Raw Wisdom, Shadow and Unknown Reality
An interview by Jordan Bates
Highly recommend watching this interview I did with
in which we explore themes such as:1. The Mystery of Reality — Why true honesty starts by admitting we don't know what this is.
2. The Unknown as Portal — How fear of uncertainty hides its secret twin: fascination.
3. The Reluctant Mystic — Why true mysticism calls you beyond your will, not because it's trendy.
4. Depth and the Ocean of Being — How spiritual depth unfolds over time, not by immediate gratification.
5. The Surface Is the Depth — Ordinary life, rightly seen, is saturated with the sacred.
6. The Inexpressible Sacredness — Why even the best spiritual writing can only hint at the real thing.
7. True Devotion Beyond Ritual — How real devotion radiates without needing ceremony or tradition.
8. Language as Mirror — How every word, symbol, and story reflects the state of our consciousness.
9. Meta-Religious Openness — Embracing living languages of the sacred without dogma.
10. Programming Your Psyche — How the words you absorb sculpt your inner world.
11. Shadow Integration — Why real compassion requires embracing the dark and the broken within us.
12. The Cathedral and the Dragon — The need to harmonize divine beauty with the shadow's raw power.
13. Alchemical Transformation — How love with a capital L melts, integrates, and liberates the shadow.
14. Reality’s Fundamental Wholeness — Why the only fragmentation is in our perspective, never in reality itself.
Interesting metaphor of going deep and needing to acclimate to the various levels.
Friend of mine committed suicide a few weeks ago as a result of going too deep and not acclimating.
Having taken up yoga and meditation he went deep but didn’t resolve his darkness and personal issues along the way which is how I see acclimating.
As a result he externalized everything and projected his issues outward rather than turning and facing them and thus manifesting in addiction to fill that god-shaped hole.
It was too much for him to handle and took his own life.
Let this be a legitimate warning, this is not a joy ride, speaking from personal experience as well.