“Stillness. This is the way.” - Isra Garcia -- In this intimate episode of The Great Victory, Isra García sits with Natasja Pelgrom in Bali—overlooking rice fields, the ocean, and the mountains—on the last day of their time together.

“You don’t have to show love. You are love.”

Natasja is a Pioneer in Holistic Transformation, an internationally respected visionary, advisor, and thought leader at the intersection of sacred leadership, human flourishing, and transformative entrepreneurship. She embodies key capabilities, and her presence carries three significant qualities: heart, wisdom, and depth. From nervous system to nervous system, breath to breath, she asks Isra three questions that pull the conversation into the rawest territory of his 4-year experimental sabbatical: illusion, love, truth—death in every moment—and the one practice he believes most people truly need right now.

“Die at every moment.”

The 3 questions Natasja asks

1. What have you learned about illusion, truth, and love through The Great Victory?
2. Are you willing to speak about dying many times—and what that “death” really means on the path?
3. From all your experiments and practices: what is the one healing quality people need most today?

“Nothing to fix. Nothing to prove.”

What you’ll take from this episode

• Why Isra sees illusion, love, and truth as inseparable—and impossible to capture in words

• What “dying at every moment” actually means (beyond spiritual romanticism)

• Why stillness is not a technique, but an art—and the fastest path to inner freedom

• How to start practising stillness without making it complicated

• The line that becomes the episode’s mantra: “Stillness. This is the way.”

A conversation for those who want less theory, more reality—and a direct return to what’s essential.

“Stillness is direct realisation.”

Podcast show notes:

• ⁠Mastering the Art of Stillness - the Total Stillness experiment
• What is the Great Victory⁠⁠
• Nothing to Solve - Isra Garcia interview for Trust the Journey
• The Awaken Podcast - by Natasja Pelgrom
• The Darkness, self-mastery, and inner exploration retreat⁠.

• ⁠Holistic High-Performance program

“That moment when I saw it — I knew it. My heart, my mind, everything exploded.” - In this special episode of The Great Victory, Isra García sits down with his longtime friend David Burgman, head of Raptor Marketing UK — a creative strategist, adventurer, and one of the most legendary people in Isra’s life.

David brings two deceptively simple questions:

1. If you could eat only one cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it be?

2. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen — the moment that truly took your breath away?

What follows is a conversation that oscillates between the playful and the profound.

“This is what I’d been searching for all my life — being here, all the time.”
Isra shares his favourite meals with contagious joy — and then delves into a story that changed everything: months of darkness, fasting, and silence, during which he witnessed something beyond comprehension.

“In the stillness, I saw something. I don’t know if I can call it God… but in that instant, I knew — with my entire being.”

That moment shattered every belief and rebuilt a new understanding of life, meaning, and presence.

A reminder that the extraordinary often hides within the ordinary — in food, friendship, and silence.

Key Insights

• How a single moment can redefine your entire existence
• The paradox of depth inside simplicity
• Why presence is the real feast
• The power of surrender and awe in transformation

“I saw something that made me believe in everything.”

Podcast show notes:

• The Darkness, self-mastery, and inner exploration retreat.
• What is the Great Victory
• Holistic High-Performance program

“The near-death experience helped me release the biggest and most profound traumas I had in myself.” - In this electrifying and profoundly vulnerable episode, Isra García responds to two questions posed by Lennert Luypaert — one of his dearest friends — as he explores the razor-thin line between life and death, healing and chaos, breaking and awakening.

“I opened my eyes and saw him like a baby. We could start again from the beginning.”

What happens when two brothers face their deepest pain in a high-dose psychedelic ceremony? When a near-death experience becomes the gateway to liberation? When love, fear, and forgiveness collide on the razor’s edge of human transformation?

“Psychedelics can lead you to the biggest experience of your life — or the worst, even thinking of suicide.”

An episode guided by Lennert Luypaert’s two piercing questions:

1. ​“What’s one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever experienced?”
2. ​“Have you ever had a near-death experience?”

Here Isra reveals the unfiltered story of a ceremony that redefined his relationship with his brother and his entire existence.

“One of the existential agonies of every human being is trying to confirm every time: Am I a mistake?”

What You’ll Learn in this episode:

• ​How psychedelics can both heal and destroy — and what determines the difference
• ​The hidden power of radical brotherhood and vulnerability
• ​How to transmute trauma into strength and compassion
• ​The existential fear that every human faces: Am I a mistake?
• ​Why near-death can become the most life-affirming experience

“I only can say thanks. I only have love.”

Key Takeaways:

• ​Healing generational wounds requires facing what terrifies you most.
• ​True connection begins where ego dies.
• ​The edge between death and rebirth is where transformation happens.
• ​Gratitude is the ultimate form of transcendence.

Disclaimer

This episode contains intense personal revelations and references to psychedelic experiences. Not recommended for listeners unprepared for emotional and existential depth.

“We did a psychedelic ceremony with mushrooms… it healed our relationship. From this moment on, it’s been a blessing.”