The Positive Head Podcast

Brandon follows up on a story told during yesterday’s (#802) interview with Shaman Durek, with some uncanny synchronicities that manifested afterward, and addresses a comment from a listener who “disagrees” with Law of Attraction, attempting to explain that Law of Attraction is an impersonal force and that is not in opposition with concepts of social justice that may apply in our modern world.

Ancient Wisdom Today podcast host Shaman Durek is familiar with an “ecology of souls”, as Terence McKenna once put it, which reside in realms often confused with fantasy and myth, belonging to an authentic lineage of shamans from the Yoruba tribes of Ghana and having also undergone thorough initiation rites including the biggest of them all. Hence he speaks with authority and wisdom but undeniable light-heartedness and great compassion.

Amy Venner-Hamdi is a successful businesswoman, having co-founded the “Superfoods” company Purium with her ex-partner David Sandoval, and now spearheading initiatives to elevate women in the world in part through her book Women on the Rise and the Million Mom Movement. She also tells her story growing up afflicted by acute acne and how this sent her on her path to greater health through better nutrition.

Brandon is prompted by a listener’s message to elaborate on the theme of his last daily episode (#798) about surrendering personal preferences for a greater purpose that may be as yet unrevealed. This time he gets the opportunity to add subtlety to the subject and clarify that going with the flow does not mean sitting around waiting, just as it doesn’t mean forcing things.

Allan Morelock is a published author and poet, and he is also a teacher and an energy healer who has been aware of his identity as a spiritual being since very early childhood in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. In this episode he relates this formative event that triggered his realization, gives his take on current wordly events and offers insights into the subtleties of this global awakening process.

Brandon has been highly impressed by the writings of Michael A. Singer, having referenced and recommended his book The Untethered Soul several times and now, having just finished Michael’s book The Surrender Experiment, is motivated to talk about the concept of ignoring our personal preferences to allow instead for life’s natural course to unfold, which in Michael’s case resulted in attaining the ultimate flow state and extremely inspiring results.

Ingrid Fetell Lee specializes in connecting the experience of joy with its aesthetic and visual dimensions, which has led her to publish the “Aesthetics of Joy” blog, a recently-released book titled “Joyful” and a TED talk with over ten million views. In this episode she tells Brandon what role design and visual arts played in her background, and how factors like bright colors and sunlight in our environments all contribute to our experience of daily life as either joyful or draining.

Erica and her fiancé Bryan, who last accompanied her on the show back in June 2018 (#705) dedicate a full episode to meditation, a topic that ought to have great relevance to listeners of this show for good reason: it is a deep, healing and profoundly transformative practice that in one way or another forms the foundation of a person’s spiritual development.

Erica reads from the book “The Kybalion” which was published at the dawn of the 20th century and is all about the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus and his Seven Hermetic Principles, which underlie not only the legacy of his wisdom but perhaps the very nature of reality itself.

Melissa Eliyahoo has a passion and a similar interest in design, entrepreneurship, and spirituality, and has developed a business based on a water bottle sticker that is helping to subtly elevate the vibrations of thirsty drinkers in a fun way, thanks in part to the principle of “water memory”.