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The Loss of Inner Sense and The Shadow
Friday, November 13th, 2020
This audio mp3 product is taken from Wisdom, The Course, and recorded with a student of the course.
The realisation that one has a ‘Shadow’, or ‘Shadow Baggage’ is a profound revelation in a person’s life.
The prior notion that we are living and engaging in life with the use of all faculties, attributes and resources available to us is replaced by the awareness that (typically) a significant portion of who we are, our true personality and what we are capable of has been inadvertently shut down.
The opportunity in this epiphany is that we may begin to reclaim all of those aspects and attributes of ourselves; something which is the bedrock of all Kissing Consciousness facilitation activity, and which is also known as ‘Shadow Work’, after the Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Jung’s term, ‘the Shadow’.
This audio is the student support dialogue for Module Four of Kissing Consciousness Founder, James Blacker’s, Online Wisdom Course.
“Although I was aware I was living from conditioned limitation and repression of huge parts of my personality by age 23/24, it wasn’t until age 34/35 that I became aware that what I’d previously thought was me operating from my whole self was actually me operating from a largely false, shut down self. This came after engaging in specific Shadow exercises. This typical experience is an awakening of the true self.” – James Blacker
Sadly, the majority of people choose not to acknowledge their own Shadow, both to their own detriment and to the detriment of others.
About James Blacker
James Blacker is a humanitarian and Integral Philosopher, and of course the Founder of Kissing Consciousness, and author of The Kissing Consciousness Handbook. He launched the Kissing Consciousness movement to help as many people as possible to work together, commune and co-support in releasing the blocks to their true self, and thus live their happiest and most fulfilled life possible.
In the realm of collective development and social and global issues, James is using his qualification in Spiral Dynamics to provide leadership and help co-create a world beyond system failure, so as to avoid – or mitigate – climate disaster, economic injustice and our other existential threats.
Friday, November 13th, 2020
“The problem isn’t wanting to eat chocolate cake, but being willing to eat chocolate cake for the wrong reasons.” – James Blacker
The Wisdom Diet (2007) is a psychological approach to weight management that identifies the five disempowering aspects of conventional dieting and turns them on their head so that they work for you.
Based in the healthy and wise approach of listening to the body, The Wisdom Diet guides us to distinguish between the needs of the mind and the needs of the body. If the need for food is in the mind it can never be satisfied by food, so by making this distinction we can empower our approach.
The five main things that are wrong with dieting are;
- Denial
- Forced exercise
- You can fail them; there’s no guarantee of results
- It takes time
- And you can quit them.
There’s a psychological way to turn all of those negative-seeming characteristics to your advantage.
About James Blacker
James Blacker is a humanitarian and Integral Philosopher, and of course the Founder of Kissing Consciousness, and author of The Kissing Consciousness Handbook. He launched the Kissing Consciousness movement to help as many people as possible to work together, commune and co-support in releasing the blocks to their true self, and thus live their happiest and most fulfilled life possible.
In the realm of collective development and social and global issues, James is using his qualification in Spiral Dynamics to provide leadership and help co-create a world beyond system failure, so as to avoid – or mitigate – climate disaster, economic injustice and our other existential threats.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
At the time when I interviewed David for this audio on ageing and strength for life, in 2002, he had just completed a thousand kilometre challenge cycling around Vietnam in temperatures of 90 degrees and 90% humidity; a fearsome challenge for anyone made more remarkable by the fact that David was 62 at the time.
Here, the trainer of elite athletes and Founder of the National Rehabilitation Centre for the Paralysed shares his unique insights to help us avoid the artificial barriers and false limitations society conditions us into.
With a philosophy rooted strongly in the practice of listening to the body, David explains to us how we can optimize our lifespan and approach ageing from an informed and empowered point of view, giving examples and insights he has come across, from Inuits in the Arctic to tribes people in Borneo.
Track List
- Dikoul’s Decree
- Working with muscles
- Health and fitness
- The regaining of function
- A great experience
- Removing the artificial barriers
- How we see exercise
- Hearing the body
- It’s about being active
- The Metabolic Rate
- The Mental Approach
- Enjoying life
- Beliefs about aging
- Tribespeople in Borneo
- Institutionalised aging
- Re-defining life
- Quality of life
- Cardiovascular efficiency
- Doing something every day
- Respecting the rest period
- Avoiding muscle imbalance
- The activity of living
- Everyone can do it
- Core stability
- The Step reflex, genetic & in-built
- The Righting Reflex
- Re-awakening The Step Reflex
- Listening to the inner self
- Personal Rate of Perceived Exertion
- Processing the data available
- Ignore it, listen only to yourself
- Thank you to David Heard
- An introduction to Sportability
About David Heard
David Heard is a self-made businessman, a trainer of elite, international athletes, Founder of the former National Rehabilitation Centre for the Paralysed and Founder and Chief Executive of the British registered charity, Sportability, which provides adventurous activities for people who’s lives have been affected by paralysis.
David’s philosophy has always been to maximize whatever it is that people have, whether working with elite sportspeople on their performance, helping everyday individuals with their lives and happiness and success goals, or working with people affected by paralysis to regain function. His testimonials include those from Scottish International footballer, Pat Nevin, and former England Cricket Captain, Andrew Strauss.
“June is when the hard work put in during the Winter really starts counting. Fortunately our fitness trainers have done a fantastic job in the off season (I can vouch for that now!), and we are still playing consistently.” – Andy Strauss, as Captain Middlesex CCC
About James Blacker
James Blacker is a humanitarian and Integral Philosopher, and of course the Founder of Kissing Consciousness, and author of The Kissing Consciousness Handbook. He launched the Kissing Consciousness movement to help as many people as possible to work together, commune and co-support in releasing the blocks to their true self, and thus live their happiest and most fulfilled life possible.
In the realm of collective development and social and global issues, James is using his qualification in Spiral Dynamics to provide leadership and help co-create a world beyond system failure, so as to avoid – or mitigate – climate disaster, economic injustice and our other existential threats.
“Wow, what a wonderful book you’ve written. I’m truly impressed with the clarity and quality you’ve presented. You’re impacting the lives of an untold number of people. I applaud you!” – Peter Ragnar
Harnessing The Ever-Available Faculty of Genius
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
This audio mp3 product is taken from Wisdom, The Course, and recorded with a student of the course.
If you are not already harnessing your own capacity for genius – and proactively so – an obvious question is “Why not?”
Quite likely you have been taught by your society that you don’t posses the capacity for genius, that it is something bestowed only on a rare few.
This is unhelpful information, however, and so by releasing those self-limiting beliefs you may be able to reclaim your own capacity for genius.
You may have also been incorrectly taught that the faculty of genius only applies to a certain few, narrow aspects of life, such as academia, art or sport. Actually, it relates to all areas of life, and to each and every moment.
In this audio, which is also the student support dialogue for Module Nineteen of Kissing Consciousness Founder, James Blacker’s, Online Wisdom Course, you will learn what genius is – and what it isn’t – and how to harness it for your own benefit.
About James Blacker
James Blacker is a humanitarian and Integral Philosopher, and of course the Founder of Kissing Consciousness, and author of The Kissing Consciousness Handbook. He launched the Kissing Consciousness movement to help as many people as possible to work together, commune and co-support in releasing the blocks to their true self, and thus live their happiest and most fulfilled life possible.
In the realm of collective development and social and global issues, James is using his qualification in Spiral Dynamics to provide leadership and help co-create a world beyond system failure, so as to avoid – or mitigate – climate disaster, economic injustice and our other existential threats.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
How it Works: Digitally Delivered Products
When you purchase a digital product you are returned to a web page which has the product files for you to download.
The files will be listed as hyperlinks and you simply right-click to save them to your computer or other device.
You will also be sent an email with a link to download the product files, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t download the product immediately – you have a backup.
Once downloaded, you can watch/listen to the files at your leisure.
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
I love this interview; the classic interview from 2004 on Happiness. When David Heard and I had our preparatory pre-record discussion prior to making the recording, outside at a cafe in Hampstead, there were people listening in from other tables and gathering round, such was the passion and authenticity with which David was discussing the topics involved.
This essential ‘Call to Self’ cuts through the nonsense and self-defeating approval seeking that modern life has been caught up in.
By being true to ourselves we can make choices that fulfill our heart’s desire and honour our potential; not the potential that someone else deems we ‘should’ pursue, but our own intrinsic, internal sense of what’s important to us.
Track List
Although this product is an MP3 Download, it was originally sold as a two disc CD product. The individual tracks that you will download as MP3s are as follows:-
‘Disc’ One
- Still on the quest for happiness
- Attainment and happiness thereafter
- Happiness is something inside
- It’s got nothing to do with goals
- Removed from envy and craven desire
- Enjoying the journey as well
- Living in the moment
- Reinterpreting an event
- Learning to value the moment
- Passion and drive making it work
- The seeds of much unhappiness
- Freedom from the need for approval
- Why we fight against our true natures
- You’ve got to feel free to be yourself
- Going beyond the dance of half truths
- Where the roots of happiness lie
- Living one’s truth is good for all
- Unhappy for five days plus two days
- If you never start, you never will
- Overcoming fears: The Model of Self
‘Disc’ Two
- The source of our own happiness
- Self-respect, self-belief and self-worth
- Living as true to yourself as you can
- The honesty we give to other people
- Shedding the tension of untrue roles
- Foundations based on truth and reality
- The strength to go forward
- The capacity to enjoy now
- What we’re all capable of
- Human potential related to happiness
- We know what is inside of us
- Judgementalism and internal dissatisfaction
- Avoiding truths and needing reassurance
- The fount of all dissatisfaction
- Having sufficient understanding
- Everyone inherently has the same value
- Questioning reasons for doing things
- Expressing emotions and introspection
- Only people we care about can touch us
- Being angry whilst still caring
- Bridging the gap of miscommunication
- Building bridges and reaching others
About David Heard
David Heard is a self-made businessman, a trainer of elite, international athletes, Founder of the former National Rehabilitation Centre for the Paralysed and Founder and Chief Executive of the British registered charity, Sportability, which provides adventurous activities for people who’s lives have been affected by paralysis.
David’s philosophy has always been to maximize whatever it is that people have, whether working with elite sportspeople on their performance, helping everyday individuals with their lives and happiness and success goals, or working with people affected by paralysis to regain function. His testimonials include those from Scottish International footballer, Pat Nevin, and former England Cricket Captain, Andrew Strauss.
“June is when the hard work put in during the Winter really starts counting. Fortunately our fitness trainers have done a fantastic job in the off season (I can vouch for that now!), and we are still playing consistently.” – Andy Strauss, as Captain Middlesex CCC
About James Blacker
James Blacker is a humanitarian and Integral Philosopher, and of course the Founder of Kissing Consciousness, and author of The Kissing Consciousness Handbook. He launched the Kissing Consciousness movement to help as many people as possible to work together, commune and co-support in releasing the blocks to their true self, and thus live their happiest and most fulfilled life possible.
In the realm of collective development and social and global issues, James is using his qualification in Spiral Dynamics to provide leadership and help co-create a world beyond system failure, so as to avoid – or mitigate – climate disaster, economic injustice and our other existential threats.
“Wow, what a wonderful book you’ve written. I’m truly impressed with the clarity and quality you’ve presented. You’re impacting the lives of an untold number of people. I applaud you!” – Peter Ragnar
