Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
15 May 2025
Who is Biet Simkin and what is her background?
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
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.
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?
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.
So I want to lean a little bit more into your story growing up, first when your mom is part of it, and then when your mom is not part of it. So you're being raised with both your parents, who, as I understand, didn't speak the greatest English when they came. And what was your home like with your parents as a child?
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.
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.
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.
They just were like, no, they were very heavy believers in
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