Cutting Edge Consciousness

There is a revolution in science. Dawson Church joins Barnet and Freeman to talk about how science is moving toward the mystical. We discuss epigenetics—a new way of looking at human biology. For more about Dawson's work, please visit www.dawsonchurch.com.

As a culture, we have made our “mattering” (a sense that we matter as human beings) conditional. We have put requirements on something that is innate and not bound by conditions. Philip Shepherd joins CEC for the second time to talk about how we have disconnected from our innate mattering, which is expressed most clearly in how we live in our heads. Getting back into our bodies is required if we are going to reclaim our inherent connection to life.   For more information about Philip's work, please visit www.philipshepherd.com.

Byron Katie joins Barnet and Freeman for a powerful conversation about our need to know we matter. Insecure thoughts tend to attach to outcomes we believe make us matter. The truth is our mattering is innate—no one or nothing can make us matter, and no one can take it away.   For more information about Byron Katie's work, please visit www.thework.com.

Best-selling millennial author Jake Ducey joins Barnet and Freeman to explain why young people are rejecting the old world belief structure. Jake paints a clear picture of how uncertainty is empowering to his generation.   For more information about Jake's work, please visit www.jakeducey.com.

Ocean Robbins joins Barnet and Freeman to discuss food consciousness. This is a really important conversation about what we are choosing to consume, both individually and collectively.   For more information about Ocean's important work, please visit www.   oceanrobbins.com.  

In this amazing episode of Cutting Edge Consciousness, author Neale Donald Walsch joins Barnet and Freeman for a powerful conversation about the state of our awareness. There is a fundamental story of separation that distorts our perception of reality. The popular story about God, also known as religion, tends to perpetuate a story of separation, where God is separate from us. This separation theology leads to a separation cosmology, which leads to separation psychology, which leads to separation sociology—all of this creates a separation pathology (pathological behaviors of self-destruction).   For more information about Neale's latest book and all the things he is doing, please visit www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/.

Success is a habit. We all have the ability to direct our attention towards what it is we want to generate and create in our lives—most people simply don't know that success is a by-product of deliberate intention and focused attention. When we are clear on our intention and we organize ritualized practices around this empowered intent, our experience begins to align with where we are placing our focus. Best-selling author Chris Attwood joins Barnet and Freeman for a fun and insightful conversation about his new book, Your Hidden Riches: Unleashing the Power of Ritual to Create a Life of Meaning and Purpose.   For more information about Chris' empowering work, please visit thehiddenriches.com/.  

Darryl Anka graces Cutting Edge Consciousness for the fourth time with his wisdom and wit, discussing balance. Life is for learning. It is important to maintain a reverence for the learning process. When a teacher is also learning along with the student, then the relationship between student and teacher is quite beautiful. But when the student abdicates too much authority, or the teacher assumes too much power, then the process becomes tainted.    This conversation extends into other areas of life where we give up authority to conditioned ideals. We self-abandon to try and please others. Doing this erodes relationships and causes disharmony in our lives. For more information about Darryl's work and the channeling of Bashar, please visit www.bashar.org.

Dianne Collins joins Barnet and Freeman to share her perspective about leadership. Dianne is the author of Do You Quantum Think? and the creator of the QuantumThink system of thinking. This is a very thought-provoking conversation.   For more information about Dianne's work, please visit www.quantumthink.com.

Mark McKergow joins Freeman and Barnet to talk about “Host Leadership.” Host Leadership seems to really honor and support the dignity of people within an organization. When people feel honored, seen, and valued, they perform differently than when they are objectified under traditional “Top-Down” Management. In all areas of life, maintaining human dignity seems critical for people to thrive.   For more about Mark's remarkable work, please visit http://hostleadership.com/.

Our world is full of stimuli and distraction—and many of us have become addicted to constant, and intense, stimulation. John Gray describes it as a “hyper” world, and we must practice slowing down and consciously directing our focus if we are going to have happy and fulfilling lives. Slowing down creates self-awareness, and ultimately, conscious choice.   John joins Barnet and Freeman for a fun and empowering conversation on this episode of Cutting Edge Consciousness.   For more about John's new book, Staying Focused in a Hyper World: Natural Solutions For ADHD, Memory and Brain Performance, and his work, please visit www.marsvenus.com.  

Expectation can be an unhealthy attachment to a fantasy about how our lives “should” look or what a certain experience “should” feel like. This type of expectation binds us to a limited menu of possibility. Christine Hassler joins Barnet and Freeman for a great conversation about expectation on Cutting Edge Consciousness.   For more about Christine's work, please visit www.christinehassler.com.

Magic is simply a different relationship with mystery. It involves pulling possibilities out of a field of infinite possibility. It is primarily about having the ability to focus our attention in such a way that we begin to relate to everything differently. William Whitecloud joins Barnet and Freeman for a wonderful conversation about making magic by attuning to frequencies that generate a particular experience.   For more information about William's work, please visit www.  williamwhitecloud.com.    

Many of us have a tendency to compartmentalize our lives into separate categories we meet with different adaptive personality identities. This “split” takes us out of our empowered, authentic self. Becoming centered and grounded in a profound sense of who we are allows us to meet the myriad aspects of life with a single disposition. Our birthright is to be able to simply show up authentically without needing to “do” anything to succeed or survive. Dawa Tarchin Phillips joins Freeman and Barnet to talk about the mindset and practices most conducive to “flow” and authentic consistency.   For more information about Dawa's work, please visit www.bodhipath.org/dawa.  

Dream expert, Dr. Michael Lennox, joins Barnet and Freeman for a fun and very informative conversation about both the sleeping dream and the waking dream. The trick is to be lucid in both—marked by a level of consciousness where life becomes more fluid and more fun.   For more information about Dr. Michael Lennox's work, please visit www.dreaminginterpretation.com.

Our perception of what is best for our lives is not always accurate. Faith is a trust in the unfolding of our lives. But there is also a “knowing” that we can tap in to that can help guide our decisions. Dr. Fabrizio Mancini refers to this inner knowing as “trust”—a developed capacity to rely on one's own, internal, knowing. As we learn to trust ourselves, we can also learn to tap in to the same internal wisdom to perceive whether others are trustworthy. Together, a combination of faith and trust can be relied on to guide our lives in the best possible way.   For more about Dr. Fab's work, please visit www.drfabmancini.com.

The former president of Trader Joe's, and current CEO of the nonprofit organization Conscious Capitalism, joins Barnet and Freeman for a tremendous conversation about a new way of doing business. The new way of doing business is both a returning to the fundamentals of business, having to do with operating with clear and expressed values, for the purpose of creating value, against the backdrop of a new level of transparency spawned by social media. This conversation is a bit subtle as to just how powerful it is—the relevance of this topic and this particular dialogue is truly significant.   For more about Doug Rauch's work, please visit www.consciouscapitalism.org.

Arielle Ford joins Barnet and Freeman for an important conversation. We are programmed by a society that projects images of perfection NO ONE can live up to. Arielle makes the point that in learning to love our imperfections and the beautiful imperfections of our partner, our soul grows. We become more human in the most gracious sense—a reflection of the divine—AND life just becomes a lot more fulfilling.   For more information about Arielle's work, please visit www.soulmatesecret.com. And to receive the special gift that Arielle mentions on the show, please visit www.soulmatesecret.com/wabisabilove/gifts.

Following our heart, and leading with a heartfelt intention, will generate profound experiences. This heart-led operating imperative can be trusted. What the results will look like is impossible to anticipate. There is more and more mystery, the more we let our hearts truly lead us. Terry Tillman joins Barnet and Freeman for an incredible conversation.   For more information about Terry's amazing work, please visit www.227company.com/home/index.html.

The exchange of energy is the only thing that is real. The material world is an illusion. Love is the most precious commodity—it is the energy with the highest value. But it is not something to be hoarding; it is something to be given away as often and as much as possible. To the degree we give it away, it grows. Preston Smiles, from The Love Mob, joins Barnet and Freeman for an inspiring look at exchanging love to build a reliable community with an evolved system of exchange.   For more information about Preston's work, please visit www.prestonsmiles.com.

Sister Jenna, of the Brahma Kumaris spiritual tradition, joins Barnet and Freeman for a great conversation about spiritual evolution. Purity, peace, and happiness are our natural state—but we must learn to peel away layers of attachment to find the seed of God that transforms our lives. Then discipline and practice become gifts rather than burdens—they help to lighten our load rather than inhibit us.    For more information about Sister Jenna, please visit: http://www.meditationmuseum.org/.

Greed is an illness. Lusting for money and power represents an addiction based on a distorted belief structure. For many years, Sam Polk had his priorities organized around winning in a very small game that centered on self-aggrandizement. His great awakening set a new course and established a new set of priorities for his life, which have led to far greater fulfillment. The journey is ongoing—but Barnet and Freeman love the direction he's heading in. This is a powerful testimonial to waking up from the collective trance and finding more substantial pursuits, which will invariably lead to greater fulfillment.   For more information about Sam's work, please visit www.samuelpolk.com.

Thomas John, medium, joins Barnet and Freeman for a wonderful show about psychic phenomenon—and the power to see into the future. Thomas is very clear that his ability to prognosticate, and see things that others cannot perceive, is only intended to serve. Barnet, specifically, is served by Thomas' remarkable ability in this episode of Cutting Edge Consciousness.

The soul's journey is one of transformation. Transformation involves turmoil. Transformation is a natural process of undoing, where the self we have come to identify with, the self we constructed to keep us safe, comes apart. Through this process we are dragged into the deep water of our emotions, where we can be changed in the most meaningful and important ways. If we can trust the waves of feelings and allow them to take us on a ride, we often find we are quite gracefully carried back to shore. Daphne Kingma joins Barnet and Freeman for a delicious conversation about the throws of turmoil that transform us.   For more information about Daphne's amazing work, please visit www.daphnekingma.com.

A life lived simply trying to please primal desires cannot be ultimately filling. The hamster wheel of desire never ends—it is perpetual and distracting. Consciousness is the ability to direct our desires toward something greater than simple worldly achievement. When we identify with something bigger than desire, we become purposeful and empowered. When we become attuned to "the something" that wants to unfold through us, our wants become less constricted to worldly outcomes and less addictive in the way they consume our attention. Our choices and behavior take on an integrity. Our base desires are held in a greater context—they're just wants on the way to an emergent possibility. We surrender our survival impulse to a creative and evolutionary impulse that naturally emerges out of who we really are. This is a short synopsis of our compelling conversation with GP Walsh on this episode of Cutting Edge Consciousness.

Psychic medium, best-selling author, television producer, and media personality James Van Praagh joins Barnet and Freeman for a conversation about criticism. It seems that being true to ourselves, and offering our gift in the world, evokes some amount of resistance from “our universe.” James Van Praagh is no stranger to skepticism and ridicule—but his clarity of intention has consistently won out over the small-minded criticism that he has faced in the public media. James is a joy-filled gift who shares his wisdom, along with a few laughs, on this episode of Cutting Edge Consciousness.   For more about James' work, please visit www.vanpraagh.com.

Dr. Joe Dispenza is back on Cutting Edge Consciousness for another engaging conversation with Barnet and Freeman. This round is especially interesting as the guest and hosts explore the creative space wherein something truly new can immerge. While Dr. Joe has a brand-new book, You Are the Placebo, which serves to enrich this dialogue, the conversation is very much an extension of the two previous conversations with Dr. Joe on CEC. The ability to direct our experience hits a roadblock when it bumps up against our conditioned imagination—only by intentionally following a feeling can we generate something that is truly “new.”   For more on Dr. Joe Dispenza, please visit www.drjoedispenza.com.  

Consumer consciousness is a by-product of the grand strategy that won the Cold War. By winning the world over to capitalism, we have pushed our planet to the brink—the current operating system is not sustainable; it's time for new grand strategy. Patrick Doherty joins Barnet and Freeman for intriguing conversation about policy at the highest level. This is an important conversation on Cutting Edge Consciousness.

Creating our experience via our conscious perception, directed attention, and thoughtful interpretation can be enhanced by technology. Bill Harris, who is known by many to be one of the featured teachers on the film The Secret, joins Barnet and Freeman for a significant conversation about awareness. Bill has developed an important technology to enhance and aid people in achieving a contemplative state of consciousness. This awareness, from Bill's perspective, is the only way to truly choose the course of our lives. 

Control is a recipe for struggle. Life will not deliver on the promises of our narrow definition of success. We can pursue the collectively agreed upon formula, only to find that it is an empty promise. On this episode of Cutting Edge Consciousness, Panache Desai joins Barnet and Freeman for a deep conversation about living a rich and rewarding life by following our Soul Signature.   For more about Panache Desai and his amazing work, please visit http://www.panachedesai.com/.  

Author (Tipping Sacred Cows) and filmmaker (What the Bleep Do We Know!?) Betsy Chasse joins Freeman and Barnet for a fantastically fun and irreverent conversation about consciousness.

Our innate well-being and natural “enoughness” is something that we come to believe in and we commit, from our hearts, to living by this premise inspite of feedback from our society, culture, and religious traditions that we are not enough. Zhena Muzyka, conscious entrepreneur and author of Life by the Cup, joins Barnet and Freeman for a delicious conversation about drinking life in from moment to moment. And this includes accepting the uncomfortable moments with a gracious understanding that discomfort is often part of learning and growing. And learning and growing are fundamental to living a rich and rewarding life.

Renowned photographer Carl Studna joins Barnet and Freeman for a really wonderful conversation about beauty. We can reach transcendent states by exploring the depth of our pain, but we can also reach these states of consciousness by exalting in beauty. Carl is a master at witnessing and capturing beauty. His latest book, Click: Choosing Love One Frame at a Time, is an exploration of his extraordinary point of view and artistic perspective toward life. To find out more about Carl's amazing work, please visit http://www.carlstudna.com.

Sam Bennett joins Barnet and Freeman for a fun, creative and valuable conversation about making empowering choices and getting things done. For more information about Sam Bennett's valuable work, please visit: http://theorganizedartistcompany.com/.

The start of spiritual awakening is generally a response to an inherent human cry for “help.” There are a lot of false refuges that we have tried to apply to the insecurity of our lives, individually and collectively—but the day has dawned where we cannot pretend any longer. Awakening from the trance-like state of denial is a spiritual maturing required to meet the challenges of our time. Tara joins Barnet and Freeman for a deep conversation about spiritual awakening.

Materialism (greed) and worldly distraction cause suffering. Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa (The Red Hat Lama of Tibet), joins Barnet and Freeman for an enlightening conversation about enlightenment.  Specifically, they discuss the “awakening” process on the path to enlightenment.   For more information about Shamar Rimpoche and his teachings, please visit www.bodhipath.org/.

Rikka Zimmerman has always been a lover but being met at the level of love that matches her truest potential has been elusive—until now. The process of falling deeply in love with herself has generated a “soul mate.” In this really fun conversation, Barnet and Freeman and Rikka explore the topic of love, as an attractor and as a creative force in the universe.   For more information about Rikka Zimmerman's work, including her wonderful music, please visit: http://rikkazimmerman.com/.  

There is a prevailing message in our culture to be strong. We are collectively infatuated with stories of triumph over obstacles. But there are seasons in life, and all seasons must be honored. In this amazing show, Barnet Bain shares his experience with a dying friend, which prompts a powerful conversation between Barnet and Kute.   For more information about Kute Blackson's profound work, please visit http://www.kuteblackson.com/.

“Yes to Success” founder and best-selling author, Debra Poneman, joins Barnet and Freeman for a fantastic conversation about miracles.

Best-selling author, entrepreneurial genius, and renowned adventurer Raymond Aaron shows up for a great conversation about success.

Freeman and Barnet invite John J. Murphy onto Cutting Edge Consciousness to discuss some of the principles of his latest book, Zentrepreneur. This is a wonderful conversation about a different way of doing business.

Fear is an obstacle to love—it prevents us from opening up and drives defensive patterns of thinking and behavior that block intimacy and connection. Relationship experts and real life couple Orna and Matthew Walters join Barnet and Freeman for an important and powerful conversation about integrating our fears into our relationship expectations. We become capable of having real relationships when we can embrace fear as a natural part of the experience.

Our children deserve parents who are committed to an authentic parent/child journey—NOT some fantasy of “perfection.” Radical self-acceptance creates a fluid growth experience, where parents grow with their children. There are clearly certain skills and techniques to support parents, but when we become over invested in getting it “right,” we have gotten it all wrong. Child psychologist and author Shefali Tsabary joins Barnet and Freeman for an important conversation about Conscious Parenting.

Our ego is not the enemy. Trying to be "egoless" is an ego trip no matter how spiritual we think we are. But making a friend of the ego and having a relationship with our ego allows us to become more real and more authentic. Karen Hoyos joins Barnet and Freeman for a fun and profound conversation about integrating the adaptive aspects of our self into our personal reality (personality) so the we can let our essential "light" shine.

In long-term committed relationships, life is not a fairytale—from aging and illness to financial setbacks and any number of real-life challenges—relationships are tested. Sandy Stuart (Bain) and Jasmine Michaels join the program for the third annual “Wives' Show." This is another intimate look into the relationships of our hosts and their life partners.

Elders who have grown to really embrace change and learning make terrific models in our world today. Jim Selman is a master learner who has made a tremendous mark on the world but has no intention of basking in his accomplishment. This wonderful man joins Barnet and Freeman for a great conversation about the role of elders in our community.

This is a powerful conversation between Land Developer turned conservationist Adam C. Hall and hosts Freeman and Barnet. Trying to manipulate, dominate, and control our physical environment is a symptom of an inner disorder. Correcting the order of priorities is an inside job, which leads to profoundly different choices.

Finding flow and tapping an inner source generates a sustainable euphoria. Arjuna returns to Cutting Edge Consciousness to talk about accessing an innate state of being where vitality and inspiration are normal. For more information about Arjuna's work, please visit http://arjunaardagh.com/.

Words can be crafted to provide a pathway inward. The Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco, joins Barnet and Freeman to explore the creative process of self-discovery that poetry provides. In this really beautiful episode, three artists explore their own journey with words to find themselves and discover more about life.

Best-selling author and activist Marianne Williamson joins Barnet and Freeman for a dynamic and powerful conversation about her vision of becoming a congresswoman. This visionary leader holds a sense of possibility that is distinctly different from the current trajectory our country is heading in. She shares her ideas, along with her reason for running for public office, in this compelling episode of Cutting Edge Consciousness.   For more information about Marianne's work, please visit: http://www.marianne.com/.

Tuning in to a resonance that our body can receive and respond to is not possible when we are trying to think our way through life. Philip Shepherd joins Barnet Bain and Freeman Michaels for a deep conversation about reconnecting to the world through our bodies, with our heads simply playing a role in the experience but no longer dominating it. For more information about Philip Shepherd's book and his powerful work, please visit philipshepherd.com.