Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

What is real freedom? #freedom #befree #podcast #liberation

6 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short conversational transcript (podcast-style) where two speakers discuss the nature of freedom. Speaker B argues that real freedom comes from self-understanding—recognizing oneself as a single point of consciousness or soul that is playing a role—while Speaker A emphasizes peeling away non-essential identities to reveal freedom.

Do you define freedom in your life?
The foundation of freedom is understanding who and what you really are. First and foremost. Right to understand that you're a single point of consciousness that happens to be animating a body. But many of us live our lives not knowing that there's someone else in the witness observer perspective that we might call our soul or our higher self. That's actually the one that's in charge or should be. And that's where the freedom comes from. And remembering that it's a role and remembering that it's okay to play the role, otherwise I wouldn't be here in this body.
It's a pretty fun role.
But when I forget that I'm playing a role role, then I start to take myself and the world at large too serious, you know? And then I'm not able to be in the world and not of it. I become of the world and completely consumed by my perception. We're all just souls playing roles, right?
Dude, it all goes back to what you said. What we truly are, knowing who we truly are and what we truly are. That is, all the things that are not representative of that need to be peeled back and what you're left with is freedom.