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What if some of the most important forces shaping our lives exist beyond conscious awareness?

Today’s guest is Danielle Green, a psychoanalyst and marriage and family therapist whose work explores trauma, relationships, meaning, the unconscious mind, and the deeper dimensions of human experience.

Danielle says her own early mystical experiences led her into a lifelong exploration of questions surrounding consciousness, spirituality, the psyche, and the meaning of human life. Her professional work draws on Jungian psychology, Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy, clinical hypnosis, dream analysis, and family systems.

In this conversation, we explore:

• How Danielle’s early mystical experiences influenced her professional path
• Why she believes there is more to reality than what we can immediately perceive
• The role of intuition and instinct
• How unconscious processes can influence our lives
• Why she believes sudden insights can emerge outside deliberate conscious thinking
• The relationship between the unconscious mind and creativity
• Why Danielle looks beyond symptom management toward the possible meaning of symptoms
• How family patterns and habits can be passed down and remain unexamined
• Her phrase “our biography becomes our biology”
• Why examining inherited patterns can be important
• The relationship between trauma, physiology, and behavior
• Danielle’s research into mystical experiences across different cultures and religious traditions
• Similarities she says she encountered among people describing mystical experiences from very different traditions
• How mystical experiences can alter people’s sense of identity and their relationship to others
• The role of acceptance, compassion, and love following profound experiences
• Her research and experiences in India
• The relationship between mystical experiences, spirituality, and the psyche
• Her perspective on neurotheology and the interaction between theology and neurology
• Why Danielle believes experiences that transcend ordinary conscious understanding can profoundly shape people’s lives

At the center of Danielle’s work is a willingness to look beneath the obvious—to ask what lies beneath our symptoms, habits, beliefs, and conscious explanations.

This is a conversation about the unconscious mind, healing, family patterns, spirituality, mystical experience, meaning, and the parts of ourselves we may not fully understand.

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The Green Practice

Danielle explicitly tells listeners to look up her website, The Green Practice, to learn more about her work and her daughter Hadley Green, who is working with her.

📖 Danielle’s Book

A Magnificent Obsession: My Lifelong Search for the Meaning of a Mystical Call

Danielle explicitly gives the title in the closing section.

She says the book is available on Amazon and other major book sources.