EPISODE 401
Nothing Is Missing in Your Life… You're Just Not Seeing It With Dr. John Demartini
At age 13, Dr. John Demartini left home after being told by the “experts” around him that his life would never amount to much. People claimed his physical and learning challenges were too much to overcome…
Nearly six decades later, John is living the life none of those “experts” could’ve ever imagined, as a world-renown teacher who helps his students come to a greater understanding of human behavior and maximizing their potential.
John shares his amazing journey from his early days as teenage surfer without a home, then explains why he gave up the self-help movement — it’s a moral trap — and reveals the importance of asking the right questions of ourselves and others this week on Spirit Gym.
Find out more about John and his work on his website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and YouTube. Listen to his podcast, The Demartini Show, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to them.
Also, John invites Spirit Gym listeners to take advantage of some free gifts:
- Download his 7 Steps to Expand to the Next Level of Empowerment workbook.
- Watch John’s inspiring presentation, Awakening Your Astronomical Vision.
- Complete the Demartini Value Determination Process, a 13-step process that helps you determine your highest values or priorities in life.
- Take his master classes, Increase Your Deserve Level and Finally Get What You Want and Discover The Hidden Order and Its Power to Transform Your Life.
SHOW NOTES
5:34 John leaves home at age 13 to hitchhike cross-country and surf.
8:31 John’s life-changing encounter with Paul Bragg.
19:59 From learning-challenged to speaking to University of Houston students daily.
35:20 “Everything that’s going on our life is on the way to help us be our most magnificent self.”
46:00 Lean into your uniqueness and authenticity with help from your teachers.
53:29 The Demartini method.
1:01:45 Holy curiosity.
1:13:32 “I really believe all of the randomness that we have is missing information.”
1:22:29 “The Master lives in a world of transformation, not the illusion of gain, loss, pleasure, pain or polarities.”
1:27:39 John’s research leads him to give up the self-help movement.
1:39:32 “Quality questions are ones that make us aware of what we’re unconscious of when we’re interpreting things in this polarized way.”
1:41:47 What is depression?
1:54:56 True science and true religion mirror each other, but with different languages.
2:03:25 John’s definition of evil: An incomplete awareness of a mental construct.
2:12:59 Good and evil: The only labels we impose on things that are exaggerations rather than synthesis.
2:15:41 The soulmate question.
2:31:05 “The first thing I tell my students: Whatever you perceive in me, let’s find it in you.”
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
Essentials of Emotional Intelligence by Dr. John Demartini
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by P.A.M. Durac
The C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston
Dr. John Demartini’s heated conversation with Aubrey Marcus on YouTube
The Science of Mind: The Complete 1926 edition by Ernest Holmes
The Law of Eristic Escalation explained by Dr. John Demartini
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
The work of Jack LaLanne, Buddy Miles, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Claude Shannon, Frank Tipler, Stephen Wolfram, Vera Rubin, Sri Aurobindo, Stephen Hawking, Edward Edinger and Epictetus
Rudolf Clausius and the second law of thermodynamics
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
The Rigveda
Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind by Richard Bucke
Gate control theory by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall
The Secret (film) on YouTube
Paul’s podcast conversation with Sean O’Laoire
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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
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