Charlie Hartwell & Maureen Pelton on Investing in Consciousness

Charlie Hartwell & Maureen Pelton on Investing in Consciousness

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How has the science of consciousness led to a scalable Mind/Training Industry? Is the collective ready to go deeper using the innovations that emerge from this space? How do we honor the divinity within and still bring these concepts to the consumer without losing the heart and soul of the teachings and techniques? In this episode, Maureen Pelton and Charlie Hartwell give us a great overview of the Mind/Training space, how it has changed as technology developed, and where they see it going. We also explore the potential and power of psychedelics for curative, transformative healing. And how to bring the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine into balance in ourselves and the collective.

About the Guests

Man and womanCharlie Hartwell is the Managing Partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative, a group of highly successful investors who have been investing in start-up companies in the space of mental health, consciousness, and spirituality. Some of their investments include Pear Therapeutics, Insight Timer, Headspace, and Happify Health.

A Harvard Business School graduate, Charlie has served and led organizations in 14 different industries, including starting a nonprofit in the slums of Kenya in 1986 that has now served health care to several million patients.

Maureen Pelton, MSSW, is a social scientist and spiritual teacher with 36 years of professional experience as a Holistic Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, Organizational Consultant, Adjunct Faculty, and Group Facilitator.

Maureen is a teacher on Insight Timer, and is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Quantum Neuro Reset Therapy, QNRT™ and is a partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative

Links

Bridge Builders Collaborative https://www.bbcollaborative.com

Their website https://www.shiftit.com

www.chaosandlight.com

 

The Inner Self and The No Self

The Inner Self and The No Self


As a culture, we are suffering from increasingly narrow bands of thought. How can different states of consciousness help us to expand beyond our limiting perspectives? In this episode, we will explore the value in exploring the inner self and the no-self through non-ordinary states of being.

In This Episode:

  • The Divine Spectacle:
  • “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” ~William Blake
  • An altered state of consciousness (ASC) is generally defined as any mental state that is perceived by an individual, or an observer, as being significantly different from ‘normal’ waking consciousness.
  • We look at our deep knowing that we walk in both the known and unknown worlds. Exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness allows us to build compassion, see from multiple perspectives and understand our oneness. 
  • The world is better, more mysterious and more meaningful than we could possibly imagine in our waking consciousness.
  • Non-ordinary states of consciousness allow for quantum leaps in our personal evolution.
  • The Scared Mind:
  • We are in ordinary states of consciousness 2/3 of our time, an ordinary state looks at these parameters:
    • Awareness of yourself and your surroundings – emotional, physical, mental
    • Control and automatic processes
    • You have a sense of time – or time orientation
    • Level of self-control
    • Minimized perceptual and cognitive distortions
  • We look at the different brain wave states associated with different approaches to altered states of consciousness.
  • We look at the value of exploring the inner self and the no-self.

It’s Worth Your Time:

  • I recommend a great collection of guided meditations by Dakota Earth Cloud Walker of the Gaia Wisdom School – https://dakotaearthcloud.com/
    • Amazing guided meditation and journeys
    • High production value, great direction
  • An interview with Michael Pollan on Sam Harris’ Making Sense – They explore the research from a very calculated and rational way – Michael Pollan in his 60s experienced some of these psychedelics for the first time he shares his personal experiences and the current research being done.