Holistic healer Erik Harris explores the benefits of natural medicine and how it can support healing across mind, body, and spirit.

This time on The Indie Spiritualist podcast, Chris and Erik chat about:

• Perspectives from both alternative and Western medicine
• Erik’s first experience with energy work and alternative healing
• Overcoming emotional and physical pain
• Inspiration from A Course in Miracles
• Healing in mind, body, and spirit
• Getting to the root cause of what is causing us pain
• Chris’s own journey with neurodivergence
• Honoring the part of us that questions things
• The relativity of being ‘better’
• Connecting to plants, trees, and mushrooms

About Erik Harris:

Erik is a holistic healer dedicated to helping people with chronic pain and illness uncover the root causes of imbalance and create sustainable paths toward wellness. His own healing journey through spinal injuries, digestive issues, and Lyme disease led him to explore natural medicine, herbalism, Chinese medicine, energy healing, and other holistic modalities. He completed a five-year apprenticeship with Dr. Ming Wu and graduated from the Connecticut Institute of Herbal Studies in Chinese Herbology. With over 10 years of experience, Erik is a certified Qi Gong Instructor, Chinese Herbalist, Tui Na Therapist, Medicinal Aromatherapist, Auriculo-therapist, Reiki Therapist, and Tong Ren Therapist. He integrates these practices with his background in psychology to support the connection between body, mind, and spirit. Erik’s mission is to empower others with practical tools and personalized holistic approaches that help them take an active role in their own healing and wellness. Learn more about Erik and book an appointment with him HERE. You can also check him out on Instagram.

“Listen to people when they tell you what’s going on. There are all sorts of mystery illnesses and chronic conditions. Chronic conditions are at an all-time high. You would be surprised how many people you know are dealing with something. Give them a little grace and try to support them. If you haven’t had it, you don’t understand, but try to listen, try to be there.” –Erik Harris

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John Snyder, pioneer of guitar pedals and founder of Electronic Audio Experiments, explores the intersection of engineering, creativity, and the endless pursuit of great sound.

This week on The Indie Spiritualist, Chris and John discuss:

• John’s journey as a musician, creating guitar pedals and altering sound
• What it was like finishing a PhD in an electrical engineering program during the coronavirus pandemic
• How Electronic Audio Experiments took off
• Blurring the lines between art and science
• Guitar gear as an extension of the instrument itself
• Navigating creative burnout and the gap between efforts and outcomes
• How neurodivergent traits can be valuable in the creative industry and beyond

About John Snyder:

John Snyder is a long-time guitarist with a PhD in electrical engineering. John combined these passions and became the owner and head designer at Electronic Audio Experiments (EAE). EAE is an exploration in sound and texture via electronics. EAE focuses primarily on stompboxes for electric guitar and bass, with occasional ventures into amplification and synthesis. Check out this article from Boston University on John and his work.

“It’s very edifying to do something like this that is really blurring the art that I want to make with the science background that I have. There’s so much subjectivity to it that it feels like an art project rather than an engineering project much of the time.” –John Snyder

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Atheist spiritual director Britt Hartley explores climbing out of the void and building a life that is worth experiencing rather than focusing on what comes next.

This week on The Indie Spiritualist, Chris and Britt explore:

• Deconstructing truth claims and focusing on momentary experience
• How Sufism reopened Britt to spirituality
• The brain’s struggle to make choices without a direction or faith
• Existential bravery and challenging the religions we inherited
• The beauty of living in deep honesty
• Living a life that is worth living, even if nothing comes after we are gone
• America’s movement from theological religion to political religion
• Not claiming an “ism” and putting all options on the table
• Imagination and overapplying agency outside of ourselves
• Looking into the connection between Autism and Nihilism

“I would rather suffer and see than accept some story and never question it and live and die according to some story that I inherited.”–Britt Hartley

About Britt Hartley:

Britt Hartley is an Atheist spiritual director and secular spirituality content creator. She holds a masters degree in theology and considers herself a nihilism survivor and Sufi mystic. She is also a published author, religious deconstruction coach, and program director for Spiritual Direction Training. Check out her book No Nonsense Spirituality and keep up with her on Instagram.

“Mysticism, what still allowed that to take root in me even with all my skepticism, is mysticism is the focus on the experience of what people have called God without having to put specific language around it or a box around it or put it into a manual. That has been really helpful for me to focus on experience as a place you can build even in the void, even in existential crisis. The one thing we can know is that there is something to be experienced.” –Britt Hartley

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