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we never talked about this: the "breath of fire" guru jagat HBO docuseries
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- The Twelfth House
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- Aug 15, 2025
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- 3852
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📚 Resources and Links: * Sign up for the North Node waitlist here * Inquire about 1:1 work with Michelle here * Holisticism Resources 4 u: * Ruthless Clarity — an 8-week email course designed to help you achieve crystal-clear certainty about your goals, desires, and energy allocation * How to Begin: A Project Planning Class — a 90-m on-demand class that teaches you exactly how to sketch a effervescent project plan that'll fill you with glee and inspiration and instantly banish procrastination and overwhelm, so your brilliant ideas can finally come to life. * The Subconscious Audit — an 11-day diagnostic framework that helps you identify what's holding you back and making you *feel* blocked. Because you're never actually blocked * The New Age Playbook for Spellbinding, Can’t-Stop-Reading Copy — a 35-page downloadable workbook to take your writing from blah to bingeable Week four of our "Divine Downloads" series and we're asking: what happens when "channeling" becomes a convenient shield for questionable authority? Today KP and I are diving into Breath of Fire , the HBO docuseries about Guru Jagat and the Ra Ma Institute. The series, “chronicl[es] the shocking secret history of Kundalini yoga and the evolution of one of its most prominent leaders,” and is based on a 2021 Vanity Fair article by Hayley Phelan titled, The Second Coming of Guru Jagat . ( I recommend at least reading the article before tuning into this ep.) Kundalini is a tough topic to broach — there are so many well-meaning people who practice it and who’ve found it incredibly supportive who know close to nothing about founder Yogi Bhajan. (Who was problematic at best, allegedly criminal and abusive at worst.) It’s hard to square how a “technology” that connects its practitioners to the otherwordly could co…