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Spring Washam is a well-known meditation and dharma teacher based in Oakland, California. She is a founding member and core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center located in downtown Oakland. She is the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys an organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom. In addition to being a teacher, she is also a healer, facilitator, spiritual activist, and writer. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices into diverse communities and is committed to enriching the lives of disenfranchised people everywhere.

In this episode, Spring Washam and Eric talk about how we can foster deep transformation within ourselves and our world.

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In This Interview, Spring Washam and I Discuss Deep Transformation and…

• Her book, A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment
• Balancing action and contemplation
• Focusing on what you are fighting for (not just what you’re fighting against)
• Her constant, daily practice of forgiveness
• Uprooting greed, hatred, and delusion to heal her heart and mind
• Her profound experiences of interconnectedness 
• Why she takes things far less personally now but still feels the pain of life
• The deep shift in the heart that transforms someone into an antiracist
• Her Sunday program: The Church of Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad Crew
• Connecting to our ancestors and learning from history
• How no one is exempt from the 10,000 joys and the 10,000 sorrows of life
• The way faith in a bigger, loving force can lead to beautiful transformation when pain in life happens to us
• The lawful unfolding of the universe
• Waking up to our innate Buddha nature
• Transforming difficulty into growth
• Giving our suffering meaning for transformation
• Dropping into the body to feel the energy and find the blocks in the heart
• Getting curious when we feel triggered 
• Being afraid of our feelings blocks our transformation
• Meeting our numbness with loving self care
• Developing self-compassion and compassion for others
• Separation being at the core of many of our wounds
• That our whole journey is about letting go

Spring Washam Links:

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Ibram X. Kendi is an American author, historian, and scholar of race and discriminatory policy in America. He is the Director for the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University and he received the National Book Award for Non-Fiction for his book, Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America. In this episode, Ibram X. Kendi and Eric talk about his recent book, How To Be An Antiracist.

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In This Interview, Ibram X. Kendi and I Discuss Being an Antiracist and…

• His book, How To Be An Antiracist
• How he defines the word “racist”
• The problem at the core of racism
• How to determine if a policy is racist or antiracist
• Racial discrimination
• Differentiating between people and policies
• The importance of viewing individual behaviors
• How mistakes impact people of different races

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Sasha Sagan is a writer who has also worked as a television producer, filmmaker, editor, and speaker. Sasha’s writing has appeared in New York Magazine, O Magazine, Literary Hub, and others. Her latest book is called, For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals For Finding Meaning In Our Unlikely World.

In this episode, Sasha Sagan and Eric talk about bringing a sense of sacredness to a scientific world, maintaining our awe and wonder, and the role and importance of ritual in our lives.

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In This Interview, Sasha Sagan and I Discuss Science, the Sacred, and…

• Her book, For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals For Finding Meaning In Our Unlikely World
• Maintaining our sense of awe even as we discover the explanations for things
• Sitting with the discomfort of not knowing to foster wonder
• Following our curiosity and having questions as we follow the threads to discovery
• Going through the right of passage of an existential crisis
• The fact that things end makes them precious
• How so much of ritual is processing change
• Ritual being a 3 step path from a state of separateness to a state of togetherness
• The wisdom in having rituals that mark time
• Creating rituals
• The positive and negative of our human tendency to find patterns
• Tolerating ambiguity
• The need for nuance
• Interconnectedness

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Albert Flynn DeSilver is an American poet, memoirist, novelist, speaker, and workshop leader.  He is the  author of several books of poems, a memoir titled “Beamish Boy (I am not my story):  A Memory of Recovery and Awakening”, and the book discussed in this episode:  Writing as a Path to Awakening:  A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life

In this episode, Albert Flynn DeSilver and Eric talk about using writing, poetry, and contemplative practices as a way to guide us on the path to awakening to our true selves.

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In This Interview, Albert Flynn DeSilver and I Discuss Writing as a Path to Awakening and…

• Attention and action are needed to transcend our conditioning
• Awakening means waking up to the reality of existence, that we are not our minds
• Waking up to our true nature as opposed to conditioned nature
• How writing is a creative act that can wake us up to full potentiality or higher truth
• Writing and meditation as contemplative practices that support each other.
• Poetry is a way to talk about that which can’t be spoken of
• How reading poetry is a very different and visceral reading experience
• Writing with a sense of curiosity and exploration
• Freewriting exercises – setting up to write what’s there, internally and externally
• Realizing we are in collaboration with all of the energy around us
• Using prompts for writing for awakening practice
• Gaining perspective and distance from the voices in our head
• Setting yourself up for success with intentionality
• The paradox of being “the greatest invention ever” and “completely insignificant”

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Josh Johnson is a comedian and an Emmy-nominated writer. He is currently a writer on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and a former writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Josh was named New York’s Funniest Comic at the New York Comey Festival in 2018.

In this episode, Josh Johnson and Eric talk about comedy and how humor can facilitate healing, understanding, and our connection with one another. 

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In This Interview, Josh Johnson and I Discuss Humor and Healing and…

• The duality of being human
• Using humor as a coping mechanism that can facilitate healing
• How when you laugh you feel no pain
• That levity can strip something of its power over us
• What it means to be truly content
• The role of comedy in his life
• The relationship between objectivity and comedy
• How he’d rather try and fail on stage than not try something out of fear
• The prevalence of mental health issues in comedians
• The way humor can change our perspectives
• How he approaches depressive episodes in his own life
• How skewed our feedback can be based on who surrounds us

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