509. Georgi Y. Johnson

Georgi Y. JohnsonBorn in Sheffield, England, Georgi has led a life of charm, intoxication, collision and perpetual re-awakening.

Having experienced her parent’s divorce and later her father’s death to alcoholism, Georgi was a born seeker for a stable home that was somehow prior to the broken home that she knew.  As a teenager, she attended evening classes at the School of Philosophy in Belgium, that offered a ‘sanitized’ version of Vedanta. While it gave a lot, the experience became oppressive, and when she left to Oxford University, she instead delved into Jungian psychology and the application of psychoanalytic and feminist literary theory.

When she was 20, Georgi arrived in Jerusalem, in search of a midway point between the mysticism of the east and the decay of the west. She experienced a part of the earth that is charged with bliss. Yet it was also a country where it seemed that nobody belonged. In this, she found a sense of belonging (in the field of not belonging).
Georgi’s life in Israel would include a compulsion for conflict. She worked as an investigative journalist exposing lies told about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Later, she would undergo a high-conflict divorce in which she was condemned by rabbinical courts as a fake convert, a home-breaker and a naughty woman.

All this served to re-awaken her deeper purpose: the exploration of the mysteries of consciousness. After she met the love her life – spiritual teacher Bart ten Berge – this passion would express through escalating processes of liberation.Today, she is deeply fulfilled in sharing this journey with others through workshops, and one-on-one mentorship.

A free spirit, citizen of the world and a poet, Georgi is presently pioneering Nondual Therapy, which she sees as part of a paradigm shift in the evolution of psychology.

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Website: perception.inner-growth.org

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Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded July 6, 2019

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction and Importance of Donations in Supporting BATGAP
  • 00:04:47 – The Value of Individual Responsibility and Volunteer Work
  • 00:08:37 – A Jacob’s Ladder of Light
  • 00:12:30 – The Connection Through Meditation and Mantras
  • 00:17:09 – Forbidden Mantras and Spiritual Contemplation
  • 00:21:19 – Surrendering to Genius
  • 00:26:10 – Mystical experiences and the power of sound
  • 00:30:11 – The Death of the Author and the Fluidity of Texts
  • 00:34:28 – The Negative Effects of Trusting Outer Authority
  • 00:38:58 – Cannabis and Coffee-induced Psychosis
  • 00:42:16 – From Anxiety to Apocalyptic Depression
  • 00:46:42 – Finding Healing and Service
  • 00:50:53 – Overcoming Anxiety and Finding Joy
  • 00:55:05 – Closing of the Heart
  • 01:00:00 – Visitations from Enlightened Beings
  • 01:03:01 – The Cone of Non-Duality
  • 01:07:34 – The Paradox of Existence and Nonexistence
  • 01:12:37 – Qualities of Awakening: Love, Peace, Joy
  • 01:17:21 – The Peace Within Conflict
  • 01:22:26 – The Spoiled Nature of Humanity
  • 01:26:14 – The Impulse to Incarnate in a State of Nondual Quality
  • 01:31:16 – The Innocence and Guilt of Humanity
  • 01:35:35 – The Non-Dual Nature of Inheritance and Purpose
  • 01:39:53 – Embracing Natural Empathy and Unity with Others
  • 01:44:16 – Different Experiences of Enlightenment Based on Nervous System
  • 01:49:14 – The Sensitivity of the Nervous System
  • 01:53:17 – The Vision of Two Figures
  • 01:58:06 – The Tragic Effects of Psychiatric Drugs
  • 02:02:49 – The Mind as a Receiver
  • 02:07:57 – Embracing Diversity and Non-Conformity
  • 02:11:43 – Conclusion and Donation Reminder