HolisticCircle Spiritual Conversation Host Philipp Kobald

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Philipp Kobald speaks with Angell Kelly, spiritual guide, intuitive coach, and podcast host, about leaving corporate life behind, rediscovering faith beyond organized religion, and why surrender may be one of spirituality’s most misunderstood concepts.
Many people leave religion behind and lose more than doctrine. They lose community, ritual, and a framework for meaning. Others spend years on self-improvement only to find themselves stuck in endless inner work. After years of journaling, reflection, and subconscious reprogramming, Angell encountered A Course in Miracles, which deepened her connection to intuition and faith. That journey led her to leave a successful career in Canada, move to Greece, and build a life guided by what she describes as alignment with God.
Together, Philipp and Angell explore:
Why leaving religion can also mean losing connection and community
The difference between spiritual growth and endless self-focus
Intuition, faith, and listening to divine guidance
When to take action and when to surrender
Success, fulfillment, and spiritual emptiness
The rise of new forms of spiritual community
✨ Main Takeaways
Your outer world often reflects your inner state
Surrender becomes easier when trust in the divine grows
Sometimes resistance is a sign to stop forcing and let go
Spiritual growth should improve how you relate to others, not just yourself
Real transformation shows up in daily life, relationships, and service
💬 Quotes
"Your external world is only ever a reflection of your internal world." — Angell Kelly
"Surrender isn't a constant state. Sometimes we act, sometimes we let go. Wisdom is knowing the difference." — Philipp Kobald
About the Guest
Angell Kelly is a spiritual guide, intuitive coach, and host of the Spirit Clan Podcast. She left a corporate career in Canada to create a more aligned life in Greece and now helps clients connect with intuition, purpose, and spiritual growth.
📖 CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction and moving from Canada to Greece
02:00 Spiritual awakening and inner work
07:00 Faith and community in Greece
12:00 Religion, culture, and the word "God"
19:00 Bringing spirituality into everyday life
26:00 Coaching, limiting beliefs, and embodiment
35:00 Surrender and trusting the divine
45:00 Survival instincts and spiritual openness
49:00 Closing thoughts
If spirituality seems vague or disconnected from real life, this conversation offers a grounded look at faith, intuition, community, and what it means to live authentically.
#spiritualawakening #intuitiveliving #divinesurrender #modernspirituality #innerwork #spiritualcommunity #holisticgrowth
P 16 26 (E0123) · 16 April 2026

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In this episode, Philipp Kobald talks with Ara Trembly, psychotherapist, Christian counselor, and author, about dream interpretation, hypnosis, trauma, faith, and forgiveness.
Many people rely on dream dictionaries that assign universal meanings to symbols. Ara argues that this approach misses the point. Drawing from both Scripture and Jungian psychology, he explains why dream symbols are personal and why the dreamer must determine their meaning.
The conversation also tackles hypnosis, a topic often viewed with suspicion in Christian circles. Ara describes hypnosis as a state of deep relaxation and focused concentration that can help people access unconscious beliefs, fears, and memories. He distinguishes clinical hypnotherapy from stage hypnosis and challenges common misconceptions about its relationship to faith.
Philipp and Ara also explore the popularity of past-life regression, discussing why Ara believes it is largely driven by suggestion and imagination rather than evidence. They examine the growing use of the term "trauma" in modern psychology and whether overusing the label may unintentionally undermine those dealing with severe traumatic experiences.
A central theme of the episode is forgiveness. Ara explains how unresolved resentment can manifest physically through stress-related symptoms such as headaches, digestive issues, and chronic tension. Forgiveness, he argues, is less about excusing wrongdoing and more about freeing oneself from its ongoing burden.
What hypnosis really is and how it works
Why past-life regression fails scientific scrutiny
The overdiagnosis of trauma in modern culture
How Christian counseling integrates prayer and faith
Biblical approaches to dream interpretation
Why dream symbols are personal, not universal
The connection between emotional and physical health
Forgiveness as a powerful tool for healing
Hypnosis can provide access to unconscious patterns that influence behavior and emotions.
Past-life regression is highly vulnerable to suggestion and confirmation bias.
Not every difficult experience should automatically be labeled as trauma.
Faith can offer stability, meaning, and resilience during recovery.
Effective dream interpretation depends on the dreamer's personal associations.
Forgiveness benefits the person who forgives more than the person being forgiven.
"Hypnosis is just another tool. It's no more an anti-God tool than a hammer or a screwdriver." — Ara Trembly
"Holding a grudge is like squeezing a porcupine. The harder you squeeze, the more it hurts you." — Ara Trembly
"I'm sitting here being a fanatic, almost radical agnostic, desperately hoping for more Christian values in our societies." — Philipp Kobald
Ara Trembly is a psychotherapist, Christian counselor, and author of Dreaming God's Way. With more than 20 years of clinical experience, he combines biblical and Jungian approaches to dream interpretation and uses hypnotherapy to help clients access unconscious processes.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Ara's background
08:00 Understanding hypnosis and the unconscious mind
12:00 The case against past-life regression
18:00 Trauma and modern psychology
26:00 Christian counseling and prayer
34:00 Dream interpretation and symbolism
44:00 Forgiveness and emotional healing
54:00 Society, responsibility, and Christian values
Watch the full conversation on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel.
#dreaminterpretation #hypnotherapy #christiancounseling #forgiveness #traumahealing #psychology #spirituality #jungianpsychology #holistichealth
P15-26 (E0131) | 15 April 2026

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Spirituality Was Never Meant to Be This Exhausting
In this episode of Holistic Circle, Philipp Kobald speaks with Binesh Toor, a Pakistani energy healer and spiritual practitioner, about Sufism, Islam’s hidden mystical tradition, and why ancient healing wisdom still matters in a world drowning in information.
The Sufi Secret Western Spirituality Got Wrong
Why does the mystical side of Islam, the tradition Rumi came from, barely exist on the English-speaking internet? What if the spiritual framework you’ve been searching for has been sitting in untranslated libraries across Pakistan and the Middle East? Binesh’s journey through yogic texts, Sufi poetry, quantum mechanics, and inner resistance led her to see mystics across traditions describing a unified field of consciousness.
Together, Philipp and Binesh talk about:
Why Sufism remains one of the least accessible spiritual traditions in the West
Energy healing in Pakistan and the courage it requires
Ayurvedic medicine and Hikma, the Islamic herbal healing tradition
Why quantum mechanics and ancient mystics reach similar conclusions
When spiritual crisis looks like professional burnout
How the internet democratized spiritual knowledge while burying traditions
Why Sufism approaches God through humor, wandering, and questioning rules
✨ Main Takeaways
Mystical traditions often describe the same energy field.
Spiritual exhaustion can come from performing enlightenment instead of living it.
Important healing traditions are not always the best translated.
You don’t need a guru to access your own energy.
Corporate and spiritual burnout can be the same crisis wearing different clothes.
Being a spiritual practitioner in a conservative culture can itself be inner work.
💬 Quotes
“Spirituality doesn’t have to be boring.” — Binesh Toor
“I enjoyed the humor a lot... it gave me a personal sense of how to tackle spirituality with calmness, with humor, and not to take it too serious.” — Philipp Kobald
“All the mystics in the world speak the same language.” — Binesh Toor
About Our Guest
Binesh Toor is a Pakistani spiritual practitioner and energy healer exploring healing, consciousness, mysticism, Sufism, and energy work with clients worldwide.
📖 CHAPTERS
00:00 Energy Is Everything
00:30 Podcast Welcome And Guest Intro
01:45 Pakistan And Spiritual Openness
04:09 Binesh Origin Story
08:25 Healing Work And Clients
09:12 Chakras Beyond Religion
16:36 Sufism Rumi And Heart Wisdom
19:25 Human Evolution And Quantum Spirit
25:21 Small Energy Big Impact
26:50 Beyond Positive Thinking
28:03 High Low and Zero Vibration
29:29 What Sufism Means Personally
31:28 Mysticism as Self Exploration
35:02 Women Hidden Sufi History
38:20 Medicine Alchemy and Parallels
44:45 Why Study Sufism Today
Watch the full conversation on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel if you’re tired of spirituality that sounds like a corporate workshop with candles.
#holisticcircle #philippkobald #sufism #energyhealing #islamicmysticism #spiritualawakening #rumi #quantumspirituality
P 12 26 (E0128) 7 April 2026

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Episode Hook
What if one of humanity’s oldest spiritual systems has been hiding inside an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards? Philipp Kobald speaks with Alexander and Vicki Dunlop about the forgotten symbolism of playing cards, sacred geometry, consciousness, quantum healing, spirituality, emotional intelligence, surrender, fear, trauma, astrology, and the patterns that may shape our lives.
Alexander, a Harvard graduate and former Wall Street professional, discovered the deeper meaning of playing cards in 2009. His research led him to believe the deck is a symbolic map of the quantum field with roots reaching back to ancient Sumerian traditions. Together with Vicki, an energy healer, he now teaches people how to understand their birth cards, relationships, gifts, and challenges through a 13-card life path.
Key Discussion Points
How the 52-card deck mirrors the calendar and Earth's yearly cycle.
Sacred geometry hidden in card pip patterns, including the Flower of Life, Tree of Life, Star of David, and Metatron's Cube.
Birth cards, personality cards, and the 13-card life path.
High-side vs. low-side expressions of every card.
How card knowledge transforms relationships and self-understanding.
Connections between cards, astrology, consciousness, and spiritual growth.
Alexander and Vicki's personal journeys into healing and coaching.
Quotes
"Your birth card and personality card form the core of your life path—a 13-card journey that reveals your gifts, challenges, and shadows." — Alexander Dunlop
"A little light can erase a lot of darkness." — Philipp Kobald
About the Guests
Alexander spent nearly two decades exploring spirituality through meditation, ceremony, Human Design, astrology, palm reading, ayahuasca, and seminary studies before discovering the card system. Vicki trained in energy healing at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Since 2022 they have combined their experience to teach this approach worldwide.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Alexander's discovery
02:00 Vicki's healing journey
08:00 Ancient origins and sacred geometry
15:00 Birth cards and life path
19:00 Calendar and Earth's rotation
24:00 Learning your cards
29:00 Astrology and other systems
34:00 Philipp's live reading
41:00 Sacred geometry patterns
46:00 Emotional symbolism
49:00 Preserving the knowledge
52:00 Closing thoughts
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In this episode, Philipp Kobald sits down with musician and peace activist Rick DellaRatta, the founder of Jazz for Peace, to talk about what happens when you spend 25 years trying to live up to a poem you wrote on a rooftop less than a quarter mile from Ground Zero.
War Gets 100% Funding. Peace Gets Zero. (One Man's Plan to Change That)

Together, Philipp and Rick talk about:
Why Mozart's story is really a parable about what happens when genius outgrows its usefulness to power
The music industry's deep corruption, and why the Mozarts of tomorrow still die unheard
How technology eliminating jobs could free people to follow their actual passions, if we let it
What Brazilian carnival teaches about the power of "a lot of people doing a little bit"
The ancient idea that churches were originally acoustic healing centers
The uncomfortable math: war is funded at 100%, peace at 0%
✨ *Main Takeaways*
Music carries every quality that makes us human: creativity, artistry, humanity, intellect. Tapping into those qualities is itself a form of peacemaking.
The artists who could change the world are almost never known during their lifetime, and their impact is greatest in the era they actually live in.
If technology frees people from unwanted labor, the question becomes whether we fund their dreams or funnel the profits to a handful of people at the top.
Community doesn't require everyone to be a virtuoso. Sometimes it just takes giving 5,000 people a simple rhythm and getting out of the way.
Peace isn't underfunded because it doesn't work. It's underfunded because we've never seriously tried.
💬 *Quotes*
"We live in a world that funds war at a hundred percent and funds peace at zero percent." — Rick DellaRatta
"I've been trying to live up to the words of a poem for 25 years." — Rick DellaRatta
"When we fill our souls with creativity, artistry, humanity, intellectuality… we will have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction." — Rick DellaRatta
*About our Guest*
Rick DellaRatta is a musician and founder of Jazz for Peace, an initiative he began after September 11 that uses music to support humanitarian causes worldwide.
This conversation moves between Mozart myths and modern warfare, between Austrian skepticism and New York jazz clubs, between a skiing injury and the healing properties of sound. Rick shows up in a neck brace and plays a Backstreet Boys song reimagined as jazz, then recites a poem about peace that's been quoted on over 150 websites in languages from Icelandic to Japanese.
If you're curious what it looks like when one person decides to spend 25 years proving that music can do what politics won't, press play.
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📖 *CHAPTERS*
00:00 Introduction
02:11 The connection between skiing and jazz
02:45 A tale of two musicians: Mozart and the regular kid
06:33 Jazz for peace: the origin story
10:18 Why great artists are never known in their lifetime
13:00 The 25th anniversary of jazz for peace
14:11 Before and after 9/11: a musician's turning point
16:04 850 benefit concerts and the United Nations performance
17:59 Solutions: technology, jobs, and following your dream
20:26 Why we never found the next Mozart
24:21 The passion debate: will free time free creativity?
29:41 The healing power of music
33:07 Our greatest qualities live inside music
35:10 Brazilian jazz and the power of community
38:42 Live performance: "I want it that way" turned into jazz
44:51 How to get involved with jazz for peace
50:18 Peace is funded at zero percent
53:15 Final thoughts
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#holisticcircle #philippkobald #worldpeace #musicheals #activism #spiritualmusic #jazzmusic
P 16 26 (E0137) - Apr 28, 2026