Awareness Explorers
If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience. Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor explore ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.
Episodes
Awareness Explorers episode 223: Katharine Pincham, Guest Explorer
In this episode Katharine Pincham shares her background studying Vedic and Yogic scriptures in the Himalayas and her transformative spiritual opening. She also delves into the three gunas—fundamental tendencies of nature—that can foster detachment and create an environment for recognizing the existential freedom of awareness, independent of the mind's ch...
Awareness Explorers episode 222: Mystery and Motivation
In this episode we discuss motivations for spiritual practice, contrasting suffering-based motivation with curiosity and the desire for truth, especially around anomalous and miraculous experiences.
• Includes a guided meditation helping you to remember events in your life that might be outside of the way you normally look at the material world, and showing you how an open hea...
Awareness Explorers episode 221: Rupert Spira Encore
We're on vacation! So today we're offering an Encore presentation of our interview with our first guest, Rupert Spira, in 2018. In this episode we talk to Rupert Spira about happiness, and how he leads people to the recognition of our true nature as awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation from Rupert for going beyond our normal notion of self into the experience of pure awarene...
Awareness Explorers episode 220: Shadow Work
In this episode, we explore various approaches to shadow work, that is, becoming conscious of hidden parts of the psyche and bringing them to awareness, which helps reveal and release emotions stored in the body that might otherwise cause trouble in life and relationships.
• Includes a guided meditation focused on dissolving resistance to unwanted emotions by fully experiencing feelings ...
Awareness Explorers episode 219: Fooled into Dualism
In this episode, we explore how language, culture, and survival instincts create a dualistic view of the world, which is at odds with the underlying reality of interconnectedness and oneness.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to see beyond the dualistic nature of language, and to sense how everything is interconnected, and nothing, including you, is truly separate from ev...
Awareness Explorers episode 218: Scott Flynn, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Scott Flynn, about how non-dual teaching helps people let go of their false sense of individual identity by recognizing that the ego is just a collection of thoughts that can be dissolved through self-inquiry and resting in one's true nature.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to turn our attention to the experience of "I Am" and to see t...
Awareness Explorers episode 217: Tracy Lease, Guest Explorer
In this episode, we talk to Tracy Lease, a yoga, Pilates, Qigong, and mindfulness teacher who discusses the integration of body awareness practices with spiritual development.
• Includes a guided moving meditation from Tracy combining breath awareness with gentle movement to help listeners experience the connection between physical relaxation and expanded awareness.
Awareness Explorers episode 216: Types of Thought
In this episode, we discuss different types of thoughts and how to distinguish between helpful and harmful thinking patterns. We cover practical thoughts versus emotional ruminations, the importance of intuitive wisdom versus egoic thinking, and how to recognize beneficial thoughts that come from outside the normal mind.
• Includes a guided meditation leading you through a suite of ...
Awareness Explorers episode 215: Luciano Melo, Guest Explorer
In this episode we feature Luciano Melo, a PhD researcher on awakening who shared his transformative journey from depression into non-dual awakening, and how these experiences led to a complete deconstruction of his sense of self before integrating back into a state of wholeness.
To learn more about Luciano Melo, please visit:
Omni-Integration.net
Awareness Explorers episode 214: Approaches to Spiritual Growth
In this episode, we discuss different models of spiritual growth, exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each, and sharing our personal experiences across multiple approaches, including books, coaching, religion, satsang, peer support, AI chatbots, retreats, 12-step programs, YouTube teachings, transmissions, communes, and workshops.
• Includes a guided meditati...
Awareness Explorers episode 213: Eric Zimmer Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Eric Zimmer, host of the podcast, "The One You Feed," about his new book, How a Little Becomes a Lot: The Art of Small Changes for a More Meaningful Life, his approach to personal transformation combining both inner spiritual practices and outer behavioral changes, and how to balance both acceptance and change. We also discussed the importance of...
Awareness Explorers episode 212: Life Force
In this episode Jonathan and Brian explore the nature of life force energy, two paths to access the life force, and possible obstacles to its full expression.
• Includes a guided meditation focusing on how we can get out of its way and allow the universal life force to express itself through our temporary form with all of its talents, gifts, abilities, and limitations.
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Awareness Explorers episode 211: Salvadore Poe, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Salvadore Poe, a spiritual teacher and author who shared his journey from rock musician to spiritual awakening, and described his concept of "having a holiday," that is, recognizing pure being without fixing on any particular experience. The discussion covers topics including spiritual bypassing, doership, and meditation practices.
• Includes ...
Awareness Explorers episode 210: The Problem of Compartmentalization
In this episode we explore the problem of compartmentalization and how applying spiritual awareness to some areas of life (such as meditation), but not others (such as money or relationships) creates a spiritual identity that fails to integrate shadow material, thereby inhibiting the cultivation of non-dual awareness alongside engagement in ethical, human action.
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Awareness Explorers episode 209: Neelam, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Neelam about her awakening with H.W.L. Poonja, known as Papaji, the role of trust in awakening, how the nervous system's capacity to be present is the "missing link" between a desire for truth and the ability to experience it, and how a true feeling of "okayness" enables us to rest in our true nature.
•Includes a guided meditation leading us to the d...
Awareness Explorers episode 208: Trina Dawn, Guest Explorer
In this episode, we talk to Trina Dawn about the "seeker" identity as a mind-created story, which perpetuates suffering by resisting the present moment.
•Includes a guided meditation using questions to help you notice what's shining right here, right now without any effort, and without words or labels, and that's already awake.
Awareness Explorers episode 207: Tani Thole and Leslie Rogers, Guest Explorers
In this episode we talk to Tani Thole and Leslie Rogers, founders of the Light Dark Institute, about their philosophy of integrating shadow work for spiritual growth, by bringing love to the most unloved parts of the self, which are the source of internal and external conflict.
• Includes a guided meditation from Tani inviting you to explore some part of...
In this episode, Jonathan and Brian debate the value of pre-meditation rituals for enhancing meditation. We outline several practices to enhance meditation, and we also contrast pre-meditation rituals to create deep experiences, versus viewing meditation as simply allowing "what is."
• Includes a guided meditation helping you to transition from your busy day by breathing into any part of your body that is tense or contracted, and b...
In this episode we review the core non-duality teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj, including their inquiries into the nature of the Self. These teachings have been among the most influential in the present-day satsang and nonduality movements in the West.
• Includes a guided self-inquiry meditation to trace the "I" thought to its source as the knower of all experience, and to help the listener identify as pure, c...
In this episode we explore relationships as a path to awakening that reveals obstacles to love, and how MDMA can serve as a catalyst to open-heartedness.
The book we discussed in this episode is
Ecstasy for Couples: How MDMA Therapy Can Create More Love and Less Conflict In Your Relationship
To learn more about Ecstasy for Couples, please visit:
https://xtcforcouples.net/
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