The Discarded Compass

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Join us in this engaging and light hearted interview with Tim Cliss. Also please visit Tims website for more information at www.timclissthis.com

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Tim always wanted to know. He was a seeker, and a questioner.

As a child he was one of those annoying kids who always asked "why?"

He grew up in a small village in The Fens in Cambridgeshire where he still lives today.

Loving sport he became a PE teacher, but secretly always wanted to dance.

One day whilst leading a group of students on a hike in Derbyshire he was walking up a rocky wooded hill.

He stopped. Time stopped. Afterwards he described it as,

"I knew the rocks and trees and they knew me.

I was the rocks and trees and they were me."

That's not really how it was, but that seemed like the only way he could make sense of it.

After that 'revelation', things were never the same. His seeking was now focussed on finding an answer to what had seemed to have been revealed. He found the message of non-duality, and was bitten. There was immediate and undeniable resonance. There was absolutely no doubting that this was it! There followed many, exciting, frustrating and painful years of being a non-duality addict. He bought every book that even vaguely resonated, watched endless YouTube, promiscuously flitting from one speaker to another looking for the secret nugget that would lead to liberation. He learnt a lot. He understood a lot. It became obvious that all his knowledge and understanding were worthless, and he fell into despair. The despair lasted, until it stopped. In its place was emptiness, peace, silence, and love, but mostly emptiness.

Of course, none of that happened.

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Join John as he interviews Jim Newman in this deep dive insighful episode full of great pointers and discussion.

Jim Newmans website : http://www.simply-this.com

Jim Newmans NON-DUALITY meetings share a mystery, a paradox. The paradox is that THIS, this appearance, isn't what it appears to be. It is and it isn't. It's no-thing being something. It's emptiness appearing as everything. It's unified appearing as divided or separated.

Within this apparent paradox arises an experience. That experience is, that this appearance is happening to 'me'. That experience is not paradoxical; it feels very real. There's no space, no room, no possibility for the reality, that 'this' isn't happening to ‚me’. That experience of duality is dissatisfying. It's uncomfortable. Out of that experience arises the need to bring about a wholeness, to cover up the feeling that what is, isn't complete, to make the feeling that it's not okay - okay. Out of that arises the need for good and bad and right and wrong. So this appearance then turns into ‚my life‘, and my life is the need to make 'this' better, 'this' good, to find out or to solve the problem of why I don't feel like it's okay, why I feel like something's wrong, why I feel like I need to seek, to find something else.

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John talks with Paul Morgan-Somers about his early life and his spontaneous awakening at an early age. Paul discusses awakening , integration and the ongoing singing of his song.

After a series of spontaneous experiences as a teenager he spent the next 5 years in a Vedanta Centre Monastery, contemplating and integrating what he calls the song of the ocean. 

Playing in the love and wonderment of what Is, and singing and sharing his song with others , as Paul says there are no others only THIS.

Since then Paul has quietly drank tea, traveled and chatted with people from all over the world, about that which simply Is, yet cannot be described. 

Much loved by many seekers, he is profoundly present and polite and authentic.

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Welcome to this episode with Jac O'Keeffe. Jac talks with john about her insights and also the new organisation she set up with others called the ASI.

Jac is an authentic and very intuitive teacher who cares deeply about her teaching and students.

Jac talks about the locked in trauma that can prevail unseen in students and especially teachers that believe they are beyond integration.

The ASI was set up when Jac saw the need for spiritual teachers to have a support resource and also a reference for spiritual teachers to engage with and learn from.

Spiritual Integrity and integration are some of the topics talks about in this episode.

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Jac O’Keeffe is a spiritual leader with a unique style. Her teachings include pointers to prior to the non-dual state, and she is clear that non-dual awareness is a stepping stone and not a destination. She has high sense perception abilities that she uses with precision to expose, unravel and heal what creates blockages on our spiritual path and in our understanding. Her teachings also cultivate wisdom, honesty, and integrity. She exposes taboos that are usually avoided in spiritual circles and encourages conversations around issues that are fundamental to our human experience.

Jac’s work is driven by her capacity to envision the possible future of spirituality. Spiritual leadership has been authoritarian for millennia. Perceived as infallible, spiritual teachers were not held accountable. Combine this with an absence of an emphasis on the teacher's personal growth and human evolution, and conditions become ripe for the abuse of power. Now is the time for a systemic change to a new paradigm which is intersectional, inclusive, and mutually receptive. Jac supports the evolution of spiritual leaders and their teaching methods to include accountability and kindness, making spirituality more relevant and applicable to regular life.

Jac is a founding member of the Association for Spiritual Integrity (ASI), an organization that encourages the importance of strong ethical principles in the ongoing growth of spiritual communities and their leaders. https://www.spiritual-integrity.org

Her books include Born to Be Free and How to Be a Spiritual Rebel.

For more information about Jac visit jac-okeeffe.com.

Youtube: https://bit.ly/32CkcPm

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An in depth interview with Kenneth Madden from Galway Ireland. Kenneth talks with John about his sudden non event of awakening and all that the message entails.

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Kenneth talks very clearly from a non-dual place. He had an awakening during a Vipassana retreat many years ago.

He says, 'I had no idea about the world of the spiritual seeker and such terms as awakening, enlightenment and liberation. I remember describing it at the time as like a veil being lifted to reveal that what I had always been looking at was what I had always been looking for. I also remember saying that no experience I had ever had could come close to what happened. It was subsequently seen that it wasn't an experience and that it wasn't a happening as nothing in fact had happened. It was a loss, a loss of me and a seeing of life as it truly is; whole and boundless, complete, unconditional love.'

https://www.kennethmadden.net

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Welcome to our episode with Australian Teacher Gilbert Schultz. Gilbert talks with John about his spiritual awakening, his teachers and insights gained. Gilbert is a very on point to the point teacher and I recommend you listen to this podcast.

Books:

What’s wrong with right now if you don’t think about it. https://amzn.to/3o4qv83

Self Aware

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Self Illumination https://amzn.to/3f2crb6

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