Think about the last time you felt fully alive. Not happy. Not successful. Alive. For most of us, those moments are rare enough that we can count them.

This episode is about how to get more of those 'fully alive' moments.

I sit down with embodiment guide Heather Mazzei, who says aliveness isn't luck. It's a current you were born with — and most of us quietly turned it down a long time ago. She'd call that current sexual energy. Stay with it, because this conversation isn't about sex. It's about vitality, and what it costs you to spend your life performing the version of yourself other people approved of.

We get into the University of Rochester research on subjective vitality, June Tangney's work on the difference between guilt and shame, and Heather's personal journey from hiding the truest parts of herself to awakening as a burlesque dancer.

Heather is the author of the guidebook Spirit Sex. Find her at https://www.alternativelove.com/

— she also writes on Substack at https://alternativelove.substack.com/ and is on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/alternativelove.sf.

If this one moved you, follow the show and send it to one person who needs it.

And remember, the most dangerous thing is a made-up mind.
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Music Credits

"Bloom Within" by Maciej Wojcik

"Landing on the Ground" by Yehezkel Raz

"For The Broken Hearted" by Yehezkel Raz

"Infinite Dreams" by Out of Flux

"Venus" by Alton Perez

"Voices" by Open State

"Contemplative Question" by The Tennessee Pistols

Will had the perfect life. Good job. A pension waiting. A future he could see coming a year out. So why couldn't he shake the feeling that it wasn't enough?

This episode follows a man who walked away from the sure thing — and went looking for answers in some unlikely places. Years of deep meditation. A week in the Amazon drinking ayahuasca with a Shipibo shaman. A voice in the dark that seemed to know him better than he knew himself.

What he found changed what he believes about his life, about death, and about what's real.

It's not religious. It's not preachy. It's a story — about the comfortable life as a kind of cage, and what it takes to step out of it.

In this one: altered states of consciousness, ayahuasca, DMT, deep meditation, the strange science of the brain, and the one quiet belief that keeps most of us small.

Will teaches altered-states meditation at mind-beyond-matter.com.

Here's the question I'll leave you with: Where in your life have you decided the story is finished… when the truth is, you've just stopped asking?

If something in here moves you, follow the show and pass it to one person who needs it.

The most dangerous thing is a made-up mind.
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Music Credits

"Fathoms" by EVOE

"Strings of Soul" by Master Minded

"Tear Away" by Adi Goldstien

"Everlasting Flower" by DaniHaDani

"Qing Long" by Yotam Agam

"Breathe Deep" by Master Minded

"Of The Sea" by Okaya

"Whispers" by Okaya

"Contemplative Question" by The Tennessee Pistols

A year ago, a breath work session changed my life. Twenty minutes in, I was sobbing. By the end, the entire framework for this podcast had dropped into my head at once.

This episode is about how that's even possible.

I sit down with breath work facilitator Nicole Rager to unpack what happens in your body when you breathe deeply enough to break through the mental noise — neuropeptides, the vagus nerve, the 90-second rule, and the spiritual traditions that have been pointing at the same mechanism for thousands of years.

If you've ever wondered why the answers you're looking for never come from thinking harder, this one's for you.

Find Nicole at https://nicolerager.com/

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Music Credits:

"Breathe" by Denys Horokhovsky

"777 Joy" by Nolan Nova

"Passage" by EVOE

"New World" by Ian Post

"Of The Sea" by Okaya

"Whispers" by Okaya

"Contemplative Question" by The Tennessee Pistols