The Awareness Podcast

In this episode of Living an Awakened life, Amoda Maa discusses the spiritual awakening that came after many years of contemplating self-help, working on herself, looking within, trying to find out what was the source of her unhappiness, and at times deep clinical depression and trying to fix herself.

Susan and Amoda discuss:

• the sudden, expected awakening Amoda experienced  in the midst of depression
• the question she asked
• Amoda’s experience of awakening 
• whether or not it is necessary for awakening to be integrated into one’s life
• the arising of the inner impulse to teach
• the importance of deep listening
• how to work with teachings such as the body and the world are illusions

Amoda also discusses her upcoming live Masterclass series, “Unconditional Openness, the Way of Freedom”, beginning June 5th.

For further information and the link to join the Masterclass click here. 

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In this episode Cyndi and Rona discuss the state that is opposite of judgment: Tolerance

When you tune in you will learn…

• How judgment destroys honesty and shatters trust.
• How Tolerance provides the ability to remain at peace without having to make any change to outer circumstances.
• Steps you can use when you discover intolerance (judgment) in your mind
• How all the tools discussed in this series are used together

Join Cyndi and Rona to experience the beauty of the judgment free zone

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Billy starts by describing the path he took through a variety of spiritual teachers and spiritual books to arrive at the teaching of Jean Klein. He goes on to talk about his relationship with Jean Klein. 

Jenny and Billy discuss

• Can recognition of our true nature happen just through reading books, or is a teacher necessary?
• What can a teacher impart, that books cannot? 
• Is there a karana-guru (a guru with the ability to lead one to enlightenment) out there for all spiritual seekers? 
• Do some people need more than teacher?
• The yoga Billy teaches and its relationship with Advaita
•  The traps that truth-seekers fall into. 
• Are meditation and practice necessary? 
• Does the spiritual path come to an end? 
• How does someone fully-established in truth respond to the various traumas that life brings? 

Billy goes on to explain what ‘living in not-knowing’ means for him and guides listeners in a yoga meditation. 

The podcast finishes with Billy reading two of his poems which beautifully express the theme of living in not-knowing.

To find out more about Billy and for details of his online and UK events, visit www.billydoyle.com

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Join Bill Free and Jim Gillette for this episode of Conversations in Truth. 

Jim discusses his own diverse spiritual path, which includes: 

• learning from Timothy Leary (Ram Das) and J Krishnamurti 
• spending time in India to learn more about Transcendental Meditation in Maharishi’s ashram
• following the tenets of Radhasoami
• using the Centering Prayer of Thomas Keeting as a lay ecumenical minister all while living his life as a businessman, husband and father

Learn how after 5 decades of spiritual practice, Jim came to the profound realization of “I don’t know, I don’t care and it doesn’t matter!” 

Bill and Jim discuss how the mind creates dogmas and beliefs, even around profound awakenings and how integration, stabilization and normalization occurs after initial awakening.

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Join Susan Telford and Isira for this episode of Living an Awakened Life. 

Susan and Isira discuss 

• what it means to be awakened 
• what is common to all spiritual traditions 
• how suffering is often the catalyst for the spiritual search 
• the tendency to romanticize awakening and its effects
• what is meant by spiritual narcissism and spiritual escapism 
• how we come back to the ordinariness and naturalness of our true nature
• the 4 sacred pillars of indigenous wisdom and how those pillars are relevant to every single human being.   

Isira also offers a guided practice,  so that you can have a direct experience of your  true nature as you listen. 

Susan and Isira discuss the devastating fire that burned down Isira’s  “Budha Wanama” Centre, a place dedicated to spiritual and cultural education.

If you would like to make a donation to help Isira rebuild , you can do so here:

Go fund me page 

Learn more about Isira's Masterclass happening in May by clicking here.

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In this episode Cyndi and Rona discuss Gentleness, reminding us all that this path is not designed to be hard.

Listen in while Rona and Cyndi discuss…

• That there is no effort or sacrifice in awakening.
• That softening around stories and giving willingness to letting go of judgment may be all that is required.
• How when we gently enter the pause and remember our Oneness upsets dissolve, often with ease.

Join Cyndi and Rona and prepare to soften

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In this ‘Living in Not-Knowing’ episode, Bernardo Kastrup describes his early career working as a scientist at CERN. He explains how his interest in consciousness led him to philosophy and to develop his theory of analytic idealism. 

Jenny and Bernardo discuss

•  the nature of the world and how the illusion of being separate arises as a result of a natural process of dissociation. 
• Do animals and plants have an inner life? 
• What can we say about the nature of the inanimate world? 
• Could AI one day have a conscious inner life? 
• How can the experience of ‘consciousness without objects’ be explained? 
• Do we need to abandon all beliefs or just some, unhelpful beliefs? 
• What can science tell us about the world? 
• What can we learn from history?

You can find out more about Bernardo Kastrup and his theory of analytic idealism by visiting his website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/

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Join Bill Free and British author and lecturer Steve Taylor for the latest episode of Conversations in Truth.

In this episode, Bill and Steve discuss 

• how awakening is the next stage of human evolution
• the damage and suffering that is caused by disconnection, both psychologically or individually and socially and culturally
• the consequences of the highly individuated separate ego and all of the suffering it causes.
• common symptoms of awakening and how to recognize them 

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In this episode of Living an Awakened Life segment of the Awareness Podcast, guest host Amir Freimann and guest Anne Sweet discuss the Simplicity of Being.

Amir and Anne discuss

• the part traumatic events play in spiritual awakening 
• meditation as a doorway to understanding true nature
• how awakening simply reveals the inherent qualities that have always been present 
• the Masterclass series they will be offering in April 

Learn more about the Masterclass by clicking here. 

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In this episode Cyndi and Rona discuss the gateway that is required to make all the other tools work: Trust

When you tune in you will learn…

• Why it is so important to rest from your story and place your trust in infinite consciousness.
• How to notice judgment when it shows up in the mind and the power of just noticing (without believing) the thoughts that pass-through awareness.
• What choosing to Trust that all is well, just as it is, does to empower and energize your spiritual practice.

An invitation to accept, to Trust, that Truth will correct all errors in the mind

Join Cyndi and Rona to learn how to activate Trust in your life.

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