Ep278: The Mystic - Ishtar

Ishtar is an independent mediation teacher, mystic, and spiritual guide.

Available on Youtube, iTunes, SoundCloud & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’.

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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Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James

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