Portals of Perception
by Aviv Shahar, Peter Barry
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.
Episodes
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139 - Becoming the Future Human - Universalis #20
It’s both curious and fitting that the validation and verification of knowledge has become a central inquiry within the Universalis series. In this latest episode, Aviv Shahar, Karen Heney, and Kyriaki Nikandrou are joined by friends in a rich exploration that begins by tracing the emerging...
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138 - Unlocking Creational Logic - Current Openings #26
We do not arrive on planet Earth with a manual for how to live our life or fulfill its purpose — yet what if such a manual is actually encoded within our very design? Studying the universal natural laws, and appreciating the ancient principle “as above, so below,” can help us validate what we...
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137 - Self-Worth, Happiness, and Your Soul
In Part 1 of this event it was revealed that it is indeed possible to connect and attune to one's Soul, and emphasized that there are multiple paths to find this attunement. Part 2 deepens our exploration with a set of profound steps aimed at discovering and liberating your Soul. The paradox of…
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136 - Attuning to Your Soul
Yes, it is indeed possible to attune to one’s soul—and there are many paths to do so, as this empowering workshop demonstrates. Aviv Shahar’s loom practice invites participants to build their own “discovery looms” of inquiries, thoughts, and feelings, fostering soul integration during times of...
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135 - 16 Vortices of What is Emerging
How do we make sense of life in the vortex of so much change? Where do the interior and exterior developments mirror one another — and where do they diverge? The sixteen vortices described here offer a profound revelation emerging from the current tracking of this epochal intensification. These...
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134 - The Verification System of Life - Universalis #19
How do we know what we know? How do we validate that our sources of our knowing are reliable? One practical test asks: Do the practices drawn from this knowledge foster sustained well‑being, or do they diminish it? Can the study of natural laws liberate us into a more potent agency for life? For...
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133 - 5 Elements of Self-Leadership
What does it truly mean to lead yourself? In this illuminating conversation, Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis explore the nature of self-leadership through three guiding questions: What is self-leadership? Why is it essential? What stifles or prevents it? The dialogue unfolds into five key...
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132 - Energetic Hygiene: The 5 Dimensions
In part one of this Portals Current Openings event, Threefold Leadership in this Epochal Moment, Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis 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…
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131 - Threefold Leadership in This Epochal Moment
Are you feeling the calling, the summons of this time? 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. What inner call might we be sensing…
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130 - How Do We Verify What is True and Real? - Universalis #18
If you search the internet, you're instantly confronted with a vast reservoir of knowledge — academic, scientific, artificial (AI-generated), and even channeled sources. Amid this teeming sea of information, how do you verify what is real and what is true? Aviv, Karen and Kyriaki delve into this...
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129 - Beyond the Collapse - Event Part 2
As we regather for the second part of this event, Aviv Shahar offers this reflection: “One of the ways I answer the question, ‘What is it like to be in this liminal transition from an epoch that's fading to a new epoch that's emerging?’ Well, it’s like being in a playground — after I allow myself...
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128 - Beyond the Collapse - Event Part 1
We all experience parts of ourselves moving in different directions at the same time. The cells in our bodies continually die as new ones are born. Throughout our lives, we release what no longer serves us and shift our attention toward new opportunities. So, we are no strangers to seeing that...
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127 - 10 Elements of the Elevation Process Mystery - Current Openings #24
What does it mean for a human to elevate? Esoteric pursuits are often associated with ancient mystery schools that promise to teach an initiate their secret knowledge. But, of course, you can’t walk in the door and be told the meanings of life. There is a rite of passage, an apprenticeship, a...
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126 - The Soul's Journey In Between Epochs, Part 2
The mystery of the soul has captivated humanity throughout time. In this new conversation, Aviv Shahar and Portalsfriends continue exploring The Soul’s Journey, now delving into the enigma of spontaneous healing. This live event weaves contemplations, soul dialogue, music, and visual expression....
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125 - The Soul's Journey In Between Epochs, Part 1
How can we bring the whole human intelligence to strengthen and steady us as we navigate an epochal shift? In this engaging workshop, through inquiry and ground-breaking insights, Aviv Shahar and a group of international friends explore the story of the soul alongside the unfolding story of the...
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124 - 10 Dimensions of Knowing - Universalis #17
“How do you know what you know?” This provocative question sets the stage for an illuminating live conversation. Opening pathways to expanded ways of knowing is a profound liberation — especially in a time marked by increasing polarization. The exploration of ten distinct types of knowledge runs...
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123 - This Epochal Moment, Part 2: Renewal
One of our greatest sources of power is our imagination — the creative energy we bring online as we visualize the way forward and a new blueprint for humanity’s renewal. It’s the knowledge we are never alone: intelligence and perception in multiple dimensions are available for the asking. Can we...
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122 - This Epochal Moment, Part 1: Breakdown
Is it really a contradiction to think of the global chaos unfolding us around as both an overdue day of reckoning, and possibly the most hopeful, optimistic time we’ve seen in this century? Can humanity still retain the capacity for renewal and rebirth in such a time of intense doubt and fear…
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121 - Conscience: A Threefold Soul Guidance
Do we think of our conscience only as a feeling of guilt when our behavior or attitudes seem somehow out of line with our inner sense of moral right and wrong? What if we imagine the conscience as something much deeper and more powerful? An active process that allows access to our natural finer...
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120 - The Trinitarian Principle - Current Openings #23
We have been taught to exteriorize knowledge and truth to such an extent we have come to a breaking point, evident in the large-scale destruction we are facing today. Yet what is the alternative? How do we begin to access a new kind of knowledge based on our innate inner human technology?…
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119 - The Revelation of Knowledge - Current Openings #22
How do we acquire, assimilate and verify knowledge? Exploring an inquiry as old as the human capacity to search for truth, which is re-enlivened in our times with the many challenges facing the human family globally, Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis invite us into a journey of discovery…
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118 - Pathways to Universal Life - Universalis #15
Imagine a process that can bypass our dominant, loves-to-be-in-control brain and open a subtle energetic pathway to help us sense and feel the many dimensions of the Universalis human. A deeper contemplative process of feelings and intuition, not fixed mental boundaries. In the newest Universalis...
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117 - Decoding the Current of the Epoch - Universalis #14
If an incoming wave of universal change is influencing human behavior and global culture, as many have said, how do we see it? Where is it appearing? Can we really decode the flow and patterns of evolution as they emerge almost real-time in many of the core domains of human life and endeavor? In...
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116 - The Wholeness of Parts - What is Healing? #4
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...
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115 - The Transfiguration Archetype
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...
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114 - The Conductivity Mystery - Current Openings #21
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...
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113 - Resilience and the Crisis of Belief
One of the most powerful tools of personal transformation is also one of the most accessible: it’s the story we tell ourselves about who we are and the future we imagine. It’s a story we can update and recalibrate every day — no permission beyond ourselves required to create and recreate the…
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112 - The Epoch Mystery - Current Openings #20
A powerful way to envision our entry into this new phase of evolution and epochal shift is as a fusion process — a merging of the physical realm with a new universal potency that unlocks immense possibilities and profound renewal. Imagine it as an energetic Cambrian release for humanity and the...
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111 - The Five Stories of the Epoch
Let us imagine that one of the most powerful ways to create space and be open to an incoming wave of evolutionary progress — the future — is to consciously heal and absolve the past, with all of its trauma and scar tissue. Not just our personal past, but imagining in ourselves the flow of history...
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110 - The 7-Fold Epoch Progression - The Universalis Project #13
For many, last year made it impossible to ignore the scale of global change — what we see as global instability is only one dimension of a larger meta-crisis. Portals has been following the signs of this broader evolutionary cycle, which is reshaping our planet and humanity. With the epoch…
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109 - Spiritualize the Universe - 20 Core Premises: Current Openings #19
Our adventure exploring the deeper nature of human life forever seeks to find new bridges — the special connecting insights and nuggets of wisdom that remind us why this journey of discovery is so critical to our personal and collective futures. What is the premise that inspires us to unlock the...
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108 - The Shared Intentions of Life - Evolving Together #6
Can we imagine that the simple act of coming together — the “togetherings” of ourselves with our inner lives, our friends, our communities — unlocks the intelligence that enables the “we” to become an integral part of our future and of the evolution of life? What if life itself is intentionally...
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107 - Expressions of Religious Living
What does it mean to live religiously? How do the premises and ways of living religiously evolve to embrace and embody new evolutionary possibility? How do people register and express perhaps the most intimate feelings a human can experience — the sensing of real connection with universal and...
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106 - Religion and the Esoteric
Is it possible to appreciate the life of Jesus Christ in a real way that embraces the universal message and mystery, but also finds harmony with a fundamental approach to logic and reason? Can an esoteric perception of the divine find a home inside metamodern spirituality? We continue exploring…
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105 - The Open-Heart Conversation: Current Openings #18
What is the message we would bring back to our families and friends if we survived a near-death experience? It’s the kind of event that could change our lives in a big way. What would we most want the people closest to us to realize from our close encounter with the veil? Such close encounters...
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104 - The Goddess Arising
What would the divine feminine or Goddess nature want to ask or expect of a man today? If you were a man representing the divine masculine, and had the chance, what would you want to ask or say to a woman at this moment? Can we even imagine ourselves and each other as different expressions of a...
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103 - The Two Struggles - The Universalis Project #11
As we find our way each day through the often intense and personal struggles facing us and humanity, imagine that we can build our strength and resilience by exercising the right muscles; not just physical, but our emotional, mental and spiritual “muscles.” In the newest chapter of the Homo...
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102 - Evolution, Consciousness, and the New Truth
Where is our global culture today? How did we get here? What steps might we need to take now to shape a future that could become a saving grace for humanity? It feels special to find a clear, cohesive and compelling picture, one that encompasses the insights that help us make sense and meaning…
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101 - God: An Evolving Revelation
How can a forward-looking, evolution-inclined spirituality, not tied to dogma or history, offer us a sense of meaning and purpose in a time of cultural upheaval powered by AI? Can a metamodern spiritual path also include a new perspective and appreciation of Christianity and the many faces, or...
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100 - Current Openings #17 – Burning Questions
Imagine being able to connect with a level of potency, passion and energy that could help reveal even deeper intelligence and meaning to our most compelling “burning questions” — the inquiries and mysteries that drive and inspire us to search for answers. In several ways the potency of an inquiry...
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099 - Portals Into the Soul, Chapter 4: A Growing Space for the Soul
In the third installment we described two ways to apply Einstein’s admonition when he observed that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. The first practice involved placing the problem you are working to solve inside an even bigger problem. The second...
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098 - The Universalis Project #10 - Why the World is Breaking Down
Even if we’re familiar with the themes of evolutionary change and upgrade that run through Portals, what’s happening in the world today seems startling: the operating system that enables modern life as we know it appears to be crashing. The key questions now: Is this an irreversible slide into...
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097 - Normalizing the Extraordinary: In the Metamodern God Lab
A laboratory is where we’d expect to find a safe space of discovery and purpose; an environment that supports experimenting with diverse ideas and mysteries in the search for truth. Add in an atmosphere of mutual trust and acceptance, and now we’ve created an ecology that invites something even...
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096 - Current Openings #16: The Octave Leap Mystery
How many of us remember having what some people call a “chrysalis” moment? An octave leap, with mind-opening perceptions, in real time. A powerful flow of energy, a quickening, triggered by a connection or breakthrough that can happen anywhere, at any time, and transform us and the circumstance...
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095 - The Universalis Project #9 - Deepening in Evolutionary Mysteries
If we’re already diving deep into the core mysteries of the human experience — such as how to partner with a new wave of evolution and engage with the universe — how do we push even further on the edge of discovery? Can we go even deeper into the mysteries? What’s the real benefit? A curious...
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094 - Evolving Together #4 - The Human Radio Set
It may be time to finally change channels, or — if we really want better reception and perception — to trade in that old analogue transmitter and receiver for the best, state-of-the-art technology in the universe. We are referring, by analogy, to the most advanced radio set ever created: the…
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093 - Portals Into the Soul, Chapter 3: Symphonic Seven-fold Soul Work
In chapter 2 we described the nature of separation events and the compensatory act of the soul — the ghost. Before developing ways to recover the sense of connection and explore pathways to reengage and liberate the greater potential of the soul, this chapter begins to reflect on a whole loom of...
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092 - Inner Conclave Consciousness
How can we access greater intelligence, wisdom, and power to face the often-scary challenges of these times? In the Inner Conclave Consciousness, Aviv Shahar and Jeff Vander Clute develop further the three process octaves they began to explore in part one of this conversation. Why is this...
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091 - Activating the Inner Conclave
A glance at the headlines today often brings a deep sense of sadness about the escalating violence in many parts of the world, along with an urgent inner inquiry: what can one person do to promote peace, both within themselves and the global community? Several Portals conversations and, most...
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090 - Current Openings #15: The Four Development Zones
It may be easy to see the wisdom of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, who noted back in the 6th century BC, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." When the journey of a lifetime is measured not in distance, but in sensing and connecting with a universal source of purpose and...
About this show
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.
Hosted by
Aviv Shahar, Peter Barry