In this conversation, I sit down with Trey Jones. Trey Jones is a former convict who spent 10 years in a Tennessee prison, and while in prison, he had a near-death experience that awakened him to a very new and different perspective.

While tattooing, Trey was offered a bump, of which turned out to be fentanyl, that put him out for 18 minutes.

After six cans of Narcan and three defibrillator shocks, Trey awakened to a new lens on reality. He joins us to share his current teachings on victim mindset, his insights on what he calls ‘inverted narcissism’, and his wisdom as a coach - Trey moves now as a Personal Authority Coach under the moniker ‘PrisonToPurpose444’ (He’s the founder of ‘From Prison To Purpose’) - He does 1:1 interventions to dismantle victim identity and rebuild authority. He lives a more grounded life these days, as a proud father with his partner and son in the Great Northwest. I actually met him at the edge of a forest - where a gathering of dancing energy healers, eccentric thinkers, connecting artists, and modern shamans met to evolve together, transmute, and dance through their dharma as one.

Please welcome to the podcast: Trey Jones.

For more details on what subjects we approached, check the time stamps below>

Timestamps:

0:00 – Morning rising ritual, meditation, and gratitude practice

4:00 – Mobility work, cold showers, and light breakfast for energy

7:00 – Why victim mentality is inverted narcissism and manipulation

12:00 – Fasting as a mental game and building willpower like a muscle

18:00 – The witness state in meditation and observing your thoughts

23:00 – Prison life, the fentanyl overdose, and the near-death turning point

28:00 – Instant perspective after dying and working through deep regret

33:00 – Cutting ties with old energies while allowing redemption

38:00 – God as energy, frequency, and universal consciousness

43:00 – The double slit experiment and how belief creates reality

48:00 – Identity shifts from manual labor to purposeful social media work

55:00 – Christ consciousness and the current global awakening

1:02:00 – Energetic healing, breathwork, and the power of mindset

1:08:00 – Levels of consciousness, empathy, and reading people

1:14:00 – Prison lessons on self-care first and real empathy with standards

1:22:00 – Synchronicities, interconnections, and past-life loops

1:30:00 – Pre-planned journeys, amnesia, and chasing your higher calling

1:36:00 – Final reflections and message to listeners

Notable quotes from Trey on the show:

“Victim mentality is just inverted narcissism.”

“Healing isn’t being understood. Healing is becoming someone that your past can no longer control.”

“Your willpower is a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it is.”

“I don’t believe everyone has to die to find their true self.”

“Empathy without standards creates weak adults.”

“Staying hard is the quickest way to never change.”

“The true you is the witness behind it all.”

“We’re all just trying to pick different versions of ourselves up because we’re all a little piece of the puzzle.”

“If you have a dream or a higher calling, just fucking chase it. Nobody’s going to pursue your passions like you are.”

“Everything in my life needs to change, because everything in my life up to this point led me to this moment.”

“My purpose now is to offer the same perspectives I went through so people don’t have to reach the same levels of rock bottom.”

“Identity is your subconscious beliefs on who you are. You have to surround yourself with people who believe in the identity you believe in.”

“We come down here and everyone gets amnesia. The beauty of life is discovering life itself.”

Trey Jones turned:

- a decade in Tennessee prisons

- a fentanyl overdose that put him out for 18 minutes

- and living in victim mindset

into a complete life reset.

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What if mania isn’t a malfunction — but a message from the psyche trying to heal?

Sean Blackwell is an author, teacher, and researcher who has spent nearly two decades exploring the spiritual and somatic dimensions of bipolar disorder. His work challenges the mainstream psychiatric model by suggesting that episodes of mania, depression, and psychosis often have trauma roots and can reflect deep inner attempts at healing rather than symptoms of a broken brain.

In 1996, Sean went through a sudden and life-altering psychotic-spiritual emergency - an experience that would send him on a lifelong path of studying consciousness, trauma, and the symbolic nature of extreme states. Years later, after training with Grof Transpersonal Training, he developed Bipolar Breathwork, a somatic healing method designed to help people safely release the emotional and energetic blockages underlying bipolar symptoms.

Since 2007, Sean has taught internationally, run immersive healing retreats, offered long-distance breathwork sessions, and released dozens of educational videos to help people reframe bipolar disorder as a potentially meaningful and transformative process. His book Bipolar Awakenings and his upcoming second book continue this work - bridging psychology, spirituality, trauma science, and subtle-body energetics into a new way of understanding human breakdown and human growth.

Sean’s approach is deeply interesting, compassionate, and grounded in real lived experience - a perspective that has helped many people find hope, coherence, and self-understanding after years of confusion or misdiagnosis.

This episode explores the somatic roots of bipolar disorder, the symbolic language of psychosis, the role of trauma in extreme states, and how Kundalini and breathwork can create dramatic shifts in consciousness.

Notable quotes from the episode:

“People think delusions are random. But around the world, the same 13 spiritual delusions show up. There is structure.” - Sean
“Breakdowns often happen because something in us finally refuses to stay buried.” - Sean
“I’ve met so many people who weren’t sick - they were overwhelmed by a truth they weren’t taught how to carry.” - Jacob

“What psychiatry calls a disorder can be the beginning of a profound inner journey.” - Sean

“Trauma doesn’t live in the mind. It lives in the body - and the body tries to heal in dramatic ways.” - Sean
“The body whispers for years, and when we don’t listen, it eventually sends a storm.” - Jacob

“When those energetic blockages release, the result can look like mania, visions, or symbolic delusions.” - Sean
“Sometimes healing looks like falling apart in ways we can’t cleanly explain.” - Jacob

“The psyche speaks in myth and metaphor. Mania is often that language becoming audible.” - Sean

If this conversation expanded your understanding of bipolar disorder or spiritual awakening, consider following the show and sharing it with someone it might help.

00:00 Sean Blackwell on Bipolar Disorder & Spiritual Awakening
00:00:25 What Bipolar Disorder Really Is (Symptoms vs Reality)
00:01:30 Bipolar I, Bipolar II & Psychosis Explained
00:02:20 Spiritual Delusions & the Ram Dass Connection
00:03:38 Sean’s Landmark Experience: The Turning Point
00:05:05 Entering Psychosis: The Dreamlike State & Ego Death
00:06:32 Crisis, Hospitalization & Early Integration
00:08:05 How Helping Others Became Sean’s Calling
00:09:16 Supporting His Niece Through Awakening
00:10:49 Why Psychiatry Defaults to Lifelong Medication
00:11:35 Kundalini, Trauma Energy & Somatic Roots of Bipolar
00:14:11 Which Book to Read First
00:15:24 Breathwork, Distance Sessions & Trauma Release
00:18:53 Meaning, Intuition & Sean’s Multiverse Theory
00:21:27 Closing Reflections on Healing & Awakening

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