In this new episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sits down with award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Awaken the World Initiative, Daniel Schmidt to discuss spiritual awakening. Learn about what Dan describes as a "pattern interrupt" and how that has played out in his own life. Susan and Dan discuss what is meant by the term "spiritual ego" and how effort on the spiritual path can take us further from the Truth of who we are. Dan speaks eloquently about the importance of what he calls "the conditions of  no escape" and "the surrender paradox". Dan also describes what he will be teaching in his 4 part series, Letting Stillness Reveal Itself, exclusively available in Center for Awakening's Evolve Community in March. To learn more and to register for Dan's classes, visit: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/daniel-schmidt ABOUT DAN Daniel is the creator of the award winning film “Inner Worlds Outer Worlds” the “Samadhi” film series and is also one of the creators and speakers in the Awakening Mind series. It is Daniel’s intention to convey the one perennial teaching that is inherent within all of the spiritual traditions. Daniel created the Samadhi Center in Ontario Canada and the Awaken the World Initiative as an outer reflection of his inner world. His approach combines self-inquiry with traditional forms of meditation so that participants have the opportunity to simultaneously realize their transcendent nature, and to purify themselves of conditioned patterns so that the human vessel becomes permeable to their true nature. Daniel emphasizes that Samadhi can be experienced not merely as a temporary “state” but as a “stage” of development. Check out this interview with Daniel from the Awakening Mind film. The “pathless path” is to realize an ever-deepening development process within the self-structure, and to simultaneously realize the emptiness of the self-structure. When these are realized as one, it is Samadhi. Support the showDid you take Lisa Natoli's 40 Day Program for Transformation? Then you won't want to miss Center for Awakening's new free program: The 40 Day Everyday. Over the course of 7 Days you will learn how to use some of the teachings from A Course in Miracles to give you a new way to interact with your day to day life. Sign up here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/the-40-day-everyday Find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/podcast Learn more about Center for Awakening (formerly known as The Teachers of God Foundation) at: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/ Original music by Omashar