Elevating Consciousness

About Elevating Consciousness

There is a gap between intellectual understanding and embodied wisdom. Elevating Consciousness exists to help you close it — drawing from the depths of the great wisdom traditions, contemplative science, and leading-edge psychology. Each episode, I sit down with spiritual teachers, philosophers, psychologists, practitioners, and emerging thinkers from the liminal web to explore what it means to live an awakened and fully human life in a time of meta-crisis. We don’t just share ideas to think about but perspectives to try on, practices to engage with, and ways of being to embody. WHO THIS IS FOR: This show is designed for the post-conventional practitioner — those who have outgrown mainstream self-help and pop spirituality into something more nuanced, pragmatic, and integrative. You're less interested in external achievement and more drawn to inner development. You want to be challenged, not just comforted — and you want to explore these questions alongside others who are genuinely grappling with them. You think holistically. You know that wisdom lives in the body as much as the mind. You care about the state of the world and sense that personal transformation and collective transformation are inseparable. TOPICS WE EXPLORE INCLUDE: Contemplative practice and dharma practice across traditions — Buddhist meditation, Vajrayana, nondual tantra, and tantric awakening. Psychedelic healing, navigating mystical experiences and altered states. Shadow integration, emotional processing, somatic therapy, relational practice, and Jungian psychology. Adult development and integral philosophy. The meaning crisis, the meta-crisis, and what it means to build a life and culture grounded in wisdom. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE: Conspiracy theories, sensationalist claims, or ungrounded woo that have no bearing on how you actually live and relate to others. Mainstream self-help or pop spirituality that keeps you pacified and comfortable rather than leaning into your developmental edge. ABOUT YOUR HOST: I'm Artem Zen — a dharma practitioner, artist, writer, facilitator, and podcaster. I've spent the last decade in the trenches of inner work and human transformation — from psychedelic ceremonies and retreats in monasteries to therapy sessions and thousands of hours in contemplative practice, all while raising two children, running a business, and navigating disability. My life has been devoted to creating offerings and facilitating conversations that help people embody wisdom and recognize sacredness in their everyday lives. STAY CONNECTED: Subscribe to my Substack to receive new episodes, in-depth articles, and access to community practice sessions - https://substack.com/@artemzen

Publisher

Artem Zen

Category

education · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Sept 2021

Latest episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

127 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Stephen Jenkinson - Facing Mortality: Parkinson's, Ibogaine Therapy & the Art of Letting Go

   Stephen Jenkinson is a former palliative care worker, cultural activist, and writer whose work explores the intersection of death, grief, meaning, elderhood, and ceremony. He has spent decades helping people navigate grief, death, and dying — both as the former director of palliative care at a major Canadian hospital and afterward through his Orphan Wisdom School, which seeks to cultivate deep life skills in an age of cultural fragmentation. A recovered theologian, builder, stone carver, and ...

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   4 Sept 2026

   Physically Paralyzed, Spiritually Free: Disability, Awakening & The Meta-Crisis | Kabir Kadre

   Kabir Kadre is the executive director of Open Field Awakening, a nonprofit initiative exploring how wisdom, human development, and collective practice can help humanity navigate the meta-crisis. For more than two decades he has worked at the intersection of organizational leadership, contemplative inquiry, and social transformation. A quadriplegic since a spinal cord injury in 2002, Kabir brings a deeply embodied perspective to questions of interdependence, vulnerability, care, and huma...

3. 

   7 Aug 2026

   Chris Bache - What 73 High Dose LSD Trips Revealed About Consciousness & Reality

   Christopher Bache is a professor emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and an Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Trained at Notre Dame, Cambridge, and Brown, Bache spent seven years earning a PhD — a process that turned him into a hardcore agnostic. He then began a 20-year self-experiment taking high-dose LSD using protocols develope...

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YouTube views

198,573

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

51

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

51

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