Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Each day I will read a passage from The Way of Mastery and share my commentary on it. The intention is to provide an opportunity to develop a consistent, simple spiritual study practice and grow together.
Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Lesson 17: The Fundamental Gnawing Question
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Lesson 17: The Journey of the Soul
Section 4: The Journey of Awakening Begins
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What if the life that looks spotless on paper still leaves you restless at 3 a.m.? We go straight at that tension, unpacking why the ego excels at survival yet struggles with meaning, and how disruption—pandemic, loss, global chaos—can become a doorway to a truer self. From the “smug 40s” to the ache that asks Who am I beyond my roles?, we trace the arc from order and control to humility and presence.
We talk candidly about numbing—achievement, shopping, alcohol, screen-time, busywork—and why the nervous system chases predictability even when it costs us aliveness. Then we lay out a different path: expand your capacity to sit in the unknown, feel the full range of emotions without labeling them as problems, and gently disidentify from the body without denying it. Breathwork, meditation, music, art, and movement become practical doorways to the felt sense of being more than the mind. The head can study spirituality; the heart knows.
Along the way we explore identity, status, and letting go of strategies that once worked. We render unto Caesar—careers, bills, families—while remembering we are not of the world’s fear. We look at AI and shifting work as a mirror for the deeper question of value: if output defines worth, what happens when machines do more? The answer points back to awareness, connection, and service. Community matters, because people anchored in love help us remember when we forget. If you’re standing at the threshold between the life you built and the life your soul wants, this conversation offers language, tools, and permission to cross.
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Hello and welcome back to Living the Way of Mastery. I'm Jason Emeroso, your guide and friend and fellow student, and today we continue with lesson 17, The Journey of the Soul. Section 4, The Journey of Awakening begins. I've got a little bit of a head cold, so if I sound a little different, that's why. And we continue. Jeshua is going through kind of the age stages of the human experience. And in paragraph six, he we've gone through the all the way through the 30s. And in paragraph six, he says, now, if the egoic consciousness has been fundamentally successful, that is, you have found a way to create your survival. You have developed the personalities that allow you to interact with the insanity of the third-dimensional human realm. If you have had no major calamities or traumas, and if you have had no major failures, you might continue into your forties with the smugness of thinking that you have got it all together. You may have found ways to avoid the fundamental gnawing question, what is my purpose? Why have I really come onto this planet? I am more than just this. I am pure soul. I am pure spirit. I know there is more to it than this. Love this paragraph. So the egoic consciousness, Jeshua saying, if it's been successful in basically keeping your body, keeping the body alive, and you have developed personalities that allow you to interact with the insanity of the third-dimensional human realm, saying that this dimensional realm is insane. It's insane. How is it insane? Because uh it is a realm that is created in the idea of separation. That's insanity, the tiny mad idea that the separation could even be possible. That's what this third-dimensional reality is, and how we go around in our lives living under this illusion, living under this false uh falsehood. So that's the insanity. We've we've adjusted, we're well adjusted to the world, as some might say. We've grown up, we've adopted uh the the standards of human experience as normal. And Jeshua's saying, if you've gotten this far, and if you've had no major calamities or traumas, which for most people, I would say by the time you're in your 40s, you've had something big happen to you. Uh and and I'm not even going to try and define it, but you could say uh divorce, bankruptcies, health challenges, uh loved ones who have passed, close friends who have passed. I mean, if you're alive right now and you went through COVID-19 plandemic, then you've gone through a major calamity and trauma just by being on the planet at this time. And you know what's so interesting? You know, this book, as I said, was channeled, I think, in the early 2000s. I mean, perhaps part of a bigger reason of the pandemic of this experience everyone alive at the time went through was for this very purpose, was for the purpose of awakening, using it as a vehicle for waking up and asking these deeper questions. I know so many people, myself included, were asking, I think everybody was asking those questions. Like, what, you know, the world stopped for weeks, if not months. What am I doing with my life? You know how many people quit their jobs after the, like during the pandemic, they were like, what am I doing with my life? What really matters? I mean, during the pandemic, this was uh, you know, started in what March of 2020? In July of 2020, my brother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer uh and and died and transitioned February 8th, which was yesterday of the anniversary, February 8th, 2021, which still the pandemic was going on in early 2021, in terms of wearing masks and all the you know limitations that were trying to be imposed on the world. So it's like everybody's asking those questions. Talk about major calamities or traumas. I don't think anyone avoided that. So many people, like I said, they quit their job or they just re-evaluated their life. I I know I lived in Los Angeles at the time. And we moved to Asheville, North Carolina, like so many Californians, at least people we knew in Los Angeles, moved out of LA to places with maybe a different quality of life, a different experience that we wanted to have. So lots of major, and people lost their jobs, people lost loved ones, and you know, so it was, I think from a global perspective, one, in my opinion, the world has never been the same by design, and the spirit is using this experience that people can't avoid it anymore. And now you have the Epstein files just dropped, and there's, you know, are we on the brink of World War III with Iran and uh, you know, Russia and Ukraine and everything that's happening in the world right now it's unavoidable, forcing us to, if we don't get distracted, forcing us to ask these deeper questions. And how insane is the world? Not from the happenings on the outside, but the belief in separation, the belief in lack and scarcity, the belief in the division of what we are. He says you might continue into your 40s with the smugness of thinking that you've got it all together. I think if anyone's being honest with themselves post-pandemic, no one's got it all together. There's the illusions of that on social media and the news and all this bullshit. No one's got it all figured out. Anyone who's honest, anyone who is honest knows this. He says, if you've kind of gotten through all that unscathed in some way, you may have found ways to avoid the fundamental gnawing question that every human looks at, deals with at some point in their life. At some point, maybe even on their deathbed, but at some point in their life. I know somebody who I know's father in his, I want to say uh late 60s, early, probably early 70s, was dying of cancer. And he was someone who had avoided the fundamental questions, but his cancer journey was about six months long, and he was forced to ask these deeper questions, or he did, he took advantage of that six-month period where he was dying to ask these deeper questions. So even on your deathbed, they're here. What is my purpose? Why have I really come to this planet? Why am I here? Who am I? I'm more than just this. I'm pure soul, more than this body, I'm more than my race or my gender, I'm more than my past, I'm more than my my culture that I've grown up in. I'm more than any of it. I'm pure soul, I'm pure spirit. I know there is more to it than this. The rat race. And again, this is why they call it the midlife crisis. And most people, if they haven't, go through it in their 40s. Especially, I would say, men, in that we are taught to work and provide and achieve. And none of that is bad in and of itself, by the way. But that's like the culture that we grow up in. Uh I think, especially previous, a previous generation, if it's just like, hey, again, get the good job, do the thing, like put your head down, provide. And then you look up in your 40s and you're like, oh, I've achieved a lot, but I'm not happy. I work with these people. I am a coach, a life purpose coach for many successful people, entrepreneurs, celebrities, millionaires, where they've achieved a certain status. And at some point it gnaws at them that they're not happy. I'm still not happy. I have millions of dollars in the bank. I've done amazing things. I've I've won awards. I've done things no one else on the planet's done, and I'm still not content. And then they start to ask deeper questions. And we all we all come to this at some point. Maybe you're in it right now. Maybe you're in it right now. And I would say love allows all things. Instead of trying to get so, so, so often what happens when we're in this um phase of like transition between two worlds, so to speak. Uh, when we're the caterpillar that is in the cocoon turning into the butterfly, it's gooey, it's messy. The cocoon feels dark. You can't see, you don't know. And so, what do we do when we start to touch that feeling we don't like to feel? Take a pill, do drugs, find an expensive hobby, something to distract you from feeling and allowing yourself to be in the mess, in the unknown, in the uncertainty. But the body's the nervous system's sole job is survival, physical body survival. It doesn't like discomfort, it doesn't like the unknown. So, how can I get out of it? Let me get remarried, let me buy this the second house, whatever it is. Let me get lost in virtual victories of video games. It doesn't like to feel uncomfortable, so it will do anything to get out of it. Again, drugs, alcohol, shopping, porn, uh, whatever, achievement. Some people get distracted by achievement because they don't want to feel that in-between stage. And then some people are like, hey, all right, I'm ready. Let's go. And that's how I support them as a guide or a shepherd in that process, both from a nervous system standpoint of like, it's okay to feel uncomfortable. Let's grow your capacity to be in the unknown. The more you have a capacity to be uncomfortable in the unknown, in the uncertainty, which by the way is humility to be there. I don't know. I have no fucking clue. I've been so successful doing it one way. Now all of a sudden, I have to kind of abandon what made me so successful and what gives me status or validation from the world. Who am I now? Right? We all attach our identity to something. Maybe it's your degrees and your education, maybe it's your accomplishments, maybe it's your kids. How many parents attach their identity to their kids? And then if their kids don't do what the parents think they should, they freak out. Because they see their kid is them. So I think in the world right now, it's unavoidable. It's unavoidable. Like we're coming to a head here. And Jeshua says if you have been able to successfully keep yourself distracted, that question may not have yet fully arisen. And maybe if you're younger now, I kind of see how you could avoid some of these things if you're if you're younger. Like my kids don't really think about these questions that much. Maybe they do. I don't think so. But I think if you're an adult, it's impossible to ignore. Now with AI, like what's that gonna do to the job market? What's that gonna do to um not productivity? I think productivity will go through the roof, but like human relationship with if I'm not productive, where's my value? If I'm not contributing to society and a good worker providing value, where's my value? Right? All these things are coming to, they're coming up. They're unignorable almost in a way. I'll do, we'll do, let's keep going. Jesture says, the egoic consciousness is merely that part of the body-mind that is responsible for keeping you physically alive. It is fueled by the desire for survival, the desire for safety. It wishes to create a certain set of order around you because through order, it can anticipate what will be required to keep the physiological organism functioning. Translation: what I just said. The nervous system doesn't like disorder. The nervous system doesn't like the unknown. Don't go into the cave. We don't know what's in there, it could kill you. It's a biological, physiological function feature. Now, when we identify with the body, this is really important. But as we start to disidentify from the body, that doesn't mean deny that we're having an embodied experience. It doesn't mean deny it, but disidentify from it. And how do we do that? I would say by having experiences where you're like, oh my God, I am not the body. Revelation breath work, plant medicine, meditation, getting lost in music and art and creativity and sports, runner's high when you're like, oh my gosh, I'm in a body, but I'm feeling euphoric. I I know I'm in a body, but I also know I'm not the body. There's unlimited vehicles to have this experience in the human experience. But that's what the nervous system and the body is designed to, just keep itself alive, the ego. Because it thinks if it dies, it dies. That's it. It doesn't know that it's a soul. I don't think the ego can know it's a soul. It can know about the soul, it can understand these concepts in the way of mastery, but it can't know them like the heart and the soul knows. Just knows. So then the question becomes: where are we spending most of our time and attention? Is it in the mind, in the brain, in the intellect, in the head, or is it in the heart, in the knowing, in the love? So we'll end with this. Um, yeah, this is one of my favorite lessons because it really outlines spiritual psychology. We are these infinite divine beings having this human experience for the growth, for the learning, for the expansion. And we can be both in the world, obviously, in a body, having, you know, what did Jesus say? Like render unto Caesar what is Caesar's? Like, pay, pay your taxes, you know, do the things that you need to do, feed, you know, have a house, feed the kids, like take care of whatever you need to take care of, be in the world, but you also at the same time know you are not of the world. That's a totally different way to go about living. And it's not avoidance, it's not bypass. Because you allow, love allows all things. You allow the human experience, you allow the grief, you allow the anger, you allow the rage, you allow the sadness, you allow the hopelessness, you allow the joy. The more you allow the quote unquote negative emotions, the more you allow and make space for the quote unquote positive emotions. It's just life. It's just all part of it. Emotions, feelings are the gateway to the kingdom. So, anyways, love you guys so much. We're all on our journey. I am having my own human experience. Uh I have my moments of doubt, of fear, of control, of lack, uh, of all the things. And I want to have practices that help me remember more and more and more. I want to immerse myself in environments and around people who are on the same journey. Not because it's better or worse and in judgment. It's just more fun. It's just more fun. Do you want to be around people who are negative and in lack and in scarcity and in fear all the time, or people who are in the light, uh, people who are of of of the vision, of growth, of possibility thinking, of who are anchored and rooted in the in their soul self and love, who want to be of service, right? So, anyways, if you get value from the podcast, please like, subscribe, share, uh, give us a good review if you can. Write it, write a couple words if you're in a space where you can, like on Apple, iTunes or whatever, um, send me an email, hello at revelationbreathwork.com. It'll take you two minutes, maybe less, to just type that into your email and say, hey, I'm listening to the podcast. That's all you gotta say. I'm listening. And I'll say, hey, I'm glad to be on the journey with you. And uh maybe we'll have some I'm I'm feeling something. It's percolating about like a program or something that we can be more immersed in together. Um, it may not be as intense as what I've done in the past, and it may be more accessible to more people. So um, I don't know, I'm just planting seeds. All right, have an amazing day.