Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Awaken Your Highest Self & Reclaim Your Mind with Michael Beckwith
14 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Behind every problem, there's a question. Behind every question, there's an answer. Behind every answer, there's an action. Behind every action, there's a way of life trying to be born. So, again, these are spiritual practices that, when done sincerely, change your life. They literally change how you identify yourself.
It doesn't mean you become all highfalutin and you're so spiritual you're not earthly good. No. It just means you're becoming more yourself. You're more comfortable with yourself. You're more at ease with yourself because it's the real you.
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So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones you may have already missed. I hope you love this one as much as I do. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week. I cannot wait for you to meet our guests this week. It is so exciting. Okay, we've got Michael Beckwith. He's a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100 group. This man has been on Oprah. Come on, people.
And the founder of the Agape Center. He's a trailblazing figure in the realm of spirituality, something that I'm so big into later in life, and I hope you are too. As a number one bestselling author and influential spiritual voice, his original teachings and ideologies have not only guided and influenced many, but millions. I mean, he's literally impacting millions of people.
He's got the most unbelievable podcast, Take Back Your Mind. He's got new courses and classes coming out. The man has superfoods. I mean, Michael, what have you not done? Thank you so much for being here and enlightening us this week.
Heather, thank you so much for the invitation. I'm just sitting here in joy just being with you. Life is good.
Oh my gosh, you're the best. Okay, I love your backstory. And for anyone who lives under a rock and doesn't know who you are, I was hoping you could kind of walk us through how did you become enlightened? How did you become the Rev? How did all of this come to be?
Well, you know, a good part of my backstory is, I'm going to keep it really brief. I could extend this, but I won't. While I was attending USC, I was a psychobiology major there on a track to go to med school, actually. And I was having a series of inner experiences that I labeled at the time pathological because I was seeing visions. I was hearing voices. I was leaving my body and traveling.
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Chapter 2: How did Michael Beckwith experience his spiritual awakening?
At the time, I was a spiritual counselor. I saw six to eight people every single day. I did my own private seminars. I was a director of training of a prayer ministry. I liked my life. But there was an inner compulsion to start a community. And I was told that the work I was doing, at that time, I was only doing my work halfway. And that I had made a promise before I came here to do this.
And that if I didn't do it, they would have no more reason for me to be on the planet. These are the ancestors talking to me. And so my life shrunk, forced me into some deep introspection. I had a vision about agape, and I started a vision group and began our vision group in late 1985, beginning of 1986. We met every Thursday for months to become the vibrational frequency of the vision of agape.
That's the story in brief. There's a lot of stuff in between there. So most of what I do is basically direct from source, you know. And then I could pick up a book and I can say, oh, that's true. You know, it validates. Or I can say, that's not really true. It's almost true, you know. So that's Michael. I like the guy, you know. He always has great intentions.
And I've watched him grow and unfold to become more of himself over the years, you know.
Oh, that's so beautiful. And that's so well said. That's all anyone could hope for themselves is to become more of themselves along the way and enjoy that. But what you're describing is like nothing I've ever heard. Is there anyone else on the planet that's had an experience like this? Like you have?
Yes, yes, there are a number of us. One of my great friends, Dr. Sue Mortar, who you may want to meet one day, had a similar cosmic awakening like that in meditation and changed her life. And when we met each other, it was like we met each other and we knew, you know, because she's been there. You know, she's had that very expanded cosmic awareness.
And then I met other people who have had near-death experiences and come back. And when we meet, like my friend Anita Morgiani and People like that, you can tell that they've seen something else. not just something they've read about that they've actually had an experience of. And I think people don't have to have that kind of experience.
Basically, if you have a little bit of a spiritual practice and good intention, an intention to wake up, and then you practice meditation on a regular basis, you will incrementally dissolve the blockages from seeing reality. Most people don't see reality. They only see their thoughts about reality. And they experience their thoughts about reality.
But reality with a capital R is beautiful, infinite potential, infinite possibilities everywhere. There's just so much beauty everywhere. That's real. But what most people experience is just a sliver of reality. And they think that's the reality, but it's not. It's just that their perception is small.
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Chapter 3: What role does meditation play in changing one's mindset?
And you're going to go inside and you're going to see the best about them and hold. So the news is a collective prayer from our society. It's a society saying we can't see clearly right now. We're in war. We're in hate. We're in scarcity. We're in lack. That's the diagnosis.
So whenever I teach practitioners here at Agape that when you're watching the news, you're actually watching a societal prayer request. And just like you would pray for your friend if they had a diagnosis of some kind, negative, it's to call you into a deeper sense of gratitude and prayer. You're not caught up in it. You're doing something about it vibrationally. Does that make sense there?
Yes, I love that. I absolutely love that. So I know that you're launching a new course tomorrow, actually. Can you talk to us a little bit about what the course involves and what people will get from that?
It's called Awake and Activate. It's going to be shining right here from Agape International Spiritual Center. They can go to agapelive.com to register. I'm doing a five-week class, and the reason it's called Awake and Activate Because I'm going to teach these universal spiritual principles, but it's also going to carry some inner experiences to activate the knowledge that's within us.
Because it's one thing to like read a book and to have an intellectual understanding of what you're reading. It's another thing for that information to become activated within you, to have some level of embodiment. So we're not just walking filing cabinets of information, but we actually have the feeling tone of the information.
In the five weeks, I'm going to teach, but I'm also going to activate so that individuals at the end of those five weeks, they'll be able to see a noticeable difference in their own life, their own emotional life, their own mental life. So it's about transformation, not just academic learning about something, but actually being transformed. So that's at Agape, agapelive.com, Awaken, Activate.
Just go on the website and register for it. It'll be Zoomed because people all over the world, like we had a masterclass the week before to prepare people for the class. It doesn't matter whether you got the masterclass or not, you can still take the class. But we had about 3,700 people on there holding this strong field for awakening and for activation.
And many of them have already registered for the class. So it's going to be on Zoom. It's going to be powerful. You're going to be with people from all over the world that are tuning in. You know, there are many people that keep taking it. I teach it a little bit different every time because I'm different every time. But there are people who take it a lot, who just keep taking.
And there are other classes in our university as well that people can sign up for.
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