For over 30 years, Georgette Star, MA, D.Min, has dedicated her life to empowering adults and youth to live soul-embodied, joyful, and purposeful lives. An intuitive Soul Stream Life Coach & Mentor, and Method trainer, her own deep quest for Self-Realization informs all aspects of her work. Finding joy in sharing this journey with others and a calling to contribute to the greater good inspired her to found the Life Blessing Institute (LBI).

This transformational learning community is designed to guide individuals on the journey of human potential, spiritual awakening, and actualization of their soul’s agenda. Through LBI, Georgette developed a variety of programs, including Maiden Spirit & Peace Warriors Youth Programs, Individual and Community Rites of Passage Celebrations and the Soul Stream Method Practitioner Training.

Currently Georgette is also working on a documentary film titled The Woman’s Rite. The film examines the challenges of ageism faced by women (and all genders) and explores how these limitations can be transformed through creative expression, conscious rites-of-passage and spiritual awakening. It highlights the opportunity for women to step into empowered, vibrant, and respected elderhood, offering their wisdom, creativity, light, and love to a world that deeply needs their contributions.

Georgette holds a Master’s degree from the Naropa Institute and a Doctorate of Ministry from the University of Creation Spirituality. Using her life experience, education and an array of natural abilities, Georgette actively pursues contributing to humankind however she can. In addition to her professional work, she cherishes being a mom, grandmother, artist, forest dweller and daughter of Mother Earth. She also finds joy in creating collaboratively with others and sharing the spiritual journey of awakening with her friends and colleagues.

Website links:

• The Life Blessing Institute (LBI)
• The Woman’s Rite documentary project
• Click here to contact Georgette if you are interested in her Soul Stream Life Map Readings and include the word “BatGap” in the message field.

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Interview recorded October 27, 2024

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HeatherAsh Amara is the Warrior Goddess Mama and creatrix of The Warrior Heart practice. She is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from a variety of world traditions. Raised in Southeast Asia, HeatherAsh has traveled the world from childhood and is continually inspired by the diversity and beauty of human expression and experience. She brings this open-hearted, inclusive worldview to her writings and teachings.

HeatherAsh is the author of numerous books, including the bestselling:

• Warrior Goddess Training: Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be,
• Warrior Goddess Wisdom: Daily Inspiration for Women (Warrior Goddess Training),
• The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships (with don Miguel Ruiz Jr.), and
• Warrior Heart Practice

Website: warriorgoddess.com

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Interview recorded April 10, 2020.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:02:31 – Influences from the Toltec Tradition
• 00:04:41 – Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan Matus
• 00:06:55 – Exploring European Shamanism and Toltec Teachings
• 00:08:56 – The Coronavirus as a Catalyst for Change
• 00:11:00 – Reconnecting with Nature and the Cycles of Life and Death
• 00:13:05 – Holding the Beauty and Grief of Life
• 00:15:46 – Holding the Paradox and Chaos
• 00:19:30 – The Interconnection and Transformation of the World
• 00:24:31 – The Influence of the Toltec Tradition
• 00:29:09 – Traveling Between Worlds and Purifying Intent
• 00:33:56 – The Power of Impeccability and Responsibility
• 00:38:33 – Building Awareness and Recapitulation in Toltec Wisdom
• 00:43:08 – The Significance of Everyday Occurrences
• 00:47:56 – The Toltecs and Teotihuacan
• 00:53:02 – The Soul as the Drop in the Ocean
• 00:57:37 – Concocting Stories and Making Agreements
• 01:02:32 – Finding Peace and Joy in Life
• 01:07:47 – Embracing Stillness and Chaos in Life
• 01:12:37 – Parenting and Unconscious Agreements
• 01:17:39 – Separating Feelings from Stories
• 01:22:12 – Untangling the Story and Finding the Truth
• 01:26:41 – Practice of Self-Inquiry
• 01:31:07 – Working with the Chambers and Transformation
• 01:36:22 – Recognizing the Divine and Embracing our True Work
• 01:40:21 – Community Development and Tool Sharing
• 01:44:57 – Moving Beyond First Attention
• 01:49:37 – Recapitulation: Sorting and Letting Go of Energy Leakage
• 01:54:27 – Accessing and balancing different forms of energy
• 01:59:20 – Connecting with Your Feelings
• 02:05:27 – Learning more about HeatherAsh and upcoming programs

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Gillian Ross has always found it difficult to put a label on her spiritual perspective. If pressed she would describe herself as a Christian Buddhist yogi and mystic with a penchant for Taoism! Over recent years, however, she has been happy to call herself a spiritual evolutionary or evolutionary mystic in the tradition of Teilhard de Chardin in the West and Sri Aurobindo in the East.

Born in the UK in 1940, she migrated to Australia as an academic in the early sixties. Her Western education gave her an Honours Science Degree, a Masters degree in Philosophy and a Doctorate in the Behavioural Sciences but left her feeling increasingly restless and unfulfilled. There was a growing awareness that her intellectual conditioning had disconnected her from the natural spontaneity and mystical riches of her childhood.

The deep love she felt for her children awakened lost memories of spiritual connection. She began to meditate, practice yoga and study Eastern philosophies. In her early forties, she left her marriage, her city life, and academic career and took her family of two young sons, two dogs and two cats off to the Blue Mountains of NSW to explore an alternative lifestyle. She has never looked back! After many years of feeling like a fish out of water, she came to understand what it means to “flow in the current of the Eternal Tao”.

She trained as a yoga teacher and shiatsu therapist and has become a best selling ABC author (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) of relaxation and meditation CDs and a yoga video as well as publishing four books on science and mysticism and the evolution of consciousness.

After her sons left home she moved even further into the wild. Over the last 20 years, she has fallen in love with 40 acres of natural bush adjacent to a powerful sacred aboriginal site in Northern NSW. She nurtures it as a haven for spiritual retreats and residential weekends on evolutionary spirituality and mystic meditation, delighting in sharing with others some of the philosophies and practices that have helped to bring her out of spiritual bleakness into a lasting sense of peace, purpose and, above all, joy.

Books:

• Consciousness V Catastrophe: Reflections on the Next Stage of Human Evolution
• Psyche’s Yearning: Radical Perspectives on Self-Transformation

CD: Relaxation Audio CD

Links:

• Website: drgillianross.com
• Connection: An Awakening Experience (blog post)
• Consciousness V Catastrophe: Reflections on the Next Stage of Human Evolution (YouTube video)
• Email: drgillianross@gmail.com
• Toolgoolawa School (mentioned in the interview)

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Interview recorded August 24, 2019

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:05:58 – The Consciousness Revolution and Evolutionary Spirituality
• 00:10:36 – Evolutionary Mysticism and the Driving Force of Evolution
• 00:18:14 – Awakening the Collective Consciousness
• 00:24:19 – The Power of the Awakened Heart
• 00:29:04 – Problems with Paleolithic Emotions and God-like Technology
• 00:35:29 – The Emergence of a New Consciousness and Humanity
• 00:39:58 – Getting Established in the Self for the Faith Transition
• 00:43:35 – The distinction between emotions and feelings
• 00:48:31 – The Sacredness of Life and Our Treatment of Animals
• 00:53:48 – The Shadow Side of Non-dualism
• 00:58:21 – The Science of Spirituality and the Impact of Consciousness
• 01:02:30 – The Scientific Method and Mystics
• 01:06:27 – A Journey of Mystical Awakening
• 01:11:05 – Awakening the Mystical Anatomy
• 01:16:10 – The Awakening of the Third Eye
• 01:20:06 – Awakening to the Divine Within
• 01:24:08 – The Injection of Feminine Energy
• 01:28:32 – Flowing with the Stream of Consciousness
• 01:32:40 – The Snowflake Self and Connectivity
• 01:36:19 – Finding Fulfillment and Reawakening Genius
• 01:40:04 – Buying a House and Finding the Lemon Grove
• 01:42:43 – Guides and Spiritual Insight
• 01:45:37 – Surrendering to the Divine Will
• 01:48:46 – The Framework of the New Story
• 01:51:43 – Stabilizing High Levels of Consciousness
• 01:54:42 – Universal Mysticism and Connecting with the Sacred
• 01:57:51 – The Transition from Ego to Essence
• 02:00:48 – The Power of Love and Sacred Activism
• 02:03:13 – Getting More Involved and Staying Updated
• 02:05:28 – Encouragement to Write a Book

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