The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Spirituality”

Episode 180: Richard Harris - Unmasking Tyranny & The Pursuit of Higher Consciousness

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Richard Harris has a huge heart and is a force for freedom from tyranny in all its forms. That said, he’s been censored and de-platformed for speaking out about medical mandates and mind control through nefarious agendas that use tactics of fear-based control to illicit compliance and conformity.

In this episode, we unmask some of tyranny’s disguises and share our own experiences with obedience training and fear-based control tactics that are used to create divisions through media, government, gender conditioning, and more.

I loved this conversation because Richard asked me as many questions as I asked him. Neither of us had an agenda other than to explore where our questions might lead us, and I’m thrilled with the territory we covered as we touched on the passions that keep us committed to the path of freedom and the pursuit of higher consciousness.

We discuss the importance of embracing curiosity, overcoming loneliness, and building self-respect. We also explore the division between awakening individuals and those who might be stuck in fear-based control and how COVID-19 accentuated and accelerated that divide using tactics of censorship, manipulation, and fear.

Richard shares his own experience with obedience trauma when he was sent to military school at the tender age of eight, where he remained until he turned eighteen years of age. He reveals that this intense obedience training ironically amplifies his value of autonomy and freedom. It also prepared him for what he sees as the spiritual battle playing out on the planet today. Richard shares his understanding of where we are in our human evolution and how reconnecting to our spiritual selves and pursuing the path of consciousness is the most liberating work we can do, I love what he shares about the spiritual powers and gifts of women being especially needed at this time, and how men benefit from women who are fully embodied and liberated to shine their true sovereign selves.

We also talk about walking the way of the warrior, the ancient spiritual path, and the middle path that calls us to unity by dispelling the many illusions that keep us in various states of polarity and how we can embrace the paradox of our existence to more clearly see the one true thing going on here.

Buckle your seatbelt- this conversation is a ride through the seen and unseen realms for sure!

Topics Discussed:

The meaning of tyranny and the role of fear
Richard's eclectic coaching approach and handling addictions
Overcoming loneliness and building self-respect
Divide between awakening individuals and fear-based control
Impact of the COVID crisis on awakening
Gnosticism and the Spiritual Dark Ages
Power dynamics between masculine and feminine energies
The Spiritual Gifts and Power of Women
The Knights Templar, Mary Magdalene & The Cathars
Triangulation and the Corporatocracy
The Overton Window & The Politics of Social Discourse
Narcissistic Abuse
Self-awareness and personal transformation
Pursuit of higher consciousness
Alchemy of the Ages
Moving from Pisces to Aquarius
Defeating Evil
Gnostic revolution and positive change *Returning to love and so much more!

Entities & References Mentioned:

Odyssey (platform)
Thunder Perfect Mind
Celene Lilly & Dr. Joanna Kujawa

Richard is a life coach. He has studied and practiced personal development for two decades. He uses an eclectic model in coaching, which finds strategies and tactics to cultivate the character across all domains - physical, psychological, spiritual, and environmental. Richard is passionate about freedom and is active in the freedom movement, both online and offline. He is the enemy of tyranny, both within and without, and an advocate for the best in humanity to grow.

Special Guest: Richard Harris.

Episode 155: Isabel Friend - The Science & Spirit of Water

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Most of us are desperately dehydrated despite drinking the recommended daily allowance of water because most of the water we drink is no longer “alive”.

In our modern world, we have stripped water of its nourishing and hydrating properties through the purification process. Through our industrial treatment of water, we’ve stripped water of it’s minerals and made most of the water highly unstable, chaotic, and incompatible with human life. This results in disease, dehydration, premature aging, and death, but the good news is that awareness can literally change everything!

Learn about proper hydration and the critical information you need to help your body properly detoxify, repair, and regenerate so that you can recover your energy, vitality, and joy!

In this episode:

The far-reaching intelligence of water and its role in our health and in our lives.
What water has to do with the cosmos and planet earth.
Why most of the water we drink is considered “starving water”
Why wild water is important for health and vitality.
Why water is the key to climate change and energy.
Why 99% of us are dehydrated
How water has the ability to channel information, vibration, and frequency.
How we can create wise, intelligent, and mature water.
Why we are water beings as much as we are human beings.
What is structured water and why should you drink it?
Why Water is the foundation of a unified approach to ecology, politics, medicine, and more
Why wild water is the fountain of youth and how you can tap in.
The significance of transitioning from the age of Pisces (water immersion) to the age of Aquarius (water bearers)?

Isabel Friend is an international ambassador of Water, public speaker, and educator. She seamlessly blends science and spirit into a comprehensive cosmology of Water wisdom. Spanning the practical insights of health, hydration and biology, to empowering tactics for Watershed guardianship and ecological activism, to the esoteric and subtle insights of ancient indigenous Water wisdom, to the heady scientific discoveries of cutting edge Water research, Isabel’s offerings are as multifaceted as Water itself. For the past 6 years, she has taught about Water throughout the US, Canada, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Bali, Mexico and Thailand.

Water is Life. And as such, water holds the solutions to life’s toughest questions. By shifting our relationship to Liquid Life - from resource to THE source - we tap into the vast untapped potential of free energy and boundless wisdom within us and within nature.

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Episode 130: Gina Clover - Our Lady of the Apocalypse

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Meet Gina Clover.

I adore her for sharing her mind and heart through her substack writing by challenging the dominant narrative in our culture around money, capitalism, and business as usual.
Basically, she’s not buying it when it comes to consumer culture and the insidious ways that it undermines the fabric of our society. Join us as we take a deep dive into the disguised gift of a personal apocalypse and how it disrupts the trance as well as the mind virus that infects our culture with the toxic myths of scarcity. This episode will either piss you off or have you cheering, but either way - your response is welcome. Sometimes we have to get messy and real in order to reveal and heal what’s been ailing us.

In this episode you’ll hear Gina’s exploration of Capitalism and how it’s intimately tied to other systems of oppression.
Gina’s future vision and her invitation to co-create a better world.
What is animism and how to distinguish it from spirituality + her endeavor to build a community where people can co-create a future, grieve the current reality, and honor what they most value.
The story of her own personal apocalypse and what it taught her.
Why she decided to call her substack “A Girl Has No Brand”
Learn what “collapse-aware” rites of passage mean and how it applies to where we are now.
Hear about what Gina describes as life’s invitations to radicalize. Why humor, collaboration, and community are the keys to the future.

Gina is an animist witch and rites of passage guide who centers her work around anticapitalism and ecological re-enchantment. She offers radical presence and compassion to those who want to move into the seasonal reality of their lives in full awareness that the world as we’ve known it is disintegrating, bringing a collapse-aware approach to moving into maturity and relational leadership. She believes we break the spell of modernity by doing this work together. Gina is also a plant medicine integration guide who loves to help people bring animist enchantment into their lives. In the secular world, Gina holds an undergraduate degree in Critical Theory from NYU, as well as an MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Writing for Film and Television, and is a professional writer.

She currently lives in a 150-year-old Victorian Church in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she and her partner are creating a sanctuary called “Our Lady of the Apocalypse”, creating a community space for grief, skill-sharing, ritual, beauty, and unlearning, finding our way through the darkness together, awake in the burning forest of the world.

The ways in which the intertwining of capitalism and spirituality is actually at the very heart of the climate crisis and ecocide – the ecological crisis is a deeply “spiritual” crisis arising from the intentional erasure and destruction of ancestral traditions and animist relationships to land and earth– erasure and destruction that was very explicitly in the service of colonial capitalism. So what is needed in the face of these crises is a spiritual response/atonement/reconciliation, but perversely, almost all of what passes for spirituality right now occurs in a deeply capitalist, neoliberal framework that neuters and sublimates all spiritual impulse back into the patterns of hyperindividualism, commodification, consumption, and the society of the spectacle, perpetuating the root causes of the crisis instead of offering a potentially vital response to it.

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Episode 120: Vanessa Chakour - Awakening Artemis

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:15:00 -0400

Talking to Vanessa Chakour about her book Awakening Artemis was a joy! We discuss how we are not separate from nature or exempt from the natural world. How our survival is dependent on this interconnected nature with plants, animals, and fungi with whom we share ecosystems and exchange intellectual ideas.

I can not express how much I loved this book, her writing, and the lessons explained in it. She shares why it was important to process personal traumas and write them into these stories to share with others. (I might have fangirled hard over her book.)

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir

Vanessa discusses how she came about choosing the title for the book and the multi-layers of meaning.
Learn fascinating things about the weeds and flowers all around us that offer us profound benefits.
How can plant life heal and restore humans?
Be astonished by the many ways in which the wisdom of plants and knowing them more deeply can help us illuminate and understand ourselves.
Listen to how her book helps people empower themselves as they connect with nature
Listen to how she developed a love for boxing and how it became a healing modality
Get a sneak peek into what is coming next

“A weed is a plant out of place.” ― Jim Thompson

Vanessa Chakour is an herbalist, visual artist, rewilding educator, former pro-boxer, environmental activist, and founder of Sacred Warrior—a multidisciplinary educational and experiential “school” offering plant medicine, wildlife conservation, and meditation through courses, workshops, and retreats with a diverse group of teachers. Sacred Warrior’s Rewilding Retreats are in partnership with the Wolf Conservation Center in New York, The Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica, and Alladale Wilderness Reserve in the Scottish Highlands. Vanessa has shared her work as a speaker at the United Nations, Brown University, and the Muhammad Ali Center, and as a visual artist, in galleries from Tribeca to Chelsea. She lives in Western Massachusetts and teaches around the world.

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Vanessa Chakour
Book: Awakening Artemis: Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature: Chakour, Vanessa: 9781984882097: Amazon.com: Books — https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Artemis-Deepening-Intimacy-Reclaiming/dp/1984882090?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1648431351&sr=1-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=revelationwom-20&linkId=a39bd4666f3db0cd003c02a5828d1a0a&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
Book Retailers - Awakening Artemis by Vanessa Chakour: 9781984882097 | PenguinRandomHouse.com
News — Vanessa Chakour
Instagram: Vanessa Chakour (@vchakour)
Facebook - Vanessa Chakour
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Book: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype: Clarissa Pinkola Estés: 8601420340220: AmazonSmile: Books
Book: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom: John O'Donohue: 9780060929435: AmazonSmile: Books
Newsletter: Earthly Bodies | Vanessa Chakour

Episode 93: Liz Childs Kelly - On Our Way Home to Her

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:15:00 -0400

Who or what is the sacred feminine, and why is her wisdom essential at this time in our collective evolution?

Liz Childs Kelly is one of my favorite people, and while I have not known her long, she is someone that feels so familiar - as if I’ve always known her. I fell into an instant kinship with her after she interviewed me on her own podcast, Home To HER, which I highly recommend subscribing to.

In this episode, we dish about her work with the sacred feminine and how the sacred feminine intersects with all things mysterious, Indigenous, natural, messy, and wild. She is everything and yet defies definition. In many ways, she is paradox itself! Enjoy our nuanced and delicious conversation and laugh along with us as we try to find the language to describe the sacred feminine. In addition, we share some personal stories about messy human “stuff” that’s coming up in our everyday lives and why these gritty conversations need more space and grace in honor of the sacred feminine.

Liz shares her personal story of awakening to the sacred feminine and who she was before and who she was after.
What does the word “sacred” mean when describing the feminine source?
Hear how Liz has come to know her own experience with the sacred feminine and how it influences her work in the world.
Listen in as we talk about God as a male and why we call “bull” on that.
Liz realized that there were gaps in our spiritual experiences - especially the spiritual nature of childbirth.
Why were women purposefully steered away from knowing her story? How can knowing our herstory and actual history help us reclaim the sacred feminine?
What is the connection between the sacred feminine and the natural world?
Learn about Liz's experience in mystery school.
Why does life get so much better after uncovering the hidden wisdom of the sacred feminine?
How can we reclaim our relationship with the sacred feminine? Join us to learn what we can do to seek and explore more of her in our lives.

Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator, community builder, initiated priestess in the 13 Moons Lineage, and the host of the Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. She is also the co-host of the Revelry series of online events, which invite women from around the world to participate in ecstatic, embodied celebrations of the gifts of each season, and she is an instructor in the social change platform Advaya's upcoming 12-week online course, The Call of the Wild Feminine. Liz is in the process of completing her first book, titled Home to Her: Reclaiming the Ancient Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine. She is a mother of two and currently lives in central Virginia, USA, on the ancestral lands of the Monacan people.

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Episode 89: Sophie Strand - Catching Feathers & Ecological Embodiment

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

*There are no accidents. *

As we awaken to our true work in the world, synchronicity becomes more frequent and intensely delightful.

Synchronicity is how we know that we are exactly where we need to be and that we are “right on time” with the divine.

It so happens that this idea of being “on time” is exactly the topic Sophie Strand writes about. Her piece, Catching The Feather, stopped me mid-Facebook scroll and took my breath away. Something in my body resonated at a cellular level, and I realized that she was speaking to a truth my body remembered.

I’ve been on a quest these past few months to reacquaint myself with my inner wild. That free and innate part of myself that has been tamed and contained, that forgot how to listen to the natural rhythm of life and needs to pick up the drum beat and dance. To allow myself to howl in my loneliness and smell my way to my knowing and dare to open to my ancient wisdom and memory. The wild part of me that remembers who I was before I was domesticated and separated from my true mother, mother earth, and the sensorial ecstasy of being alive outside the confines of the patriarchy.

Whenever I put my life and my intentions inside of my personal “Revelation Project,” I am always guided to the next human or experience, or tree, river, feather (ahem) I need to meet on my remarkable journey. My job is simply to trust that more will be revealed, and you know what?

More always is.

I’m honored to introduce you to Sophie Strand.

Sophie has much to teach us about returning to our senses and trusting our original design. As deeply interconnected beings, we are always at choice to feel into the intelligence that surrounds us and is within us. She invites us to speak to the trees, listen deeply to what the rivers have to say, and embody the community of mycelium to know more about truth, healing, and reciprocity. To decenter ourselves is to return to the wonder of nature and to discover where true love lives.

Thank you, Sophie, for your incredible work in the world! You are a revelation!

Listen in to our conversation to hear more about:

During the pandemic, when time and structure began to melt and we had to restructure our lives, Sophie began catching feathers while on her walks. She believes they held messages.
Our linear minds have a way of thinking about ourselves and the world that surrounds us. For many of us, the concept of “time” can be reimagined and reinterpreted as it’s changed.
Life is always giving us messages and symbols and numbers. Specific animals also often hold medicine and messages for us if we are willing to be curious and open to those.
What if we were to re-wild our understanding of the divine and even Mary Magdalene and Jesus? How would that change our understanding or our relationship to what they symbolized and the message of love they wanted to plant within us?
Revisiting myths before the patriarchy co-opted them is also a fertile place to revisit ideas of masculine and feminine.
The Greek word pharmacon can mean medicine or poison. It means “powerful substance.” Myths are like that - they can be medicine or poison.
Patriarchy has been conflated with masculine, and masculine has been conflated with patriarchy.
We need to re-wild myths with ecology because they are rooted there.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her books of poetry include Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan). She has recently finished a work of historical fiction that offers an eco-feminist revision of the gospels. Her book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transspecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine, is forthcoming from Inner Traditions' imprint Sacred Planet. Follow her on Facebook or Instagram @cosmogyny.

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Episode 87: D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D., Kohenet - Lilith's Fire: Honoring the Sacred Feminine

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

To be with D’vorah Grenn is to sit by the fire with the wise woman, and to deeply connect to and reveal the suppressed herstory of the sacred feminine.

As a teacher and a scholar, she is a wealth of introspection, warmth and storytelling and I love both her brilliant mind, and her loving and playful heart.

D’vorah and I travel to ancient and erotic places in this episode and reveal the layers of power contained within the uncensored and creative feminine life force to discuss what’s possible as more women awaken and step into our power.

In addition to being a disciple of truth and divinity, D’vorah is also a lover of laughter and sisterhood, so I know you’ll love this episode and the revelations we share that include:

Why Lilith is such an important archetype for women, and why her fire needs tending.
Understanding that for thousands of years women have been silenced, erased, marginalized, and our opinions and preferences discounted, denigrated or mocked and why that has to change.
D’vorah shares her personal story about her descent into her dark night and recounts her own reclamation and spiritual awakening.
Contemporary thinkers have been redefining "sin" and re-visioning the erotic as a sacred life force. These concepts are so important for women to explore and embody.
Why women feel deeply nourished by learning more about the sacred feminine, and how it fills an inner void when we reveal hidden stories about the feminine face of the divine.
How religions have been part of fracturing our understanding of the divine feminine and suppressing the importance of her presence in our lives.
The power of women’s circles and being witnessed, received and loved in our true expression by other women in sisterhood.
Why Eden is a paradise, and not a prison, and how women can reclaim our power and our voices by leaning into the true mythologies and stories of the feminine, not the stories that were co-opted and shaped to fit a narrative intended to keep women oppressed and unrealized.
The more conversations women have about our lives, our ideas, our philosophies, our experiences and our real feelings, the more unified and collaborative we can become and the better our world will be.

D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D. & Kohenet/Priestess, is Founding Director, The Lilith Institute (1997). She Co-Directed the former Women's Spirituality MA Program at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University, and founded Mishkan Shekhinah, a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine. An Adjunct Professor at Napa Valley College, D'vorah also serves as a spiritual mentor and guide. Her Talking To Goddess anthology includes sacred writings of 72 women from 25 traditions. Other publications include Lilith's Fire: Reclaiming Our Sacred Lifeforce; "The Kohanot: Keepers of the Flame" in Stepping into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writing on Priestesses; and the Jewish priestess and Lilith entries, Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions. Contact info: dvorah@lilithinstitute.com; @lilithinstitute on Instagram, or The Lilith Institute on Facebook.

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Episode 41: Bryna Haynes - Quantum Evolution

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:15:00 -0400

In today's episode, I introduce you to Bryna Haynes and we talk about the science of creating our reality, the dangers of wishful thinking, and why the world won’t change unless we change.

Bryna Haynes is an inspirational speaker, philosopher, waymaker, retreat leader, coach, and award-winning, best-selling author. She is the founder of Choose Your Evolution and the creator of the Quantum Evolution® system. Bryna helps conscious entrepreneurs, changemakers, leaders, and influencers navigate growth and change so they can step into their biggest vision in the most intentional ways possible.

Quantum Evolution came out of the research Bryna was conducting about the intersection of what we're learning in the field of quantum science, neuroscience, and spirituality.
Energies like love, the law of attraction, and manifestation are not just coexisting, but actually very much intertwined.
The term “Quantum Evolution” is using our knowledge of the universe and the way that the universe operates in this space of potential and possibility and harnessing that to understand how we inhabit our space of reality. It is also how we leverage that knowledge to create the change in our reality that we're looking for.
Women are ready and open to be the change that the world needs right now. We have such big missions and such a huge desire to see, create, and inhabit a better world.
In the world of subatomic particles, everything exists in a state of potential and possibility.
We used to think that electrons revolved around the nucleus of an atom, like planets around the sun and the solar system, but that's actually not true. Subatomic particles don’t actually exist in a state of possibility and potential until they are observed.
It’s not just about thinking better thought or about feeling better feelings. Real manifestation is about choosing a new way of being and giving ourselves tangible evidence that it’s possible by changing how we show up in the world.
The system that Bryna trademarked as “Quantum Evolution” is really just about giving our subconscious mind more and more little bits of evidence that what we want is possible and true.
We are waiting on the world to change, as the saying goes, and we don't need to wait for the world to change. In fact, our reality will not change until we do.

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