John Purkiss Interview Notes
Author and Consultant
Book: “The Power Of Letting Go: How To Drop Everything That’s Holding You Back”
YouTube: “Arash’s World Interview with John Purkiss on Supreme Consciousness, the Self & Letting Go of the Ego”
Podcast: “Letting Go of the Ego and the False Self: John Purkiss on How and Why to Drop Everything to Find Pure Consciousness”
In this podcast, I have the great pleasure of speaking with John Purkiss who wrote the bestselling book “The Power Of Letting Go: How To Drop Everything That’s Holding You Back” which focuses on “letting go” and how it can bring you not only better health, happier relationships, more creativity and greater prosperity but how it can also connect you with pure and supreme consciousness.
We talk about the different notions and conceptions of the ego both in the Western and Eastern traditions, how as a body-mind we tend to identify with our job titles and roles, with what we do instead of who we are deep inside as well as the role and the importance of intuition. As John explains, spiritual practices like meditation, mindfulness, and yoga not only clear our minds and help us better read, understand, and follow our intuition but they give us also a glimpse of a state of consciousness that is not bound and limited by the limiting and false self or ego.
Moreover, he provides a three-step process that starts with simply being present and leads to immersing and merging oneself with pure consciousness on one’s path to enlightenment. To do so, John combines analysis with a more intuitive approach by unclutching thoughts, reliving and completing, and hence releasing and freeing ourselves from childhood trauma and emotional pain patterns.
00:26: Personal Intro:
“Supreme Consciousness”
00:34:
Talking about book “Power of Letting Go”. We are conditioned to believe we are a body-mind. A lot of people work hard and get stuck as it stops working for them. He started at the age of 26 and finally “let go” properly at the age of 35. Things started happening quickly then. Part of the journey to enlightenment and we realize we are supreme consciousness in a temporary body.
02:30:
What are you letting go of? Difference between Western and Eastern definition of the ego. Freudian definition where the ego is a useful thing that keeps your id under control. In Eastern view the ego stands between you and a blissful life. Ego made out of pain, Karma, Samskara. Basically it's all your baggage which is getting in your way. When you “destroy” the ego, wonderful things happen. Plato's Allegory of The Cave.
04:48:
self versus Self. The ego is the “false self”. Body-mind, part of something infinitely bigger. Then everything changes because we're all part of the same thing.
06:11:
Why is there such resistance to letting go? His guru explained that somewhere between ages two and seven, something bad happens. He went to see Freudian analyst for his clinical depression in mid 20s. There was no solution except talking. We often suppress the painful experience in early childhood. For example, first day of school, he felt unacceptable due to his accent, and pain pattern and cognition running his life since then. The solution is to go back and relive or complete that episode and get rid of that pain pattern. You stop seeing yourself as an outsider and start connecting with everyone. When completed, the charge leaves your body.
10:11:
The role of intuition. What is the right path to take? Definition of intuition: “Immediate insight without reasoning” As your mind gets clearer, your intuition gets stronger. Paying attention to your intuition. Asking to be guided, often followed by analysis. Meditation can improve intuition. There's also “false intuition”. It could be “incomplete” negative experiences stored in your body. You think it's intuition, but it's actually a pain pattern. Investment and recruitment both require intuition.
15:01:
Searched all over the place and went through mountains of North American self-help books and courses and eventually got to the original spiritual traditions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism. Common denominator was not acquiring knowledge but letting go of things.
15:50:
Three steps. Being present is the starting point, with mindfulness or yoga. Letting go of unhelpful thoughts. It's difficult, but worth doing. Prejudices, labels, or mental habits. A perpetual filter but not actually seeing reality clearly.
17:12:
Step 2: Letting go of pain. This pain is stored in our bodies and it goes back to childhood. “Relive and Relieve” Method. If you relive it intensely, you can remove this pain from your body. Stage Three: Most people find it scary to let go completely. We allow the Supreme Intelligence to run our lives. It runs it much better than our egos. Letting go or surrendering brings you back to your natural state.
19:11:
On the delicate balance between hard work and effort and letting go. It is exhausting to keep trying as a body-mind. But Supreme Consciousness is running everything. Allowing the cosmic intelligence to manifest itself through him. Little ego worried about making money but things get worked out and sorted out in the end. Becoming a pure channel for the cosmos, and everything just flows through you.
22:38:
In Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the concept of the “angry God” believing that the world is not a friendly place. But the cosmos is helping you. Sometimes being forced by the universe to let go. He's more active than he has ever been, but it is not stressful. Not trying to force thing or force people. Intuition tells you what to do next.
24:53:
“Unclutching” technique. Don't engage with every thought. We unconsciously do so. We resist, fight, or think about it. You can be very active but very relaxed. Controlling ourselves and others can wear you out.
25:54:
Grabbing onto and clutching and controlling money. Holding onto and afraid of losing money. Changing our mindset of scarcity to one of abundance. You are unblocking the tube. Not seeing relationships and work as hierarchy, but serving and enriching others as best as you can.
27:42:
We cling to the ego because we don't want to die. A profession is something we do, but not who we are. Another word for ego is identity. If we identify with the role, job, or function, we limit ourselves. When you do silent meditation, you experience pure consciousness in which there is no identity and you realize you are just consciousness, not a body or a job title.
Author and Consultant
Book: “The Power Of Letting Go: How To Drop Everything That’s Holding You Back”
YouTube: “Arash’s World Interview with John Purkiss on Supreme Consciousness, the Self & Letting Go of the Ego”
Podcast: “Letting Go of the Ego and the False Self: John Purkiss on How and Why to Drop Everything to Find Pure Consciousness”
In this podcast, I have the great pleasure of speaking with John Purkiss who wrote the bestselling book “The Power Of Letting Go: How To Drop Everything That’s Holding You Back” which focuses on “letting go” and how it can bring you not only better health, happier relationships, more creativity and greater prosperity but how it can also connect you with pure and supreme consciousness.
We talk about the different notions and conceptions of the ego both in the Western and Eastern traditions, how as a body-mind we tend to identify with our job titles and roles, with what we do instead of who we are deep inside as well as the role and the importance of intuition. As John explains, spiritual practices like meditation, mindfulness, and yoga not only clear our minds and help us better read, understand, and follow our intuition but they give us also a glimpse of a state of consciousness that is not bound and limited by the limiting and false self or ego.
Moreover, he provides a three-step process that starts with simply being present and leads to immersing and merging oneself with pure consciousness on one’s path to enlightenment. To do so, John combines analysis with a more intuitive approach by unclutching thoughts, reliving and completing, and hence releasing and freeing ourselves from childhood trauma and emotional pain patterns.
00:26: Personal Intro:
“Supreme Consciousness”
00:34:
Talking about book “Power of Letting Go”. We are conditioned to believe we are a body-mind. A lot of people work hard and get stuck as it stops working for them. He started at the age of 26 and finally “let go” properly at the age of 35. Things started happening quickly then. Part of the journey to enlightenment and we realize we are supreme consciousness in a temporary body.
02:30:
What are you letting go of? Difference between Western and Eastern definition of the ego. Freudian definition where the ego is a useful thing that keeps your id under control. In Eastern view the ego stands between you and a blissful life. Ego made out of pain, Karma, Samskara. Basically it's all your baggage which is getting in your way. When you “destroy” the ego, wonderful things happen. Plato's Allegory of The Cave.
04:48:
self versus Self. The ego is the “false self”. Body-mind, part of something infinitely bigger. Then everything changes because we're all part of the same thing.
06:11:
Why is there such resistance to letting go? His guru explained that somewhere between ages two and seven, something bad happens. He went to see Freudian analyst for his clinical depression in mid 20s. There was no solution except talking. We often suppress the painful experience in early childhood. For example, first day of school, he felt unacceptable due to his accent, and pain pattern and cognition running his life since then. The solution is to go back and relive or complete that episode and get rid of that pain pattern. You stop seeing yourself as an outsider and start connecting with everyone. When completed, the charge leaves your body.
10:11:
The role of intuition. What is the right path to take? Definition of intuition: “Immediate insight without reasoning” As your mind gets clearer, your intuition gets stronger. Paying attention to your intuition. Asking to be guided, often followed by analysis. Meditation can improve intuition. There's also “false intuition”. It could be “incomplete” negative experiences stored in your body. You think it's intuition, but it's actually a pain pattern. Investment and recruitment both require intuition.
15:01:
Searched all over the place and went through mountains of North American self-help books and courses and eventually got to the original spiritual traditions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism. Common denominator was not acquiring knowledge but letting go of things.
15:50:
Three steps. Being present is the starting point, with mindfulness or yoga. Letting go of unhelpful thoughts. It's difficult, but worth doing. Prejudices, labels, or mental habits. A perpetual filter but not actually seeing reality clearly.
17:12:
Step 2: Letting go of pain. This pain is stored in our bodies and it goes back to childhood. “Relive and Relieve” Method. If you relive it intensely, you can remove this pain from your body. Stage Three: Most people find it scary to let go completely. We allow the Supreme Intelligence to run our lives. It runs it much better than our egos. Letting go or surrendering brings you back to your natural state.
19:11:
On the delicate balance between hard work and effort and letting go. It is exhausting to keep trying as a body-mind. But Supreme Consciousness is running everything. Allowing the cosmic intelligence to manifest itself through him. Little ego worried about making money but things get worked out and sorted out in the end. Becoming a pure channel for the cosmos, and everything just flows through you.
22:38:
In Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the concept of the “angry God” believing that the world is not a friendly place. But the cosmos is helping you. Sometimes being forced by the universe to let go. He's more active than he has ever been, but it is not stressful. Not trying to force thing or force people. Intuition tells you what to do next.
24:53:
“Unclutching” technique. Don't engage with every thought. We unconsciously do so. We resist, fight, or think about it. You can be very active but very relaxed. Controlling ourselves and others can wear you out.
25:54:
Grabbing onto and clutching and controlling money. Holding onto and afraid of losing money. Changing our mindset of scarcity to one of abundance. You are unblocking the tube. Not seeing relationships and work as hierarchy, but serving and enriching others as best as you can.
27:42:
We cling to the ego because we don't want to die. A profession is something we do, but not who we are. Another word for ego is identity. If we identify with the role, job, or function, we limit ourselves. When you do silent meditation, you experience pure consciousness in which there is no identity and you realize you are just consciousness, not a body or a job title.
