Why The World Is An Illusion And How We Can Transcend It with Vishen Lakhiani and Shaman Durek
The Mindvalley Podcast
Mindvalley
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Face the world with a healthy bill of skepticism. In this reverse interview, Vishen Lakhiani is interviewed by Shaman Durek on the Ancient Wisdom podcast. They break down some of the biggest lies in the modern world diving deep into the notion of time, the pressures of hard work and hustle, and the different levels of personal development.
We highly recommend getting Vishen's NYT bestseller, The Code of The Extraordinary Mind as a follow-up read to this episode. Get it at go.mindvalley.com/mvpcodex
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| 0:00.0 | I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:05.0 | You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and |
| 0:09.2 | thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, |
| 0:16.6 | and work. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Today's episode, it's going to be an unusual one, because what you're going to listen to is a reverse podcast. |
| 0:25.2 | A reverse podcast is when I appear on someone else's podcast and they interview me. |
| 0:30.9 | And the person interviewing me is shaman Durek. |
| 0:34.0 | If that name sounds familiar, it's because just two months ago, |
| 0:38.0 | shaman was all over the global news |
| 0:41.0 | when the princess of Norway, Princess Martha Louise, announced that she |
| 0:45.8 | was in a relationship with a black shaman. Think about how beautiful that is, and rightfully |
| 0:52.1 | so, it made global news. |
| 0:55.2 | Shaman Durek is the partner to the Princess of Norway. |
| 0:57.7 | He is a powerful shaman and healer living in the United States, |
| 1:01.3 | and he is the host of the Ancient Wisdom Today podcast. |
| 1:05.0 | I was honored to appear on Sherman's podcast and what you're going to listen to here |
| 1:09.1 | are me and Sherman discuss ideas that I do not typically talk about on the Mind Valley |
| 1:14.2 | podcast. We're going to bring in ideas from Martin Luther King, |
| 1:18.1 | Naseim Harameen, Rumi, Esther Hicks, Abraham Maslow, Neil Donald Walsh, and of course ideas from my book, |
| 1:25.9 | The Code of the Extraordinary Mind. |
| 1:28.1 | We'll be talking about the grand illusions of the world, the illusions that shaman see true, |
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