The Ageless Wisdom Mystery School with Michael Benner
458 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA self-awareness podcast exploring why we think, feel, and act the way we do.
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Grief, Loss & Mourning
August 03, 2010 15:26 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBGrieving is a lengthy, difficult, emotional healing process initiated by the loss of someone you love. The secret to an effective mourning process is to feel the emotions fully and completely, then expressing those feelings in appropriate ways.
Justice as Spiritual Harmony
August 03, 2010 14:58 - 1 hour - 21.4 MBInjustice is a heartache that everyone feels. It creates a "disturbance in the force." It strikes at the foundations of who we are as humans, and tears at the fabric of society. Working for justice is working for peace and harmony. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
The Vicious Cycle of Fear & Ignorance 2
July 20, 2010 15:28 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBThere is an upward "Spiral of Understanding" that can replace the "Vicious Cycle of Fear & Ignorance." It requires two things: relaxation and responsibility for your choices.
The Healing Feeling
July 20, 2010 13:30 - 1 hour - 38.4 MBToday's class is an overview of physical pain, its value as a symptom, plus wasy to manage the pain through the mind-body connection. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
Happiness for No Reason 2
July 06, 2010 15:28 - 1 hour - 38.5 MBLike the sun during a thunderstorm, happiness seems to disappear at times, but it remains, in fact, above the dark clouds of existence. Happiness does not need a cause or reason to be. It's up to us to remain open to its perpetual influence.
Despair
June 29, 2010 16:26 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBLike sadness & depression, despair is rooted in the fear of things unknown. The antidote, then, is understanding that there is always hope. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
Mindfulness
June 22, 2010 15:22 - 1 hour - 39 MBMindfulness is a level of expanded awareness brought on by relaxation. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
The Search for Truth
June 15, 2010 11:02 - 1 hour - 32.3 MBBeyond the popular idea of corresponding to know facts, there are qualities of truth to be discovered in its "relative" nature. Absolute Truth must be unchanging. Yet ALL things in the material world are in flux. How can there be Truth where everything is impermanent? Absolute Truth, then, must exist in an eternal and infinite place ... a Spiritual Plane of energy rather than form. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's...
FLY Training #6 - Peak Performance
June 08, 2010 15:24 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBWe discuss the difference between practice and performance. We explain how eustress makes us better, but before the point-of-diminishing-returns, higher stimulus, stress & tension degrades performance. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
FLY Training #5 - Decision-making
June 01, 2010 15:10 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBWhen you know what you want, but not HOW to get it. But when you don't know what you want ... wouldn't recognize it if it were right in front of you, there's a decision to be made. Herein are three techniques. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
FLY Training #4- Problem-solving
May 25, 2010 16:26 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBThis lesson points out the importance of having a goal or solution in mind to determine a direction to move in. Then adjust and course-correct during the approach -- ready, aim, fire, aim, aim ... aim. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
FLY Training #3- The Language of Feelings.
May 18, 2010 16:29 - 1 hour - 38 MBIn Lesson 3 of the six part series, Michael introduces an alternative to the logical approach to understanding emotions -- namely, intuition. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
FLY Training #3- The Language of Feelings
May 11, 2010 15:28 - 1 hour - 38 MBIn Lesson 3 of the six part series, Michael introduces an alternative to the logical approach to understanding emotions -- namely, intuition.
FLY Training #2- Healing Childhood Hurt
May 11, 2010 13:48 - 1 hour - 34.5 MBMuch of the emotional pain suffered by adults is rooted in childhood. Great advances have been made in the past 30 years in healing childhood trauma. The secret is using deep relaxation and imagination to understand with the developed adult mind what we simply could not have understood as children ... especially about ourselves. Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassio...
FLY Training #1 - Self Love
May 04, 2010 14:17 - 1 hour - 37.2 MBAll love begins with self-love. How can people who are devoid of love fill each other with love? And if they can't, then why does it seem they can ... at least for 30 to 90 days before the empty spots return. Why should we think of love as an electro-magnetic field rather than a commodity? Visit http:www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call (818) 569-3017 for more information. To learn more about Michael's Premium Audio Programs visit http://www.FocusedPassion.com.
Don't Believe Everything You Think
April 27, 2010 14:16 - 1 hour - 38 MBFollowing closely the text written by Thomas Kida, your host explains seven common mistakes people make by not thinking critically. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Sacred Triangle & Divine Trinity
April 20, 2010 14:02 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBEverything in form has two extremes plus a middle. The magic in the numbers 3 and 7 is in the middle ... the secret is in the center. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Mr. Spock's Dilemma
April 14, 2010 13:34 - 1 hour - 31 MBThough we admired, respected, and perhaps even loved Mr. Spock, he was, in fact, an emotional cripple. There's an important distinction between trying to find intelligence in disturbed or upset emotions and recognizing the profound insight that becomes available once peace-of-mind is restored -- though for many, such emotional tranquility would be a new and novel experience. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Passion for Compassion 2
April 07, 2010 13:34 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBShort of Perfect Divine Love, compassion may be the most refined love humans can know. Compassion requires you to face and resolve your fears. It reveals harmony where before there was only separation and antagonism, and it highlights a "bigger picture" than the logical, deductive mind would ever recognize. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Self-Reliance
March 30, 2010 16:32 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBBoth Henry David Thoreau and his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote extensively on self-reliance. The believed in developing one's intuitive nature to be increasingly responsible for understanding concepts of psychological and spiritual growth. They also described self-reliance as including work for social justice, especially in racism and sexism. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Cultural Creatives
March 24, 2010 04:14 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBThe tide that swept Barack Obama into office was not motivated by political ideology so much as by an enthusiastic, hopeful emerging sub-culture of creative, compassionate, well-educated people. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Mystical Legend of the Grail
March 17, 2010 04:25 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBThe legend of the grail is the fiction of several authors as far back as the late 12th Century. But there is a hidden mystical allegory about the Grail as a symbol of the human Over-Soul. The pre-existence of the Soul remains a heretical belief to this day. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Harmony from Conflict
March 10, 2010 04:25 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBIn this presentation, Michael expands the philosophical concept of redemption & salvation from Christian crucifixion to include the alchemical transmutation of reforming adversity through harmony. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Initiate your Attitude
March 03, 2010 03:55 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBAttitude is discussed as a point of view or perspective from which we receive the stimulus of life and project our responses. It is a point of power and meaning between cause and effect. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Awareness is More than Intelligence
February 23, 2010 15:39 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBWhat are some of the differences between Awareness and Intelligence? How can developing one influence the other? Find out why our ancestors aligned Awareness with the Element Air and Intelligence with Fire. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
21 Tips & Self-Help Quotes
February 17, 2010 03:28 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBHere are 21 of the smartest and most profound personal & spiritual development quotations ever expressed. Taken together, this is quite a guidebook to understanding your Self better. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Law of Correspondence
February 09, 2010 18:28 - 1 hour - 21 MB"As above, so below" is a reference to the Grand Polarities often described as Spirit & matter, God & humanity, Father & Holy Spirit (Mother), King & Queen. This ancient spiritual law also implies "as within, so with out." And so we understand how we create our view of existence with our perception and responses. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
What is Time?
February 02, 2010 16:05 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBMichael discusses the philosophical, psychological, and scientific views that time is essentially an illusion of consciousness made possible by imagining memories of the past and visions of the future. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Gods and Aliens
January 26, 2010 21:52 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBThis webinar looks at "why" we believe in Gods, aliens, and super-heros too, for that matter. Where will we find these "higher powers?" And in affairs of spiritual aspiration, should we place subjective intuition & epiphany above dogma or even objective facts? Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Six Easy Ways to Know your Self
January 19, 2010 16:12 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBHere are six areas of personal development to assess your progress. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Hero's Journey
January 12, 2010 20:02 - 1 hour - 32.9 MBJoseph Campbell called the Hero's Journey a mono-myth for it is a central theme found in all ancient cultures. Only by facing the fear born of self-ignorance can the Spiritual Warrior understand his true nature and full potential.
Three Secrets of Success
January 05, 2010 20:35 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBSuccess is a result; happiness is a means to that end. You must always know what you want, before you can know what to do to bring it about. But the big secret to personal success is to, first, be of service to others. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Birth of Light
December 29, 2009 17:40 - 1 hour - 32.1 MBBoth Christmas and Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, have been aligned since ancient times with Winter Solstice. The Pagan or pantheistic meaning is the coming of the warm sun and longer days. Chanukah is more about trusting that God's Hand is in all things. But the veiled metaphor in Christianity is the Birth of the Christos, that is, the awareness of Self as a Soul above and free of form. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Stress Mess
December 23, 2009 17:35 - 1 hour - 34.9 MBConfusion feels scary, which ironically makes us more confused -- a vicious cycle of fear and ignorance that degrades performance and productivity. Learning to respond with a relaxation response rather than the autonomic fight-or-flight response can restore your creativity, sensitivity, and overall performance when stressed. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Dreaming: Night & Day
December 15, 2009 15:33 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBWhether you remember your dreams or not, everyone dreams during sleep, usually for 5 to 6 minutes every 90 minutes or so. This audio webinar discusses remembering, understanding, and incubating night dreams, plus the nature of lucid dreams, daydreams, astral projection, out-of-body experiences(OBE), clairvoyance, and remote viewing Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Dweller on the Threshold
December 09, 2009 15:47 - 1 hour - 23 MBThe Dweller on the Threshold is a veiled Rosicrucian and Theosophical reference to human resistance to that stage of spiritual evolution in which the ego surrenders to the Soul. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Dweller on the Threshold
December 08, 2009 15:27 - 1 hour - 23 MBThe Dweller on the Threshold is a veiled Rosicrucian and Theosophical reference to human resistance to that stage of spiritual evolution in which the ego surrenders to the Soul. .
The Meaning & Purpose of Life
December 01, 2009 23:16 - 1 hour - 25.1 MBThough often used interchangeably, these two terms are actually quite different ... essentially "purpose" is universal and objective, while "meaning" is more personal and subjective. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Meaning & Purpose of Life
December 01, 2009 15:27 - 1 hour - 25.1 MBThough often used interchangeably, these two terms are actually quite different ... essentially "purpose" is universal and objective, while "meaning" is more personal and subjective.
Love & Forgiveness
November 24, 2009 16:40 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBUntil we accept that our emotional feelings are not done TO us but rather are evoked FROM us, people will seek some advantage in being victims of their hurt & upset. Much of what passes for small talk is a "pity party" of one-upsmanship. Often a perverse, "You can't hurt me 'cause I'm already hurt" character emerges -- guaranteeing, of course, only more hurt & upset. By taking ownership of our hurt, we find thee power to generate the peace and happiness we've been looking for. Visit www.The...
Equanimity
November 17, 2009 23:39 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBMost people are so compelled by their thoughts and feelings that the idea of expanding their awareness to a more inclusive, less judgmental view might seem strange. Find out how to use mental states of equanimity to develop your awareness of Self. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Sense and Sensation
November 10, 2009 21:54 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBMichael explains thoughts as objective, though often wrong. Emotion feelings, he says, are subjective, yet never wrong -- though open to misunderstanding. You are responsible for managing both. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Six Key Principles of the Ageless Wisdom
November 04, 2009 00:03 - 1 hour - 33 MBHere is an overview of Mysticism and Esoteric Philosophy, also known as the Ageless Wisdom, the Perennial Philosophy, alchemy, prisca theologia, theosophy, the New Thought and New Age movements. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Business Side - Part 2
October 27, 2009 21:06 - 1 hour - 16 MBThis is the second of two programs teaching skilled technicians how to be successful entrepreneurs and business people Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Business Side - Part 1
October 20, 2009 23:03 - 1 hour - 16 MBThis is the second of two programs teaching skilled technicians how to be successful entrepreneurs and business people Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Panic, Phobias, OCD & Stress
October 13, 2009 19:04 - 1 hour - 23.4 MBAnxiety is the most common thread running through the dysfunction behavior of human beings. Stress is the fear of confusion resulting from over stimulation. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Sacred Om (AUM)
October 06, 2009 17:35 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBThe Sacred Om has three parts, both as a sound (AUM) and as a symbol. This trinity corresponds to Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Preserver), & Shiva (Dissolver) as well as Sky (Divine Will), Atmosphere (Divine Love), and Earth (Divine Vehicle). Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Seven Root Fears
September 29, 2009 17:58 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBEmerson said, "Knowledge is the antidote to fear," suggesting that even where there is clear and present danger, our fear is mostly about what we don't know. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
Ten Ways to Think Like a Genius
September 22, 2009 15:44 - 1 hour - 43 MBHere are practical tips to free you from the tendency to think like everyone else. Honor your emotional feelings. You may think like other people, but you only feel like your Self. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information
The Seven Tongues of God
September 16, 2009 13:15 - 1 hour - 17.5 MBConceived by Dr. Timothy Leary in 1960 as a means of defining the meaning of religious or spiritual experience. Visit www.TheAgelessWisdom.com or call 818/569-3017 for more information