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Episode 7: Living Our Authentic, True Self
In this episode, Brad Wetzler revisits Siddhartha, the classic spiritual novel by Hermann Hesse, and discusses the concepts of "true self" and "authenticity." What do these words actually mean? He asks, how do we...
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Episode 6: Yoga, Lovingkindness Meditation, and Finding Faith in Ourselves
In this episode, author, journalist, yoga & mindfulness teacher, and seeker Brad Wetzler unpacks and shares the life lessons he learned on a pilgrimage to Mount Arunachala, the great Shiva mountain in southern...
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Episode 5: Landscape of the Heart
Brad tells the story of a recent road trip across New Mexico and Colorado--and into the core of his own heart. What is the heart? What does it mean to drop into the heart? Is all this heart talk even real except to...
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Episode 4: Adventures in Faith
In this episode, I tell the story of my pilgrimage to Arunachala, the great Shiva mountain in southern India. While circling the conical peak while chanting Om Namah Shivaya, I encounter the ego-destroying god Shiva....
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Episode 3: Spiritual Ambition (Is a Good Thing)
In this episode, I discuss the ways in which having spiritual ambition has helped me to transform and how great spiritual teachers have emphasized this, too. I tell a story about my pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine...
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Episode 2: Being A Good Human
This week I talk about how I shifted away from seeking "enlightenment" and total emotional healing by leaning into my humanness. As a result, I deepened my connection with myself and felt closer to something greater,...
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Episode 1: Introducing The Enlightened-ish Podcast
Welcome to Enlightened-ish with Brad Wetzler. In this first episode, Brad discusses the who, what, where, when, and why of his new podcast. We humans have big brains that serve us in many ways. But our thinking brains...
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Ep 4: Dr. Tamra Sattler on the Enneagram, Spiritual Bypassing, and the Quest for True Self
Join host Brad Wetzler for a discussion with Dr. Tamra Sattler on the difference between spirituality and psychology, the enneagram, spiritual bypassing, and the quest for True Self. Dr. Sattler is a psychotherapist,...
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Ep 3: Ross Wehner on Education, Purpose, and the Future of Wisdom
Educator and entrepreneur Ross Wehner and host Brad Wetzler discuss education, purpose, and the future of wisdom. Wehner, the founder of World Leadership School and TeachUNITED, nonprofits dedicated to helping people...
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Ep 2: Matthew Andrews on Yoga, Pilgrimage, and the Transformational Gifts of Devotion
Matthew Andrews is a writer, musician, entrepreneur, spiritual activist, and yoga teacher. He is co-owner of Yoga Center Amherst, which has had an average of about 1400 class attendances per month since 2016. He has...
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Ep 1: BK Loren on Nature, Grounded Spirituality, and the Power of the Unnameable
Join me as I talk with BK Loren about the power of nature and the things that can't (and shouldn't) be named. BK Loren is the award winning author of the novel THEFT, and the essay collection, ANIMAL, MINERAL,...
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