Rupert Spira Podcast

Rupert Spira Podcast

In this podcast series, Rupert Spira explores the non-dual understanding, expressed in different ways. Please subscribe if you would like to be notified whenever new episodes are available. If you would like to find out more about events, publications, and Rupert's archive of recordings, please visit rupertspira.com. Music written and played by Shena Power and recorded by Simon Power.

Episodes

October 8, 2025 48 mins

This is the second of two episodes with hosts Aryaan and Emira Arora of the 'Under the Tree' podcast. In this episode Rupert speaks with Amira Arora about the fundamental principles of non-duality and how consciousness creates the appearance of reality.

They discuss how creation emerges through consciousness dividing itself into subject and object, how our experience always takes place in the eternal 'now'...

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This is the first episode of two with hosts Aryaan and Emira Arora of the 'Under the Tree' podcast. In this episode, Rupert speaks with actor, musician and composer, Aryaan about the fundamentals of non-duality, the source of suffering in relationships, and what it means to awaken from the dream.

They also explore the true nature of love, why many seekers experience a sense of emptiness after self-recognit...

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July 23, 2025 71 mins

In the third instalment in the series recorded at Colet House in London, Rupert answers questions about the correlation between deep sleep and our experience of death, how consciousness responds to our prayers and communicates with individuals, and why, after awakening, desire diminishes.

Also discussed are the causes of the physical responses – of tears and joy – that often occur when entering these gathe...

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June 25, 2025 127 mins

This is the second installment in the series of curated conversations from gatherings with Rupert at Colet House in London. The episode begins with a meditation and includes dialogues on how we can understand deep sleep when the finite mind cannot comprehend it, where our attention should go in meditation, and what happens to awareness after the death of the physical body.

Other topics include how the reco...

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May 27, 2025 108 mins

Rupert speaks with physicist, engineer and inventor of the microprocessor, Federico Faggin. The conversation is moderated by speaker, author and BBC broadcaster, Simon Mundie.

The episode includes topics such as why the ultimate science is the science of consciousness and how the scientific community is waking up to this understanding, how the divide between science and spirituality is completely artificia...

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In this episode Rupert speaks with the head of the Vedanta Society of New York, Swami Sarvapriyananda. The dialogue is taken from the Awake in Stillness: The End of Dreaming Conference and is moderated by Bill Free from The Centre for Awakening.

The conversation touches on many topics related to Advaita Vedanta, such as the Progressive Path, the Direct Path and the Pathless Path, the process of awakening, ...

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March 19, 2025 118 mins

The first in a series of curated conversations from gatherings with Rupert at Colet House in London, this episode begins with a meditation and includes dialogues on coping with depression, dealing with challenging people and circumstances, and understanding feelings of existential dread.

Other subjects include what it means to embody being, how to effortlessly remain with being, and how the thought 'I am' is different...

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February 12, 2025 147 mins

This discussion with André Duqum from the 'Know Thyself' podcast delves deeply into non-duality, different types of meditation, and the essence of our true nature.

Rupert also offers practical guidance on how we can cultivate a deeper connection to our true self by challenging habitual beliefs and thoughts, shows us how we can explore being through self-enquiry and explains how our innate longing for happi...

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December 23, 2024 64 mins

In this episode Rupert speaks with founder and CEO of Sounds True, Tami Simon, about how we may realise lasting happiness, whether we should value both being and becoming, and how to remain at peace amidst turmoil.

They also discuss Rupert's idea of original ADD (awareness deficit disorder), absolute and relative levels of truth, and the Buddhist phrase 'original face'.

 

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Rupert speaks with the founder of The Weekend University, Niall McKeever. They talk about what non-duality is and how the non-dual understanding can be useful to therapists and their patients in alleviating psychological suffering.

They also discuss the reason why certain people end up on the path of spiritual seeking, the paradox of seeking for happiness, the implications of the non-dual understanding on ...

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In this episode Rupert talks again with author Deepak Chopra. They discuss Rupert's book 'The Heart of Prayer' and how it formulates the non-dual understanding in terms of prayer and being. 

They also examine the Direct Path and its application in exploring consciousness, or being; the experience of 'I am'; love as the recognition that we share our being with everyone and everything; and the evolving ...

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June 11, 2024 91 mins

In this episode, Rupert speaks with Sanskritist and scholar-practitioner of Classical Tantra, Dr Christopher Wallis. They discuss the understanding that is at the heart of some of the greatest spiritual traditions, such as Christianity, Sufism, Advaita Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism, and how Advaita and Tantra, even though they emphasise different aspects of the understanding, are complementary and contained within each...

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In this episode, author and broadcaster Simon Mundie moderates a delightful conversation with Rupert and Francis Lucille. They discuss a wide range of topics including non-duality, its implications, the similarities and differences between Rupert's and Francis's approach, and how their relationship evolved from one of student and teacher to one based on friendship.

They delve into their histories and influ...

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April 3, 2024 40 mins

In the first episode of the newly titled 'Dialogues on Truth' podcast, Rupert speaks with Nikki Walton from 'GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki'. They discuss the purpose of being, the nature of prayer, and the difference between the thought 'I am' and the experience it refers to.

They also explore how we can get back to our essence when we are overwhelmed by experience, and why we often return to sorrow and co...

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January 23, 2024 79 mins

In this episode, Rupert talks with Keith Kristich from closerthanbreath.com. After a brief meditation, they discuss the various traditions and teachers Rupert draws upon for his teachings.

They also explore the nature of prayer, contemplating how all we ever experience is God's being, along with the practical implications of that understanding. The conversation delves into Rupert's book 'The Heart of Praye...

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December 13, 2023 120 mins

In his latest podcast episode, on the intersection of science and spirituality, Rupert has a discussion with a group of scientists from UC Santa Barbara. They examine various aspects of non-duality such as how a clearer understanding of the consciousness-only model within the scientific community may give us a deeper understanding of reality and how that can help further scientific discovery and progress.

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November 7, 2023 58 mins

The latest 'Rupert Spira Podcast' episode is with Cory Allen from the 'And Then It Hit Me' podcast. The discussion covers topics such as why Rupert prefers the term 'happiness' over 'enlightenment', how someone who is interested in these matters can begin the process of self-realisation and how personality and identity fit within the non-dual framework.

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In celebration of National Poetry Day in the UK, we invite you to enjoy Rupert's recital of Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. The spontaneous and joyful delivery comes in response to a request to comment on the topic of food. The poem is from Rilke's collection 'Sonnets to Orpheus'.

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In the latest Rupert Spira Podcast, hosted by Science and Nonduality and moderated by Michael Reiley, Rupert is joined for a second time by Donald Hoffman.

Their dialogue offers profound insights into the nature of consciousness and its relationship to reality. Together they propose that the materialist paradigm or the belief that consciousness emerges from the physical world is a flawed model and that consciousness is the fundamen...

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The latest Rupert Spira Podcast episode is an in-depth exploration of the essential self. Rupert and host of the Omega Institute's Dropping In podcast, Cali Alpert, discuss the importance of the non-dual understanding in easing global suffering, why happiness eludes us and why self-knowledge is essential. 

They also talk about why it is called the direct path, Cali asks Rupert about his spiritual jour...

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