The Awareness Podcast

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sat down with Heena Vasani to discuss Heena’s life and work using Dr Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry.

Heena had a kidney transplant 27 years ago, a topic she discussed with Jenny Beal here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/blog/episode87

In this conversation with Susan, Heena shared how she almost refused the transplant,
because of a deep seated sense of unworthiness.

In finally accepting the donated kidney as a priceless gift, only made possible the death
of another young woman she never met, Heena stepped onto a path of nurturing
herself on all levels.

Heena talks about divine motherhood and how motherhood became her primary spiritual path and led her to examine all her previously undigested childhood trauma and the effects such trauma has on the body and mind.

Heena also speaks passionately about her work using Compassionate Inquiry and describes what happens in a session.

Finally, Heena describes the 4-part workshop she is facilitating for Center for
Awakening in May, entitled Self Inquiry: A Meditative Approach.

For full details of this series of live workshops with Heena and to register, visit:
https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/heena-vasani

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In this new episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sits down with award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Awaken the World Initiative, Daniel Schmidt to discuss spiritual awakening.

Learn about what Dan describes as a "pattern interrupt" and how that has played out in his own life.

Susan and Dan discuss what is meant by the term "spiritual ego" and how effort on the spiritual path can take us further from the Truth of who we are. Dan speaks eloquently about the importance of what he calls "the conditions of  no escape" and "the surrender paradox".

Dan also describes what he will be teaching in his 4 part series, Letting Stillness Reveal Itself, exclusively available in Center for Awakening's Evolve Community in March.

To learn more and to register for Dan's classes, visit: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/daniel-schmidt


ABOUT DAN

Daniel is the creator of the award winning film “Inner Worlds Outer Worlds” the “Samadhi” film series and is also one of the creators and speakers in the Awakening Mind series. It is Daniel’s intention to convey the one perennial teaching that is inherent within all of the spiritual traditions. Daniel created the Samadhi Center in Ontario Canada and the Awaken the World Initiative as an outer reflection of his inner world. His approach combines self-inquiry with traditional forms of meditation so that participants have the opportunity to simultaneously realize their transcendent nature, and to purify themselves of conditioned patterns so that the human vessel becomes permeable to their true nature. Daniel emphasizes that Samadhi can be experienced not merely as a temporary “state” but as a “stage” of development. Check out this interview with Daniel from the Awakening Mind film.

The “pathless path” is to realize an ever-deepening development process within the self-structure, and to simultaneously realize the emptiness of the self-structure. When these are realized as one, it is Samadhi.

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In this final episode of Living an Awakened Life, Susan Telford sits down with Angelo DiLullo to discuss:

• What is really meant by “awakening”.
• The importance of shadow work 
• How to tell if you have made spiritual awakening into a hobby
• Why it is important to have a teacher 
• The practical way to approach teachings such as there is no choice and there is no doer. 
• The meeting of the relative and the absolute that occurs in deep stage realization

Angelo also describes the 4 classes he will be teaching for the Journey of Awakening Teaching Series in January, entitled The Four Major Movements on the Awakening Journey. These classes will point out the pitfalls along the way as well as the important insights at each stage of awakening.

To learn more and to join Angelo live for his 4-Part series exclusively in our Evolve Community  CLICK HERE 

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What does using the Tools for Awakening look like in day to day life?

Join Rona and Cyndi as they:

• Summarize the tools discussed over the past 11 episodes
• Describe real life examples of how these tools can be used
• Experience the peace and joy that comes from fully committing to this work.

Join Cyndi and Rona as they put it all together.

Would you like to join Cyndi and Rona live each week and explore spiritual awakening in the company of like-minded men and women? We invite you to join our online spiritual Community called Evolve. Learn more and register here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-community

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In her final episode for the Awareness Podcast, Jenny talks with Joost Vanhove about his spiritual journey which involved exploration of a very wide range of ideas, methods and teachings. His keen interest in spirituality was initiated by repeated childhood experiences of expansion and oneness. It wasn’t until his teens that by chance he discovered the writings of a 14th Century Belgian mystic which confirmed for him the reality of what he had experienced.

Joost describes and gives examples of the way language influences our thought processes. Jenny and Joost discuss the role of language in the spiritual path and difficulties and pitfalls in trying to understand the ancient texts and the writings of non-living sages. We agree that much more can be transmitted in face-to-face communication with a living teacher.

Joost goes on to share how over a long period he came to create his self-development model using ideas from many different traditions and from friends on the spiritual path. He describes the meaning and content of the four pillars of this model – Perception, Acceptance, Vision, Action. We discuss how this fits with the Direct Path teaching of his teacher, Francis Lucille, and the principle of living in not-knowing.

If you've enjoyed Jenny Beal, we invite you to join her live for her new weekly sessions: The Path to Understanding, exclusively in our Evolve Community. Jenny will use a mix of guided contemplations, experiments, meditation and dialogue to explore and deepen our understanding of our true nature, and discover what happens when we live our normal lives from that understanding. Visit here for details and to join: 

https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-community  

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In this episode of Conversations in Truth, Bill and his guest Amy Haible come together for a lively discussion of A Course in Miracles and how Advaita integration can be so helpful to students of ACIM and nonduality.

Amy shares what A Course in Miracles has meant to her and gives us more details about her weekly, live sessions in our Evolve Community exploring this enlightening subject.

And, if you'd like to join Amy Haible to explore the text on A Course in Miracles with an emphasis on non dual teachings? Then check out her new, live weekly class Advaita in ACIM.

This class is suitable for beginners as well as those already steeped in non dual teachings. The class will be delivered every Thursday live at 4:00 pm Eastern time, exclusively in our online spiritual Community, Evolve.

To check out all the details for Amy’s class and to join a Community of spiritually awakening men and women around the work please visit: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-community

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Join guest host Rona Marren as she turns the tables and interviews Susan Telford.

Listen in as Rona and Susan discuss:

• Why Susan calls the burnout that ended her career as a high school teacher “Fierce Grace”
• Susan’s journey of awakening through different spiritual traditions
• What Susan means by 'The Seventh Sense'
• The unexpected arrival of poetry in Susan’s life

Susan also shares a bit about her upcoming Masterclass in our Evolve Community this December titled: Enter the Stillness: Live from the Silent Heart, when she will guide participants to a direct experience of the profound stillness and silence beyond words, thoughts, and concepts, that is the true nature of reality.

To learn more about our Evolve Community and to join Susan live for her 4-part Masterclass beginning December 4th, please visit: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-community

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• The role of exploration of the body in the spiritual path
• Whether freedom, truth and authenticity are prerequisites for happiness
• Body-mind conditioning as universal patterns of the mental realm, analogous to the patterns of the physical realm that are the subject of science
• Dealing with trauma
• When shadow-work is needed
• How to protect ourselves from developing ‘spiritual ego’
• The importance of spiritual friendships

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What does it mean to be Open Minded?

During this conversation with Rona and Cyndi you will learn…

• The Open Mind is an empty mind
• How the Open Mind is an effect – it is never a “cause” and it can never be forced.
• How the Open Mind is the gift received from willingness and intention

Join Cyndi and Rona for this discussion and set the intention to empty the mind.

Would you like to join Cyndi and Rona live each week and explore spiritual awakening in the company of like-minded men and women? We invite you to join our online spiritual Community called Evolve. Learn more and register here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-community

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In this episode of Conversations in Truth, Bill and his guest Rosalyn Rourke discuss Rosalyn’s new book, When Wisdom Arrives:  From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom. Tune in to hear...

• How Rosalyn felt when her daughter died unexpectedly at the age of 39
• What prompted Rosalyn to write this book 
• Rosalyn explains her favorite sentence in the book: "If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts.”
• What Rosalyn means by “okayness” and how you can live there always

Learn more about Bill's One Year Masterclass for Awakening here. 

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