An Education in Being Human with Dr. David Norris

If you are looking to deepen your relationship to yourself and your reality…Dive in with Nicky Clinch and Dr. David Norris from an Ontological and Maturation perspective

In this episode, Nicky Clinch is joined by Dr. David Norris to dive into the nature of human existence, the role of context in shaping our experiences, and the evolution of education.

David shares his journey from academia to transformational education, emphasising the importance of understanding context over content in personal development.

Dive into current societal shifts, the awakening of human consciousness, the need for individuals to recognise their own power in creating their reality, and the distinction between being in love and true love.

If you’re curious about what it means to be human and want to create a much deeper understanding of yourself in the process - you’re not going to want to miss this!

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You’ll Learn:

• Ways to unlock more powerful shifts by moving from content to context

• How to navigate a crisis in a healing way

• Why relationships are a tool for deepening consciousness and how to create this depth with another

• How to shift from judging to learning

And lots more!

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Resources & Next Steps:

Next Episode Teaser:

Nicky will teach you the next step to turn your integrated shifts into 3D results and change. The next step in your transformation journey!

Connect with Nicky:

• Go Deeper into your Maturation - https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/the-discovering-freedom-masterclass/

• Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

• Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

• Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

• Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender

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Remember:

Transformation always feels uncomfortable – until it doesn't. Your next breakthrough might just be on the other side of what feels like falling apart.

If you have had a huge internal shift and suddenly experience that your life doesn’t ‘fit’ anymore...What do you do?

You have outgrown your 3D reality and you are ready to step into the complete unknown.

Dive in with Nicky from an Ontological and Maturation perspective - full episode link

If you are really doing the deep inner work and shifting the magnet of your identity, then you are inevitably going to hit this point in your transformation journey. The outgrowing of your current life. And it’s good (even though it won’t feel good).

So what do you do? To pave a new 3D reality for yourself that is in alignment with the shift that has happened internally for you?

Nicky walks you through the moment you realise your ‘old life’ doesn’t fit, navigating the strong magnetic pull to go back to your old ways, and why is it that we as human beings find this kind of big change so frightening.

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You’ll Learn:

• How to navigate the 3 stages of this process

• Why we as human beings resist this level of huge change

• Leaning into the unknown as a way to navigate this new, authentic space

• How to be with the strong magnetic pull to return to your old ways

And lots more!

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Resources & Next Steps:

Next Episode Teaser:

Nicky will teach you the next step to turn your integrated shifts into 3D results and change. The next step in your transformation journey!

Connect with Nicky:

• Go Deeper into your Maturation - https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/the-discovering-freedom-masterclass/

• Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

• Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

• Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

• Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender

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Remember:

Transformation always feels uncomfortable – until it doesn't. Your next breakthrough might just be on the other side of what feels like falling apart.

Do you find yourself having huge, internal breakthroughs but continuing to loop around the same patterns and cycles?

Why is it that these internal shifts are not becoming external change?

Dive in with Nicky from an Ontological and Maturation perspective - full episode link

Most people think that the ‘big pop’ at the time of a profound event is enough, but it’s not as easy as you think to start receiving a world that you are changing. In fact there is a universal block that we as human beings come up against when we try to turn our internal shifts into 3D materialised change.

Unless we take our big shift moments and let those lead conscious, vision-led action in a committed way they will never materialise.

But it is possible to create true alignment and integrated change in your life.

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You’ll Learn:

• Why your inner shifts have not yet created the external results you long for

• How to turn internal change into external 3D results

• How to truly align your internal and external worlds

• The biggest block we face when trying to turn shifts into 3D materialised change and how to overcome this

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Resources & Next Steps:

Next Episode Teaser:

Nicky will teach you the next step to turn your integrated shifts into 3D results and change. The next step in your transformation journey!

Connect with Nicky:

• Go Deeper into your Maturation - https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/the-discovering-freedom-masterclass/

• Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

• Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

• Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

• Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender

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Remember:

Transformation always feels uncomfortable – until it doesn't. Your next breakthrough might just be on the other side of what feels like falling apart.

If you have been having breakthroughs and insights but your life doesn’t seem to be fundamentally changing…Integration is the missing piece.

Having enlightening experiences is not rare nowadays. You can go to an ecstatic dance or breathwork ceremony on a Friday night and have a profound experience.

But unless you integrate these high, expansive experiences, things in your world don’t fundamentally change.

Integration is when you take in this profound shift, and it becomes who you are, so that you can really see shifts in your life.

Dive in with Nicky from an Ontological and Maturation perspective - full episode link

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You’ll Learn:

• What integration really means (beyond a buzz word)

• What is taking place in your consciousness, sense of self, and nervous system

• Why integration is the most overlooked piece of the transformational process

• Practices and contexts to hold integration in a deep, embodied way

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Resources & Next Steps:

Next Episode Teaser:

Nicky will teach you the next step to turn your integrated shifts into 3D results and change. The next step in your transformation journey!

Connect with Nicky:

• Go Deeper into your Maturation - https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/the-discovering-freedom-masterclass/

• Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

• Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

• Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

• Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender

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Remember:

Transformation always feels uncomfortable – until it doesn't. Your next breakthrough might just be on the other side of what feels like falling apart.

When the suffering of the world leaves us activated, enraged, or hopeless… how do we transmute that pain into action, healing, and real change?

In this episode, Nicky reveals how to be responsible for your individual heartbreak and outrage at what’s happening in the world, to become a catalyst for collective evolution and courageous leadership.

Special guest Emily Price joins Nicky to ask the difficult questions about how the world is appearing to us, navigating global conflict, and how to take responsibility for how we are showing up to create effective change. Speak specifically on current world events that so many people are incredibly activated by.

If you care about the state of our planet and species, you’re not going to want to miss this!

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Key Takeaways:

• ​Your activation, heartbreak, and rage are not weaknesses, they are signals, calling you to deeper responsibility and courageous action.
• ​True leadership is never about hierarchy, perfection, or being followed, but about dissolving separation and working together, human to human.
• ​To create real change, we must hold ourselves radically responsible for our inner and outer worlds, turning self-awareness into tangible impact.
• ​Spiritual bypassing is not peace; only by facing the darkness with honesty and compassion can we stand as agents of healing and transformation.
• ​You do not have to wait for permission to lead. Change always begins with one responsible action, inside and out.

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Resources & Next Steps:

Next Episode Teaser:

Nicky will teach you how to integrate transformational shifts so that your breakthroughs can move from theory to an embodied reality. Don’t miss it!

Connect with Nicky:

• ​Go Deeper into your Maturation: https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/the-discovering-freedom-masterclass/
• ​Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/
• ​Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/
• ​Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation
• ​Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender

The moments when you feel most lost, broken, or out of control…those are actually the birthplace of your deepest transformation.

In this powerful episode, we’ll dive into the layers of our identity to reveal how ego death and the unraveling of who we think we are, can be one of the most empowering, life-changing experiences we face as humans.

Drawing on principles of quantum mechanics, psychology, and Nicky’s own extensive experience you’ll discover -

• What an ego death really is beyond the stereotypical ‘identity crisis’

• The process of an ego death and how to navigate this in your own life

• How ego deaths are tools for deep transformation and empowerment

• Why surrendering to this process if the key to real evolution

• Practical, compassionate guidance to navigate the storm

And lots more!

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Key Takeaways:

- You are not broken. Ego death is not a breakdown, but a breakthrough.

- The pain and loss of control are part of a necessary healing and unfreezing process in your nervous system.

- Riding these waves with awareness and surrender leads to deep emotional maturity and genuine transformation.

- Integration is the next step! Stay tuned for Nikki’s upcoming episode on how to embody these shifts and create lasting change in your life.

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Resources & Next Steps:

Next Episode Teaser:

Nicky reveals how to consciously navigate conflict in the world right now, taking responsibility for how we are showing up to create effective change.

Connect with Nicky:

• Go Deeper into your Maturation - https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/the-discovering-freedom-masterclass/

• Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

• Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

• Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

• Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender

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Remember:

Transformation always feels uncomfortable – until it doesn't. Your next breakthrough might just be on the other side of what feels like falling apart.

I’m delighted to offer you an interview with a beautiful multidisciplinary artist, producer, and ceremony guide, East Forest. He has just released "Music for Mushrooms," a feature-length narrative documentary showcasing the transformative power of psychedelics, music, and community. Since 2008, East Forest’s “lush” (Rolling Stone) and “blissful” (NPR) music has blended ambient, neoclassical, electronic, and avant-pop to explore sound as a tool for inner journeys and consciousness expansion.

East Forest’s approach promotes non-religious, accessible spirituality. He's a faculty member at the Esalen Institute and has collaborated with institutions across social justice, mental health, science, music, and creative fields, including Google, Johns Hopkins, UCSF, Stanford, and TED.

In this episode, we discuss the power of music and mushrooms in the process of maturation and evolving as human beings. We also invite you to sign up and watch “Music for Mushrooms” online on December 12th, as well as to listen to the” Official Documentary Soundtrack” on your favorite streaming platform.

What is Covered:

• - East Forest’s background as an artist and consciousness explorer

• - Building spiritual resilience at the time of collapse and learning to sit with uncomfort

• - The story behind the creation of the “Music for Mushrooms” documentary

• - The transformational power of music as a bridge to higher consciousness space

• - Why the potential of music has been overlooked today when it’s all-present everywhere

• - East Forests relationship with psychedelics and what he has learned from it

• - Being in the driver’s seat as opposed to surrendering to the flow of life

• - When and where you can see “Music for Mushrooms”

• Resources:

• - Access our ’21 days of Expansion’ Audio Activation Process gift: ⁠https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/podcast-gift-21-days/⁠

  - Learn more about the “Music for Mushrooms” documentary https://musicformushrooms.com

• - Watch the “Music For Mushrooms” Trailer - https://youtu.be/8zC-FwDBdBQ

• - Follow East Forest on IG: http://instagram.com/eastforest

• - Follow East Forest on YT: http://www.youtube.com/eastforestmusic

• - Listen to East Forest’s music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0okmfBroVgFuvvljnUbqPW?si=GmLomL_ZQTGtCSXYBw4Dzw

  - Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

  - Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

  - Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

  - Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender
  

Currently, I’m going through a major transition in life. My old world is in the process of dissolving and completing, while simultaneously birthing the new one. In this phase of in-between, we are still with one foot in the old world that no longer fits, and one foot in the new world and the future. The experience is uncomfortable and awkward, but it is one that all of us have to go through multiple times during our lifetime.

So in this episode, I’m going to unpack a little this state of in-between, why it is necessary in order to create a new future, what learning and awareness we can gain from it, and how we can get closer to honesty and alignment with the truth of our heart.

What is Covered:

-The transition that is currently happening in my life

-Why the in-between phase is the only way to create new reality

-The necessary work of completion of the old before we fully step into the new

-Why is it that we don’t tell ourselves the truth?

-The power of the survival mind and why we perceive freedom as threatening

-Understanding the heart as the home to truth

-The process of maturing from the original heartbreak to returning to the heart

-A journaling exercise to explore your untold truths

Resources:

-Access our ’21 days of Expansion’ Audio Activation Process gift: https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/podcast-gift-21-days/

-Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

-Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

-Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

-Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender