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The Awareness Explorers Podcast
Join Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor as they explore the many ways you can uncover the secret of joy and happiness in the background of all experience.
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Become an Awareness Explorer and learn to know yourself as pure unlimited expanded consciousness...Awareness aware of awareness itself.
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Includes a guided meditation with each podcast episode.
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0: Introduction to Awareness Explorers - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss why we created this podcast, and how it can help integrate awareness into daily life activities.
1: What is Awareness? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore what we mean by awareness and how it can become our reliable source of peace, joy, and happiness.
• Includes a guided meditation on questions that lead to awakened awareness, as well as simple phrases that can trigger an immediate state of presence.
2: Slowing - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how to use very small disruptions and slowing down to bring pure awareness into daily life activities.
• Includes a guided method for using talking and movement as a trigger for awakened awareness.
3: Thinking About Not Thinking - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the way thinking can veil pure awareness, and we share ways to disidentify with our thoughts.
• Includes a guided meditation for calming your busy mind and bringing it into present moment awareness.
4: The Art of Letting Go - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore three approaches to letting go… letting go of physical tension, mental tension, and spiritual attachment. We give precise methods for handling each of these, including examples of how letting go is not the same as trying to change our experience.
• Includes a guided meditation for allowing whatever is to be there without resistance.
5: Handling Difficult Emotions - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore different ways of coping with difficult emotions, including how to be with emotions without running away from them.
• Includes a guided meditation to help put tough emotions in perspective.
6: What the Heck is Enlightenment? - Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore differing descriptions and ways of viewing enlightenment and awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation to help imagine what would be different if you were enlightened and what obstacles would no longer be there.
7: Head vs. Heart Awakening - Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore different types of awakening, and how each type has advantages and disadvantages.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you to drop from your head to your heart so you can better access your heart awakening experience.
8: Intuition & Decision Making - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the interplay between awareness, intuition, and decision making.
• Includes a guided meditation with a simple way of accessing intuition to help make good decisions.
9: Rupert Spira, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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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.
10: How to Easily Know Your Obstacles - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore how to give and receive feedback so that you can know what your specific obstacles to awakening to awareness might be.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you discover what you need to know or do to be happier and what obstacles might be good for you to face.
11: Stuart Schwartz, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Stuart Schwartz about allowing and befriending the parts of you that you're judgmental about.
• Includes a guided meditation from Stuart in which he shows us how to use the breath and the phrase "I Am" to lead us to the freedom of pure awareness.
12: What is Satsang? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss what satsang is and how to use it effectively.
• Includes a guided self-inquiry meditation to lead you to the deeper "I" behind what you experience as "me."
13: Intention - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the uses, abuses, and nuances of using intention to awaken.
• Includes a guided meditation for setting a clear intention in a way that allows relaxed awakening.
14: Richard Lang, Headless Way Explorer - Jonathan Roinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Richard Lang about the variety of ways to point to Awareness known as "The Headless Way," pioneered by Douglas Harding.
• Includes a guided meditation with Richard to help us discover our true nature as pure Awareness.
15: Different Doors of Perception - Jonathan Robinson & Briant Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss how to use visual, auditory, and sensory cues to help notice the ever-present field of awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation using each sense to awaken awareness.
16: Lynn Marie Lumiere, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk with Lynn Marie Lumiere about how your relationships can grow in harmony through non-dual awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation from Lynn Marie pointing to the loving awareness that's always present.
17: The Value of Retreats - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss different types of retreats, their potential value and potential limitations to aid in awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you experience a head, heart, and gut awakening.
18: Shifting Identity - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss different ways to shift identity, different identities that are possible, and the ultimate shift in identity to awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation that takes you from the innocence of childlike awareness to the expansion into our innate ground of being.
19: Rick Archer, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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​In this episode we talk to Rick Archer of "Buddha at the Gas Pump" about the advantages and ethical pitfalls of gurus and spiritual teachers.
20: Receiving Spiritual Energy - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the possibility of receiving energy remotely from spiritual beings, and the advantages and disadvantages of such approaches to awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation for receiving spiritual energy from a favorite teacher of your choice.
21: Metaphors of Awakening - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we describe a cornucopia of metaphors that help people understand awakened awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation using the dream metaphor to point to nondual awakening.
22: Decision to Awaken - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss will and the power of making a decision to wake ourselves up.
• Includes a guided meditation to help develop our decision-making muscle and our sincere desire for awakening.
23: Adyashanti, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Adyashanti about spirituality as living in a state of discovery, and ways to tap into silence in daily life.
• Includes a guided meditation from Adyashanti leading us through the three steps of experiencing meditation in its truest sense.
24: Using Adyashanti's Teachings - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we reflect on our conversation with Adyashanti and share how you can apply his wisdom and methods to your life.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you use your body awareness as a barometer for living your truth.
25: The Joy of Contemplation - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we describe how the practice of dropping a contemplative phrase into the depths of your being can lead to joy and revelation.
• Includes a guided meditation that introduces two phrases to use in a contemplative journey within.
26: Ric Weinman, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Ric Weinman about using higher energetics as a path to awakening and letting go of conditioning.
• Includes a guided meditation in which Ric leads us through letting go of three levels of selfhood, and into pure experience beyond self.
27: Perfectionism & Control - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we discuss how the tendencies towards control and perfectionism can interfere with our desire for peace and awareness, and how we can overcome these obstacles.
• Includes a guided meditation that walks you through the three phases of wabi sabi, imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness.
28: Brian Interviews Jonathan - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, Jonathan tells Brian about his spiritual teacher, the wild experiments he's done, and what he's found most helpful.
• In addition, Jonathan leads a guided mediation in which you contemplate your death in order to bring new aliveness to your current life.
29: Jonathan Interviews Brian - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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29: Jonathan Interviews Brian - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, Brian tells Jonathan about finding a way out of depression through awareness, his theater background, and his influences in the spiritual search.
• In addition, Brian leads a guided mediation using a window of eternity metaphor to help you expand your view into infinite awareness.
In this episode, Brian tells Jonathan about finding a way out of depression through awareness, his theater background, and his influences in the spiritual search.
• In addition, Brian leads a guided mediation using a window of eternity metaphor to help you expand your view into infinite awareness.
30: John Astin, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Dr. John Astin about consciousness research, songwriting, and practices for opening to pure experience.
• Includes a guided meditation, "The Borderless Field of Being" from his new book, "This Extraordinary Moment."
31: Acting Without Attachment - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss how to act passionately in the world while being unattached to the results.
• Includes a guided meditation to help us combine intention with surrender.
32: Byron Katie, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to spiritual teacher Byron Katie about the false self, the benefits of not believing your thoughts, and the lack of separation between people.
• Includes a guide to meditating on your judgements using Byron Katie's worksheets..
33: What is Working on Yourself? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore how to know if what you're doing to work on yourself is really working for you.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you find ways to allow the eternal present to resolve all difficulties and even to present solutions to practical problems.
34: The Mystical Use of Language - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we take a look at oneness from many angles, including spiritual bypassing and the paradox of oneness and humanness.
• Includes a guided meditation that leads us through a progression to the experience of Oneness.
35: The Upside and Downside of Oneness - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to spiritual teacher Byron Katie about the false self, the benefits of not believing your thoughts, and the lack of separation between people.
• Includes a guide to meditating on your judgements using Byron Katie's worksheets.
36: Loch Kelly, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Loch Kelly about Effortless Mindfulness, and how it differs from Deliberate Mindfulness as a method of opening to naturally compassionate, awake awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation or "glimpse practice" from Loch to help us know awake awareness without resorting to the thinking mind.
37: Paired Awakening Games - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we introduce games that can be played with two people and can quickly lead to the joy and peace of pure awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation that uses specific questions to guide the listener into a relaxation of their body and separate ego identity.
38: What if Nonduality Were True? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore how to know if what you're doing to work on yourself is really working for you.
• Includes a guided meditation using imagination and metaphor to bring you to the experience that we're all part of one energy.
39: Carole Griggs & Ted Strauss, Guest Explorers - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Carole Griggs and Ted Strauss about a model for accelerating conscious awakening, and the advantages of consciousness coaching.
40: Shortcomings and Humility - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how humility is crucial on the spiritual path and yet paradoxically cannot be directly cultivated.
• Includes an exploration of how humility can be experienced, and a guided meditation to help people let go of false ideas about themselves.
41: Into the Body - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how inner experience of the body can be a useful catalyst for spiritual growth.
• Includes a guided meditation using our body sensations to connect to the larger field of awareness that we all are.
42: Gail Brenner, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Gail Brenner about the connection between psychotherapy and awareness practices.
• Includes a guided meditation from Gail using the metaphor of the mind as the wide-open, borderless clear sky.
43: The New Spirituality - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how spirituality has changed over the past 25 years, and how to take advantage of the most positive changes.
• Includes a guided meditation engaging your intuition to discover what has kept you back and what can accelerate your growth moving forward.
44: Thinking About the Future - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore whether the future exists and how our preoccupation with the future can be an obstacle to awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you release the future and fully experience the peace of the present moment.
45: Technology and Awakening - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we describe various new technologies that can foster spiritual awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation on how to know if a technology is truly helpful.
46: Susanne Marie, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Susanne Marie about the experiences of unity and of "no self," and the role that the heart and softening have in awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation from Susanne Marie to help open your heart.
47: Fear, Anxiety, and Awareness - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk we talk about how to be with fear and anxiety on the spiritual path in a way that facilitates greater awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you drop the story about your fears and experience them as sensations in your body.
48: How to Talk About This Stuff - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk we talk about how to share your experience of awareness and spirituality with friends and family in an exploratory manner.
• Includes a guided meditation to rehearse all the elements needed to share in with openness and curiosity.
49: Patti Levin, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Dr. Patti Levin about her awakening experiences, oscillating between peace and conditioning, and the relationship between spirituality and psychology.
50: An Assortment of Awakening Meditations - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode Jonathan and Brian take turns guiding listeners on 20 minutes of eyes-open meditations, followed by 20 minutes of eyes-closed meditations.
51: Amy Lindgren, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Amy Lindgren about her experience of surrender, how she awakened, and what tools were most effective in this process.
• Includes a guided Pure Conscious Experience meditation, using an appealing visual image.
52: Living with Uncertainty - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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n this episode, we talk about how to thrive with feelings of insecurity during these uncertain times using various types of practices.
• Includes a guided meditation that helps you make friends with insecurity and uncertainty, and receive wisdom from your deeper knowing.
53: Overcoming the "More" Mindset - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we discuss the mind's desire for always wanting more and how to handle that tendency so that peace can be experienced.
• Includes a guided meditation to help bring awareness to the feeling of lack and to find peace and happiness in the feeling of enough.
54: Are Pets the New Gurus? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk about what our pets can teach us about awareness and living a good life.
• Includes a guided meditation to help us listen to and embody a pet's wisdom.
55: Depression and Awareness - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we discuss what depression is and how awareness practices can break its grip and affect it in beneficial ways.
• Includes a guided meditation leading you through two methods for being with negative feelings in a way that helps you get unstuck from them.
56: Questions from Our Listeners - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we discuss the value of questions and answer questions from our listeners.
• Includes a guided meditation that poses questions to expand your mind and help you to experience the infinite knowing beyond the mind.
57: Michael Lydon, Guest Exporer - Jonathan Robinson & Brain Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Michael Lydon about The Realization Process, and explore practical techniques for bringing a sense of the ground of being into our bodies.
• Includes a guided meditation containing a sampling of Realization Process Techniques.
58: Three Approaches to Happiness - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we outline three approaches to happiness—external, internal, and psychological—and the relative usefulness and methods of each.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us through the three elements of finding internal happiness.
59: Jan Frazier, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Jan Frazier about what the awakened experience is like and how we interfere with the precious moments of daily life.
• Includes a guided description of how to approach daily life experiences from the perspective of allowing spontaneous moments of consciousness to linger.
60: What's Keeping You from Presence? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the many ways we avoid presence, and how to overcome them in daily life.
• Includes a guided meditation asking three questions to help us let go of obstacles to presence.
61: Steve Farrell, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinsons & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Steve Farrell about oneness, conscious business, and the necessity of having large portions of humanity wake up.
• Includes a guided meditation to help us feel into the inner light that is ever-present and connects each one of us.
62: What About Anger? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom o'Connor
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In this episode we examine different types of anger, the causes of anger, and possible methods for dealing with anger and bringing it to awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation that helps us experience anger without the story attached to it.
63: Daniel Schmidt & Tanya Mahar, Guest Explorers - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Daniel Schmidt and Tanya Mahar about their films, Inner Worlds Outer Worlds and Samadhi, the different approaches to Samadhi, and the various paths to awaking across many cultures..
• Includes a guided meditation to help us drop all the obstacles that keep us from allowing the present moment to be exactly as it is.
64: The Yoga of Relationships - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore how relationships can be used as a vehicle for awakening and for overcoming obstacles that get in the way of knowing the nature of love.
• Includes a guided meditation asking several questions that can help deepen the connection in any relationship.
65: J Jaye Gold, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to J Jaye Gold (Justin), who was Jonathan's spiritual teacher for 26 years, and discusses his unique angle on spiritual groups, meditation, and his system of tools for uncovering consciousness.
• Includes a musical meditation.
66: Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, Guest - Jonathan Robinson & O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Bridgit Dengel Gaspard about how the various parts of oneself can be integrated into an aware ego.
• Includes a guided meditation to explore and assimilate two opposite parts of yourself.
67: Peace in Turbulent Times - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about the concepts of allowing vs. resisting, and how to find peace while also helping to reduce suffering in world.
• Includes a guided meditation to help allow our emotional reactions to events and thereby experience unity consciousness.
68: Pamela Wilson, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Pamela Wilson about clear seeing, honoring ourselves and all that arises within, and resting in the background of stillness, which is our true nature.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us into the silent, warm, benevolent, all-welcoming space of gratitude and stillness in the formless spiritual heart.
69: Awareness and the Creative Process - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about the similarities between the creative and spiritual process, including what opens us up to each, and what tends to block their full fruition.
• Includes a guided meditation to help us open up to the creative spark and let it manifest in daily life.
70: Your Relationship to Fear - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk about types and approaches to fear and ways to effectively handle them for greater freedom and awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us to the safety of the present moment.
71: Bruce Pardoe, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Bruce Pardoe about Heart Fluency, a system for healing trauma by integrating difficult emotions into a field of spaciousness.
• Includes a guided meditation delving the into the process for meeting and healing emotions such as feelings of unworthiness or trauma.
72: Control vs. Surrender - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we look at surrender as an alternative to the idea that we can control our experience, and we include unique methods for experiencing surrender.
• Includes a guide meditation presenting several subtle ways to let go of control and enter into the realm of surrender.
73: Fred Davis, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Fred Davis about his awakening, his methods to help others wake up, and what gets in the way of living as awakeness.
• Includes a guided meditation that gives a quick sampling of various direct inquiry approaches to living as awake space.
74: The Voice in Your Head - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore what the voice in your head is, how to change your relationship to it, and what's on the other side when you don't fully identify with it.
• Includes a guided meditation to help loosen your identification with the voice in your head, and how to experience reality wordlessly.
75: Jeffery Martin, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Dr. Jeffery Martin about his research into what helps people awaken, what methods are most useful, the nature of Fundamental Wellbeing, and common misconceptions about awakening
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76: Is There Something to the Law of Attraction? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we tease out the useful kernels of truth and techniques of the Law of Attraction (LOA) as well as how its ideas and methods can be misused.
• Includes a guided meditation for using LOA principles to create an experience of higher consciousness in your day and in your future.
77: Overcoming the Dualistic Mind - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss how separation is created in the mind, and ways to overcome through seeing underlying unity.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us to the experiential sense of the unity of opposites.
78: Sanjay Manchanda, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk with psychotherapist and neurofeedback expert Sanjay Manchanda. In our exploration, we discuss how psychotherapy and awakening can support each other, how new technologies can lead to expanded states of consciousness, and how to use trauma and strong emotions as a vehicle for further awakening.
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• Includes two guided meditations from Sanjay. The first, for quickly disidentifying with contracted parts of oneself, and thereby open to various qualities of pure beingness, and the second, for delving into the unknown.
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79: Endarkenment - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss the freedom of not trying to be spiritual and allowing your shadow to show up as a path to greater awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation to imagine how you would be different if you could be free of fear and inhibitions.
80: Tami Simon, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Tami Simon, the founder and CEO of Sounds True, about her personal practice, what she's learned from leading Sounds True, and various wisdom she's received from interviewing dozens of teachers.
• Includes a guided breathing meditation from Tami on connecting with and filling your body with the natural upflow of energy from the Earth.
Ep 81: Pure Experiencing - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about what pure experiencing is, what it feels like, what prevents it, and how to enjoy it in daily life.
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• Includes a guided meditation using the visual sense to guide you to the peacefulness and joy of pure conscious experience.
82: Zoom With You - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we're joined by a group of listeners to explore what helps and hinders them on the path of awakening, including how and when to share spiritual ideas with others.
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We're sending our deep thanks for your wisdom and eloquence to all those who joined: Ajay, Barbara, Boris, Brent, Clint, Donna, Eliza, Elizabeth, George, Glynnis, Haran, Jana, Melanie, Robert, Steve, Tatini (and anyone else whose names we didn't catch).
83: Lion Goodman, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we explore all things about beliefs with Lion Goodman, such as how they affect us, how to change them, and how to try on new beliefs that might help with awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation that allows you to let go of a limiting belief and try on and integrate a more beneficial belief.
84: Stepping Out of Your Story - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore how our minds continually create stories about ourselves, others, and the world, and we present many methods for stepping out of our stories and into inner peace.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you step out of stories that block you from peace, and instead enter into the stream of eternal presence.
85: Eric Zimmer, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinsin & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Eric Zimmer, host of The One You Feed podcast, about how to create good spiritual habits through support, emotional regulation, acceptance, and finding the middle way.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to experience body sensations, hearing, and breathing in one field of awareness.
86: Deepak Chopra, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Deepa Chopra about his latest thoughts on awakening, consciousness, and his book, Total Meditation.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us to see how we are in everything, and how every experience includes, and is, the background of awareness.
87: Inquiring Into Inquiry - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we inquire into the five different types of inquiry, and how each can be used to connect with deeper peace and happiness.
• Includes a guided meditation using questions to lead us into an experience of our true identity.
88: Overcoming Your Judgmental Mind - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss the pitfalls of having a judgmental mind, and present simple methods to use when judgment arises.
• Includes a guided meditation in which five phrases are used to help you transcend your judgmental nature.
89: Chris Niebauer, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Chris Niebauer, PhD. about his book, No Self, No Problem, and the parallels between recent discoveries in neuropsychology and spiritual practices such as Buddhism and Nonduality.
• Includes a guided meditation taking us through a series of questions to help us let go of who we are not.
90: Getting Love, Giving Love, and Being Love - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk about different types of love, the obstacles to love and methods to uncover the love of our true nature.
• Includes a guided meditation using the mirror analogy to reveal how to connect to the love that we are.
91: The Value of Self-Love - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about obstacles to self-love, and we offer practical ideas and methods to cultivate self-acceptance, compassion, and kindness.
• Includes a guided meditation for moving from a part of ourselves that we don't like to an experience of openness, tenderness, and compassion.
92: Colin McMorran, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Colin McMorran about transpersonal therapy, disidentifying from thought, and using analogies and metaphors for transcending the illusory self.
• Includes a guided meditation bringing us down into the spacious room of inner silence and then bringing that silence back into everyday life.
93: Witness Consciousness - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about the many levels of witness consciousness and the many ways to experience it in daily life.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you merge the witness and the witnessed into simply witnessing.
94: Time and Timelessness - Jonathan RObinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the illusion of time, the reality of the present, and how to embrace more fully the only moment we live in—now.
• Includes a guided meditation that uses phrases that point to the illusion of past and future and the portal of this eternal present moment.
95: John Prendergast, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to John Prendergast about a somatic and heart-based approach to opening up to different levels of beingness.
• Includes a guided meditation taking us through deepening layers of peace from groundedness to open heartedness.
96: Being Yourself - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we describe various layers and aspects to being more fully your ego personality as well as your higher universal self, including obstacles in the way to being each, and how to gently overcome them.
• Includes a guided meditation showing how the universal self can set the individual self free.
97: If Life is a School... - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we reflect upon the benefits of seeing life as a curriculum to learn certain lessons and how that interacts with our true nature as awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation in which you are given the opportunity to review events from your past through the lens of what there was to learn from them.
98: Judith Blackstone, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Judith Blackstone about The Realization Process, and practical methods for fully inhabiting your body as a way of connecting with fundamental consciousness.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you attune to the central core of the body by tuning into the head, heart, and pelvis.
99: Your Relationship with Thoughts and Emotions - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how to change your relationship with your thoughts and emotions and identify with pure awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation that takes you step by step from full identification with an emotion to full connection with awareness.
100: Greatest Hits and Your Questions - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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We celebrate our 100th episode by reviewing some of the key insights of the last three years of Awareness Explorers, and by answering questions from our listeners.
101: Anna-Lisa Adelberg, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Anna-Lisa Adelberg of the Luminous Awareness Institute about how various aspects of healing and awareness can combine to embody a richer and deeper expression of awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us through the experience of awareness of interconnected oneness, taking us from borderless formless awareness to fullness awareness.
102: Powerlessness and Uncertainty - Jonathan Robinsons & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how to make friends with powerlessness and uncertainty, and how letting go of resistance is the way to greater peace.
• Includes a guided meditation using a systematic way to become more okay with these difficult feelings.
Lisa Carrillo, Guest Explorer - Jonthan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Lisa Carrillo about synthesizing psychology and awareness in a way that helps us see through our thought-based identity into True Being.
• Includes a guided meditation for noticing the benevolent presence which is already here and is beyond thought.
104: The Value of Spiritual Experiments - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we outline several ways to experiment with spiritual principles to help discover your obstacles to awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation imagining a day through three different experiments.
105: Arthur Aghajanian, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Arthur Aghajanian about Christian mysticism and its relationship to nonduality.
• Includes instructions on how to do the contemplative Christian meditation known as The Centering Prayer.
106: Are Spiritual Transmissions Helpful? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we look at what transmissions are, whether they can lead to awakening, and how one can open to them more deeply.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us step-by-step through receiving and then giving transmission to another person.
107: Wide Open Humility - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about the value of humility, the many obstacles to it, and how various paths can help to nurture an openness free of arrogance and self-importance.
• Includes a guided meditation to help you peel the layers of ego knowingness and self-protection and uncover true humility.
108: Scott Kiloby, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Scott Kiloby about addiction, his unique inquiry methods, and ways to awaken from identification with our core deficiency.
• Includes a sample session in which Scott takes Jonathan through his distinctive inquiry approach.
109: Reverence, Awe, and Devotion - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk about the dangers and the value of reverence, awe, and devotion, and how we might bring them into everyday life.
• Includes a guided meditation that helps you tap into reverence and awe by remembering such experiences in your life and relaxing back into them.
110: Exploring the Art of Exploration - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore ways to explore topics with your friends and family, including specific obstacles to avoid and methods to use.
• Includes a guided meditation on how to listen to others from the background of awareness.
111: Ted Strauss, Guest Explorer, on Whole Being Coaching - Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the concept of coaching to help us with Whole Being Awakening, and the various aspects of our lives, including, spiritual, body, emotions, mind, and uniqueness.
• Includes a guided meditation from Ted helping us to integrate boundless awareness with our concept of our personal selves, our thoughts, our emotions, and our bodies.
112: The Enlightenment Project—Brian Interviews Jonathan About His New Book - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode Brian interviews Jonathan about Jonathan’s new book, The Enlightenment Project, in which he shares poignant stories and valuable methods which he has learned from interviewing a hundred teachers.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us through twenty different descriptions of Awareness.
113: Jim Dreaver, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we Talk with Jim Dreaver about his new book, Untriggerable, his enlightenment experience, and what he learned from his nondual teacher, Jean Klein.
• Includes a guide meditation in which Jim helps us to identify with our true selves, that which never changes.
114: The Qualities of Awakening - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the qualities inherent in awake awareness, and the value and potential pitfalls of tapping into various higher qualities directly.
• Includes a guided meditation using an analogy of a river delta to help us experience the qualities of universal awareness.
115: Myths of Enlightenment - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we outline ten of the most persistent myths about awakening and take a look at what’s true and false about each.
• Includes a guided meditation for helping to uncover beliefs in the way of awakening for you, and how to let go of them.
116: Lesley Skylar, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Lesley Skylar about the liberation that lies beyond initial awakening, the deconstruction of identification, and the depth of our being as pure consciousness.
• Includes a guided meditation from Lesley leading you below the surface of your being, free-falling into the depths of the still energetic ocean of consciousness that you are.
117: Angelo DiLullo, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Angelo DiLullo about awakening, liberation from suffering, and his book, Awake: It’s Your Turn.
• Includes a guided meditation using sound, sensations, and thought to help us to know the undefined, the mysterious, the ungraspable, and the undeniable, just as it is.
118: The Middle Way - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about finding a middle way of peace and sanity in between the various extreme polarities presented to us in modern day life.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us through several examples of extreme opposites and helping us to find the still center in between.
119: A Psychedelic Debate - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode Brian takes a skeptical view of the use of psychedelics while Jonathan describes their potential uses in overcoming psychological or spiritual blocks.
• Includes a guided meditation leading you to remember a high moment and to recreate and expand upon how it felt in your body, mind, and heart.
120: Marianne Williamson, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Marianne Williamson about the power of love, the value of A Course in Miracles, the importance of activism, and her experience of running for president.
121: C von Hassett, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to C von Hassett, author of Entering the Mind, about Dzogchen, a radical wisdom practice which points us towards the recognition of the open, expansive nature of our own innate mind in its natural state.
122: Jac O'Keeffe, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we had great fun talking to Jac O'Keeffe about the interplay of stillness and humanness and how to deepen with each of them, including what is deeper than nonduality.
123: Awareness Adventures - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we chat about Brian's new book, Awareness Adventures, and discuss such topics as the use of imagination, the core wound, and Brian's newest games for awakening awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation and a game for dissolving any boundary that keeps you from nondual awareness.
124: Spiritualizing the Holidays - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how to create sacred time, and the advantages and pitfalls of the various ways of bringing joy and peace to the holidays.
• Includes a guided meditation where you are invited to reflect on precious moments of the past year, things you learned, and how you want to create your forthcoming year.
Conditions and Conditioning - Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how the conditions we place on our experience veil the happiness and peace that make up our true nature.
• Includes a guided meditation that helps you get in touch with conditions you place on your happiness and a simple way of erasing them all at once.
127: Andrew Harvey, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson
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In this episode Jonathan talks to Andrew Harvey about the necessity of combining activism with spiritual practice in order for it to be balanced, effective and truly helpful to you and to the world.
• Includes a guided meditation containing three simple practices to help you experience the birth of the divine human in yourself.
128: MDMA and Love Training - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Conno
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In this episode Brian interviews Jonathan about his research and experience in how to use MDMA, better known as ecstasy, as a medicine for couples therapy, overcoming PTSD, and as training wheels for learning how to stay in an expanded and loving state of consciousness.
• Includes a guided meditation that leads you into learning subtle ways you both open and close your heart, so you can better access such experiences at will.
129: Is Anything True? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we help with letting go of the mind by exploring the limitations of the intellect in evaluating, understanding, and knowing reality.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to question what we think we know to be true about ourselves.
130: Human Awakening Environments - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss the best social environments that are supportive of awakening and inspiring experiences of oneness.
• Includes an interactive guided meditation in which Jonathan, Brian, and you take turns describing and pointing towards awareness.
131: Hale Dwoskin, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Hale Dwoskin about The Sedona Method and how it has evolved from a technique to let go of painful or unwanted feelings into a truly nondual method to help you realize that that there is no separation.
• Includes a guided meditation in which Hale shows us how to pause and notice what is, welcome what is, and simply be what you are.
132: Gangaji, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Gangaji about her teacher Papaji, how to bring freshness to the teaching, as well as surrender, vigilance, and getting free of the narrative self.
• Includes a guided meditation inviting us to see through our story, dissolve habitual thought, and experience reality directly.
133: No Self or Better Self - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we debate the relative advantages of improving the individual self vs. transcending the individual self.
• Includes a guided meditation investigating the nature of our identity without problems to solve.
134: AI and Awakening - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we discuss how new technologies such as artificial intelligence can be used to help or hinder awakening and human happiness.
• Includes a guided meditation written by ChatGPT to help us know our true nature as awareness.
135: Roger Walsh, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connr
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In this episode we talk to Roger Walsh about a wide range of topics, including shamanism, nonduality, how to respond to global crises, and practices in all religious traditions.
• Includes a guided meditation showing us how to invoke a person or archetype who has a trait that you would like to imbue your life with, enabling you to contribute more effectively and be more joyful.
136: Adyashanti Encore - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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An Encore presentation of our interview with Adyashanti from 2019. In this episode we talk to Adyashanti about spirituality as living in a state of discovery, and ways to tap into silence in daily life.
• Includes a guided meditation from Adyashanti leading us through the three steps of experiencing meditation in its truest sense.
137: Mind Ploys - Jonathan Robinson & BrianTom O'Connor
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In this episode, we describe various ways our mind tricks us into missing reality and our true nature.
• Includes a guided meditation that provides an antidote for times when your incessant thoughts take over your experience.
138: Tuning Your Inner Radio Stations - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connr
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In this episode we use a radio station analogy to explore how different frequencies can be harmful or helpful towards peace and happiness, and how to tune away from some and towards others.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us away from lower frequency stations to those of gratitude and presence.
139: Joan Tollifson, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Joan Tollifson about the simplicity of being present, and the value of movies, teachers, meditation, and different types of inquiry.
• Includes a guided meditation using the present experiences of sound, body sensations, form and color, and sense of self to help see it all as one experience.
140: Motivation and Identity - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss the interplay between identity and motivation, including how certain motivations may be more helpful than others on the journey of awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation using inquiry questions and a progression of identities leading to one that is indefinable, unnamable, and inconceivable.
141: Catherine Ingram, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Catherine Ingram about empathic activism, effortlessness, how to stay sane in a crazy world, and her teachers, Papaji and Leonard Cohen.
142: Lee Holden, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Lee Holden about Qi Gong, his teacher, Mantak Chia, and how to use Qi Gong to transform stress into vitality, through building energy in the body, emotional balance, clarity of mind, and spiritual awareness.
• Includes a guided healing meditation, to set up and infuse your practice with elevation, heart energy, and lightness.
143: Self-Criticism - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the problem of self-criticism and various ways to go beyond that nagging voice in your head.
• Includes a guided meditation in which increasing levels of disidentification with self-criticism are explored and experienced.
144: Getting Curious About Curiosity - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore two different aspects of curiosity, outer curiosity as a way of enhancing life and relationships and inner curiosity as a way of spiritual growth and discovering your true nature.
• Includes a guided meditation offering a slew of questions that can help point to your innermost being in a nonconceptual way.
145: Gareth Duignam Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Gareth Duignam, who specializes in describing and sending various forms of transmissions for spiritual awakening.
• Includes a unique meditation in which no words are spoken, but a silent transmission is being recorded and available for experience.
146: Sam Gow, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Sam Gow about the nature of awareness, the experience of the sense of self, and how to soften doing so that you rest in being.
• Includes a guided meditation helping to relax our grasping, in order to open into a field of no preferences, and open awareness.
147: Beyond Belief - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Conno
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In this episode, we explore how limiting beliefs happen and how to go beyond them into a more expansive experience of life.
• Includes a guided meditation and exercise for softening or doubting limiting beliefs so that new possibilities can open up.
148: Patricia Dennison, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, our guest, Patricia Dennison, offers something different. Five songs about nonduality, along with our discussion of putting nondual lyrics within the heart opening sound of simple guitar music and vocal harmony.
Unknown Track - Unknown Artist
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In this episode we discuss the value of abstaining from various distractions and the potential value in fully indulging or experiencing the joy and sensations of the present moment.
• Includes a guided meditation about deciding to abstain from a distracting habit in order to notice your experience more directly.
150: Sid Friedman, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Sid Friedman about how his technique—Effortless IFS—grew out of Internal Family Systems, and how we can heal contractions and life difficulties while celebrating the fulfillment inherent in our nature.
• Includes a guided meditation using music to help us experience the causeless joy that is ever-present.
151: Identification and Disidentification - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both identification and disidentification, and when it’s appropriate to use each in daily life and in our spiritual practice.
• Includes a guided meditation that helps us notice that what we hear and what we feel are simply appearances in the larger field of awareness.
152: Rosalyn Rourke, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Rosalyn Rourke about her book, When Wisdom Arrives, the Enneagram, how to deal with feelings, and using more relatable terms that are not spiritual jargon to help people reduce suffering.
• Includes a guide meditation allowing us to reframe an upsetting experience in light of eight basic emotions, thereby going beyond emotional thought loops and imagined unworthiness.
153: A Sense of Mission - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks to aligning with and pursuing a sense of mission.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to remember past moments of purposefulness, and to create a guiding sense of mission for the upcoming year.
154: Free Will and Non-Doership - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we delve into the practical use of thinking that we have free will and the liberating implications of imaging that we do not.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us to imagine the consequences to your view of the world if you do not have free will and are not the doer.
155: Judith Blackstone, Guest Explorer, Part 2 - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Judith Blackstone about her new book, The Fullness of the Ground, different approaches to nonduality, and inhabiting the body as a way to connect to Fundamental Consciousness and the ground of being.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to connect the space of our body with the environment, allowing us to experience both as the same space.
156: The Downsides of Awakening - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore the potential drawbacks of our spiritual journey, and how awareness of these drawbacks can help us to sidestep them.
• Includes a guided meditation in which we acknowledge potential challenges that arise in awaking, and how we can accept and allow them with compassion.
157: Karen Thorson, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Karen Thorson about the interplay between health, pain, worry, responsibility, and being present with what is, as well as using the body for direct experiencing, and our unique paths among the various modalities for continuous explorations.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to feel the vast fullness of breath, and the field in and around our bodies, bigger than our skin, connected with everything, expanding with life, wellness, and joy.
Ep 158: Rastal, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Conno
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In this episode we talk to Rastal about his journey from trauma and depression to fundamental wellbeing, his experience with a method from Jeffery Martin's Finder's Course, as well as how he navigates the many different levels of fundamental wellbeing, bringing it to the foreground of our experience.
• Includes a guided meditation for sinking into one's direct experience as a vehicle for deepening into various levels fundamental wellbeing.
159: How to Quiet Your Mind Part 1 - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In the first episode of this two-part exploration, Brian describes three different approaches to freeing ourselves from the grip of thought and runs through his favorite methods in each category.
• Includes a guided meditation offering various examples of the three basic approaches to quieting the mind.
160: How to Quiet Your Mind Part 2 - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In the second episode of this two-part exploration, Jonathan describes his favorite methods to quiet the mind and how he often uses them in a particular order for deepening quiet within himself.
• Includes a guided meditation in which you are led into ever deepening levels of silence through a series of mind quieting methods.
161: Paul Austin, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Paul Austin about microdosing psychedelic substances to enhance productivity, mood, and spiritual awaking, and how these altered states can be transformed into altered traits.
• Includes a guided meditation using breathing and present moment awareness to tap into deeper beingness.
162: What Makes a Good Human Being? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore what it means to be a really good human and the various factors and approaches that help create inspiring people.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to envision and embody who you would like to become.
163: Seye Kuyinu, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Seye Kuyinu about his book, This Glorious Dance: Contemplations About Who We Are, as well as about questions that explore our true nature, and a variety of topics such as anxiety, hypnotism, and contemplative practice.
• Includes a guided meditation in which you are led into ever deepening levels of silence through a series of mind quieting methodsIncludes a guided meditation, based on a Gurdjieff practice, helping us to awaken a sense of aliveness in each body part, while at the same time allowing that part to be the full container for attention.
164: What to Do When You're Triggered - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about what triggers you, what we normally do with triggers, and seven ways to make good use of them on the path to awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation to use when you are triggered involving allowing the arrow of love to crack open your defensive armor and awaken the love in your heart.
165: Positive Psychology and Awakening - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we compare and contrast the techniques of positive psychology with the techniques of nondual awareness practices.
• Includes a guided meditation that focuses on raising one's vibration through gratitude in order to relax into pure beingness.
166: Walter Dennison, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & BrianTom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Walter Dennison about his experiences with diving into the center of emotions in order to let go of resistance and open a doorway to unveiled reality.
• Includes a guided meditation that uses your feeling-imagination to scan first for your non-existent separate self, and then for old emotional energy being kept in your body.
167: Negative Thought Patterns - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about patterns that keep our thinking locked in mental stories and keep us from present moment awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation providing ways to ask questions that challenge our thinking and put thought in a wider perspective.
168: David Farmer, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, David Farmer talks about how Japanese culture, including archery, led to spiritual insight, and his further explorations with David Bingham that led to his realization of no self and effortless being.
• Includes a guided meditation showing us how looking at every aspect of our experience can lead us to the direct realization of effortlessness and what it is to simply be.
169: Remedies for Cognitive Distortions - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how limited thinking patterns can be looked at, dissected, and overcome.
• Includes a guided meditation providing ways to identify a cognitive distortion and come up with a rebuttal to go beyond it.
170: Eva Müller, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Eva Müller about her spiritual journey, her meditation techniques, and her healing transmissions.
• Includes a guided meditation from Eva, focused on clearing energies and allowing more light and higher vibrations, while emphasizing relaxation, joy, and the understanding that everything is perfect as it is.
171: The Future of Consciousness - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we discuss how consciousness exploration will change in the future due to emerging technologies and societal changes, and we contemplate how to know if these changes are useful or just mere distractions.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to visualize our awakened future self and how we can take steps to embody that in our current lives.
172: Colette Martin & Boris Feldman, Guest Explorers - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Colette Martin and Boris Feldman about their Deepening Protocol, which guides people through progressively deeper states of fundamental well-being and awakening. The process involves sinking into present experience, letting go of resistance, and allowing deeper states to emerge naturally.
• Includes a guided meditation providing ways to identify a cognitive distortion and come up with a rebuttal Includes a guided meditation leading us to ever deepening levels of present moment experience.
173: Time, Now, and the Non-Future - Jonathan Robinson & BrianTom O'Connor
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In this episode, we discuss the non-reality of the future and its traps that keep us from the now and obscure our true nature.
• Includes a guided meditation using various methods to shift our attention from the future to the only time when awakening can be experienced: now.
174: Alex Shailer, Guest Explorer - Jonatha Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Alex Shailer about fully experiencing feelings as a way to release them, identifying with our true nature as consciousness, and resting as open awareness, rather than trying to forcefully cultivate positive states.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to turn our attention to direct sensory experience, inviting us to notice the “I” in thoughts while resting as open awareness itself.
175: Saja Fendél, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Conor
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In this episode, we talk to Saja Fendél, founder of Thought Dojo, about forgiveness, and explore practical methods for realizing unconditional happiness, and how, through a lack of resistance to experience, all experience is seen as being one with awareness.
• Includes a guided meditation providing ways to identify a cognitive distortion and come up with a rebuttal Includes a guided meditation leading us to ever deepening levels of present moment experience.
176: Favorite Movies and Books to Inspire - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we share a gift bag of movies and books that have inspired us over the years and talk about how they can be powerful tools for inspiration and spiritual growth when approached with an open, receptive mindset.
177: Cindy Teevens, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Cindy Teevens, author of Alchemy, How to Feel Good No Matter What, and The Happiness Lie—which challenges the belief that external factors control our happiness—about her “explosion of love” experience of intense bliss and joy for no external reason, eroding the idea of separation, and leading to a profound awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation that gives a taste of her “Two Minute Technique to Inner Peace,” utilizing the power of attention to shift focus from thoughts to sensory awareness.
178: Beyond the Mind and Into the Mystery - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we explore methods for entering into a state of mystery and wonder through specific questions and contemplations.
• Includes a guided meditation that uses questions to direct you into an experience of mystery, humility, and awe.
179: Everything You Don’t Like is Your Guru - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk about how the things in our lives that we don’t like can show us where we are resistant and attached, and can trigger new ways to transcend and learn from those daily occupancies.
• Includes a guided meditation that shows us how we can hold two opposites in our minds together, for instance, pain and ease, anxiety and peace, as a way of healing resistance.
177: Cindy Teevens, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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180: Craig Hamilton, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we talk to Craig Hamilton about his “direct awakening” approach to meditation that aims to immediately connect with one’s true nature. He also emphasizes the importance of integrating awakening insights into daily life through specific practices and radical surrender to a higher principle.
• Includes a guided meditation inviting us to notice the vast open spacious awareness within all of us, where there’s room for anything that can arise, when we take the radical step of simply allowing our experience in this moment to be exactly as it is.
181: The Gift of Aging - Jonathan Robinson &BrianTom O'Conor
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In this episode we talk about the negative associations of aging but also how it can be a doorway to the gifts and spiritual opportunities that come with growing older.
• Includes a guided meditation leading us to an appreciation of the wisdom and lessons we’ve learned as an entrance into this precious moment.
182: Kat Adamson, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we talk to Kat Adamson, widow of the late non-duality teacher Sailor Bob Adamson, about his life, teachings, legacy, and Bob’s core message: There is no separate self, only awareness expressing through various forms.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to relax into present awareness and recognize it as our essential nature, prior to all experiences, thoughts, and sensations..
177: Cindy Teevens, Guest Explorer - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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183: Amy Albright and Drew Pierson, Guest Explorers - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode, we discuss neurofeedback, consciousness, and practical techniques for achieving higher states of awareness with Dr. Amy Albright and Dr. Drew Pierson , founders of Holon, a blend of science, technology, and spirituality.
• Includes a guided practice combining breath awareness, skin sensation, and tailbone alignment to help connect to a sense of oneness and earth energy.
184: What Makes an Ideal Human? - Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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In this episode we look at twenty-five possible qualities of being an ideal human, and explore their relevance to awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation taking several qualities of an ideal human, and sending them in a circle from fully imagining them to be your experience, through letting them go, to being with the wordless knowingness that you are.
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