Ep278: The Mystic - Ishtar
Ishtar is an independent mediation teacher, mystic, and spiritual guide.
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Ishtar shares his unusual childhood including near constant encounters with ghosts, early spiritual experiences, astral journeys, and precognitive dreams.
Ishtar details his life of spiritual seeking, years of intensive meditation practice, encounters with the cult groups, dark nights of the soul, and more.
Ishtar also recounts the car crash which both killed his mother and plunged Ishtar, at 13 years old, into a near death experience that would change his life forever.
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Ishtar’s unusual childhood
02:16 - Early encounters with ghosts
04:35 - Distress of constant ghost encounters
05:33 - Becoming Sherlock Holmes for ghosts
07:19 - Discovering the personality
10:48 - Beginning to suffer and developing roles
12:48 - Becoming a good faker
13:21 - Car crash, NDE, and the death of Ishtar’s mother
23:34 - Anger towards God
24:08 - A strange silence and bliss
26:59 - Grief and searching for transcendence
29:43 - Beginning of spiritual seeking
31:03 - Meeting local psychics
31:48 - Considering careers
33:12 - A powerful palm reading
36:15 - The mad monk inside
37:07 - 6hrs of practice each day
38:36 - Past life memories and spiritual proclivities
43:33 - Out of body experience
45:38 - Astral travel to floating cities
48:12 - Shaft of light
49:38 - Precognitive daydreams
50:17 - Further precognition
53:39 - Reading “Autobiography of a Yogi” and praying to Babaji
56:52 - Joining the Ishaya Foundation and living in ashrams
01:02:39 - Leaving the ashram and entering a dark night of the soul
01:05:44 - Repercussions of leaving a cult group
01:07:40 - Suffering returns and facing death
01:09:42 - The magic returns and teaching meditation
01:11:47 - Meeting his future wife
01:13:21 - A tough 2016
01:14:19 - Breakthrough to fully merging with everything
01:14:56 - Visions of Tuscany and experiences of blended time
01:19:20 - Reconciliations and purifications
01:19:43 - Leaving Portland and move to Portugal
01:21:47 - “I” vs “we”
01:22:52 - How did Ishtar spend his daily 6hrs of meditation?
01:26:18 - Spinning the wheels of meditation and trying to force results
01:27:40 - Powerful psychedelic experience
01:30:40 - Ishtar reflects on losing his mother at age 13
01:32:42 - An experience of maternal reconnection and affirmation
01:34:38 - Inner child work
01:36:11 - Mother’s embrace in Florence
01:37:44 - What does Ishtar’s teach
01:38:54 - Ishtar’s recent spiritual breakthroughs
01:41:40 - Psychic powers are not the bullseye
01:43:25 - Ishtar’s concluding thoughts and advice
01:47:29 - Christopher Wood, the stick peddler
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