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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart 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 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   Photo by  Michael Heuser on Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/gum_meee?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Michael Heuser</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unsplash</a>

140: Motivation and Identity

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. To learn more about Joan Tollifson, please visit: https://www.joantollifson.com/  Or subscribe to her Substack newsletter at: https://substack.com/@joantollifson Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart 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 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 

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. To learn more about Joan Tollifson, please visit: <a href="https://www.joantollifson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joantollifson.com/</a> Or subscribe to her Substack newsletter at: <a href="https://substack.com/@joantollifson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@joantollifson</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

139: Joan Tollifson, Guest Explorer

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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   Photo by  Maxim Bulyga on  Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/spiderdoesstuff?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Maxim Bulyga</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

138: Tuning Your Inner Radio Stations

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart 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 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   Photo by  Uday Mittal on  Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/mittaluday?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Uday Mittal</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

137: Mind Ploys

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.  To learn more about Adyashanti, please visit https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart 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 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 

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. To learn more about Adyashanti, please visit <a href="https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

136: Adyashanti Encore

Roger Walsh

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. To learn more about Roger Walsh, please visit https://drrogerwalsh.com/ To listen to his podcast, Deep Transformation, please visit https://deeptransformation.io/  To read articles by Roger Walsh on Integral Life website, please visit https://integrallife.com/author/roger-walsh/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart 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 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 

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. To learn more about Roger Walsh, please visit <a href="https://drrogerwalsh.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://drrogerwalsh.com/</a> To listen to his podcast, Deep Transformation, please visit <a href="https://deeptransformation.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://deeptransformation.io/</a> To read articles by Roger Walsh on Integral Life website, please visit <a href="https://integrallife.com/author/roger-walsh/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://integrallife.com/author/roger-walsh/</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

135: Roger Walsh, Guest Explorer

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. Here is the list of Jonathan's questions from this episode:  Does This Technology Bring You Closer to People, or Help Isolate You? Does This Technology Bring You Closer to Inner Peace, or Make You Feel More Stressed? Does This Technology Add Depth/Joy and Happiness to Your Life, or Move You Towards Superficiality and Anxiety? Does This Technology Make You More Conscious and Aware or More Distracted? Does This Technology Make You More Compassionate, Kind, and Loving, Or More Self-Absorbed? Does This Technology Improve Your Health or Negatively Impact Your Health? Does This Technology Make You a Wiser Person or More Immature?  Here is the video mentioned in this episode in which Angelo DiLullo questions an AI about consciousness: "Has A.I. Become Self Aware?? -- You Be the Judge!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kv0Xxw1a8 Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart 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 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   Photo by  DeepMind on  Unsplash

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. Here is the list of Jonathan's questions from this episode: <ol> <li>Does This Technology Bring You Closer to People, or Help Isolate You?</li> <li>Does This Technology Bring You Closer to Inner Peace, or Make You Feel More Stressed?</li> <li>Does This Technology Add Depth/Joy and Happiness to Your Life, or Move You Towards Superficiality and Anxiety?</li> <li>Does This Technology Make You More Conscious and Aware or More Distracted?</li> <li>Does This Technology Make You More Compassionate, Kind, and Loving, Or More Self-Absorbed?</li> <li>Does This Technology Improve Your Health or Negatively Impact Your Health?</li> <li>Does This Technology Make You a Wiser Person or More Immature?</li> </ol> Here is the video mentioned in this episode in which Angelo DiLullo questions an AI about consciousness: "Has A.I. Become Self Aware?? -- You Be the Judge!" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kv0Xxw1a8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kv0Xxw1a8</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/deepmind?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> DeepMind</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

134: AI and Awakening

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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   Photo by  Vince Fleming on  Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/vincefleming?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Vince Fleming</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/Vmr8bGURExo?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

133: No Self or Better Self

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. To learn more about Gangaji, please visit https://gangaji.org/ To listen to her podcast, Being Yourself: Self-Inquiry with Gangaji, please visit https://gangaji.org/podcasts Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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 

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. To learn more about Gangaji, please visit <a href="https://gangaji.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gangaji.org/</a> To listen to her podcast, Being Yourself: Self-Inquiry with Gangaji, please visit <a href="https://gangaji.org/podcasts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gangaji.org/podcasts</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

132: Gangaji, Guest Explorer

Hale Dwoskin

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 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. To learn more about Hale Dwoskin and The Sedona Method, please visit https://www.sedona.com/AwarenessExplorers Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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 

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 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. To learn more about Hale Dwoskin and The Sedona Method, please visit <a href="https://www.sedona.com/AwarenessExplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sedona.com/AwarenessExplorers</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

131: Hale Dwoskin, Guest Explorer

If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience. Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor explore ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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   Photo by  Cynthia Magana on  Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/cynthmag?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Cynthia Magana</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

130: Human Awakening Environments

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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   Photo by  Uday Mittal on Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/mittaluday?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Uday Mittal</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unsplash</a>

129: Is Anything True?

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. To learn more about MDA and Love Training, please visit MDMATraining.net Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart  Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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   Photo by  Alexander Grey on  Unsplash

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. To learn more about MDA and Love Training, please visit <a href="http://MDMATraining.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MDMATraining.net</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/sharonmccutcheon?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Alexander Grey</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

128: MDMA and Love Training

Andrew Harvey

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. To learn more about Andrew Harvey, please visit AndrewHarvey.net https://www.andrewharvey.net/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 To learn more about Jonathan Robinson, please visit https://findinghappiness.com/ You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

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. To learn more about Andrew Harvey, please visit <a href="http://AndrewHarvey.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AndrewHarvey.net</a> <a href="https://www.andrewharvey.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.andrewharvey.net/</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a>

127: Andrew Harvey, Guest Explorer

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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    Photo by  Drew Hays on  Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/drew_hays?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Drew Hays</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

126: Conditions and Conditioning

In this episode we talk to Victor Burkhart about being a conduit for truth and the excitement and newness of constant discovery on the spiritual journey. • Includes a guided meditation to help us experience the presence that is already always here and available to us before our thinking mind obscures it. To learn more about Victor Burkhart, please visit PursuitOfSpirit.com https://www.pursuitofspirit.com/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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 

In this episode we talk to Victor Burkhart about being a conduit for truth and the excitement and newness of constant discovery on the spiritual journey. • Includes a guided meditation to help us experience the presence that is already always here and available to us before our thinking mind obscures it. To learn more about Victor Burkhart, please visit <a href="http://PursuitOfSpirit.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PursuitOfSpirit.com</a> <a href="https://www.pursuitofspirit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pursuitofspirit.com/</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

125: Victor Burkhart, Guest Explorer

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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   Photo by  Darius Cotoi on  Unsplash

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian  Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/dariuscotoi?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Darius Cotoi</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/collections/1466759/awareness-explorers?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unsplash</a>

124: Spiritualizing the Holidays

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. To learn more about Awareness Adventures, please visit  https://www.playawarenessgames.com/awareness-adventures To view the book on Amazon, please visit Awareness Adventures: Discovering Your True Nature Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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 

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. To learn more about Awareness Adventures, please visit  <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/awareness-adventures" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/awareness-adventures</a> To view the book on Amazon, please visit <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BP6YVZN6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Awareness Adventures: Discovering Your True Nature</a> Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

123: Awareness Adventures – Jonathan interviews Brian about his new book

Jac O'Keeffe

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. Jac O’Keeffe is a spiritual teacher, leader and author of books Born to Be Free and How to Be a Spiritual Rebel. Her teachings include pointers to prior to the nondual state, and she is clear that nondual awareness is a stepping-stone and not a destination. She has a high sense of perception that she uses to expose, unravel and heal what creates blockages on her students’ spiritual path. Her teachings cultivate wisdom, honesty, and integrity.  Jac’s work is driven by her capacity to envision the possible future of spirituality. She is a founding member of the Association for Spiritual Integrity (ASI), an organization with a mission to bring high levels of integrity to the culture of spiritual leadership.  To learn more about Jac, please visit  http://www.jac-okeeffe.com/ To learn about Jac's courses, please visit  hub.jac-okeeffe.com To get updates about Jac’s work and upcoming retreats, sign up here  https://www.jac-okeeffe.com/newsletter Jac's YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@jacokeeffe  Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart  Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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 

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. Jac O’Keeffe is a spiritual teacher, leader and author of books Born to Be Free and How to Be a Spiritual Rebel. Her teachings include pointers to prior to the nondual state, and she is clear that nondual awareness is a stepping-stone and not a destination. She has a high sense of perception that she uses to expose, unravel and heal what creates blockages on her students’ spiritual path. Her teachings cultivate wisdom, honesty, and integrity.  Jac’s work is driven by her capacity to envision the possible future of spirituality. She is a founding member of the <a href="https://www.spiritual-integrity.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Association for Spiritual Integrity</a> (ASI), an organization with a mission to bring high levels of integrity to the culture of spiritual leadership.  To learn more about Jac, please visit  <a href="http://www.jac-okeeffe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jac-okeeffe.com/</a> To learn about Jac's courses, please visit  <a href="http://hub.jac-okeeffe.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hub.jac-okeeffe.com</a> To get updates about Jac’s work and upcoming retreats, sign up here  <a href="https://www.jac-okeeffe.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jac-okeeffe.com/newsletter</a> Jac's YouTube channel:  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@jacokeeffe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@jacokeeffe</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

122: Jac O'Keeffe, Guest Explorer

C von Hassett

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. To learn more about C von Hassett, please visit: EnteringTheMind.com  And RiotMaterial.com Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ 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 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 

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. To learn more about C von Hassett, please visit: <a href="https://www.riotmaterial.com/enteringthemind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EnteringTheMind.com</a> And <a href="https://www.riotmaterial.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RiotMaterial.com</a> Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEW: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion &amp; Spirituality chart Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: <a href="https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/</a> To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/</a> If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z</a> Or on our Awareness Explorers website: <a href="https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations</a> To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any <a href="http://AwarenessExplorers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AwarenessExplorers.com</a> page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers</a> To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit <a href="https://findinghappiness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findinghappiness.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.playawarenessgames.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.playawarenessgames.com/</a> You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n</a> Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian

121: C von Hassett, Guest Explorer

Non-dogmatic exploration into awakening. Blown away.

Simply Incredible

okay, a friend shared one of your episodes some months ago, with a general recommendation of the podcast.  and slowly but surely, increasingly, i have come back to this lovely well again and again.  naturally, the listening choices i&#39;ve made have synched up beautifully with my spiritual pursuits here there and everywhere.  today i listened to your talk with susanne marie, and was weeping softly with joy by the end.  her take, and her simple breathing-through-the-heart exercise, align resonantly with those of my current teacher, mary reed. (please talk with her sometime!)  anyhow, i can&#39;t thank you enough, guys.  but here&#39;s a small start.  thank you.

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Awareness Explorers

Susanne Marie

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

46: Susanne Marie, Guest Explorer

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

47: Fear, Anxiety, and Awareness

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

41: Into the Body

Gail Brenner

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

42: Gail Brenner, Guest Explorer

In this episode 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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

In this episode 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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

48: How to Talk About This Stuff

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

44: Thinking About the Future

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

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. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

50: An Assortment of Awakening Meditations

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