Awareness Explorers

In this episode we talk to Lesley Skylar about the liberation that lies beyond initial awakening, the deconstruction of identification, and the depth of our being as pure consciousness. • Includes a guided meditation from Lesley leading you below the surface of your being, free-falling into the depths of the still energetic ocean of consciousness that you are. To learn more about Lesley Skylar, pl...

In this episode we outline ten of the most persistent myths about awakening and take a look at what's true and false about each. • Includes a guided meditation for helping to uncover beliefs in the way of awakening for you, and how to let go of them. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Awareness Explorers has made the...

In this episode we explore the qualities inherent in awake awareness, and the value and potential pitfalls of tapping into various higher qualities directly. • Includes a guided meditation using an analogy of a river delta to help us experience the qualities of universal awareness. 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 with Jim Dreaver about his new book, Untriggerable, his enlightenment experience, and what he learned from his nondual teacher, Jean Klein. • Includes a guided meditation in which Jim helps us to identify with our true selves, that which never changes. To learn more about Jim Dreaver, please visit: JimDreaver.com Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into...

In this episode Brian interviews Jonathan about Jonathan's new book, The Enlightenment Project, in which he shares poignant stories and valuable methods which he has learned from interviewing a hundred teachers. • Includes a guided meditation leading us through twenty different descriptions of Awareness. To learn more about The Enlightenment Project, please visit: TheEnlightenmentProject.net Don't...

In this episode we explore the concept of coaching to help us with Whole Being Awakening, and the various aspects of our lives, including, spiritual, body, emotions, mind, and uniqueness. • Includes a guided meditation from Ted helping us to integrate boundless awareness with our concept of our personal selves, our thoughts, our emotions, and our bodies. To learn more about Ted Strauss, please vis...

In this episode we explore ways to explore topics with your friends and family, including specific obstacles to avoid and methods to use. • Includes a guided meditation on how to listen to others from the background of awareness. 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...

In this episode, we talk about the dangers and the value of reverence, awe, and devotion, and how we might bring them into everyday life. • Includes a guided meditation that helps you tap into reverence and awe by remembering such experiences in your life and relaxing back into them. 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 Scott Kiloby about addiction, his unique inquiry methods, and ways to awaken from identification with our core deficiency. • Includes a sample session in which Scott takes Jonathan through his distinctive inquiry approach. To learn more about Scott Kiloby, please visit: https://kiloby.com/ Scott's monthly member signup: https://kiloby.com/members-signup/ Don't forget to...

In this episode we talk about the value of humility, the many obstacles to it, and how various paths can help to nurture an openness free of arrogance and self-importance. • Includes a guided meditation to help you peel the layers of ego knowingness and self-protection and uncover true humility. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our...

In this episode we look at what transmissions are, whether they can lead to awakening, and how one can open to them more deeply. • Includes a guided meditation leading us step-by-step through receiving and then giving transmission to another person. 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 mad...

In this episode we talk to Arthur Aghajanian about Christian mysticism and its relationship to nonduality. • Includes instructions on how to do the contemplative Christian meditation known as The Centering Prayer. To learn more about Arthur Aghajanian, please visit: imageandfaith.com 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 outline several ways to experiment with spiritual principles to help discover your obstacles to awakening. • Includes a guided meditation imagining a day through three different experiments. 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 G...

In this episode we talk to Lisa Carrillo about synthesizing psychology and awareness in a way that helps us see through our thought-based identity into True Being. • Includes a guided meditation for noticing the benevolent presence which is already here and is beyond thought. To learn more about Lisa Carrillo, please visit: https://www.experiencingthetrueself.com/ Don't forget to subscribe for mor...

In this episode we talk about how to make friends with powerlessness and uncertainty, and how letting go of resistance is the way to greater peace. • Includes a guided meditation using a systematic way to become more okay with these difficult feelings. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explo...

In this episode we talk to Anna-Lisa Adelberg of the Luminous Awareness Institute about how various aspects of healing and awareness can combine to embody a richer and deeper expression of awakening. • Includes a guided meditation leading us through the experience of awareness of interconnected oneness, taking us from borderless formless awareness to fullness awareness. To learn more about Anna-Li...

We celebrate our 100th episode by reviewing some of the key insights of the last three years of Awareness Explorers, and by answering questions from our listeners. We'd like to thank these listeners for sending in their excellent questions and giving us the opportunity to reflect on them in this episode: Sharon, Lisa, Ajay, Spencer, Joshua, Doug, and Debra. Thanks! Don't forget to subscribe for mo...

In this episode we talk about how to change your relationship with your thoughts and emotions and identify with pure awareness. • Includes a guided meditation that takes you step by step from full identification with an emotion to full connection with awareness. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Aware...

In this episode we talk to Judith Blackstone about The Realization Process, and practical methods for fully inhabiting your body as a way of connecting with fundamental consciousness. • Includes a guided meditation to help you attune to the central core of the body by tuning into the head, heart, and pelvis. To learn more about Judith Blackstone, please visit: https://realizationprocess.org/ Don't...

In this episode we reflect upon the benefits of seeing life as a curriculum to learn certain lessons and how that interacts with our true nature as awareness. • Includes a guided meditation in which you are given the opportunity to review events from your past through the lens of what there was to learn from them. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present still...

In this episode we describe various layers and aspects to being more fully your ego personality as well as your higher universal self, including obstacles in the way to being each, and how to gently overcome them. • Includes a guided meditation showing how the universal self can set the individual self free. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness a...

In this episode, we talk to John Prendergast about a somatic and heart-based approach to opening up to different levels of beingness. • Includes a guided meditation taking us through deepening layers of peace from groundedness to open heartedness. To learn more about John Prendergast, please visit: http://listeningfromsilence.com/ YouTube: John Prendergast - Listening from Silence https://www.yout...

In this episode we explore the illusion of time, the reality of the present, and how to embrace more fully the only moment we live in—now. • Includes a guided meditation that uses phrases that point to the illusion of past and future and the portal of this eternal present moment. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Fe...

In this episode we talk about the many levels of witness consciousness and the many ways to experience it in daily life. • Includes a guided meditation to help you merge the witness and the witnessed into simply witnessing. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritu...

In this episode we talk to Colin McMorran about transpersonal therapy, disidentifying from thought, and using analogies and metaphors for transcending the illusory self. • Includes a guided meditation bringing us down into the spacious room of inner silence and then bringing that silence back into everyday life. To learn more about Colin McMorran, please visit: https://www.seeingnow.com/ Don't for...