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Hi, my name is Ava and I’m delighted to offer you “Functional Spirituality”, a free resource of talks, trainings and guided meditations. I use an academic approach to invite critical thinking into energetic, mystical and heart-based practices. Spirituality has a history of disempowering the individual and worshiping the guru or priest, without question. In this podcast, I aim to reduce the dogma that has rendered so many schools and practices ineffective - (and strange AF) - and to elevate the conversation around spirituality. I want to EMPOWER the meditator and yogi, to place the power back in our hands, to live directly from our own experience. I hope you enjoy! For Q&A questions, topic suggestions email Ava at functionalspiritualityretreat@gmail.com Visit www.functionalspirituality.com Follow us @FunctionalSpirituality or @avairani_ and our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
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Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Inspired by Ava’s friends who have asked questions about her baby’s ‘soul’. In this episode Ava elaborates further on why she does not believe that anyone has a soul.
With a degree in philosophy and a profound knowledge of non-duality, she explains that what we are in essence is very different to the common concept of the soul.
Join our Facebook community group and share with us what you believe the ‘soul’ is. We would love to hear your comments on this topic.
Relevant episodes:
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic.
3:00 How spiritual concepts get conflated with physical reality.
4:00 The four stages of spiritual seeking and the importance of logic.
7:15 Ava’s job as a philosopher is to refine her thinking.
9:09 What is the soul?
12:08 The most up to date knowledge on personality.
15:00 Non- duality and Ava’s most profound meditation and spiritual experiences.
18:15 What am I essentially?
22:10 Personality, the nervous system and the soul.
27:00 Adopting beliefs in order to create otherness and belonging.
29:00 Using spirituality as a bandaid.
30:00 Today’s episode summary and the importance of refinement.
33:30 We would love to hear your comments of this episode.
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