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Portals of Perception

Aviv Shahar, Peter Barry

Portals of Perception endeavors to create conversations at the frontier of discovery, and to bring to life the natural processes of human development. Each of us, by design, can become a living agency for the evolutionary process, as it arises, through our living expression, and can become an intentional participant in the emergence of a wiser future. Join our hosts Aviv Shahar and Peter Barry every week for conversations on a wide variety of topics including human purpose, personal development,

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115 - The Transfiguration Archetype

Portals of Perception ·

2025/12/05

If we’re seeking a feeling of illumination or deeper connection to the universal and divine, what clues and meaning can we find in perhaps the best-known story of transformation in western history — the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ? Does it reveal an esoteric path to active engagement with evolution and expanding consciousness? Or is it a powerful metaphor for an innate human species capacity to grow and develop?In this conversation, Aviv Shahar and metamodern thought leader Brendan Graham

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01:30:42

114 - The Conductivity Mystery - Current Openings #21

Portals of Perception ·

2025/11/21

A new epoch is dawning as the old one ebbs, much like the tide, placing us in ever more conductive times. Have you noticed that old systems and ways no longer hold, offering little energetic nourishment? As energetic beings, we find ourselves desperately searching for the “new”, from leadership models to inner fulfillment, each are under intense scrutiny. On the surface, we observe rapid change, confusion, dysfunction, conflict, and instability — but these are byproducts of rising conductivity

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00:43:08

113 - Resilience and the Crisis of Belief

Portals of Perception ·

2025/11/07

One of the most powerful tools of personal transformation is also one of the most accessible: it’s the story we tell ourselves about who we are and the future we imagine. It’s a story we can update and recalibrate every day — no permission beyond ourselves required to create and recreate the person we want to be and the way forward.In this conversation, we continue the Epoch Journey series as Aviv Shahar and longtime Portals friend Jeff Vander Clute explore the process of self-authoring appraisal

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01:11:52

112 - The Epoch Mystery - Current Openings #20

Portals of Perception ·

2025/10/24

A powerful way to envision our entry into this new phase of evolution and epochal shift is as a fusion process — a merging of the physical realm with a new universal potency that unlocks immense possibilities and profound renewal. Imagine it as an energetic Cambrian release for humanity and the planet. We dive deeper into the mysteries of the epochal shift underway in the latest chapter of the “Current Openings” series with Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis.To better understand what we mean by an

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00:58:37

111 - The Five Stories of the Epoch

Portals of Perception ·

2025/10/10

Let us imagine that one of the most powerful ways to create space and be open to an incoming wave of evolutionary progress — the future — is to consciously heal and absolve the past, with all of its trauma and scar tissue. Not just our personal past, but imagining in ourselves the flow of history through the current epoch. It’s not just possible, but some would say a vital process in a time of great change and new possibility. In this conversation, Aviv Shahar and Portals friend Jeff Vander Clute

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00:49:59

110 - The 7-Fold Epoch Progression - The Universalis...

Portals of Perception ·

2025/09/26

For many, last year made it impossible to ignore the scale of global change — what we see as global instability is only one dimension of a larger meta-crisis. Portals has been following the signs of this broader evolutionary cycle, which is reshaping our planet and humanity. With the epoch insight and perspective, we can trace the emergence and patterns of this epochal movement across every area of life, from grand global systems to everyday human endeavors.In the latest conversation from the The

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01:12:17

109 - Spiritualize the Universe - 20 Core Premises:...

Portals of Perception ·

2025/09/12

Our adventure exploring the deeper nature of human life forever seeks to find new bridges — the special connecting insights and nuggets of wisdom that remind us why this journey of discovery is so critical to our personal and collective futures. What is the premise that inspires us to unlock the promise of the human capacity to engage with and shape this emerging new wave of evolution? To help build these bridges of connection, this conversation brings together Aviv Shahar and longtime Portals

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00:53:11

108 - The Shared Intentions of Life - Evolving...

Portals of Perception ·

2025/08/29

Can we imagine that the simple act of coming together — the “togetherings” of ourselves with our inner lives, our friends, our communities — unlocks the intelligence that enables the “we” to become an integral part of our future and of the evolution of life? What if life itself is intentionally nudging humans together toward a greater discovery of its own nature and possibility?Longtime Portals friends Nigel Geeves and Well join Aviv Shahar for the latest exploration in Evolving Together, a series

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01:13:30

107 - Expressions of Religious Living

Portals of Perception ·

2025/08/15

What does it mean to live religiously? How do the premises and ways of living religiously evolve to embrace and embody new evolutionary possibility?How do people register and express perhaps the most intimate feelings a human can experience — the sensing of real connection with universal and divine sources of life?Portals brought together an international group of friends to hear firsthand how their experience and embodiment of the impulse to live religiously may be evolving. Many moving and

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01:32:42

106 - Religion and the Esoteric

Portals of Perception ·

2025/08/01

Is it possible to appreciate the life of Jesus Christ in a real way that embraces the universal message and mystery, but also finds harmony with a fundamental approach to logic and reason? Can an esoteric perception of the divine find a home inside metamodern spirituality?We continue exploring an evolving perception of God and the many faces of Jesus Christ, the central pillar of Christianity, in the newest conversation with Aviv Shahar and Brendan Graham Dempsey. Brendan is a metamodern leader who

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00:47:32

105 - The Open-Heart Conversation: Current Openings #18

Portals of Perception ·

2025/07/18

What is the message we would bring back to our families and friends if we survived a near-death experience? It’s the kind of event that could change our lives in a big way. What would we most want the people closest to us to realize from our close encounter with the veil?Such close encounters reveal profound insights and perceptions that can change a life’s direction, or bring new understanding about the human’s larger universal purpose and potential.Being brought back “online” from an unexpected

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01:17:29

104 - The Goddess Arising

Portals of Perception ·

2025/07/04

What would the divine feminine or Goddess nature want to ask or expect of a man today? If you were a man representing the divine masculine, and had the chance, what would you want to ask or say to a woman at this moment? Can we even imagine ourselves and each other as different expressions of a divine source, more than merely a personality?These were among the inquiries that helped inspire a profound exploration of the divine feminine and the Goddess archetype at this Fall’s Metamodern Spirituality

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00:41:15

103 - The Two Struggles - The Universalis Project #11

Portals of Perception ·

2025/06/20

As we find our way each day through the often intense and personal struggles facing us and humanity, imagine that we can build our strength and resilience by exercising the right muscles; not just physical, but our emotional, mental and spiritual “muscles.”In the newest chapter of the Homo Universalis series, Aviv Shahar, with Karen Heney and Kyriaki Nikandrou, explores how the “muscles” metaphor is not such a stretch as we face and learn to embrace the two big struggles in any developing life: the

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01:33:43

102 - Evolution, Consciousness, and the New Truth

Portals of Perception ·

2025/06/06

Where is our global culture today? How did we get here? What steps might we need to take now to shape a future that could become a saving grace for humanity? It feels special to find a clear, cohesive and compelling picture, one that encompasses the insights that help us make sense and meaning out of the tumultuous times we live in and answer these questions.We dive deep into a new, emerging worldview in this conversation with Steve McIntosh, a leading developmental philosopher focusing on the

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01:40:40

101 - God: An Evolving Revelation

Portals of Perception ·

2025/05/23

How can a forward-looking, evolution-inclined spirituality, not tied to dogma or history, offer us a sense of meaning and purpose in a time of cultural upheaval powered by AI? Can a metamodern spiritual path also include a new perspective and appreciation of Christianity and the many faces, or dimensions, of Jesus Christ?In the newest conversation in the Portals series exploring metamodern spirituality, Aviv Shahar welcomes back metamodern leader Brendan Graham Dempsey. Brendan is a unique voice who

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01:11:43

100 - Current Openings #17 – Burning Questions

Portals of Perception ·

2025/05/09

Imagine being able to connect with a level of potency, passion and energy that could help reveal even deeper intelligence and meaning to our most compelling “burning questions” — the inquiries and mysteries that drive and inspire us to search for answers.In several ways the potency of an inquiry is generated in how we think about and ask the question. For example, asking “why” attunes our mind to the energetic dimension or core of a question; it can link us to the powerful fuel of our emotions:

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00:53:25

099 - Portals Into the Soul, Chapter 4: A Growing...

Portals of Perception ·

2025/04/25

In the third installment we described two ways to apply Einstein’s admonition when he observed that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. The first practice involved placing the problem you are working to solve inside an even bigger problem. The second practice involved the cultivation of a symphonic loom of expanded considerations.The realization latent in this admonishment from Uncle Albert is that we cannot expect to stumble on new perceptions with the

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01:03:42

098 - The Universalis Project #10 - Why the World is...

Portals of Perception ·

2025/04/11

Even if we’re familiar with the themes of evolutionary change and upgrade that run through Portals, what’s happening in the world today seems startling: the operating system that enables modern life as we know it appears to be crashing.The key questions now: Is this an irreversible slide into self-elimination? Does evolution ever offer a chance for reboot and renewal? If so, how would we spot new universal intelligence nudging its way into humanity?Our understanding of the “operating system” comes

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01:17:56

097 - Normalizing the Extraordinary: In the...

Portals of Perception ·

2025/03/28

A laboratory is where we’d expect to find a safe space of discovery and purpose; an environment that supports experimenting with diverse ideas and mysteries in the search for truth. Add in an atmosphere of mutual trust and acceptance, and now we’ve created an ecology that invites something even deeper — a God lab.Imagine a God lab as an intensified spiritual retreat, a gathering of like-minded and like-souled individuals seeking new understanding and experience with the divine. In this conversation,

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01:04:47

096 - Current Openings #16: The Octave Leap Mystery

Portals of Perception ·

2025/03/14

How many of us remember having what some people call a “chrysalis” moment? An octave leap, with mind-opening perceptions, in real time. A powerful flow of energy, a quickening, triggered by a connection or breakthrough that can happen anywhere, at any time, and transform us and the circumstance we’re in.The chrysalis we probably know as the middle stage of the three-step transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly. It’s a beautiful example of growth and change that happens in stages, or

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