Most of us spend our spiritual lives in the hearing and understanding phase — and never quite cross into direct experience. In this episode, Jacob opens in real time, frustrated after seven false starts, becoming the thesis of the episode before he even names it. From sitting on a cushion at 6:30am to waddling through a grocery store in compromised underwear, this is what direct experience actually looks like. Why belief won't keep you warm on a cold night. Why 100% of your thoughts are outside your control. Why the dreamer is not separate from the dream. Closes with a wisdom reading from Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation. 

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