Category: Season 2

Thanking all our guests and listening audience for joining us for Season Two of the Poetic Resurrection Podcast.

1. Jaclyn Steele—Soul of Connection we discuss the Soul Connection and how our soul’s calling intertwines our lives, beliefs, and our connection with others.
2. Alex Greenwood—Soul of Mystery We laugh, joke, and discuss the soul of writing mysteries.
3. Trini Rodriquez—Soul of Healing We discuss Native American and Mexican American sweat-lodges and how this brings you closer to your soul.
4. Che’Rae Adams—Soul of Writing We discuss what it takes to write a good story and how the story germinates from the soul. That inner voice drawing us to write our story.
5. Ian Brooks—Soul of Intention We had a lively discussion on the process of intention. How the pandemic, perceptions, and beliefs affect our lives and how we can change the characters we created in our story.
6. Jonathan Troen—Soul of Self-Love We have a lively conversation about the Self-Love Revolution.
7. Martin Espada—Soul of my Father A reading of Letter to My Father and how it affected him. We discussed historical events and perceptions of Puerto Rico and its people in this heartfelt interview.
8. Joachim Brackx—Soul of Self We discuss the self and how our perceptions play an important part in compassion, self-love, and acceptance.
9. Rick White – Soul of Understanding We have a great discussion about grief, life, illness and acceptance of self, our value, and how life changes.
10. Samuel Ashe II – Soul of Giving we discuss how our experiences teach us to help ourselves and others.
11. Melissa Da Silva – Soul of a Relationship We discuss Her journey from a toxic relationship to self-acceptance, love, and grieving of love lost.
12. Charlie Sheldon – Soul of Storytelling We discuss his journey from Yale to being a fisherman to writing his books.
13. Andrew Seaton – Soul of You We discuss spiritual awakening and how it’s simple.
14. Louise Alexandra Erskine—Soul of Imperfection We discuss toxic relationships, parenting, and being a single mother raising boys and how her poetry and photography clarified and taught her acceptance of being imperfect.

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Our guest this week Monday, Sept 20th is Andrew Seaton author of Spiritual Awakening Made Simple. We discuss the Soul of You – spiritual awakening and how it’s simple, we address grief, and other emotions affecting our perceptions. Check out this informative interview.

Andrew Seaton is a spiritual author, teacher, counselor, and mentor for spiritual awakening. For more than four decades, he delved deeply into educational philosophy and psychology; old wisdom and new science; reports of higher consciousness; and a wide range of personal development, holistic wellness, and spiritual awareness practices.

As Andrew experienced all the personal ups and downs of his life, his working life was quite varied, but mostly in education. He had many different roles in that field, most of them relating to education of the whole person. His Ph.D. thesis was titled “Investing in Intelligence: An Inquiry into Educational Paradigm Change.” Andrew came to see that in our world we are generally making some deeply flawed assumptions about knowledge, human nature, and quality of life. In 2006, he resigned from a two-year stint as an education academic in order to focus on unlearning his education and other conditioning, and on awakening, the fuller functioning that he had come to see so clearly is possible and desirable.

Listen to it on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast and PoeticResurrection.com

Awakening Made Simple (on Amazon)

Andrew’s website is at AwakeningMadeSimple.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndrewSeaton101

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCau8nH_QV9fGPnZopgzkDrg

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewseaton101

 

In this week’s episode, the Soul of Giving,  we have Sammy Ashe II. He performs a reading of his song “Enemy” sung by Fanesha Fabre. We listen to her singing it and find out what prompted him to write the song, This is an entertaining conversation about everything from music, the Ashe Academy, and how our experiences teach us to help ourselves and others.

Samuel Jonathan Ashe II, better known as Sammy Ashe is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Ashe Academy, a nonprofit focused on addressing the access and opportunity gap for Students of Color pursuing the Arts & STEM fields through mentorship, annual scholarships, and parental engagement. He is also a Marketing Strategist with a passion for Filmmaking, Podcasting, and Songwriting.

In his music career, he has worked with artists like Fanesha Fabre, Stephen James, Cortex Accelera, Danielle Parente, and Mike Georgia to name a few on projects involving songwriting, composing, and producing.

Website: www.theasheacademy.org

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This week we discuss why thoughts contradict affirmations. They contradict because we state them but our subconscious mind isn’t believing it. i.e., I am wealthy – my bank account states differently. This is because our negative self-talks are repeated over and over.

EX: Someone annoys you – there will be a thought & an emotion associated with it and we usually repeat something like “I can’t believe they did that” and now you have created an affirmation.

We usually read off affirmations like a list with no emotion.  I am wealthy, I am safe, I am prosperous, I am healthy, I am loved. No emotion, just going through a list.

Affirmations can be difficult to state especially if it’s contradicting an emotional experience

With affirmations and if needed support, you can change your thoughts.

It’s okay to take your time with them.

Taking deep breaths and exhaling slowly helps.

Visualizing being a calm place – the beach, forest, meadow, or bed.

Think of someone or something you love: your family, your friends, a loved one, a pet, your home. Feel that emotion of love.

You’re using affirmations to help change long-standing patterns and beliefs. A good way to bring this change about is to act as if you’ve already succeeded.

Affirmations are effective if stated in the present.

Adding I feel to them – ex: I am wealthy – I feel wealthy, I am loved – I feel loved.

It’s easier to make a change when an emotion is associated with it. Emotions are energy – which helps us with a change.

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Listen to this episode and the last nine here

Rick White wrote Before & Beyond Understanding in hopes to have a positive impact on the reader’s life. From his being in the army to dealing with chronic illness he put his heart into sharing the lessons that have helped him along his personal path.

Rick White – A simple guy with sometimes hard-won and sometimes spiritually provided wisdom – shares what he’s learned in a way we can all understand.

From being murderously angry in his youth to talking people down from bad trips at concerts during the years surrounding Woodstock…

From working with friends to get through severe tragedy to profound interactions with those afflicted with homelessness…

The lessons contained in this book are not born of theory and concept… These ideas are from the depths of the experience of a man whose search for meaning, humanity, and profundity never ends. Some he discovered on his own, some he received through mentoring, all changed his life.

His only hope is to be able to pay forward the insights and understandings he’s received to as many people as he possibly can.

Listen to his episode here

Get a copy of his book here – Before & Beyond Understanding

Poetic Resurrection is honored to present Pulitzer Prize finalist, Puerto Rican poet Martin Espada for an intimate and informative conversation. Martin reads his poem Letter to My Father from his book Floaters. We discuss the effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, the people, and especially the town of his father’s birth Utuado. We conversed about historical events and perceptions of Puerto Rico and its people in this heartfelt interview.

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006) and Alabanza (2003). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize*, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona, and reissued by Northwestern. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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http://www.martinespada.net/

Frank Espada’s gallery of work: https://www.thefrankespadagalleries.com/

Floaters link on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3C6R3fJ

Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Republic of Poetry: https://amzn.to/3fgIu88

*Ruth Lilly Award: Awarded annually.  Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.