In today’s episode, we meet Sandra Bargman, an interfaith ordained minister, spiritual counselor, and leadership coach, where we explore what it means to walk “The Edge of Everyday.” The conversation is raw and real and delves into what it means to be spiritual.
Show Highlights:
The difference between being religious and being spiritual
Creating your own spiritual practice
Being in relationships - the number 1 spiritual practice and how they provide opportunities to “know thyself.”
Unity Consciousness - understanding we are all interconnected and why this is important
About Our guest Sandra Bargman
Sandra Bargman is an interfaith ordained minister, spiritual counselor, leadership coach, actor, voice-over artist, singer and creator, and host of Talk Radio’s The Edge of Every Day, where she explores with her guests the edges we all face and grapple with in our challenging times.
How to connect with Sandra Bargman
Website: www.SandraBargman.com
Email: revsandrabargman@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/
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Anita Adams:Hey, joyful journey your journey to Adams here your host of the
Anita Adams:joyful journey podcast and today I am thrilled to introduce you
Anita Adams:to my guests Sandra bargeman. Sandra is a kickass straight
Anita Adams:shooter, multi talented human being. She's an interfaith
Anita Adams:ordained minister, spiritual counselor, leadership coat
Anita Adams:actor, voiceover artist, singer, and creator and host of talk
Anita Adams:radio's the edge of every day, where she explores with her
Anita Adams:guests, the edges we all face and grapple with in our
Anita Adams:challenging times. Sandra understands that life isn't
Anita Adams:black or white, but rather it's where these two meet where we
Anita Adams:find the most creativity, chaos, and ultimately understanding.
Anita Adams:Sandra, welcome. Thank you so much for joining me today. Oh,
Anita Adams:hello, Anita,
Sandra Bargman:thank you so much for having me. Hello to all
Sandra Bargman:of your listeners.
Anita Adams:You know, I have to tell you, when we first met, I
Anita Adams:just I felt this like instant connection. And if I could be so
Anita Adams:vulnerable to say even love like I just like I loved you
Anita Adams:instantly. I felt like we were old souls reason. United like
Anita Adams:Where have you been?
Sandra Bargman:Right? Exactly.
Anita Adams:And comfortable and beautiful. And you held space
Anita Adams:for me. And we just like, wow, it was amazing. And it kind of
Anita Adams:made me wonder. Could we have met in a past life? Do you end
Anita Adams:Do you believe
Sandra Bargman:in? Totally. Oh, my gosh, yes. Full on believe in
Sandra Bargman:that. Yeah.
Unknown:Yeah, totally. And I am aware of well, as much as I
Unknown:could be aware of, you know, there, there are certain things
Unknown:we can never know for sure. But I'm on board with it. And I feel
Unknown:as though I do know some of the past ones.
Anita Adams:But I think it's so cool. I just I left that our
Anita Adams:first meeting and going wow, like I just I felt like I was
Anita Adams:seen and understood by this woman I just met. And I loved
Anita Adams:it. I love that feeling. And I made a gift. Maybe that's your
Anita Adams:gift that you give to everyone. You know, and I wouldn't be
Anita Adams:surprised if that's what you do. Because you're so you're so deep
Anita Adams:and open and vulnerable yourself. And this is who I am
Anita Adams:with the F bomb I
Sandra Bargman:love it. I love everything was
Unknown:no preciousness in that conversation. And I discovered
Unknown:this great voice with you. I feel like some character was
Unknown:coming through, like truck driver mouth was coming through.
Unknown:And it was so much fun.
Anita Adams:It was just raw and real, which is so indeed,
Unknown:so which is the edge of every everything.
Anita Adams:That's awesome. So I am curious, and I'd love to
Anita Adams:hear again. I mean, I heard it before, but I want to hear it
Anita Adams:again. so my listeners can understand you and where you
Anita Adams:come from your background. And, you know, let's tell us about
Anita Adams:your journey and how you got to be doing what you're doing
Anita Adams:today.
Unknown:Oh my gosh, well, I guess I could start with one of
Unknown:my favorite stories that I that I didn't even mentioned in the
Unknown:edge of every day the solo show that the podcast is based upon.
Unknown:But and this is a true story that my mother told me that at I
Unknown:was three or four years old apparently and marched into the
Unknown:kitchen and literally said to her with my hands on my hips.
Unknown:I'm here on a mission
Anita Adams:you had a knowing I had a
Unknown:knowing and I all my life from that time on I have I
Unknown:was always a performer I mean I popped out of the womb, acting
Unknown:and singing and and and telling stories and and dancing around
Unknown:but I was also really connected to the outdoors. I was a tomboy
Unknown:and was pretty comfortable outside by myself walking
Unknown:through the woods and taking bike rides off into, you know,
Unknown:deserted places. And I was also very aware of my my spiritual
Unknown:questing, of course, I wouldn't have thought of it like that it
Unknown:was just an awareness of the veil, it was an awareness of
Unknown:energy, you know, I was the kid in the corner the the empath in
Unknown:the corner that had had the antenna and could read the
Unknown:energy of the room. And when I was little, I could see things
Unknown:i. So those three things have been very prevalent in my life
Unknown:forever. Since the beginning, the thing that probably I
Unknown:received the most attention for and upliftment in my family was
Unknown:with my performing, and I did my first play, when I was six years
Unknown:old, I played the violin, my dad played the violin, you know, I
Unknown:sang in the choirs and, and I just continued that. And
Unknown:fortunately, my parents always put me in. We were always in
Unknown:education, education systems and communities that had really high
Unknown:end arts and performance programs. So not necessarily
Unknown:always great sports. We had, okay, football team, but we had
Unknown:a kick ass band marching band. So, you know, like, my high
Unknown:school was recording albums kind of thing. It was a little like,
Unknown:over the top insane. So, so acting and singing and voice
Unknown:over work that out of the gate became the first career because
Unknown:that was, and I think, if I'm honest, it was also I was very
Unknown:connected to my mom, very psychically connected and very,
Unknown:in all the good ways and bad ways of that. I think there was
Unknown:a bit of living out her dream and her living vicariously
Unknown:through me, which is not to say that I had no interest in this
Unknown:at all. Of course, I'd love doing it too. But
Anita Adams:they really encouraged it. Oh,
Unknown:they totally did. I was happily Fortunately, one of
Unknown:those kids were, you know, and maybe it was because I was
Unknown:female. My dad was on board with it. Maybe it was because, you
Unknown:know, he, I don't want to be he was a wonderful dad. But maybe
Unknown:it was because he saw my mom was so into it. He was a very
Unknown:supportive dad, they were both very supportive. But anyway, so
Unknown:that's why that first came out. And then, you know, my spiritual
Unknown:life was very active through all of that, but it really, I
Unknown:stepped into that a little bit more when I'm briefly moved out
Unknown:of the city, with my then boyfriend now husband of 30
Unknown:years. And then And then, you know, it just all started
Unknown:merging and morphing, and I kept collecting more threads, as I
Unknown:like to think of it into the tapestry and wearing more hats
Unknown:and throwing more balls up in the air like a crazy person.
Anita Adams:What was there? Was there a turning point at any any
Anita Adams:time along the way where you're like, you know, I've read this
Anita Adams:is where the direction I really want to go and I really want to
Anita Adams:develop my spirituality or I really want to teach people or
Anita Adams:be a leader in the spiritual realm. Totally. Absolutely.
Anita Adams:What's that that story? Swell,
Unknown:it kind of happened over and over throughout my
Unknown:performing life. For instance, I'm when I briefly moved out of
Unknown:the city and moved in with my boyfriend at the time now
Unknown:husband, he's a scientist, and he lived on a nature preserve
Unknown:the 3000 acre nature preserve and this big haired, big
Unknown:earring, big shooed city girl moved in and said, You know, I'm
Unknown:going to check out regional theater up there and and, you
Unknown:know, when I start pulling out all my hair, and it's on the
Unknown:ground, and I'm ready to go back to New York City, we'll we'll
Unknown:cross that bridge together when we get there. But what I didn't
Unknown:anticipate was that I mean, I literally lived in the woods in
Unknown:the capital district area of upstate New York in the woods to
Unknown:three hours north of New York City in the woods with no
Unknown:nightlights in a cabin with a composting toilet, and that we
Unknown:go right and I thrived. I that I really got in touch with that
Unknown:tomboy part of me that outdoor connected priestess energy and
Unknown:that was one turning point and I connected with I started getting
Unknown:the equity contracts in theater productions. So there was a an
Unknown:element of mentoring and teaching within that. I was
Unknown:always exploring my spiritual life and Then around the time I,
Unknown:I was on tour with Cinderella, starring Eartha Kitt as the
Unknown:fairy godmother. And a friend of mine in the, in the show was
Unknown:life coaching, as well, life coaching was just coming on the
Unknown:scene. And she said, you know, this is a great fit for you,
Unknown:you, you would love doing this and you'd be great at it. And I
Unknown:was really opening up much more fully to my service side. And,
Unknown:and if I will say a bit of boredom with the business of
Unknown:show, which is not to say it's a boring business, but it was just
Unknown:my growth at the time. And I circled in and out of that
Unknown:probably, you know, through throughout my entire career. But
Unknown:anyway, so I checked coaching, and and I attend conferences,
Unknown:and I get clients and, and do little training. And it's not
Unknown:quite the right fit for me. And I didn't 100% understand why.
Unknown:And one day, you know, I was just doing some research and I
Unknown:was on a website, a coach website and also up in the
Unknown:corner on the right hand side, she had the phrase, interfaith
Unknown:minister, coach, interfaith minister and something else. And
Unknown:a light bulb went off off and I was immediately on, you know,
Unknown:researching interfaith Minister found a seminary in New York
Unknown:City, I found a few of them in New York City, and I, you know,
Unknown:check them out and interviewed with one and was signed up,
Unknown:boom, ready to go, having no idea what a minister would be?
Unknown:Or do.
Anita Adams:But it was, yeah, but you felt this connection to
Anita Adams:it all the time.
Unknown:Totally, and understood that this was the next right
Unknown:step, for me to step out of the proverbial spiritual closet and
Unknown:into a more of a leadership role. Because I knew I had the
Unknown:voice for it. I've always known that but I just didn't quite
Unknown:know, to what extent that or how that would look. Right. So good.
Unknown:So go ahead. I was gonna launch into a pretty big story about
Unknown:how I, I sunk into that. Yeah, go back to my mom. My mother was
Unknown:dying of cancer in my first year of seminary. And yeah, and she
Unknown:she asked me to be the minister at her funeral. Oh, wow. Yeah.
Unknown:So So I think of it in terms of her birthing me twice. No, like
Unknown:I had
Sandra Bargman:I had lived her dream which was also mine, it
Sandra Bargman:wasn't as it like I said, it wasn't
Unknown:I didn't bucket I loved it and continue to love it but
Unknown:but in her dying and choosing me to be her minister, there was a
Unknown:birth into that work. And after she died, I did it. I even sang
Unknown:like a crazy person. And that the complete and utter grief
Unknown:that I was consumed with was my baptism. Also my baptism by fire
Unknown:into the work
Anita Adams:I really really feel that
Anita Adams:it's beautiful Sandra. I love how your mom played such an
Anita Adams:integral part of an important part of who you are and your
Anita Adams:journey and kind of opened the door to that which is so
Anita Adams:special.
Unknown:Very special. Yes, she did. Thank you for letting me
Unknown:share that.
Anita Adams:Yeah, thank you for being so open and vulnerable
Anita Adams:with me ah tell me why interfaith of all the spiritual
Anita Adams:directions you could have gone in why interfaith Yeah
Unknown:that's a great question. Why interfaith no
Unknown:one's ever asked me that. Have I ever asked myself that? I think
Unknown:you know, if you know, I'm gonna play. I'm gonna play a little
Unknown:academic here. I think it's probably because I've been
Unknown:curious about all of it. Throughout my whole life, I
Unknown:mean, I was raised Christian. I was raised Protestant,
Unknown:Presbyterian, specifically, we my prayer Aren't smooth. They
Unknown:were from Pittsburgh and they moved us back to Pittsburgh when
Unknown:I was just before my 10th birthday. And so we went to my
Unknown:grandparents church. And I got out of organized religion, I,
Unknown:you know, I was having a hard time with organized religion
Unknown:pretty early into my teens, but I just loved being in church and
Unknown:I love the iconography. And I love the costumes, and I love
Unknown:the drama of it. And, and I love singing the music, and I was in
Unknown:the choir and but I was, and I love Jesus's message. I love the
Unknown:stories, but I was pretty on board that this was not for me.
Anita Adams:What part of it was not for you, because it sounds
Anita Adams:like you've loved the ritual.
Unknown:I love totally love the ritual and the ceremony. And,
Unknown:and, and, but I very quickly plugged into the dogma and the
Unknown:control. Okay, it's not just not for me, and that, you know,
Unknown:these stories I knew were metaphors, I was not taking
Unknown:anything, and, you know, just didn't speak to me didn't expand
Unknown:me. And I already felt like I had a relationship with Yeshua
Unknown:with Jesus, I already felt that way. So it didn't feel like I
Unknown:had to go to church for that i didn't i It was so much a part
Unknown:of who I was, I didn't have to go anywhere. Right. So intercut
Unknown:is, you know, I think, because it just the, the light bulb just
Unknown:went off. It's just the direction I went. And I loved
Unknown:and we learned all about all of the major religions, including
Unknown:the earth religions, which I was already interested in and
Unknown:curious about, and exploring and Eastern religions already
Unknown:exploring that. You know, so it was a way for me to just sink
Unknown:into this whole world, even though I knew that the organized
Unknown:religion was not was not my path. And my eclectic, it gave
Unknown:me a set of ways of, of languaging with people. And I
Unknown:think that that's another aspect of this, if you're going to step
Unknown:out in any sort of way, and you want to have some, potentially
Unknown:some courageous conversations with people, it's good to have
Unknown:the language that they relate to, you know, the the set of,
Unknown:you know, which is by no means a, as an interfaith Minister,
Unknown:you know, I'm an expert in all world religions, you know, but I
Unknown:have, I have the overall understanding and the depth
Unknown:within them and the languaging. So I can speak with people and
Unknown:from a respectful angle, perspective,
Anita Adams:yeah, I love that. I love what you said that the
Anita Adams:church didn't expand you. And I think that's so important. You
Anita Adams:know, we have to that's, that's, that's growth, right? That's,
Anita Adams:and we need to be continuingly expanding ourselves. I grew up
Anita Adams:in the Christian world as well. Baptist was my you know,
Anita Adams:upbringing. And I feel your story is very familiar to me as
Anita Adams:well. I didn't, I didn't find it expensive being in church. And
Anita Adams:it's not to say that it can't be I mean, it can be very expensive
Anita Adams:for all sorts of people. For me, I, I felt it, I needed something
Anita Adams:different. And I struggled with that for a number of years, I
Anita Adams:really struggled with this spiritual side of me that wanted
Anita Adams:to grow and evolve and not really liking the church and
Anita Adams:some of the things that I was seeing or experiencing. And then
Anita Adams:I ultimately I found my church, if you will, walking in the
Anita Adams:woods, you know, it's just connecting with neighboring
Anita Adams:Church, the green church was really cool. That's yeah. And
Anita Adams:I'd love I would love to learn more about other other religions
Anita Adams:or ways of being in the world other beliefs and expand my
Anita Adams:knowledge there. I'm curious like you that's really cool.
Anita Adams:Yeah. Because it's,
Unknown:it's fun because it's connected to culture. So
Unknown:there's, there's so there's so much that contributes from a
Unknown:cultural standpoint, that's really cool. You know, like the
Unknown:food and the this and that, and how does it relate to their
Unknown:society and the part of the world that they live in? It's
Unknown:just all so delicious.
Anita Adams:How would you define the difference between
Anita Adams:religious or being religious and being spiritual?
Unknown:I have not honed that I've been asked that. Before I
Unknown:haven't honed my answer. So I'm just going to riff through
Unknown:Right. I I think the difference for me is that I look, as a
Unknown:spiritual being, I look within, for my answers, and I trust my
Unknown:own inner wisdom. I don't look to someone else or a book, or a
Unknown:set of rules to dictate what's right or wrong. For me.
Anita Adams:That's all really quotable for a, somebody that's
Anita Adams:just rifting. I love that.
Unknown:Well, you know, they ask another interfaith minister,
Unknown:and there's going to be a different answer. I just I don't
Unknown:say that people who consider themselves religious don't look
Unknown:within that, I certainly want to clarify that for the listeners,
Unknown:it's for me personally. And I know many people who are hugely,
Unknown:enormously aware and conscious and growing their global
Unknown:consciousness awareness that you know, just that still love to
Unknown:attend church that they grew up in, there is a a familiarity, a
Unknown:community, an understanding and a metaphysical lifting up over
Unknown:some of the dogma that expands them, right just didn't, for me.
Anita Adams:Yeah, actually, thank you for presencing that
Anita Adams:because there have been many times actually, in my life where
Anita Adams:I've, I've gone to different churches, and there's one in
Anita Adams:Vancouver that I, in my university days that I'd like to
Anita Adams:go occasionally to St. John's Anglican Church. And it really
Anita Adams:lifted me up. Largely because the music and the people, you
Anita Adams:know, that I just, I was so uplifted, and I loved and it was
Anita Adams:very expensive. And my closest friend, she's a very spiritual,
Anita Adams:religious person she loves. She loves the ritual of church, like
Anita Adams:it's not to her that that ritual helps her connect to God.
Unknown:Yeah, no, I totally get as somebody who's very ritual, I
Unknown:mean, I crafted my one woman show the edge of every day on
Unknown:ritual. It is it's built as a ritual, I became a dean of first
Unknown:year students at the new seminary, through which the
Unknown:seminary through which I was ordained and, and oversaw the
Unknown:ritual teachings. I mean, I totally get that, that if that
Unknown:is the thing that that turns you on, and the music, you know, if
Unknown:I could find a place near where I am, I would probably go more
Unknown:often, but I just haven't been able to find that mix of things
Unknown:that really just lifted me.
Anita Adams:Hmm. I want to talk about spiritual practice. And
Anita Adams:you mentioned, I think it's somewhere on your website that
Anita Adams:that performing and creative expression is part of your
Anita Adams:spiritual practice. So what would you define? Or how would
Anita Adams:you define a spiritual practice?
Unknown:When I was a dean of first year students, we would
Unknown:have to talk about this in front of the class the first the first
Unknown:class, we would all introduce ourselves and talk about our
Unknown:spiritual practices and what what is what does that mean to
Unknown:us? And inevitably, the first thing that will pop out of my
Unknown:mouth was my relationship with my husband.
Anita Adams:Oh, that's interesting. Oh, yeah. More
Unknown:well, from the standpoint of if you've got I
Unknown:mean, talk about a place to really see your rough edges
Unknown:polished I mean, you know, Oh, my Oh my god, I have to see all
Unknown:that crap all that shit. Like why No. Oh my god. Yeah, I am. I
Unknown:am not I am completely the light. I am the light. I am the
Unknown:light. I have no darkness. I'm perfect.
Anita Adams:Your husband holds up the mirror.
Unknown:Yeah, bitch right here. Take a peek. You know? Ooh,
Unknown:that's so cool. It just funded here. I love that. Yeah, totally
Unknown:cool. But yeah, I mean, there's there's just no relationship is
Unknown:the number one in my opinion, the number one spiritual
Unknown:practice, how can I be in relationship and how can I? What
Unknown:mirror Am I looking at? And what is this person mirroring back to
Unknown:me? What am I disliking about them? What are they that it is
Unknown:showing me what I dislike within myself? That's certainly an
Unknown:enormous practice for me, you know, meditation, of course.
Anita Adams:I want it sorry, it's falling off for a second.
Anita Adams:So I'd love this idea. Being in relationship is the number one
Anita Adams:spiritual practice. And I can see how a romantic relationship
Anita Adams:is, can be key to that, but it doesn't have to be romantic. No,
Anita Adams:and but long term. That's a lot. So any long term relation
Anita Adams:relationship typically
Unknown:was for me to stay in a long term relationship and to
Unknown:keep having to look in that mirror and deepening into with
Unknown:the understood that that is not easy. No. And, you know, which
Unknown:is why, which is not to say staying in a long term
Unknown:relationship is the way to go. It's just what has occurred for
Unknown:me.
Anita Adams:And there's, we're a lot of the learning for our
Anita Adams:individual selves happens is in the relationships.
Unknown:Yeah, but I mean, you know, I can I can look at my
Unknown:friendships, I can look at any relationship, I mean, long term
Unknown:or short term. And you know, who's pissing me off? And why is
Unknown:that? Right? And,
Anita Adams:and people, people will trigger you. Yeah, always
Anita Adams:gonna be triggered by people. And then you can take an
Anita Adams:opportunity to look at that trigger, and understand yourself
Anita Adams:better.
Unknown:Yeah. Why is that? Why am I pissed off at this? And
Unknown:they have no clue, you know? Or, you know, as if they came to me,
Unknown:Well, I'm gonna fucking piss her off. You know, and, and so why
Unknown:is that? What is that? What is that edge? In me? That's all of
Unknown:a sudden, how can I? How can I reframe that? How what? What
Unknown:light? Can I shed on that? If How can I get vulnerable and
Unknown:truthful around that?
Anita Adams:But do you see that every relationship that comes
Anita Adams:into our life is an opportunity then to go deeper within
Anita Adams:ourselves?
Unknown:Well, I don't know that everyone, every single
Unknown:relationship is but you know, by somebody,
Unknown:I guess, right? I mean, I guess. I guess you could say that. I
Unknown:don't know that, you know,
Unknown:my neighbor down the street with whom I've said five words. Or,
Unknown:you know, it's necessarily that's a hard one to answer. You
Unknown:know, I don't know, I certainly I think the ones that inspire. I
Unknown:think the overall answer is yes. But if I dig a little deep more
Unknown:deeply, of course, not everybody but but the ones that I'm having
Unknown:more of a juice with? Absolutely. Whether it's a work
Unknown:person, I work with a person that I know peripherally,
Unknown:somebody that I'm involved with a little more closely, certainly
Unknown:a family member. I mean, there's no greater. There's no greater
Unknown:teachers than your family, like, Oh, my God. You're a very
Unknown:powerful teacher for me. Whether I want it
Anita Adams:or not, or not. Alright, well, carry on, I'd cut
Anita Adams:you off in talking about spiritual practices, and, oh,
Unknown:no. Hey, I do meditation. I read I journal. I,
Unknown:I try. I do your point. I'm green church. You I live in the
Unknown:Catskill Mountains, which is where I'm tuning in from, you
Unknown:know, spending time in nature, getting my feet on the ground
Unknown:feeling the energy beings, you know, certainly a haven during
Unknown:COVID Those are all my practices in trying, just trying to stay
Unknown:open and stay aware of what's afoot. Another spiritual
Unknown:practice for me and Veer is very closely related to the edge of
Unknown:every day is this is as you as you've gathered, I am not a
Unknown:precious person. I am I am not that kind of spiritual person. I
Unknown:I really like the rough edges. I really like walking them and I
Unknown:really see life that way. And so a lot of people say to a lot of
Unknown:what some of my former students would say this kind of thing
Unknown:too. I you know, I just don't listen to the news. I don't pay
Unknown:attention to politics because I'm spiritual. Like what every
Unknown:you know, you don't pay attention to it because if it
Unknown:frightens you, that's okay. But it's not because your spirit
Unknown:every thing on this planet created by humans is spiritual.
Unknown:So how can I, personally stay involved in what is happening on
Unknown:this planet and aware of the news without being consumed by
Unknown:it, so that I can also hold my vision, my light filled vision
Unknown:of what it is I want to create in the world who it is, I want
Unknown:to be in the world, the kind of place that I know we are moving
Unknown:towards. So how do I walk that edge? How do I stay aware of an
Unknown:active and uplifting and shining a light into these darker places
Unknown:without being co opted by that still maintaining that vision of
Unknown:light and growth and consciousness and unity and
Unknown:oneness? That's the edge that I want to walk?
Anita Adams:That's a brilliant question. And what's what's the
Anita Adams:answer? How do you walk that edge?
Unknown:Well, I think it's probably different for everyone.
Unknown:For me, you know, how successful am I today? Am I like completely
Unknown:consumed in my political Twitter feed and wanting to just melt
Unknown:down and give up? No. Well, maybe some days. But how do I
Unknown:reconnect them to my hope? How do I reconnect them to my hope,
Unknown:that active energetic hope that moves me forward, that
Unknown:reconnects me to my strength that reconnects me to my taking
Unknown:action? In a light filled positive way?
Anita Adams:Yes. How? Well, I mean, you know, we all have to
Anita Adams:ask that question, or, yeah, gotcha. Well,
Unknown:I just, I think it's just my willpower, you know,
Unknown:okay, today, I'm not gonna get on Twitter. Today, I'm just
Unknown:gonna fill myself up, I'm gonna go out and hug some trees. I'm
Unknown:going to have a fantastic conversation with a friend. I'm
Unknown:going to call up someone who needs me and uplift them. I'm
Unknown:going to remind myself of the goodness of life.
Anita Adams:being really intentional. Yeah.
Unknown:And I'm going to sit down, I'm going to meditate. And
Unknown:I'm going to, you know, listen to beautiful music, music and
Unknown:feel that feel that sparkle. I'm going to connect to my guides,
Unknown:I'm going to reconnect, and to that alignment with the higher
Unknown:that's within me and without, and, you know, it's a constant.
Anita Adams:Yeah. And I guess I'm, I'm thinking it's the first
Anita Adams:step. If if there were to be steps in this process, it would
Anita Adams:be to understand what it is that does lift you up, know thyself.
Anita Adams:I think I saw that on your website, too. That's your
Anita Adams:mantra. Isn't it? Know thy says, Know
Unknown:thyself that is at the heart center of everything? I
Unknown:do. Yes. The Walking Venn diagram. Yeah, no. And it's, and
Unknown:I think, for everyone they've got that's the spiritual
Unknown:journey. That's the spiritual journey is knowing that oh, what
Unknown:is it? Well, but but in addition to that, you will only get to
Unknown:know thyself, if you are willing to ask those questions. What
Unknown:does uplift me? Yeah. What is my understanding of getting
Anita Adams:clear on that?
Unknown:How do I walk that edge? Let me try this.
Anita Adams:Let me try this. I think that's an important thing,
Anita Adams:too. It's let me try this and figuring it out. You don't have
Anita Adams:to have the answers all the time. No such
Unknown:thing is the answer. This is what cracks me up is
Unknown:that well, this is the way I meditate. That's the best way.
Anita Adams:Yeah, yeah. You know, I, I am guilty of that.
Anita Adams:Actually, I'm saying telling people that their way into their
Anita Adams:higher self is, is to walk into the forest. Well, well, that has
Anita Adams:worked for me, but it's not necessarily everybody's way into
Anita Adams:their highest self.
Unknown:Well, and certainly not for people who are afraid of
Unknown:nature, and there are people who are afraid of nature. Yeah, for
Unknown:for many different reasons.
Anita Adams:Of course, yeah. But it's, it's a bit of a trap,
Anita Adams:I think you can fall into when you find something that really
Anita Adams:works for you is to say, this is
Unknown:the way and I think that's the definition of guru of
Unknown:cult guru. Ultimately, I mean, you know, expand that by a
Unknown:trillion times, you know, but, but that, that is a trap for all
Unknown:of us is to think, you know, I love what I love, and I'm
Unknown:connected to what I'm connected to, but I have to all and, you
Unknown:know, as we started out with I believe in reincarnation. I
Unknown:mean, honestly, I'm not really going to know for sure I've had
Unknown:a million experiences. I've met a million people. I've talked to
Unknown:psychics and this person and that person and blah, blah,
Unknown:blah. At the end of the day, I'm not going to know Oh, until I'm
Unknown:gone. Really? Gonna really know. Unless, of course, you know, I
Unknown:become an avatar while I'm on Planet Earth. You know, I
Unknown:haven't given up on that. And Anita. Good.
Anita Adams:And yes, the quest in trying to understand that
Anita Adams:exactly. Really citing that curiosity piece that you
Anita Adams:mentioned earlier. And quite frankly,
Unknown:why would I be on the planet? If I had those answers?
Unknown:You know, who wants to get up to the top of the mountain and sit
Unknown:for it? I might as well go. I'm here in a body to experience
Unknown:this stuff.
Unknown:Yeah. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly. Yeah. That's why we
Unknown:incarnated
Unknown:we incarnated? Well, I believe, for this very party we're in
Unknown:right now this crossroads on the planet?
Anita Adams:And do you do you believe you are here and I am
Anita Adams:here at this specific time for a very specific reason.
Unknown:I think I, I will speak for myself is because that's all
Unknown:I can do. I believe that yes. I incarnated for the specific time
Unknown:on the planet. And I believe that I came in, which is why I
Unknown:have, you know, I talk about dreams, there was never a dream
Unknown:that I had that, like, be a movie star. There was never that
Unknown:kind of dream. For me, it was always about a meaningful life.
Unknown:Didn't you know, I didn't dream about marrying and having a
Unknown:family, I don't have a family. Well, I do have a family, I have
Unknown:my my husband and my cat. But but, you know, it wasn't like
Unknown:these big huge dreams about those specifics. What I wanted
Unknown:was to be present to my life, and to keep creating and having
Unknown:wonderful experiences and keep growing and remaining curious.
Unknown:And I can see now at this age of six, zero, that the reason is
Unknown:because I was pulling threads into this tapestry. And for this
Unknown:time, this time of transition, this time of ascension, this
Unknown:time of global consciousness and unity. I feel that profoundly.
Unknown:So I don't know that, you know, other people who have configured
Unknown:out why they've incarnated if they want to believe in that,
Unknown:you know, they might feel as though they wanted to reconnect
Unknown:with this human being or they wanted to do whatever. That's
Unknown:why I feel that I have I've gotten a lot more ahead of me a
Unknown:lot of things to say, I more stage work to do more singing to
Unknown:do more, a lot of things to do. But I feel very present to the
Unknown:crossroads of humanity, if crossroads that we are
Unknown:experiencing on planet with in our humanity at this time right
Unknown:now in 2022.
Anita Adams:And for you, it's all pointing towards that unity
Anita Adams:consciousness to increase or raise that unity consciousness.
Anita Adams:Can you can you just talk a little bit about that elaborate
Anita Adams:explain what Unity Consciousness is?
Unknown:Well, I think it's the interconnectedness it is that
Unknown:that we are all interconnected. I don't, I don't, I'm not gonna
Unknown:say we're all one. Because I think that that can be confusing
Unknown:sometimes.
Anita Adams:Why not? Or why are we not all one I kind of liked
Anita Adams:that expression. We I
Unknown:just only it's simply because I've encountered people
Unknown:who have been confused by that. So I've tried to figure out a
Unknown:way to make we are all one. We are more palatable for someone
Unknown:who can't, doesn't quite make the leap to we are all one that
Unknown:we're all interconnected. As one. You know, it's hard for
Unknown:somebody like that. I like that clarity. Yeah. To think of
Unknown:somebody on the other side of the planet. I'm one with that
Unknown:person, you know, you and I might go, oh, yeah, we're all
Unknown:one and we're one with a planet or one with all the beings. But
Unknown:if I think of it more in quantum or scientific or that I mean,
Unknown:even ecosystems, if I love that vision of an ecosystem of of how
Unknown:the ecosystem is all interconnected. And we are
Unknown:really seeing this as we see the interconnectedness and the
Unknown:ecosystems and climate crisis show up. You know, one piece of
Unknown:the puzzle breaks down and the entire ecosystem begins to die
Unknown:out, or to falter or to become sick. So if we, if we're
Unknown:thinking of human beings and planet earth, and the was
Unknown:insects and those bees, and the trees and the stars, and the
Unknown:whales, and all of these things is having an interest that we're
Unknown:all here serving each other. And that like a baseball team, I
Unknown:can't have a successful baseball team without a good catcher. And
Unknown:you know, all of this has to come together in support of the
Unknown:whole of the One is how I love
Anita Adams:how you describe that. And there's the I can
Anita Adams:visualize it, I can see it and you're giving a lot of clarity
Anita Adams:to that. That phrase unity consciousness. Thank you. So
Anita Adams:what is one thing that each of us can do right now in our lives
Anita Adams:to move us or move the dial on that awakening of this unity
Anita Adams:consciousness? Is there one thing, anything we can do?
Unknown:One thing, have a conversation and courageous
Unknown:conversation with somebody that you would prefer not to.
Unknown:Hmm. Interesting. So that's that idea.
Unknown:I don't want to talk to you. I don't want with you.
Anita Adams:Right? Is that that idea of that? We are the same.
Unknown:We are interconnected.
Anita Adams:We are interconnected. We are into not
Anita Adams:drilling
Unknown:me. The people I've spoken with to say same is can
Unknown:can be potentially confusing it. Okay. Right. That we have more
Unknown:in common than not right. And we are all interconnected.
Anita Adams:So maybe go forward with those conversations. From a
Anita Adams:place of curiosity to find how we might be more interconnected.
Unknown:Amen. That's it.
Anita Adams:I like that. Ah, Sandra, you are awesome.
Unknown:You are awesome. Love these conversations. I totally
Unknown:woman. I can't wait to come for a joyful retreat. Living
Unknown:retreat.
Unknown:Oh, I would love that. I would love love. Love that guy. Very
Unknown:cool. And before we wrap up
Unknown:this show that's like LOVE YOU DID tell our audience a little
Unknown:bit more about your Europe show. Every day, every day? Yeah, just
Unknown:give us a rundown and how we can connect with you there cool.
Unknown:Well, the edge of every day, how much time do I have? Whatever
Unknown:you want? Okay, well, then, the edge of every day is based on my
Unknown:solo show of the same name. And which I created in 2014. And it
Unknown:had I structured it like, I called it a cabo ritual. It was
Unknown:a little bit cabaret, it was a little bit Performance Art
Unknown:Theater. And it was completely structured like a ritual. And
Unknown:this wonderful edge of everyday kind of hybrid, pushing the
Unknown:boundaries of all of them. And it sprang out of what was very
Unknown:alive. For me personally, at the time, I was really noticing an
Unknown:increase in the polarization, the 3d polarization and the
Unknown:political polarization. And it was also alive. Within
Unknown:internally, I was noticing these places where my belief systems
Unknown:were inconsistent. Where, you know, there were paradoxes
Unknown:internally, and that was kind of exciting to me. And my, my
Unknown:husband told me about theirs called the edge effect, where
Unknown:one ecosystem or thumbs up edges up with another one, and it's
Unknown:right in that middle point where there's the greatest diversity,
Unknown:and the greatest creation and chaos and boundary pushing. And
Unknown:so, so that I did that show, and then I recorded that show, and
Unknown:there's a live recording and then and through the years, it
Unknown:became my platform, I really came to understand that it was
Unknown:how I looked at life. Your eye ending mean thyself, yeah,
Unknown:knowing thyself, it was a ritual for me to create it. And, and
Unknown:the more I grasp that, and then I became, I started calling
Unknown:myself an edge Walker, and that I I understood that I was hybrid
Unknown:in all of these things in my life, and then you know, the
Unknown:pandemic and all the work that I had lined up when poof and and I
Unknown:And, you know, I fell into great sadness about that. And you
Unknown:know, I had to become very present to what was being
Unknown:requested in all of this isolation and this internal work
Unknown:and this, this call forward from mother earth about coming into
Unknown:community in new ways. This call forward into letting things go
Unknown:for that that which was before COVID is no longer and that
Unknown:which is to be created is not here yet. So we're in this
Unknown:liminal space of what's going on how do we what's what are we
Unknown:creating? Who do we need to be? What do we need to let go? Of
Unknown:what you know what doesn't serve us? Our systems don't serve us
Unknown:here on the planet collectively, what doesn't serve me
Unknown:internally, were all of these things. So I finally got
Unknown:connected to that and, and then I got this, I, you know,
Unknown:podcasting. People were doing it. Everyone was paying
Unknown:attention to podcasts. And I thought, now we need another
Unknown:podcast or like, we need a whole, don't we? And no, thank
Unknown:you now, and and then I was having a conversation with
Unknown:friends. And they gave me the same advice that I would have
Unknown:given them, you know, that you're going to connect with who
Unknown:you're going to connect with. And of course, as you well know,
Unknown:and yet it was also a way for me to hide. So set that down.
Anita Adams:Oh, sorry. How was it a way for you to hide?
Unknown:I don't forward with my voice.
Anita Adams:Oh, I see. By not doing it. It was like, Okay,
Unknown:I had this impulse. But then I went, I have no food.
Unknown:Yeah. Oh, I'm gonna retreat back and hide. Yeah. Whereas No, go
Unknown:forward with that voice. Now is the crossroads. Now is the time.
Unknown:And I did it not thinking about you know, just boom, I'm
Unknown:throwing the spaghetti on the wall. I'm going to try and I
Unknown:loved it. Yes. Date of conversations. Now is the let's
Unknown:explore our rough edges. And, and it just sink more into this
Unknown:being my platform. And and boom, here we are.
Anita Adams:That's brilliant. How long have you been doing it?
Anita Adams:Wasn't it?
Unknown:It's really, it was October of last year.
Anita Adams:Okay. Our paths are so similar with that, like, I
Anita Adams:know, I launched my podcast in December 2021. Just before
Anita Adams:Christmas, and I was really resistant to it. At first, you
Anita Adams:know, like it was I had that, you know, it's yours to do. It's
Anita Adams:time to do it. It's time you know, that that message that was
Anita Adams:coming to me loud and clear. I'm like, no, no.
Unknown:I'm no, I didn't want to step out my power. Yeah,
Anita Adams:it just it was it was uncomfortable. And now you
Anita Adams:know, like, yeah, sure, still uncomfortable a lot of times,
Anita Adams:and I love it. I absolutely love it and how I'm growing and
Anita Adams:connecting with amazing people like yourself, like we wouldn't
Anita Adams:have connected if it wasn't for this opportunity. And I feel
Anita Adams:like I'm finding my people and and hopefully agree wincing to
Anita Adams:expand that that group of people that are interested in that
Anita Adams:unity consciousness, that higher consciousness that need for us
Anita Adams:as a species to evolve. And that's what this is about. This
Anita Adams:is this is about knowing thyself, so we can evolve. And I
Anita Adams:love these kinds of conversations. So totally,
Anita Adams:totally, totally. So cool. Well, Sandra, thank you so much. So if
Anita Adams:people want to to connect with you, I'll get all the
Anita Adams:information. I think I already have all the information. We'll
Anita Adams:include that in the show notes. But is there one place that you
Anita Adams:would like,
Unknown:best place is probably my website, Sandra bargeman.com.
Unknown:And you know, I'm ubiquitous on on social media, I'm on all of
Unknown:the platforms and you it's understand or bargeman No, II
Unknown:and you can find I'm at Talk Radio dot NYC for my podcast.
Unknown:Yeah, I have a YouTube channel, Sandra, Amazon.
Anita Adams:places for people to find you. All right. Well,
Anita Adams:we'll make sure that's all included in the show notes. So
Anita Adams:notes. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. So my oh my
Unknown:god, woman. Thank you so much for having me. It is
Unknown:just a joy to be in your presence. You're so glad we
Unknown:found each other.
Anita Adams:Me too. Me too. All right, joyful. journeyers. Thank
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