Bending Time Explained: Consciousness & Identity | Patrick Garlinger with Cate Stillman
Bending Time, Identity, and Awakening for Modern Professionals
with Patrick Paul Garlinger
In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Podcast, Cate Stillman is joined by spiritual author, intuitive guide, and former lawyer Patrick Paul Garlinger for a deep and multidimensional conversation on time, identity, depth work, and awakening within modern professional life.
Patrick shares his unconventional journey from Spanish literature professor to New York City lawyer and eventually into a life devoted to spiritual inquiry, intuition, and channeled wisdom. Together, Cate and Patrick explore how cultural conditioning, productivity-driven identities, and inherited ideas of success shape how we experience time, growth, and ourselves.
At the heart of the conversation is Patrick’s concept of “Bending Time” not as a productivity tool, but as a way of relating to the present without projecting the past onto it. They discuss how we unconsciously interact with people, work, and life through old filters, and how real transformation often requires slowing down, entering vulnerability, and allowing depth to emerge naturally.
Cate weaves in reflections from her work with Club Thrive, including growth paths versus depth paths, somatic healing, leadership, and the importance of safe containers for professionals undergoing identity shifts. Patrick speaks candidly about depression, childhood trauma, intuition, channeling, and why meaningful healing is rarely fast or linear.
Rather than offering surface-level self-improvement, this episode invites listeners into a more honest relationship with time, becoming, and the unknown where awakening unfolds one step at a time.
Key Takeaways
- What “bending time” really means in daily life and relationships
- Why we often relate to people through past versions of them and how to stop
- Growth path vs. depth path: why both are essential
- Identity, professionalism, and the cost of predictability
- Vulnerability and intimacy as gateways to transformation
- Channeling, writing, and capturing insight before it disappears
- Why healing often requires slowing down not fixing faster
Reference links:
Guest Website & Books:
Official Website and Endless Awakening: www.endlessawakening.com
Books by Patrick Paul Garlinger:
- Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment
- A World Without Identity: The Sacred Task of Uniting Humanity
- Bending Time: The Power to Live in the Now
- Seeds of Light: Channeled Transmissions on the Christ Consciousness
- When Thought Turns to Light: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Transformation
Cate’s website and books:
🌿 Wellness Pro Academy → https://wellnesspro.academy
🧘 Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com
Author of:
📗 Primal Habits → https://amzn.to/3OvfPOx
📘 Uninflamed → https://amzn.to/3UUBgJ2
📙 Body Thrive → https://amzn.to/3udNFR0
📕 Master of You → https://amzn.to/3OlfoGn
