The Humane Spectrum

Welcome to the Humane Spectrum Podcast! Formerly Heart as Compass but now with a broader perspective. A brief intro about the focus of my writing and teachings.

In a world where egocentric tendencies dominate our culture and relationships, it is crucial to find a path that leads us towards empathy, compassion, and self-awareness. I offer you the story of Luna, a compelling narrative that teaches us that life is best lived awake.

Most of us know that peace is freedom from disturbance or a place of tranquility. What if it is stopping the repetitive thought of your inner critic or bully? A decision to seek a sensation that only comes through the open window in the center of your chest...the heart's intent. Making such a decision activates the two other voices inside you that desires peace, your inner counselor and mediator. The human spirit constantly moves us toward a place of presence because it doesn't want to feel miserable. It knows that misery is a form of motivation that spikes further defense against the present moment. Only the ego would labor over what is to come or not to come. Presence just is. As the poet Rumi says, "Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." Let your soul be silently drawn forth so the heart can point 'the way' to what it really wants...to simply BE. When one loses the ego's 'correct' way to become this is the sensation of love. A place where one loses a sense of self that is bound by the chains of thought. Angst will vanish in such a realization. Making peace with oneself allows joy to enter. Many describe this sensation as like untying the wings of freedom. A form of flight that is vertical and spiritual by design.

There are several forces that we use to construct our reality. These include spiritual gravity, weak, electromagnetic, and strong. The ego is rooted in the unconscious psychological logic of the rational or irrational and attempts to interpret life through a two-dimensional objective lens. In contrast, our heart or body consciousness (i.e., presence) resides in three-dimensional or subjective space. It is our strong/weak forces that dictate how we hold things together(feelings)and/or fall apart(emotions). While electromagnetism (our vertical connection to life) and spiritual gravity (heart vs. ego as compass) dominate our interactions at a holistic or mind-body-spirit level. In essence, these forces place us on a Humane Spectrum worth understanding if we are to evolve.

Join me as Don Hutcheson outlines the chronology of my career and passion to help others. Don interviews individuals who have discovered their true talents and how to use them to enjoy a life of success, satisfaction and freedom. Thank you Don a wonderful honor

Life begins as a reverberating, intelligent, observing burst of light I’ve come to know as your signature expression. This quality that many would call “soul” is a unified field of subjective consciousness that predates ego and “who am I?” by more than two years. Why should we care about this? Because this unique reverberating signature assumes (like life) a course of development that follows a sequence. If we don’t acknowledge what happens first, we can never fully make sense of our story! When we identify with what happens second or third, as if these events define us, we are telling a different story than life intended.

Join me in my recent interview as we discuss my international bestseller Feelings and Reason - Activating Your Heart as Compass Despite the Ego's Interference. As always, share with your community and by all means reach out if this episode resonates. Thank you, Dr. Gayle! Your energy is inspirational! Be well.

Teachers will tell you that spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct your life in such a way that it reflects a deep understanding of reality and yourself. A depth that is discovered through personal experiences and systematic spiritual pursuit. While this is true it is an ‘after what happened first’ definition. You are born out of a consciousness that has a single intention - YOUR expression. This ‘to be alive force’ is not theoretical nor in need of discovery. Examine that within you that FEELS unlived and there IT is! Rather than pursue what you already possess, allow it to be. This is what you learn when you monitor your only interference - the human ego. Our inner orchestrator and observer is the ultimate intelligence as it fosters the integration of our emotional and psychological life. Directly connected to our ‘heart as compass’ it is the source of guidance for all three.

Find on Audible -> https://adbl.co/3oGJBQh Learn from a trauma psychologist the wisdom of real people challenged with the task of overcoming severe adversity. Integrating their insights into a complete picture of the human experience, Ernie L. Vecchio reveals a developmental understanding of how adversity becomes an opportunity for self-correction, growth, and healing. By acknowledging that the human ego is only one-third of a larger system, people learn not only what is observing their life, but why and where it is intending for them to go. The problem is we’re stuck in between life as it is and life as intended with whatever the ego considers interference. But there is good news, a unifying intelligence within everyone that wants nothing more than to liberate our fullest expression. Bringing continuity to how this unfolds, we learn there are 10 absolute truths of being human.

Listen to Ernie L. Vecchio, a Licensed Clinical & Rehabilitation Psychologist who has written four books including his latest release, Feelings & Reason: Activating Your Heart as Compass Despite the Ego’s Interference. Vecchio is an international best-seller in four self-help categories and now joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Mental Health Channels.

The spiritual gravity hypothesis states that there is an electromagnetic constant within the human experience affecting the push-pull and mass of our heart and ego. The formula indicates that when the ego is exaggerated in size and operating without the heart as compass, human suffering is increased tenfold.

As most of you know, inner work is the core foundation of the spiritual path. Without it, we’re fumbling around in the dark trying to find our way. There’s no purging, healing, transformation, or awakening without cultivating and understanding your inner life. Tune in this week as we briefly talk about the lost art of inner knowing.

Nothing is more important to mental wellness than a physical sense of ‘where’ someone is in their life and circumstances. There is a specific degree of coordination required with one’s above observer, spirited motivation, and adapting function before the heart can provide the balance it brings. Our full ability to navigate this existence requires the orientation of trueness NOT information. Integrity’s message is: ‘What you see is what you get.’ Listen in as this podcast touches on the realm of what it means to be level, balanced, and true

“The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.” -Jung-

Did you know that more than half of all bottled water comes from the tap. Meanwhile, a million bottles are bought around the world every minute. That’s roughly 20,000 bottles every second. These mind-blowing figures are driven by concerns over contaminated water. Most of us can’t tell the difference. Many of us feel the present is contaminated in the same way. Tune in as we discuss how this is sold to us like bottled water. Meanwhile, these fundamental truths exist: you’re a spiritual being forced to live a psychological reality; the problem is self-correcting by design; and presence - the only thing that exists - is free. We consider it ‘a present’ because the mind takes us to the past or looks ahead only to tease us with the NOW.

Humanistic and existential philosophy assumes that people want to live better lives. In the humanistic view, the assumption is that we strive to be our best selves. In the existential view, the assumption is that we strive to live meaningful lives. While these two concepts are similar and may lead to identical results, capturing an image in our heads to understand them is often difficult. Tune in this week as we briefly discuss the proverbial ‘fishbowl’ we find ourselves in.

Did you know that depression has a history that’s as old as civilization itself. In fact, we can find descriptions of depression in the hieroglyphics, paintings, and statues of ancient Egypt. The idea of a depression well is actually that old. Though we begin this podcast talking about depression a new idea comes through - disturbing presence. As much as I talk about ego interference, it’s important for people to realize that presence is jeopardized by external disturbance daily. Words that seemingly do not belong in the same sentence...disturbing presence...is society’s modern day paradox.

Ernie Vecchio is a mentor, spiritual teacher and trauma psychologist. During his 30+ years career he has treated over 10,000+ patients who suffered severe trauma that ranged from amputation, head injury, sexual assault, and paralysis. Ernie is a Licensed Clinical & Rehabilitation Psychologist who has written four books including his latest release, Feelings & Reason: Activating Your Heart as Compass Despite the Ego’s Interference, an international best-seller in four self-help categories.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyBookBIGQuestions There is a difference between managing our outward behavior and managing our inward emotions, and both affect our signature expression (i.e. soul). While cognitive behavioral therapies (and religion) help provide a set of rules to guide our actions, it is spirituality that offers ways to manage our emotions internally. Those who combine the language and practice of each, are more likely to achieve some form of balance in their lives. But this language is foreign to many of us. This is rooted in the conflict between science and spirituality — between facts and emotional ways to explain the world. The problem is as old as human thought itself. Kant distinguished between theoretical reason (science) and practical reason (morality) and noted that such conflict is rooted in the brain. One tends to suppress the other and humans come to favor one mode of thinking over the other. Tune in as Irma Francis and I discuss how dialogue and language can ‘meet you where you are’ but you have to pose a quality question for this to happen.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyBookBIGQuestions Has life ever punched you in the nose? If you’re normal, it absolutely has. While you were standing there bleeding, how did you interpret the experience? Let me help. You come into the world (before the punch) thinking “This is how it FEELS to be what I am.” Then…as life would have it (after the punch) there is no escaping yet another truth: “This is how it EMOTES to be what I had to become.” One is the experience, the other is the interpretation. Sit with this insight. If you didn’t know, the angst of the human condition is the friction between these two realities! Tune in as Irma Francis and I discuss a small but profound kernel of truth. Let me know how/if it touches you?