Nadav Peleg: Music, Spirit & Human Connection | S2E30

In Season 2, Episode 30 of Igniting Inspired Inquiry, I speak with Nadav Peleg — musician and facilitator — about the connection between music, spirituality, and being human.

We explore the journey behind his album Es Mi Camino, created during his time in the Peruvian Amazon, and how his experiences in ceremony and deep listening have shaped his path.

This conversation opens the door to reflection, resonance, and revelation, and invites us into a space of truth, trust, and the kind of insight that comes from simply being human.

Connect with Nadav Peleg:

 🌐 https://cosmicunity.wixsite.com/home/about
🔗 https://linktr.ee/cosmicunity888

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:02

Welcome to Igniting Inspired Inquiry, a space for real conversations with incredible humans. I'm your host, Jay, and I'm here to open the door to reflection, resonance, and revelation. If you have a moment to like, share, subscribe, or review, I would deeply appreciate you sharing the love. This is a space for truth, trust, and the kind of insight that comes from simply being human. Thank you for being here. Let's begin. A month ago, I can't believe that. Not even a couple of weeks. This beautiful man is a musician and a facilitator, and we met in a few weaves of different ways and volunteers and workshops and just being present. And I'm really excited that he said yes, having a convo, but also to see where this might go. So I'm gonna hand it over to you. If you could share with us and those who are listening, who is Nadav?

SPEAKER_00 1:19

Yeah, thank you, Swiss B, for having me, for opening the space and for inviting to share. Yeah, who is Nadav? Definitely an ongoing question that I ask myself every day. I can probably say that I'm a human being and much more than that. I do love to play music and find myself doing it kind of full-time. So definitely a musician, an artist. As of now, I'm also offering one-on-one support in relation to men work. So that can be anywhere from recovering from porn addictions and semen retention practices, as well as creative expression and authenticity, guidance and mentorship. So I guess that kind of sums up, and I'm sure I would be elaborating as we go on.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

Yes, we'll definitely learn more about you, which I love. And I love the work that you share, and again, excited to hear more about that as we weave along. So let's land in the common thread, which is the question you know, which is what is one moment, belief, or experience that changed the way you see the world?

SPEAKER_00 2:34

So I looked at the question and I told myself that I'm not gonna have any answer until I will arrive and see what's alive inside of me. So I kind of want to say that the moment probably that really changed my perception of the world is actually being born on earth. I did really, really recall the moment that I was just formed in the womb, and I was arriving here as a premature baby, covered with blood and electronics and screaming babies in the incubators. So that probably really, really shifted my whole perception of the world because I do carry a memory of how it was before I entered the world. So it's a little bit of a smart ass answer to say that the moment I arrived into the world is also the moment that changed how I perceived the world. There's just also probably an essence of truth in there. And for people that don't really like a smart ass, I can also share another moment, which was when I was about maybe six or something. I was in Israel where I grew up, and I looked at some kids just playing in the playground, and just seems like not having any care in the world, just playing on the playground, and I just stood from the side, looked at them, and I was like, what the fuck is going on here? Like, there's got to be something else to that experience. So that's probably a moment that really, really, yeah, alive inside of me, just really this curiosity about the nature of existence and the human experience from a very, very young age that kind of ignited me on a quest of a primordial question, which is who am I?

SPEAKER_03 4:32

Yeah, it swings back to that first. Firstly, I love a smart ass answer. So, what I want to know there is like if you you shared a piece about how you knew your world before you were born. So if if that's the case, and then you remember being born, how do you what do you think shifted in that moment of being born from who you were before that?

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Yeah, that's a great no. Yeah, that's a great question. I don't know if I know I can suggest that yeah, probably the separation of oneself by means of just entering a realm of duality and an opposition, kind of like that was that is not my nature. I I don't think I don't think it's nature at all by some means, but then being birthed into this reality was kind of like okay, now it's like getting deep and getting very experiential, yeah, to see how now the world is gonna look like when I'm here.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Yeah. And then when you're standing in Israel at the playground and you're seeing these kids in play, and you're having that moment of what the fuck is going on here? How do you think that experience shifted the way you walked forward from that moment?

SPEAKER_00 6:10

So it probably took uh a wee bit of time until I completely embodied this kind of potentially just like a burst of consciousness that was really wandering with a question mark about everything. And I guess, yeah, from a very, very young age I was quite aware of my sensitivity and openness, and how do I relate to the world around me? And for a while I was very, very scared, I was very, very anxious, which is very understandable because like this this world is quite a heck of a world. So, yeah, I reckon to put it shortly, I just carried on on the quest of understanding or trying to understand who am I and what is going on here on Earth.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

Yeah, yeah. And my what's my experience within that, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:13

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

That's beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

Yeah, happy to.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

Alrighty, now I'm excited. So, because this is gonna be aired quite soon, I have the opportunity, which I'm excited about, because I know that you're an energetic being and you're deeply listening to what's coming through in conversation and in connection and the energies around us. So, my question for you with the work that you're doing, with the space that you're holding and the energy that is moving just so quickly, what I feel like anyway, what are the big messages that are coming through for you now that you're really seeing within your own struggles or within the struggles of the conversations and connections that you're making?

SPEAKER_00 8:08

No one is coming to save you. So you better just realize it and wake the fuck up. Kind of like that's that's the energy that I'm currently at, and it's not for you specifically. It's potentially a you for any outer expression that is not minor that I'm encountering. Um, really, a sense of 2025 has been really brought up a lot into the surface, into the collective field. Tons of shadow work and layers and armors that we've been carrying, and old stories, and attachments, and identities. And I do have quite a bit of songs that contain the word veil, and I feel now that the rest of the veil is been dissolving. So I can suspect that it will be an ongoing process of awakening while also holding into account a possibility that we are awake, and how can we get humanity on board? How can we get more people to joining in this current stream of awakening and expansion as human beings, as humanity, and especially at the time where we have so much technology and artificial intelligence, which is awesome. I love it and I use it to my benefit. I think we have a more responsibility to be as human as we possibly can be. And how this manifests in conversations that I'm having and spaces that I hold and arrive at is that just cut the bullshit, man. Like we need to look at the things that the eye, if you've been carrying some grief, so you better grieve about this. And if you have some shame, you better walk on that so you can get rid of shame. And let's see how we can crystallize the essence of who I am and my uniqueness, so I can actually share it with the people around me, and we can support one another of becoming crystallized beings, sovereign in our essence and our purpose and life mission and visions, so that as humanity we can crystallize and become what we have always meant to be, which is far from any narrative that exists on the planet.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

Yeah. I agree. I feel you. I also I really align with your sentiment of cut the bullshit. And and what I hear in that, even when you said no one's coming to save you, and I I fully agree, is this current of everything that's happening to me is everyone else's fault, and it's all external. That's that's the that's the limited belief that people are sitting from. This is this, and this is blame, and this is this, and this is because of this, and this is why I'm behaving this way. And what I'm hearing, and what you're saying, and what I completely align with is sacred responsibility and really taking ownership for our emotions, for the way we're showing up, for the way we're communicating, and and being really present and authentic with the human experience that we've been given. Rather than it's throwing it around and then it's everyone else's fault. And cut the bullshit is like let's get to the nitty-gritty, right? Let's just be clear and direct and honest without the smokescreens of old wounds or emotions or things that we're trying to avoid, but get to the same point. It's like you can't, you need to look at all these layers and honor them as the gifts that they are, and then we're all here in our integrity, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Yeah, there's just for me, there's like no other way around that.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Well, there isn't any way around it, is there? You have to go write the fucking way through.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Yeah, definitely. And before that, you even have to agree to to write it through and to go through that, which is making me think about initiation, the lack of initiation in modern society or whatever it is. Like, yeah, people growing up and potentially arriving into maturity when they are 18, and their parents take them to have an official first drink or a beer, finishing high school and celebrating. And I don't know, like this is so yeah, this is just pathetic. This is just pathetic. And I reckon there's probably quite a bit of men that are really lacking this form of initiation which the world has to offer to you. It's just the willingness to actually go for it. And for me, I kind of embarked on this journey with a clear consent, but with any idea how it will look like and how I will go through that. And in my personal life, I kind of understood yesterday while working on some project that yeah, I had my own initiations throughout life, and I choose life experiences, and I can elaborate more about what I did in Peru and in the Amazon with the Shipibo. And obviously, I'm an ongoing initiation this whole life is an initiation potentially. It's just some human beings never embarked on anything like that, and university is probably not an initiation to maturing or adulting or being a human.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

Yeah. So it makes me wonder, you know, say in New Zealand, for example, with what we have access to, what would you see if we're thinking about men, for example, or young men in and around 18, instead of it being what it is currently, what would be an alternative option for that in initiation?

SPEAKER_00 14:47

I just intuitively think about isolation, sortitude. Yeah, moving through discomfort or making comfort in the discomfort that combined with a sense of community and belonging and of purpose, which is something you can find in our relation to our relatives. So yeah, so it's definitely starting from within, it's starting from me, it's starting from you, and we can't really push people to do that, right? We can just invite them and tell them, hey, I'm walking home. You can come and take my hand, and we're gonna go there together. That's that's the only thing that we can we can do. And if someone is hesitant or is afraid or scared or have this of blockage, it's none of my responsibility and none of my business.

SPEAKER_03 15:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I completely agree. What was coming through for me is like, for an example, it's like you know, heading off on a solo hike and then coming back with and finding some form of community or sitting around the fire or with someone to sort of process what came through. I always sort of think about like accessible ways to do that. If someone's listening and like that actually really speaks to me, is those sort of but it it feels also like in what I in a bigger sense, I I think of something like plant medicine medicine or like a vision quest or something like that, where you know you're stepping into a challenge and you're seeing how you're gonna show up with that, but you're doing that with and for yourself. And I think, as you mentioned, knowing that when you enter those sort of adventures and challenges, that you have got a supported environment in order to process afterwards, right?

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Yeah, and then you also realize that you are always supported. Yeah, yeah. It's like it's so interesting to see that really when when one step into those places or those initiations or experiences, it feels like the most lonely thing ever. And how will I survive? And how will I this and this and this until you realize oh my god, this whole thing is a fucking joke. I'm fine, and I'm constantly being provided and supported. Yeah, and I'm never alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

I hear you.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Yeah, it's funny.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Like honestly, just sometime, yeah, sometimes human beings are just like funny as but I think that is, I think that's a process of our own evolution is we go through these contractions and we and we think we're alone, and then we up and then it cracks us, and we're like, oh, that's right, I'm not alone in being guided. We contract. And it's like I think it is a knee-jerk reaction is to think that we're alone in those. And it's really that just we want someone else to feel what we're feeling, which we when we think about it, we don't. But that's what we want in that moment.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

Yeah, and it probably depends on the quest that you are on. But you can definitely get to a place where you just understand that no one is existing beside me. Like, and and to truly feel that, I'm I'm blessed to have those experiences where I just really, really felt and have a lived experience of like all of creation is me. All of it. All of it. Like currently, I'm just having a conversation with myself, different lands, yeah. So that's kind of yeah, comforting in in a way. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

But it's such a beautiful place to get to and to laugh with and to understand the the delusions that we've had prior to that.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

And then also just how simple it can become. Doesn't mean that it's easy, but it's simple.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Yeah, it's very, very simple. It can be uneasy if you get caught up too much in the illusion that everything is illusion. Because if someone is gonna hit me with a brick on my head, it's gonna hurt me.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

It's like, yeah, everything is real and not real at the same time, and this is what makes us humans so brilliant, to my understanding, is that we are in the midst of creation. Like, I I am the midst of creation because I am creation. And somehow I have those aspects of self that are contradicting, as I said, duality. I don't I don't know if duality is something that something that will be able to transcend and move beyond separation and move beyond duality, because I think this is something that's ingrained within the current reality. Obviously, I have no idea to to what awareness we're gonna get, like what awareness one can cultivate throughout a whole lifetime, especially at the times that we are living in.

SPEAKER_03 20:08

Yeah. But there's also a lot of learning in that duality, right? Because without it, then we we can't understand the pendulum, like the differences between. We can't, you know, in terms of the sad and and the happy, it's like or or whatever term we like to use, but like the swing, right? It's like without experiencing the other, we can't understand one.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Yeah, yeah, definitely. You stretching myself to enormous amount of pain will allow me the capacity to experience immense amount of pleasure.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

Yeah, agreed. And again, that's all about really being true to our human experience and being like present and really working to, and I think this is what you were alluding to, is a deeper level of self-awareness.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

Yeah, I'm thinking about the human habits of putting names into things, because this is something that our psyche is probably programmed to do so we can be less scared of uncertainty. Well, if now you're gonna see something like spider in your place that you never saw, you're probably gonna freak out and you're gonna want to look it up. And if you see a picture of it on the internet and you have a name, you'll be like, ah, okay, so this is this and this and this and this. And human beings are absolutely champions in that because we have definition and terms for everything. And this is just like such a limited way of communicating with creation and relating to creation and to other human beings and to one own experiences, whereas, like If I feel something that I suspect is classified under pain or confusion or hardship or sadness, I will try to like kind of push it away, or I used to push it away. And if now I feel joyous and expansion, I'll be like, oh my God, yes, yes, yes, yes. You know, I I will not have any. So this is kind of experience itself. Everything is just an experience.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

I completely agree.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah. If I would choose one term for the rest of my life, I would probably choose the term experience.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah. I think one for me would be curiosity, which has an openness to it. Um but I also hear you, and at the same time, some humans are having the opposite experience. They're actually welcome and used to pain, but joy and anything like that is not something that they're like feeling safe with. And so there are even humans having an opposite experience of that. And that potentially is another duality.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Yeah, that that's a beautiful perspective. It's just yeah, ultimately, we probably want to be joyous. We want to be joyful, I reckon. Me personally, it's like I'm fine with pain, but I don't really want it, you know. I'm kind of I'm kind of I'm kind of contradicting myself, my formal 20 seconds ago. It's just from my my life experience, it's like uh definitely joy and love and connection feel feel better for me and feel better in the body for the nervous system. And it's interesting to hold into yeah, just to hold the idea that some people are not letting joy in while joy literally wants to burst out of them and to be expressed, and it's just like, yeah. Yeah, very interesting.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

It is interesting, it's something that I experience with a lot of my clients, and it it comes back. Yes, you're absolutely right. The humanness in them does want that joy and want that beauty, however, there's something that's in the way that that triggers it, you know, something else, and so there's a lack of safety, and it's like it's interesting to explore that in all the ways that you know we do and hold our work, but I think it all comes back to that sacred responsibility, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Yeah, and I I really like that you termed sacred responsibility for people that just are not aware of response ability, just the ability to response, right? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you shared something very interesting that I wanted to touch upon, and then I drifted into response and ability.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Which I love, and that's actually where while you think about what you were coming back to, but like the that really shifted for me was like when I work on my ability to respond to life, or even to look at am I responding to life or am I reacting? And when I'm reacting, then I don't have control or I don't have presence and influence over my life. I don't necessarily love the word control because I don't believe any of us have that, nor do we have certainty. Those things are an illusion. But really understanding that my ability to respond means that I am being present to who I am and how I want to show up.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Yeah, which is a great awareness to have, meaning there are people that are not aware that they can even that they are responding or reacting.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

Agreed.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Yeah, I I circle back to what to an inspiration I had earlier. Yeah, you said like the human the human aspect maybe wants to experience joy, because I would probably prescribe for people to be joyful and to smile and and be in nature and all of those kind of stuff, and I don't know, make love with someone. Have kind of pleasant and beautiful experiences. And I think about pain, we share we talked about pain and pleasure and how they're like kind of contradicting, but it's probably just like one spectrum, or not even a spectrum, but just like potentially a container of the human collective that contains all of those experiences, sensations and emotions, and thoughts, and feelings, and whatnot. So if I have a pain in my body, for example, in my knee, my attention is gonna be focused on my knee, kind of like, and my awareness will be drawn into that because something there is like carry density. So potentially also pain, yeah, blockages and wounds and traumas and conditioning are actually densities that can that we can let go of. And I definitely hold a vision where yeah, we are 24-7 just being love and that's it.

SPEAKER_03 27:23

So free-flowing energy.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

Yeah, yeah, definitely. And and it's just now that we have so much collective pain and struggles and conflicts and whatnot that we actually are processing that through our system and then just releasing it into the earth by what forms it it may be. There's just definitely a possibility of yeah, yeah, having a euphoric world, you know, having in harmonious, sustainable planet, and yeah, global tribe that we are and we we have those lived experiences. We have this in our DNA. And yeah, I don't know if I can ask you a question now.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

Okay, go for it, go for it, bring it on.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Yeah, so I'm wondering what do you think about DNA? Because I see DNA is a highly sophisticated technology that was kind of given to us in a way, probably by our global cosmic family, other humanoids, civilizations or societies and whatnot, and even on Earth before, I believe there were previous civilizations, and we all carry the same DNA, and we are all linked thanks to that DNA, which contains information. And I was thinking about it a few days ago that science kind of termed junk DNA or dormant DNA. Have you have you heard anything about that?

SPEAKER_03 29:12

To be honest, not really. But I think where I would go with that is I think that no matter what, there's a higher intelligence that we can calculate or that we can pinpoint or that we can name. And the way I see DNA is is again another universal life force of energy that's running through us. And if it's all connected, it's all flowing, and it's all I guess ignited in a way, then our human cells do exactly what they need to do to come back into balance. Dormant cells, I don't think I've ever heard, or DNA, dormant DNA. I don't think I've ever heard of.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

Yeah, yeah. What you shared now was beautifully, you know, it really touched upon the exact point. Like it doesn't really matter uh what's behind of that, it's just the DNA contains strands in science law, or like what I was learning from science and the broader kind of public information was that we have two active strains within our DNA while having 12 of them, and 10 of them will be like dormant DNA or junk DNA. Whereas I'm realizing, and maybe you can relate to that, is that this is our full potential. We are so much in the early stages of humanity, like so much in the early stages of humanity, and who who we are becoming, that yeah, those ignition of DNA and what you are offering to the people and what you're offering in your service and in your form of serving life is just really igniting those kind of dormant DNA untapped potential that will allow all of us to be fully human, which is full ability, hence responsibility.

SPEAKER_03 31:19

Agreed, yeah. And I think that the more intention we bring to our own attention, then the more we learn about this self and this being. And when we really truly start to listen to the body, to the energy, to what's coming through for us, then everything comes into its own alignment. Like it's so much smarter than we ever thought, and then therefore the innate intelligence does what it we just create the environment for that intelligence to do what it needs to do, right? And that comes through what you were saying about our choice and our and our awareness that we create, that we're creating, that we are creator.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

Yeah, if there is any high form of intelligence or high purpose to life, probably I have nothing to do with it, but merely letting it move through. Letting it be expressed, and me personally in my life, I feel that I'm watching a movie. And sometimes the movie like this, and sometimes like this, it's just I don't really have a say. I have my responsibility, yes. And like you said, I don't really agree with control. So yeah, it's like I merely observe my life unfolding while understanding that I am eternal, and I'm also a human being, and I have a body and my age and this current lifetime. It's fascinating, yeah. Yeah, being human is very, very fascinating, definitely. So better just lean back and just witness the witness the movie that you are in.

SPEAKER_03 33:14

Yeah, well, I think I think that's what we're coming to, right? Is understanding that we we don't have control over the way life is going to move around us, nor but we do have influence over how we show up in that. That's the bit that we're creating from. I guess that is where we play a part because we have influence in our responsibility, we have influence in our reactivity or not, and we have influence to clear the pathways that may have been absorbed or blocked somewhere along the line in in past life, this one or previous, depending on what you believe, and whether you carry that forward or not. And I think that comes back to that ultimate ability to respond.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

Yeah, yeah, and even before response, simply awareness.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

Agreed. Yeah, because we can't do any of that without that, without that deepened level of connection and awareness to self.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Yeah, I I have an example that now I'm seeing about some someone, maybe he's 25, and he just has such a powerful voice and natural talent when it comes to singing and recognizing melodies and harmonies and inspiration, and he writes beautiful poetry, and he literally is everything that he wants to become and can become. It's just that if he was singing one time when he was six and his mother was tired from her nine to five job, and she told him to shut up because it annoys her, he can shut up for the rest of his life. Which is sad and also funny.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

It's sad and it's funny, and it's also information for change, right? It's it's that's where we understand that why we can if we look back and understand what we decided and when we decided it, we can set that free.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Yeah, and it can literally happen in a moment of love. Can it happen like this with love? Agreed.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Yeah, agreed. So there's so many different places we could go, but we're coming to the end. But I think it's really beautiful that you shared about this musician because what I would like to do as we close is for you, because this will be airing really soon, for you to share where people can find you, how people connect with you, and what you're I think you're doing it on tour.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

Yeah, yeah, definitely love to share. So, my socials, if you look up Cosmic Unity111, uh, you should probably be fine in finding my music on major streaming platforms and Facebook and Instagram. My full name is Nadav David Cosmic Unity, and that's how people can find me out. I'm about to embark on a musical tour on the South Island in New Zealand at the end of the month. Then I'm gonna be in Australia for three weeks sharing music. I'm already have my event there, and all of my details and everything is on my socials. I'm also going to Peru on the 1st of June. So everyone that's feeling called to Peru, I also offer services with yeah, making you arrive in Peru and doing whatever it needs. However, I can support with one. Yeah, connect with Peru and plant many things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:58

Yeah, beautiful. And I can put all of those show notes and tour dates and things. Can you share just a little piece before you go about what the tour is about? Like what if people come and find you? What's the intention?

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Um very true. That's that's everything.

SPEAKER_03 37:35

That's beautiful. And I feel that yeah. Thank you so much for everything that you've shared today and for connecting with me and for sharing who you are and what's come through for you in your human experience.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

Yeah, happily.

SPEAKER_03 37:58

Yay. And for everyone that's listening, well, you know, I know that we're both here for the curiosity. We're both here to respond to what you have got going on and to see where that might take us or take you. And, you know, open to holding these spaces of exploration into the places that may lead you to the places that we've got, which is certainly not in any way perfect, but at least exploring life and deepening awareness, right?

SPEAKER_00 38:28

Yeah, definitely 100%. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

Well, thank you so much for being here. I'm really, I'm really honored, and it feels very special. And hopefully one day you'll come back.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

Yeah, yeah. And I'm still here also for we beat off time.

SPEAKER_03 38:48

Yeah. Okay. Beautiful. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

Yeah, thank you, sister. Thank you.