Viivi Jokela facilitates awakening in people who are inclined in that way. She had a spontaneous, deep awakening to true nature in 2022, followed by a strange and at times intense acclimation, which she refers to as no self realization or simply the natural state.

Viivi communicates a direct approach to realization, grounded on experiential insight on the aspects of awakening. She invites you to inquire into and recognize the awe-striking immediate, inherently awake radiance of your own being and of all being.

Website: sensingradiance.com

In this interview, Viivi Jokela shares her journey of spiritual awakening and self-realization. She discusses her early life, her struggles with suffering and alienation, and her eventual deep awakening to her true nature in 2022. She describes the intense acclimation process she went through, which she refers to as no self-realization or the natural state. Viivi also talks about her experiences with a yoga school that turned out to be a cult, her powerful Kundalini awakening, and the subsequent purification process. Throughout the interview, she emphasizes the importance of understanding the nature of experience and the difference between direct experience and mental interpretation.

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Summary and transcript of this interview

Interview recorded June 29, 2024

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump

00:03:37 - Early Suffering and Alienation

00:07:22 - Finding Yoga in the Hospital

00:10:22 - The Powerful Kundalini Awakening

00:13:16 - The Journey of Purification

00:16:27 - Challenges after Kundalini Awakening

00:19:46 - Recommendation for Kundalini awakening practitioners

00:23:23 - Finding the Right Meditation Practice

00:26:55 - Defining Enlightenment and Liberation

00:30:16 - The Experience of Self

00:33:57 - Multi-Dimensionality of Life

00:37:16 - The Personal and Impersonal within a Larger Wholeness

00:40:18 - The Dance of Relative and Absolute

00:43:30 - Holding Multiple Perspectives Amid Conflicting Views

00:46:24 - Appreciating Different Perspectives

00:49:52 - Understanding the "I got it, I lost it" syndrome

00:53:22 - Extracting Instructions for Awakening

00:56:35 - The Beginner's Mind and Approaching with Curiosity

01:00:16 - Different Types of Meditation

01:03:58 - The Collapse of Fundamental Structures of Reality

01:07:38 - The Teacher and the Experience of Death

01:11:20 - Moments of Transcendence and Nothingness

01:14:34 - The Reality of the Deep Homecoming and Healing Through Realization

01:18:22 - The Disappearance of God

01:21:34 - Kundalini: The Most Powerful Energy

01:24:54 - The Relationship between Trauma and Relational Healing

01:28:34 - Dismissive Attitudes and Lack of Empathy

01:31:58 - The Contradictory Nature of the Experience

01:34:44 - The Importance of Having a Broad Perspective

01:38:40 - Exploring Aggression and Self-Respect

01:42:37 - Closing Remarks and Next Interview Preview