The misunderstanding that insight is  precious,  an “only if you’re lucky” phenomena…a thing that is lost or gained, a brick on the road to OZ.

Knowing and insights as the currency of engaging in this inquiry can become a heavy burden

"The truth is simple. If it were complicated, everyone would understand it" Walt Whitman

What is knowing and how do we know?

Jed Mckenna excerpt:

“When we start looking at what we really know and how we know and the nature of knowing, then the unreality of reality is revealed. I am not aware of my hands, rather, the three – I, awareness and hands – are one; perceiver-perception-perceived.

We develop our sense of object permanence by the age of two, but we might still wonder if something really exists when we no longer observe it. We outgrow such questions, but not because we answered them. It’s perfectly valid to ask; How do I know my bicycle really exists when I don’t see it? The answer is; I don’t. The better question is; How do I know my bicycle exists when I do see it? The answer is; I don’t. The best question is; Then how the hell do I know anything exists? The answer is; I don’t.”

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What promise may be hidden in the swirling thoughtstorm that seems to circle around us? Let’s explore what The Promise is and how we can inquire into it, revealing the phenomena of inseparable thinker and thought.

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Quotes:

“It's a long and lonely road across the vast desert dream when you don't know what you want or where you are going

And all sign posts merely lead you in circles

Promises of other better more next

Incising your tracks in deeper and deeper gullies that perpetuate the illusion of something someone in the center of the circling

Of something to get

And a way to get to another another another.

In this trackless land only a very few see that their footsteps are empty

That there was no prize

Except the realization that there was nothing to get

And no place to arrive

Back to where you never left

This beautiful spacious Super saturated essential emptiness....

And a dance of unparalleled wonder".

-Nancy Neithercut

“and you

a lonely traveler

made of thought

looking for the end of thought

words paint a path

and rocks and sand

and flowing ambiguous shadows

that promise an end to this journey

that you are

words circle endlessly around words

spiraling thought dreams exhale you

inhale you

into a water color dream scape

where memory paints a past

and a future

and a middle where you seem to exist

how is this enchantment seen through

if the looker is the magicians tale?

how does the belief in this hologram end

when the belief is it?

no one knows how

and there certainly is no why

as you melt into the words

that formed you

this ocean of love that colors in your beauty

swallows you

and beauty

and love

the echo land dream scape

is endless ocean

flowing into itself

love dreams itself

we are the dream” NN

Is the critic in our heads really after us because it thinks we are not good enough?

What if the critic is our biggest cheerleader? A delusional set of expectations of a better version of ourselves the ego, the self, believes possible. A conditioned response to keep moving towards an imagined place or state of perfection.

Inspired by Rick Rubin's The Creative Act book, this episode explores what is this critic and are our assumptions of its intentions and motives part of how it hides and persists in our experience?

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EP 16: There’s No Such Thing as Change (And All There is is Change)

“The attempt to change your behavior becomes the behavior that defines you.” MM

What is change? 

The way the brain seems to be conditioned to notice change and apparent non-change. 

How Time seems to be the bedrock underlying the mind’s determination of “change” 

So what is really going on?  What is this elusive concept and why when it is applied to the self-idea do we suffer from it or yearn for it?

Can the desire for change become de-personalized?

“She longed to iron out the seas….. but lost herself in the rippling.” MM

EP 15 Time

“The mind wants to dissect time and space to see how the mechanism works. Little pieces of life strewn all over the place. Removed from their symphony.”-

- Michelle Annette

"The idea that time exists in a way

that some one is traveling through it

to one place of great bliss or peace is unreal,

it is an illusion.

All there is is this,

this is simple,

so simple it is laughable.

It is so free.

Free in the same way a bird is free,

it has no idea."

- Ella May Sophia

“We’re in a bizarre situation in that 100% of us will forget this ever happened. There is no particular way to pass the time, given this fact.” Jed Mckenna

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Ep 14 The Cadence of Aliveness

Opening Quote

"What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy" Alan Watts

“All this time you have been searching in someone else’s illusory world for a way to understand your own.” MM

What if this (whatever this feels like or seems to be paced as) IS what aliveness feels like? How could it not be? How could it be “wrong”?

Closing Quote:

"Do you want to improve the world?I don't think it can be done.The world is sacred.It can't be improved.If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger.The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them.She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle" Tao Te Ching

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Ep13 The Dragon Story

Sharing the Dragon Story that was shared with Amanda by Michael Neill in the very beginning of her awakening. This powerful parable broke everything open in terms of the radical realization that suffering was not coming from habits, addictions, preoccupations.

The story is in Amanda's book Uncovery

“We drew the dragon and then started building the castle to protect ourselves from it.” MN

“You spin and spin and spin and spin.   Chasing after rainbows chasing after dreams chasing after ideas of what life should be like, and it dawns on you that you have been chasing your own tale.  

Spinning it into existence with every turn, and you fall through yourself into your own shimmering.   You sigh as 1000 rainbows dreams crash into dust.  

It is you it is you it is you it is you it has always been you.  

You were the empty jewel, the unbearable magnificence.” Nancy Neithercut

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Ep12 The Crashes 

Opening Quote:

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Soren Kierkegaard⁠

Exploring the phenomena of a “setback” based on a story of “oh no here I am again”.

This conversation/exploration has the tendency to create a set of expectations that can only be exposed when they are not met—and how that is a GOOD thing.

“She was enthralled by the arrows shot at the moon. Until some of them started coming in her direction.” MM

Closing Quote:

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

Alan Watts

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Opening Quote: “No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”  ― Alan Watts

*Exploring the urgent seeking energy for things to be different, for a better, next moment or experience

*Questioning the need for that energy and also the need for it to go away

*Exploring how time and the self are the same thought-concept

*The realization that life is more like a symphony and not a finale- yet through conditioning we are taught that the finale must be arrived at as fast as possible.

Closing Quote: "Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done."

The Wonder Land is a deep dive into questioning what has been learned and believed about reality, suffering, and awakening. Join coaches Alex Linares and Amanda Jones as they drop down the rabbit hole with weekly explorations and realizations.

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