Today’s episode will blow your mind. We dive into the history of psychedelics and the biggest kept secret in history with Brian Muraresku, author of THE IMMORTALITY KEY: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. THE IMMORTALITY KEY is a revolutionary book that is equal parts deep history and cutting-edge science with new evidence that suggests the ritual use of psychedelics across the Greco-Roman world and its later influence on the Christian Eucharist. Yes, you heard me correctly. We dive into Brian’s 10 year investigation through Greece, Germany, France and Italy and his research in the Vatican Secret Archives to learn more about how psychedelics influenced the Abrahamic religions today. Brian has been practicing law for 15 years. In 2016, he became the founding executive director of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. We talk about the following and more: ✅ What St Paul meant by this "If you die before you die, you won't die when you die". ✅ His 10-year investigation through Greece, Germany, Spain, France and Italy and in the unprecedented access he had with the Vatican Secret Archives. ✅ How the earliest Eucharist consisted of a psychedelic brew? ✅ Why the gatekeepers of Eleusis were women ✅ How we went from honoring women to burning women at the stake ✅ The role of psychedelics with other religions in the Abrahamic faiths This is an episode not to miss! Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the enneagram as a tool to understand personality. We’ll be featuring our guest, Christopher L. Heuertz, who was first introduced to the Enneagram in the slums of Cambodia. Since then he has trained under some of the great living Enneagram masters, and now teaches the Enneagram in workshops around the world as an International Enneagram Association Accredited Professional. He is the bestselling author of “Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth”, and The Enneagram of Belonging. Chris is the host of Enneagram Mapmakers podcast. You can follow his work at gravitycenter.com. If anyone is curious, I’m an enneagram 8 with a 7 wing and so is Chris. We talk about: ✅ What the enneagram is exactly and how it works ✅ The 9 enneagram types, and what each means ✅ The triads and the wings ✅ How people can learn which enneagram type they are ✅ The difference between dignity and identity ✅ How the enneagram can help you grow and understand yourself and your relationships Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Why is movement such a powerful healer? What does it mean to move your body? On today’s episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Beth Riley, who is a global leader in somatic movement education and therapy. She’s a seasoned somatic movement activist, with over 40 years of experience, facilitating workshops in movement, yoga and meditation. A founding member of Mt Madonna Center, she has also been an invited presenter at Esalen, The Open Center in NYC and the Skyros Institute in Greece. Her website is: www.themovingwell.com. We talk about: ✅ What movement means to her, in her words ✅ Why movement is so important? ✅ How she discovered movement as a healing modality in her life ✅ The movement work of Continuum that she has been involved in ✅ How movement is a way to become embodied ✅ How her life changed with movement, and how she’s been able to transform the life of others ✅ How we (the audience) can establish a home practice of movement centered meditation in our daily lives Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

What do our dreams really mean? How should we deal with nightmares? Why do so many dreams feel so real? In this episode I talk to psychologist Joe Griffin about why we dream and what our dreams mean. Joe Griffin is a psychologist, author and Co-Founder of the Human Givens approach with many years of experience both in psychotherapeutic practice and in training psychotherapists. He has written a number of books including: Why We Dream: The definitive answer, and other books on treating anxiety and depression. We talk about: ✅ Why is it important to understand our dream state ✅ What it means to dream at night ✅ How we learn and understand what our dreams really mean ✅ How daydreaming, hypnosis, creativity, dreaming and lucid dreaming all relate to each other ✅ Why our dreams are so intense and feel real when we experience them, and yet are so easily forgotten ✅ If everyone dreams and why some people remember their dreams while others do not Over the last two decades, as co-developer of the human givens approach to psychology and behaviour, thousands of health professionals have benefited from his workshops on therapy for treating anxiety related disorders, depression, trauma and addiction. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about how to search inside yourself in order to change the world with Rich Fernandez, the CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute “known as SIYLI”, a non-profit organization developed at Google that now offers Google’s mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs to communities and organizations around the world. Rich previously founded Wisdom Labs and received his PhD in Psychology from Columbia University and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. I want to personally thank my dear friend Tyler Peterson who used to work with Richard for the introduction! We talk about: ✅ What it means to Search Inside Yourself ✅ The talk he gave at the United Nations about the topic of mindfulness and emotional awareness at work today ✅ What neuroscience has to do with mindfulness ✅ The kinds of company/organization that usually hires Search Inside Yourself and the results he has seen with the work ✅ Why he decided to become the Search Inside Yourself CEO after working at Google and founding Wisdom Labs https://siyli.org/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In this conversation, I talk to Laura Day -- a NY Times bestselling author and world-renowned “Intuitive to the Stars” and Intuitionist, who has spent three decades teaching others how to tap into their intuition and effectively harness their instincts to create profound changes in their paths to success. Her work centers on helping us understand intuition and its uses in the fields of business, science, medicine and personal growth. She’s also written six books including Practical Intuition and How to Rule the World from Your Couch, which both topped the New York Times Bestseller list. Her loyal clientele includes top organizations, executives representing Fortune 500 companies and A-list celebrities like Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and Sarah, Duchess of York – and many more. We talk about: ✅ How she defines intuition, and what it means to “use our intuition”, and how it is different than instinct. ✅ Some practices we can do to strengthen our intuition, and the seven steps to cultivating intuition ✅ What it means to heal through intuition or through psychic means ✅ What it even means to be psychic ✅ How she has seen people use intuition in their daily lives and how she’s helped people strengthen their intuition ✅ How she consulted Demi Moore in the movie Ghost, and how she works with some celebrities and in the medical field and business You can learn more about Laura Day here: https://lauraday.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I’ve been really interested in speaking with Deepa for a number of reasons 1st - because she is the author of the book, Chup: Breaking The Silence About India's Women, and the creator and host of What’s a Man? Masculinity in India Podcast. She also has a TED talk called “The 7 Bad Habits Women Must Unlearn”, and in her TED talk, she shares the results of her research on what it means to be a good girl and a good man, and it was profound. Deepa was also the former Senior Adviser at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and has written 17 books and was named one of the 100 most influential global thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine in the USA and as one of India's 35 Great Thinkers by India Today. Deepa Narayan’s website can be found at www.deepanarayan.com We talk about: ✅ Her research that led to the talk, 7 bad habits women must unlearn and the beliefs used to silence women ✅ The bad habits that women must unlearn ✅ Why she has been so passionate about these topics and empowering women ✅ Where she learned her philosophy from ✅ Why she started the podcast “What’s a Man” Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Dr. BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator. He currently sees patients and families through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability. BJ has given over 100 talks nationally, and internationally, on the topics of death, dying, palliative care, and the intersection of healthcare with design. His 2015 TED Talk: “Not Whether But How” (aka “What Matters Most at the End of Life”), has been viewed over 11 million times and he has been on Oprah Winfrey, PBS, The New York Times. His book, A Beginner’s Guide to the End, was published in 2019. I found this book to be a must-read, and we discuss why on the show. For those of you who have lost a loved one, or want to prepare your families for your own transition or another’s, this episode is for you. We talk about: ✅ What it means to die well ✅ Why most people find it so difficult to talk about both death and disability in the West ✅ Some of the biggest regrets he has seen family members share as their loved ones approach death ✅ The preparation that goes into the end of life: paperwork, conversations and more You can learn more about BJ Miller here: https://www.mettlehealth.com/who-we-are Special thanks go to our sponsors for this episode, the Hydration Foundation, a non-profit organization, focused on better hydration for people, plants, animals and soil. As the leading authority on hydration, the foundation is dedicated to solving our health on this planet through creating better systems and conversations when it comes to water, and how it moves through our bodies, irrigation and food systems. You can learn more about the Hydration Foundation by navigating to www.hydrationfoundation.org. Donate to the Hydration Foundation’s program to restore soil through water. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the cosmos and investigating our place in the universe. My next guest almost requires no introduction. We’ll be featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and author of more than a dozen books—like Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He is the host of StarTalk, a podcast, and Cosmos, televised by Fox and National Geographic. He has received 21 honorary doctorates as well as NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal. We talk about the following and more: ✅ What is our place in the universe and if we are alone ✅ The mysteries of the cosmos and how life began ✅ How the planets are classified today ✅ The most surprising thing that he has learned in the last 6 months ✅ The building blocks of astrophysics for a mainstream audience that may not have access to a lot of concepts in physics, and astrology ✅ How human beings are made up of the “stars” ✅ Something that is important for every human on earth to understand when it comes to the cosmos ✅ How Neil’s approach to science is evolving A special thanks goes to our sponsors for this episode, the Hydration Foundation, a non-profit organization, focused on better hydration for people, plants, animals and soil. As the leading authority on hydration, the foundation is dedicated to solving our health on this planet through creating better systems and conversations when it comes to water, and how it moves through our bodies, irrigation and food systems. You can learn more about the Hydration Foundation by navigating to www.hydrationfoundation.org. Donate to the Hydration Foundation’s program to restore soil through water. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Betty Kay is a New York, fine art, street artist who came from the hills of Napa Valley, CA, and is referred to as "street art royalty" in the spiritual circles that tend to mark her path. She is many things all in one: she focuses on magical realism and fierce freedom. Each of her series is guided by the story of the future pouring through her paintbrush. Her pieces sell swiftly and she adores connecting deeply to the souls of who she creates for. We talk about: ✅ What it means to live a life filled with magic ✅ What creativity means to her ✅ How to create as an artist ✅ How she connects spirituality and art ✅ How the audience can cultivate their creativity ✅ How to bring softness in Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.