John de Ruiter Podcast

Edmonton, Canada Meeting - April 24, 2016 Evening The questioner is noticing a subtle uncomfortable movement of his sexuality, and is asking if it is best to stay in it as still as a lake. John explains that our conscious self is only the tip of the iceberg. When you deeply open, this allows for your subconscious to come up into your conscious self. It is like a deep lake doing a flip: the deep co...

Netanya, Israel Retreat - October 26, 2017 Even ing   What is the calling? How does the knowing of a depth way beyond our selves influence our lives and specifically our choice of partner? Listen to this talk and find out what it means to be in a relationship that is fair to your awakening and magnifies it.   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your bein...

Neve Shalom, Israel Event - December 1, 2012 Afternoon   What is our life for? What happens after we die? The questioner feels that he is making compromises in his life in order to function, work and make money. John explains that everything we do in life influences our life after death. Using practical examples,  John guides us in how not to miss the wondrous opportunity of this life.   Dialogues...

Totnes, United Kingdom Meetings - June 14, 2013 Eve   How to truly nurture your child? What happens when your child is discovering their power and testing yours, causing reaction? In this conversation John gives direction and guidance on how to sustain direct connection with your child and give them ground, stability and clarity in what is deeper, enabling them to know about what they really are a...

Netanya, Israel Retreat - September 17, 2015 Eve   What is true individuality? How are we different and what is it that makes us the same? How would we change, as humanity, if we connect as beings rather than selves? John explains the shift of connectivity that happens when we awaken to the calling. In allowing our awakening to manifest through our heart, self and person, we manifest the beginning...

Edmonton, Canada Autumn Seminar - October 10, 2017 Afternoon   The brain is mostly still a mystery to us. Science research is attempting to discover and unlock the brain's full potential, yet answers are scarce. In this dialogue, John delves deep into the true role of the brain. When we are being the deepest level that we know, we unleash the brain’s greatest power. In being direct knowledge, our...

Edmonton, Canada Meeting - March 4, 2001 What is happening in male orgasm and ejaculation? A sincere, frank and at times humorous conversation in which John and the questioner explore the subtleties of male orgasm, how to integrate the embarrassing wild man within and make real love – with or without having sex.  Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your...

Pardes Hana, Israel Meeting - May 2, 2012 Evening.    The questioner had an experience where the structure of herself dissolved and everything was love. But when the experience dissipated, old structures returned. John explains that the experience is a beloved messenger. Instead of wanting the messenger to return, we can abide in the message it brings. When the knowing in the experience is enough,...

Pardes Hana, Israel Retreat - May 2, 2012 Even ing   What to do when wonderful awakening experiences fade away, and resistance, fear and suffering return to our experience? John reminds us that we know something much deeper within, which is different than our self. Suffering is in the self, it comes from what is familiar. There is no suffering in knowing, in being in what knowing is in our heart a...

Edmonton, Canada Meeting - October 1, 2017 Afternoon   How do you heal and fulfill your sexuality? What is human sexuality for? In this talk John explains how to connect your sexuality to your being, building a new self in place of what was old, a self that is free to move just like your being. Your sexuality is your greatest human power; you integrating that power transforms your sexuality, self...

Moen, Denmark Retreat - June 4, 2016 Aft   The questioner experienced an awakening but finds it difficult to stay in it because of stress and pain. John explains that this is because she is relating to her awakening from her self instead of relating directly without “keeping an eye” on her self. John speaks of the stream of what we know; when we merge with what we know in our heart we are in the s...

Cologne, Germany Event - January 24, 2013 Eve ning The questioner describes having been awakened to a deep energy of pure love within, and yet suffering still continues. John explains that the suffering is in the self, while the love is not. The love is your home. Your self suffers because it is not complete. You are complete. You do not need to suffer. That puts your self in your care. Then, ever...

Moen, Denmark Retreat - June 4, 2016 Aft When you awaken to more than this mundane existence, how can you make that real in your life? How can you let it have more form in your life? How to get out of the matrix? The answer, John says, is in letting the roots of your awakening go to your being. Then, like a tree, you become planted in what you really are, planted in your source.  Dialogues with Jo...

Edmonton, Canada Spring Seminar - April 14, 2017 Afternoon    The questioner describes an experience in which he saw a shell around him, blocking him from being in his heart and experiencing life fully. John explains that this shell is common to many; it is made of forms of illusion that we have empowered. John shows us how to give our power, through our heart, to what we actually know the truth o...

Edmonton, Canada Meeting - January 4, 2000  What is the purpose of sleep? Is it to replenish our body or is there a deeper meaning to the cycle of sleep? Why do we dream? John explains the difference between going to sleep in patterns and tightness, and going to sleep matching our being. In matching our being, there is a different kind of freshness when we wake up, having been washed, during sleep...

Boulder, USA, Open Mic Meetings - May 10, 2017 Evening What is love? How do we find it? Do we really need it? In this dialogue the questioner asks John to explain his statement love is not an experience, love is what you are. In response, John expands on the different kinds of love and how to go beyond the surface and discover a deep and subtle, unconditioned love not based on experience or need....

Yehiam, Israel Retreat - April 6, 2014 Aft ernoon The questioner feels connected to her heart when she is being silent, but when she speaks she feels disconnected. How to speak from the heart? John explains how we are able to open our hearts in the midst of our life, regardless of the experience in our selves. We are able to not close even when there’s pain or discomfort. If we are okay with the c...

Tiruvannamalai, India Retreat - February 2, Morning 2017 Being awakened is like being pregnant. When you are being your awakening, you develop a body of being that is like a baby you are able to hold and care for. When the baby matters more to you than all else, there is deep peace. In these dialogues, John explains how we can live that deep peace in life, a life no longer formed by good or bad th...

Edmonton, Canada Meetings - July 03, 2000 A man is asking how he can regain his innocence in the context of sexuality. John explains that sexuality is the hearts capacity to experience true oneness with another. For a man, the penis is truly the highest and the most exquisite of the expressions of truth, the most sacred. Moving in want and need reduces the energy of the penis to the lowest, most c...

Edmonton, Canada Meetings - June 12, 2017 Eve ning In this podcast the questioner speaks of his sense of readiness to connect more deeply and enter more of his being. Johns response takes us from a whisper of whats deeper, beyond the perspective of our familiar selves, into unseen levels of love. After turning over control to our being, letting incomprehensible being overtake your mind, we come ba...

Gillingham, UK - June 7, 2014 Aft   In this dialogue John answers questions about his own awakening, what he saw at age 12, how it continued to unfold, and how we too can give form to what we really are. He explains knowing and awakening to something other than your self, what happens to us when awareness is distorted, and how to easily and naturally come out of that distortion into a true way of...

A Golden Oldie from Edmonton, Canada Meetings on April 18, 2003.    Questioner: If before we are born we are in a place of absolute peace, and, if after we die we return to a place of absolute peace, what’s the point for us to just go through this life? Wouldn’t it be easier just to kind of skip over this part? Listen to this golden oldie for an introduction to the meaning of life.    Dialogues wi...

Parents face many challenging and stressful situations with their children every day, where practical needs seem to conflict with the ability to stay relaxed and kind. In this dialogue we find out how we can stay connected with our heart while addressing difficulties, and how children learn from their parents how to handle stress in a caring and effective way.    Dialogues with John de Ruiter brin...

Something this questioner sees in a TV nature program overturns all of his ideas of good and bad, right and wrong, taking him behind the facade created by his core beliefs. In this dialogue, John travels with him through the creation and power of these false structures, the shocking effects of unveiling their illusory reality, and shows him how to build what is real through an unconditional return...

A questioner asks how to deal with difficult situations in life, such the death of a parent, that can trigger an experience of pain and difficulty. John speaks of death as something that can bring true perspective into our life, of love moving in pain and filling it, turning it into compassion. This is a talk on love, the passing away of veils in death and our real power being openness, allowing f...