509. Georgi Y. Johnson - a podcast by Rick Archer

Born in Sheffield, England, Georgi has led a life of charm, intoxication, collision and perpetual re-awakening.

Having experienced her parent’s divorce and later her father’s death to alcoholism, Georgi was a born seeker for a stable home that was somehow prior to the broken home that she knew.  As a teenager, she attended evening classes at the School of Philosophy in Belgium, that offered a ‘sanitized’ version of Vedanta. While it gave a lot, the experience became oppressive, and when she left to Oxford University, she instead delved into Jungian psychology and the application of psychoanalytic and feminist literary theory.When she was 20, Georgi arrived in Jerusalem, in search of a midway point between the mysticism of the east and the decay of the west. She experienced a part of the earth that is charged with bliss. Yet it was also a country where it seemed that nobody belonged. In this, she found a sense of belonging (in the field of not belonging).
Georgi’s life in Israel would include a compulsion for conflict. She worked as an investigative journalist exposing lies told about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Later, she would undergo a high-conflict divorce in which she was condemned by rabbinical courts as a fake convert, a home-breaker and a naughty woman.All this served to re-awaken her deeper purpose: the exploration of the mysteries of consciousness. After she met the love her life - spiritual teacher Bart ten Berge - this passion would express through escalating processes of liberation.Today, she is deeply fulfilled in sharing this journey with others through workshops, and one-on-one mentorship.

A free spirit, citizen of the world and a poet, Georgi is presently pioneering Nondual Therapy, which she sees as part of a paradigm shift in the evolution of psychology.Books:

Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of AwakeningStillness of the Wind: A Collection of Nondual Poetry
I Am Here: Opening the Windows to Life and BeautyWebsite: perception.inner-growth.org

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded July 6, 2019Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.


Chapters:00:00:00 - Introduction and Importance of Donations in Supporting BATGAP
00:04:47 - The Value of Individual Responsibility and Volunteer Work00:08:37 - A Jacob's Ladder of Light
00:12:30 - The Connection Through Meditation and Mantras00:17:09 - Forbidden Mantras and Spiritual Contemplation
00:21:19 - Surrendering to Genius00:26:10 - Mystical experiences and the power of sound
00:30:11 - The Death of the Author and the Fluidity of Texts00:34:28 - The Negative Effects of Trusting Outer Authority
00:38:58 - Cannabis and Coffee-induced Psychosis00:42:16 - From Anxiety to Apocalyptic Depression
00:46:42 - Finding Healing and Service00:50:53 - Overcoming Anxiety and Finding Joy
00:55:05 - Closing of the Heart01:00:00 - Visitations from Enlightened Beings
01:03:01 - The Cone of Non-Duality01:07:34 - The Paradox of Existence and Nonexistence
01:12:37 - Qualities of Awakening: Love, Peace, Joy01:17:21 - The Peace Within Conflict
01:22:26 - The Spoiled Nature of Humanity01:26:14 - The Impulse to Incarnate in a State of Nondual Quality
01:31:16 - The Innocence and Guilt of Humanity01:35:35 - The Non-Dual Nature of Inheritance and Purpose
01:39:53 - Embracing Natural Empathy and Unity with Others01:44:16 - Different Experiences of Enlightenment Based on Nervous System01:49:14 - The Sensitivity of the Nervous System
01:53:17 - The Vision of Two Figures01:58:06 - The Tragic Effects of Psychiatric Drugs
02:02:49 - The Mind as a Receiver02:07:57 - Embracing Diversity and Non-Conformity
02:11:43 - Conclusion and Donation Reminder

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