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Don Lee Daniels: Listening at the Edge of Consciousness episodes
- You Are More Than You Think — And Time Is Short [Ep. 4]
Direct experience reshapes your reality. And you can learn how to access these states of consciousness deliberately — and at will.
In this episode, Don Lee Daniels (Swami Jnanananda Swaraswati) addresses something that doesn't get said clearly enough: you are not small. You have simply been taught to believe you are. And every breath you take — approximately 21,600 times today — contains a doorway back to the truth of what you actually are.
This episode covers the full spectrum of individuals this project is for — serious meditators and practitioners, those who have had spontaneous out-of-body experiences (OBEs), near-death experiencers (NDEs), peak experience seekers, and those brand new to this work.
Don shares what forty years of practice in Nondual Shaiva Tantra actually looks like — the merging of sleep, dreams, and meditation; the state the Shiva Sutras call turiya; and the witness that grows stronger with practice.
Closing teaching: Siddha Svatantrabhavaha — an enlightened being lives in absolute freedom. This is not a distant ideal. It is the living destination of everything this project teaches — and it is available to you.
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https://youtube.com/@DonLeeDaniels29 min - The Threshold You Cross Every Night — Sleep as a Multidimensional Gateway [Ep. 2]
Most people cross the threshold of sleep unconsciously and return with nothing. This episode introduces the concept of deliberately crossing it — and what you'll find on the other side.
You can learn how to willfully induce an out-of-body experience, remember it, and let it change your view of reality.
The tandra state — the hypnagogic threshold between waking and sleep — is the most overlooked doorway in consciousness. The ancient Shaiva masters of India mapped it with extraordinary precision over a thousand years ago. The Tibetan masters called it the Clear Light. Every human being visits it every single night.
In this episode: — What the tandra state actually is and why it matters — The fear response at the threshold — and why it's a sign of nearness, not danger — What consciousness discovers on the other side of surrender — The most important moment of any practice — the return — A simple practice to begin tonight at the threshold of sleep
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https://youtube.com/@DonLeeDaniels32 min - The Grocery Store Mystic — How Ordinary Moments Become Gateways to Pure Consciousness [Ep. 3]
The grocery store is full of Shakti — the energy of the universe. This isn't a metaphor.
This is what happens when you've been practicing meditation long enough — higher consciousness begins to open up into ordinary life. And one afternoon in the produce section, it opened completely.
In this episode, I share what happened, what it revealed, and the ancient teaching that explains it — from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, one of the most precise maps of consciousness ever written.
In this episode: — The Hamsa mantra — the breath you've been practicing your whole life without knowing it — The dvadasanta — the ancient teaching that maps where consciousness goes between breaths — The aha moment — what every great mystic describes as the gateway to pure awareness — How a chance encounter in a grocery store became a transmission — Verses 73 and 118 from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra — in Sanskrit and in English
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https://youtube.com/@DonLeeDaniels51 min - I Left My Body in an Indian Ashram in 1978 — The Blue Pearl and the Body of Light [Ep. 1]
In 1978, as a young monk in India, I had two experiences that changed everything — a meditation in which a tiny blue point of light expanded into pure consciousness, and a verified out-of-body experience conducted with a fellow practitioner at 2 a.m.
This is not philosophy. This is direct experience.
In this episode: — The Blue Pearl — nila bindu — what it is and how to approach it in meditation — A verified tandem OBE — two practitioners, separate sealed accounts, confirmed at breakfast — Kuṇḍalinī/Śakti — the underlying force connecting both experiences — A simple prāṇāyāma practice for approaching the Blue Pearl tonight — Cross-traditional parallels — Gnostic Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, quantum physics singularity
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https://youtube.com/@DonLeeDaniels39 min
About Don Lee Daniels: Listening at the Edge of Consciousness
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Direct experience reshapes your reality. And you can learn how to access these states of consciousness deliberately --and at will. Don Lee Daniels: Listening at the Edge of Consciousness is a weekly…
podcast rooted in Nondual Śaiva Tantra and forty-plus years of direct contemplative practice. Each episode explores Kuṇḍalinī Śakti awakening. Advanced meditation. Conscious out-of-body exploration (OBE) — drawing from the ancient tandra state practices of Nondual Śaiva Tantra, the dream yoga tradition of Vajrayāna Tibetan Buddhism, and the experiential work of modern OBE pioneers. Not just philosophy. Direct experience. Hosted by Don Lee Daniels, also known as Swami Jñānānanda, formally initiated into the ancient Saraswati Order in 1980.