This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast shows how negative thoughts and emotions like weakness, doubt, or paralysis do not arise from your true self but are projections that we have learned to internalize. Liberation begins by refusing to identify with them or to embody them, rejecting self-pity, and choosing discipline and self-reliance instead. By anchoring yourself in your inner “Citadel” – where authentic consciousness and universal energy remain untouched – you resist collapse and expand your inner strength. From this center, bliss and Shakti’s energy can radiate, empowering you to overcome obstacles and move steadily toward liberation.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast is about why so many people seem unreal, exploring the roles of the I and the Ego. As interdimensional beings, we exist across physical and non-physical dimensions, and our resonance determines our experience in life and beyond. When centered in the authentic mind, we live in reality, guided by universal qualities. But attachments to thoughts, feelings, and projections from the field of Maya feed the Ego, making us more “fake.” The I develops in childhood, offering a sense of individuality, but also creating limitations. Choosing not to identify with the I preserves a universal identity and the ability to experience transcendence.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast is about how pushing and pulling consciousness and subtle energy disrupts your field of consciousness and energy, as well as your relationships, and spiritual evolution. Consciousness and subtle energy move up, down, in, and out and can take on masculine or feminine qualities. When you project consciousness and energy outward from the I or ego, you weaken your boundaries, disrupt other people, and hinder your spiritual growth. Spiritual adepts allow consciousness and energy to flow vertically through their subtle field. This strengthens their boundaries, activates the Kundalini-Sakti, it supports authentic awareness and well-being – and it creates deep and enduring connections without self-limiting attachments. These principles also apply to healing: real healing takes place when consciousness or energy with universal qualities radiates through the organs of the subtle field, without pushing or pulling, preserving the clarity and integrity of the process.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explores how we either radiate nourishing, life-affirming energy from our authentic self or project self-limiting energy from the I and ego. These projections weaken relationships and intimacy. When we are centered in the authentic mind, our energy and consciousness radiate freely in all directions, nourishing those around us. This dynamic is not only present between people but also involves non-physical and interdimensional beings who interfere with spiritual progress, especially for those committed to self-realization. Shakti supported these entities during the Kali Yuga, and they served as spiritual obstacles meant to test the depth of one’s yearning for enlightenment.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast discusses Karma and Dharma. Karma is the principle that every action has a consequence – what you put out into the world energetically returns to you, whether instantly or across lifetimes. Actions rooted in the ego or the I generate karmic baggage, which accumulates as distorted consciousness and energy, limiting one’s freedom and access to pleasure, love, intimacy, and joy. Dharma, often misunderstood as a job or role, is actually your spiritual purpose – how you align with universal consciousness and contribute to the evolution of life. Everyone shares a collective Dharma: the journey toward self-realization. While many jobs may not support Dharma directly, it can still be expressed through relationships, presence, and inner alignment. As we move forward, there is growing potential for people to recognize, align with, and embody their true Dharma more fully.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast is about death, which is not an end but a shift. Your physical body falls away, yet your consciousness and subtle field remain intact within the multiverse. Between incarnations, you enter “interspace”, a realm shaped by your karmic state, containing fields like the death field, sleep field, and light body field. Spiritual practice allows you to access and purify these fields while alive, which expands your awareness, deepens your union with Gaia, supports spiritual evolution, and enhances everything from creativity to intimacy. Life and death aren’t opposites; they coexist within you, and your experience of either is determined by the clarity and radiance of your inner state.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explores the topic of emotions. Inauthentic emotions arise from identification with the I and lead to attachment, whereas authentic emotions – like anger, fear, pain, and joy – can be experienced without attachment when they emerge directly from the chakras. There are three levels of emotional experience: soul (yogic system), spirit (Taoist system), and transcendence (hybrid), becoming increasingly subtle and refined. Spiritual masters cultivate discernment, refusing to engage with distorted or karmically inherited emotions. For them, bliss is not a feeling but a natural, radiant state of consciousness beyond personal identity.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explores the yearning of the third heart – Atman – which expresses itself as a longing for truth, freedom, and love. The yearning for truth involves removing self-deception and seeing yourself as you really are; the yearning for freedom is about releasing karmic baggage and moving your identity from the individual self (Jivatman) back into the universal self (Paramatman); and the yearning for love is not personal but a universal experience where you become love itself. All three yearnings connect at the highest level, and when centered in Atman, you experience bliss and recognize that diversity is only an appearance.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast discusses the concept of duality, explaining it emerged with the evolutionary process of separation in the universe. While duality is necessary for the existence of the physical world, with humans being trapped in it through, for example, old karma, attachments, and non-physical beings we can transcend it through spiritual practices, experiencing oneness with Universal Consciousness, and following Dharma.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast is about self-liberation as taught in Vedanta, which means freeing oneself from attachments to the individual self (Jivatman) and identifying with the universal self (Paramatman). Liberation occurs by letting go of these attachments and getting centered in fields with universal qualities, like love, intimacy, joy, and bliss.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at [email protected] for further information.