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Send us Fan Mail Every great spiritual tradition teaches about sacred service. Dr. Neil points out that service is structured in consciousness. We can take action and serve others from an ego level, with attachment to the outcome and to our own needs, such as in transactional relationships. We can act and serve at a soul level, with deeper compassion and less attachment, but still within duality. And we can act or serve with a non-dual level of consciousness, in which subject and object disap...
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Send us Fan Mail Most of us believe that we are our life stories, our thoughts, beliefs, images, and feelings. What if these are constructs that we need to see through for spiritual evolution? What if our noisy minds empty out – and we no longer identify with our stories and beliefs? Dr Neil describes what it’s like to live with an empty mind and how it has led to his letting go of local identities, roles, and beliefs. As he moves deeper into this awareness, identifying with consciousness, ra...
Send us Fan Mail This podcast opens with a description of the human stages of development or Growing Up, from caveman to enlightened sage. The hosts make the point that we can have an advanced state of consciousness at any stage, such as a heart opening in a tribal stage or a non-dual glimpse in a rational stage. We will then interpret that state experience through the lens of our stage – “Jesus loves me” or “We’re all connected in quantum reality.” For this reason, it’s essential to focus on...
Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes the Witness as pure consciousness, the background that always is in all states of awareness. In the conventional waking state, we are not aware of it because we are identified with our subjectivity or with an object. When the Witness emerges, we separate and become identified with the Self or pure consciousness – I Am That – and feel free inside from identification with body, mind, feelings. This sense of freedom from subject/object, attraction/aversion is ...
Send us Fan Mail “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”—the third Chinese patriarch of Zen. Today Neil describes the role of preferences, likes and dislikes, love and hate after awakening. He addresses the question: How do we include the people or behaviors that we find unacceptable in the One? If we feel a great attraction or aversion to a politician, celebrity, or friend, do we need to do shadow-work post-awakening? He explains that these pairs of opposites, an...
Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes the higher emotions that arose before and after his awakening: well-being in the physical and subtle bodies, nectar in the mouth, blissful equanimity, dynamic waves of ecstasy, and rapture or non-dual samadhi. He points out that these states are now available to him at will, with and without dualistic functioning in the world, as he works and speaks with people. The last state alone does not allow him to operate in duality.