Why Joy Is Your Most Powerful Spiritual Tool with Hector Marcel
From The Higher Self Hotline by Zoey Greco
May 18, 2026 · 59 min · Season 12 · Episode 27
About this episode
In this episode, Zoey Greco and Hector Marcel discuss the transformative power of joy and its role in spirituality and human experience.
(Episode 340) Healing happens in the discomfort, in the conversations where you laugh so hard you cry, and then cry so hard you laugh. In this episode I sit down with Hector Marcel, the president of Tree Jewels (only New York’s leading modern enlightenment studio). He also brought me to tears twice, made me laugh so hard I couldn’t breathe, and rewrote everything I thought I knew about joy. This conversation is one I didn’t want to leave, from the concept of emptiness, to the philosophy of no-self, and why the most spiritual thing you can do is be a human being. Plus, you know he’s cool because he made cult merch and people lost their minds over it. Twice. In this episode, we’re talking about: (00:00) Humor and Joy as the Foundation of Hector's Teaching (09:25) Why Joy Is the Only Real Antidote to Fear (19:59) Being a Spiritually Evolved Human Being (22:07) The Buddhist Philosophy of No Self (31:13) What Finally Made Him Write the Book Stay in touch with Hector Marcel http://www.ThreeJewels.org https://www.instagram.com/threejewelsnyc/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@threejewelsnyc https://www.facebook.com/threejewelsnyc/ Get Your 10% off your yearly Numerology Report here…
People in this episode
Host: Zoey Greco
Guest: Hector Marcel
Topics covered
- joy
- spirituality
- humor
- Buddhist philosophy
- self-improvement
- human experience
Keywords
- joy
- spirituality
- humor
- Buddhism
- self-improvement
- Tree Jewels
- Hector Marcel
- no-self
- fear
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Tree Jewels, Three Jewels, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook
Books & works: Stay
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