In this episode we talk to Rastal about his journey from trauma and depression to fundamental wellbeing, his experience with a method from Jeffery Martin's Finder's Course, as well as how he navigates the many different levels of fundamental wellbeing, bringing it to the foreground of our experience. • Includes a guided meditation for sinking into one's direct experience as a vehicle for deepening into various levels fundamental wellbeing. To learn more about Rastal, please visit: ...

In this episode we talk to Karen Thorson about the interplay between health, pain, worry, responsibility, and being present with what is, as well as using the body for direct experiencing, and our unique paths among the various modalities for continuous explorations. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to feel the vast fullness of breath, and the field in and around our bodies, bigger than our skin, connected with everything, expanding with life, wellness, and joy. To learn more about...

In this episode we explore the potential drawbacks of our spiritual journey, and how awareness of these drawbacks can help us to sidestep them. • Includes a guided meditation in which we acknowledge potential challenges that arise in awaking, and how we can accept and allow them with compassion. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS:  Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on...

In this episode, we talk to Judith Blackstone about her new book, The Fullness of the Ground, different approaches to nonduality, and inhabiting the body as a way to connect to Fundamental Consciousness and the ground of being. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to connect the space of our body with the environment, allowing us to experience both as the same space. To learn more about Judith Blackstone, please visit: RealizationProcess.org Don't forget to subscribe for more...

In this episode we delve into the practical use of thinking that we have free will and the liberating implications of imaging that we do not. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to imagine the consequences to your view of the world if you do not have free will and are not the doer. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3...

In this episode, we talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks to aligning with and pursuing a sense of mission. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to remember past moments of purposefulness, and to create a guiding sense of mission for the upcoming year. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:  #3 in the Top 100...

In this episode we talk to Rosalyn Rourke about her book, When Wisdom Arrives, the Enneagram, how to deal with feelings, and using more relatable terms that are not spiritual jargon to help people reduce suffering. • Includes a guided meditation allowing us to reframe an upsetting experience in light of eight basic emotions, thereby going beyond emotional thought loops and imagined unworthiness. To learn more about Rosalyn Rourke, please visit: https://rosalynrourke.com/ And to sign up...

In this episode we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both identification and disidentification, and when it’s appropriate to use each in daily life and in our spiritual practice. • Includes a guided meditation that helps us notice that what we hear and what we feel are simply appearances in the larger field of awareness. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the...

In this episode we talk to Sid Friedman about how his technique—Effortless IFS—grew out of Internal Family Systems, and how we can heal contractions and life difficulties while celebrating the fulfillment inherent in our nature. • Includes a guided meditation using music to help us experience the causeless joy that is ever-present. To learn more about Sid Friedman, please visit: https://EffortlessIFS.com/ For Sid’s Effortless IFS YouTube page, please visit: ...

In this episode we discuss the value of abstaining from various distractions and the potential value in fully indulging or experiencing the joy and sensations of the present moment. • Includes a guided meditation about deciding to abstain from a distracting habit in order to notice your experience more directly. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Jonathan’s new book, Ecstasy as Medicine: How MDMA...

In this episode, our guest, Patricia Dennison, offers something different. Five songs about nonduality, along with our discussion of putting nondual lyrics within the heart opening sound of simple guitar music and vocal harmony. To learn more about Patricia Dennison, please visit: dennison-music.com LYRICS TO THE SONGS IN THIS EPISODE: THERE IS NO END There is no end to who I am. I must manage 'till the end. To make a story once again,  With a me I must defend. This self creation...

In this episode, we explore how limiting beliefs happen and how to go beyond them into a more expansive experience of life. • Includes a guided meditation and exercise for softening or doubting limiting beliefs so that new possibilities can open up. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in...

In this episode we talk to Sam Gow about the nature of awareness, the experience of the sense of self, and how to soften doing, so that you rest in being. • Includes a guided meditation helping to relax our grasping, in order to open into a field of no preferences, and open awareness. To learn more about Sam Gow, please visit:  https://www.sam-gow.com/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness...

In this episode, we talk to Gareth Duignam, who specializes in describing and sending various forms of transmissions for spiritual awakening. • Includes a unique meditation in which no words are spoken, but a silent transmission is being recorded and available for experience. To learn more about Gareth Duignam, please visit: https://www.truespiritualawakening.eu/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: ...

In this episode we explore two different aspects of curiosity, outer curiosity as a way of enhancing life and relationships, and inner curiosity as a way of spiritual growth and discovering your true nature. • Includes a guided meditation offering a slew of questions that can help point to your innermost being in a nonconceptual way. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the...

In this episode we explore the problem of self-criticism and various ways to go beyond that nagging voice in your head. • Includes a guided meditation in which increasing levels of disidentification with self-criticism are explored and experienced. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in...

In this episode we talk to Lee Holden about Qi Gong, his teacher, Mantak Chia, and how to use Qi Gong to transform stress into vitality, through building energy in the body, emotional balance, clarity of mind, and spiritual awareness. • Includes a guided healing meditation, to set up and infuse your practice with elevation, heart energy, and lightness. To learn more about Lee Holden, please visit: https://www.holdenqigong.com/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into...

In this episode, we talk to Catherine Ingram about empathic activism, effortlessness, how to stay sane in a crazy world, and her teachers, Papaji and Leonard Cohen. To learn more about Catherine Ingram, please visit: https://www.catherineingram.com/ Here are links to some of the many songs discussed during this interview: "Crazy on You" – Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADAeIokKKNs "What About Me" – Quicksilver Messenger Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4RBB07S5Jo "Eve...

In this episode we discuss the interplay between identity and motivation, including how certain motivations may be more helpful than others on the journey of awakening. • Includes a guided meditation using inquiry questions and a progression of identities leading to one that is indefinable, unnamable, and inconceivable. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top...

In this episode we talk to Joan Tollifson about the simplicity of being present, and the value of movies, teachers, meditation, and different types of inquiry. • Includes a guided meditation using the present experiences of sound, body sensations, form and color, and sense of self to help see it all as one experience. To learn more about Joan Tollifson, please visit: https://www.joantollifson.com/ Or subscribe to her Substack newsletter at: https://substack.com/@joantollifson Don't...

In this episode we use a radio station analogy to explore how different frequencies can be harmful or helpful towards peace and happiness, and how to tune away from some and towards others. • Includes a guided meditation leading us away from lower frequency stations to those of gratitude and presence. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on...

In this episode, we describe various ways our mind tricks us into missing reality and our true nature. • Includes a guided meditation that provides an antidote for times when your incessant thoughts take over your experience. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion...

An Encore presentation of our interview with Adyashanti from 2019. In this episode we talk to Adyashanti about spirituality as living in a state of discovery, and ways to tap into silence in daily life. • Includes a guided meditation from Adyashanti leading us through the three steps of experiencing meditation in its truest sense. To learn more about Adyashanti, please visit https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the...

In this episode we talk to Roger Walsh about a wide range of topics, including shamanism, nonduality, how to respond to global crises, and practices in all religious traditions. • Includes a guided meditation showing us how to invoke a person or archetype who has a trait that you would like to imbue your life with, enabling you to contribute more effectively and be more joyful. To learn more about Roger Walsh, please visit https://drrogerwalsh.com/ To listen to his podcast, Deep...