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Portals of Perception

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by Aviv Shahar, Peter Barry

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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, evolution and the future, community of conversation and discovery, and more.

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July 31, 2026

132 - Energetic Hygiene: The 5 Dimensions

<p>In part one of this <strong>Portals </strong><a href="https://portalsofperception.org/current-openings-series/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Current Openings</strong></a> event, <a href="https://portalsofperception.org/portals/threefold-leadership-in-this-epochal-moment-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Threefold Leadership in this Epochal Moment</strong></a>, <strong>Aviv Shahar</strong> and <strong>David Price Francis</strong> explored the call for each of us to become self-authoring and self-determining. In these tumultuous times of challenge and change, the truest solidity we can rely on is the one we build from within.</p> <p>In part two, Aviv and David turn to the awareness that our <strong>energetic hygiene</strong> — the inner ecology of our being — plays a vital role in sustaining balance and agility in any situation, while supporting our greater intentions.</p> <p>The understanding that each of us is an ecology opens an important inquiry: are we conscious of what we allow to live and thrive within our inner environment? Violent video games, horror movies, and harsh music, even if we enjoy them, can seed and sustain dissonant energies within us.</p> <p>If we dwell on painful memories or replay interactions that made us angry, we muddy our inner waters. It’s like a dark cloud crossing a clear sky; we feel the shift immediately, and it can take hours or even days to clear the state we’ve created.</p> <p>The point is not to suppress or deny such influences, but to cultivate awareness and discernment — to set standards, to regulate and manage our exposure, and to create a safe and luminous inner environment that supports what we seek to accomplish.</p> <p><strong>Energetic hygiene</strong> means developing personal tools and processes for realigning and rebalancing ourselves whenever something knocks us off course.</p> <p><strong>Five key dimensions of energetic hygiene:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Standards – what you do not go below</li> <li>Process – how you cleanse and renew</li> <li>Alignment – what you attune to and nurture</li> <li>Ecology – what resides within you</li> <li>Service – what finds life through you</li> </ul> <p>This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the <a href="https://portalsofperception.org/events/list/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Events</a> page. Also visit and subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXwKDHjE5zz1vLT87F2aqkQ" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a> channel.</p> <p> </p> <h3>TWEETABLE QUOTES</h3> <p> </p> <p>“It's a conundrum, isn't it? It's a paradox. When you say, I'm going to take full responsibility for who I am, knowing that I don't know who I am. So, therefore, I'm taking responsibility to be the place, the ecology inside of which I am emerging anew. That's a very different kind of sense, and orientation, and inner cosmology than, oh, I can take responsibility because I know. It has a much more participative sense with the process of the emergence of life. I join the process of life.” (Aviv)</p> <p>“So what would be a level of energetic hygiene that's very practical? Trust the universe, but lock the door. How many of you have got locks on your doors? Probably all of you. Would you believe that's to do with energetic hygiene? Yes, it is because you want to monitor, not who is coming into your space, but what is coming into your space with the who that's carrying the what. So we don't think, who is that person, but what is that person processing? It's a different way of viewing.” (David)</p> <p> </p> <h3>RESOURCES MENTIONED</h3> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://portalsofperception.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Portals of Perception Website</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/avivconsulting/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s LinkedIn </a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Avivshahar" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.avivconsulting.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s Website</a></p> <p><a href="https://portalsofperception.org/portals/energetic-hygiene-the-5-dimensions-part-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Energetic Hygiene – The 5 Dimensions, Part 2</a></p>

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July 17, 2026

131 - Threefold Leadership in This Epochal Moment

<p><i><strong>Are you feeling the calling, the summons of this time?</strong></i></p> <p><strong>As one epoch closes and another begins, we find ourselves in a liminal space of emergence—where heightened connectivity and increasing energetic conductivity offer new human permissions and possibilities.  </strong>What inner call might we be sensing as a new civilization seeks to be born? What might this time be summoning within us as active co-creators of change? </p> <p>In this <strong>Portals</strong>episode, <strong>Aviv Shahar</strong>, <strong>David Price Francis</strong>, and friends explore the idea that we may be witnessing a profound shift—from the age of ‘great leaders’ to the rise of self-leadership. The energetics of this new epoch appear to be awakening latent potentials within us, expanding our capacity, agency, and permission to act with purpose and vision.</p> <p>Aviv, David, and the team surface key ingredients of self-leadership to cultivate at this time such as self-authoring, the intentional practice of choosing who we wish to be and become; self-determination of purpose; looking within to access inner guidance; discerning what is true; self-regulation, focus and discipline; cultivating the capacity to self-evaluate and update in real time; navigating the unknown with joy, gratitude and trust.</p> <p>Together, they explore the three dimensions of self-leadership (1) leading in the world, (2) leading within, (3) leading through a greater purpose.  Self-leadership, expressed through this three-fold framework, may play a pivotal role in the conscious emergence of a new epoch - especially when we transcend personal ambition in service of a greater vision or mission. In doing so, we become purposeful conduits for the new civilization that seeks to be born, facilitating it to take shape through a collective agency of sovereign, responsive, self-leaders.</p> <p><strong>Threefold self-leadership:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Leading in the world</li> <li>Leading within</li> <li>Leading through a greater purpose</li> </ul> <p>This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the <a href="https://portalsofperception.org/events/list/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Events</a> page. Also visit and subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXwKDHjE5zz1vLT87F2aqkQ" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a> channel.</p> <p> </p> <h3>TWEETABLE QUOTES</h3> <p> </p> <p><i>“In the old epoch, in the gold epoch, we looked at great leaders, Alexander the Great, the Napoleons; typically, they were men, not only men, there were a few larger than life women as well. But largely, the case was that they were men, and they made their mark on history in the gold epoch. But we are guided by the intuition that the pivot calls us to recognize that self-leadership is the summons, the call of this time.” (Aviv)</i></p> <p><i>“Mostly in the world it's a subliminal process. It's happening, but people are not aware of it, except they're saying, oh, something's changed. This changed here, this changed here, this changed there, and they see it to be, we'll get back to normal soon. This myth of normal. But this is trying to go from subliminal and actually being aware that something much bigger is taking place, that there's an actual change of epoch on the move, to go from it being subliminal to conscious liminal, actually being conscious in the space in between.” (David)</i></p> <p> </p> <h3>RESOURCES MENTIONED</h3> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://portalsofperception.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Portals of Perception Website</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/avivconsulting/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s LinkedIn </a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Avivshahar" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.avivconsulting.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s Website</a></p> <p><a href="https://portalsofperception.org/portals/threefold-leadership-in-this-epochal-moment-part-1/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Threefold Leadership in this Epochal Moment, Part 1</a></p>

Episode thumbnail for 130 - How Do We Verify What is True and Real? - Universalis #18

July 3, 2026

130 - How Do We Verify What is True and Real? - Universalis #18

<p><strong>If you search the internet, you're instantly confronted with a vast reservoir of knowledge</strong> — academic, scientific, artificial (AI-generated), and even channeled sources. Amid this teeming sea of information, <strong>how do you verify what is real and what is true?</strong></p> <p><br><strong>Aviv</strong>, <strong>Karen</strong> and <strong>Kyriaki</strong> delve into this <i>verification problem</i> by tracing the evolution of knowledge and how it has shaped our modern landscape. They examine <strong>seven forms of knowing</strong> as a prelude to an integrated search for truth enabled by the natural verification systems of life. This leads to an intriguing proposition, that despite the shadow of the scientific method being the denial of the subjective or inner realms, it represents the search for an <strong>objective third-person perspective</strong>. This shift could herald a transformative leap into fourth- and fifth-person perspectives; the holding of multiple perspectives while integrating polarities, conflicting feelings and experiences. Such a <strong>multi-perspectival capacity</strong> may well be the catalyst for the Universalis Human to come online in an entirely new way.</p> <p>Key insights:</p> <ul> <li>The search for truth and the verification problem inside of the excess of knowledge today</li> <li>The rigor of the scientific method and the shadow element of the great separation it brought</li> <li>The seven kinds of knowing; empirical, rational, theoretical, experiential, intuitive, procedural, and relational</li> <li>The integrated search for truth and knowledge enabled by the natural verification system of life</li> <li>The significance of the third person perspective and objective knowledge in scientific inquiry</li> <li>The seeding of the third person perspective as a herald to fourth- and fifth-person perspectival capacities as the new Universalis human comes online</li> </ul> <p>This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the <a href="https://portalsofperception.org/events/list/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Events</a> page. Also visit and subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXwKDHjE5zz1vLT87F2aqkQ" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a> channel.</p> <p> </p> <h3>TWEETABLE QUOTES</h3> <p> </p> <p>“There is a part of me that is totally impatient, like I want everything to happen this second. And there is a part of me that is patient beyond this lifetime, because I deeply understand that there are certain processes that will take a very, very long time; they will take centuries. So, I am able to integrate those conflicting feelings, sentiments, and experiences. And when I do so, I give rise, I am birthing the Universalis capacity.” (Aviv)</p> <p>“That leads me to suggest that as we give rise to the symphonic orchestration of multiple lives and dimensions in our interiority, not just interiority in the singular sense, but interiority in between us, when we do so, we are literally providing the universe the space in which the universe is awakened to its cosmic symphony and to its interior dimensions, through us, with us. So it's both poetically beautiful and compelling and, at the same time, far-reaching in what it tells us about the verification system of the greater universe.” (Aviv)</p> <p> </p> <h3>RESOURCES MENTIONED</h3> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://portalsofperception.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Portals of Perception Website</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/avivconsulting/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s LinkedIn </a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Avivshahar" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.avivconsulting.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviv’s Website</a></p> <p><a href="https://portalsofperception.org/portals/how-do-we-verify-what-is-true-and-real-the-universalis-project-18/" rel="noopener noreferrer">How Do We Verify What is True and Real? – The Universalis Project #18</a></p>

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What is Portals of Perception?

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, evolution and the future, community of conversation and discovery, and more.

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This podcast updates weekly.

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