Blessings, Soul Family. This is Jewels with Cosmic Consciousness: Coding the New Human for the New Earth. And I am just really excited about our guest today. We have Dr. Gabriel, and he has offered to start us off with a prayer, so I’m going to go ahead and turn it over to you.
Thank you, Jewels, and it’s a joy to be on your program. And the prayer is about merging the heavens and earth and really, heart and the mind. There’s an integration of heart and mind, which is the best way to listen to me because I’m working at both levels. We call it the wisdom of the heart as we in. Here we go. Feel that merging, let that wisdom of the heart come out. Okay.
That was beautiful. Well, that just set the tone for a beautiful conversation. Before we go into that conversation, Gabriel, let’s have you just tell us a little bit about yourself.
I began life in an interesting way. In 1943, one-year-old had TB. Tuberculosis, at that time there was no medication. It was almost a sure death sentence, but my mother and father didn’t agree with that and gave me a lot of attention. We made it through. Why is that important? Well, we’re affected by what happens to us at a young age. And I had the opportunity to face death for a lot, and for the next 33 years, I looked at that issue very, very closely trying to understand it. And what I eventually got would have had a more profound, spiritual weight, be the waking up the spiritual energy that some people call Kundalini or in the West we call it Ruach Ha-Kodesh. There is no death of the self. The self is neither born nor dies. And it’s immortal. That was a major breakthrough.
The first 33 years of my life were focused that way. I did a lot of different things that began also to get me more connected to the bigger picture. I loved meditating. I loved playing football, which I played through college. And inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame as captain of the community college football team. Why am I bringing it up in a spiritual discussion? Because I began having spiritual experiences at a young age. When I began playing football at age 10, I began to go beyond myself into realms beyond the mind. My initial introduction, besides at one year old, into the mystical realms, happened to play football. That’s hard for people to get, but when you understand that, when you go beyond the mind, whatever the setting is, that’s where we began to enter the deeper mysteries. Now, of course, we get a little bit more sophisticated with what time and football season ends and how you keep accessing it.
And then I began putting more focus on meditation. I was in India for seven years at Swamis Mundanity ashram meditating six hours a day, chanting four and a half, at that point, going down the mind into the nothing became a more regular experience as part of like, this is reality. And from that point, that to be acknowledged by Mundanity, and after that seven-year cycle, I began to go more deeply into other things. And after 40 days fast, a little voice rang out and said, you need to go to your roots. I began studying the Kabbalah and Torah and got very deep into that mystical realm. And then the third realm that I entered was as a native American Sundance, which you do this for four years. And it was an extremely positive experience for me connecting to many of the native American peoples, with the Lakota.
I actually became adopted into the tribe. I bring three different traditions. I bring the Yogic tradition being the Kabbalistic Torah tradition, and I also bring the native American and say a Sundance tradition into my work, integrating all of that. I’m also trained as a psychiatrist and family therapist and have been teaching meditation for 47 years. That’s a little bit of the background. And it’s really what I share is the accumulated wisdom of that. My latest book Into The Nothing really puts that all together. It’s a spiritual autobiography in the sense of a way to live. And what I learned from all this is all life experiences are an opportunity to grow spiritually. There are no bad experiences. They’re more difficult and easier, but it’s an opportunity to grow spiritually. And that’s how I’ve taken that as a gift for God as away. I see everything through that lens of living in the world.
That way it is kind of like, let’s say key understanding and the more, and I’ve developed a lifestyle and the lifestyle is not a spiritual practice, it’s I call it the six foundations sevenfold peace. It’s a natural holistic way of living that leads to liberation.
Absolutely. And I want to talk more about that, but before we do, we’re going to just move into a quick break to talk about spiritual practice here, Dr. Gabriel. Why don’t you let everybody know if they went to connect with you, how they would find you?
Okay. The easiest way is to go to drcousens.com or treeoflife.mn.co and that’s our community. And that is the way to tune into the different workshops. We have spiritual fasting retreats. We have what we call yoga of the mind, Zero Point, and we have a lot of support at this time in the world. People need support. So we’ve developed a community support system through the tree of life community. That’s how people can get connected.
Beautiful. Okay. We will be right back.
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