In this episode, we interview John Travis, founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation Center, exploring his spiritual journey and teachings, and his emphasis on the importance of integrating mind, heart, and body in spiritual practice. • Includes a guided meditation grounding attention in the body and sense perceptions as a pathway inward to the recognition of awareness as encompassing everything, thus breaking the illusion of separateness. To learn more about John Travis, please visit: http...
Jul 04, 2025•58 min•Ep. 191
In this episode, we discuss the relationship between trauma and spiritual awakening, and how trauma can not only obscure awareness but can also catalyze awakening. We also describe some effective trauma healing approaches. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to see an upsetting incident from the past within the larger peaceful space of pure awareness, which is unshaken by traumatic experience, and which holds and supports everything. The YouTube playlist mentioned in this episode: Spiritua...
Jun 20, 2025•50 min•Ep. 190
In this episode we discuss intuition, its nature, how to access it, and its relationship to awakening. • Includes a guided meditation helping you to cultivate the open receptivity required for intuition. 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: # 5 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart # 5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart # 5 in the Top ...
Jun 06, 2025•46 min•Ep. 189
In this episode we talk with Robert Rugg, author of Awakening to Effortless Being: Realizing Your Infinite Self, about his spiritual journey, his teachings on effortless being, his approach to self-realization, and how to incorporate the principles of wholeness into daily life and interactions with others • Includes a guided meditation inviting us to rest in the stillness, the silence, the presence, the space of beingness, the aliveness which has always been here, and which is noticing and allow...
May 23, 2025•55 min•Ep. 188
In this episode we explore the topic of rituals and their impact on experiencing deeper peace, love, and joy in life. • Includes a guided meditation in which we reflect on past meaningful ritual experiences, imagine new possibilities for personal rituals, and consider timing and context for implementing new rituals. 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 cha...
May 09, 2025•48 min•Ep. 187
In this episode we talk to Pernille and Todd Lent Damore, founders of the Awakening Curriculum, about the Wheel of Identification, which is their framing of the Ten Buddhist Fetters, as well as practical applications to wake up moment to moment in the midst of everyday life. Their focus is on direct experience with no resistance and no labels. • Includes a guided meditation exploring the felt sense of where “you” are located, by exploring where it seems to be showing up within the space of our s...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 186
In this episode we look at twenty-five possible qualities of being an ideal human, and explore their relevance to awakening. • Includes a guided meditation taking several qualities of an ideal human, and sending them in a circle from fully imagining them to be your experience, through letting them go, to being with the wordless knowingness that you are. 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 h...
Apr 11, 2025•53 min•Ep. 185
In this episode, we discuss neurofeedback, consciousness, and practical techniques for achieving higher states of awareness with Dr. Amy Albright and Dr. Drew Pierson , founders of Holon, a blend of science, technology, and spirituality. • Includes a guided practice combining breath awareness, skin sensation, and tailbone alignment to help connect to a sense of oneness and earth energy. To learn more about Amy Albright and Drew Pierson, please visit: https://www.holonexperience.com/ The full ver...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 184
In this episode, we talk to Kat Adamson, widow of the late non-duality teacher Sailor Bob Adamson, about his life, teachings, legacy, and Bob’s core message: There is no separate self, only awareness expressing through various forms. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to relax into present awareness and recognize it as our essential nature, prior to all experiences, thoughts, and sensations. To learn more about Kat Adamson and Sailor Bob Adamson, please visit https://www.sailorbobadamson....
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 183
In this episode we talk about the negative associations of aging but also how it can be a doorway to the gifts and spiritual opportunities that come with growing older. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to an appreciation of the wisdom and lessons we’ve learned as an entrance into this precious moment. 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...
Feb 28, 2025•47 min•Ep. 182
In this episode we talk to Craig Hamilton about his “direct awakening” approach to meditation that aims to immediately connect with one’s true nature. He also emphasizes the importance of integrating awakening insights into daily life through specific practices and radical surrender to a higher principle. • Includes a guided meditation inviting us to notice the vast open spacious awareness within all of us, where there’s room for anything that can arise, when we take the radical step of simply a...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 181
In this episode we talk about how the things in our lives that we don’t like can show us where we are resistant and attached, and can trigger new ways to transcend and learn from those daily occurrences. • Includes a guided meditation that shows us how we can hold two opposites in our minds together, for instance, pain and ease, anxiety and peace, as a way of healing resistance. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. N...
Jan 31, 2025•53 min•Ep. 180
In this episode we explore methods for entering into a state of mystery and wonder through specific questions and contemplations. • Includes a guided meditation that uses questions to direct you into an experience of mystery, humility, and awe. 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 awakening All time chart, #5 in the To...
Jan 17, 2025•47 min•Ep. 179
In this episode, we talk to Cindy Teevens, author of Alchemy, How to Feel Good No Matter What, as well as The Happiness Lie —which challenges the belief that external factors control our happiness—about her “explosion of love” experience of intense bliss and joy for no external reason, eroding the idea of separation, and leading to a profound awakening. • Includes a guided meditation that gives a taste of her “Two Minute Technique to Inner Peace,” utilizing the power of attention to shift focus ...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 178
In this episode, we share a gift bag of movies and books that have inspired us over the years and talk about how they can be powerful tools for inspiration and spiritual growth when approached with an open, receptive mindset. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Movies: Brother Sun, Sister Moon - directed by Franco Zeffirelli Resurrection (with Ellen Burstyn) - directed by Daniel Petrie Pea...
Dec 20, 2024•47 min•Ep. 177
In this episode, we talk to Saja Fendél, founder of Thought Dojo, about forgiveness, and explore practical methods for realizing unconditional happiness, and how, through a lack of resistance to experience, all experience is seen as being one with awareness. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to recognize the intimacy of our experience by showing us how all we touch and see is made of awareness. To learn more about Saja Fendél, please visit The Thought Dojo at https://www.skool.com/thetho...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 176
In this episode, we talk to Alex Shailer about fully experiencing feelings as a way to release them, identifying with our true nature as consciousness, and resting as open awareness, rather than trying to forcefully cultivate positive states. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to turn our attention to direct sensory experience, inviting us to notice the “I” in thoughts while resting as open awareness itself. To learn more about Alex Shailer, please visit his website at https://alexshailer...
Nov 22, 2024•59 min•Ep. 175
In this episode, we discuss the non-reality of the future and its traps that keep us from the now and obscure our true nature. • Includes a guided meditation using various methods to shift our attention from the future to the only time when awakening can be experienced: now. The Louis C.K. video mentioned in this episode: “Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillne...
Nov 08, 2024•46 min•Ep. 174
In this episode we talk to Colette Martin and Boris Feldman about their Deepening Protocol, which guides people through progressively deeper states of fundamental well-being and awakening. The process involves sinking into present experience, letting go of resistance, and allowing deeper states to emerge naturally. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to ever deepening levels of present moment experience. To learn more about Colette Martin and Boris Feldman, please visit their website at Th...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 173
In this episode we discuss how consciousness exploration will change in the future due to emerging technologies and societal changes, and we contemplate how to know if these changes are useful or just mere distractions. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to visualize our awakened future self and how we can take steps to embody that in our current lives. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Expl...
Oct 11, 2024•54 min•Ep. 172
In this episode we talk to Eva Müller about her spiritual journey, her meditation techniques, and her healing transmissions. • Includes a guided meditation from Eva, focused on clearing energies and allowing more light and higher vibrations, while emphasizing relaxation, joy, and the understanding that everything is perfect as it is. To learn more about Eva Müller, please visit her websites at EM-Healing.com and NextElevations.com 14 day-free trial: https://www.nextelevations.com/plans-pricing I...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 171
In this episode we talk about how limited thinking patterns can be looked at, dissected, and overcome. • Includes a guided meditation providing ways to identify a cognitive distortion and come up with a rebuttal to go beyond it. 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 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All tim...
Sep 13, 2024•49 min•Ep. 170
In this episode, David Farmer talks about how Japanese culture, including archery, led to spiritual insight, and his further explorations with David Bingham that led to his realization of our true nature and effortless being. • Includes a guided meditation showing us how looking at every aspect of our experience can lead us to the direct realization of effortlessness and what it is to simply be. To learn more about David Farmer, please visit his website at EffortlessBeing.org Or his YouTube chan...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 169
In this episode we talk about patterns that keep our thinking locked in mental stories and keep us from present moment awakening. • Includes a guided meditation providing ways to ask questions that challenge our thinking and put thought in a wider perspective. 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time cha...
Aug 16, 2024•46 min•Ep. 168
In this episode we talk to Walter Dennison about his experiences with diving into the center of emotions in order to let go of resistance and open a doorway to unveiled reality. • Includes a guided meditation that uses your feeling-imagination to scan first for your non-existent separate self, and then for old emotional energy being kept in your body. To learn more about Walter's Meetup group, please visit the "Rupert Spira NY Non-Duality Group" on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/rupert-spira-ny-...
Aug 02, 2024•55 min•Ep. 167
In this episode we compare and contrast the techniques of positive psychology with the techniques of nondual awareness practices. • Includes a guided meditation that focuses on raising one's vibration through gratitude in order to relax into pure beingness. Books or authors mentioned in this episode: Find Happiness Now: 50 Shortcuts for Bringing More Love, Balance, and Joy Into Your Life by Jonathan Robinson Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment By Tal Ben-Shahar Happie...
Jul 19, 2024•42 min•Ep. 166
In this episode we talk about what triggers you, what we normally do with triggers, and seven ways to make good use of them on the path to awakening. • Includes a guided meditation to use when you are triggered involving allowing the arrow of love to crack open your defensive armor and awaken the love in your heart. 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 cha...
Jul 05, 2024•51 min•Ep. 165
In this episode we talk to Seye Kuyinu about his book, This Glorious Dance: Contemplations About Who We Are, as well as about questions that explore our true nature, and a variety of topics such as anxiety, hypnotism, and contemplative practice. • Includes a guided meditation, based on a Gurdjieff practice, helping us to awaken a sense of aliveness in each body part, while at the same time allowing that part to be the full container for attention. To learn more about Seye Kuyinu, please visit… s...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 164
In this episode we explore what it means to be a really good human and the various factors and approaches that help create inspiring people. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to envision and embody who you would like to become. DISCLAIMER: The quote from Albert Einstein, reputed to have been from a letter written to his daughter, is now considered to be a fabrication, but whoever wrote it, it's such a profound sentiment, and so germane to our topic, that we decided to leave it in. For mo...
Jun 07, 2024•52 min•Ep. 163
In this episode we talk to Paul Austin about microdosing psychedelic substances to enhance productivity, mood, and spiritual awaking, and how these altered states can be transformed into altered traits. • Includes a guided meditation using breathing and present moment awareness to tap into deeper beingness. To learn more about Paul Austin, please visit: TheThirdWave.co Twitter & Instagram: @paulaustin3w And check out his book, Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to ...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 162
