Christopher M. Bache has been a professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University for 35 years as well as an intermittent adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. From 2000-2002 he was Director of Transformative Learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is an award winning teacher, international speaker, and author of “Lifecyles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life”, “Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind”, and “The Living Classroom”. His work explores the deeper dimensions of human psychology, including collective consciousness, reincarnation theory and philosophical implications of transpersonal states of awareness.
Chris speaks with Joanna about: the soul level of collective transformation; integrating non ordinary states of consciousness; opening to expanded horizons of intelligence and love; an individuality of communion; “the birth of the diamond soul”; harnessing the powers of our innate creativity; the importance of being grounded in entheogenic exploration.
”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Great talk, thank you so much. Esp the point about the time possibly required to integrate deep experience.
loved this conversation ,felt very pertinent to my situation “can we have too much of the divine ” is a good question ,as I feel I am trying to recover from kundalini awakening and that it has literally blown my circuitry as I felt I was not able to ground the energy but can’t help feeling with the right support maybe I could have ,as at the time it kind of felt do able if only I had found someone to meet me and let go of their ego enough to meet on that soul level .
I can’t help feeling that there are so few support networks for people undergoing these transpersonal experiences that really valuable transformative ,healing experiences are continually being lost .the psychiatric system being a major source of sabotage for these experiences .This conversation really resonated for me and I loved listening although a painful reminder of lost opportunities as well .Also the pain of returning back to a consensual reality where so many people seem to like to stubbornly cling to their egoic seperate selves just to shore up some kind of identity as I really agree that the more you dive into the collective soul the more your own creative individuality becomes but in a “communal way “.