#79 The Art of The Mystical Experience with Miles Neale, Psy.D.

If you love the esoteric aspects of spirituality, this is the episode for you!

Psychotherapist and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Miles Neale, joins me to chat about his new book - Return with Elixir: Four Maps for the Soul's Pilgrimage through Death and Rebirth.

I loved this book from the moment I laid eyes on it. It is a manual for spiritual rebirth, a step-by-step guide to reclaiming the soul. Revealing how to reframe life’s challenges and transitions as opportunities for inner growth. 

His book integrates Tibetan Buddhism with psychology, trauma healing, neuroscience, and mythology, along with profound personal experience. 

We talk about:

• ​How the elixir of immortal life is the secret of both Eastern and Western esoteric traditions. And what does return with the elixir mean?
• ​Exploring themes of the collective unconscious, archetypes, The heroes journey, and the search for wholeness.
• ​Miles shares the four maps for spiritual rebirth based on Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and the precession of the equinoxes.
• ​We also talk about Jungian esotericism (The Red Book)
• ​And we talk about how the symbolism of deity, Vajra Yogini is an archetype.

And so much more. 

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About Miles:

Miles Neale, Psy.D., is a psychotherapist, teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, and founder of the Gradual Path, where he leads pilgrimages of spiritual transformation around the world. He trained intensively with Buddhist scholars Robert Thurman and Joseph Loizzo as well as Tibetan master Geshe Tenzin Zopa and has taught meditation and integrative healing at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell university hospitals. The author of Gradual Awakening and co-editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy, he lives in Bali, Indonesia.

His documentary, The Missing Peace, with film maker Matthew Friddel can be found on YouTube. 

Links:

https://www.milesneale.com

https://www.gradualpath.com

https://www.youtube.com/@milesneale

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