The Creativity and Consciousness Podcast with Jake Kobrin
Welcome to The Creativity and Consciousness Podcast, a show that explores the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and personal growth. Hosted by visionary artist, author, and consciousness explorer Jake Kobrin, each episode offers a deep dive into the world of art, psychology, meditation, mind expansion, and alternative spiritual practices—focusing on helping listeners unlock their creative potential and explore their consciousness.
Jake, a long-time meditation practitioner and a curious student of various spiritual traditions, engages in conversations with thought leaders across creativity, consciousness research, and self-development. These discussions navigate topics as diverse as visionary art, psychology, and personal growth, while also touching on more numinous ideas from the world of shamanism and psychedelics, ceremonial magick, witchcraft, and occult philosophy.
Each episode balances real-world experiences with practical insights, giving listeners both a grounded understanding and the inspiration to apply these ideas and practices to their own lives, in the format of fascinating and engaging conversations and solo-episodes.
Whether you're an artist looking to ignite your creativity, a spiritual seeker exploring alternative practices, or someone on a path of self-actualization, The Creativity and Consciousness Podcast invites you to explore the transformative potential of both creative expression and spiritual practice. These conversations are designed to guide you toward greater mental clarity, personal power, and a deeper connection to both yourself and the world around you.
Tune in and join Jake Kobrin as he interviews artists, creatives, entrepreneurs, magicians, spiritual leaders, psychologists, and researchers, offering a grounded yet expansive exploration of magick, spirituality, creativity, and consciousness for today’s world.
Formerly known as “The Quarantine Sessions Podcast” and “The Temple of the Eternal Muse Podcast” started in 2020 by Jake Kobrin.
Subjects: Art, Magick, Psychedelics, Psychology, Mythology, Personal Development, Meditation, Spirituality, The Occult, Mysticism, Self Actualization, Bio-Hacking, Self-Help,
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The Creativity and Consciousness Podcast with Jake Kobrin
The Sacred Wound: Grief, Loss, and the Heartbreak That Transforms Us
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." – Rumi
In this essay, I reflect on the heartbreak that shattered me and became a profound initiation—what I now understand as a sacred wound. Through the lens of myth, poetry, psychology, and personal story, I explore how grief, when fully embraced, can become a teacher, a threshold, and even a source of creative power. I weave my own experience of devastating loss with the stories of Orpheus, Chiron, Rumi, Tristan and Isolde, and others who were shaped by wounds they never fully healed from. Rather than trying to “get over” the pain, I chose to sanctify it—to treat it as a passage into deeper love, art, and soul. This essay is both a mourning song and a love letter to those who carry their own sacred wounds, and an offering of hope that our suffering, if honored, can become the very source of our genius.