Good News About the World Falling Apart

What if death feels like bliss, not fear? I was in the room when my mother consciously left her body — and it changed what I believe about dying.

In Hindu tradition, a conscious, peaceful death is called Mahasamadhi — the great awakening. In French slang, orgasm is called le petit mort — the little death. In this episode of Good News About the World Falling Apart, I put them together through a personal story: my m...

Do our loved ones meet us when we die? Stories from nurses, children, and dying parents say yes.

In this episode of Good News About the World Falling Apart, I share true stories of deceased love ones who return to comfort and guide us — from a pediatric oncology ward, to a car accident, to my own mother's final days. Shamans around the world have taught this for centuries: those who love us never leave us.

If you fear death o...

My 92-year-old mom chose VSED—voluntarily stopping eating and drinking and what happened over those 10 days changed how I see death.

After her memory and body began to fail, she decided she was tired of being alive. In this video I share what VSED is really like, how morphine, comfort care and singing carried her, and the extraordinary temple-like field of love that opened...

I said the Serenity Prayer for 30 years before a whole new level opened up: not simply the Difference between what I can change and what I can't, but the Difference between Serenity and Courage, the Difference between Being and Doing. In this video I walk the Serenity Prayer line by line, share the version I actually use in recovery, and show you how to tell which one — serenity or courage — the moment in front of you i...

A Shuar shaman from the Amazon told me four words that changed how I see everything: you see what you are.

Years ago, a healer from the Shuar tribe in Ecuador came to the center I was running. Even as his rainforest was being destroyed for oil and mining, his first act was to heal us with compassion. What he said to me late that night still guides my practice of gratitude, serenity, and waking up...

When stress hits, your heart shuts down and you fall asleep to compassion. Ananda Forest teaches how to recognize your spiritual narcolepsy triggers and use breathwork to stay awake—grounded in Eckhart Tolle's teachings on consciousness and the "dream of form."

In this video:

• Why triggering events knock you out of spiritual awareness
• The H.A.L.T. framework: hungry, angry, lonely, tired—your narcolepsy switches
• How ...

"What if your deepest pain was actually your greatest teacher? Inspired by Ram Dass's profound concept of fierce grace, I share how addiction and depression became the unexpected catalysts for my spiritual awakening.

In this video, I explore how RAM DASS—the legendary spiritual teacher—reframed suffering not as punishment or failure, but as initiation into a deeper consciousness. I apply his teachings to my own recovery...

Gratitude can open a door you didn’t know was there.

In this personal reflection, I share what getting sober taught me about gratitude—and how realizing that breath is the most precious thing we have changed the way I experience life.

You’ll learn how conscious breathing can become a doorway to presence, how the three-part yogic breath works, and how a simple b...

Left wing, right wing — two wings of the same bird. What if the political divide is a distraction from the real story: a dying paradigm that can't be saved?

In this episode, I explore why getting caught up in red vs. blue keeps us from seeing the deeper truth — that our political system itself is structurally broken, regardless of which party is in power. From billionaire-backed elections to the futility of "fixing" a s...

Why are we here? The answer starts with hydrogen.

Most people think the singularity is AI. But the real singularity — the one enlightened beings have been pointing to for millennia — is the journey from scattered stardust to unified consciousness. In this episode, I trace the path from hydrogen atoms in a star all the way to the halo around a saint's head. Because that's not just poetry. It's direction. It's human desti...

Is the singularity really about AI merging with humanity? Or is it something far more ancient — and far more hopeful?

The AI singularity terrifies people. Skynet. The barcode human. Total technological takeover. But there's another singularity — the one mystics and sages have pointed to for thousands of years: the realization that all is one. Cosmic consciousness. Enlightenment.

In this video, I explore why the technolo...

The world is going to hell in a handbasket — and that's actually liberating.

If no politician, CEO, or institution is coming to save us, then we're free to stop waiting and start building. In this episode, I explore why small, intentional communities — not elections or policy — are the real vehicle for the paradigm shift we need.

Drawing on the "embers" metaphor from our deep human past and Margaret Mead's famous ...

You're not breaking. You're germinating. If you've been feeling despair, like the world is falling apart and nothing you were taught works anymore — there's good news. You're a seed being cracked open. In this video, Ananda Forest explores the metaphor of the heart seed: the protective shell of the ego that must shatter so the germ within — your awakened heart — can bloom. Just as a seed can lie dormant for centur...

You're not losing your mind — you're processing reality.

Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross gave us one of the most powerful frameworks for navigating painful information: DABDA — Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Despair, Acceptance. It's not linear. You can bounce between stages for years. But understanding where you ARE in the process changes everything.

In this episode, I walk through each stage honestly — including ...

You've had that moment — looking at the state of the world and thinking "WTF is happening?" That feeling isn't a breakdown. It's a meter. And it's reading exactly what it's supposed to read.

In this video, I break down the Meter of Awakening — a simple but powerful framework for understanding where you are on the consciousness shift. When the paradigm falls apart, confusion, anger, and despair aren't signs you're losing...

The patriarchy inside you: how you sabotage yourself

You didn't grow up in a vacuum. For 5,000 years, a set of beliefs — about power, worthiness, and who gets to take up space — has been quietly installed in all of us. Women and men alike.

This is internalized patriarchy. And it's not your fault. But it is your work to see it.

In this video, we explore:

• What internalized patriarchy actually looks like in daily life
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The world feels like it's breaking down. But what if it's actually breaking open? The caterpillar doesn't die inside the chrysalis — it dissolves, completely, before it becomes something new. Right now, our world is doing exactly the same thing. In this video, we explore one of nature's most profound metaphors for the paradigm shift unfolding around us. Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar's old structure breaks down into wh...

My favorite season? The FALL — of a 5,000-year-old paradigm that was never meant to be permanent. What you're calling "the world falling apart"? That's not collapse. That's birth. We are living through the most significant spiritual awakening in human history — a paradigm shift so massive it's being felt as crisis, chaos, and despair by billions of people who don't yet have a framework to understand what's actually happ...

You are not just a person navigating a collapsing world — you are a mammal. And that changes everything. In this video, we explore what it actually means to be a mammal — and why this profound biological truth holds the key to understanding both the crisis we're in and the transformation emerging on the other side.From the deep roots of mammalian evolution to the wiring of our nervous systems, we carry ancient wisdom th...