Does spiritual growth always have to be heavy?
Jenny Sherman returns to Timeless Spirituality to talk about her experience with The Expanse Method and, in the process, challenges one of Daniel’s own assumptions about the method he created.
The conversation begins with Jenny describing herself as a “creative mystic” and exploring the relationship between creativity, spirituality, skepticism, and the mystery of where inspiration actually comes from. From there, Daniel and Jenny turn to past lives and a question they’ve both become increasingly comfortable leaving unanswered: What exactly are we experiencing during a regression?
Jenny has experienced roughly 100 past-life stories through regressions over the years, but she doesn’t necessarily need them to be literal past lives for them to have meaning. They could be memories, archetypes, ancestral material, imagination, something moving through time and space, or something else entirely. For Jenny, the more important question is much simpler: Does the experience help?
That perspective made her recent Expanse Method session noticeably different. Without the pressure of having to determine whether something was a “past life,” Jenny found herself approaching the experience with more freedom, curiosity, and playfulness.
That catches Daniel somewhat off guard.
The Expanse Method was partly created to move away from what Daniel and Jenny jokingly call the “spiritual ick,” or the temptation to leave a profound spiritual experience focused only on the euphoric glow while avoiding the uncomfortable work underneath it. But Jenny’s session raises another possibility: maybe transformation doesn’t always have to hurt. Sometimes the Expanse can be heavy. Sometimes it can confront you with the parts of yourself you would rather avoid.
And sometimes, it can be a playground too.
Along the way, Daniel reflects on the euphoric “past life regression glow” that followed his own first session, how it contributed to a period of spiritual bypassing, and why he now believes the goal may not be choosing between the “ahh” and the “ugh,” but learning to hold both.
Jenny's bio:
Jenny is a creative mystic working in multi-media production and also offers spiritual consultations with the help of Tarot and Astrology. She’s also an ME/CFS patient and advocate for disability rights and for complex chronic illness funding for research and treatments. She is from Los Angeles and is now based in Bath, UK.
Website: https://www.JennySRP.com
Instagram: @JennySRP @JennySRPVideos
Disclaimer: The views, opinions, interpretations, and claims expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Daniel or Timeless Spirituality. Guests are responsible for the claims they make, and their appearance on the podcast should not be interpreted as Daniel’s endorsement of those claims.
