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“One of the most important things to realize about this human game is that there are no rules other than those that YOU chose to set.” – Arjuna Ardagh
Arjuna Ardagh is the author of Radical Brilliance: The Anatomy of How and Why People Have Original Life-Changing Ideas. He is a bestselling writer, public speaker and executive coach, who has trained more than 2000 coaches over the last 25 years. He is the author of nine books, including the 2005 #1 national bestseller “The Translucent Revolution,” featured in “O” magazine. He has been a speaker at conferences all over the world, including at the United Nations, and at Google. He has appeared on TV, radio and in print media in 18 countries
The great opportunity that Arjuna presents through this work is that chance to upgrade humanity. Why are we conditioned to be so obedient? Where has our creativity gone? Who really makes good things happen in our lives? We will explore these questions and more in this interview.
What you’ll learn in this episode
- How and Why People Have Original Life-Changing Ideas
- What are the four stages of Radical Brilliance
- What Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie were like before they got famous
- Where Leadership comes from
- How to parent for radical brilliance
- What is sovereignty and how to get it back
- The story of how Arjuna misquoted Einstein and it became a meme
- Why some people discover their dharma and others don’t
Quotes
“One of the most important things to realize about this human game is that there are really no rules other than those that you chose to set.” – Arjuna Ardagh
“What an intelligent use of a human life where there is really zero distraction and a hundred percent dedication to the things that you will never regret?”- Arjuna Ardagh
“People who are successful are generally also very anxious and unfulfilled. But there are people in the world who are incredibly fulfilled.”- Arjuna Ardagh
“In any power imbalance, everyone loses. Sovereignty is the antidote to power im-balance.”- Arjuna Ardagh
“Whenever your children ask ‘why’, the great gift you can give them is to say ‘great question, let’s discuss it’.”- Arjuna Ardagh
“Many people just stay stuck for their whole lives in obedience. They just do what they’re told.”- Arjuna Ardagh
“If you develop sovereignty in all areas of your life, it means that you end up doing the work that you do because it’s consistent with your values that you have discovered through your own process of introspection.”- Arjuna Ardagh
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Ardagh has been a keynote speaker at conferences all over the world, including the International Conference on Business and Consciousness, the “No Mind” Festival,” the Whole Life Expo (in 5 cities), the Integral Spiritual Experience Conference, and the Omega Institute annual conference. He has appeared on TV, on the radio and in print media in seventeen countries. He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council.
Arjuna was educated in England, at Kings School, Canterbury, and later at Cambridge University, where he earned a master’s degree in literature. Since the age of 14, he has had a passionate interest in spiritual awakening, and he began to practice mediation and yoga at that time. In his late teens, he trained as a meditation teacher. After graduating from Cambridge, Ardagh devoted himself completely to the call he felt inside, and studied and lived with a number of great spiritual teachers, both in Asia and the United States. In 1991 Arjuna met his teacher, H.W.L.Poonja, a retired army officer in Lucknow India, with whom he passed through a radical shift in consciousness.
Arjuna started to train facilitators in 1995, in order to create an environment where awakening can happen outside of the usual patriarchal and hierarchical context: as friends supporting friends. The same work has now evolved in the Awakening Coaching Training, where most of the courses are offered online, thus bypassing the need for students to travel and take time away from their other responsibilities. Arjuna has trained more than 1100 facilitators of awakening since 1995.
Arjuna Ardagh is the creator of several online courses. Through high-definition video interviews with 40 remarkable people, Living Awakening shows us how states of inner awakening can become the stable foundation of enlivening and giving the Unique Gift each person was born to share. Arjuna and his wife, Chameli Ardagh, have created The Deeper Love, which teaches singles and couples how to integrate awakening consciousness into intimate relationships.
Arjuna and Chameli live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, with their two teenage sons.
You can find out more about Arjuna Ardagh at arjunaardagh.com, and about awakening coaching at awakeningcoachingtraining.com.
Other books and media:
- Radical Brilliance: The Anatomy of How and Why People Have Original Life-Changing Ideas
- Leap Before You Look
- Relaxing into Clear Seeing
- Awakening into Oneness
- Awareness Meditation
- Let Yourself Go – 6 CD series from Sounds True
- The Mystery of 2012
Interview recorded 11/3/2012
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