08/16/2026
Soulful Sunday: For the Seekers ✨
Many of you connected to me are, at our core, seekers.
And seekers look for wisdom everywhere.
We don’t have to believe that truth belongs to one religion, one philosophy, one teacher, or one culture.
We can become curious about the places where teachings from very different parts of the world seem to point toward something remarkably similar.
So today, I want to look at a few ideas within Christianity through that wider lens.
In the Bible, Jesus says:
“The kingdom of God is within you.” — Luke 17:21
And in the Lord’s Prayer:
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” — Matthew 6:10
Think about those two ideas together for a moment.
If the Kingdom is within us, and we are also being called to bring heaven to Earth, perhaps heaven isn’t only a destination somewhere far away.
Perhaps it is also a state we are learning to embody here.
Which brings us directly into the work of healing.
Because what keeps us from experiencing peace?
What keeps us from love?
What keeps us from compassion, connection, freedom, joy, presence, and a sense of the sacred?
Very often, it’s what is happening inside of us.
Our wounds.
Our conditioning.
Our fear.
Our shame.
Our anger.
Our unconscious beliefs.
Our inherited patterns.
The pieces of ourselves we haven’t wanted to look at.
And the biggest change agent I discovered on my seeking path- the unhealed ancestral trauma.
Our ancestors are a source of resiliency and gifts- but healing the unhealed trauma they disn't have the time or skills to address is a game changer.
Ancestral inheritance and the kingdom of heaven is within- isn’t unique to Christianity.
In Sikh teachings, for example, there is powerful attention given to the forces within the human being that create suffering. Gurbani describes the “five thieves”—lust, anger, greed, attachment, and ego—as dwelling within us. (Sri Granth)
In modern psychological language, we might talk about shadow work: becoming conscious of the aspects of ourselves we have rejected, denied, projected onto others, or pushed outside of our awareness.
And Taoist traditions have their own long history of self-cultivation—turning our attention toward the transformation of the heart-mind and learning to live in greater harmony with the Tao rather than continually fighting against ourselves and the natural movement of life. (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
I love the metaphor of the inner demons here.
We can spend an enormous amount of our lives fighting demons we believe exist somewhere outside of us.
The person who triggers us.
The parent who wounded us.
The relationship that failed us.
The system that hurt us.
The circumstance that refuses to change.
But eventually the seeker begins asking a different question:
What is this "inner demon" inside of me?
When we recognize that some of the demons we are fighting are our own, that realization is extraordinarily empowering.
Because if it’s mine, I can work with it.
If it’s my wound, I can heal it.
If it’s my belief, I can question it.
If it’s my pattern, I can interrupt it.
If it’s my shadow, I can bring it into the light.
If it’s my anger, grief, fear, attachment, or conditioning, I can develop a new relationship with it.
And suddenly I am no longer waiting for the entire outside world to change before I can experience peace.
I have somewhere to begin.
For those of you that have experienced Christian ministry- you know when the prayer breaks the stronghold or generational curse like poverty- you feel it inside of you- and then your world changes.
It is the same when someone goes to a shaman and needs help with an outside "worldly" problem. The client feels the healing inside of them- then their world changes.
Or someone joins a sacred ceremony of ayahuasca. Mother Aya shows the person the outside world is a reflection of what they are carrying- and she helps them heal the pattern. And then their world changes.
Maybe this is one of the great truths the world’s wisdom traditions keep pointing us toward in different languages:
The journey inward changes the journey outward.
And perhaps bringing heaven to Earth begins with creating a little more heaven within ourselves.
This is so much of what we explore inside the Human Potential | Ascension Lab—healing the unconscious patterns, inherited wounds, protective strategies, and pieces of the shadow that keep us from accessing more of who we already are.
Because the deeper we are willing to go within ourselves, the less power the unconscious has over our lives.
And that is where possibility opens.
If this reflection is stirring something in you, there are a few ways to go deeper.
Reminder: This Thursday, we have our free healing workshop inside the Human Potential | Ascension Lab. If you’ve been wanting to experience the work rather than just read about it, come join us.
To attend you must be in the Human Potential | Ascension Lab: https://
www.skool.com/human-potential-ascension-lab-5836/about?ref=e602bb89a09e452ea610471170083f0c
And if you already know where some of your patterns are showing up:
✨ Shifting to Abundance is for the deeper subconscious and generational patterns around money, scarcity, receiving, and worth.
https://ascensionpsychology.com/abundancebundle/
✨ ChainBreaker™ is for family wounds, inherited trauma, and the patterns we consciously choose not to keep carrying forward.
ascensionpsychology.com/chainbreaker
And for those who feel called to go much deeper into the psychology, consciousness, and healing practices behind this work, I’ll be sharing more soon about our next Ascension Psychology training experience beginning this fall.
Being a seeker isn’t only about collecting wisdom.
At some point, we take what we’ve learned…
and turn inward with it. ❤️
For my fellow seekers: what teaching from a spiritual tradition outside of your own has changed the way you understand yourself?
