"Unlocking Reality Shattering Insights: A Roadmap for Human Transformation" with Craig Polsfuss

Welcome to another enlightening episode of the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast. In today's episode, we delve deep into the transformative world of practical neuroscience with our special guest, Craig Polsfuss, a pioneering psychologist and author. Polsfuss introduces us to his groundbreaking book, Reality Shattering Insights, and shares his unique journey of integrating psychology, spirituality, and brain science to enhance mental well-being, performance, and spiritual insight.

Join us as we explore how understanding and tapping into deeper consciousness can lead to life-changing insights and self-discovery. Learn to listen to your inner whispers and discover how to transform mental and emotional landscapes from within, moving from the intellect into the heart and beyond.

Watch interview on YouTube here https://youtu.be/2Hu6_poYLn8

Welcome back to SEASON 13 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we connect the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning and emotional intelligence training for improved well-being, achievement, productivity and results—using what I saw as the missing link (since we weren’t taught this when we were growing up in school), the application of practical neuroscience. I’m Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast 7 years ago with the goal of bringing ALL the leading experts together (in one place) to help us to APPLY this research in our daily lives.

On today's EPISODE #358 we will cover:

✔ How licensed psychologist and former clinical social worker Craig Polsfuss, (among the pioneers of the Three Principles movement in the 1980s) bridged psychology, spirituality, and brain science to help people achieve mental well-being, top performance and spiritual insight.

✔ Uncover the formula to create your own Reality Shattering Insights.

✔ Learn how tap into a deeper consciousness that can lead to life-changing insights and self-discovery.

For today’s EP #358, we meet with a pioneering psychologist and author of the book published just last November, Reality-Shattering Insights[i], the first in a 4-book series entitled VoLT: The Vortex of Living Truth.

Today’s guest, Craig Polsfuss, a licensed psychologist and former clinical social worker, who pioneered the Three Principles movement in the 1980s after a powerful awakening. With nearly five decades of experience, he integrates psychology, spirituality, and brain science to help people achieve mental wellbeing, top performance, and spiritual insight. 

The "reality-shattering insights" that he shares inside his book will open your eyes, if you are looking for answers, to questions you might not have even known that you were asking yourself.

Before we meet Craig Polsfuss, and begin our journey of self-discovery: A discovery that will take us from our head to our heart, and from our heart, into the depths of our soul.

I’ve got to say that this episode is not like ANY I have done before, as Craig covered questions I have had for a very long time. Questions that came up when I first studying Wallace D. Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich book, 25 years ago, that we covered on EP 315[ii] with a 7-PART series. This book was one of the seminars that I sold in the late 1990s when I worked with speaker Bob Proctor.  I always wondered “what is that thinking stuff that Wattles describes in his syllabus?” If you signed up for this seminar, you would have been given this syllabus to take home with you laminated. I’ve got at least 10 of them still today in my office. Back then I had no idea what Wattles was describing. That stuff he says “permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.” And that “a thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.” I always thought it was some sort of “intelligence” but it wasn’t until this past January, while studying this book series with Paul Martinelli, who also sold this seminar, and presented it years ago. I learned Paul’s point of view that Wattles is saying this “thinking stuff” is God. And he goes on to say that we might all have our own interpretation of what we call this, (some might call it God, others a Higher Power, and others something entirely different) but I think we can all agree that there is something much bigger than us in the world. Something that keeps us connected to others, and can help us.

I had to look to see what scientist Dr. Andrew Huberman would say on this topic and he goes on the record to say that he is “in absolute awe of Biology, believes in God” and elaborates by saying if you look at “the magnificence of biology, and the magnificence of nature (he says) it’s impossible for (him) to conceive it could have come about any other way.”[iii]

So coming back to this episode, if you have EVER wondered like me about this topic, I’m not trying to sell you in what I believe, but just asking you to keep an open mind as you listen.

This episode is about:

• Learning how to Listen to the whispers of your deep knowing…
• It’s about how exactly to pay attention to what comes up when you listen to your breath.
• We will cover how to drop from your mind and move into your heart…

And Just Listen.

This is where our next guest, author Craig Polsfuss explains is how you’ll uncover your true answer.

Just keep an open mind, and you’ll see the beauty that exists when we can open our hearts  …Reality Shattering Insights.

INTRO: Welcome Craig, it’s wonderful to meet you today. Where have we reached you this early Monday morning? Are you in St. Paul, MN?

I’ve got to say that when I first saw your work, that I jumped a bit in my chair. Those who know me well, know I have quite a spiritual side, but we all see the world through different lenses. Can you first of all share where this journey (of the mind) began for you, bridging psychology, spirituality and brain science to bring you to where you are today?

Q1: You write about "reality-shattering insights" in your new book, and the "proven" human ability to completely transform in an instant. 

Can you explain what you mean by “reality shattering insights?” and give some examples of people who have transformed their lives with these insights?

Q1B: What does a complete personal transformation actually look like, and is instant change truly possible?

Q2: I find this topic fascinating, and wrote about a book The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight and the Brain (by John Kounios and Mark Beeman) on a recent EP330[iv].

Are Reality Shattering Insights like AHA Moments?

Q3: What neuroscience component did you discover that contributed to your own personal awakening? How have others taken advantage of this? Can you talk more about this and add some brain science insight? 

Q3B: What about listeners who are tuning into this podcast episode, and they are curious to learn how to create “reality shattering insights” at will. What are the first steps to begin this transformative journey?  

Q3C: What is the core formula or method for radical personal transformation? 

Q3D: What are the different levels of personal and spiritual enlightenment?

Q4: What IS this infinite intelligence?

Q4: In your book, you mention it’s a journey from your “head to your heart” and from your “heart to your soul.” Can you explain this a bit more? How do we “feel” our “soul?”

Q5: How does co-creation work?

Q6: How does this connect to social and emotional learning? 

Q7: Where do we go from here?  For those who are interested in learning more, where should they begin?

 

Craig, I want to thank you for your time today, sharing your book, Reality Shattering Insights, and  decades of research. For people who want to connect with you, what is the best way?

 

FOLLOW Craig Polsfuss

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigpolsfuss/

EMAIL Craig@Craigpolsfuss.com

RESOURCES:

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REFERENCES

[i] Reality Shattering Insights by Craig Polsfuss published November 1, 2024 https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Shattering-Insights-Begin-Journey-ebook/dp/B0D92GMKGR/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

 

[ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #315 PART 1 of Wallace D Wattles and The Science of Getting Rich: Prosperity Consciousness https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/part-1-review-of-wallace-d-wattles-the-science-of-getting-rich-on-prosperity-consciousness/

 

[iii] Dr. Andrew Huberman’s Faith in God https://www.youtupsbe.com/watch?v=Z7GVf8nD7SQ

 

[iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #330  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/understanding-self-leadership-and-the-neuroscience-of-goals/