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...

In this episode, we discuss how new technologies such as artificial intelligence can be used to help or hinder awakening and human happiness. • Includes a guided meditation written by ChatGPT to help us know our true nature as awareness. Here is the list of Jonathan's questions from this episode: Does This Technology Bring You Closer to People, or Help Isolate You? Does This Technology Bring You Closer to Inner Peace, or Make You Feel More Stressed? Does This Technology Add Depth/Joy and...

In this episode we debate the relative advantages of improving the individual self vs. transcending the individual self. • Includes a guided meditation investigating the nature of our identity without problems to solve. 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 &...

In this episode we talk to Gangaji about her teacher Papaji, how to bring freshness to the teaching, as well as surrender, vigilance, and getting free of the narrative self. • Includes a guided meditation inviting us to see through our story, dissolve habitual thought, and experience reality directly. To learn more about Gangaji, please visit https://gangaji.org/ To listen to her podcast, Being Yourself: Self-Inquiry with Gangaji, please visit https://gangaji.org/podcasts Don't forget...

In this episode, we talk to Hale Dwoskin about The Sedona Method and how it has evolved from a technique to let go of painful or unwanted feelings into a truly nondual method to help you realize that there is no separation. • Includes a guided meditation in which Hale shows us how to pause and notice what is, welcome what is, and simply be what you are. To learn more about Hale Dwoskin and The Sedona Method, please visit https://www.sedona.com/AwarenessExplorers Don't forget to subscribe...

In this episode we discuss the best social environments that are supportive of awakening and inspiring experiences of oneness. • Includes an interactive guided meditation in which Jonathan, Brian, and you take turns describing and pointing towards 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 following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality...

In this episode, we help with letting go of the mind by exploring the limitations of the intellect in evaluating, understanding, and knowing reality. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to question what we think we know to be true about ourselves. 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 ...

In this episode Brian interviews Jonathan about his research and experience in how to use MDMA, better known as ecstasy, as a medicine for couples therapy, overcoming PTSD, and as training wheels for learning how to stay in an expanded and loving state of consciousness. • Includes a guided meditation that leads you into learning subtle ways you both open and close your heart, so you can better access such experiences at will. To learn more about MDA and Love Training, please visit ...

In this episode Jonathan talks to Andrew Harvey about the necessity of combining activism with spiritual practice in order for it to be balanced, effective and truly helpful to you and to the world.  • Includes a guided meditation containing three simple practices to help you experience the birth of the divine human in yourself. To learn more about Andrew Harvey, please visit AndrewHarvey.net https://www.andrewharvey.net/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the...

In this episode we talk about how the conditions we place on our experience veil the happiness and peace that make up our true nature. • Includes a guided meditation that helps you get in touch with conditions you place on your happiness and a simple way of erasing them all at once. 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...