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...

In this episode we talk to Victor Burkhart about being a conduit for truth and the excitement and newness of constant discovery on the spiritual journey. • Includes a guided meditation to help us experience the presence that is already always here and available to us before our thinking mind obscures it. To learn more about Victor Burkhart, please visit PursuitOfSpirit.com https://www.pursuitofspirit.com/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present...

In this episode we talk about how to create sacred time, and the advantages and pitfalls of the various ways of bringing joy and peace to the holidays. • Includes a guided meditation where you are invited to reflect on precious moments of the past year, things you learned, and how you want to create your forthcoming year. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top...

In this episode, we chat about Brian's new book, Awareness Adventures, and discuss such topics as the use of imagination, the core wound, and Brian's newest games for awakening awareness. • Includes a guided meditation and a game for dissolving any boundary that keeps you from nondual awareness. To learn more about Awareness Adventures, please visit  https://www.playawarenessgames.com/awareness-adventures To view the book on Amazon, please visit Awareness Adventures: Discovering Your...

In this episode we had great fun talking to Jac O'Keeffe about the interplay of stillness and humanness and how to deepen with each of them, including what is deeper than nonduality. Jac O’Keeffe is a spiritual teacher, leader and author of books Born to Be Free and How to Be a Spiritual Rebel. Her teachings include pointers to prior to the nondual state, and she is clear that nondual awareness is a stepping-stone and not a destination. She has a high sense of perception that she uses to...

In this episode we talk to C von Hassett, author of Entering the Mind, about Dzogchen, a radical wisdom practice which points us towards the recognition of the open, expansive nature of our own innate mind in its natural state. To learn more about C von Hassett, please visit: EnteringTheMind.com And RiotMaterial.com Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top...

In this episode we talk with Marianne Williamson about the power of love, the value of A Course in Miracles, the importance of activism, and her experience of running for president. To learn more about Marianne Williamson, please visit: https://marianne.com/ and https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/ To learn about Marianne’s upcoming 6-week course, Developing Your Wings: Embodying Mysticism in the Modern World, please visit: https://thewilliamsoninst.com/developingyourwings It...

In this episode Brian takes a skeptical view of the use of psychedelics while Jonathan describes their potential uses in overcoming psychological or spiritual blocks. • Includes a guided meditation leading you to remember a high moment and to recreate and expand upon how it felt in your body, mind, and heart. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on...

In this episode we talk about finding a middle way of peace and sanity in between the various extreme polarities presented to us in modern day life. • Includes a guided meditation leading us through several examples of extreme opposites and helping us to find the still center in between. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: Top 10...

In this episode we talk to Angelo DiLullo about awakening, liberation from suffering, and his book, Awake: It’s Your Turn. • Includes a guided meditation using sound, sensations, and thought to help us to know the undefined, the mysterious, the ungraspable, and the undeniable, just as it is. To learn more about Angelo DiLullo, please visit: http://simplyalwaysawake.com/ To sign up for notifications from Angelo, please visit: https://books.simplyalwaysawake.com/ Angelo's YouTube channel:...

In this episode we talk to Lesley Skylar about the liberation that lies beyond initial awakening, the deconstruction of identification, and the depth of our being as pure consciousness. • Includes a guided meditation from Lesley leading you below the surface of your being, free-falling into the depths of the still energetic ocean of consciousness that you are. To learn more about Lesley Skylar, please visit: LesleySkylar.com Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into...

In this episode we outline ten of the most persistent myths about awakening and take a look at what’s true and false about each. • Includes a guided meditation for helping to uncover beliefs in the way of awakening for you, and how to let go of them. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: Top 10 Spirituality chart Top 25 Religion &...

In this episode we explore the qualities inherent in awake awareness, and the value and potential pitfalls of tapping into various higher qualities directly. • Includes a guided meditation using an analogy of a river delta to help us experience the qualities of universal awareness. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: Top 10...

In this episode we Talk with Jim Dreaver about his new book, Untriggerable, his enlightenment experience, and what he learned from his nondual teacher, Jean Klein. • Includes a guided meditation in which Jim helps us to identify with our true selves, that which never changes. To learn more about Jim Dreaver, please visit: JimDreaver.com Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Awareness Explorers has made the...

In this episode Brian interviews Jonathan about Jonathan’s new book, The Enlightenment Project, in which he shares poignant stories and valuable methods which he has learned from interviewing a hundred teachers. • Includes a guided meditation leading us through twenty different descriptions of Awareness. To learn more about The Enlightenment Project, please visit: TheEnlightenmentProject.net Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy...

In this episode we explore the concept of coaching to help us with Whole Being Awakening, and the various aspects of our lives, including, spiritual, body, emotions, mind, and uniqueness. • Includes a guided meditation from Ted helping us to integrate boundless awareness with our concept of our personal selves, our thoughts, our emotions, and our bodies. To learn more about Ted Strauss, please visit: https://iconscious.global/ and http://tedstrauss.com/ Don't forget to subscribe for...