10 min · Instruction
Learn how to meditate in 10 minutes.
A short instructional walkthrough of the practice for someone just starting.
Practices
Guided meditations.
Five recordings: one instructional, four guided sessions.
Guided · Morning
A morning meditation.
A short practice to set the tone for the day.
Thought-provoking
Lectures with a unique perspective.
Recorded lectures on questions most people grapple with. Each comes with a companion PDF.
Video + PDF
Why did God design the world this way.
A talk on the question that so many struggle with: why the world includes so much suffering.
Video + PDF
Why most people live unfulfilled.
On the gap between achievement and meaning, and the small reframes that close it.
Emotional intelligence
Everything about emotions.
Recorded lectures on the parts of inner work that require a good understanding of the emotional terrain. Each video comes with its own PDF.
Video + PDF
Spiritual and emotional bypassing.
On the trick of using spirituality to avoid the feelings you most need to feel.
Video + PDF
How to use fear to your advantage.
A short reframe of fear from obstacle to compass, and how to follow it instead of fighting it.
Spirituality
Where science and spirit meet.
Recorded talks that help bridge the gap between science and spirituality, grounding complex topics in relatable, easy-to-understand lectures. Meant for people of all belief systems and backgrounds.
Part 1 · Video + PDF
Demons explained by science.
First of two. A new framework for what the word 'demon' might actually point at.
Video + PDF
Science and spirituality.
On how uniting the two expands the way we see the world and makes more of life available.
Healing trauma
A three-part walkthrough.
Meant to be watched in order to understand everything you need to know about trauma.
Part 1 · Video + PDF
What is trauma.
First of three. How trauma happens to everyone, and why that's not a problem.
Part 2 · Video + PDF
You can heal your trauma.
Second of three. The case that any emotional trauma can be healed.
Practice guides
Practices on paper.
Five-step companion guides drawn from Iván's book. Use them to ground any topic with real practice.
Practice guide · 2 pages · PDF
When the inner child takes the wheel.
A five-step practice for what to do when a reaction feels bigger than the situation called for. Re-parenting walkthrough, drawn from Iván's upcoming book.
Practice guide · 2 pages · PDF
What fear is here to tell you.
A five-step practice for treating fear as a messenger instead of an enemy. Pairs with the lecture in the Emotional intelligence section above.
Self-assessment
Which of the five hard emotions is most active in you right now?
Shame, fear, grief, guilt, anger. The five emotions Iván writes about most. We have been taught to look away from them, which happens to be the same ones running the show. Pick the answer closest to your experience for each question. Ten short prompts. Your result names what's loudest right now, what it is trying to tell you, and one or two practices to work with it.
Reading list
Must-read books.
Some books Iván recommends on the topics he teaches and practices.
Tao Te Ching
Lao TzuAncient Taoist verses on yielding, emptiness, and the way things move when you stop forcing them.
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel RuizToltec code of conduct boiled down to four rules for cleaning up how you speak and assume.
The Mastery of Love
Don Miguel RuizOn relationships as a measure of self-acceptance, and the wounds we hand to the people we love.
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Charles EisensteinAn argument that personal action matters in a fragmented world, written without the usual activist scolding.
The Teachings of Don Juan
Carlos CastanedaThe first and most contested entry in the Yaqui sorcerer canon. Read as literature, not anthropology.
A Separate Reality
Carlos CastanedaContinuation of the Don Juan apprenticeship, deeper into perception, allies, and seeing past the everyday.
Journey to Ixtlan
Carlos CastanedaReframes the earlier books around stopping the world and erasing personal history. The strongest of the series.
Tales of Power
Carlos CastanedaThe tonal and the nagual laid out as a map of the two halves of awareness.
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy NarbyAn anthropologist takes Amazonian shamans seriously and finds DNA imagery hiding in their visions.
Siddhartha
Hermann HesseA short novel about leaving every teacher behind to find the river yourself.
