In this conversation, we take a deeper look at the experience of ‘Searing Moments,’ the profoundly meaningful moments, positive or perhaps traumatic and painful, that may be influencing our behaviors and attitudes, and how we engage with life. Even with Searing Moments from early in life, we can decide and choose how we think about and write the experience into ourselves. We call it ‘the Practice of Searing Moments,’ continually unfolding their meaning to a point where we rewrite and update their significance. Join Aviv Shahar as he and Jeff Vander Clute explore today’s topic, Searing Moments and Their Transformational Power.
In this conversation, we take a deeper look at the experience of ‘Searing Moments,’ the profoundly meaningful moments, positive or perhaps traumatic and painful, that may be influencing our behaviors and attitudes, and how we engage with life.
Even with Searing Moments from early in life, we can decide and choose how we think about and write the experience into ourselves. We call it ‘the Practice of Searing Moments,’ continually unfolding their meaning to a point where we rewrite and update their significance. Join Aviv Shahar as he and Jeff Vander Clute explore today’s topic, Searing Moments and Their Transformational Power.
02:08 – Aviv Shahar welcomes Jeff Vander Clute, who joins the show to provide his insights and experience with Searing Moments and Their Transformational Power
07:38 – Defining the term, ‘Searing Moments’
16:12 – Aviv provides specific examples of Searing Moments from his life
33:06 – Jeff speaks to the re-authoring process that is alive in his own life
38:10 – The transformational power of Searing Moments
45:00 – Emergent practices that are vital to Jeff’s evolution, including: Awareness, Making Space, Embracing and Re-authoring
52:59 – A stream of potential and two realization points of human history
1:05:01 – Closing thoughts and insights from Aviv and Jeff, including Jeff’s thoughts on the ‘healed and transformed world’
“I’m seeing that the people I work with and know and relate with are seemingly slipping across this threshold into Heaven on Earth. Many people are experiencing this profound peace and settling into true nature and the present moment without worry for the future or carrying the past into the present moment.” (03:48) (Jeff)
“I can think of a few [Searing Moments] in my life. I imagine those who are listening may be reflecting on key instances of a transformative nature, be they painful or inspirational. I think what I’m drawn to is the updating or rewriting. It’s the reinterpretation that becomes available with perspective, and hindsight, and additional life experience in service to unfolding the universal potential of human life. That’s a major theme for me right now and for many others as well.” (15:22) (Jeff)
“I now know there is a capacity in me to transfer to others the courage and the bravery to overcome frightening messages and scary moments; to melt, to thaw these experiences because what happens is scary moments tend to freeze us in time. The idea of a Searing Moment is to release that potential. And, once you release the potential, you actually unpack and unlock a tremendous healing permission in your own process, in your own experience.” (20:37) (Aviv)
“The human has a capacity to bring to life any feeling, any sentiment, any energy, any presence you can imagine in the entire universe inside your space - inside your energy field. You have that complete freedom.” (26:52) (Aviv)
“I was thinking back to the passing of my father and mother. I realized this morning that, yes, liberation was involved in both cases. It cleared the way for me to be me. It abruptly encouraged me to let go of the stories and the baggage that I had been carrying. I feel a great truth in the generosity of my parents in leaving the world so that I could flower. I am fairly certain it would not be possible for me to be now if the family energies had stayed in place the way they were.” (34:40) (Jeff)
“There’s one quality that I can share from my own experience of Heaven on Earth, which is that there’s no emotional charge around anything. And I include the happy and the sad. There’s joy. There’s lots of joy. In fact, yesterday I got really clear that the infinite energy supply that I am connected to is this ocean of bliss rising. It’s a bliss, but it’s not a fleeting happiness.” (43:36)(Jeff)
“A huge amount of energy that has gone into creating defensive structures - psychological ego- defenses, but also collective defenses at the level of nations - that energy doesn’t have to be spent that way.” (1:03:34) (Jeff)