November 30, 2024 • 53 mins
What if the most challenging moments in your life were actually blessings in disguise? Join me, Maria Aponte, as I sit down with the extraordinary Ra Netjer, an ordained Buddhist monk who once thrived in the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley technology. Ra's journey from a tech professional to a spiritual mentor is nothing short of inspiring. Together, we uncover how his early spiritual insights and experiences with darkness transformed his life, leading him to embrace simplicity and prioritize his true purpose. This episode will resonate deeply if you've ever felt the push to look beyond career success and find true fulfillment through spiritual enlightenment.
Ra's journey isn't the only story we explore; I share a personal tale of healing and transformation, influenced profoundly by my twin's sacrifice. We delve into the concept of life's hidden blessings, emphasizing the importance of nurturing spiritual gifts in ourselves and others. Listen as we discuss the potential to develop clairvoyant abilities and the transformative power of understanding one's spiritual nature. Insightful stories from guests remind us of the value of a supportive, spiritually-inclined community that can guide us through awakening, much like a GPS offers directions to a traveler.
Throughout our conversation, we stress the necessity of clarity, guidance, and community in navigating the spiritual journey. By sharing teachings from ancient texts and reflecting on the profound connections between intuition and divine guidance, we offer a roadmap for those seeking to live intentionally and harmoniously. With heartfelt gratitude, this episode promises to leave you inspired to embrace your intuition, surrender to higher guidance, and affirm the limitless potential within you. Embrace the beauty of spiritual awakening alongside us, and discover the profound peace that comes with listening more than speaking.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to the Against All Odds the Less Than
1% Chance podcast with your host, Maria Aponte, where we will
hear stories of incrediblepeople thriving against all odds
, and my hope is that we can allsee how life is always
happening for us, even when weare the Less Than 1% Chance.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey, hey, welcome back to, against All Odds, the
Less Than 1% Chance podcast withyour host, maria Aponte.
Welcome back.
I am so excited to have youguys listen in to this
conversation.
I'm just going to go ahead andintroduce, because this is gonna
be such an amazing conversation.
I could already feel it in myheart.
So I would love to introduceyou to Ra Netsher.
(00:42):
He is an ordained Buddhist monkwho quit his six-figure Silicon
Valley tech job to be aspiritual awakening mentor and
fulfill his mission of upliftingthe consciousness of the world
by helping millions of awakenedsouls discover their
enlightenment Seriously likegoosebumps, so welcome.
(01:04):
I'm so honored to have you onhere.
Give us a little bit ofbackground on how did this all
come about?
What's your story here?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Thank you so much, Maria, for that introduction and
for having me here.
First of all, I love the titleof your podcast, in the intro,
how you say even when there isless than one percent chance of
it happening, life is alwayshappening for you.
I love that.
And so I'm so happy to be here,because this is so aligned with
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my message and this is whatI've felt since my childhood.
My life has been aboutspiritual awakening right.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Even at five years old, when I had my first
awakening, I had glimpses that Iwas here for that light, to
discover it within myself and tospread it.
My mother even invited me tothis earth with that purpose.
And I am here only because I'vegone through these ups and
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downs, these difficulties, thesedark nights of the soul which
transformed me, which wereactually great gifts in my
awakening, even when it was deepdepression, even even when I
did not want to exist anymore.
Those were the times that werelike the coal becomes the
(02:34):
diamond in that pressure right.
Yeah those were the times.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I've been under that pressure, so I understand that
all too well.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, so I love that.
This is super, is super aligned.
But yeah, I'm only here becauseI was open to receive the right
help.
In that time I was able tosurrender and listen to my heart
and follow what life presentedto me through these gifts of
awakening and I realized,actually, all the difficulties I
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was going through were ablessing, because without that,
I wouldn't have been able torelate to people who are in it
right now, because it's mylife's mission to help
spiritually awakening people.
There are millions of people whoare awakening right now, but
most of them have no clue whyit's happening, what is
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happening to them, where it'sgoing right.
So people are stuck, people areisolated, people feel judged,
people feel weird, right whentheir family and their friends,
they're like, oh wow, this guy'sacting crazy.
You know, I was in that placemyself.
I was an actor, I was aphotographer and my movies I was
(03:47):
lead actor and in this movieall the posters were coming out
and I was getting ready to befamous on the outside, but
inside me life felt someaningless.
Yeah nobody really got me andthis is what led to all this
darkness, et cetera, which ledto even more light.
(04:08):
So I realized I am givingpeople help that I would have
used in that moment.
And I was left alone in thedark and I had no clue what to
do, so I know there are millionsout there right now who are in
that place.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, absolutely.
That is why I'm here, I lovethat.
Yeah, I definitely can relate.
I feel like if I wouldn't havebeen in the depression that I
had been in and if I wouldn'thave learned how to make a
decision to change my life, andnow, looking back, the power of
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that decision to change my life,how?
It was simple, not easy, but itwas very simple.
And when I finally did decide,all the tools came from all
different places and I wouldn'thave gotten healthy I was sick
(05:14):
with cancer beforehand Iwouldn't have figured out that
there was tools that I couldphysically have in my home so
that I could still be the singlemom of three kids that I was,
have this career that I had andget healthy all at the same time
(05:35):
.
But it was a simple decision,just simple.
Not easy, but simple.
And if I wouldn't have gonethrough that, I've had enough
and that darkness of I justcan't deal with this anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah then that decision wouldn't have come, and
yeah, I love what you're sayingso much Because it about
simplicity, in a way that lifeis inviting us.
When we are doing so manythings, we are distracted, we
are not aligned with our life'spurpose and doing all sorts of
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things and life invites you.
What is really essential foryou?
What is the priority for you?
Not priorities, and we dopriorities and we have like 10
priorities.
Then what is a priority then?
exactly when life says, allright, now you have a choice to
make, and then it's simple.
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Then you can see okay, this ismore important than anything
else this is what I'm gonna doso.
For me, that was goingfull-time into being a spiritual
awakening mentor, and I was aprogrammer.
I was making good money and, atthe same time, even though
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programming was a meditativepractice for me.
I felt no, this is again notreally what I'm here for.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, I decided all right, so I'm going to heed the
call of life and choose thesimple one thing that I'm here
to do that's amazing andincredible because everything
around us makes life all aboutthe money that you make, the
career that you build, like allof these things.
(07:32):
And we can take a moment andjust search internally for what
we're meant to do, the legacythat we're supposed to leave,
the people that we're supposedto impact.
I know that when I was in theprevious career that I was in
definitely I was very good atwhat I was doing.
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However, I felt like it wasn'tfulfilling my legacy in any way
If I had overcome all of theseobstacles in my life, from in
utero, being in my mom's bellyand all of the things that I had
gone through.
(08:14):
I had gone through many, manythings against all odds.
If I had already overcome thosethings, then my story was not
just for me.
My story was to help othersshow them that against all in
that a career.
But I feel like life was likeno redirect and it really did.
(08:59):
It served for what I needed inthat time period and then I feel
like I became a lot morealigned with who I was and it
served a different purpose then.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, I can relate so much.
It's so funny when youmentioned the trouble you went
through in your mother's belly,like the same thing happened
around my birth, my motherbefore I was born.
She had lost baby and she wastold that she wouldn't be able
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to conceive and for four yearsshe prayed to god and she did
every kind of ritual, every kindkind of deal with God, like in
India they say oh, if you, if Iget this and I will do all these
pujas and all these rituals,right?
So she did that for four yearsbecause of what had happened,
(09:58):
and she was able to conceive meand even then there was such a
danger of losing the baby.
So she was praying all the timewhen I was in her womb and she
made a deal with God this wasthe biggest deal that she made
saying if the baby is born welland healthy and everything goes
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well, I'm not going to hold onto that baby for myself, I'm
going to dedicate that, I'mgoing to give it to god and I
want a baby who is here tospread the light of spirituality
.
And that's why, somehow, I gotinvited into her womb and I, in
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my first awakening, I had thisrealization I was here for this.
Yeah, and without this trouble,even though it looks like
darkness, even though it lookslike suffering, even though it
looks like a very difficultsituation that you wouldn't want
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anybody to have, but at thesame time, that situation itself
was the gift through whichthere was a hidden blessing.
And most of us only look at thesurface and we are very quick
to judge.
And, yeah, the way I say it islike life is always giving us
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gifts, the most amazing,beautiful gifts.
The only problem is that lifeis a really shitty gift wrapper.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yes, I totally agree gift wrapper.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yes, I totally agree, and it's.
The gifts look so horribly uglythat we don't even accept it.
But once we accept and unwrapit, even if it's difficult to
unwrap it then we discover thereare diamonds and gems and
blessings of all kinds yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
That's what I say.
That life is happening for us.
It's looking for the blessingsin all of the things that we've
gone through.
So my mom had a miscarriage.
She lost a baby, but it was mytwin.
I stayed in the womb.
So I feel like looking back anda few episodes ago, the
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beginning of season two, I spokewith the person that I did this
quantum healing journey withand I went back to the womb and
it was very interesting and veryhealing because I and in that I
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realized that my twinsacrificed so that I could be as
strong as I am and it felt very, very powerful because for many
years I just felt likesomething was missing and so it
just gave it.
It gave my life even morepurpose.
After that I felt like, okay, Ihave a big purpose for not just
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me, but for also my twin, andso, yeah, I can totally relate
to so much of what you're saying.
So I see that you wereclairvoyant since childhood.
Can you give us a little bit ofinformation about that or
background on that?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah.
So my parents were both deeplyspiritual.
My father was a healer whohealed about a million people in
India through energy healingand he helped a lot of people in
all different ways.
And for me this was about like.
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When I realized I wasclarifying was when I was about
eight or nine years old and Inaturally could see energies,
auras, chakras, spirit beings,spirit beings and I was telling
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my mom saying, look, there'sthis beautiful light being here,
or I, I called them, you know,gurus because they were teachers
who were ascended masters thatwere present coming to help when
my father was healing.
These ascended masters wouldcome to help and so I saw them
and I told my mother do you see?
My mother is like no, do yousee them?
And then I spoke to dad aboutit and, because my father has
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been able to do that for a while, I wasn't seen as somebody
going crazy or something right.
I've heard so many stories frommy students and mentees that
they had some experience likethat and they were outcast
because of that, especially whenthey're, like, really strictly
religious in some ways and thisis out of the norm, right, but I
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was celebrated and my dadtrained me to do it better and
better.
So every morning, people wouldcome to him, new people who are
coming to get healed from him.
So he would scan their aura andtell them okay, this energy,
this chakra, is weak and this ishappening.
And I would stand by him and hewould ask me okay, look here,
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and I got so good at it.
I could look at somebody and Icould tell them like really
specific things, like how muchwas their blood sugar level, all
these things.
And it was just, I had the bestspiritual education of my
parents and also my extendedfamily, like my grandma, etc.
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And when I was raised in alittle village in southern India
which revolved around thetemple, it was all about God the
whole time, and so, yeah, itwas just the best I could have
hoped for have been through.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I'm not saying that I don't believe the religion I
still consider myself a Catholic.
However, I am so spirituallyopen to energies and it's blown
my mind and I feel that myoldest daughter has a gift.
She doesn't know how to handleit yet, but I really truly feel
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that she has a gift and and tobe open to embracing it and
trying to guide her through it,rather than condemning her for
it, what I think was big and itha, and I had to open myself
spiritually at that point.
(17:14):
And so, yeah, I really love allof, I love learning about it, I
love being around it, just it.
I feel like it opens my eyesevery single time even more.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, your daughter is fortunate to have you as her
mother because, especially inthe west, there is so much of a
judgmental view on this, thingslike I've had.
I've heard so many crazystories like people admitted to
the mental asylum for sayingsomething as simple as, like I
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had this beautiful vision of Godor whatever, right, and I was
so fortunate.
And when I came to the West Iwas doing healing also.
Right, I have been a healermost of my life and here it's
actually possible to developyour clairvoyance.
(18:08):
Right, it is a gift thatsometimes life just gives to you
, but you can also develop itbecause you are capable of it
right now.
You just haven't learned how touse that.
It's like we are so attached toour five senses that we haven't
used our sixth and beyondsenses yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I did an energy.
I did a, not energy healing,I've done that too, but I had my
aura read and she was a, anartist and painted what she was
reading from my aura and it wasmy hands and it showed.
I have it right here.
(18:52):
It shows like the energy andshe's like you're a healer, I
that I see it.
I feel like I'm activating itas much as I can right now and
it's beautiful because it's myhands and it's all, and it's
like all this energy that's likecoming up out of my hands and
it's purple and green and goldand it's just, oh my gosh, it's
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literally one of my favoritepaintings because I felt so
connected to it and I love thatyeah, yeah, and that's just the
beginning, really yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Being able to see, being a clairvoyant or being
able to have these powers isjust the beginning, because
there is so much more.
Even enlightenment people thinkit's the ultimate goal even
that is a new beginning tosomething much deeper and it
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goes on and on and on, and it'san endless unfoldment of grace
and beauty yeah, I love that somuch so, very much so.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What so, since you've been helping hundreds of people
spiritual seekers, if you willfor many years now, what are
some of the patterns you havenoticed in people?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
yeah, this I first noticed in myself.
Yeah, for years being stuck inthe dark, alone, in deep
depression, utter hopelessness,meaninglessness so much to the
core that there was once I didnot get out of bed, not even my
(20:35):
bedroom, but did not get out ofbed, didn't eat, didn't drink
for four days because I felt itwas completely meaningless to do
anything why would I?
even.
Why would I even survive here?
Because it I felt my life wascompletely different than what I
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thought.
And going through that multiplecycles, through years of that
ups and downs, and ups and downsevery few months, this would
happen, right, and I noticedthat it's the same thing that is
happening in all my studentsand mentees.
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The stories are different.
They may have a completelydifferent situation, completely
different way manifested intheir life, but the pattern and
the pitfalls they fall into arethe exact same thing, because
what happens essentially, thedark night of the soul is when
there is so much light, like inmid noon, is when you will see
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the brightest light but at thesame time, the darkest shadow
behind you.
Right, the shadows are reallysharp mid noon because the light
is bright.
What happens is our ego, whichis basically our idea of who we
are, which is like I'm thislittle human being who has to
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take care of these things andsurvive through this world.
Right, we have this littlevoice with which tells us these
little things I have to takecare of myself and this and that
.
Right, so that, out of its verygood intentions, right,
lovingly, but at the same timeout of fear yeah what it does is
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it tries to protect itself toomuch and it tries to stay in the
status quo.
It tries to hold on to what itknows to be the truth.
But it's knowing.
It's so limited yeah what it'sactually doing with its limited
perspective is self-sabotageright, and that self-sabotage is
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so strong that even when helpis right at hand, right in front
of you, if you are in thatself-sabotage, you reject that,
and this is what I see again andagain and again.
I'm in so many forums andFacebook groups and everything
where people are stuck in thedark night of the soul and it's
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really hard to help them becausethey are just so resistant to
the health.
And even when people work withme.
People start working with me ina mentorship program, whether
it's one-on-one, whether it's ina group.
The biggest thing I have todeal with, I have to help them
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through, is their self-sabotageyeah, I yep, I'm guilty of that.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I think we all are to a degree.
But yeah, I've noticed it inmyself sometimes and I'm like
what is happening?
And you ask yourself thesequestions sometimes and I think
it's worse when you don't askyourself any questions because
you're really being oblivious toit.
But yeah, I found myself askingmyself over and over again like
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why am I in this, like circleof like yeah, yeah, it's really
sad when you see it like youhave.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Like in my own case, I had such a yearning for God,
for enlightenment, for so longand at the same time I realized
I was the only one stopping thatfrom happening.
Right, god was right there withopen arms waiting to embrace me
, but I was just like, maybe not, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day
(24:41):
after.
I'm not ready yet it doesn't fitinto my schedule right now yeah
, and this is what happens toeverybody, and and this is
looking at the bigger picture inthe grand scheme of things,
this is what creates thisjourney of self-discovery right,
yeah so the ego has a rolethere to play as well.
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So in the grand scheme of things, it's all completely okay.
So this is the biggest patternI've seen.
The other patterns are alsocomplete lack of clarity of
what's really happening.
People learn from Facebookposts and some YouTube videos,
some random advice here andthere, and they think spiritual
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awakening is about all thesebetter off things.
But it's so much more betteroff things, but it's so much
more when they really understandwhat is spiritual awakening and
align their life with the giftthat life is giving them through
spiritual awakening.
That is when things can trulyjust start manifesting in the
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most beautiful way.
So that lack of clarity isreally what holds most people
back.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And do you think it's the lack of clarity of where
they are currently or the lackof clarity of where they want to
be?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, so it's both.
Where they are currently iswhen they look at it from a
limited perspective, from theego perspective, which is
completely okay, and I'm notsaying this in a judgmental way,
but because I was exactly doingthat.
As I said, these patterns arewhat I observed in myself, first
right, and then in others.
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So when the ego is in thatperspective, it cannot see right
, we cannot see outside, wecannot see the bigger picture
because we are so pulled intothat story of.
This is why it's happening,this is why it's happening, and
that kind of covers up the realstory of what is actually
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happening.
And then most people don't knowwhere it's going.
They hope it's going in thisway and that way.
They hope they're going tobecome some master of some
amazing superpowers, and thenthis will happen.
That will happen whateverThey'll be sitting on silk
pillows and people will be likefanning them, whatever that idea
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is, because I had thosegrandiose ideas too in my
different phases of awakening.
But it's important to stayhumble, stay rooted, stay
grounded and then really seewhat's happening and have having
the right guidance is thebiggest blessing.
I worked with amazingenlightened mentors, enlightened
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teachers.
I spent, actually, before Ifound my first enlightened
teacher.
I spent seven to 10 yearslooking for an enlightened
teacher, right and because Iknew in my heart that was the
only way to get to where Iwanted to be.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, absolutely.
Wow.
So what can someone okay?
So someone is looking tointegrate spiritual awakening in
their life and they're likeokay, I'm ready.
What can someone do if that'swhat they wanted to guide
themselves through to thatjourney?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
yeah, so these three biggest pitfalls I talked about
first being right, the lack ofclarity, and the third one I
didn't talk about is isolation.
Right, so what somebody coulddo is address that in the right
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way possible self-sabotage, lackof clarity and isolation.
These are the three biggestpitfalls.
So, depending on where they areat, if they want to integrate
their spiritual awakening, whatthey need to do is address that
in the most powerful way.
But there is something that hasbeen time tested for thousands
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of years.
This is not something Iinvented, but this is something
that I have a particular take on, which is more relevant for
this age.
This way of working togetherright, but this is what I call a
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balanced and sustainable system.
Right, I cannot give peopletake this one technique, take
this one mantra, take this onething and you will go all the
way, because it doesn't workthat way.
There are different toolsneeded, like if you want to
construct a house and you askwhat is the one tool I can use
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to construct this entire house?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
There's a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yes, so that's the thing.
So in my mentorship program,what I do is I give a complete
tool belt right of variousdifferent tools because they are
applicable at various differentplaces.
But this system, what I callintegrated awakening process, is
based on in buddhism, inhinduism and in many different
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cultures and also, like if youlook at how in any major
religion, how this has worked,even in case of jesus right, how
this has worked.
First, you need an enlightenedmentor who is accessible to you,
right?
not somebody that is in a bookor in a youtube video, not
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somebody that you have one waycommunication with yeah but
somebody who can actually talkwith you and guide you, because,
depending on where you are,then you will get the right
guidance for that step.
Because it's just like GoogleMaps.
Right, if Google Maps were totell you, instead of what is the
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turn I should take right now,which is right, instead of that,
what should be the entire turnin list at one go, and you are
supposed to take all that intoaccount and do it by yourself,
how difficult would that be?
Yeah, right, how easy it iswhen it just says, hey, take a
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right turn in 200 meters orwhatever, correct.
So having an enlightened mentor.
Enlightened means somebody whohas done it, who is there right
now.
That is the first element, andout of that comes what is the
teachings, the approach, thestructure, the body of work that
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brings clarity, that bringsit's what I call.
It is a sunlit path right,where it's not like, oh, you
have to wonder whether to goleft or right.
It's all clearly laid out andwhat's coming and you don't have
to be afraid.
So that's the second element.
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And the third element, which isthe biggest one, is the
community.
So when I was an actor and I wasthe life of the party, I was so
outgoing and I really enjoyedbeing with people, and people
really enjoyed being with me,but at the same time, whenever I
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started awakening and spokeabout spiritual things, nobody
got me, nobody understood me.
I had one friend I could talkto, but he wouldn't fully get
some of the things that I wasgoing through.
So isolation is a huge thing,right so, but when you have a
community of people who aredoing this together, walking
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this path together andunderstanding each other,
supporting each other, nurturingeach other along the path, that
can just keep you going.
Walk alone and you probably getthere fast, but walk together,
get much further.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, and I totally agree, Get yourself a mentor
coach.
That's where you want to goAbsolutely, and I think that the
power of the community isdefinitely the when you feel
alone and when you feel likegiving up.
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They're the ones that are thereto catch you and to say no, no,
no, let's keep going.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Because I do it in my own business with health and
wellness.
So I have the tools.
So I was a few steps ahead ofany of my new customers.
So I was doing the work that Ineeded to do to get healthy.
And then I was there to providethem the tools and tell them
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this is where maybe you shouldfocus on, or maybe it's like use
this nutrition program or thisworkout program Right.
So we're doing the guiding.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
And then the community is what holds
everything together.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
So I 100% definitely understand where you're talking
about, because I feel like thatin my own life.
That's how it's worked Thenfinding the mentor, finding the
tools and and I guess, the route, the journey.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
And this is the surefire way.
Right Like you may be able tosucceed with just taking a book
and reading it and following it,maybe, but if it's important
enough for you in this life,would you give that maybe as an
answer, or do you want to giveyourself the best chance?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
yeah, absolutely that , absolutely love that.
So very much.
So this is what you guide yourcustomers or clients or students
with is, so you do one-on-onecoaching and or one-on-one
mentorship and group as well.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, yeah.
So I started with one-on-onementorship, even though I have
been doing this informally sinceabout 2015, when I felt the
calling so strongly to become afull-time spiritual teacher
mentor.
It was really that I meetsomebody where they're at and
(35:49):
give them the next step right.
And as I did that again andagain, you know, I saw the same
patterns again seeing coming up.
So, and at the same time, Iwanted to help a lot more people
, because there are millions ofpeople out there who are looking
for help and I cannot possiblywork one-on-one with them, and
(36:12):
at one point I got so overbookedI had to stop enrollments and
have waitlists, et cetera.
So now, what I did was later.
After that, I started doing itas a group and as a community,
and there are a few people thatI still work one-on-one with and
(36:32):
it's a limited capacity, butwhen we do it as a group, it's
so joyful.
And also because I've been doinggroup healing since I was
basically a child.
I'm able to hold that energy ofthe group very powerfully and
(36:54):
use the energy of the people tosupport each other.
And it's so powerful when I doguided meditations in a group.
It's just like unbelievable andit works so well.
With that dynamic and whatstarted happening was it just
became obvious that I have to domore of that.
(37:14):
So every week we have twomeditations like that, one with
me, one with another guestteacher who is teaching Sufism
in the group, and I want to helpmore and more people who are
awakening also give back andteach.
And we also sometimes just hangout all together and practice.
(37:36):
Sacred silliness is what I callit, because it's really
important to have humor, it'sreally important to not take
yourself seriously, it's reallyimportant to see the
non-importance of our stories.
Yes, I agree, yeah, so it's justa lot of fun and this is really
(37:56):
something that drives me andI'm really happy to do what I'm
doing.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I love that so much.
What are your next steps, like,how do people find you going
forward If that's something thatthey want to do?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
thing that they want to do, yeah, so I am now trying
to put myself out there muchmore because I know there are so
many people who are in need ofthis guidance, so I'm getting on
a lot of podcasts and startingmy own podcast soon.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
That was going to be my next question.
I was like I need to hear this.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I've had one just for my students.
I've had a private podcast fora while, but it's time to give
it to a bigger audience and ifyou just go to my website, you
will have all the details andalso I have a two hour free
spiritual awakening masterclass.
Now I talked a little bit aboutthe pitfalls, little bit about
(38:57):
what you can do, so that's whereI can go in depth and talk
about all the different thingsthat happen, these patterns,
what to do to get out of it, andreally very practical things,
things that I've seen workingagain and again in myself, in my
students.
So it's something that isreally valuable.
(39:18):
If you are awakeningspiritually and you want to make
the best out of thisopportunity that life is giving
you to unwrap that gift andreceive it, this is the best
thing you can do.
So, yeah, if you just go to mywebsite, awakenwithracom, you
will be able to access myspiritual awakening workshop,
(39:41):
and I'm also releasing an appsoon.
Oh, that is amazing yeah yeah,on the app, I want to put more
and more of some of theteachings that I give in my
community.
I want to put out there so thatpeople can also receive from
that, because I just want togive more and more to the public
(40:02):
and each week I dive into areally in-depth topic and go
from like even ancientperspectives.
I can speak Sanskrit andunderstand Sanskrit, this
ancient language from india.
I go into sometimes the deeptexts of that.
Sometimes, depending on theoccasion, like when it was
(40:22):
easter, we went into theteachings of christ and how to
apply that when it was the solareclipse, the symbology behind
that, because everything in lifeis a teaching, right, if you're
open, you can learn from it.
So for me, that's how I havebeen able to receive that and I
want to translate it right.
(40:44):
Translate it and make itaccessible and simple and easy
for everyone to receive.
And I'm also planning to do alot of content, podcasts and
youtube as well, but that's I'mstill figuring out the content
creation yeah, there's always somuch to learn there is so much,
but it
Speaker 2 (41:03):
will all be on on my website if you just go to
awakenwithracom I willdefinitely put in the show notes
, so I'll know that you'll beable to find it in any of the
show notes for this episode.
This is, I swear.
I feel like I could ask like amillion questions and I feel
like I've had more and moreguests that have been more
(41:29):
spiritually inclined, and thefact that that I don't think
that it's a coincidence this isvery powerful.
I feel like people are very,are very ready for a lot of what
just being more openspiritually and more connected.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah, yeah.
So when Jesus said the kingdomof God is at hand, right yeah.
And I was watching this seriescalled the chosen, where yes,
it's all about jesus and hisdisciples and it's so
beautifully portrayed, right,it's in a very grounded way, and
he, jesus, is talking to hisrelative, john the baptist
(42:14):
baptizer, and they have thisinside joke called soon, I'll
come soon, which may mean years.
So in this, when jesus said thekingdom of god is within you
and it's coming, it's, it'sfinally happening.
I feel everybody is talkingabout ascension and 5d reality
and the new earth and all thesedifferent names, but it's all
(42:37):
referring to really us awakeningspiritually to our own true
nature and realizing ourdivinity.
When jesus said I and my fatherare one, he was talking about
everybody, according to me atleast yeah, and I definitely
agree.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I feel like it is such a.
I had this conversation withanother guest the other day and
we see so much chaos happeningall around us and there's just
(43:17):
very simple rules to life.
Do unto others as you wouldwant to have done unto you.
Right, Be kind and be kindhumans, and it's okay that you
and I have different views.
We can respect and love thehuman, no matter what.
(43:42):
How beautiful would life be,it's like with the conversation
that I had the other day.
He was saying how he never sawhimself when he was younger.
He never saw himself portrayedin in Jesus, or it's always.
You see this vision and I waslike and I had a moment of like
in Jesus, or it's always.
You see this vision and I waslike and I had a moment of like.
(44:02):
But Jesus or God or whateveryou believe, is within you.
You are made of that higherpower, right.
Or spirit, whatever you decide.
That's what you call it, butyou're made in the image of yes.
(44:24):
So that's within.
And we may look visiblydifferent on the outside, but on
the inside it's just the.
It just yeah, it has.
It's been a recurringconversation, I feel like, which
also makes me think this is nota coincidence.
(44:46):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
So one more thing I've been wanting to talk so
much when you said 1% chance, isyou said there is chaos all
around?
Is you said there is chaos allaround right?
Which means that if you letyourself be taken by chance, if
you let yourself just fall into,the statistics are always at
(45:14):
least 80% are all over the place.
Percent, yeah, are all over theplace, yep, but there are
always outliers who don't followthe statistics right.
even though 99 of the statisticsfall within those bounds, there
is always one percent outsideof the bounds which is beyond
(45:37):
the scale of that statistics andyou can only do that by being
intentional and looking inwardand going through this journey
with that deep trust that thisis truly happening for you and
letting life support you takingand receiving all the support in
(45:59):
the right way and movingforward like very simple way,
right, very simple.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
It may be difficult, but it's very simple yeah, I was
having a conversation thisweekend with my family and,
again, it's difficult sometimeswhen a family has views that may
not be as open as yours.
But I was brave and had theseconversations and it was very
(46:30):
surprised to hear thecorresponding conversation that
we ended up having Clairvoyanceand intuition and all that was
in this conversationparticularly, and I was like, oh
my gosh, this is like speakingto my soul, right?
Now.
But it was beautiful because andI said this because I don't
(46:54):
remember where I heard this fromBuddhist or something, I'm not
sure.
However, I heard that when wepray, we pray to God or your
higher power, but when we listento our intuition, it's God
speaking through us, and I justfelt that to the core when I've
(47:20):
heard it for years, or I'veheard it years ago, and so this
is something that I've reallyI've been always so good about
listening to my gut to myintuition and I always like grab
my solar plexus area, my gut,and I feel like so little of us
listen.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
We ask a lot and then we don't listen to the
responses, and I feel likethat's when we connect.
I do a walk every morning andmy dad passed away in October of
2022.
October of 2022.
And I still feel very connectedto him.
(48:01):
When I see the bird, thecardinal, the red cardinal, I
feel like it's him coming andvisiting me, and so every
morning, I prepare mypre-workout and I put ice in it,
and right above my ice maker onmy refrigerator, I have a
picture of me and my dad, and soevery morning, as I'm putting
(48:25):
the ice in the cup, I'm like Iasked him for his blessing.
So in Spanish, we say bendición, which is, um, I'm accepting
your blessings, basically, orgive me your blessings, and so I
could almost hear him say Dioste bendiga God bless you.
And when every time I'm, I likeI wink at him and I'm like what
(48:51):
do you have for us today?
like and then I go for my walkafter I finish that drink and I
see Cardinals all over as I'mwalking and I just feel so
connected.
And then they know that whenthose, I just feel I'm very much
aligned with whatever I'msupposed to do that day.
(49:15):
My podcast recordings arealways great.
I talk to amazing people, Ihave conversations with clients
or prospective clients, and itjust feels so aligned.
And so, yeah, I just I feltvery compelled to say that, to
talk about how we pray and wepray to God, but so many times
(49:39):
forget to listen, and when theway that we can listen is
listening to our intuition,because that's going to guide us
the way that we need to go yeah, that's so wise, and that's the
reason why we have one mouthand two years, right we?
Speaker 3 (49:59):
that's the symbol of like you should listen more yes,
we are just so opinionated andsaying like god, give me this,
give me that, give me this, giveme that.
But what if you just want tosee what god wants?
What if you're open to followthat direction that your higher
(50:20):
self gives you right and and?
Yeah if you're really able tosurrender your little fantasies
and this and that little desiresand little worries and accept
the bigger blessing.
It's just so beautiful beyondbelief, what is possible
(50:43):
absolutely.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
I love it.
I love it.
Oh my gosh, this has beenamazing, roth.
Thank you so very much again.
I do you have anything else forlisteners, or is this a good
spot?
Speaker 3 (50:58):
I just want to say one thing First of all.
I have really enjoyed thisconversation so much.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Me too.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
And how there's so many things in parallel between
us.
My father left his body aroundthe same time.
It was in August 2022.
And there's so many things thatit's not a coincidence, right?
But I wanted to say one thingto the viewers here, to the
listeners, if they could takeaway one thing from this podcast
(51:33):
now, like this question I hadfor myself, because I saw
somewhere what is the one thingthat you want to convey, if
everybody in the world waslistening.
So, if that is the case, I wantto say that you are truly
limitless beings of light.
You who is listening, you aredivine Right now, right here.
(52:00):
Your true nature isenlightenment, and you can
realize that experientially.
Enlightenment is not a fancy,fancy thing that's only reserved
for those who meditate in acave for a hundred years.
It is who you are right now.
Cave for 100 years.
(52:23):
It is who you are right now,and that simple realization is
possible if you only are able toopen up, receive and step out
of your own.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
I love it so much.
Oh my gosh, this is amazing.
Listeners, viewers, I hope youhave gotten so much out of
today's conversation.
I will put all of hisinformation in the show notes.
Once again, thank you so much.
(52:50):
I'm so incredibly appreciativeand I again, I felt very aligned
and I felt that connection.
So, thank you, you guys have anamazing rest of your day.
Peace out, love your life.
Bye.
Welcome back to the Against All Odds the Less Than
1% Chance podcast with your host, Maria Aponte, where we will
hear stories of incrediblepeople thriving against all odds
, and my hope is that we can allsee how life is always
happening for us, even when weare the Less Than 1% Chance.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey, hey, welcome back to, against All Odds, the
Less Than 1% Chance podcast withyour host, maria Aponte.
Welcome back.
I am so excited to have youguys listen in to this
conversation.
I'm just going to go ahead andintroduce, because this is gonna
be such an amazing conversation.
I could already feel it in myheart.
So I would love to introduceyou to Ra Netsher.
(00:42):
He is an ordained Buddhist monkwho quit his six-figure Silicon
Valley tech job to be aspiritual awakening mentor and
fulfill his mission of upliftingthe consciousness of the world
by helping millions of awakenedsouls discover their
enlightenment Seriously likegoosebumps, so welcome.
(01:04):
I'm so honored to have you onhere.
Give us a little bit ofbackground on how did this all
come about?
What's your story here?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Thank you so much, Maria, for that introduction and
for having me here.
First of all, I love the titleof your podcast, in the intro,
how you say even when there isless than one percent chance of
it happening, life is alwayshappening for you.
I love that.
And so I'm so happy to be here,because this is so aligned with
(01:38):
my message and this is whatI've felt since my childhood.
My life has been aboutspiritual awakening right.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Even at five years old, when I had my first
awakening, I had glimpses that Iwas here for that light, to
discover it within myself and tospread it.
My mother even invited me tothis earth with that purpose.
And I am here only because I'vegone through these ups and
(02:12):
downs, these difficulties, thesedark nights of the soul which
transformed me, which wereactually great gifts in my
awakening, even when it was deepdepression, even even when I
did not want to exist anymore.
Those were the times that werelike the coal becomes the
(02:34):
diamond in that pressure right.
Yeah those were the times.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I've been under that pressure, so I understand that
all too well.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, so I love that.
This is super, is super aligned.
But yeah, I'm only here becauseI was open to receive the right
help.
In that time I was able tosurrender and listen to my heart
and follow what life presentedto me through these gifts of
awakening and I realized,actually, all the difficulties I
(03:04):
was going through were ablessing, because without that,
I wouldn't have been able torelate to people who are in it
right now, because it's mylife's mission to help
spiritually awakening people.
There are millions of people whoare awakening right now, but
most of them have no clue whyit's happening, what is
(03:25):
happening to them, where it'sgoing right.
So people are stuck, people areisolated, people feel judged,
people feel weird, right whentheir family and their friends,
they're like, oh wow, this guy'sacting crazy.
You know, I was in that placemyself.
I was an actor, I was aphotographer and my movies I was
(03:47):
lead actor and in this movieall the posters were coming out
and I was getting ready to befamous on the outside, but
inside me life felt someaningless.
Yeah nobody really got me andthis is what led to all this
darkness, et cetera, which ledto even more light.
(04:08):
So I realized I am givingpeople help that I would have
used in that moment.
And I was left alone in thedark and I had no clue what to
do, so I know there are millionsout there right now who are in
that place.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, absolutely.
That is why I'm here, I lovethat.
Yeah, I definitely can relate.
I feel like if I wouldn't havebeen in the depression that I
had been in and if I wouldn'thave learned how to make a
decision to change my life, andnow, looking back, the power of
(04:53):
that decision to change my life,how?
It was simple, not easy, but itwas very simple.
And when I finally did decide,all the tools came from all
different places and I wouldn'thave gotten healthy I was sick
(05:14):
with cancer beforehand Iwouldn't have figured out that
there was tools that I couldphysically have in my home so
that I could still be the singlemom of three kids that I was,
have this career that I had andget healthy all at the same time
(05:35):
.
But it was a simple decision,just simple.
Not easy, but simple.
And if I wouldn't have gonethrough that, I've had enough
and that darkness of I justcan't deal with this anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah then that decision wouldn't have come, and
yeah, I love what you're sayingso much Because it about
simplicity, in a way that lifeis inviting us.
When we are doing so manythings, we are distracted, we
are not aligned with our life'spurpose and doing all sorts of
(06:18):
things and life invites you.
What is really essential foryou?
What is the priority for you?
Not priorities, and we dopriorities and we have like 10
priorities.
Then what is a priority then?
exactly when life says, allright, now you have a choice to
make, and then it's simple.
(06:40):
Then you can see okay, this ismore important than anything
else this is what I'm gonna doso.
For me, that was goingfull-time into being a spiritual
awakening mentor, and I was aprogrammer.
I was making good money and, atthe same time, even though
(07:00):
programming was a meditativepractice for me.
I felt no, this is again notreally what I'm here for.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, I decided all right, so I'm going to heed the
call of life and choose thesimple one thing that I'm here
to do that's amazing andincredible because everything
around us makes life all aboutthe money that you make, the
career that you build, like allof these things.
(07:32):
And we can take a moment andjust search internally for what
we're meant to do, the legacythat we're supposed to leave,
the people that we're supposedto impact.
I know that when I was in theprevious career that I was in
definitely I was very good atwhat I was doing.
(07:53):
However, I felt like it wasn'tfulfilling my legacy in any way
If I had overcome all of theseobstacles in my life, from in
utero, being in my mom's bellyand all of the things that I had
gone through.
(08:14):
I had gone through many, manythings against all odds.
If I had already overcome thosethings, then my story was not
just for me.
My story was to help othersshow them that against all in
that a career.
But I feel like life was likeno redirect and it really did.
(08:59):
It served for what I needed inthat time period and then I feel
like I became a lot morealigned with who I was and it
served a different purpose then.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, I can relate so much.
It's so funny when youmentioned the trouble you went
through in your mother's belly,like the same thing happened
around my birth, my motherbefore I was born.
She had lost baby and she wastold that she wouldn't be able
(09:34):
to conceive and for four yearsshe prayed to god and she did
every kind of ritual, every kindkind of deal with God, like in
India they say oh, if you, if Iget this and I will do all these
pujas and all these rituals,right?
So she did that for four yearsbecause of what had happened,
(09:58):
and she was able to conceive meand even then there was such a
danger of losing the baby.
So she was praying all the timewhen I was in her womb and she
made a deal with God this wasthe biggest deal that she made
saying if the baby is born welland healthy and everything goes
(10:21):
well, I'm not going to hold onto that baby for myself, I'm
going to dedicate that, I'mgoing to give it to god and I
want a baby who is here tospread the light of spirituality
.
And that's why, somehow, I gotinvited into her womb and I, in
(10:45):
my first awakening, I had thisrealization I was here for this.
Yeah, and without this trouble,even though it looks like
darkness, even though it lookslike suffering, even though it
looks like a very difficultsituation that you wouldn't want
(11:05):
anybody to have, but at thesame time, that situation itself
was the gift through whichthere was a hidden blessing.
And most of us only look at thesurface and we are very quick
to judge.
And, yeah, the way I say it islike life is always giving us
(11:32):
gifts, the most amazing,beautiful gifts.
The only problem is that lifeis a really shitty gift wrapper.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yes, I totally agree gift wrapper.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yes, I totally agree, and it's.
The gifts look so horribly uglythat we don't even accept it.
But once we accept and unwrapit, even if it's difficult to
unwrap it then we discover thereare diamonds and gems and
blessings of all kinds yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
That's what I say.
That life is happening for us.
It's looking for the blessingsin all of the things that we've
gone through.
So my mom had a miscarriage.
She lost a baby, but it was mytwin.
I stayed in the womb.
So I feel like looking back anda few episodes ago, the
(12:26):
beginning of season two, I spokewith the person that I did this
quantum healing journey withand I went back to the womb and
it was very interesting and veryhealing because I and in that I
(12:49):
realized that my twinsacrificed so that I could be as
strong as I am and it felt very, very powerful because for many
years I just felt likesomething was missing and so it
just gave it.
It gave my life even morepurpose.
After that I felt like, okay, Ihave a big purpose for not just
(13:16):
me, but for also my twin, andso, yeah, I can totally relate
to so much of what you're saying.
So I see that you wereclairvoyant since childhood.
Can you give us a little bit ofinformation about that or
background on that?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah.
So my parents were both deeplyspiritual.
My father was a healer whohealed about a million people in
India through energy healingand he helped a lot of people in
all different ways.
And for me this was about like.
(13:54):
When I realized I wasclarifying was when I was about
eight or nine years old and Inaturally could see energies,
auras, chakras, spirit beings,spirit beings and I was telling
(14:19):
my mom saying, look, there'sthis beautiful light being here,
or I, I called them, you know,gurus because they were teachers
who were ascended masters thatwere present coming to help when
my father was healing.
These ascended masters wouldcome to help and so I saw them
and I told my mother do you see?
My mother is like no, do yousee them?
And then I spoke to dad aboutit and, because my father has
(14:44):
been able to do that for a while, I wasn't seen as somebody
going crazy or something right.
I've heard so many stories frommy students and mentees that
they had some experience likethat and they were outcast
because of that, especially whenthey're, like, really strictly
religious in some ways and thisis out of the norm, right, but I
(15:07):
was celebrated and my dadtrained me to do it better and
better.
So every morning, people wouldcome to him, new people who are
coming to get healed from him.
So he would scan their aura andtell them okay, this energy,
this chakra, is weak and this ishappening.
And I would stand by him and hewould ask me okay, look here,
(15:33):
and I got so good at it.
I could look at somebody and Icould tell them like really
specific things, like how muchwas their blood sugar level, all
these things.
And it was just, I had the bestspiritual education of my
parents and also my extendedfamily, like my grandma, etc.
(15:54):
And when I was raised in alittle village in southern India
which revolved around thetemple, it was all about God the
whole time, and so, yeah, itwas just the best I could have
hoped for have been through.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I'm not saying that I don't believe the religion I
still consider myself a Catholic.
However, I am so spirituallyopen to energies and it's blown
my mind and I feel that myoldest daughter has a gift.
She doesn't know how to handleit yet, but I really truly feel
(16:53):
that she has a gift and and tobe open to embracing it and
trying to guide her through it,rather than condemning her for
it, what I think was big and itha, and I had to open myself
spiritually at that point.
(17:14):
And so, yeah, I really love allof, I love learning about it, I
love being around it, just it.
I feel like it opens my eyesevery single time even more.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, your daughter is fortunate to have you as her
mother because, especially inthe west, there is so much of a
judgmental view on this, thingslike I've had.
I've heard so many crazystories like people admitted to
the mental asylum for sayingsomething as simple as, like I
(17:48):
had this beautiful vision of Godor whatever, right, and I was
so fortunate.
And when I came to the West Iwas doing healing also.
Right, I have been a healermost of my life and here it's
actually possible to developyour clairvoyance.
(18:08):
Right, it is a gift thatsometimes life just gives to you
, but you can also develop itbecause you are capable of it
right now.
You just haven't learned how touse that.
It's like we are so attached toour five senses that we haven't
used our sixth and beyondsenses yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I did an energy.
I did a, not energy healing,I've done that too, but I had my
aura read and she was a, anartist and painted what she was
reading from my aura and it wasmy hands and it showed.
I have it right here.
(18:52):
It shows like the energy andshe's like you're a healer, I
that I see it.
I feel like I'm activating itas much as I can right now and
it's beautiful because it's myhands and it's all, and it's
like all this energy that's likecoming up out of my hands and
it's purple and green and goldand it's just, oh my gosh, it's
(19:14):
literally one of my favoritepaintings because I felt so
connected to it and I love thatyeah, yeah, and that's just the
beginning, really yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Being able to see, being a clairvoyant or being
able to have these powers isjust the beginning, because
there is so much more.
Even enlightenment people thinkit's the ultimate goal even
that is a new beginning tosomething much deeper and it
(19:50):
goes on and on and on, and it'san endless unfoldment of grace
and beauty yeah, I love that somuch so, very much so.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What so, since you've been helping hundreds of people
spiritual seekers, if you willfor many years now, what are
some of the patterns you havenoticed in people?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
yeah, this I first noticed in myself.
Yeah, for years being stuck inthe dark, alone, in deep
depression, utter hopelessness,meaninglessness so much to the
core that there was once I didnot get out of bed, not even my
(20:35):
bedroom, but did not get out ofbed, didn't eat, didn't drink
for four days because I felt itwas completely meaningless to do
anything why would I?
even.
Why would I even survive here?
Because it I felt my life wascompletely different than what I
(20:56):
thought.
And going through that multiplecycles, through years of that
ups and downs, and ups and downsevery few months, this would
happen, right, and I noticedthat it's the same thing that is
happening in all my studentsand mentees.
(21:18):
The stories are different.
They may have a completelydifferent situation, completely
different way manifested intheir life, but the pattern and
the pitfalls they fall into arethe exact same thing, because
what happens essentially, thedark night of the soul is when
there is so much light, like inmid noon, is when you will see
(21:45):
the brightest light but at thesame time, the darkest shadow
behind you.
Right, the shadows are reallysharp mid noon because the light
is bright.
What happens is our ego, whichis basically our idea of who we
are, which is like I'm thislittle human being who has to
(22:07):
take care of these things andsurvive through this world.
Right, we have this littlevoice with which tells us these
little things I have to takecare of myself and this and that
.
Right, so that, out of its verygood intentions, right,
lovingly, but at the same timeout of fear yeah what it does is
(22:29):
it tries to protect itself toomuch and it tries to stay in the
status quo.
It tries to hold on to what itknows to be the truth.
But it's knowing.
It's so limited yeah what it'sactually doing with its limited
perspective is self-sabotageright, and that self-sabotage is
(22:55):
so strong that even when helpis right at hand, right in front
of you, if you are in thatself-sabotage, you reject that,
and this is what I see again andagain and again.
I'm in so many forums andFacebook groups and everything
where people are stuck in thedark night of the soul and it's
(23:17):
really hard to help them becausethey are just so resistant to
the health.
And even when people work withme.
People start working with me ina mentorship program, whether
it's one-on-one, whether it's ina group.
The biggest thing I have todeal with, I have to help them
(23:37):
through, is their self-sabotageyeah, I yep, I'm guilty of that.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I think we all are to a degree.
But yeah, I've noticed it inmyself sometimes and I'm like
what is happening?
And you ask yourself thesequestions sometimes and I think
it's worse when you don't askyourself any questions because
you're really being oblivious toit.
But yeah, I found myself askingmyself over and over again like
(24:10):
why am I in this, like circleof like yeah, yeah, it's really
sad when you see it like youhave.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Like in my own case, I had such a yearning for God,
for enlightenment, for so longand at the same time I realized
I was the only one stopping thatfrom happening.
Right, god was right there withopen arms waiting to embrace me
, but I was just like, maybe not, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day
(24:41):
after.
I'm not ready yet it doesn't fitinto my schedule right now yeah
, and this is what happens toeverybody, and and this is
looking at the bigger picture inthe grand scheme of things,
this is what creates thisjourney of self-discovery right,
yeah so the ego has a rolethere to play as well.
(25:04):
So in the grand scheme of things, it's all completely okay.
So this is the biggest patternI've seen.
The other patterns are alsocomplete lack of clarity of
what's really happening.
People learn from Facebookposts and some YouTube videos,
some random advice here andthere, and they think spiritual
(25:25):
awakening is about all thesebetter off things.
But it's so much more betteroff things, but it's so much
more when they really understandwhat is spiritual awakening and
align their life with the giftthat life is giving them through
spiritual awakening.
That is when things can trulyjust start manifesting in the
(25:46):
most beautiful way.
So that lack of clarity isreally what holds most people
back.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And do you think it's the lack of clarity of where
they are currently or the lackof clarity of where they want to
be?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, so it's both.
Where they are currently iswhen they look at it from a
limited perspective, from theego perspective, which is
completely okay, and I'm notsaying this in a judgmental way,
but because I was exactly doingthat.
As I said, these patterns arewhat I observed in myself, first
right, and then in others.
(26:26):
So when the ego is in thatperspective, it cannot see right
, we cannot see outside, wecannot see the bigger picture
because we are so pulled intothat story of.
This is why it's happening,this is why it's happening, and
that kind of covers up the realstory of what is actually
(26:48):
happening.
And then most people don't knowwhere it's going.
They hope it's going in thisway and that way.
They hope they're going tobecome some master of some
amazing superpowers, and thenthis will happen.
That will happen whateverThey'll be sitting on silk
pillows and people will be likefanning them, whatever that idea
(27:08):
is, because I had thosegrandiose ideas too in my
different phases of awakening.
But it's important to stayhumble, stay rooted, stay
grounded and then really seewhat's happening and have having
the right guidance is thebiggest blessing.
I worked with amazingenlightened mentors, enlightened
(27:30):
teachers.
I spent, actually, before Ifound my first enlightened
teacher.
I spent seven to 10 yearslooking for an enlightened
teacher, right and because Iknew in my heart that was the
only way to get to where Iwanted to be.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, absolutely.
Wow.
So what can someone okay?
So someone is looking tointegrate spiritual awakening in
their life and they're likeokay, I'm ready.
What can someone do if that'swhat they wanted to guide
themselves through to thatjourney?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
yeah, so these three biggest pitfalls I talked about
first being right, the lack ofclarity, and the third one I
didn't talk about is isolation.
Right, so what somebody coulddo is address that in the right
(28:34):
way possible self-sabotage, lackof clarity and isolation.
These are the three biggestpitfalls.
So, depending on where they areat, if they want to integrate
their spiritual awakening, whatthey need to do is address that
in the most powerful way.
But there is something that hasbeen time tested for thousands
(29:02):
of years.
This is not something Iinvented, but this is something
that I have a particular take on, which is more relevant for
this age.
This way of working togetherright, but this is what I call a
(29:23):
balanced and sustainable system.
Right, I cannot give peopletake this one technique, take
this one mantra, take this onething and you will go all the
way, because it doesn't workthat way.
There are different toolsneeded, like if you want to
construct a house and you askwhat is the one tool I can use
(29:48):
to construct this entire house?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
There's a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yes, so that's the thing.
So in my mentorship program,what I do is I give a complete
tool belt right of variousdifferent tools because they are
applicable at various differentplaces.
But this system, what I callintegrated awakening process, is
based on in buddhism, inhinduism and in many different
(30:20):
cultures and also, like if youlook at how in any major
religion, how this has worked,even in case of jesus right, how
this has worked.
First, you need an enlightenedmentor who is accessible to you,
right?
not somebody that is in a bookor in a youtube video, not
(30:43):
somebody that you have one waycommunication with yeah but
somebody who can actually talkwith you and guide you, because,
depending on where you are,then you will get the right
guidance for that step.
Because it's just like GoogleMaps.
Right, if Google Maps were totell you, instead of what is the
(31:06):
turn I should take right now,which is right, instead of that,
what should be the entire turnin list at one go, and you are
supposed to take all that intoaccount and do it by yourself,
how difficult would that be?
Yeah, right, how easy it iswhen it just says, hey, take a
(31:26):
right turn in 200 meters orwhatever, correct.
So having an enlightened mentor.
Enlightened means somebody whohas done it, who is there right
now.
That is the first element, andout of that comes what is the
teachings, the approach, thestructure, the body of work that
(31:50):
brings clarity, that bringsit's what I call.
It is a sunlit path right,where it's not like, oh, you
have to wonder whether to goleft or right.
It's all clearly laid out andwhat's coming and you don't have
to be afraid.
So that's the second element.
(32:12):
And the third element, which isthe biggest one, is the
community.
So when I was an actor and I wasthe life of the party, I was so
outgoing and I really enjoyedbeing with people, and people
really enjoyed being with me,but at the same time, whenever I
(32:34):
started awakening and spokeabout spiritual things, nobody
got me, nobody understood me.
I had one friend I could talkto, but he wouldn't fully get
some of the things that I wasgoing through.
So isolation is a huge thing,right so, but when you have a
community of people who aredoing this together, walking
(32:57):
this path together andunderstanding each other,
supporting each other, nurturingeach other along the path, that
can just keep you going.
Walk alone and you probably getthere fast, but walk together,
get much further.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, and I totally agree, Get yourself a mentor
coach.
That's where you want to goAbsolutely, and I think that the
power of the community isdefinitely the when you feel
alone and when you feel likegiving up.
(33:37):
They're the ones that are thereto catch you and to say no, no,
no, let's keep going.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Because I do it in my own business with health and
wellness.
So I have the tools.
So I was a few steps ahead ofany of my new customers.
So I was doing the work that Ineeded to do to get healthy.
And then I was there to providethem the tools and tell them
(34:06):
this is where maybe you shouldfocus on, or maybe it's like use
this nutrition program or thisworkout program Right.
So we're doing the guiding.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
And then the community is what holds
everything together.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
So I 100% definitely understand where you're talking
about, because I feel like thatin my own life.
That's how it's worked Thenfinding the mentor, finding the
tools and and I guess, the route, the journey.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
And this is the surefire way.
Right Like you may be able tosucceed with just taking a book
and reading it and following it,maybe, but if it's important
enough for you in this life,would you give that maybe as an
answer, or do you want to giveyourself the best chance?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
yeah, absolutely that , absolutely love that.
So very much.
So this is what you guide yourcustomers or clients or students
with is, so you do one-on-onecoaching and or one-on-one
mentorship and group as well.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, yeah.
So I started with one-on-onementorship, even though I have
been doing this informally sinceabout 2015, when I felt the
calling so strongly to become afull-time spiritual teacher
mentor.
It was really that I meetsomebody where they're at and
(35:49):
give them the next step right.
And as I did that again andagain, you know, I saw the same
patterns again seeing coming up.
So, and at the same time, Iwanted to help a lot more people
, because there are millions ofpeople out there who are looking
for help and I cannot possiblywork one-on-one with them, and
(36:12):
at one point I got so overbookedI had to stop enrollments and
have waitlists, et cetera.
So now, what I did was later.
After that, I started doing itas a group and as a community,
and there are a few people thatI still work one-on-one with and
(36:32):
it's a limited capacity, butwhen we do it as a group, it's
so joyful.
And also because I've been doinggroup healing since I was
basically a child.
I'm able to hold that energy ofthe group very powerfully and
(36:54):
use the energy of the people tosupport each other.
And it's so powerful when I doguided meditations in a group.
It's just like unbelievable andit works so well.
With that dynamic and whatstarted happening was it just
became obvious that I have to domore of that.
(37:14):
So every week we have twomeditations like that, one with
me, one with another guestteacher who is teaching Sufism
in the group, and I want to helpmore and more people who are
awakening also give back andteach.
And we also sometimes just hangout all together and practice.
(37:36):
Sacred silliness is what I callit, because it's really
important to have humor, it'sreally important to not take
yourself seriously, it's reallyimportant to see the
non-importance of our stories.
Yes, I agree, yeah, so it's justa lot of fun and this is really
(37:56):
something that drives me andI'm really happy to do what I'm
doing.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I love that so much.
What are your next steps, like,how do people find you going
forward If that's something thatthey want to do?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
thing that they want to do, yeah, so I am now trying
to put myself out there muchmore because I know there are so
many people who are in need ofthis guidance, so I'm getting on
a lot of podcasts and startingmy own podcast soon.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
That was going to be my next question.
I was like I need to hear this.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I've had one just for my students.
I've had a private podcast fora while, but it's time to give
it to a bigger audience and ifyou just go to my website, you
will have all the details andalso I have a two hour free
spiritual awakening masterclass.
Now I talked a little bit aboutthe pitfalls, little bit about
(38:57):
what you can do, so that's whereI can go in depth and talk
about all the different thingsthat happen, these patterns,
what to do to get out of it, andreally very practical things,
things that I've seen workingagain and again in myself, in my
students.
So it's something that isreally valuable.
(39:18):
If you are awakeningspiritually and you want to make
the best out of thisopportunity that life is giving
you to unwrap that gift andreceive it, this is the best
thing you can do.
So, yeah, if you just go to mywebsite, awakenwithracom, you
will be able to access myspiritual awakening workshop,
(39:41):
and I'm also releasing an appsoon.
Oh, that is amazing yeah yeah,on the app, I want to put more
and more of some of theteachings that I give in my
community.
I want to put out there so thatpeople can also receive from
that, because I just want togive more and more to the public
(40:02):
and each week I dive into areally in-depth topic and go
from like even ancientperspectives.
I can speak Sanskrit andunderstand Sanskrit, this
ancient language from india.
I go into sometimes the deeptexts of that.
Sometimes, depending on theoccasion, like when it was
(40:22):
easter, we went into theteachings of christ and how to
apply that when it was the solareclipse, the symbology behind
that, because everything in lifeis a teaching, right, if you're
open, you can learn from it.
So for me, that's how I havebeen able to receive that and I
want to translate it right.
(40:44):
Translate it and make itaccessible and simple and easy
for everyone to receive.
And I'm also planning to do alot of content, podcasts and
youtube as well, but that's I'mstill figuring out the content
creation yeah, there's always somuch to learn there is so much,
but it
Speaker 2 (41:03):
will all be on on my website if you just go to
awakenwithracom I willdefinitely put in the show notes
, so I'll know that you'll beable to find it in any of the
show notes for this episode.
This is, I swear.
I feel like I could ask like amillion questions and I feel
like I've had more and moreguests that have been more
(41:29):
spiritually inclined, and thefact that that I don't think
that it's a coincidence this isvery powerful.
I feel like people are very,are very ready for a lot of what
just being more openspiritually and more connected.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah, yeah.
So when Jesus said the kingdomof God is at hand, right yeah.
And I was watching this seriescalled the chosen, where yes,
it's all about jesus and hisdisciples and it's so
beautifully portrayed, right,it's in a very grounded way, and
he, jesus, is talking to hisrelative, john the baptist
(42:14):
baptizer, and they have thisinside joke called soon, I'll
come soon, which may mean years.
So in this, when jesus said thekingdom of god is within you
and it's coming, it's, it'sfinally happening.
I feel everybody is talkingabout ascension and 5d reality
and the new earth and all thesedifferent names, but it's all
(42:37):
referring to really us awakeningspiritually to our own true
nature and realizing ourdivinity.
When jesus said I and my fatherare one, he was talking about
everybody, according to me atleast yeah, and I definitely
agree.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I feel like it is such a.
I had this conversation withanother guest the other day and
we see so much chaos happeningall around us and there's just
(43:17):
very simple rules to life.
Do unto others as you wouldwant to have done unto you.
Right, Be kind and be kindhumans, and it's okay that you
and I have different views.
We can respect and love thehuman, no matter what.
(43:42):
How beautiful would life be,it's like with the conversation
that I had the other day.
He was saying how he never sawhimself when he was younger.
He never saw himself portrayedin in Jesus, or it's always.
You see this vision and I waslike and I had a moment of like
in Jesus, or it's always.
You see this vision and I waslike and I had a moment of like.
(44:02):
But Jesus or God or whateveryou believe, is within you.
You are made of that higherpower, right.
Or spirit, whatever you decide.
That's what you call it, butyou're made in the image of yes.
(44:24):
So that's within.
And we may look visiblydifferent on the outside, but on
the inside it's just the.
It just yeah, it has.
It's been a recurringconversation, I feel like, which
also makes me think this is nota coincidence.
(44:46):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
So one more thing I've been wanting to talk so
much when you said 1% chance, isyou said there is chaos all
around?
Is you said there is chaos allaround right?
Which means that if you letyourself be taken by chance, if
you let yourself just fall into,the statistics are always at
(45:14):
least 80% are all over the place.
Percent, yeah, are all over theplace, yep, but there are
always outliers who don't followthe statistics right.
even though 99 of the statisticsfall within those bounds, there
is always one percent outsideof the bounds which is beyond
(45:37):
the scale of that statistics andyou can only do that by being
intentional and looking inwardand going through this journey
with that deep trust that thisis truly happening for you and
letting life support you takingand receiving all the support in
(45:59):
the right way and movingforward like very simple way,
right, very simple.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
It may be difficult, but it's very simple yeah, I was
having a conversation thisweekend with my family and,
again, it's difficult sometimeswhen a family has views that may
not be as open as yours.
But I was brave and had theseconversations and it was very
(46:30):
surprised to hear thecorresponding conversation that
we ended up having Clairvoyanceand intuition and all that was
in this conversationparticularly, and I was like, oh
my gosh, this is like speakingto my soul, right?
Now.
But it was beautiful because andI said this because I don't
(46:54):
remember where I heard this fromBuddhist or something, I'm not
sure.
However, I heard that when wepray, we pray to God or your
higher power, but when we listento our intuition, it's God
speaking through us, and I justfelt that to the core when I've
(47:20):
heard it for years, or I'veheard it years ago, and so this
is something that I've reallyI've been always so good about
listening to my gut to myintuition and I always like grab
my solar plexus area, my gut,and I feel like so little of us
listen.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
We ask a lot and then we don't listen to the
responses, and I feel likethat's when we connect.
I do a walk every morning andmy dad passed away in October of
2022.
October of 2022.
And I still feel very connectedto him.
(48:01):
When I see the bird, thecardinal, the red cardinal, I
feel like it's him coming andvisiting me, and so every
morning, I prepare mypre-workout and I put ice in it,
and right above my ice maker onmy refrigerator, I have a
picture of me and my dad, and soevery morning, as I'm putting
(48:25):
the ice in the cup, I'm like Iasked him for his blessing.
So in Spanish, we say bendición, which is, um, I'm accepting
your blessings, basically, orgive me your blessings, and so I
could almost hear him say Dioste bendiga God bless you.
And when every time I'm, I likeI wink at him and I'm like what
(48:51):
do you have for us today?
like and then I go for my walkafter I finish that drink and I
see Cardinals all over as I'mwalking and I just feel so
connected.
And then they know that whenthose, I just feel I'm very much
aligned with whatever I'msupposed to do that day.
(49:15):
My podcast recordings arealways great.
I talk to amazing people, Ihave conversations with clients
or prospective clients, and itjust feels so aligned.
And so, yeah, I just I feltvery compelled to say that, to
talk about how we pray and wepray to God, but so many times
(49:39):
forget to listen, and when theway that we can listen is
listening to our intuition,because that's going to guide us
the way that we need to go yeah, that's so wise, and that's the
reason why we have one mouthand two years, right we?
Speaker 3 (49:59):
that's the symbol of like you should listen more yes,
we are just so opinionated andsaying like god, give me this,
give me that, give me this, giveme that.
But what if you just want tosee what god wants?
What if you're open to followthat direction that your higher
(50:20):
self gives you right and and?
Yeah if you're really able tosurrender your little fantasies
and this and that little desiresand little worries and accept
the bigger blessing.
It's just so beautiful beyondbelief, what is possible
(50:43):
absolutely.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
I love it.
I love it.
Oh my gosh, this has beenamazing, roth.
Thank you so very much again.
I do you have anything else forlisteners, or is this a good
spot?
Speaker 3 (50:58):
I just want to say one thing First of all.
I have really enjoyed thisconversation so much.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Me too.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
And how there's so many things in parallel between
us.
My father left his body aroundthe same time.
It was in August 2022.
And there's so many things thatit's not a coincidence, right?
But I wanted to say one thingto the viewers here, to the
listeners, if they could takeaway one thing from this podcast
(51:33):
now, like this question I hadfor myself, because I saw
somewhere what is the one thingthat you want to convey, if
everybody in the world waslistening.
So, if that is the case, I wantto say that you are truly
limitless beings of light.
You who is listening, you aredivine Right now, right here.
(52:00):
Your true nature isenlightenment, and you can
realize that experientially.
Enlightenment is not a fancy,fancy thing that's only reserved
for those who meditate in acave for a hundred years.
It is who you are right now.
Cave for 100 years.
(52:23):
It is who you are right now,and that simple realization is
possible if you only are able toopen up, receive and step out
of your own.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
I love it so much.
Oh my gosh, this is amazing.
Listeners, viewers, I hope youhave gotten so much out of
today's conversation.
I will put all of hisinformation in the show notes.
Once again, thank you so much.
(52:50):
I'm so incredibly appreciativeand I again, I felt very aligned
and I felt that connection.
So, thank you, you guys have anamazing rest of your day.
Peace out, love your life.
Bye.
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