Biet Simkin
Appearances
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And they weren't that old either. It was just like catastrophic, unprecedented loss. And my grandmother, actually her mother died two weeks after she died out of nowhere from cervical cancer. So it was just devastating. chaos. And my father felt that a person who had endured the kind of pain that I had endured did not need any more pain or pressure. And so he just babied me.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I think he did his best. He really was trying to create as much like ease for me as possible. I do believe that the kind of ease that he created probably wasn't the most healthy for me, but I don't think his intentions were to like harm me in any way. And at the end of the day, he knew who I was.
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So he was always saying to me, I don't know how this will happen, but you are a great teacher and you are a very high, much higher than me, much higher. And he would tell me that. And he's, you will be so successful. I see you, you will be on television. He like saw everything. And he was like, I don't know how, but It will happen. He didn't know that it would have to happen upon his death.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Like he had to die for me to have my awakening.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I think I've always been obsessed with music from the moment I was born. I can't even imagine like a greater love. For me, the only thing that trumps music is cinema because cinema actually incorporates music and also the thespian like story experience. You get story, you get relationship, you get love.
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hero's journey and you get music so to me like there's no greater art that I have ever experienced on earth than cinema real cinema not film not movies but cinema and but music I've just been singing since I was born and yes once she died and everyone was dead it's definitely how I don't know communicated music has always been so influential in my life and when my kids were born I
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I desperately wanted external validation. I wanted the world to recognize how talented I was and I needed it. I wanted like Gollum in the Lord of the Rings. I just felt like my precious, like I needed it. And I have had a story where God, or what I call God, I'm not religious, doesn't give me what I need. When I desperately need something like that, the universe, God, the God that I'm so fond of,
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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will not give it to me in effort to awaken me because i didn't come to this planet to get a bunch of crap and to get a bunch of things that won't serve me in the end right so there's people like amy winehouse they got the recognition it didn't do the thing they wanted and they're dead right then there's other very successful people on this planet who have created billions of dollars and incredible impact
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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and are miserable and not even miserable like they're looking to have me or you guide them like they're not even awakened enough to know that they're miserable like they're there's documentaries being made about them and they're completely asleep to the fact that they're angry and miserable because they're so lullabied by money and success and fame and whatever else they've been granted so to me my genie is kind of you can go yourself like you're not getting that
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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until you open up to what you came to this planet to have which is i did not come here to get to need external validation i get tons of external validation today and i will be receiving much more in my lifetime and beyond that is no longer a need for me today i remember when i was a teenager when i started
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Everything you just said. I think that there's really only one person on this planet. And we are all part of that. And some people can tolerate how it feels to be different and alone and separated. Separated from God, separated from the mystery, separated from the invisible plane, separated from bliss, separated from the womb, and separated from everybody on this planet.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Like I tripped on MDMA when I was 20 or so. And I remember I was in a nightclub in New York City and I looked at the wallpaper and it was pretty empty. It was like a very mellow party, like one of those where there was like 100 people in a very large space. And I was looking at the wallpaper on the wall and I turned to the wall and I said, why didn't you tell me that we were one?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Why didn't you tell me? And I don't think I had the capacity to weep at that moment because I was on MDMA, but I was weeping in a sense. And what I feel today on an average Tuesday or Thursday, which is similar to what I experienced on MDMA when I was 20, was a feeling of complete relief. Just thank God. I can't believe we're one, me and this wall. Why did they keep this from me?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And so I felt a prisoner in this world was filled with this illusion that we are all separate, that we are alone, that we have to fight to prove our specialness and all this bullshit. And I understood the spiritual tenets, but they didn't make sense to me in the light of the pain that I was experiencing. And I was an embodiment of these truths, and yet I could not experience the pleasure.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Of this union at all times, even when the MDMA ran out, which it will five hours later, I was in a hysteria in an apartment in Chelsea being like, what the God, you're going to send me back to duality. You're going to send me back to where I'm separate from everyone, where I'm all alone. I don't want to go back. And so I spent so much of my youth just wanting to be back.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Just I just wanted to be back in that state. I'm so thirsty for that state.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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read you described your addiction not as a response to pain but as an addiction to intensity can you explain that i think i just have an allergy to being separated from the world of god which is again i'm not religious but like to me the world of god is the quantum field where we are all one and i cannot stand to be apart from that so I'll do anything to be a part of that.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I have a very low tolerance for being separated from it, which by the way, you can't be separated from it, but I can feel like I'm separated from it when I'm judging myself or when I'm judging you or when I'm being afraid. Have you ever been like walking down the street and you're having a bad day? Like you're just edgy and annoyed and not feeling your best. And then you see someone, you know,
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And you're like, I don't want to see someone right now. I'm not even like 100%. And so what I know what I meant by intensity, but to me, the world of God, the electronic plane and the galactic field that is oneness with everybody. is very intense and it's alive and it's filled with grace. And it's people wonder what gratitude is. Gratitude is a side effect of that state.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And so I just wanted that. I wanted that. And you can't, there's just not enough alcohol or drugs in the world to give you that 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the rest of your life. There literally isn't enough anything to make that possible.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Well, those were caused by drugs back then. If you're listening to this and you're someone who's addicted to anything, you're addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, Netflix. shopping, overspending, debting, like whatever it is you're using to numb your pain, it doesn't work. You already have probably seen that it's not working. It doesn't work long-term, right?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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So alcohol and drugs really did work for me for quite a long time. They were able to work for me to some extent from the age of 20 till 29 when I got sober. That's nine years. Not everyone makes it nine years. I made it nine years and I could have gone longer. I really was like on a path to a very destroyed life, drinking wine and sleeping with young men and being lost and confused.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I really was in for it and I was willing, but Something happened. My story, there was a lot of very traumatic things that happened. I was a DJ in New York City at that time. My Sony career did not work out. It wasn't because, again, I believe God just took it from me as God will when I'm not listening.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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It was like, I just really wanted to drink and I really wanted external validation and I wanted the pain to go away. And my God, my universe was like, that's not what we're doing here. So you need to go down more. And I believe we go down to go up, right? So it's like, how far are you willing to go? And I'm a psychopath, so I can go pretty far.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Like I'm willing to go down to a very dark world when it comes to psyche. So my house burned down. I had a daughter. I had a near-death experience where I lost, I had a seven-pound tumor in my uterus.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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the doctor saying to me look i solved this for you i fixed this but you have to have a child within two years or you'll never have children because i'll have to give you a hysterectomy and two years to the day i got pregnant accidentally with my first child and she was born perfectly healthy i was not ready to be a mom as a lot of young moms would not be
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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then she died of sudden infant death syndrome four months later and she was brought dead into my arms when i was 26 years old and that was not enough it was not enough to awaken me all i did after she died was i got a lot of heroin and i really I used it as more to go down the victim highway. And then my best friend hung himself. And then my dad died of a heart attack.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And that all happened within a span of two years.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I love how you're like flooding all over the place like your agreement with the water gods or whatever because my house burnt down and then I just had another house burned down like five years ago and I just think that's so funny you just like you said you lost your house in a flood but then you were like dealing with flooding back then do you know what I mean it's interesting it's interesting yeah I came back from uh I'd taken this job to Dell and I had
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I got sober and immediately things
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Wow, it's interesting. There's something happening here. I just love how it's like a film, like it really is like a movie. Why aren't we listening, John? Why aren't we listening? I don't know. I can't speak for everybody, but for me, I'm a willful little bitch. I'm not interested. I want money and power and prestige, and I just want the things.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I'm seduced by what the world is telling me is yummy and delicious. Because the weird thing is that what I call God's world, which, again, I have to paraphrase with that I'm not religious, because the way that I love God is not... subscribed to anything. I'm not subscribed to anything. I have a democratic relationship with God. But I have a relationship with God.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And anyone who wants to work with me, anyone who follows my teachings is someone who desperately feels a yearning for a power greater than themselves in their life. That is the distinction, right? It's not someone who's like, I want to feel good. I want to have stuff. Yeah, you want to feel good and you want to have stuff.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And you want a relationship with an unknowable infinite power that floods you with an irradiant joy that is equal to the feeling at the peak of an MDMA trip without any drugs, which by the way, I've been sober for 16 years since my father's passing.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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a year later i got sober and i experienced states like that mdma trip all the time now without anything in my body do i suffer in between yes do i pay do i do massive amounts of work yes but i do it By the grace. I am given this by grace, right? With absolutely no drugs. So yeah, like I think there's this willful little beast in us that is, I don't want to do the work.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I don't want to do the work. I just want to show up and have like, naked women and money rain down on me. Like, I'm not interested. You know what I mean? Like, just whatever the opulence is in a Twilight Zone episode. Like, I just think I'm asleep to that just like everyone else. Asleep to that jealousy and that craving for all that shit.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And then there's a deeper part of me that's like, yes, and... right so back to god's world god's world looks just like the devil's world is basically what i'm saying right so it's like they're paradoxically side by side existing So I think that what we're really craving is a kind of opulence, a kind of impact, a kind of grace, but it's easy to get seduced.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Like two $40 million homes standing next to each other may look the same, but one may be owned by a person who developed that money
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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through conscious contact with a divine source and through love and through infinite wonder and the desire to serve the planet, another person with the same looking $40 million home right next door to them may have come into that money by just serving greed and grind and create power, wanting power, right? So looking at it, they can look the same.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I would say I didn't come into it willingly because I wanted the devil home. I wanted it at any cost. I was like, just give me the results. And when I didn't get what I wanted, I felt betrayed. Like the universe was like, I'm not giving you a record. I'm taking your record deal away. I'm taking your whole family. I'm taking your house. I'm taking your child. I'm taking your best friend.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I'm taking, I never going to have any money because you, that's what the world was saying to me. And I took it to mean God is a fool. So why am I going to show up for a God that's not showing up for me? And I had to have a complete psychic change to even be willing to move my little finger.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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For sure.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Now I had a different experience with sobriety. I got sober and immediately things became different. It was like, as if I stopped drinking and devoted my life to what I call God. It's a higher power of my own understanding. And in that moment,
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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everything became opulent and it was almost like one of those movies where everything's black and white and then it becomes color like wizard of oz like it was like that all of a sudden i saw the world in technicolor my life got immediately better but externally things didn't catch up for a while i was still broke for many years in sobriety
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I was single for the first year of sobriety, and I really wanted a partner. But I met the man of my dreams in sobriety. I became a woman of dignity and grace in sobriety. And one thing that I will say is beautiful for me about sobriety is... The kind of high that I experienced in those first six months to the year of, holy shit, I'm alive and I'm sober. And oh my God, I'm having sex. Sober?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Or oh my God, I'm eating food. Sober? I just couldn't believe I could do anything sober because it had been so long that I had been on heroin that I couldn't even function without drugs in me. I couldn't face the world. And here I was facing the world again and again sober. It was just so crazy that I felt like I was having a transcendent psychic experience all the time.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I would say that the kind of high that I felt in that first year is the kind of high that I feel today when I'm in a state of awakening. And so to always reference that, it's almost like a beautiful reference point to me that I know that I don't need anything. I didn't have a boyfriend. I didn't have any money. I didn't have the career that I have now.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I wasn't written up in all these magazines. I didn't have any, there was just so much missing from my life. But I felt like I had it all. And so what I can say today is that really serves me because I can always reference and remember that the stuff that we are made of is in us right now. You can access it with absolutely no external results.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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What I also will say is that the external results to me are a manifestation of that state. So if you stay in that state,
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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long enough and you devote your life to that state and you come back to it again and again, and you make a choice to create impact from that state and touch lives from that state, the kinds of things that will happen in your life as a result of that will be quantifiably different from other kinds of results in the sense of making a bunch of money or buying a nice car.
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It will be different, but it looks the same on the outside.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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It took time. It took four years of me praying on my knees and begging God to show me what I was here to do. I didn't know. It looked like me begging. And it looked like me doing a lot of spiritual work, like a lot of invisible work. And when I say invisible, no one gives a shit if you journal for thousands of pages and do an inventory of your past defects of character and judgments you've made.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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No one ever knows. Like when they're reading the eulogy at your funeral they're not going to be like john he really went for it with the spiritual work and he did 7 000 hours of meditation and prayer and visualization like no one knows about the invisible work but i was doing so much of that it was just like a devotional practice of
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I'm giving my life to this power because I trust it's going to guide me. And eventually it came to me and it said, you are a spiritual teacher, which I just thought was hilarious because I'm like, have you seen me lately? Similarly, Gabby Bernstein, like we don't look like the historical spiritual teachers. We don't look like an old dude with a beard.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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who's sitting at some ashram being like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and everybody's, oh, God. So to me, I just couldn't believe that that's what I was here to do. But as soon as I was told, I was like, okay. I was devoted to this power, so I was like, I'll do whatever the f*** you say, man. I'm so done arguing with you. We do not argue, me and this power.
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By the way, I don't go f*** to God anymore. I'm like, yes, whatever you say, like fast and furious. But at that time, I said yes, and I remember I called everyone I knew and told them I was now a...
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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i didn't even know what to call what it was i was like i'm a meditation person like i'm creating a meditation sequence i'm bringing it to the world and blah blah blah and everybody was like oh yeah like cool nobody was surprised everyone was like you have always been like yoda And I was like, I have been? Like, I couldn't see myself at all. I thought I was just this.
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Because again, we see ourselves through the lens of all the judgments and fears and insecurities and doubts that we have, right? So inside of me, it feels like an agonizing shitstorm of self-annihilating thoughts and self-destruction. But outside, what actually comes out of me in the same way that like a cow produces milk, I produce wisdom.
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I produce spiritual transformation in the lives of everyone around me. And back then I was doing that for free. I just hung out at bars and did it for free there. And then I hung out at whatever. And I did it for even in sobriety. I just did. It's just what I do.
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It was one of them. Yeah. Prayer, meditation.
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I have been graced to continually remember that fact and to will continue to remember that fact till the day I die. If I tried to go back to the first time I remembered I mattered, I wouldn't even know which one to choose because there's been so many. Do you know what I mean, John? Yeah. One of them would be the day that I got sober. That was one of them. But there was ones before that.
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There was moments when I remembered that I mattered when I was still on drugs. And because mattering is a act of being in union with what I call God, that's what mattering is. As soon as you're in union with the divine, you matter. And so I had that when I was on heroin. I had that when I was on LSD. I had it when I was on mushrooms.
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I had it when I was having sex with gorgeous people on the Lower East Side. I had it when I was writing songs underneath grand pianos. in the West Village, I had it. I just paid a really high price at those times.
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And as I evolved as a human being, today I'm interested in remembering that I am one with the divine and therefore mattering as a side effect of that state, but I'm not willing to pay prices anymore.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Well, I was doing these large scale events. The vision came to me after I was told that I was a spiritual teacher in a vision in one of my prayers and meditations. I then created a synthesis that I was going to bring meditation into the art world. So bring meditation and a specific sequence that I had constructed of the practices I loved most at that time.
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I was going to put them together and bring them into the art galleries. And so I started that and my career took off like a wildfire. And for two years, I had given up music. I thought when the voice said that I was a spiritual teacher, that it meant focus the and stop making music because that's not what I put you here to do.
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Two years later, I was doing spiritual work in a very intense, condensed situation, like a personal development type situation. And I had an aha moment.
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of grace one of these many millions of moments where i remember that i matter like you said and the voice said you need to raise a bunch of money so that you can record your next record and i said to this voice i thought you said you didn't want me to do music anymore and this voice said now you get to do both and i just wept because i thought
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That was some kind of sacrifice I was going to have to make was my music. And so then I did. I fundraised for a record, which back then was like a thing. I did like this non-for-profit. It wasn't GoFundMe. It was like a non-for-profit arts organization where you raise money. And I raised money. I recorded my record, The Lunar.
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And then I started scoring these events and it really took my career even to the next level. And my career went from like art galleries to doing these huge events at Museum of Modern Art or Sundance Film Festival, partnering with huge brands, doing events in festivals. I partnered with Bonnaroo, et cetera, et cetera.
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and it was because i was doing this thing that was taking music which is pop music not om shanti bindi like we love ourselves kind of music not like that like it was like really hardcore beautiful music that was made for people who love music not for people who want to do kundalini but for people who love music
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and i come from a rock and roll background i come from this i'm from the streets i got signed to sony like i did a bunch of drugs i'm not some dairy queen as they call it in jackson heights i'm not a fairy queen i'm really from the street i'm like a patty smith and so bringing those worlds together and saying i want enlightenment but i want it to sound awesome and i want it in a cultural space and i want it in alignment with great fashion and i want it in alignment with opulence and
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And business, like Andy Warhol really turns me on. He said once, business is a beautiful kind of art, isn't it?
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Yeah, definitely.
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My signature system is four minutes long and it gets you high as balls. The thing is I'm a drug addict, right? So like I'm a sober drug addict, alcoholic. I've been sober for 16 years, but that doesn't take away my malady.
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right and like a good drug addict and alcoholic and for anyone who's listening who isn't those things but you're still really irritated by this planet and you're still irritated by how painful it is to be separated from that state and i'm talking about that state where you're like running through the woods with your in your hands or your tits in your hands and you're just like i remember the meaning of it all i remember who i am i remember
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Hey, John. Thank you for having me.
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And to me, merging music with a four-minute breath practice that has you remembering exactly who you are and what your purpose is and who you truly are, I can't imagine anything sweeter. And my purpose on this planet is to A, to remember who I am. but then be to help, I say billions because it's true like millions, that's what you affect on the daily.
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But at the end of the day, if you're really affecting people on that scale, it's gonna be billions eventually, right? Rumi, we're still reading, we're still affecting. And my purpose is to have that kind of bliss and to inspire everyone around me to have that kind of bliss too. And I shouldn't say I'm the best. That's so arrogant. I think it's very cute.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
What I mean by I'm the best, what does that mean? It means I'm a lover, right? Because I'm not special or different. Anybody can do my breath work. Anybody can make music. If you have a stick, you can make music. Just bang on something. If you can hum, you can make music. If you can breathe, you can breathe. You're breathing. There is nothing special about me.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
What makes me the best, what makes anyone the best is that they're willing to go to any lengths every single day to be connected to that energy. And that is one thing I can attest to is that I am willing. And I hope that I inspire others to be as willing as I am by simply being as willing as I am to be in that state.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
So fun. I just started online group, an online group, which meets with me. So I'm able to touch the lives of people all over the globe who otherwise wouldn't be able to come to my, I used to do live events locally and And so that is one of the big things that I'm offering to the world. I'm also creating lots of offerings on my website currently.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
It's taking me a minute to do so because, again, I have to move through the three-dimensional field to create. But I really felt an urge to help more people. And so I'm trying to... delineate all this magic that I give one-to-one and through the book and through the group into products that people can just pick up and use in their home.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
I just launched a membership, but I'm evolving even past that membership, but the membership is there, which has the breath work and has somatic modalities that I'm sharing with the world.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
My website is guidedbybiet.com. And on Instagram, I'm at guidedbybiet. I recommend there's also an Enneagram quiz on my website, which is really fun. If you just want to like pop in and see who you are and what you're like, that's fun there. There's some fun stuff on the website. And there's also lots of free content on my Instagram page.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
No. What a life. I bet you I come back and do it all over again. I sometimes think to myself as I'm living this harmonious, gorgeous life of integrity with this beautiful husband and these gorgeous children and this fantastic career, I think, wow.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
remember that wild sex you were having with that random lover who like broke your heart into a million pieces and you danced all night in the nightclub with that girl and level of lost that I was in my 20s, the pain and the gorgeousness and the ephemery, you can't make that shit up. And you can't go back to it.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
Once you're awake and you know how to dial in a real life, you can't go back to being lost like that again. And as horrible as it was, and as brutal as the consequences were in my case, I would not trade a second of it.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
They lived in Soviet Russia thinking that was the way. Nobody was asking a lot of questions. From what I understand, my father was an atheist and a smoker, and he was a jazz musician, and he was getting his medical degree to be a doctor.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
And in Russia, I don't know how much you know about the Soviet Union, I'm sure you know all of this stuff, but for anyone listening, it was a place with great, like you could get an insane education. And you could get a career of a very high standing by any estimation, be like a doctor or scientist. Or for my grandfather was the first chair violinist in the Leningrad Philharmonic.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
Like that's as like high a position as one could be in life. Right. But they were all living in communal housing and there was bread lines. And so you would be like a medical doctor. You'd be living in communal housing and waiting in line for the green sweater when it was released for. And then you either got the green sweater or you didn't.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
Also, when my family came here, my brother and my father went to the supermarket to just do a little grocery shopping and they walked into the supermarket, the doors, how they will open like this. And they walked in and they saw all the produce and all the aisles of food. They'd never seen anything like that before. That's not something that existed in Soviet Russia.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
It really was just like the bread appeared and everything. People lined up around the block to get a loaf of bread kind of thing. Anyway, so they are standing there. And my brother who was eight years old tugged on my father's jacket and he said, is this for us? Can we buy these things? And my dad crying said, I think so. I think so.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
Like they didn't even know what it meant to have a supermarket filled with things you could buy. The decision came because my father was again, lost and confused as many of us are. And then he got very sick with tuberculosis and he was going to die.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
And instead of dying of tuberculosis, my father went to the woods and studied with a secret shaman, which was completely illegal in Russia at the time. And he came to a state of awakening. at that time in the woods of Russia. And once he came to that state of awakening, he realized he was living in the hell that he was in. The hell became clear to him.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
became different it was like as if i stopped drinking and devoted my life to what i call god it's a higher power of my own understanding and in that moment everything became opulent and it was almost like one of those movies where everything's black and white and then it becomes color like wizard of oz like it was like that all of a sudden i saw the world in technicolor my life got immediately better
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
And he said to my mom, do you want to leave and go to a free country together and have a freedom child? Let's create a baby with intention and bring this new baby to the free world and start a new life.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
No, we didn't have checks and balances. We didn't have a Judicial branch we didn't in Russia. I wasn't there. I am the freedom child.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
So I was created on the wings of this awakening and I was created with the intention of being brought to the free world and I was told from the time that I was born that I was free and because we're about to go into the next part of my story like the mixture of Understanding what a privilege it is to be free and to be born with
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
that kind of legacy within me, that kind of talent and that kind of grace and that. To be raised with, my father was an awakened shaman by the time I was around. So he had this awakening in the woods of Russia, cured himself of tuberculosis, and then was like, let's create a freedom child. By the time they got to the States and I was born, he was already living as an enlightened master.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
And so I grew up studying with him my whole life. And Yeah, I took that very seriously. So when my life became very painful, as we'll go into, I was confused. And I think till this day, actually, and for anyone listening, I think there's something very painful about the juxtaposition or the paradox of of the lie and the truth, right?
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
Like we're faced with so much adversity as human beings just by being alive. Just being alive is enough. You don't even need to go through all the shit that I'm about to go through in this story to feel the burn of being a human being.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
I grew up being raised by my grandparents. The way that it worked was my entire family moved here. And so my grandparents, two sets, lived in a tenement building in Queens on one block in one building. And then across the street, my parents had a one bedroom apartment in another tenement building in Queens across the street.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
And so I spent the weekends with my brother, my father, my mother, the four of us. And during the week, Monday through Friday, I was with my grandparents and my brother and I would swap grandparents day by day. So like they would take me, then the next grandparents would take me and back and forth. And it was a very close knit family, but my father and my mother were close.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
very advanced and very advanced spiritual seekers. And my grandparents were not that. They were just elderly, fun, drinking, interesting, smart as f**k, but not like spiritual seekers. In fact, they were all trained to be atheists in communist Russia. You were supposed to be, you were either atheist or you like believed in a very specific Christian God. I don't know.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
They just were like, no, they were very heavy believers in
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
My father was doing yoga every day. He did asanas. He meditated. We had a million texts. We had a huge library in the house from Carl Gustav Jung to Sigmund Freud to Eric Fromm, Alan Watts, all the stuff that was floating around during that time. My mom was an aerobics instructor, and she was becoming a massage therapist. She was... just a very giving person and a community leader.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
I remember that she collected people and everyone circled around my mom. She was like the sun.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
Everything changed. My mom's death was cataclysmic. It changed my entire life. It broke my father, even though my father continued to be a very high spiritual teacher and a master. His heart was completely broken. My brother was completely destroyed by it. He went into his own agonizing pain. I was so traumatized. To lose your mom, I was almost seven when she died.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
I was two months shy of being seven. And to lose your mom when you're that young, it's not...
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
comprehensible it's not possible to comprehend the kind of agony that produces a child cannot comprehend that they are not to blame so I definitely took ownership of her death and I blamed myself I thought that if I had just been a better person or more kind or then she'd be alive and I think it just resulted in so much agony and so much there were side effects too rashes and
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
and twitching and so much craziness. And we had no money too. My mom was, she was, we had no money in general because we were immigrants coming from Russia, but she was more of a structured, grounded human being. My father was just out to lunch as an alien and he irradiated light, but he didn't care about worldly possessions. He didn't care about money.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
He didn't care about security of any kind, any real kind. I also don't believe in security, even though I believe in making millions and millions of dollars. I still don't think that's where security comes from. But my dad really was like a rebel. He was just, I don't need money. And so we just had no money and mice. There was men raising a little girl. There was no maternal factor anymore.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
So the house was just a disaster. And it was crazy.
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Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
He was not emotionally absent. There was nothing but love in the house. But he was absent in the way of... He didn't like structure and... he didn't want to discipline me. He felt that my horror that I had endured by losing my mom and my, by the way, both grand, all four grandparents also died shortly after my mother. So it was like my mother and then every single grandparent one by one dying.