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Portals of Perception

Portals of Perception

Auteur(s): 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.2021 Portals of Perception Développement personnel Philosophie Réussite Sciences sociales Spiritualité
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  • 116 - The Wholeness of Parts - What is Healing? #4

    116 - The Wholeness of Parts - What is Healing? #4
    Dec 19 2025
    In the Western world we usually identify ourselves as singular entities. Yet, we find ourselves in conflict with ourselves and with other people. We often get triggered, without even knowing why. How can we navigate the complex human interiority as well as our interactions with others? How can we reduce suffering and make our choices form a place of wholeness?In this illuminating conversation, Aviv Shahar and Portals friend Alexander Love explore the transformative practice of "parts work" as a pathway to inner healing and greater personal and communal harmony. Guided by Alexander, an insightful healer, acupuncturist and life coach, we navigate the intricate landscape of the inner self, learning to recognize and integrate the diverse parts that comprise our being. Alexander articulates a holistic approach inspired by Eastern wisdom, particularly Chinese medicine, viewing each individual as an inner ecology, where every "part" holds unique perspectives, intentions, and functions.Parts work invites us to move beyond seeing ourselves as singular beings and acknowledge the rich inner multiplicity. By gently engaging these diverse inner voices, we begin a profound healing and developmental journey toward inner harmony, emotional resilience, and deeper connection.Ultimately, this practice not only helps resolve internal conflicts but cultivates an embodied wholeness that transforms our interactions and relationships with the external world, fostering enlightened intention and compassionate living.Other insights and ponders:The inner ecology perspective: recognizing the self as composed of interdependent, dynamic parts rather than isolated components.We are always becoming with our world. Modernity has created a sense of separation to observe the world objectively. In fact, I am part of the world and what’s going on outside is also going on inside.No matter how much a part of the self feels separated and disconnected, it’s still a part of the whole.The first million-dollar question is: How do I feel towards this part? If it is wholeness, the answer will be automatically, I’m curious, I’m loving, I’m interested, I’m compassionate.We don’t start with fragmentation and then by the end of the session we are hoping for wholeness. We flip that around, when possible, we are starting with wholeness. Wholeness begets wholeness.Transforming protective parts by uncovering their deeper, authentic qualities, shifting from harmful behaviors to supportive functions.In the Portals Into the Soul writing, we develop the Inner Conclave work, visualizing an inner ecology where parts or different voices come into conversation with each other. We can apply this practice to do therapy work, developmental work, and connective communion, where the parts of the self-surrender to become the conduit for the creative act of the universe.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 Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel. TWEETABLE QUOTES “There are all of these different traditions that are pointing to the same thing, that wholeness is intrinsic within all of the parts, even if they're feeling closed off from it. And so part of what we can do is to support that wholeness to come out, and then this creates deeper trust in the system, because the parts, they often don't feel successful when they're trying these strategies that are kind of warped or causing harm. And yet, they're committed to helping, but they don't know another way. By doing this and finding the deeper, enlightened intention underneath, and helping the parts experience that, they start to experience a much deeper sense of trust, that there's a deeper wholeness in the system which they are a part of.” (Alexander)“Our human potentials seem to be so beautiful, and our ability to interact with chaos and uncertainty and darkness, our potential to be able to do that well is huge. It's vast. For me, the deeper invitation here is that we are deeply unbroken. We are deeply equipped to be able to face anything and lean into it, and find the beauty in it, and find the creativity in how dark times are invoking the evolution of things that are beyond what we can imagine, and that this is something we can do.” (Alexander) RESOURCES MENTIONED Portals of Perception WebsiteAviv’s LinkedIn Aviv’s TwitterAviv’s WebsiteWhat is Healing? #4 – The Wholeness of Parts
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    1 h et 11 min
  • 115 - The Transfiguration Archetype

    115 - The Transfiguration Archetype
    Dec 5 2025

    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 Dempsey continue their lively dialogue on the many faces of Jesus Christ, the central pillar of Christianity. Building on their previous conversation, they focus on mystical and metamodern appreciations of the mystery of the Transfiguration.

    • The exploration goes beyond historical accounts to seek the significance of such a transformation to our own pursuit of meaning, connection, purpose and expanded awareness. How do each of us experience our own moments of sacred empowerment and profound, life-changing insight and inspiration?
    • The conversation expands our understanding of this unique time, into the evolutionary possibility to experience and express our true universal nature. Aviv and Brendan’s many insights include:
    • The story of Christ’s transfiguration is a key moment of storytelling in the broader narrative that we see unfolding in human cultural evolution towards a shift in higher consciousness.
    • We have entered a unique time where the species is reaching for something beyond Homo Solaris — the Universalis human, where we can again embrace plurality.
    • We are not human beings seeking a spiritual experience, but spirit beings becoming human to develop, mature and become vessels for continual evolution to occur through us as co-creators.
    • The first consideration in an esoteric contemplation is that a prophecy, or any learning, is actualized not when it occurs, but when it has been witnessed and validated.
    • If the spiritual discourse is not amenable to the same kinds of justification dynamics as science or other discourse, it is insulated from critique, and breaks down into ‘you feel it or you don’t’.
    • Focusing only on exterior sources of knowledge, and giving credence to the microscope and telescope, can disenfranchise the ‘interior scope’ and natural inner sense organs.

    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 Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

    TWEETABLE QUOTES

    “We are not actually flying here on our own. This is not just a biological experience. That we are, in fact, not human beings seeking a spiritual experience, we are, in fact, spirit beings coming into the human experience to gain development and maturation such that we become vessels for continual evolution to occur through us as we are co-participants and co-creators of this evolution.” (Aviv)

    “How do we make this journey? And we went back and forth in finding, carving, a way to enable a space that perhaps is not defined by the gravitational logic that we process every day, and at the same time that is not going to abandon certain frameworks and certain ways of thinking and being that will afford us freedom and safety and collaboration and, ultimately, possibilities to solve big problems on the global stage.” (Aviv)

    RESOURCES MENTIONED

    Portals of Perception Website

    Aviv’s LinkedIn

    Aviv’s Twitter

    Aviv’s Website

    The Transfiguration Archetype
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    1 h et 8 min
  • 114 - The Conductivity Mystery - Current Openings #21

    114 - The Conductivity Mystery - Current Openings #21
    Nov 21 2025
    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. There is a restlessness, evidenced by so many people on the move, seeking purpose and questioning from whence authority comes. Clearly, both human and planetary systems and patterns are in flux.Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis go on a magical mystery exploration of these increasingly conductive times. By differentiating three levels of knowledge and perception; from the exoteric to the mesoteric, then shifting gears into the esoteric level, they move from peripheral views to core reasons, understandings and causes for these events.Central to this is the electrical, spiritual human as a conductor of energy, both from within and without. We are our own energy worlds, designed to receive signals from the greater energy worlds; an organic, flowering radar dish for universal signals for planetary upgrade and evolution. As humans we can choose to bring finer energies into ourselves, but more importantly are our reasons why. Are we here for the planet, or is the planet here for us… or is this unique human race and planet an integrated, co-creative enterprise on behalf of something higher?Significant points:The human is an electrical being and processor of energy signals that runs on five levels of energy; food, liquid, gas, light, and impressions. The moment we stop, we call that death.There is a natural relationship between the human as a conductor of energies; the subtle energy worlds within and around the body (aura), and the invisible energy worlds, including planetary, lunar, solar and universal sources.The mystery of increasing conductivity; what are conductivities? Why are they increasing? What is the evidence? Where are they increasing from? How are we humans called to respond?Understanding the three level of knowledge; exoteric, mesoteric, esoteric, that give elevating perspectives; for example, from information, to knowledge, to transformation, all ‘formations’ at different levels.Appreciating the reversal that occurs from a mesoteric perspective to an esoteric perspective, it’s a reversal octave or polarity shift, that takes you to the core or cause of anything; e.g. from "Mastery" to "Mystery".The epochal, octave shift calls for higher frequencies to be received and processed by humans and the planet, for planetary and universal upgrade, which we call evolution.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 Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel. TWEETABLE QUOTES “It's almost as though you would ask so, what's the purpose of life in the universe? The purpose of life in the universe is to birth even more capable life, all the way to conscious life. What we recognize with human life, which is the capacity of a life to become initially conscious, and then a life that is conscious of its consciousness, and then a life that is conscious of the very nature of consciousness - so, in some way, it begins to offer back the learning feedback loop to the universe about its own very nature.” (Aviv)“We assume that the planet's here for us, rather than we're actually part of a universal process that involves the planet we live on, and the sun, and the universe - and we're part of it. We're not somehow separated out from it. And that to me is a big part of the conductivity, because when a person feels they're isolated, they feel disconnected. Disconnected is a word that says blocking the current, because if you're disconnected you've no longer got the current flowing through you. So if we think of ourselves as an independent human species that's managed to conquer the planet, well, we're really disconnecting ourselves from the universe.” (David) RESOURCES MENTIONED Portals of Perception WebsiteAviv’s LinkedIn Aviv’s TwitterAviv’s WebsiteThe Conductivity Mystery - Current Openings #21
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    1 h et 31 min
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