Candice Wu 0:00

A new Earth began to form beneath our feet, volcanic ashes filled the air, sulfuric particles embedded themselves into our hair, onto our skin and tongues. My mouth was coated in ashes, my lungs were processing the particles alongside the grief of so many things passing, burning too quickly for my heart to comprehend. I found these notes and postings I’d written during the first month of the eruption. A reading from The Luminary Journey: Lessons from a Volcano in Creating a Healing Center and Becoming the Leader You Were Born to Be by Darshan Mendoza, who’s our special guest today on the Embody Podcast.

Candice Wu 0:42

She says, once you accept the visions and mission arising from within you, dear luminary, if you haven’t already experienced the quickening, your life will accelerate beyond your imagination. It will not kill you, although parts of the journey will entail many deaths of old identities and belief systems, it will awaken you.

Candice Wu 1:08

Hello and welcome. You’re listening to the Embody Podcast, a show about remembering and embodying your true nature, inner wisdom, Embodied Healing and self-love.

Candice Wu 1:22

My name is Candice Wu and I’m a holistic healing facilitator, intuitive coach, and artist sharing my personal journey of vulnerability, offering meditations and guided healing support, and having co-creative conversations with healers and wellness practitioners from all over the world.

Candice Wu 1:44

This episode is sponsored by listeners like you who support the podcast, specifically today I want to speak about the personal meditations that I offer. The personal meditations are designed intuitively just for you based on a couple of words that you offer me or a sentence of what you desire in your life or are having struggles with or challenges with, or want to grow into, and I create a 10 to 20 minutes healing experience or meditation for you to practice on your own. And send that to you as an audio file that you can download and listen to that is personal just to you.

Candice Wu 2:25

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Candice Wu 2:53

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Candice Wu 3:32

And another note before we jump into the podcast with Darshan today is that the Embody Podcast now has transcribed episodes. Almost all of the episodes are now transcribed and they’re on the website. So each of the links that you connect with, for example, this one at CandiceWu.com/darshan or CandiceWu.com/podcast for all the podcasts that are listed. The transcripts are right below where you will listen to that episode.

Candice Wu 4:04

For those of you who’d rather read the episode, or want to find something within the episode that you saw that you wanted to reconnect with, find the transcription, the experientials are also going to be transcribed. But those have not been done yet and they’re going to be started from the last episode in this last couple of weeks going backward.

Candice Wu 4:29

So before long, those will also be set up as blog posts where you can access that and tune into those experientials by reading the words and instructions. So I hope you enjoy that and find that helpful and also a way that you can digest whatever is really here for you to digest and peacefully and lovingly release the rest.

Candice Wu 4:56

So now let’s jump into the episode today with Darshan. I’m really happy to have her here on the podcast today.

Candice Wu 5:02

I began to just notice Darshan’s work on Facebook and notice that we both had Family Constellations in common. And when I realized that she lived in Hawaii and wrote a book about lessons and experience around the volcano erupting in 2018, I just, I was so interested and love what she’s doing with her retreat center, which she is shifting and closing this chapter and stepping into something new as we speak. But I’m thrilled to have her here today on the podcast, talking about the lessons that she received from the volcano, being in the volcano itself, talking about her spiritual name and the names that we are given and what they mean, as well as connecting with the Hopi saying that we are the ones we’ve been hoping for.

Candice Wu 5:59

Darshan is a spiritual director of Akuahā, a healing retreat in Volcano, Hawaii, and she curates personalized journeys of healing transformation, and visionary incubation for her guests and clients for planetary transformation.

Candice Wu 6:15

She recently launched The Luminary Journey, a New moon to New Moon program and residency where luminaries birth their visions in a holistic and embodied way into the world.

Candice Wu 6:26

Darshan was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to Chicago with her family at the age of seven, and graduated with a political science and minors in English and philosophy degree. She explored the world of law as a student at John Marshall Law school and creative writing at Columbia College, Chicago, and has worked as a paralegal journalist and editor before her spontaneous Kundalini awakening, which led her onto a healers path. And soon enough, the ancestors of Hawaii called her to the Big Island where she began and accelerated decade-long Mystery School, where she learned from wisdom keepers from the Philippines, Hawaii, India, Tibet, the Blackfoot and Navajo nations, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mexico, Japan, China, New Zealand, the bioenergetics quantum field, and the Kundalini Yoga and meditation lineage. So the simplest way to describe Darshan is that of a visionary, healer, and teacher.

Candice Wu 7:30

She’s committed to anchoring in heaven on earth by creating healing centers, which are visionary incubation labs, and schools all over the world, supporting luminaries and discovering their genius and sharing it with the world.

Candice Wu 7:44

As a gift to all the listeners today, she’s offering the advanced reader copy of her book, Luminary Journey, which you heard an excerpt from at the beginning of the episode. It’s a beautiful book and it’s lovely for anybody who is experiencing themselves in a new way and wants to heal or wants to set forth on a path of a vision that they have. Whether you call yourself a luminary or not, you might be one. And you can find all that at CandiceWu.com/darshan.

Candice Wu 8:18

Just a heads up at the very end of the episode on my side of the conversation, things start to sound a little bit chaotic or with interference, maybe it was the amazing energy that was feeding through and just making my technology go crazy, because that sometimes happens when I’m online with people. But also maybe just some stuff was popping up on my computer or it was overheating. So I apologize for the interference on my side of the conversation and I hope you enjoy the conversation nonetheless. So let’s jump into this episode with Darshan.

Candice Wu 9:00

It’s really wonderful to have you here today, Darshan. You’re here all the way connecting with me from Hawaii.

Darshan Mendoza 9:06

Yes. Hi. I’m so honored to be here. Really excited for this conversation.

Candice Wu 9:13

Oh, it’s fabulous. It’s coming at such a wonderful time because you just released your book. Yes, congratulations!

Darshan Mendoza 9:21

Thank you! It’s really surreal. And as I was saying, in our, just private conversation that this is going to be like the first time I’m actually talking about it. So it’s going to be grounding and magical and I’m just really honored and grateful.

Candice Wu 9:39

I’m just so grateful that you are here with me and we get to share what comes with this conversation. And I thought about you know, how do I start this conversation and what I read in your book was about your name, Darshan. Yes, and it means vision of the Divine. And I know that word through Vedic studies, Ayurveda, Yoga, Sanskrit. And I’ve always loved that word. It’s also, my Yoga teacher created a center called the Darshan Center, that’s the first time I’d heard of it.

Darshan Mendoza 10:22

Yeah.

Candice Wu 10:23

Right. So when I saw you on Facebook and began learning about your work, and now that I’ve written, not written, maybe that’s a Freudian slip.

Darshan Mendoza 10:34

I think you are going to be writing a book.

Candice Wu 10:38

I kind of wish I have written your book, but —

Darshan Mendoza 10:40

Now it’s recorded —

Candice Wu 10:41

But I only wish I have written my book —

Darshan Mendoza 10:43

You said it. It is now in the works.

Candice Wu 10:50

Now that I’ve read your book, vision of the Divine is exactly how I would describe you and the work you’re doing.

Darshan Mendoza 10:59

Yeah, in hindsight, now, when I think about the last, you know, 12, 13 years since I received the name, and started using it, I realized that name has actually called me forward, like my true purpose and my gift forward, that I didn’t know was my gift 13 years ago, you know?

Candice Wu 11:26

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 11:27

And in the book, I do talk about the story of how I decided to take that name. And this amazing, super magical couple, just showing up at a store that I was managing and basically telling me that I had it backward, because I thought, “Oh, my gosh, it’s such a sacred name. And there’s so much responsibility in that and that’s too big for me, and there’s no way I can take it.”

Darshan Mendoza 11:54

And so I was vibing that belief for a few weeks, and then they just walked in, you know, we didn’t know each other up until that day and she asked me what my name was. And I said, Beverly, which was my birth name, and she just looked at me with this super clarity, and almost like amusement in her heart, and said, “Oh, I’m sorry, but that’s not your name.” You know, and for some stranger, right to say that, I, you know, I was just really sort of shocked in that moment. But I felt —

Candice Wu 12:31

Wow!

Darshan Mendoza 12:32

— the truth of what she was saying, in my heart, my body, I was super awake, like, super aware, and I’m connected to her words. And then she just explained, you know, it’s really about taking the name and letting the name, we set our vibration and call us forward, and that was it. It was such a simple thing she was saying. She wasn’t trying to convince me of anything. She was just sharing her truth. And it was such a message for me. You know, and soon after that, probably a week or two, I took the name. And I started seeing it like, yeah, this is my name and explaining it.

Darshan Mendoza 13:13

And, you know, fast forward to now, I’m realizing one of the gifts that really surface from that is that when I meet people and listen to people’s stories, I really hear and can clearly see the genius and people, you know, what their gifts are. And so, that’s really seeing the divine in people.

Candice Wu 13:42

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 13:43

You know, so I get it. I’m like, “Oh, my God, I’m so glad. I’m so glad I ran into that couple. I’m so glad I was open enough and ready enough to receive that divine message and I listened.” You know, and yeah, such a gift. I’m so grateful for that name.

Candice Wu 14:04

She really saw you that day.

Darshan Mendoza 14:07

Because Beverly, you know what Beverly means? Have you ever heard about this?

Candice Wu 14:13

No, what does it mean?

Darshan Mendoza 14:13

So Beverly means hardworking beaver in a dam.

Darshan Mendoza 14:19

Yes!

Candice Wu 14:19

Wow!

Darshan Mendoza 14:21

I think about it, like, “Yeah, I totally hustled.”

Darshan Mendoza 14:25

I hustled. I was a hard worker, I still am. You know, but that doesn’t completely define, I think where I am evolving to as a human, you know, so, I mean, I’ll take it, it’s part of me.

Candice Wu 14:38

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 14:39

Right. I still vibe it. My dad’s the one who chose it and I honor him for choosing it. But it’s like there’s something more that I’m evolving into. You know?

Candice Wu 14:48

I can see that.

Darshan Mendoza 14:49

Yeah.

Candice Wu 14:50

Wow.

Darshan Mendoza 14:52

From beaver to, yeah, divine sight, it’s awesome. I’ll take it.

Candice Wu 14:56

Oh my gosh, right. That’s definitely an expansion.

Candice Wu 15:03

But I love that you owned it.

Darshan Mendoza 15:05

Yeah.

Candice Wu 15:05

At some point.

Darshan Mendoza 15:06

Yeah.

Candice Wu 15:07

And started feeling it shift you and you shift it in a sense, that is just you’re stepping into this part of you that was already coming alive.

Darshan Mendoza 15:17

Yeah. I mean, I believe that time and spaces, a simultaneous event. So sort of everything is happening simultaneously. And it just really depends on what frequency we’re tapping into. So that’s, you know, that also includes our names, right. So different parts of our lifetime, there’s certain names that we really connect to or words that even describe us that we use to describe ourselves. Right. Sometimes we have nicknames, and like, our real names, and professional names, and spiritual names, and all kinds of things that we really connect to. And then there are also the words that we use to describe who we are. Words are powerful to me, I feel like they carry such magic, you know, so it’s important to know, and to be conscious and mindful about what words and syllables and sounds we are connecting to and using frequently. You know, to describe who we are.

Candice Wu 16:20

That makes sense.

Darshan Mendoza 16:21

Yeah.

Candice Wu 16:21

Yeah, and that vibration you’re speaking to, it’s not just, well, it’s magical. Right? What you’re saying is there’s a magic to the sound, the words, there’s a magic to what we call ourselves and who we say we are and at the same time, magic.

Candice Wu 16:45

Maybe there’s a quality, let me know what you think. Maybe there’s a quality of unknown or mystery there and at the same time, we also know that sound has vibration itself, like, vibration isn’t, you know, magical isn’t something we can’t grasp in a grounded way.

Darshan Mendoza 17:04

Yeah. It’s very tangible.

Darshan Mendoza 17:07

Yeah, thank you for noting that. I do love to talk about names because my nickname was Jingay, which was completely made up. It was like a sound that I must have left out when I was a child, and my grandfather made that up, and then it became my name that everyone called me, you know, so even though I still get called all of these different names, just depending on where I am and who I’m with. So that’s always really fun too.

Candice Wu 17:41

That is. Yeah.

Candice Wu 17:43

I have that experience too, being Chinese American.

Darshan Mendoza 17:48

What were your names?

Candice Wu 17:50

My, like when I was younger, I was called Candy.

Darshan Mendoza 17:55

Oh, wow! Candy.

Candice Wu 17:57

Yeah. I know. And it came through because my mom wanted, she was called that at some point for no reason other than she liked it.

Darshan Mendoza 18:05

Oh, really?

Candice Wu 18:06

And yeah, and her name doesn't have anything, her name is Yuk Leung.

Darshan Mendoza 18:11

Oh, okay.

Candice Wu 18:11

And then sometimes she calls herself Bo. So it has nothing to do with her name, really.

Candice Wu 18:17

And then that name, that nickname crept its way into just a few people into high school that somehow caught on to that, or hurt my family or I don’t even know they made it up.

Darshan Mendoza 18:29

Right. How that happened.

Candice Wu 18:31

Yeah, and I don’t know, really feel that identified with that name at all.

Candice Wu 18:38

And then my Chinese name is Yun Yun.

Darshan Mendoza 18:42

Oh, really?

Candice Wu 18:43

Yeah, and I really like it. And it’s interesting, I’ve told this story a few times, probably just once on the podcast, but my brother’s name is Chadwick and his Chinese name is Chat Wei. My sister's name is Lauren, right, and her Chinese name is Lauk Yee. And I was, one day, thinking to my mom, like, I was first born, how did this happen with my name and everyone else has a name that sounds similar to their English? What went on with me?

Candice Wu 19:24

And she said, “Well, I thought it would be easy for you to write.”

Darshan Mendoza 19:29

Oh my gosh!

Candice Wu 19:30

Sound twice.

Darshan Mendoza 19:33

Really? Oh my gosh!

Candice Wu 19:35

Yeah. I was like, “Really mom? Thanks for the faith.” You know, well, thanks for the ease too, you know.

Darshan Mendoza 19:42

Right.

Candice Wu 19:44

But then, she said, “Well, it actually means double happiness.”

Darshan Mendoza 19:51

Oh, yeah.

Candice Wu 19:53

Yeah. So then I became, then I came to some more appreciation. Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 19:58

And would you say, that’s the frequency and vibration of you?

Candice Wu 20:07

That’s a great question and I haven’t really thought about that, and it just fits here.

Candice Wu 20:12

Yeah. I feel my Chinese name has a stronger vibration of me than my English name. And I still very much vibe with my English name.

Darshan Mendoza 20:24

Yeah. You do both.

Candice Wu 20:26

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 20:27

Yeah. That’s the wholeness of you.

Darshan Mendoza 20:29

That’s great.

Candice Wu 20:30

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 20:30

It’s almost like your Chinese name is this secret power you have. You know, it’s like your superhero power. And oftentimes, especially in Chinese culture, you know, that tends to be secret. It’s like you don’t say that out loud too often. It’s like it’s weaved within you. But then you’ve got your, like, world name that you walk around with. You know, we were just talking about this yesterday, it was so fascinating, about names.

Darshan Mendoza 21:01

I was talking to actually a Chinese woman and how she named her daughter. And her daughter used to love to reveal what her middle name was to everyone. And then now that she’s becoming a teenager, she’s shy about it. And I said, you know, I don’t even know if she’s shy. I think she just realizes how powerful it is. And maybe she’s just, she likes subconsciously knows that she needs to keep that like sacred as her like power name.

Candice Wu 21:28

Whoa!

Darshan Mendoza 21:29

You know, and we all got chicken skin. We’re like, “Yes!” Because their daughter, so wise. Her daughter’s so bright and wise. I don’t think it’s about like, shame or, you know, embarrassment, but like the teenage stuff. I really think, she like, really knows in her wisdom, like, this is too powerful to just say.

Candice Wu 21:52

Right, and being a child and just being so out with it —

Darshan Mendoza 21:56

Yeah.

Candice Wu 21:57

— expressive of it, and then there’s a threshold where we start to be so aware of the world around us.

Candice Wu 22:05

Wow.

Darshan Mendoza 22:05

Yeah.

Candice Wu 22:09

Wow. Well, I really appreciate this conversation.

Darshan Mendoza 22:12

Yeah me too. I love it.

Candice Wu 22:15

Yeah, and I just think about, I’ve had this conversation in grad school with a few friends who had shifted their name to, I guess the best way to put it as a more Americanized.

Darshan Mendoza 22:29

Yeah, that’s right.

Candice Wu 22:30

Palatable version to American English. And when I said, “Well, what’s your real name and how do you really say it from what your birth name was?”

Candice Wu 22:40

There’s just so much more to them that comes through.

Darshan Mendoza 22:43

Isn’t that wild?

Candice Wu 22:45

Yeah, it’s —

Darshan Mendoza 22:46

I love that.

Candice Wu 22:48

It brings all that wisdom of where it came from?

Darshan Mendoza 22:51

Absolutely.

Darshan Mendoza 22:53

Yeah, I love it too, when I meet folks who, later on in their lives take on their original name, that’s in their language, that too, is such a rite of passage, you know?

Candice Wu 23:08

Oh, very much yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 23:09

So, it’s super important. And, you know, Darshan’s not in the Philippine culture or language. You know, since we know, it’s Sanskrit, so that too, I was like, you know, I had to really think about am I dishonoring my culture if I take this name and or appropriating another culture, you know, but I just really sat with how it was given to me and the messages that were coming after that, the people that were coming to sort of reflect to me, that this was such a gift, you know.

Darshan Mendoza 23:45

And so I took it and I really reconciled anything that I had just some worries about, I reconciled that. And then what was wild was probably a decade later, after I took the name, I was attending a Mystery School in Joshua Tree. It’s a school that I’ve been going to since my 20s. And I was sitting next to this Chinese woman and we were just having lunch and she looks at me and she says, “I know you’re part Chinese.” I said I am and she says, “You know, your name Darshan, means big mountain in Chinese.” And she wrote it for me, and the symbols are beautiful. I still have it written on like, I think, a napkin or something.

Darshan Mendoza 24:32

And that makes sense now too, because —

Candice Wu 24:37

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 24:37

I live on, you know, I live in the longest mountain in the world and I’m also very much connected and honor the biggest mountain in the world, which is Mauna Kea, here in the Big Island. So that too, was a really special moment, to learn more about what that name means in Chinese. And then, you know, it was monumental because I thought, that’s what, I can connect to the Chinese part of me. Like, I get it. I get that. You know, like, that’s so good, that’s part of my actual DNA and culture.

Candice Wu 25:13

Oh, yes.

Darshan Mendoza 25:14

Yeah.

Candice Wu 25:15

And the symbols are for, in Cantonese, it would be Dai San.

Darshan Mendoza 25:22

Dai San, yeah.

Candice Wu 25:26

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 25:27

Wow.

Candice Wu 25:28

I think she’s speaking Mandarin.

Darshan Mendoza 25:29

Yeah.

Candice Wu 25:30

Dashan.

Darshan Mendoza 25:30

Yeah.

Candice Wu 25:31

And the symbols are basic, really elemental.

Darshan Mendoza 25:37

Oh wow!

Darshan Mendoza 25:38

Absolutely. They’re just like alchemy, very basic strokes and simple in its character. Well, which not all Chinese symbols are. So that just feel so, that feels like you too, you know, there’s this elemental quality of getting to the essence of who you are, and supporting other people and doing that.

Darshan Mendoza 25:59

Oh my gosh, Candice, thank you! You just gave me a huge puzzle piece right now.

Darshan Mendoza 26:06

Because I did never heard it in Cantonese, and that’s where my great grandmother spoke Cantonese.

Candice Wu 26:12

Oh, really?

Darshan Mendoza 26:13

Yeah, and she’s a mystery. She’s a total mystery to us, because —

Candice Wu 26:17

Is she the one who was possibly in a circus?

Darshan Mendoza 26:23

Yes.

Candice Wu 26:25

Tell us about that.

Darshan Mendoza 26:27

Oh, my gosh. So, what I know of my great grandmother, and I actually so blessed but when I was born, I got to spend four years with her. She was still alive when I was born. And her name that she chose for herself was Carmen Cady. And we have no idea where she found that name. But she was known to be, to have moved to the Philippines, because she was fleeing an arranged marriage. And that’s all we know.

Darshan Mendoza 27:02

And all we know is she was a stowaway on a boat, and she just chose the boat, because she needed to run away, and she had no idea that it was going to land in the Philippines. And it landed in the Philippines, right. And there’s she — she’s this beautiful woman, she’s walking off the boat and my great grandfather, Victorino saw her and immediately was drawn to her and then just asked her to move in with him and his sister.

Candice Wu 27:33

Oh, my goodness! Isn’t that wild? She sounds like she has had this giant trust for life.

Darshan Mendoza 27:41

Absolutely.

Candice Wu 27:42

Or had to.

Darshan Mendoza 27:43

She sounds like an absolutely, just some magical being, you know, that has quite a history. And she’s a bit revolutionary, and she had, her secrecy made it so much more intriguing because she refused to talk about anything in her past. And but she, like what she exhibited, as this woman and mother and grandmother and great-grandmother was just so forward-thinking, and just so sovereign, like she didn’t care what anyone thought or anything.

Darshan Mendoza 28:17

And my mom would tell me that she took care of my mom and her nine siblings, you know, after school, the day we would come home, and she’d be like, brewing all kinds of different medicinal things and stews.

Candice Wu 28:31

Oh, I love it!

Darshan Mendoza 28:32

And people would be over, talking very passionately in Cantonese and she’d have her own crew like over at the house, almost talking like about revolutionary things. But no one understood, like, none of the kids understood what she was saying. And she was just a tough woman, like any bullies that would you know, bully my mom and her sisters. She would literally like, chase them down on the street with a knife in her hand.

Candice Wu 29:04

Oh, she’s hilarious — Oh my goodness! Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 29:08

Yeah. When we recently found out that perhaps she was in a circus, because we found a book written about our family. And so all of us started reading it over Christmas break, because we had a big reunion this past year, and all of us were reading it. And then when that, when we all got to that part, everyone had their own, you know, responses to it. But I was just, I knew in my heart like that was probably true. Yeah.

Candice Wu 29:38

Wow.

Darshan Mendoza 29:39

So like, that explains it. It explains why I am who I am perhaps, you know, that too.

Candice Wu 29:49

How does it explain?

Darshan Mendoza 29:50

I don’t know. I just imagine her being just so adventurous in her life, and like, really open to the mystical and open to magic. And I haven’t quite found an ancestor or relative that’s like that. So I always wonder I’m like, “I wonder where I got that from?” You know?

Candice Wu 30:16

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 30:17

Yeah.

Candice Wu 30:20

I feel her presence through you.

Darshan Mendoza 30:22

Yeah.

Candice Wu 30:23

Who she is, and it does feel like that is who she is.

Darshan Mendoza 30:26

Yeah, like somebody who could be, you know, hanging out with tigers and like, just the —

Candice Wu 30:32

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 30:32

— the magicians and oddballs and people on the fringe of society. You know?

Candice Wu 30:39

Thinking that it all works.

Darshan Mendoza 30:42

Yeah.

Candice Wu 30:42

You know, that it’s all in the magic of everything. It’s like normal.

Darshan Mendoza 30:47

Right.

Candice Wu 30:47

It’s normal.

Darshan Mendoza 30:48

It’s totally normal. Like, who knows what she would have done in the circus. But it’s such a big clue. And someday, I really want to follow it and find out more, because I think you can, now that you know, you can look up Circuses around that time.

Candice Wu 31:04

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 31:04

Around that area, I think we can totally, it’s the clue that she must have given us from wherever she’s journeying now, and it’s something that we could follow. You know, that’s a big one. A big one. I mean, China is a big freakin country. There’s a lot of Chinese people. It’s like, how am I ever gonna find? And we don’t know her real name? How are we going to find out who she is? You know? Yeah, it’s her life so —

Candice Wu 31:31

Well, hearing about her and what you’re saying that she is a big piece of the puzzle of who you are, and shines this light on who you are, it makes sense. And I want to read a piece of your book.

Darshan Mendoza 31:44

Oh, okay.

Candice Wu 31:46

Where this really does shine through, you know, this adventure and this trusting of whatever’s coming your way. Let’s see which piece will I read.

Darshan Mendoza 32:00

While you’re looking, I’m going to sip my coconut water.

Candice Wu 32:04

Sounds good.

Candice Wu 32:07

So I’d like to read two snippets from your book, The Luminary Journey: Lessons from a Volcano in Creating a Healing Center and Becoming the Leader You Were Born to Be.

Candice Wu 32:19

“May 26, 2018, barely slept and felt something coming. Earthquakes and explosion on the daily. New Earth ash in my mouth, and on my skin. We’re becoming new humans, something is happening within. What a primal existence, each of us getting shaken, each of us letting go. Tutu is creating. This is life on a volcano.”

Candice Wu 32:57

And this second segment, “A new Earth began to form our feet, volcanic ashes filled the air, sulfuric particles embedded themselves into our hair, onto our skin, and tongues. My mouth was coated in ashes, my lungs were processing the particles alongside the grief of so many things passing, burning too quickly for my heart to comprehend.”

Candice Wu 33:25

I can feel something as I read that.

Darshan Mendoza 33:30

Yeah, that brings tears to my eyes for sure, to remember how I felt last year.

Candice Wu 33:40

It’s so wild to me that this was just last year.

Darshan Mendoza 33:43

I know. Me too. And then you know, everything, since the eruptions have really accelerated, my life and thinking the collective here, you know, from what I’ve gathered, as I’ve been traveling this year to, so I think our timeline sped up.

Candice Wu 34:06

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 34:07

And, yeah, it was such a powerful time.

Candice Wu 34:12

When I read these parts of your book in the very beginning, it was just like, “Oh, my goodness, I can’t even imagine what this really would be like.”

Candice Wu 34:22

I love how you described it so viscerally. Like, how your body experienced it.

Darshan Mendoza 34:29

Yeah.

Candice Wu 34:29

What are the tears in your eyes? What do you feel?

Darshan Mendoza 34:33

There’s just this gratitude. Because I think since then, my experience, you know, being on this island, and it’s such a different energy now, it really does feel like the new Earth. And, you know, we’ve been hearing about the new Earth, right, and this new paradigm.

Darshan Mendoza 34:57

I think, especially if you’re on the spiritual path and you’ve been traveling the path of healing and understanding who you are, understanding what your gifts are in the world, and understanding your role in creating with people. What you’re here to create and share and be of service with, you know, that whole journey.

Darshan Mendoza 35:26

We hear from our elders and our teachers, that we are moving towards, you know, golden age or a new Earth, there are different words for it but we understand, not just intellectually, that there’s a great shift happening. We’re seeing it and experiencing it every moment now and it seems like it’s so much more prevalent, but I think it’s also because we have access to see this live through social media, the Internet, and we’re still connected.

Darshan Mendoza 36:05

And so, you know, it’s wild to have heard about this, throughout our journeys of awakening and transformation, and then to be in it, to literally be so immersed in the actual shift. You know, and so that’s, what was so viscerally moving about this whole year since the eruptions began, May 3rd.

Darshan Mendoza 36:43

You know, it’s like, I want it, you know, you just kind of want to walk around be like, “Oh, my God, you guys, it’s happening. We’re really in it.”

Darshan Mendoza 36:50

It’s no longer like a prophecy, you know, we are the prophecy and we are the children of the prophecy. Right? And we are, you know, like, the Hopi elder had said in that very famous poem and incantation, you know, we are the ones that we’ve been waiting for, like, this is it, this is the time.

Darshan Mendoza 37:12

And so when I recognize that last year, it was almost like, you just see a movie of your life, and all the teachers and all the lessons, and all the things start to really align to show you, okay, these are some of the things that you still have to let go of and learn, and transform from and heal. And then here is what’s calling you forward, here are the gifts that are just waiting for you to own and share. You know, and here are the people like, the essence of the people that are calling you forward, to serve their visions and dreams to and play your role. And so all of that was happening, while you know, physically the earth was literally destroying and creating. And so, we’re so connected, right, and so on a macro level that was happening on this global Earth stage and then on such a micro-level internally, that was happening, too.

Darshan Mendoza 38:23

So it’s literally the most sacred time I’ve ever experienced in my life so far. You know, and so to think about it now and to just hear, you know, that what I wrote on May 26th, or whatever day that was, but just to hear how I was feeling, then, knowing that something was shifting, and we are becoming new humans on this new Earth. You know, our paradigms are shifting and we are ascending with this Earth. And to like, physically feel it, blew my mind.

Darshan Mendoza 39:02

And now, you know, a year later looking back, like, “Oh my gosh, we, yeah, we totally shifted paradigms.”

Darshan Mendoza 39:11

And the way we’re becoming new humans is really just we’re embodying more of our divinity. You know, that’s what it is. We are understanding that we are gods and goddesses walking on this earth and through our actions and through the love that we emit, we are ushering in heaven on earth. That’s how it’s going to be done. It’s going to be through us, stopping to like, descend upon us and we’re not going to ascend to it, you know, it’s, I feel it kind of like a Taurus, where it’s literally coming through us, you know?

Darshan Mendoza 39:49

Yeah. It’s wild because it’s no longer intellectual. It is super embodied. Yeah, and you can see the artifacts because its ashes, literal ashes, there are ashes literally falling from the sky. There were these really amazing blobs of lava that was filled with air so it was very light. There were these green Olivine crystals falling from the sky. And there was what people call here Pele’s hair, but it’s these glass, very thin glass particles, you know, bursting out of the volcano, but also falling down from the sky. So it was very elemental, sulfur is a huge part of alchemy, it’s energy and we were covered in it. You know?

Candice Wu 40:50

Oh, my goodness.

Darshan Mendoza 40:50

Yeah. So there was like, it was actually an alchemical thing that was going on. So yeah, that’s why tears because it’s just so profound. You know, when you’re watching birth, you know, child’s birth, when you’re watching someone die and transform into the next life when you’re watching, just the genius of life. That kind of all. Like, that’s how it feels right?

Candice Wu 41:24

Absolutely. Wow. I can’t even imagine that experience.

Darshan Mendoza 41:34

What’s wild is I think we all got it. Like, I honestly felt so connected to everyone on the planet that knew what was happening here and I know people were connecting to us. You know, I know folks were feeling it. Because I happen to like, just, I don’t know, I was just asked to travel a lot this year. So I got to connect with a lot of people. And even during the actual eruptions, like within two weeks, I was brought out to Seattle, to connect with Tom Kenyon. And he did an amazing sort of weekend workshop and I wasn’t sure why I was signed up for this months ago. And when the eruptions were happening, I thought, “Oh, my gosh, this is the worst time to be leaving the island right now but I have to.”

Candice Wu 42:27

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 42:28

Because I’m super called to go. And so I showed up and then I’m sitting in this, you know, Hilton, or something, some hotel waiting for him to get on the stage and I was thinking, “What am I doing here?”

Darshan Mendoza 42:40

All I can think about what was going on at home. And then he gets on the stage and he says, “You know, normally, I would just start chanting right now and introducing you all to the Hathors Star Nation and I’ll just do it through frequency.”

Darshan Mendoza 42:56

But he said, I had a dream last night, and the goddess Pele, came to me. And as many of you know, the Big Island is erupting right now. It’s literally new Earth is coming out. And he said, the people on the island are transforming a lot for the whole planet, we’re all in it together, and they’re doing it right now. But we can so support them and connect to that, because it’s happening to us, too.

Darshan Mendoza 42:59

And he said, “She wants me. This is the Goddess. She wants me to chat for her.”

Darshan Mendoza 43:35

So then he just started chanting for her and playing the drum for about 45 minutes. And I just sat there and I looked around, everyone was crying just like me. And I was shaking, like just pure on, just vibrating. And I felt like he was attuning and she was attuning us through him and I was just in awe. I thought, “Oh my God, it’s happening.” It’s happening and everyone we’re all getting rebirth. It makes sense that the earth is rebirthing herself. She’s ascending. And for us to be on this planet, we are too, you know, in all the small ways, and also the big ways that we’re being called to do that in our lives.

Candice Wu 44:26

Absolutely.

Darshan Mendoza 44:27

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 44:29

And even, you know, what was wild when another, like, sort of red flag indicator that this is really happening, you know, was, it was on social media, a lot of people captured it, but Fox News, actually, you know, was covering the eruptions. I mean, everyone was covering the eruptions and the media, but they’re covering event was, you know, they were talking about the lava and all the evacuees, and all the houses that were being covered. But then there is at the bottom of their screen, there is this ticker, moving, you know, and it actually said, “The Goddess Pele is erupting, yeah, on the Big Island of Hawaii.” And I knew, I’m like, this is the ushering in, look at what Fox News is talking about. You know, she made it on Fox News.

Candice Wu 45:25

Whoever she got through too.

Darshan Mendoza 45:29

It’s so awesome. So yeah, that was also like, wonderful to see.

Candice Wu 45:35

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 45:37

Yeah.

Candice Wu 45:37

Go ahead.

Darshan Mendoza 45:38

No, just to see the medicine and how it just spread exponentially through the planet, you know?

Candice Wu 45:45

Yeah. And I think that that’s a really, I guess, key part to everything you’re saying. Everything you’re about is this shifting from just seeing things as the concrete, in this case, devastation. The way, you know, some people can see it and I imagine it was devastating on many levels. But that it doesn’t end there. It didn’t end there, for you and for the people that we’re experiencing, and for the people you were connecting with, it was a spiritual message. It was many pieces of transformation coming through that were being felt and we’re receiving the information, the wisdom.

Darshan Mendoza 46:40

Absolutely. It’s so humbling and it’s so empowering at the same time, you know. We’re all in it and we are stewards, for sure. And the ascension of the earth is interconnected with our growth, transformation, healing, and ascension. Yeah.

Candice Wu 47:07

Yeah, you said that life was accelerating pretty quickly now.

Darshan Mendoza 47:12

Absolutely.

Candice Wu 47:13

And the events —

Darshan Mendoza 47:14

Absolutely.

Darshan Mendoza 47:17

I didn’t think I was going to write a book this year. You know, I, also, on a personal level, I’m getting divorced, moving, you know, shifting in relationship. And I also feel that this role that I’m stepping into, is really catapulting me to just show up on this level, where I feel that I’m being called to support people who have a vision and dream. And it can be anything, it doesn’t have to be creating a healing center, although I feel that everything we do now as humanity, as we are awakening, is healing and transformative, and that’s sort of the new baseline of what we are all being asked to create in this world. Right?

Darshan Mendoza 48:11

But I do feel that I am here to help support midwives bring into reality, and manifest all of these visions that luminaries are having. And because we’re all connecting to that to certain frequencies, you know, which is the next paradigm, or the new paradigm, right, and these heavenly, very harmonious and awakened ways of living on earth. So everyone’s getting the download that they’re supposed to get. And they’re becoming, everyone’s, you know, being tapped to be vessels for it.

Darshan Mendoza 48:48

So I feel like, that’s how my life is accelerating. And one of the biggest things that I know I can do is I can help people open up schools and temples and eco villages and healing centers. Because that’s been my experience these last five years here. And I’m really like, the last 15 years, you know, of getting the idea, and then just letting it transform my life so I can be a vessel for it.

Darshan Mendoza 49:21

And so yeah, I feel like that’s going to be accelerating too. I’m being called to create another center. I’m being called to transfer what we’ve created here in volcano into the next steward, who I believe is going to be creating a mystery school here for children. That’s just been recent, you know, a recent development. So there’s a lot of movement and it’s exciting. You know?

Candice Wu 49:51

That’s really exciting.

Darshan Mendoza 49:52

Yeah, I’ve been tapped to help a woman here create a temple for the bees, as well.

Candice Wu 49:59

Oh.

Darshan Mendoza 50:00

I know, it’s so exciting.

Candice Wu 50:02

We need them.

Darshan Mendoza 50:04

Oh, yeah. And I get it now. I’m like, “Oh, okay. This is so exciting.”

Darshan Mendoza 50:09

Because yes, the new Earth is here, we’re on it. You know, it’s been infused in our DNA. We all swallowed it last year, you know, somewhere or the other. And now it’s time to create what wants to be created in harmony and in support of life, and this earth, right, and each other, and that’s like, it’s really happening.

Darshan Mendoza 50:35

Sometimes I gotta pinch myself. You know, and be like, “Oh, no, I’m really awake, this isn’t a dream.”You know, this is reality as we know it and this is really happening.

Darshan Mendoza 50:46

I learned recently to check all the time, if this is a dream or not, because I’m also learning that a dream in my sleeping hours, in a very awakened and lucid way, so sometimes, you know, you wake up with a dream and you think you’re awake, but you’re still really dreaming and stuff.

Candice Wu 51:05

So I have this thing where I poke my hand. And apparently, if you’re dreaming, there’s nothing solitary like your finger may go through your hand if you’re dreaming. But if you’re awake, it’ll hit your flesh and bone and muscles, tendons. So I do that often. I’m like walking around poking my hand. Like, “Okay, no, this is, I’m awake.” So like, these decisions are going to have consequences, keep poking my hand. Yeah, but it’s kind of cool. You know to live that way.

Candice Wu 51:37

It’s hilarious.

Darshan Mendoza 51:38

Yeah.

Candice Wu 51:38

Yeah. Beautiful.

Candice Wu 51:42

Oh, and I don’t know if I’ll say her name correctly, Anutosh?

Darshan Mendoza 51:47

Anutosh? Did you know Anutosh?

Candice Wu 51:50

No, I didn’t know.

Darshan Mendoza 51:51

You didn’t get to hear?

Candice Wu 51:52

I didn’t.

Darshan Mendoza 51:53

But have you heard of her before or no?

Candice Wu 51:56

I feel like I’ve heard her name. Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 52:00

She’s a — She’s so, she is such — I mean, she’s like my guide, my angel, my spirit animal. Like, she’s everything to me. Yeah, I had the privilege of meeting her because I reached out to a mutual teacher of ours, Francesca Mason Boring, who’s the Shoshone elder that shares you know, Family Constellations with the world and that ceremony. And I reached out to Francesca because I just had this calling to invite her out here so that she could share Constellation work with our community in Hawaii. And it was Anutosh who wrote to me, because Anutosh was helping Francesca facilitate and coordinate all of her facilitation in Seattle area in the United States.

Darshan Mendoza 52:52

So, Anutosh wrote to me, and she’s also an incredible facilitator. And Francesca knew to send her first to sort of like feel it out in Hawaii and see if it would welcome more so Anutosh became our first facilitator that came out here and it was such a special gathering.

Candice Wu 53:15

Beautiful.

Darshan Mendoza 53:18

I mean, truly blew my mind as the healing power of Systemic Constellation work and what it did for our community, what it did for me, how fast and quantum it was, and deep. I just loved how efficient it was, you know, and I love Francesca using the word elegant efficiency.

Candice Wu 53:44

Oh, yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 53:44

When I met Anutosh, it was such a deep connection and she knew that already that she was only going to be on earth for just a little while longer and that too amplified our connection.

Darshan Mendoza 54:00

And I’ve just basically just sat at her feet and listened to everything she wanted to share and she had so much wisdom, and she’s so humble and hilarious, and irreverent. And she’s just this like, the cutest, most vibrant, I think woman I’ve ever met and yeah, and she gave everything. I really felt like she knew she was going to be transitioning so she gave it all. Like, all the wisdom.

Candice Wu 54:36

Wow.

Darshan Mendoza 54:36

We’re so lucky.

Candice Wu 54:37

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 54:37

Our community was so lucky to have her come, she came twice.

Candice Wu 54:43

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 54:43

She did two sessions here and we just soaked it up.

Candice Wu 54:48

And you said in your book, two weeks before she ascended from the earth plane, that she left you a message, saying, “Darshan, I wanted to share the most beautiful experience of dying, call me back when you can.”

Candice Wu 55:01

And your thought was, “Could she be possibly calling me from heaven?”

Candice Wu 55:06

That was surreal.

Darshan Mendoza 55:09

Our conversation was super surreal. When I called her back, I thought, what, I mean, it’s like talking to an ancestor. You know, talking to God, it’s like talking to an angel, like someone who’s been there, and just has recently come back to have a telephone conversation with you. You know, and it was wild too, we were talking about how we would stay connected as if she was just going on a trip.

Candice Wu 55:38

Yeah. What did you agree upon?

Darshan Mendoza 55:41

It was just through song and through moments of just hilarity? Like, she will continue to show me what’s so hilarious about this Earth and this existence. And then I said, I don’t know if I’m, like, just laughing so hard, like how we always laugh together, about everything, about just the human, the human life, right, and our human traits.

Darshan Mendoza 56:07

She always looked upon people so kindly, and she saw like, human nature is pretty funny, you know, the way that we navigate. And so that’s what she said. She said, “I will show up that way, for sure. And I’ll be laughing with you.” Which was so great to know.

Candice Wu 56:32

Okay, that’s helpful.

Darshan Mendoza 56:34

Yeah, and what a gift. I mean, I, you know, when I’m transitioning, if I’m blessed to know that I am, and I’m blessed to be really awake and conscious through it, that’s what I’m taking from her too is her wisdom, like, leave nothing unfinished. And definitely, like, make sure that you are giving all the wisdom that you want to give. And also, making sure people know that there’s this constant, like eternal connection and you can communicate with each other, you know, through these veils.

Candice Wu 57:22

I’m receiving that. Yeah, for you from her.

Darshan Mendoza 57:25

Yeah.

Candice Wu 57:26

Thank you.

Darshan Mendoza 57:27

Yeah. And she even said, “I’m going to help through the whole manifestation of what you’re creating and stuff.”

Darshan Mendoza 57:34

Which is so I mean, it’s so wild, right? Because we’re so used to praying to our ancestors for these things, but to actually be planning it and talking about it with someone before.

Candice Wu 57:47

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 57:48

Before they become it. Yeah. Such a gift she gave.

Candice Wu 57:52

Oh, yeah.

Candice Wu 57:55

My sister and I agreed that we would show up in each other’s dreams.

Darshan Mendoza 57:58

Really?

Candice Wu 58:00

Yes.

Candice Wu 58:01

That’s wonderful to know.

Candice Wu 58:03

Yeah, I’ll look for you there.

Darshan Mendoza 58:04

A solid contract.

Candice Wu 58:06

Right.

Candice Wu 58:08

Yeah, but this is wonderful.

Candice Wu 58:12

So Darshan, what are you, well, this is the question that wants to come through is if you were writing another book right now, which you might be, what would the title of this chapter be? Right now.

Darshan Mendoza 58:28

Oh, that’s such an intuition.

Candice Wu 58:32

You have lovely titles in your book. They’re just so zingy with energy.

Darshan Mendoza 58:39

You know, the first word is just literally gratitude. I feel that. I was walking around this weekend on the land here, I was hosting the person that I will be handing this place off to as the next steward. And that was a surprise, like, this just recently happened a few months, sort of the universe preparing me to do this. But I did not expect to meet this person right away, and I met her right away, literally, just to the tee exactly how this elder who was guiding me told me how it was going to happen and everything. So I was in shock. You know, I’m like, “Oh, my gosh, it’s, I’m going to be handing this place over soon.”

Darshan Mendoza 59:36

And so she was, I think, integrating it herself too. And so she was somewhere in the house, and I decided to walk around outside and just really connect to the land and the ancestors. I just started balling my eyes out as I walked everywhere, because I not only felt my gratitude for the journey that I was on in birthing this place, and I not only saw like flashes of all the humans that have helped me create, co-create this and all the teachers and mentors who believed in me and help guide me through all of my dark nights and doubts and fears, and who were always super compassionate when I failed, and did terrible things, you know, and had to learn lessons in a really hard way too, like, all these people started flashing into my mind, and I was just so grateful.

Darshan Mendoza 1:00:45

So I’m crying, you know, because of all of this is sort of this, like recapitulation of the last decade of my life and the fact that the book just launched over the weekend. That too, I just thought, “Oh, my God, I just wrote a book about the creation of this place.” It almost felt like it was a thesis or dissertation. And I was graduating, because I’m being called to do something, you know, do something else into my next role. And I thought, “Oh my gosh, so this is sort of this graduation.”

Darshan Mendoza 1:01:23

And it was all just dawning on me on the timing, you know, and then what just pretty much put me on my knees, I felt like I was on ecstasy at this point, as I started to feel and receive the gratitude of the land and the gratitude of our ancestors. And what I felt is this is the most easeful transfer of stewardship I’ve could ever imagine.

Darshan Mendoza 1:01:53

The person that showed up was like, I know this is a divine appointment. And it’s a yes. I don’t even know how much you’re gonna sell it for. But it’s a yes. Like, how easy is that? You know?

Candice Wu 1:02:05

Yeah, so easy.

Darshan Mendoza 1:02:08

Yeah, it’s just so divine and so it’s divine flow. And so I was floored, totally floored at how that came to be and I just felt everyone’s ancestors hers, and also the descendants that are going to be blessed by what I’ve created, and what she’s going to create here and just how happy the land was.

Darshan Mendoza 1:02:46

And so, I would say that this would be, if I was to write about this part, just this weekend, I feel like it’s just absolute gratitude, you never know, really how things are going to interweave and how things are going to connect in your life, you know, and who you’re going to meet around the corner, that’s going to be like a monumental meeting, you’ll never know. And the only responsibility is to just show up authentically, to each moment.

Darshan Mendoza 1:03:26

You know, the way I met this person was, I was on a call with my publisher. And I was just, yeah, just sitting on that call and she hopped on, even though she wasn’t gonna hop on the call, either, because she was, because I wasn’t going to make it on the call either. But I thought something called me like, “You have to, no even if you’re driving, just get on the call, just listen.” You know?

Darshan Mendoza 1:03:54

And so she was traveling, so she’s literally walking through TSA. And something told her to hop on the moment she got through the line. And within that moment, someone just happened to mention on the call that I have a retreat center out here on the Big Island. And she heard it and she needed to hear that. Right?

Darshan Mendoza 1:04:13

And so, you know, you look at these, all these connect the dots and stuff. And when you’re sitting in those moments when you get to look back and see how things connected and weaved, man, like the flood of gratitude. It’s pretty amazing. Because then you realize, Oh, my God, all these miracles had to happen, all of these synchronicities and it really took everyone listening to their hearts and intuition to get to this place.

Candice Wu 1:04:47

You trusted yourself that impulse in you that I just had to get on this call. Who knows why?

Darshan Mendoza 1:04:55

Yeah.

Candice Wu 1:04:55

And you showed up as yourself and what I see too, Darshan is that circling back to your name, again, is that vision of the Divine. You see that in people, you see the magic, and the gifts, and the genius, you said of people. And it also feels really clear, and beautiful, how you receive visions of others about you and that goes deep into and goes a long way. No other people have seen your name in you. Other people have seen, you said that, was it your ancestor, or somebody that said, oh, sorry, your teacher that said described how easy this would transition. And here it was landing on your space?

Darshan Mendoza 1:05:53

Yeah.

Candice Wu 1:05:53

This is a nice circle and loop of what you give and what you also receive.

Darshan Mendoza 1:06:00

Thank you for reflecting that. I totally, just like, ate that up into my heart. Thank you. Yeah. It’s and how divine is it that we get if we continue to just see the divine in one another? Imagine the cocreations that are going to come forward from that.

Candice Wu 1:06:31

It’s a beautiful reminder and message and syncs us back to who we really are.

Darshan Mendoza 1:06:40

Absolutely.

Candice Wu 1:06:41

Well, I have so much gratitude for you.

Darshan Mendoza 1:06:45

You too.

Candice Wu 1:06:45

You’re doing and you’re sharing today and I knew it from the first moment we connected. And then it just was so easy to talk to you from the beginning and I’m so happy that we’re connected. Thank you so much for being here today.

Darshan Mendoza 1:07:03

Thank you for doing this. This is such an incredible way to gather and share and witness each other, you know, in our divinity and in our gifts and the wisdom that we all hold. This is big, you know, thank God for technology and podcasts and all this stuff and the people —

Candice Wu 1:07:25

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 1:07:26

— that really use this technology to share love and this frequency in the world, and I just bow down. I’m so grateful. I’m so honored. This has been a really an incredible healing and grounding experience for me to talk about this. And yeah, I’m just super excited to see how you continue yourself to spread, you know, your Yun Yun and your double happiness all over? I think you are an amplification of happiness, for sure. You’re an amplifier. So thank you, Candice.

Candice Wu 1:08:06

Thank you. Wow, I’m really receiving that too. And where can people find you and your book?

Darshan Mendoza 1:08:17

So right now it is out as an ebook. And today, well, it will be later, so but today, July 1st, it’s for free. But I am offering it as my advanced reader copy. I sent it to you, to Chris, and so you guys are so welcome to share that. Just share it and forward it to each other. But it is available that way and it is also in ebook form right now on amazon.com. It’s called The Luminary Journey. And then it’ll be a print book eventually in I think, February next year, it’ll be in bookstores next year. And then we’re going to work on the audible also next year, probably around August, which is exciting.

Candice Wu 1:09:08

Oh, that’s exciting. Are you going to speak it yourself?

Darshan Mendoza 1:09:13

Yeah. Oh, no, actually, I think no, I think they’re going to choose someone more professional that can enunciate. And you know, I think, you know, we’ll see, I don’t mind not speaking it myself. I feel like, —

Candice Wu 1:09:27

Yeah.

Darshan Mendoza 1:09:28

I love audible books and so I really trust my publisher and picking the right voice. And I get to, I think to choose too, but I love hearing like professional speakers that have that. I just have that frequency and vibration in their voice, you know.

Darshan Mendoza 1:09:48

You have it. I love you how your voice really sounds. So I totally trust that it’s going to be a divine appointment. It’s going to be the perfect person to do that. So they can definitely find me through those venues but right now, when this comes out, Amazon. And then you can log on to theluminaryjourney.com, and there’s a giveaway there that kind of condenses the 8 milestones of The Luminary Journey, and a giveaway, a free giveaway. And you’ll also have an opportunity to schedule a time to chat and tell me about your dreams and vision because I am definitely here and open to help people manifest that. Yeah.

Candice Wu 1:10:38

Oh, that’s great. That’s wonderful. I will link all of that to our show notes here. And this podcast specifically and your experientials, your advanced reader, and the links for Luminary Journey are going to be at CandiceWu.com/darshanmendoza.

Darshan Mendoza 1:10:58

Oh, thank you!

Candice Wu 1:10:59

So it would be very easy for everyone to just jump on there and receive all the gifts that you’re offering. It’s wonderful. It’s such a gift and I have so much gratitude for you.

Darshan Mendoza 1:11:12

Oh, thank you.

Candice Wu 1:11:13

And send it to.

Darshan Mendoza 1:11:15

Yeah.

Candice Wu 1:11:16

And I’m excited that people will have a chance to connect with you.

Darshan Mendoza 1:11:20

Me, too. I’m really grateful Candice. Thank you so much and thank you, listeners.

Candice Wu 1:11:27

Thank you so much. Is there anything you want to leave with today?

Darshan Mendoza 1:11:31

Oh.

Candice Wu 1:11:32

See what comes into your heart?

Darshan Mendoza 1:11:34

Yeah, you know, I feel everyone through time and space. And I just want to say to all of you, that this divine spark that you know, you have within you, this is truly the time to share it and amplify it, with the world. It is such an incredible, beautiful, scary, liberating, empowering experience to do so. And you’re so not alone in that journey, because we’re all awakening to that within ourselves.

Darshan Mendoza 1:12:23

So you know, listening to podcasts and reading the books, and just having incredible conversations with each other, and vulnerably sharing what your dreams are, is so integral right now. And I’m just really excited for myself to be part of all of this that’s happening on earth and connecting in this way. So keep connecting. Yeah, and keep shining it. Because we all need it. We all need to be called forward.

Candice Wu 1:12:58

Yeah, in our fullest as much as we can. Thank you.

Darshan Mendoza 1:13:03

Absolutely.

Darshan Mendoza 1:13:05

Thank you. Mahalo. Salamat.

Candice Wu 1:13:07

If you’ve made it this far, thanks so much for bearing with us through the interference on my end of the podcast, and I hope you enjoyed this podcast, regardless.

Candice Wu 1:13:22

It’s incredible to hear Darshan’s story and to read these bits of her notes that she took while going through the volcano and experiencing this life-changing life-altering devastation, where she found transformation and meaning in where she saw and experienced a vision for what life could become on this earth.

Candice Wu 1:13:51

It’s very inspiring and invites us all to look at what’s going on in the world, with earth, and in our lives, that is showing us a new way, is showing us to leave the old paradigm or to let things die, to let go or surrender into something else.

Candice Wu 1:14:17

Thanks so much, Darshan for coming out to the show. I truly enjoyed it and I look forward to hearing more from you.

Candice Wu 1:14:24

As a reminder, tune into your copy of the advanced reader of The Luminary Journey: Lessons from a Volcano in Creating a Healing Center and Becoming the Leader You Were Born to Be that Darshan wrote after the volcano, you can download that for free just by following the links at CandiceWu.com/darshan.

Candice Wu 1:14:44

Darshan also mentioned Francesca Mason Boring a mutual friend and colleague of ours. You can find Francesca’s episode at CandiceWu.com/francesca.

Candice Wu 1:14:56

If you want to connect with the transcription of this episode, it should be out soon in the next couple of weeks from the published date of this episode, and be sure to check out previous episodes and their transcriptions at the website at CandiceWu.com/podcast.

Candice Wu 1:15:13

If you want to stay connected to me and receive updates of my travels, self-love notes as well as workshops, retreats, and podcast updates, find me at my newsletter that comes out every two to three weeks at CandiceWu.com/embody where you can sign up to receive those.

Candice Wu 1:15:33

It’s really wonderful to have you here today and I will leave you with a couple of thoughts and feelings from me. I can just hear Darshan saying mahalo, and I invite us all to look at our lives as transformation happening and how we can see transformation through devastation. How can we look for the learning that’s coming through, with things that feel out of our control, and also how we can cleanse ourselves so we can shine brightly in the world as ourselves.

Candice Wu 1:16:23

Thank you so much for joining us today. And see you next time on the Embody Podcast.