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Tim Corcoran is a Nature Based Purpose Guide and the founder of Purpose Mountain.

He is a certified Purpose Whisperer.

For a long time, I cringed whenever I saw people use this word. I thought it was an oversimplistic and biased interpretation of a random series of events.

The first time I heard Tim speak was when that started to change for me. I felt something deep inside, ringing with energy and bursting with potential, held in a sense of knowingness that felt more solid than the chair I'm sitting on.

Your Purpose is that thing, that calling, that direction that your entire life is constantly reorienting and pointing you towards. It's what happens when you surrender to Life.

The instinctual gravitational force that never stops pulling you, no matter how far you feel you have 'strayed from the path.'

If know what I'm speaking about, and want to turn up the volume on this Inner Guidance, or you don't and feel a curiosity tingling in your toes, this episode is going to be medicine for your soul.

In this episode:

• What is Purpose?
• How to find and follow it
• How to discern a true synchronicity from an imagined one
• Sensitivity as a non-specific amplifier
• How to find the right mentor
• The true meaning of prayer
• The ultimate practice for connecting to your Purpose: The Vision Quest
• The Soul Wander: a bite-sized Vision Quest 

Links

Tims Work:

• Purpose Mountain
• The Vision Quest

Other:

• Tim's Interview with Erick Godsey
• HEx Ascent Podcast: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
• APOTHEOSIS - The Ultimate Plant Medicine Retreat 

Identity is at the core of all of our personal transformation. It is absolutely central to the process of change, for better or for worse.

After decades of my own work, and the insights gained from guiding thousands through their own transformational experiences, we’ve pulled apart the fundamental mechanics of personal transformation.

This episode is a solocast with Eric Brown, taking you deep down the rabbit hole of personal change, touching on the tips, tricks, mechanisms, and fundamentals of what it takes to change who you are, and who you’re becoming.

This wisdom and insight has been pulled together in a 100-day transformational initiation, the Hero100. We’re inviting a group of courageous individuals to take this adventure with us, one that will be sure to ripple out for a lifetime.


In This Episode:
- The 4 requirements for identity-level transformation
- Key pitfalls and obstacles along the path
- How to maintain transcendent experiences
- A deep humbling 5 days into a medicine retreat
- Unique mechanics to survive and thrive through the change process
- An invitation to join a movement to make heroes

LINKS

• Hero100
• Overview Video

Order a copy of Verissimus here

In our 3rd interview with Stoic author, philosopher and cognitive behavioural therapist, Donald Robertson, we discuss his brand new graphic novel, VERISSIMUS. 

This is the most epic philosophical project that I am aware of to date. 

If Ridley Scott's Gladiator had a baby with Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, you’d get Verissimus.

As you’ll hear in this interview, this project was a massive undertaking, taking nearly 3 years to complete. Detailing the life, times, and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, the book acts as a historically accurate, action-packed entry point into the Stoic landscape.

In this episode, we cover:

• The process of creating this book
• Why Donald decided to make a graphic novel
• Why many Romans actually opposed Marcus Aurelius
• Marcus’ mission to cultivate natural compassion towards all human beings, even his worst enemies
• The absurdity of Stoicism’s most popular criticism 
• Stoicism’s deep influence on early Christianity
• The relationship between intuition and reason
• Jon’s single favourite chapter on Stoicism

Links to Donald's Work:

 Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, by Donald Robertson 

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, by Donald Robertson

Donald’s website

Modern Stoicism

Cris Beasley has become a profoundly influential force in my life.

Her ability to go directly to the places where we are hiding, playing it small, and not owning the raw realities of our human experience is remarkable.

Her path from the tech world to being CEO of an AI company, to psychedelic facilitator, medicine woman, and oracle creator is as vibrant and rich as her personality.

Cris has several amazing achievements under her belt:

• Working with Mozilla to shape the open internet.
• The trials and tribulations of being a CEO.
• Creating the ‘Cult of Busyness’ immersive workshop experience
• Psychedelic facilitation and retreat work
• Creating the Becoming Dragon oracle deck
• Her new microdosing experience
• + much more

Cris is as emotionally attuned as she is wise. As witty as she is serious. It’s been an incredible process to watch her grow, evolve, and continue to execute with a combination of quality, speed, vigour, and grace. 

Bridging the shamanic and the scientific, the emotional and the intellectual, Cris is a deeply strong, powerful, and loving voice in the space of emotional intelligence, personal healing, and experience design. 

You can find her at:

• Becoming Dragon
• Substack
• Microdosing Experience

Enjoy this episode of the HighExistence podcast with Cris Beasley!

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“You can move past these obstacles. You probably relate to them as obstacles right now, but they’re actually a part of the path, right?”

-Mike Slavin (HEx Podcast #61)

In today’s solo cast, Mike leads us down a rabbit hole of discombobulate selves, where we find the true source of our procrastinative tendencies.

He reminds us that we procrastinate, not because we are cursed, but because a part of ourselves doesn’t want us to go where we are trying to go. 

Resistance is not an external force, but rather a part of YOU that is not yet on board with the mission yet.

Instead of slaying the procrastodragon, have you tried communicating with it? Listening to it, and harmonizing with it until it shrinks, or joins forces with you, so you can ride it into the ever-expanding horizon of your dreams 🌅

If you feel like you are being pulled in two directions at the same time, not quite able to actually move in any of them, this one is for you. Enjoy 🙇🏻‍♂️

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For more where this came from, take a dive Down The Rabbit Hole, where you'll find Mike and his magic being dispensed in the form of a weekly newsletter, filled with bite-sized chunks of wisdom and wonder, just like this episode. 🧙🏼‍♂️

“Here’s the funny thing: when I ask someone to tell me what his or her wildest dream is, they dilute it. Ten times out of ten, people sell themselves short”

Steve Sims 

Our guest on the podcast today should never have been able to succeed in business or in life. Growing up as a bricklayer in London, England, all the odds were against him achieving the kind of outlandish success he’s been able to claim so far, but it’s clear that the universe didn’t expect someone with Steve Sims’ heart, ingenuity, and initiative to appear and to turn traditional forms of networking on their heads. 

I first came across Steve Sims in his absurdly motivating book, Bluefishing, which tells the story of his company that makes seemingly unreasonable requests come true. The company is called Bluefish, and they’re who you call if you want to sing on stage with Journey, eat dinner in front of Michelangelo’s David, or visit the undersea wreckage of the Titanic. He’s orchestrated all of these experiences for his clients and many more besides. 

Steve is just an absolute magician when it comes to making the impossible possible, so listen to today’s episode if you’re open to receiving a ton of inspiration to get out there and make big things happen. 

He teaches that there is a password for every door, a weak spot in every wall, and if we would only stop selling ourselves short and start taking massive action, we might just be able to make that wall come down. 

Especially important to understand, moreover, is that in today’s business environment, mean guys finish last. A new, longer-term, more generous form of networking is making the old, manipulative kind of networking obsolete, and Steve Sims is helping to lead the way. 

I hope that you finish this episode just brimming with inspiration and courage, and leave with the understanding that you can get pretty much anything you want in life, so long as you help enough other people get what they want.

What We Cover: 

• What makes an entrepreneur an entrepreneur?
• The most important skills for futureproofing yourself
• How to break away from the rest and make yourself memorable
• Why being you is the most powerful marketing tactic there is
• Communicating your message clearly, without dilution
• The importance of surrounding yourself with people who are further along than you

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You’ve gone Down The Rabbit Hole. Now it’s time to walk up The Stairway to Wisdom.

Introducing a brand new weekly newsletter from the minds at HighExistence.

Over the past year, we’ve been publishing the wonder-inducing weekly email known as “Down The Rabbit Hole,” and now we’re taking it a step further.

We want our readers not only to feel a deep sense of enchantment towards the world around them but also to apply deep teachings to their daily life so they can experience the life-transforming benefits of wisdom-in-action.

The Stairway to Wisdom is a premium weekly newsletter for those who are ready to dive deeper. We’ve partnered with independent researcher and knowledge connoisseur, Matt Karamazov, who has taken sharp, meticulous notes on over 1000 books so that he could share the most inspiring pearls of wisdom with the world.

Learn more here

“Our True Desires are deeply sacred. As sacred as a river, or a volcano, or any other natural process. It’s something separate from egoic desire which is, ‘I want this because I saw it in a commercial', but the exploration of those egoic desires might actually help somebody go towards those things. And so I think our desires are sacred. I think it’s something to listen to as if it is the voice of God.”

Jake Kobrin (HEx Podcast #59)

Magick has always been a concept that I've brushed aside as another overly esoteric, new-age fad that I assumed would reveal itself to be built on faulty foundations if I ever actually decided to dig into it.

After listening to this episode, I realize that those assumptions couldn't be further from the truth. Magick is thousands of years older than western psychology. Its' roots run deep and its implications far and wide.

The most controversial magician of the 20th century, Aleister Crowley, defined it as “the science and art of causing change in conformity with our Will”. 

In other words, this is a long-standing tradition that has mastered the art of manifesting the life that is the fullest and most accurate expression of your innermost being (aka the True Will). As you’ll hear in this episode, there is an endless list of techniques that can aid and accelerate this process. 

”If you follow, yeah you can call it whatever you want, some divine intelligence, some deep ancestral wisdom that’s just sown into your DNA, your life will be better than your dreams because man, it’s going to take you on a process. Some of it might be an initiation process, some of it might be really challenging. It might confront you with a lot, but the other side of it is… mind-boggling.”

Eric Brown (HEx Podcast #59)

And that's only one portion of this conversation...

What We Cover: 

• What it means to be a visionary artist 
• Practical examples of how to use language to shape your reality
• An introduction to Magick
• The concepts of The True Will and The Great Work
• Ceremonial Magick as initiatory processes
• Sigil Magick
• A run through the Magickal toolbox 
• The sacredness of desires
• The refreshing sincerity of sex dungeons
• Cryptocurrency, NFT's and Virtual Reality

DIVE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE and get 5+ mind-blowing ideas, tools, or quotes sent to you every Wednesday.

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Psychedelics can cause harm. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love psychedelics. But I also acknowledge their potential to bring about profoundly unwanted changes in the psyche.

Yet, with the ever-more abundant influx of news focussing on the life-changing benefits of these substances, the very real risks that pose are getting drowned out, leaving us with only one-half of the full picture.

The way that our information channels are structured these days, if we don’t want to hear about something, we usually don’t. We also tend to be over-eager to find The Solution to all our problems. Psychedelics, for many, are taking on this projection. It’s not uncommon to hear people talking about the psychedelic renaissance as though it were the second coming. 

Ed Prideaux is on a mission to stop some of this psychedelic naivety in its tracks, by speaking up about his experience with hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD). 

Remember those LSD horror stories that your mum told you, about that guy who took LSD and never stopped tripping? Well, this is sort of like that (although HPPD is not the same as ‘permatripping’, as you’ll hear Ed clarify) except this is no horror story. The week after Ed’s fourth LSD trip, he noticed that the carpets were sparkling and the walls were melting. These effects, along with a handful of others, have not totally left him, 6 years on.

This phenomenon is far more common than you might think. A recent study of 2455 psychedelic users reported that a quarter of participants said that they experienced lingering perceptual changes days and weeks after a psychedelic experience and that 1 in 25 found these changes to be so distressing that they considered seeking clinical help.

The conversation that Ed brings to the table goes far beyond just HPPD. It extends into an axiom-altering exploration of the narratives around ‘really bad trips’, the fundamental flaws of the current mental health framework, and the fluid nature of reality itself. 

What We Cover: 

• What is HPPD?
• Ed’s personal experience with HPPD
• The connection between anxiety and perception
• Advice for someone who thinks they might have HPPD
• The problem with overidentifying with a particular form of suffering
• Can you use psychedelics again if you have HPPD?
• The gifts of neurodiversity
• Stan Grof’s controversial treatment for HPPD
• How to make a psychedelic experience as well-held as possible
• The fundamental skill to have in the psychedelic experience
• The intersection of this psychedelic moment with the metaverse
• Psychedelic narcissism 

DIVE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE and get 5+ mind-blowing ideas, tools, or quotes sent to you every Wednesday.

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“Whenever you say ‘I can’t find ideas,’ what you’re really saying is, ‘the world is perfect and it needs nothing.’”

-MJ DeMarco, HEx Podcast #57

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There’s a lot of terrible advice out there. Maybe you’ve noticed this the last time you were outside. People will say things like, “Just follow your passion!” or, “Money doesn’t matter!” or, perhaps even worse, “Only 40 more years until retirement, and then you’ll be a millionaire!”

Some of the people that proffer this advice actually do want the best for you, and they’re honestly trying to help. The problem is that they’ve never learned how money actually works, how wealth is actually created, and how entrepreneurs can solve the problems that are pervasive in society and reap a financial windfall by doing so. 

Our guest on the podcast today, author MJ DeMarco, has taken aim at all the bad advice out there and has consistently proven the truth of his principles in the process of building out his own businesses and helping tens of thousands of entrepreneurs achieve their financial goals - including me. 

He reveals the fallacy behind the idea that following your passion will pay your bills; he shows how, in some contexts, money can buy happiness, and how it can also remove some of the sources of unhappiness; and this whole thing about retirement? What people don’t tell you is that in 40 years, you’ll be 40 years older, and unable to enjoy your money to the degree that you would have been able to while you’re young. As he says, wheelchairs, don’t fit inside the trunks of Lamborghinis. 

But his wisdom goes deeper than that. Much deeper. Business can be an incredible source of personal fulfillment, and if you’re willing to put your heart and soul (and brain and hands) into something for 10 years, you can win the financial game. You can have it when you’re relatively young, and you’ll never have to wonder, “What would have happened if I really went for it?”

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What We Cover:

• How the level of access to knowledge is unprecedented right now, and how tapping into it can change the trajectory of your life
• MJ’s “C-E-N-T-S” framework for coming up with high-velocity business ideas (featuring the Commandments of Control, Entry, Need, Time, and Scale)
• How to increase the magnitude of your contribution and accelerate your profits
• The timelessness of great books and podcasts
• Nassim Taleb’s concept of “antifragility” and how it can help prepare you for any external event that could threaten your safety and security
• The Great Rat Race Escape, MJ’s newest book, a business book/novel hybrid that follows one couple’s personal journey from financial slavery to financial freedom
• ”Value skews” and how you can develop them in order to walk over your competition
• ”Superior Unexpected Customer Service” (SUCS) and why it’s so much easier today for your business to stand out
• ”Expected Value” and why you should always aim for “Excellent” instead of just “Good”
• The latest redefinition of “financial freedom” and why it’s just financial slavery in a different form
• Why investing in your health will improve your life in every other area
• When you should begin your child’s financial education and how to avoid the mediocrity narrative

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Stoicism is often thought of as a collection of theoretical concepts and ideas that one learns by reading books and consuming Stoic content.  

In this solocast, Jon Brooks proposes that a true Stoic is more like a Martial Artist.  To become undefeatable, we need to practice and refine our skills so that we are ready for the real battles when they come.

If you’re ready to put down the book and step into the arena, sign up for Askesis: our 10 week Online Stoic Bootcamp.