Jason Suran is a New York based mentalist and performance artist. His unique blend of psychological illusions and immersive storytelling has led him to perform around the world from Haiti to Dubai and on various networks including NBC ESPN, and FOX. Originally from Chicago, Jason first moved east to attend New York University where his interest in non-traditional storytelling steered him towards magic and more specifically … the history and methods of modern psychics. His most recent theatrical project (The Other Side: A Psychological Séance) is an exploration of death, faith and the rise of spiritualism in 19th century America.

In this episode we unpack what mentalism is, talk about persevering through low-points, and explore what happens after death.

Find Jason’s work at www.jasonsuran.com

Here’s his IG: https://www.instagram.com/jasonsuran/

Highlights:
-Mentalism as a sub-genre of magic
-Mentalism as ‘magic designed to simulate psychic phenomena’
-The 4 components of mentalism
-The origin and history of mentalism
-How Jason decided to bring back Seances from the history of mentalism
-Integrity in mentalism
-The temptation for a mentalist to pretend to be magical
-How to take a dishonest endeavor and extract an emotionally honest experience
-Going all the way with his seance – simulating communicating with the dead
-What emotions people experience during a seance
-The experience of longing
-Every ghost story starts with a love story’
-When we love someone and then they die, what do we do with all that energy?
-It doesn’t matter if ghosts are real, but why do we care if they are?
-How Jason got interested in the seance aesthetic
-How experiencing several deaths in a year shifted Jason’s seance
-The unpredictability of grief
-What DOES happen after death?
-How meditation changed Jason’s life
-Why mentalists are materialists
-How Jason has dealt with self-doubt and impostor-syndrome on his artistic journey
-‘You have to need it versus want it”
-The importance of realizing you love practicing something
-What would happen if a mentalist never turned it off
-The reveal of Uri Geller
-The two types of psychic performers
-Does Jason ever wonder if he’s actually communicating with spirits?
-Jason’s unwillingness to reveal his trick to me!
-How Jason feels about people revealing mentalism on youtube
-How Disneyland uses mystique
-Art includes some degree of deception to get at human truth
-When to take a leap of faith in belief
-Gambling for entertainment, not for high stakes

Here’s the video of Uri Geller we discuss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCJDpNnHNI

And the phony tai-chi master:
http:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEDaCIDvj6I

ENJOY!!! Much love <3

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Alexandra Stockwell, MD is a Physician turned Relationship and Intimacy Expert who is known as The Relationship Catalyst. As a wife of 23 years and a mother of four, she believes the key to passion, fulfillment, intimacy and success in a couple’s relationship isn’t compromise–it’s being unwilling to compromise–because when both people feel free to be themselves, …

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Danielle Caners is the pilot of a magnificent space shuttle bringing you on a journey to the depths of the earth, far into the cosmos and back to the core of your being. Her art is the synthesis of an untameable thirst to learn, create, and grow. Her paintings are tapestries of visual codes that …

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Tani Thole and Leslie Rogers have dedicated their lives to the study and exploration of the human psyche and its relationship with the non-material world, through spirituality, psychology, personal development, sexuality, and BDSM. They founded the Light Dark Institute out of a passion for sharing the ways that exploring our dark sides can radically awaken and …

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Kara-Leah is an internationally-renowned teacher, writer and retreat leader. Millions of people have been impacted by the articles, books and videos she has published over the last ten years. Her passion is liberation in this lifetime through an every day path of dissolving layers of the conditioned mind into deeper and deeper presence. Her work, …

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Lauren Searles is a Tantric Love and Sex Coach for evolutionary men and women who desire to Thrive in Love. She empowers change-makers to embody their True Heart Radiance by transmuting their deepest pain into their greatest gift. By knowing your True Worth as a Sovereign Soul, one can connect to their inherent Divinity through …

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Dante Garcia is a strategist and a co-founder at Story 2 Designs — a design cooperative dedicated to working with progressive projects to make transformation irresistible. Born in Seattle, he grew up being politically active and an artist. In 2015 he was part of the organizing core of Seattle’s resistance to Arctic drilling in the ShellNo campaign.

Today he is a trainer-practitioner at the Center for Story-based Strategy. He values justice, creative self-expression, paradox, historical context, the long game, and joy. You can find him biking across Seattle hills from meeting to meeting and geeking out about a post-capitalist world.

In this episode we talk about the paradigm of viewing life as a story, the battle against addictive entertainment, the grueling path of self-actualization, and what makes for a good story to collectively stave off global warming.

Highlights from this conversation
-How Dante’s company helps people tell better stories about themselves
-Humans can’t help but to create narrative
-Reframing interpretations of reality
-Walking through the darkness to the other side
-Society’s obsession with dystopic plots
-What’s a healthy apocalypse look like
-Holding paradox
-Creating a story around climate change to enroll everyone
-Entertainment is stealing our attention
-Connecting with oneself to find purpose
-Purpose takes time!
-When will humans go extinct?
-Our humanity is withering with the Earth
-The psychology of colonizing Mars
-Study the greats
-Create space to practice new identities
-Capitalism created technology which is eating capitalism
-Self-actualizing is exhausting
-We can create anything, but it takes time
-Thought-partnership

Boom! There ya have it. I hope this episode propels your human plot in a desirable direction.

<3

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Joshua Hathaway, M.A., is a father, lover and Transformational Trickster devoted building a more beautiful, equitable, and consensual world, one conversation at a time. Through training and coaching individuals, couples, and organizations in exquisite communication and collaboration at MasterYourBullshit.com, he has been championing authentic connection in the bedroom and the boardroom for over a decade.

After leading almost 12 years of men’s work, Joshua is committed to walking men back to their full humanity, connecting them to their deep sensitivity and primal potency, and growing their capacity for intimate relationships through his work at the BrotherhoodCommunity.com

Hit him up directly at: joshua@masteryourbullshit.com

I had a god-dang plumped-with-wisdom blast of a conversation with Joshua. We talked about relationships as a closed loop where all shit must come up, the importance of self-compassion in relating to fear, male intimacy, and poop-positivity.

Conversational Highlights
-There are no toilets in a relationship
-In early stages of relationships were taught to impress and hide our shit
-Sharing niggling thoughts in partnership
-A baseline for a healthy relationship is when both people will take responsibility when they take a shit no the living room floor
-When Joshua crossed a line on FB and how he handled it
-How we turn off our conscious mind and let a script run
-The negative feedback loop that comes when we lack self-compassion
-The more we can meet ourselves with mercy, the faster well wake up
-Fear-based decision making
-“Pain pushes us until vision pulls us” (Reverend Deborah Johnson)
-Hurrying on the journey makes it suck
-A Mind in fear will create what it fears
-Fear as a virus
-It’s impossible to be afraid of whats actually happening
-Unpacking Men’s Work
-The Men’s Leadership Intensive
-Creating healthier partnerships by men opening up to men
-The intimacy of pooping

I hope this episode knocks your socks off your feet and blasts them into orbit!

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