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Welcome to The Church of Kreis Podcast — where artistry meets authenticity.

In this episode, Tony Award-winner Levi Kreis reframes midlife as a sacred season of becoming. Instead of a crisis, what if midlife is a powerful pause — a time of spiritual growth, personal reinvention, and deep self-acceptance?

Levi shares honest reflections on aging, identity, and letting go of who we thought we had to be. With humor, storytelling, and Gen X perspective, he invites listeners to embrace midlife as a fertile space for creativity, clarity, and courageous change.

Whether you’re navigating a personal crossroads, recovering your voice, or simply craving meaningful conversation — this episode is your permission to slow down, trust the process, and ripen in your own time.

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In this return episode of The Church of Kreis Podcast, Tony Award-winner Levi Kreis breaks his two-year silence with a deeply personal reflection on reclaiming his voice. He shares the spark that reignited his creative journey, the lessons learned from pulling back, and the quiet power of holding transformation with grace.

This episode explores what it means to integrate all aspects of self — the artist, the spiritual seeker, the truth-teller — and why showing up authentically in today’s curated world is more than brave… it’s necessary.

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After weeks of evaluating various kinds of dysfunctions related to compulsive thinking and the identification with the mind, we begin exploring the one thing that will allow us to move deeply into the now moment -letting go of the concept of time. Identification with the mind is intrinsically connected to either the past or the future. When we can let go of the illusion of time, we discover the space between thoughts and are invited to be completely present in the now moment.

Continuing our discussion on enlightenment, we take some time this week to understand the emotional pain body and how to free ourselves from its compulsive, controlling reactions. Understanding your triggers and learning how to dis-identify with the pain body is essential to enlightenment and will help free you from identification with the mind.

With the last few episodes focusing on freedom from compulsive thinking and identification with the mind, I turn my gaze towards the body-mind connection. All of us need to learn how to create more space between ourselves and the emotions that we so strongly identify with. In this episode, you will learn how to become the observer of your emotions rather than becoming your emotions. I also talk about how to connect with emotions that seem hard to reach. Join me as I break down principles from the book The Power Of Now and strive to make them easily understandable and immediately applicable.

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Many spiritual gurus say that the identification with the mind is the greatest obstacle to our enlightenment, but what the crap does it mean? In this episode, I help us pull this concept out of the self-help books and into a tangible understanding of when we are using the mind and when the mind is using us. Continuing our conversation from previous episodes, we learn this nuance so that we may be free from compulsive thinking, move into the space between thought and discover what communing with our own Divine Beingness feels like.

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Most of our society suffers from an addiction to compulsive thinking. The mind is always reevaluating the past or strategizing for the future -a constant loop of conflict/solution - but very seldom are we ever in the present moment. Identification with the mind is the single greatest obstruction to our enlightenment. So what is identification with the mind and how do we found our way out? I want you to know that you can be free from the enslavement of the mind. It is not some distant, woo woo goal that only a spiritual guru can attain. Let's start a conversation on how you can free yourself from compulsive thinking and discover the bliss of beingness.

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There is one spiritual discipline that is often considered the gateway to lasting enlightenment. Through this, we can be free from the enslavement of the overactive mind and cultivate a life of Oneness. In the last episode, I started our conversation about spirituality by asking you what is it and why does it matter. I don't think it matters if it is not tangibly and measurably improving your life. I like talking about this first step towards enlightenment because it tangibly creates little moments of heaven throughout the day and if incorporated into your daily life, will inevitably shift your consciousness.