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Awareness Explorers episode 211: Salvadore Poe, Guest Explorer In this episode we talk to Salvadore Poe, a spiritual teacher and author who shared his journey from rock musician to spiritual awakening, and described his concept of "having a holiday," that is, recognizing pure being without fixing on any particular experience. The discussion covers topics including spiritual bypassing, doership, and meditation practices. • Includes a guided meditation leading you to relax the focus of attention, notice the movements of life, and see that what you are is not moving. This pure being at the core of all of the movement is that which never moves, and is who you essentially are. To learn more about Salvadore Poe, please visit: https://www.liberationis.com/ Books by Salvadore Poe: https://www.liberationis.com/books Liberation IS: The End of the Spiritual Path The Way of Freedom: Conversations with Salvadore Poe Blown Wide Open: A Collection of Holidays The Audacity of Freedom: A Journey of Spiritual Liberation Discussed in this episode: Jnani: A Sanskrit term for a wise person, sage, or "knower of the Self" within Hindu philosophy, particularly in jnana yoga, the Hindu "path of knowledge" or wisdom. Bhakti: A Sanskrit term meaning intense love, devotion, attachment, and surrender to a personal deity or guru, often serving as a path to spiritual liberation. It is often practiced as bhakti yoga, focusing on devotion through service. Karma: Karma Yoga, or the "yoga of action," is a spiritual path focused on selfless service, purifying the heart, and reducing ego by performing duties without attachment to results. Shiva Shakti Amma https://sivasakthiammaiyar.com/ Ajja https://myajja.weebly.com/ Dolano:: https://www.friendsofdolano.org/ Dzogchen: Dzogchen, or "Great Perfection," is the highest teaching in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, focusing on recognizing the innate, radiant, and empty nature of the mind. It emphasizes that enlightenment is not a distant goal but is already inherently present and requires only recognition through effortless, non-conceptual awareness. I Am That book by Nisargadatta Maharaj https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/I-Am-That-by-Sri-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.pdf POK (Perfectly Okay): Perfectlyokay.org is the social and support center of Jeffery Martin's Finders Course alumni community, Tiruvannamalai and Mount Arunachala: Arunachala hill has been considered sacred for centuries and is located within the temple town of Tiruvannamalai, one of the most ancient heritage sites of India and the home of the Ramana Maharshi Ashram.
Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one. To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit https://findinghappiness.com/ and https://www.playawarenessgames.com/ You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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Awareness Explorers episode 224: Liam McClintock, Guest Explorer In this episode we talk with Liam McClintock about his transition from private equity to becoming a Buddhist monk and his studies in neuroscience. Liam explains how his interest in meditation evolved from a productivity tool to a deeper pursuit of enlightenment and lasting well-being, leading him to create FitMind as a systematic meditation training program. • Includes a guided meditation using Liam's "Four Rs" technique, which involves recognizing, releasing, relishing, and remaining in a fit state of mind, and showing how to identify and release tension, cultivate loving-kindness, and maintain a positive mental state. To learn more about Liam McClintock, please visit: FitMind.org His YouTube channel: @FitMindMeditation https://www.youtube.com/@FitMindMeditation Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one. To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit https://findinghappiness.com/ and https://www.playawarenessgames.com/ You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
Awareness Explorers episode 223: Katharine Pincham, Guest Explorer In this episode Katharine Pincham shares her background studying Vedic and Yogic scriptures in the Himalayas and her transformative spiritual opening. She also delves into the three gunas—fundamental tendencies of nature—that can foster detachment and create an environment for recognizing the existential freedom of awareness, independent of the mind's changing states. • Includes a guided meditation from Katharine helping us to tune into our senses and observe that awareness remains ever-present, undisturbable, and constant, regardless of changing sensations, or thoughts, or temporary physical and mental phenomena. To learn more about Katharine Pincham, please visit: UnchangingBeing.com Her YouTube channel: @unchangingbeing https://www.youtube.com/@unchangingbeing And here's a link for you to sign up for her (free) booklet pdf, "The Gunas & You": https://unchangingbeing.mykajabi.com/gunas-booklet-landing-page-1 To learn more about Katharine's guru, Swami Shyam, please visit: https://swamishyam.com/ Also mentioned in this episode: Writing by Adi Shankaracharya: Vivekachudamani, The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one. To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit https://findinghappiness.com/ and https://www.playawarenessgames.com/ You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
Awareness Explorers episode 222: Mystery and Motivation In this episode we discuss motivations for spiritual practice, contrasting suffering-based motivation with curiosity and the desire for truth, especially around anomalous and miraculous experiences. • Includes a guided meditation helping you to remember events in your life that might be outside of the way you normally look at the material world, and showing you how an open heart is a doorway to mystery and wonder. To learn more about Jonathan's new book, Opening to the Miraculous: True Stories and Investigations into the Weird and the Wonderful, please visit: OpenMiracles.com
Awareness Explorers episode 221: Rupert Spira Encore We're on vacation! So today we're offering an Encore presentation of our interview with our first guest, Rupert Spira, in 2018. In this episode we talk to Rupert Spira about happiness, and how he leads people to the recognition of our true nature as awareness. • Includes a guided meditation from Rupert for going beyond our normal notion of self into the experience of pure awareness. To learn more about Rupert Spira, please visit: https://rupertspira.com/ To listen to the meditation from this episode alone, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBWfCT2Lv4
Awareness Explorers episode 220: Shadow Work In this episode, we explore various approaches to shadow work, that is, becoming conscious of hidden parts of the psyche and bringing them to awareness, which helps reveal and release emotions stored in the body that might otherwise cause trouble in life and relationships. • Includes a guided meditation focused on dissolving resistance to unwanted emotions by fully experiencing feelings in the body and dropping associated storytelling. Mentioned in this episode: Adyashanti's instructions for "Working with Negative Emotions" is included in the set from Sounds True called "Guided Meditations"