Hello, this is AngelaMarÃa, one of the SuperPower Up! hosts, and you are listening to the High Frequency Healing show. Awaken superpowers through higher dimension healing. The only difference between where you are, to where you want to be, is the actions you take, here and now to heal your life. Let’s take a deep breath and be here and now. I invite you to enjoy this time together.
So here we go.
Please, let’s welcome Jeff Rasley to my show. We will be talking about soul, travel, to connect with I love this topic because you know that one of my superpowers is the connection with and I know you’re going to love this experience because you like to travel, and travel is one of those things you have on your bucket list, you’re going to love this interview.
Jeff is a lawyer and has taught classes on philosophy at Butler and Marian University. He’s the author of 10 books and numerous articles in academic and mainstream periodicals. He’s an award winning photographer and his picture was taken in the Himalaya and has been published. Rasley is the founder of the Basa Village Foundation, which raises money for culturally sensitive development in the Basa area of Nepal. A partner of Midsummer Books and a director of six nonprofit organizations. So please join me to welcome Jeff to my show. Hello Jeff, thank you for being here.
Hello Angela. Thank you very much for having me. I look forward to sharing the Akasha.
It’s a pleasure. Believe me. Let’s just start asking you. What’s your healing superpower?
Thanks. Well, I think that something that I’ve always tried to do, and I hope with some success and especially in my endeavors over in the Nepal Himalaya, is to bring people together to recognize that alone in solitary activities, we cannot fulfill our full potential. And so, although singular disciplines, spiritual, physical disciplines are important to me, and I think should be to everyone, we really cannot be fully ourselves unless we’re in community. So I hope the way that I have helped other people, is to introduce them to other communities and to help them feel like they’re a part of a greater community. And perhaps even that community of all humankind.
Wow. That sounds refreshing, for these worlds and this new life that we’re living, where everybody’s thinking about them, are fighting. Where families are being destroyed, where people are getting separated. I just love that there’s a project like yours that invites people to come together again that have tried. Will you please take us back to your early years, and name one memorable life lesson that is useful for you today.
Sure. I’m going to mention one, which I’ve actually written about, and the last book I wrote actually opens with this. When I turned 40 I was manifesting symptoms of a midlife crisis, which seemed utterly ridiculous cause my life was great. I had a successful law practice. My wife is a wonderful person. We had two young boys, life on the outside looked great, but on the inside I’ve just felt like this wasn’t really the life I wanted. I felt unsatisfied, unfulfilled, even though from the outside it looked great. And so one day I came home from my law office and my wife slapped down on the table in front of me, a brochure about trekking in the Himalayas and specifically hiking the Mount Everest base camp trail. And she said, why don’t you go do this? So basically saying, “Hey buddy, go take a hike and do it on the other side of the world.” – Explore the Akasha.Â
And what she perceived is that part of what my soul needed was not being fulfilled. I had always loved travel and from an early age had been involved in what has come to be called adventure travel. Like when I was 18 years old, I walked to the edge of town, stuck my thumb out and hitchhiked across the country. And that was sort of the beginning of my major solo adventure travels and being so involved in developing a law practice and running an office and raising kids. I had not been feeding that need. And so she recognized that and her therapy, her healing was; go travel, go to a place you’ve never been, experience a culture that’s very different from ours. And just get away from this life and see what happens. So I did, and that was the beginning of my relationship, which has turned into a very long one with Nepal.
Jeff, I couldn’t love your answer more. And I want the listeners to know that when I got all this information from Jeff, I opened up his website and I started reading, and at the beginning I thought, this is not related to my show. I mean it’s awesome what he does. And Jeff doesn’t know about this, he’s just realizing about this confession. And I said, yeah, and at some point I was just sharing with my husband and said, Hey look what he does, I don’t think he’s for my show but look. And he started looking at it, he said, “Oh, this is awesome.” I would take a trip of this just because I do believe in you, give it a chance. And when he said those words, I would never, I closed my computer and I said, okay, I’m going to think about it.
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