Archives For Spiritually Speaking

Sean O'Shea

We spend time with Sean O’Shea, an inspirational speaker, singer & songwriter. He’s twice opened for Dr. Wayne Dyer and been interviewed by Charles Gibson & Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Good Morning America.

He shares with us:
How you can honor your quest to do the work you love.
What kind of business savvy it takes.
When you know you’re living your dream now.
Ways ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference.

Sean can be found at:
spiritualpeopleskills.com

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or drop Greg an email at: greg [at] debtshepherd [dot] com

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What the hell

What if everything you’ve ever believed is less than what’s real? Less than what’s possible?

What if everything you’ve ever been taught is less than actuality?

When do you stop asking deeper questions of why you’re here?

Where did you come from? Where are you going? What if Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, The Pope, and Anton LaVey don’t get to come along for your ride?

What if true happiness is smack dab in the middle of bliss and depression? Do you have the balls to stay in balance between the two?

Closing thoughts:
Subtraction is far more powerful than addition.

Resources:
Your inner voice

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We talk to Robert Wesley Branch about his transition from a traditional Christian upbringing to a totally new spiritual outlook on life. Honoring the old and embracing the new, he shares, among other things, how his relationship with money changed along the way.

Resources:
Robert Wesley Branch

Give us a call on our voicemail listener feedback line at 615-200-7189.
Or drop Greg an email at: greg [at] debtshepherd [dot] com

Debt Shepherd 2015, All Rights Reserved

DCF 1.0

I’m talking to Bertil from Sweden. A man who has practiced the art of sensory deprivation since the mid 1980’s. His tool of choice? A float tank.

1) What is floating?

2) I’ve heard there’s more than one way to float.  Please explain.

3) John Lilly, the float tank’s inventor, said floating could possibly become a “crutch program.”  In your opinion, what did he mean?

4) If we are the observer of our thoughts, what IS thought?

5) What is language as virus?

Resources:
pantarei-floating
FloatNashville
float conference

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greg [at] debtshepherd [dot] com

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1) Resist conformity.
2) Born into contrast that appears to be conformity.
3) Why the world needs your uniqueness.

Quote:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson

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music city

What if you had a $300/week restaurant habit? Brad shares with us an area of spending he wants to cut back on.

We discuss:
– Admitting we have a desire to change our finances.
– Compartmentalizing areas of our lives and how it hurts us.
– Helping other people. The importance of service work.

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Secret Shade

Secret Shade – All Spirit, No Fluff. We spend an hour with Matt from Indonesia. He shares with us how he lives his life on purpose to create more freedom from societal norms.

Matt says:
“I’m trying to craft the sort of lifestyle that involves freedom of many kinds – financial, geographical, psychological etc.”

He mentions the pain of a 5 day work week. And….he did something about it.

We talk about:
Pain is inevitable, suffering optional
Float tanks
Meditation
Spiritual work using non-mainstream methods
Living on purpose
Taking risks/going with the flow

On duality and embracing suffering:
Matt reminds us we’re stardust. And stardust is the result of a violent, cosmic dying process. It’s OK to experience pain. It’s part of life.

Matt can be found on his blog:
Secret Shade

Give us a call on our voicemail feedback hotline at 615-200-7189 or drop Greg an email at:
greg [at] debtshepherd [dot] com

Debt Shepherd 2014, All Rights Reserved

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What is it about memories that make them so damn popular? They take me back to a feeling I once had. Feel that again? Pick it up off the shelf and play it like an old VHS tape. Why? Because I’m bored or in need of entertainment? Am I unhappy with what I’m living right now? Have I ever wondered why I play these tapes over and over again?

Some say we’re reminiscing. Others say we’re biologically built to recall for current survival. I say we’re fucking bored. We’re remembering because we can’t stand what’s in front of us right now.

We look out into the world and constantly long for things to be different.
We compare now to then. We compare now to when. We compare now to if.
Why can’t we be happy with now? Why do we procrastinate joy, happiness, and letting our hair down in front of other people?

We’re scared to death. We lack the courage to put down all the camouflage life has taught us to create, carry, consume, and pretend to be.

Holy shit. Is life one big game of hide and seek? You better believe it is. And I’m not talking about the game children play. I’m talking about hiding who we really are and at the same schizophrenic time seeking who we think we should be. Wait, maybe those children playing hide and seek are really practicing for the way we adults do it.

And we wonder why the pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable business on the planet. 6 billion humans most of which have no clue why they’re here, who they are, or what happiness really smells like.

I’ve got news for you cowboy, happiness smells like whatever the hell you decide to grow in your own damn garden. Stop stepping on my roses, telling me how to pick my weeds, and spraying chemicals on my plants. Tend your own plot.

Some days it sickens me to hear others trapped in the illusion of victimhood. Others insisting to the point of death that their identity is who/what someone else told them they are or should be. And other days I thank them for the mirror they provide. So I can remember when I insisted on doing the same.

I wax poetic and see beauty in the world, yes. I remember there’s also ugly and cold. They’re both the same thing. Stop the madness of trying to separate it all into different little pieces. Is our mission here one of boredom? Is our mission here one of remembering? Or is our mission here one of pure, unadulterated, mindless entertainment? I haven’t a clue. But some days and in some ways it can be a hoot.

So dear fellow traveler. What is it about memories that make them so damn popular? Do they take you back to a feeling you once had, that you want to feel again? Maybe we’re bored and remembering because we can’t stand what’s in front of us right now. Longing for what once was and hoping for what could be. It leaves you eviscerated, empty, and quite possibly pissed off at the broken promises of some God.

The fairy tale we were spoon fed since birth that says there is rhyme and reason to all this madness. If you could would you kick the devil in the balls and steal his lunch money? Basking in your short lived revenge for the torture he puts you through as he grins thru bleached white, porcelain teeth?

I say, dear traveler, why can’t there be order in chaos? Sanity in madness?
Love and hate all at the same time?
What if we’re all of it and nothing….in the same instant?
God and the devil all wrapped up in one sanitized little package.

I’ve got NEWS for you cowboy, happiness smells like whatever the hell you decide to grow in your own damn garden.

Give us a call on our voicemail feedback hotline at 615-200-7189 or drop Greg an email at:
greg [at] debtshepherd [dot] com

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