner guidance system. Based on the

wants, needs, or desires of some external deity. And

so you could see how the God of Separation leaves a lot of

room for projection, which then informs and

drives a lot of our survival archetypes, especially the Saboteur,

because the Saboteur really relates to our relationship with choice

and our expression of power through choice. Now, the Prostitute,

which is our 4th and final survival archetype, The

prostitute is the inner negotiator. If we look

at, for example, our relationship with prayer,

how much of our relationship with God through prayer is an

act of negotiation? So for example, there were a lot of times

in the past where I would find myself saying to God, God, please, if

I do this, will you give me this? Or I don't want this

to happen. So if I do this, could you make sure this doesn't happen?

So there's this constant

dynamic of inner negotiation with the

divine. And a lot of times we learn to pray as

an act of negotiation. And so that's very much

driven by the prostitute archetype. And if once again, you

go back to a lot of biblical scripture and

mythology, there's a lot of negotiation in there. There's a lot of

People trying to negotiate with God and this idea that,

you know, God and the people are negotiating with one another. Growing

up, for example, in a Jewish family, there's this

constant inner negotiation that you learn

and that you participate in, not just in your prayer with God, but in

life itself and in your relationships. And so

we could see how whatever our Imago Dei is,

is really the foundation that informs our

survival archetypes. And our survival archetypes, like we

said, are the root of our healing journey. And so

we really want to go back to that original archetype and say,

what is my Imago Dei? What is my image of God? How was that

introduced to me as a child? And how is that informing my

child archetype? Am I projecting parental qualities

onto God based on how I experienced my parents and my family

of origin? The victim archetype, do I

experience this god of reward and punishment, and do I feel

victimized when I don't get the reward that I'm seeking,

or I experience unfortunate circumstances but don't

feel like I did something to deserve it? And do I find

myself sabotaging, so the saboteur, do I find myself

sabotaging based on some idea as to what an

external deity wants, needs, or desires from me?

And then where do I find the prostitute engaging

in prayer as an act of negotiation with the universe,

so to speak? And so that's the first thing we really want to

explore, is how our Imago Dei has

influenced our 4 survival archetypes, and that

is the root of our healing journey. Now, our

relationship with God has a huge impact

on our beliefs around death. For example, if

you are a Christian and you believe in heaven and hell, that has a

huge impact in your relationship with death. If you

are a Buddhist and you believe in reincarnation, that has a

huge influence in your relationship with death,

and so on and so on. So our beliefs around death have a

huge influence on our survival archetypes. Our

survival archetypes are the ones that are here trying to keep us alive. And

so they're our unconscious survival programs.

And so how we experience God

influences our beliefs around death, which then

informs our survival archetypes and how we

exercise choice in life. So that's a really important thing

to understand is your beliefs around God Influence your

relationship with death, which then informs all of your

survival archetypes. Now,

if our health is a reflection of our

choices and behaviors, remember, all choices and

behaviors originate with our belief systems.

All beliefs create thought patterns. Thought

patterns create choices. Choices create

behaviors and actions. So nobody takes an

action without some conscious or

unconscious choice, which is then based on some

conscious or unconscious thought or belief.

And so these are all the archetypal forces

that drive our choices and behaviors that then express

themselves as health or dis-ease. And

so our belief around God, the Imago Dei, which is

the image of God, the original archetype that

informs all other archetypes, starting with our survival

archetypes, then leads to our choices

and behaviors and therefore much of our health

outcomes. Now,

atheists also have an Imago Dei, so I just want to make that very

clear. Just because you're an atheist doesn't mean you

don't have an image of God. And the reason is because number

one, you're part of a collective consciousness. So for example,

you might be an atheist, but you still

participate in a family that has religious

orientation. And so deep within the unconscious, you're

plugged into a field of consciousness

or an unconscious that carries all of these archetypal

influences. And secondly, in order to

reject something, Carl Jung says, in order to reject something,

you must first make it real. And what that means is in order to

reject something, to say, oh, I don't believe in God, you have to

create something that you reject, right? So you have to

create an image of a God that you reject in order

to actually reject it. So even if you're an

atheist, you still have An Imago Dei or an image

of God. And most atheists are still expressing

programs that are based on some belief

system that goes back to religious origin or some

Imago Dei. So for example, if you're an atheist but you still

find yourself doing for others at the expense of

yourself, or you are sacrificing yourself in

certain ways, and there's this deep belief system that, oh, I'm

doing a good thing, or Maybe there's some unconscious

belief that I should be rewarded for the ways that I've done for

others at the expense of myself or sacrificed myself, which is the martyr

archetype. Now, that goes back to a lot of

scripture, that goes back to biblical origins of the

martyr, of self-sacrifice, and of seeking reward

from the divine, from God, from the universe. And

so even atheists are unconsciously

acting out programs based on their Imago Dei

archetype. Through some of the survival archetypes

and other archetypes, including the rescuer archetype or the martyr

archetype, things like that. And so all atheists

also have an Imago Dei, just based on the fact that in

order to reject something, you must first create it. Now,

if you believe in a biblical God that is

separate from creation, that judges, punishes, and carries

out human qualities, You're going to create a

reality based on that. If you believe in a God that is not just

the creator, but infused into all of creation, expressing

and experiencing itself in, through, and all around, and as all

things, then you're going to create a reality based on that. You're

going to experience your reality based on your

Imago Dei. Now, if we ask ourselves, what

does The God of separation create?

Well, the God of separation creates, number one, the room for a

lot of projection. So as soon as something is separate from you, it

immediately creates unconscious projection. The

second thing it creates is a lot of fear of judgment. So anytime

there's an externalization, then there's projection. There's

also a lot of those qualities that are within us that are being

reflected back to us, almost like a mirror. So there's the fear of

judgment, especially going back to the

Abrahamic religions in which there is the

judgmental God that is judging, punishing, et cetera. Now

there's the experience of abandonment because as soon as there's a separation,

there's a disconnection, almost like an attachment injury. So there's an

abandonment wound that gets created when we have a God of

separation. And then there is Plenty of room for

anxiety, depression, and addiction based on an Imago Day

of separation. Before we move forward, I just wanna share that I am not

against any religions. I am not against any spiritual paths.

I am open to all of it as long as it's working for you. And

as long as whatever your Imago Day is, is really supporting your life

and allowing you to experience greater wholeness and greater interconnection, I

am all for it. So I'm not— Here to pit myself

against theology, any religious practice.

I'm here to just share my life experience, both in

my personal journey and how it's supported me in my work with

clients that I have supported over the years, and just my own

perspective from my life experience. But I want to just

honor and respect all paths, and just want to make sure

that whatever it is that you're working with in terms of your Imago Dei,

and your spiritual process, that it's really supporting you, that it's really working for you.

And now our mythologies, you know, our stories,

you know, mythology being a story that tells itself, is really the

foundation of our archetypal psyche. It's the foundation of our

unconscious. And so our archetypal psyche is

really the foundation of all of our choices. And so our

mythologies going back thousands of years are really what

inform our archetypes. And you could say they also work in

reverse where our archetypes inform our mythologies.

And these are all the psychic forces that are leading to

our choices. And so in

order for us to really understand the nuances of what drives

us on a deep level, our choices, our behaviors, we have to

go back to our belief systems, our stories, our

mythologies, because that's the archetypal landscape That really

informs everything. And our Imago Dei, or image of God,

whatever that is, is really the root of it all.

Now, if we move to soul,

soul is our unique vibration, right?

So soul is the aspect of the Divine inside of us that we

incarnate as expressing ourselves as a

unique vibration. And from my perspective,

our purpose is to share our unique vibration

with the world, almost like a piece of a grander puzzle. What I have

come to experience both in my own life and in my

coaching is that illness or dis-ease, which we

might all experience various forms of throughout our life, is when

we are out of alignment with our unique vibration. So

from my experience, when we are in our natural state of being,

When we are, when we are in our unique vibration, we

experience optimal health, but the further and further we

get from our unique vibration, the more we create an

opening for illness or dis-ease. And so the deeper

we connect with our unique vibration, the more we're in, we're in

alignment with our soul, with our purpose. And

that's where our sense of health is really. Um, expressed

optimally. Now, when it comes to

spirituality in this modern world, because that's really the

essence of this show, is really diving into mental health and spirituality

in this modern world. There's a few really key

ingredients that I'd love to dive into with you. The first is

silence and solitude for me is really the doorway to the soul

and to the divine. And we live in a very

overstimulated world in which the

silence and solitude is being drowned out by constant

noise and distraction. So for me, silence and

solitude is one of the key ingredients to

accessing the divine, connecting with God, and for me is

really the doorway into the magnificent

sanctuary that is our soul.

Secondly, nature for me is how we are

meant to experience or access what we call the divine

living world. Not a God of separation that is separate

from nature, but the divine living world in which

the divine creates this world, but also

infuses itself into its creation to

experience itself as the creation. And

so nature is how we experience the divine as the

natural divine living world. And so when you're

engaging a tree, when you're engaging a plant, when you're engaging an

animal, you're engaging the divine in the living

world, not just this world that the

God out there created, but then abandoned,

but the God that is actually experiencing itself in,

through, and as this world. As the deer, as the

tree, as the plant, as the human, as the

raindrop. So for me, the experience of nature

is the experience of the divine in the living world.

And for me, that's really important, especially in a very

technologically driven world at the moment.

Now, from my experience, overstimulation,

distraction, And cheap dopamine are the greatest

threats to our spiritual connection, right? So

overstimulation, where we're overstimulating and saturating

our senses with constant stimulation,

distraction, where we're not present, but we're constantly

fragmented and dissociated in our attention.

And then cheap dopamine of instant gratification that

really allows us to, or doesn't allow us

to stay present with sustained attention and

really engage the divine living world. Cheap dopamine,

distraction, and overstimulation for me are really the 3 greatest

threats to our spiritual connection. And so really

working on limiting the overstimulation, limiting the

distraction, and limiting the cheap

dopamine, whether it's through processed food, Social media scrolling,

things like that. Super important. The next piece

for spirituality in a modern world is balancing creation

and consumption. The importance of balancing creation and

consumption is essential for spirituality in a modern world, and the reason

is because if the Divine is the Creator and we are an

expression of the Divine, in order for us to

experience our divinity, we want to experience

ourselves as creators. But unfortunately,

we've been conditioned and numbed

into a world of consumerism, right? So we

live in a world of consumerism, which has disconnected us

from our divine creative capacity.

And so it's so essential to balance creation

and consumption in order to access our divinity.

So an example of that would be cooking a meal instead of

ordering takeout, right? So when you're ordering takeout, you're not

creating your meal, you're just consuming it. So it creates an

imbalance. When you're cooking a meal, you're creating

it and then you're consuming it. So the balance of creation and consumption

is equal when you are cooking a

meal and then consuming it. Another example could even be

scrolling through Instagram Reels where you're just watching and

consuming video after video after video after video. Well, what you

could do is create a video, right? So if you're creating

just as much as you're consuming, you're staying balanced within yourself,

almost like the yin yang tai chi symbol. Another symbol that

comes to mind is what's called the ouroboros, which is

the snake that eats its own tail, right? So

this, the snake is consuming itself and then it's recreating

itself. Right? But if it consumes itself faster than

it can regenerate itself, it self-destructs.

And so one of the reasons why humanity

is running the risk of self-destruction is because it's

consuming faster than it's creating. And so in

order for us to really experience our divinity, we have

to create just as much as we consume. Now, the next

piece when it comes to spirituality in a modern

world is living with intention. Now, it's so

essential that we live intentionally nowadays because

we are being bombarded with so much information,

so much distraction, and so much stimulation that if

we're not clear on our intention, it's gonna

be very obvious that we're living out unconsciously someone

else's intention. It could be a marketing company

or a social media account or some You know,

some, some force from outside of you

that is driving your choices and behaviors

if you are not consciously living with intention. And so

having clear intention for each moment of your day, whether it's

when you're eating, when you are using the internet, a

perfect example could be if you go on social media

or if you go on the internet, what is your intention? Are you searching for

something? Is there a destination that you're intending to

arrive at, or are you just aimlessly browsing?

As soon as you go into aimless browsing, you are susceptible to other

people's agendas and other people's

intentions. So having your own intention is how

you stay conscious in a modern world. And

that is, for me, absolutely essential. Now, it's really challenging

nowadays To stay conscious, embodied, and connected to

your own intention and to your own soul in the modern world,

it's really an initiation. And the reason is because now more than

ever, there are so many things that are pulling at your attention that,

you know, 20, 30, 50, 100 years ago, there

was a fraction of a fraction of the

amount of hooks that are pulling at your

consciousness in any given moment. And so your

attention, your intention, and your power of

choice is your greatest superpower when it comes

to spirituality and just conscious living in this modern world.

Now, from my experience, the heart, not the

mind, but the heart, is really where the Divine

dwells within us. Now, the truth is the Divine is in, through, and

around all things, But the heart is really our

doorway or our greatest access point to the

divine within us. And the breath is really where

you could say spirit flows through us. So from my

experience, the divine is really experienced in the

heart and spirit is experienced through the

breath, right? So in Christianity, it might be

called the Holy Spirit. In Eastern

philosophy, it might be chi or life force. And

so the divine, from my experience, is in the heart,

and the spirit that flows through us is

experienced through the breath. And in order to really

know the divine and access the heart, we have to quiet the mind.

And the reason is because the divine is really wholeness.

It's oneness. And the mind has to

divide things in order to digest them.

It has to cut things into pieces. So for example, in order for

the mind to know a dog, it has to exclude all other animals.

In order for the mind to know the color blue, it has to exclude all

other colors. So the mind works through the process

of division and exclusion, but the divine is

the experience of wholeness, oneness, and inclusion.

So that's why in order for us to experience the divine, we have to

quiet the thinking mind, and that's where the heart really

comes into play. So I'd love to finish this episode with a

very simple practice, a very simple

meditation that I love to do on a regular basis that really

helps us connect with breath and connects us to

the energy of the heart. And so if you're able

to Just take a moment and close your eyes. But even if

you're walking, driving, hopefully not

operating heavy machinery, but even if you're multitasking, you can still

engage in this practice. If you just take a moment and bring

your awareness to your heart center.

So right in the center of the chest, around the sternum,

at the level of the heart.

And just beginning to bring your breath into that heart center.

As you inhale, fill the heart center with breath.

As you exhale, imagine breathing out from your heart

center. Breathing out in all directions,

360 degrees, but the exhale emanating

outward from that heart center.

Inhale, fill the heart center with breath.

Exhale, breathe out from that heart center in all

directions. Almost like you're breathing out into the

world.

Now imagine a beautiful color, white, green, gold,

purple. Choose a higher vibrational color that you

breathe and you see that color, that energy filling your

heart center. And then as you exhale,

you breathe that energy with that color, that frequency,

breathing it out from your heart center in all directions.

And now we're just going to add a very simple mantra. As you

inhale into your heart, just say in your mind silently,

breathing love into my heart.

And now as you exhale from the heart in all directions,

just saying in your mind, breathing love into the world.

As you inhale, breathing love into my heart.

As you exhale, breathing love into the world.

We'll just repeat that a few more times, filling the heart center on the inhale.

Breathing out from the heart center in all directions on the exhale. Breathing love into

my heart.

Just a few more breaths.

Breathing love into the world as you exhale.

One or two more.

Just take a moment and relax the breath. Let go of that

mantra, just feeling the shift in vibration

within your body, within your heart, within your energy

fields. And then whenever

you feel ready, just slowly beginning to bring yourself

back and open your eyes.

It's one of my favorite simple meditations to really

use breath, use mantra, and use intention to not just raise

your vibration individually, but also to be almost like

an antenna or a broadcast that sends that

vibration out into the world. And that's, like I said, from

my experience, what we're here to do. We're here to share the

unique vibration of our soul with the world's. Around us.

And so just in summary, we spoke about the Imago

Dei, and the Imago Dei being the image of God that informs our

reality, that informs our perception of

life, and that informs our relationship with all

other archetypes, especially our 4 survival

the child, the victim, the saboteur, the prostitute, which

is the foundation of our healing journey. Our

beliefs around God, whether it's the God of separation, of

reincarnation, of all these different mythologies

and potential relative or absolute truths,

influence our relationship with death and therefore our choices

around life. Remember, all atheists have an Imago

Dei. In order to reject something, you must first create

it. And so we We took a dive into

how the Imago Dei really impacts our archetypal

landscape at large, and how that's the foundation of our

choices and behaviors. We explored

our soul as our unique vibration and health or

dis-ease as basically a relative alignment

or misalignment with our unique vibration. Then we

explored some core ingredients when it comes to spirituality in a

modern world, such as silence and solitude. Our

relationship with nature as the divine living world,

and the 3 greatest threats of overstimulation, distraction, and cheap

dopamine when it comes to our relationship with spirit.

The importance of balancing creation and consumption and

living with intention so we can stay conscious, embodied,

and connected to spirit in a modern world that is constantly

pulling at your attention, trying to hook you, trying to distract you,

trying to get your intent. Your attention. And then

attention and our power of choice really being our greatest superpower

as human beings in this modern world. And

then we spoke just briefly about how the heart is really where the

divine dwells within us, and the breath is how spirit

flows through us. And in order to know the divine, we

must quiet the mind because the divine is

experienced as wholeness, oneness, and interconnection. Where the

mind has to divide and exclude and cut

things into pieces in order to digest them. But the

experience of wholeness is the process of inclusion, where the

mind is always the process of exclusion. And we shared this

heart breathing practice, which I first learned from my teacher, Paul Chek,

created my own variation of this. So I hope you enjoyed this

episode, this practice. I hope there's some reflections

in there for you, and maybe even some things that may have been triggering

for you. Based on your belief systems or your religious

upbringings, and that's totally okay. You know, for me,

disagreement is not a problem, but an opportunity for us to

all reflect. And I'm not here to try and convince you of anything. I'm

here to plant some seeds of thought, to allow

something to grow, something to bloom, whether it's

greater awareness, deeper insight, or an opportunity for

you to reflect on what is serving you and what might not be serving you

on your healing journey. And remember that in the pursuit of knowledge,

every day something is added, and in the practice of the Tao,

every day something is dropped. And so I'm not here to

pour more knowledge onto you. I'm here to guide you back to

that unique vibration that is your soul that you came here to

share with the divine living world. And so thank you

again for going on this journey with me. I look forward to sharing more with

you in next week's episode. Have a beautiful rest of your day.

Bye-bye.