Hello everyone, and welcome to the Wisdom of the Ages podcast show where we invite the sacred into modern day reality. So, I’m hoping this audio will work from my house. We’ll see how this goes, but this is Ayn Cates Sullivan, and we have a wonderful guest today, Dr. Gabriel Cousens. But let me tell you why you’re going to be excited about this episode. As humans, we all need to engage in relationships. Most people want to find a soulmate or a special other, but after that initial infatuation takes place, the real work begins. We’re going to discuss here how you navigate real and enduring relationships with loved ones, with the community, and with the world.
So, a sacred relationship is about a special other, but it’s also about friends. It’s about community. It’s about the world family, our relationship with sacred ecology. So, the big picture. And we might even discover that sacred relationship is ultimately about the divine. And I’d like to begin with a wisdom quote by Dr. Gabriel Cousens. And it goes like this, “Sacred relationship is a heroic journey into the unknown, into the risky world of love and intimacy. Where one has to face the fear and risk of losing all while loving all. It is a tantric challenge that elevates one on the ever evolving spiritual path of liberation.” I just love that. I love the idea that sacred relationship can lead us to liberation. Just think about that for a minute, how beautiful. Yes, we can wake up together, and we’re meant to wake up together.
So let me formally introduce Dr. Gabriel Cousens. Dr. Cousens functions as a holistic physician, a homeopath, a psychiatrist, family therapist, Ayurvedic practitioner, and a Chinese herbalist. In addition, he’s a world leading diabetes researcher, ecological leader, spiritual master, founder, and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and the Tree of Life Center US. In addition, he’s a bestselling author of many books, and his new autobiography Into the Nothing: A Journey of Holistic Liberation will be available soon. So, welcome Dr. Cousens.
Well, thank you so much. I am very pleased to be on your show. You do such a nice job. So, it’s a privilege to be on your show, on your … this podcast.
And what a conversation today, sacred relationship. It’s something that impacts all of us, and it’s challenging too. I mean, we’re all unique. We have ideas. We have beliefs. How can we overcome our differences and work together as a peaceful, joyous, loving global family?
It’s obviously a really good question, and as you said it’s an individual relationship, couple relationship, family, and societal. But there’s a principle behind all of this, okay? And first, it’s like the angle of the mind. How do we turn chaos and difficulty into opportunities to awaken and bring forth our best human qualities of compassion, love, humor, wisdom, and dedication to the truth? That’s the question, and ultimately all relationships, in the bigger understanding, help us awaken to God.
Fundamental to sacred relationship is experiencing the divine in each other, and as we take it a little further, experiencing the divine in all of our family members. And as we take a little bit further, experiencing the divine in our whole society. All human beings, from a spiritual point of view, are the spark of God. So to see the spark of God in people, we have to see it in ourselves. So we, in a sense, need to start with ourselves and move from there. Because you can’t see that spark of God when you don’t see it in yourself, right? There’s a fundamental beginning place.
And so sacred relationships isn’t just with the couple dynamic, it is, “Are you ready to put God at the center of your life and prepare yourself for what I’m going to call the foundation peace spiritual practices to begin to experience directly the spark of God within yourself. That’s the fundamental, and then that goes to everybody. What we see in our society, which I don’t want to spend too much on this moment, is people aren’t seeing the spark of God so much.
And so we have duality, but ultimately when we see the spark of God in everyone, we are in oneness awareness. We know our oneness. That’s fundamental for a relationship. Because clearly, relationships bring a whole interesting thing. Because in our modern day relationships, we’re joining romantic love, sexual passion, spiritual path, marriage of equals in an enduring relationship, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual resonation which is key to a sacred relationship, all four levels.
And it requires us to develop a new level of intimacy. Because we have to see that in ourselves and then be able to resonate that with another person. The purpose, from a spiritual point of view, of sacred relationship is to know God, ultimately is to become liberated. So–
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That’s really..
That’s so beautiful. It’s just beautiful. Just this idea that we can see ourselves, first of all see ourselves, as a spark of light, a spark of the divine. It seems like there would be a lot of cleansing to do to really understand that’s what we are, and then with other people. Plus everybody’s issues with different religious traditions. But, I have to take an ad break. Can you tell us where we can find out about you, your book, your worldwide programs?
People can go to DrCousens.com, and they can find out all the programs. They can find out about the folks that were doing a lot on COVID-19. They just go to the newsletter. It’s a free newsletter they can sign up for. So we can be updated on every level. Then I’m often on Facebook, like five days a week, giving a little talk. In fact, yesterday I gave a talk on sacred relations.
That’s wonderful. Okay, so when we come back from the short break, we’re going to talk more about sacred relationships and how we can reside in love, joy, and peace together. It is possible. So stay tuned. We’ll be right back.
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