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Enlightened-ish Podcast

11 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings

Grounded spirituality and wisdom to live by for this tender, turbulent digital age.
Wisdom. Spirituality. Science. Healing. Storytelling.

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Episode 7: Living Our Authentic, True Self

October 06, 2021 21:27 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

In this episode, Brad Wetzler revisits Siddhartha, the classic spiritual novel by Hermann Hesse, and discusses the concepts of "true self" and "authenticity." What do these words actually mean? He asks, how do we locate our true self? And how do we live from our true self? What is the cost of living in our true self?  Is he--are you--courageous enough to become who you really are? As Alan Watts might say, Are you ready to walk away from the unspoken agreements holding you back, to live your ...

Episode 6: Yoga, Lovingkindness Meditation, and Finding Faith in Ourselves

September 28, 2021 01:00 - 32 minutes - 36.9 MB

In this episode, author, journalist, yoga & mindfulness teacher, and seeker Brad Wetzler unpacks and shares the life lessons he learned on a pilgrimage to Mount Arunachala, the great Shiva mountain in southern India.  He discusses his definition of the words "spiritual" and "faith," and he discusses how being humiliated on the mountain led him to see his path in life more clearly, and eventually helped him heal depression and cope with childhood trauma from a near-drowning episode and growin...

Episode 5: Roadtripping, the Heart, and Embodied Enlightenment

September 16, 2021 23:34 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB

Brad tells the story of a recent road trip across New Mexico and Colorado--and into the core of his own heart. What is the heart? What does it mean to drop into the heart? Is all this heart talk even real except to poets and romantics? Brad answers these questions, and he comes to a surprising conclusion about what enlightenment actually is. Hint: Cows do it. Brad Wetzler is the author of the new memoir INTO THE SOUL OF THE WORLD: MY JOURNEY TO HEALING (Hachette Go). You can buy the book o...

Episode 4: Adventures In Faith

August 28, 2021 17:22 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB

In this episode, I tell the story of my pilgrimage to Arunachala, the great Shiva mountain in southern India. While circling the conical peak while chanting Om Namah Shivaya, I encounter the ego-destroying god Shiva. And I come closer to what I've been seeking for decades. I get a glimpse of my true self. Moreover, I realize that I have far more faith than I imagined. The lesson I learned? Faith is not belief in a concept. Faith is a verb. To have faith is to trust in one's own experience.  ...

Episode 3: Spiritual Ambition (Is a Good Thing)

August 17, 2021 23:30

In this episode, I discuss the ways in which having spiritual ambition has helped me to transform and how great spiritual teachers have emphasized this, too. I tell a story about my pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine helped launch me into a decade-long period of inner exploration. The Buddha himself, the man or myth, had to "dream big" in order to achieve Enlightenment. Otherwise, he'd never have achieved his goal of liberation. How can you set your spiritual goals? Listen to Episode 3 of En...

Episode 2: Being a Good Human

August 13, 2021 16:00

This week I talk about how I shifted away from seeking "enlightenment" and total emotional healing by leaning into my humanness. As a result, I deepened my connection with myself and felt closer to something greater, as well.  If you're trapped in the quest for enlightenment, I hope you'll chew on this. I discuss more self-forgiving, less painful ways to practice. (It doesn't have to be torturous.) I talk about the pitfalls of self-absorption and victim-ness, and I offer one way that we ca...

Episode 1: Introducing the Enlightened-ish Podcast

August 04, 2021 15:50

Welcome to Enlightened-ish with Brad Wetzler. In this first episode, Brad discusses the who, what, where, when, and why of his new podcast. We humans have big brains that serve us in many ways. But our thinking brains also cause trouble for us, particularly when we forget how flawed and flat wrong our thoughts can be.  Our thinking brains can wind up causing us to become more separated from others and even ourselves. Meanwhile, we humans have big hearts, the feeling part of us that unites us...

Ep 4: Dr. Tamra Sattler on the Enneagram, Spiritual Bypassing, and the Quest for True Self

March 29, 2021 16:20 - 42 minutes - 17.2 MB

Join host Brad Wetzler for a discussion with Dr. Tamra Sattler on the difference between spirituality and psychology, the enneagram, spiritual bypassing, and the quest for True Self.  Brad Wetzler is the author of the new memoir INTO THE SOUL OF THE WORLD: MY JOURNEY TO HEALING (Hachette Go). You can buy the book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Into-Soul-World-Journey-Healing/dp/0306829304/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1683471841&sr=8-1 This powerful memoir shares an ad...

Ep 3: Ross Wehner on Education, Purpose, and the Future of Wisdom

March 23, 2021 16:26 - 1 hour - 21.5 MB

Educator and entrepreneur Ross Wehner and host Brad Wetzler discuss education, purpose, and the future of wisdom. Wehner, the founder of World Leadership School and TeachUNITED, nonprofits dedicated to helping people discover their purpose explains that purpose happens when a person's thinking, feeling, and doing are in alignment. Wehner brings an understanding of the science of purpose as well as a passion for helping people grow and change. Anybody interested in how transformation happens ...

Ep 2: Matthew Andrews on Yoga, Pilgrimage, and the Transformational Gifts of Devotion

March 14, 2021 19:08 - 44 minutes - 16.4 MB

Matthew Andrews is a writer, musician, entrepreneur, spiritual activist, and yoga teacher. He is co-owner of Yoga Center Amherst, which has had an average of about 1400 class attendances per month since 2016. He has completed 500+ hours of yoga teacher training, has co-taught several Embodyoga teacher trainings, and has organized and led eight yoga-oriented retreats in North and South India, with over 150 total attendees. Brad Wetzler is the author of the new memoir INTO THE SOUL OF THE WO...

Ep 1: BK Loren on Nature, Grounded Spirituality, and the Power of the Unnameable

February 25, 2021 15:46 - 56 minutes - 19.6 MB

Join me as I talk with BK Loren about the power of nature and the things that can't (and shouldn't) be named. Brad Wetzler is the author of the new memoir INTO THE SOUL OF THE WORLD: MY JOURNEY TO HEALING (Hachette Go). You can buy the book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Into-Soul-World-Journey-Healing/dp/0306829304/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1683471841&sr=8-1 This powerful memoir shares an adventure journalist’s story of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to over...