About this episode
Thomas Hübl is a modern mystic, spiritual teacher, author, and systems-thinker. His work integrates the essence of the great wisdom traditions, scientific knowledge, and his own personal experience. Thomas offers a unique approach to life as a ‘mystic in the marketplace’ and helps people to attain a deeper level of self-awareness and personal relationship and to transcend a ‘culture of the personal’ and a self-centered worldview. Through his work, people from all walks of life learn how to become a living expression of spirit and how to participate in ‘we cultures’ through an embodied inner and outer connection. His teachings combine transformation through the integration of trauma, somatic sensitization, advanced meditative practice, and a deepening understanding of cultural processes. Since 2004, Thomas’ leading-edge work has spread worldwide through workshops, multi-year training programs, and online courses. The non-profit ‘Celebrate Life Festival‘ brings together more than 1,200 people every year and has showcased a wide network of experts in various disciplines, through dialogue and exchange. In 2008 Thomas founded the ‘Academy of Inner Science’. This provided a framework for dialogue between the inner science of consciousness and the external scientific-academic exploration of life. Over the years Thomas has also organized several major healing events, aimed at healing the Holocaust’s cultural shadows. Thousands of Germans and Israelis have been brought together through these processes. In 2016 Thomas and his wife Yehudit founded the non-profit ‘Pocket Project‘, with the aim of exploring collective trauma and shadow work and integrating this through large-scale group processes. A global organization has been launched, intended to research and explore specific aspects of local traumatization. This applies both to past traumas and also to current conflict zones. Thomas was born in Austria in 1971 and now lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, with his wife, the Israeli artist Yehudit Sasportas and their daughter Eliya. Website: thomashuebl.com First BatGap interview with Thomas. Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded October 27, 2018. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:03:40 - Spiritual Practice and Shadow Work 00:07:08 - The Importance of Supervision and Shadow Work 00:10:09 - The Expansion of Self Awareness 00:13:50 - The Crystallization of Shadow Language 00:17:06 - Healing Trauma and Developing Sensitivity 00:20:36 - Healing Generational Trauma 00:24:00 - Meditation and Trauma Healing 00:27:17 - The Path through the Fire 00:30:25 - The Absorbing Nature of the World 00:33:38 - Digesting Life Through Meditation 00:36:52 - Flowing with the Path of Least Action 00:39:58 - Understanding the Relationship Between Weakness and Trauma 00:43:31 - Trauma and Dysregulation in Addiction 00:46:44 - Trauma and the Nervous System 00:49:40 - The Collective Field and the Debt of Karma 00:53:26 - Trauma, Epigenetics, and Reincarnation 00:56:30 - The Interconnectedness of Reality 01:00:00 - Process Awareness and Symptom Analysis 01:03:04 - Unconscious Polarization 01:06:28 - Turbulence and the Awakening of Collective Consciousness 01:10:02 - The Interconnectedness of Pollution and Human Health 01:13:21 - The Earth's Immune System and the Spiritual Awakening 01:17:00 - The Fluidity of Life's Challenges and Solutions 01:20:20 - Inner and Outer Science 01:23:41 - Healing Spiritual Trauma 01:27:08 - Spiritual Trauma and Self-scrutiny 01:30:34 - The Beauty of Individuality and Non-Duality 01:34:08 - Living a Multidimensional Life 01:37:39 - The Power of Resonance and Thought-Provoking Conversations 01:40:43 - Dealing with Collective Trauma