Third Eye Science
Blurring the lines between science and spirituality.
In the Third Eye Science podcast, Susan von Thun and her guests will explore the lines between science and spirituality. As a scientist and yogi, Susan has found that these two realms do not have to be mutually exclusive. With the perspective of a logical scientist, she has navigated her own spiritual journey with a curious, open mind. She’ll share lessons and tools she found along the way and have compelling conversations with spiritual leaders, teachers, yogis, healers and fellow travelers about their experiences and practices. In this age of information and misinformation, it’s time to interpret and understand the world with your third eye.
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Ep 190: Are you taking inspired, aligned action? Start with one small step!
Are you moving through life with intention, or are you on autopilot? Hopefully, you have a few long-term goals that will allow you to feel fulfilled and living in your purpose. Or maybe you have a big dream that you don't quite know how to realize. The key to creating that new reality is to take one small, aligned action each day. Eventually, they'll add up to your dream. You have to commit to those small actions. Otherwise, it's easy to give up. In this episode, I talk about some ways to start small and build momentum and motivation towards your long-term vision.
Ep 189: Slow down, be present, and navigate the intensity with more ease
The spring Aries energies may make you feel like you have to rush to do things and make things happen. But this year, we have an eclipse season and Mercury retrograde coming together in April. This means that slowing down, listening deeply, and being present in as many moments as possible will help you navigate the intensity of the cosmic alignments. In this episode, I share some ways you can bring more intention and awareness into your everyday life as we transit through the current space weather.
Ep 188: Go with the flow, even when you don’t know where you’re headed
You must balance your actions with full surrender to make your dreams a reality. We can find harmony and fulfillment when we walk this line between completely relaxing to receive and taking definitive action. Through practices like meditation and journaling, you learn to listen deeply to your inner guidance. Then, you know exactly what aligned actions to take and when, and you know when to pause and allow the alignment to find you. In this episode, I share my thoughts on this process and some examples in my life.
Ep 187: Pisces season encourages you to feel your feelings!
Pisces season! Feel! Cry! Laugh! And cry again! I’m only sort of kidding. It’s that time of year again when the watery, all-encompassing emotional states of being are not only expected—but encouraged. We are emotional beings living in a culture that conditions us to suppress and numb our feelings. But doing so stunts growth and can even cause disease. In this episode, I share some of the ways we can encourage our emotions to come out in healthy, supportive ways. Your emotions are NOT something to be scared of. They are a critical part of the human experience!
Ep 186: Align with your future self
Now is the perfect time to tune into where you're headed and who you're becoming. Maybe you can envision yourself in a new job, relationship, new community, or strength, healthy body. New Year's resolutions rarely work because getting from here to there can feel overwhelming and overly ambitious. But if you spend some time visualizing and connecting with your future self, you can get a clear idea of who you want to be and then ask yourself what skills, behaviors, or actions that person would need to embody to create that life. All we need to do is take one small, aligned action each day to empower ourselves to trust the process. It's not as complicated as we often make it out to be. Commit to becoming the future You today!
Ep 185: Things I've Learned Over the Last Decade Through Self-Awareness Practices
As we undergo a significant shift in our astrological weather, I've been reflecting on what I've learned over the last decade on my journey toward self-awareness. In this episode, I share eight things I've learned to inspire you to do some self-reflection this week as we enter into a new two-decade-long chapter in our lives with Pluto shifting into Aquarius. I also share more about what this transit could mean for all of us.
Ep 184: New Year’s Revelations with Sat Devbir
My favorite intuitive guide, teacher, healer, and Lightworker, Sat Devbir, is back to share wisdom about the coming year. In this conversation, he shares guidance that he has received in the past few weeks from the Spirit Guides about the energy of 2024 and how we can all leverage that energy to create a stable foundation for our future expansion.
Ep 183: Year-End Pep Talk: Give yourself the gift of self awareness this holiday season
This is my annual year-end pep talk encouraging you to make space to sit quietly with yourself this holiday season! Yes, I'm sure you are busy. But meditating every day—even for just 11 minutes—will help you have more self-awareness, self-compassion, and ease, despite the hustle and bustle.
Ep 182: Finding Peace in Chaos and Conflict
While the chaos and conflict in the world continue, it is more important than ever to create stability and security in your own field. From this place of calm, neutral balance, and peace within, we can have a tremendous impact on the collective. I'm not talking about spiritual bypass—meditating our way out of real-world atrocities—but about that deep inner work that includes being honest with yourself about how you create resistance and struggle for yourself. Whether you feel called to speak out against or for something or take action for a cause, the most important thing we can each do as individuals is address the conflict, distraction, and fear within ourselves. As more people consciously disengage from the fear and conflict programming inundating our screens, the more momentum we will build toward a new way of operating on this planet.
Ep 181: The Space Between
Have you ever felt like you are in between who you were and who you are meant to become? That liminal space is a moment in your spiritual evolution to be revered, not ignored! It is an invitation to pause, contemplate, and surrender to the flow of the Cosmos. The death and rebirth cycle is a critical process to embrace. It happens on time scales from moments to days to years. In our world filled with distractions and noise, it is so important to allow yourself to be nourished by this sacred pause.
Ep 180: Create space in your life to allow your true essence emerge
It's easy to be swept up by our busy lives and all the external things competing for our attention. When we create a little space each day to be quiet and detach from the barrage of distractions, we open up to our true essence. Then, our inner guidance, creativity, and messages from the ether realms become more prominent. Meditation, journaling, and time in nature are just a few of the ways to turn our attention inward and allow for a more profound connection to emerge.
Ep 179: A simple way towards world peace—cultivate peace within
Prayers for world peace may seem like a lofty—or even naive—dream. But I believe that we can, and will, create a more peaceful, just planet by starting with ourselves. If those of us in the privileged, relatively safe parts of the world can't hold compassion, empathy, and love for ourselves and the people around us, how can we ask that to happen on the world stage? When you cultivate inner peace and serenity, you radiate it our into the morphogenic collective field. We can do that in simple ways, such as a smile to a stranger, an intentional burst of light to a passerby, or forgiveness to someone (or yourself) for some wrongdoing. If we simply remember each other—recognize the divinity in all—we create a pathway to harmony on this planet.
Ep 178: How can we more actively work to become the person we want to be?
We all have behaviors we'd love to shift or release, and they are often related to triggers that touch on sensitive issues that we haven't yet healed or transcended. But when something or someone triggers you into a trauma response, you can look at it as a moment to learn more about yourself. The programming and conditioning from childhood and beyond can be stuck deep in the subconscious. You may not even be aware of why you react in extreme ways in any given situation. In this episode, I share some recent experiences observing myself in less-than-enlightened reactions and some steps we can all take to do the self-inquiry required to heal our past traumas. As we continue to evolve emotionally, more is revealed to be healed. I believe this is a lifelong process towards your true Self.
Ep 177: How can you create a refuge within where you can believe?
The world around us is not transforming on the time scale that makes our lives easier. But we can create—and believe in—a refuge within. In this episode, I share some ways to create a refuge of peace and prosperity for yourself. You can invite this energy into your life in simple yet profound ways. We can create a space where we believe all the magic, miracles, love, and peace are available. Each day, if you create a container—a reminder—for yourself, you begin to transform your inner world. You can manifest your biggest dreams from that sanctuary of faith in yourself. And from that space, the energy is so abundant that it will overflow and create a wave of peace in the world.
Ep 176: Embracing our differences
As humanity continues to evolve and learn from the past, more and more people identify in ways that are "different" from the traditional norm. But what if we look at these beautiful ways that make people unique as strengths? What if we saw neurodivergence as a natural progression of how humans are able to sense the world and connect in new ways? In this episode, I contemplate some of these concepts and invite you to take a wider perspective on our differences. Let's embrace the diverse ways we can navigate and be in this world!
Ep 175: Why community connection is so important
Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, we all receive benefits from engaging in community. As we connect with other human beings, our own gifts are amplified through that heart connection. In this episode, I reflect on my experience at a recent yoga retreat and how it reinforced for me how much collaboration and immersion in collective energy is for my own evolution. Maybe it will help inspire you to join a community or start to cultivate your own!
Ep 174: Leverage the astrological energies for deep healing and activation
There’s so much happening in our skies right now—Venus retrograde in Leo, the Sun and Mercury in Leo, and a new nodal shift to name a few. In this episode, I share some of the ways to connect with these energies and leverage them for profound healing and activation.
Ep. 173: How can we nourish the body and the soul at once?
In this episode, share some of the ways to connect with your Soul and be fully embodied at the same time. When we listen to what our bodies need—move and find stillness when our intuitive guidance tells us it aligns—we can truly be ourselves.
Ep. 172: Listen to your body
In this episode, I share some of the ways I've been listening to my body and how you too can engage more consciously with your body, a practice that I've found to be deeply healing and nourishing.
Ep. 171: How can we be more present and delighted by the magic in our lives?
We are spiritual beings having a human experience and we came here to BE human and to live a life full of wonder, awe, and magic. What magic have you acknowledged today?
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