Presents

A Glimpse of Nirvana:

From Trauma & Addiction to Spiritual Awakening!


with

Booboo Garcia


Tuesday, October 6th at 3 PM HT

6 PM PT / 7 PM MT / 9 PM ET


on Hawaiian IANDS ZOOM

Booboo Garcia

PODCAST HOST - AUTHOR


🌌 What if some of our deepest wounds can ultimately become doorways to Spiritual Awakening?


For Booboo Garcia, childhood trauma, gangs, addiction, and alcoholism eventually brought him to a breaking point—and then to an experience that profoundly changed his life's direction.


On November 14, 2009, after years of unresolved trauma and addiction, Booboo reached what he describes as rock bottom. What happened next was unexpected: a profound shift in consciousness that he calls "a glimpse of Nirvana."


It became the beginning of a much larger journey involving addiction recovery, Spiritual Awakening, Out-of-Body Experiences, a Shared-Death Experience, Past-Life Memories, Mystical Experiences, and an expanding exploration of consciousness and the nature of reality.

Join us Tuesday, October 20th as we welcome Booboo Garcia, who will share his experiences and explore topics such as;


✨ What happens when suffering becomes a catalyst for spiritual transformation?


✨ Can Trauma and Addiction eventually lead us toward a deeper understanding of ourselves?


✨ What can Out-of-Body Experiences and Shared-Death Experiences teach us about consciousness and the possibility that we are more than our physical bodies?


✨ Why do Near-Death Experiences, Spiritually Transformative Experiences, Mystical Experiences, and other altered states of consciousness so often leave people questioning everything they previously beleived about life and death?


✨ What happens when the person we thought we were begins to fall away?


❤️ 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗨𝗠𝗔 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚


In his talk, Booboo will take us through his remarkable personal journey from childhood trauma, gang culture, and alcoholism to sobriety, healing, Spiritual Awakening, and an ongoing search for deeper truth. 


Through the 12 steps of Recovery, Booboo began a process that became something like a profound Life Review, examining his choices, relationships, wounds, resentments, behaviors, and the person he had become.


Instead of continuing to escape his pain through alcohol, he began learning something very different: Sometimes healing doesn't come from avoiding our wounds. It comes from having the courage to go through them.


As that process unfolded, Booboo's understanding of himself, and of reality itself, began to change.


🌌 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 & 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦


Booboo will describe his experiences, including Out-of-Body Experiences, A Shared-Death Experience involving his father, Multiple Spiritual Awakenings, Past-Life Impressions, and profound states of consciousness that challenged his previous ideas about who we are and what happens when we die.


Booboo's search for answers to questions such as: who are we beneath our trauma, our addictions, our stories, and even the identity we have created for ourselves has taken him into the teachings of mystics, ancient spiritual traditions, God-consciousness, Oneness, higher consciousness, reincarnation, healing, recovery, and the nature of reality.


Rather than claiming to have all the answers, he continues to approach these mysteries as a seeker—learning from extraordinary experiences and from people walking many different spiritual paths.


🎙️ 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗕𝗢𝗢 𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗜𝗔


Booboo Garcia is a spiritual seeker and host of the Broader Lense Podcast, where he explores Spiritual Awakening, consciousness, trauma, addiction recovery, Mystical Experiences, ancient wisdom, spirituality, and the deeper mysteries of human existence. 


Growing up in Southern California amid childhood trauma, gangs, drugs, and alcohol, Booboo eventually developed a serious struggle with alcoholism.


His experience in 2009 became a turning point that began an ongoing journey of sobriety, healing, self-discovery, and spiritual transformation.


Now approaching 17 years of sobriety, Booboo draws from his personal journey and extraordinary experiences while exploring the wisdom of mystics, different paths to God, expanded states of consciousness, and what he describes as the Oneness of life.


🎙️ 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲: @BroaderLensPodcast

📱 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺: @broader_lens_podcast

 


Join Us For This Inspiring Event!

Tuesday, October 6th at 3 PM HT

6 PM PT 7 PM MT / 9 PM ET

on Hawaiian IANDS ZOOM

Join us for the Hawaiian IANDS Experiencers Sharing Group Tuesday, October 20th

Come join us for the Hawaiian IANDS Experiencers Sharing Group, in which anyone who has had a Near-Death or other Spiritually Transformative Experience (or is just interested) is invited to come and connect with other “Experiencers” to share and to listen.

Spiritually Transformative Experiences* include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Near-Death Experiences
  • Other death-related experiences such as deathbed visions, deathwatch experiences/shared-death experiences (in which one has a spiritual experience when another person dies), and After-Death Communications
  • Mystical experiences
  • Diverse psychic or intuitive experiences, including clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, out-of-body experiences, past-life recall, mediumship, channeling, and more…
  • Spiritual energy and/or Kundalini Awakening
  • Inspired creativity
  • Spiritual Emergency

If you think that perhaps you have had such an experience or you are interested in learning more, you are welcome to join the Experiencers Circle to share and learn.

This meeting will be private and confidential, and will not be recorded. All participants are asked to have their cameras on during the Sharing Circle.

*The term Near-Death Experiences was coined in 1974 by Dr. Raymond Moody MD
*Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) is a phrase first coined by Yvonne Kason MD in 1994.
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KAren Swain is an Australian spiritual teacher, intuitive mentor, author, and inspirational speaker. As the creator and host of ATP Media—Awakening Consciousness, she shares conversations exploring spiritual awakening and expanded awareness. Through her teaching and mentoring, KAren helps people connect with their inner guidance, transform limiting beliefs, and live with greater joy, purpose, and connection to their spiritual nature.



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