Recorded in January 2025, 1 hour, 23 minutes long. A relaxed conversation between two friends touching on a variety of interesting topics pertaining to awakening. Pierre Richard is a saxophone player and teacher, and a dedicated spiritual practitioner who lives in Montreal, Canada. Topics contained in this podcast range from the different types of bliss, to the varieties of teachers’ transmissions that exist, including those to avoid. We also discuss the importance of preserving your …

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This is an online meeting hosted by Open Circle Center and recorded on Sunday November 10th, 2024. Approx. 2 hours. It is good to take stock now and then and sincerely look at what one is wanting spiritually. In order to attain undivided Truth, one needs to be intentional, even if knowing how to get there is undefined. In actuality, having clarity in the moment as to ‘how’, while also allowing divine intelligence to guide, …

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This clip is taken from an online meeting titled “Why Awaken?” Resting with ‘what is’, is a powerful teaching and helps one live this life with more presence and less resistance. As a practice: First one notices what is taking place inside, then one opens to it the best one can. What is allowing something to be is spaciousness itself, which is already open and free. This practice helps one learn how to be present …

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Excerpt taken from an online meeting titled: “What Can One Do to Awaken?” Over time one can realize that the separate self sense is not needed in order to make your life work. Relaxing (surrendering) into your Being, and learning how to function from an unbounded place, supports the letting go of the belief that you need to exert a doer (which is imagined). Awakening is making awareness conscious throughout your whole being (as a …

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This clip is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat from May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” Where are you at on your own spiritual map? The more you give yourself to what it is you are wanting spiritually, the more support you receive from the divine. What makes one unaware of Being, is the sense that it is covered over by content. Awakening is your spirit essence becoming conscious of itself, and then having that awareness liberate all …

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What would you like to be done with? What has been weighing on you, and you would like to set down today? This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.

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Enter into the silence in-between the gaps of your thinking mind, by using a Sanskrit seed mantra. Soham is translated as: I am That. This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.

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The natural flow of one’s breath is an ever present invitation to be renewed. With the in-breath we invite fresh vital life-force energy, and with the outgoing breath, one can release what is not needed or useful, back to the uncreated. This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.

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In order for awakening to be known throughout one’s system, the light of consciousness is meant to be awaken to sensorily in the body. While learning how to open to feeling presence in the body, one can encounter resistances along the way. Working with these resistances helps one to more deeply live awakening in an abiding way. This audio clip as well as the meditation audio titled “The Felt Sense of Presence” are taken from …

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It is best to resist the urge to hurry up awakening. The point is to stay on track remaining focused on your spiritual practice. Digging one well deeply is what yields fruit. It is easy to become addicted to the internet thinking that your spiritual growth will come from taking in outside content. Your own connection to source is what is important. Over time, embodying Truth changes you, emptying you out and revealing a more …

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