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Why is it that we can be doing something, and our mind starts to think about something else involuntarily?

Is this a helpful part of the human experience? A nuisance?

The nature of mind-wandering is something that scientist Arnaud Delorme has been investigating for the past 20 years. In this conversation, we explore what he has learned as well as some of the main questions the scientific community is trying to understand around the nature of mind. Arnaud recently released a book on this topic and his research called Why Our Minds Wander.

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_Arnaud_Delorme_-_First_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 7:00am CDT

There are some people I just love listening to talk.

Today’s episode is one of those people. 

David Perell is an entrepreneur, writer, and creator of the renown online course Write of Passage which helps aspiring writers transform their lives by writing online. 

A lot of people know David on the internet because of his prolific writing and content creation, but what I was interested in learning about is how the shifts in David’s personal and spiritual life fuel his creative endeavors.

In this conversation we talk about David’s journey with his faith and how it’s empowered him to be a better leader and step even more deeply into his purpose. It feels like many people I talk to these days have difficulty feeling aligned with their purpose. A big part of my personal hypothesis is that uncovering this is a process that occurs naturally once you begin to do the inner work and remove the impediments that make it easy to embrace what you love.

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_David_Perell_-_Second_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 7:00am CDT

Today’s guest is Stephen Zerfas, the Co-Founder and CEO of Jhourney. 

Five years ago Stephen found himself crying tears of joy after stumbling into a prolonged state of ecstatic bliss on a meditation retreat. 

Up until this point, most of the retreat was migraine-inducing so he wasn’t sure how he had landed in this profound place. After the retreat, he was interested in how to recreate this experience whenever he wanted. Through many months of personal experimentation and research, he realized that these states are available to all humans on demand. In fact, you don’t even need to be a long-time meditator!

In this conversation, we discuss the Jhanas and how Jhourney is going about making them more accessible. Interesting ideas include:

  • An overview of the Jhanas and why we should care

  • How meditation as far as what has been brought to the West is still largely unexplored

  • The history of why these experiences went from very popular to obscurity and are now emerging yet again

  • The different schools of insight including dry vs. wet insight

  • His learnings collecting the largest scientific dataset on Jhana meditators in the world

  • How technology can enhance this age-old tradition

  • Arguments against pursuing the Jhanas and his response

  • How access to the Jhanas has the potential to change the world

 

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_StephenZerfas_-_First_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 7:00am CDT

Today’s guest Sarah McCrum is the author of the book Love Money, Money Loves You. Sarah’s background was that she studied energy with Chinese masters for 20 years eventually opening a Qigong center in London. In 2010, she experienced spontaneous contact with the energy of money and began to receive information about its essence and what it wanted to communicate to humans. She began to transcribe this information and eventually, it became the contents of her book.

Although this may sound like an absurd idea to many people, channeling is responsible for many profoundly impactful books such as A Course In Miracles which we covered in an earlier podcast. The idea is that all things are made of energy, including beings and energies on higher planes, and if we can open to and connect with these energies we can begin to receive and transmit information. This is the same exact way a radio works.

I’ve read Sarah’s books and the ideas are pretty revolutionary. It really makes you question everything you thought you knew about how money works. Some concepts it covered which we discuss in this episode include:

  • How money is actually in unlimited supply

  • Its purpose to facilitate exchange, connection, and expansion

  • The role of relaxation and enjoyment in aligning with the flow of money

  • How it’s not inner abundance vs. outer abundance, but both

  • Why so many of us are unconsciously blocking money from flowing into our life

  • Why spiritual teachings about money cause many people unnecessary difficulty

  • How to find love and joy in money

 

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_Sarah_McCrum_-_First_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 10:06am CDT

Our society is obsessed with self-improvement. This was a major feature of how I related to reality for most of my life. As helpful as self-improvement can be, it also has a major shadow side that largely goes unexamined. 

Implicit in the pursuit of self-improvement is that there is a deficit; that whatever or however your being is in this moment is not whole or complete. This keeps you grasping in a seemingly endless treadmill without ever reaching an enduring sense of completion or fulfillment.

Most people don’t really even know there is an alternative to the self-improvement paradigm. This is one of the main topics of today’s conversation with Steve March, the founder of Aletheia Coaching

Some of my other favorite ideas include:

  • Why self-improvement on its own can be a trap

  • Striking the balance between self-improvement and self-unfoldment

  • How to practically embody a more unfoldment experience 

  • Understanding how solutions and support often arise when we allow them vs. exert force

  • How shifting our attunement and unfoldment might be an answer to our current metacrisis

 

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_Steve_March_-_Second_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am CDT

Imagine having access to a source of guidance that could tell you exactly what’s needed at any moment for your highest good in all parts of your life. I honestly can’t think of a more valuable resource!

According to today’s guest Laura Coe, this is a potential for all humans by accessing what’s called the Akashic records. The Akashic records are like an energetic database that stores all the information from every thought, emotion, and experience we’ve had in all of our lives as a soul. 

In this conversation, we discuss:

  • What are the Akashic records and how we can work with them

  • The potentiality for anyone to access this inner technology

  • The relationship between intuition, soul, and the Akashic realm

  • Moving from striving to accomplishment from flow and oneness

  • The difference between fulfillment and success

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_Laura_-_Fourth_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am CDT

 

One of those people early on in my startup journey was Leo Widrich, one of the founders of the social media company Buffer. At one point, Buffer was a darling in startup land with their great product, prolific blog and a culture of transparency that gained them lots of notoriety.

I remember reading about their co-founder split and kind of never heard much about Leo again. I’m not exactly sure how, but somehow I found myself on his website 6 months ago and learned that he’s been on a similar journey of inner discovery. After “making it in startup world” Leo went to live in a Buddhist monastery for a few years. In this conversation, we talk about his experience going from the frenetic world of startups to living a monastic lifestyle. He shares a lot about the experience of facing his unconscious inner material which I related to immensely. Post monastery life, he found himself coaching startup founders who were experiencing similar challenges and dissonance that he had gone through. This article on lessons learned coaching 101+ startup founders resonates immensely. One of the things Leo recognized is how company building was actually an unconscious way he was trying to experience community. We talk about this recent revelation and his newest adventure which is building his intentional co-living community Wild Life Ranch in Colorado. If you’re craving an intentional co-living community experience, you might want to check it out! Other interesting talking points:
  • What living in a monastery is actually like

  • The impact of somatic therapy on his life

  • Why fear is such a valuable experience and how we can meet it when relating to others

  • His vision and motivation for the ranch

  • The meditation experience that caused him to change his name from Leo to Mo Wildman

 

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_Ep_36_Leo_Widrick_-_First_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am CDT

Ryan is an accomplished entrepreneur who spent 10 years building VNN, the largest, fastest-growing high school sports marketing and media network in the United States. He’s since moved into the world of executive coaching starting his firm Inside-Out Leadership which is the only coaching firm that I know of completely comprised of exited founders who also integrate consciousness work.

I find Ryan to be an incredibly thoughtful guy and compelling speaker which is why I was excited to have him on the show.

In this conversation, we unpack how and why developing a more effective relationship with shame can be such a profound unlock for improving your life and leadership ability. This exploration bleeds into how to increasingly move towards emptiness so that you can meet life as spacious awareness. 

 

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_Ryan_Vaughn_-_First_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am CDT

Today’s guest is a fascinating and inspiring example of expanding beyond an old identity to step into something deeper.

Mona Sobhani was a hard-charging neuroscientist who at one point looked at spirituality as a coping mechanism for people who couldn’t cut it in the real world.

Through an unforeseen series of direct experiences and deep exploration of scientific evidence, she gradually transformed her worldview and began to embrace the ineffable mystery that is spiritual life. Her book Proof of Spiritual Phenomena shares her experience as well as the mountain of scientific evidence that substantiates what many ancient wisdom teachings have been saying all along.

In this conversation, we talk a lot about the interplay of scientism and spirituality. Some interesting talking points for me include:

  • Why much of the science community continue to overlook or turn away from the compelling evidence surrounding spiritual phenomena and their potential impact on the human experience

  • How to skillfully navigate shifts in identity and transformational conflicts

  • Making it through a dark night of the soul

  • Finding your tribe as you make these changes

  • How Science and spirituality can exist harmoniously

For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Direct download: EvoFM_-_Mona_-_First_Draft.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 2:07pm CDT

I recently came across the work of author, illustrator, and creator of LifeExplained Hans Wilhelm.

Hans does a fantastic job simplifying and distilling topics about how Earth is a school for the evolution of our consciousness and how reality is actually orchestrated for this purpose and many other interesting stuff on his YouTube channel and Website. He also has written over 200 children's books including a bunch that explain spiritual concepts.

In this conversation, we dive deep into the big question that occupies many of our minds: why are we here? How do we make the most of this experience?

To answer this question, Hans helps illuminate the laws of Karma and how they show up in our everyday lives. As I’ve talked about in the responsive reality, we come to see that there is an intelligence that brings us the perfect choreography of experiences needed to return us to our divine state. This process is a gradual realization vs. addition. 

In addition to this overarching concept, we also discuss: 

  • Lightworkers - what are they and how are they doing

  • The difference between knowledge and wisdom

  • How to find meaning in what can feel like trying times

  • The purification spheres

  • The importance of forgiveness and repentance 

  • Educating children on spirituality

 

For full shownotes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast

Category:general -- posted at: 3:17pm CDT