E96 - Dr. John Churchill: How To Wake Up & Show Up For A Planet That Needs You
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
Dr. John Churchill joins the podcast today to walk us through the process of human development: from infantry to enlightenment. He shares a deep understanding of the spiritual awakening journey and how we can best optimize ourselves for this process. He lays the foundation for the conversation by describing our planetary cycle and how it related to our own development. revealing the "Fourth Turning" our planet is currently in and it's greater global implications.
He describes the personal ascension process in 3 stages: growing up, cleaning up waking up - and how by deepening our understanding of these phases we can lay a strong foundation for our spiritual awakening.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:49 The Wheel of Time: Understanding Earth’s Cycles
10:18 Organizing Ourselves For Planetary Change
18:54 Emergence: How to Optimize Yourself For Synchronicity
22:22 The Fourth Turning: Our Current Planetary Cycle
35:05 Transitioning From the Head to the Heart
39:10 Levels of Human Spiritual Development Explained
1:17:30 Healing Childhood Trauma: The Cleaning Up Process
1:24:27 Understanding the Attachment, Relational, & Self Systems
1:35:04 Visualization Practices for Healing Relations
1:47:45 How to Wake Up & See the Oneness
2:00:17 The True Nature of Self
2:08:05 Merging Growing Up, Cleaning Up, Waking Up
2:16:45 Specific Practices for Raising Your Consciousness
2:17:13 Developing Processes to Cover the 3 Stages
2:31:10 How to Embody Your Highest Self Today
2:39:40 Conclusion
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Born in London, Dr. Churchill's interest in psycho-spiritual development, Integral theory, Contemplative studies, Western Esotericism, and Mahayana Buddhism began in his adolescence, eventually leading him to spend several years as a Buddhist monk at Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland. During this time, John received the esoteric Planetary Dharma transmissions that would in time unfold as his contribution to a planetary fourth turning teaching.
For the last 25 years, John has developed a a Fourth Turning Planetary Dharma practice which includes the somatically based contemplative practice path; Embodying the Open Ground, that integrates psychodynamic healing, adult development and meditation.
John holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from William James College, and is a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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| 0:00.0 | In our civilization, if we're still here in 50 years time, millions of people will suddenly |
| 0:05.1 | realize the development is a real thing. |
| 0:07.5 | We're at war on this planet. |
| 0:08.7 | We live in this materialist, empirical, scientific worldview, but actually, there's so much |
| 0:13.8 | more going on. |
| 0:14.7 | A lot of what we're being asked to do is to align with how our planet is unfolding. |
| 0:20.4 | We do have now the technology that could allow us essentially to spin up a golden age in a short amount of time. |
| 0:27.2 | If we can... |
| 0:28.2 | The term mysticism is a bit of a misnomer because it actually isn't a mystery. |
| 0:32.8 | It's a science. |
| 0:33.6 | Doing the right practice at the right moment in time, it's super important. |
| 0:37.8 | You can waste years and years and years and the thing is, that is so common. |
| 0:42.5 | If we can build a new initiatory system that really takes people through those stages |
| 0:48.5 | and bring to the table the best of the world's wisdom traditions, |
| 0:52.8 | this moment in time actually holds great promise as well as great peril. |
| 1:02.4 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Know They Self podcast. Today we have the privilege of sitting down with a powerful teacher in the field of human development. |
| 1:11.8 | He has a degree in contemplative psychology and Chinese medicine in a doctoral degree in clinical psychology as well. |
| 1:18.8 | He's spent several years as a Buddhist monk. This conversation, the goal I feel, is going to be |
| 1:24.3 | providing this whole tribe that we're building here with a comprehensive framework |
| 1:28.9 | and overview for the path of human self-development as well as planetary development towards self-actualization |
| 1:35.9 | and realization, the need for an integral approach and an overview of it all as well. And much, |
| 1:41.9 | much more, Dr. John Churchill. thanks for being here andrew thank you for |
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