Awareness Explorers

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Jonathan Robinson &

Brian Tom O'Connor

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    Enlightenment and Sam the Camera Man
    • Jun 6
    • 4 min

    Enlightenment and Sam the Camera Man

    by Jonathan Robinson Sam enjoyed taking pictures of everything—or so “he” thought. He even thought he was really good at it. He’d video...
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    Awareness Without Borders
    • May 8
    • 4 min

    Awareness Without Borders

    by Brian Tom O'Connor Imaginary lines There's a spot in the United States called the four corners. It's where the southwest corner of...
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    Tricky Questions
    • Sep 3, 2021
    • 4 min

    Tricky Questions

    by Brian Tom O'Connor Why awareness? Why awareness of awareness? Why is being aware of being aware so tricky for some people? Why do some...
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    Four Phrases for Overcoming Your Judgmental Mind
    • Aug 3, 2021
    • 5 min

    Four Phrases for Overcoming Your Judgmental Mind

    by Jonathan Robinson If you can fog a mirror, you have probably noticed two things. First, there are a lot of annoying, incompetent,...
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    Enlightenment and the Water Bottle
    • Jul 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Enlightenment and the Water Bottle

    by Brian Tom O'Connor In the prevalent paradigm of enlightenment, we meditate in order to become enlightened, and we imagine that when we...
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    Awaken Now by Reading This Brief Post
    • May 31, 2021
    • 6 min

    Awaken Now by Reading This Brief Post

    By Jonathan Robinson Congratulations on choosing to read this blog post. By giving your attention to an article such as this, it means...
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    Am I a Camera?
    • Apr 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Am I a Camera?

    By Brian Tom O'Connor A simple analogy for getting a sense of who you really are is the camera. So imagine a side view of the inside of a...
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    How to Have a Near Death Transformation
    • Apr 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    How to Have a Near Death Transformation

    by Jonathan Robinson. It’s a great blessing to know your life is going to suddenly end in about five seconds. I figured that was how much...
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    Nothing Needs to Change
    • Feb 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Nothing Needs to Change

    by Brian Tom O'Connor There is an idea in nondual circles that there is nothing to do in order to become enlightened or wake up to the...
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    What Enlightenment is Like
    • Jan 31, 2021
    • 4 min

    What Enlightenment is Like

    by Jonathan Robinson First, a confession: I am not a fully enlightened being. Yet, I still know what enlightenment is like because, on...
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    Practice: Two Paradigms
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Practice: Two Paradigms

    by Brian Tom O'Connor I'd like to contrast the awareness practices paradigm with the traditional meditation paradigm, and to point out...
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    The Future of Spirituality
    • Dec 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Future of Spirituality

    by Jonathan Robinson Technology is changing our lives in an ever-accelerating manner. Just 15 years ago, smartphones didn’t even exist....
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    Looking in All the Wrong Places
    • Aug 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    Looking in All the Wrong Places

    by Brian Tom O'Connor There's a song, "Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places." Like that song, we've been looking for happiness in all...
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    The One Thing Spiritual Teacher’s Agree On
    • Jun 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    The One Thing Spiritual Teacher’s Agree On

    by Jonathan Robinson. Many years ago I went to India to visit a disciple of Ramana Maharshi named Poonjaji. As I nervously sat down on...
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    Sat Chit Ananda—The Joy of Being Awareness
    • May 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    Sat Chit Ananda—The Joy of Being Awareness

    by Brian Tom O'Connor. Sat Chit Ananda is a term that has made its way into western popular culture from the Upanishads of Hinduism. I am...
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    The New Spirituality: How Things Have Changed in 25 Years
    • May 4, 2020
    • 4 min

    The New Spirituality: How Things Have Changed in 25 Years

    by Jonathan Robinson. In 1994, I edited a book called, The Experience of God in which I interviewed 40 notable spiritual leaders, ranging...
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    The River Delta and Universal Awareness
    • May 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    The River Delta and Universal Awareness

    By Brian Tom O'Connor. It’s often confusing how awareness can be universal, but we only know the content of our individual minds, not the...
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    My Entertaining Interview with God
    • Apr 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    My Entertaining Interview with God

    by Jonathan Robinson. Recently, as I got ready for bed, I thought about how it would be great to interview God just like we interview...
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    Happy for No Reason
    • Apr 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    Happy for No Reason

    by Brian Tom O'Connor In my book, Awareness Games, I talk about that “happy for no reason” feeling that the games are designed to...
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    Who Am I Really?
    • Aug 2, 2018
    • 6 min

    Who Am I Really?

    by Jonathan Robinson Many years ago I went to India to visit a disciple of Ramana Maharshi named Poonjaji.  Poonjaji was a master in his...
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