Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living Inquiry

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the male hierarchy of religion and traditional spirituality, examining the historical, cultural and psychological influences. They also take a quick peek into the role of female teachers in contemporary nonduality. 

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the popular topic of trauma in today's spiritual culture, exploring the possibility of going beyond the victim-identity and unravelling trauma in deep presence.   

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the falling away of the construct of self in nondual awakening and explore what this means when it's obvious that there's still a human life that continues after awakening.

In this episode, Amoda Maa and Kavi explore the possibility of relating to others — whether it be an intimate partner, a friend, or a passing stranger — from an inner silence. They also explore a deeper understanding of love, marriage, and solitude, and how this deeper understanding and way of relating is the foundation of a new humanity. " Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect a...

In this podcast, Amoda is in conversation with Kavi about the meaning of "awakening" in spiritual and cultural contexts. In particular, Amoda talks about her own direct experience of awakening. She also explores questions such as "is awakening the same as enlightenment?", "are there different types of awakening?", and "is awakening sudden or gradual?" https://www.amodamaa.com/

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Tim Freke, an English philosopher and author. Together they explore whether an evolutionary view of consciousness and the universe can be in alignment with a nondual awareness and the awakening journey.  Tim is the author of 35 books, translated into more than 15 languages, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Year'...

Amoda Maa is a guest on the Guru Viking Podcast. Host, Steve James, asks her about the secrecy and shame surrounding her early life and how this eventually led to her spiritual path. This is a candid interview!  Guru Viking Links: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the art of long-distance running, the "runner's high", and how this was a profound portal to Amoda's first experience of transcending the confines of the ego-self. They also discuss how this experience sowed the seeds of her interest in meditation and the discovery of essential nature.

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the nature of aloneness. Together they explore how we can move beyond loneliness to an intimacy with aloneness that opens a portal to a vast being-ness in which the fullness of life is known and lived. 

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Ellen Emmet, psychotherapist and nondual teacher ( www.ellenemmet.com ). Together they explore the role of the feminine in spiritual awakening, especially as it relates to the traditional advaitic approach and a more heart-centered approach that includes our human-ness.  Ellen offers meetings and retreats in The Awakening Body,  a direct explorati...

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the misinterpretation of nonduality as the opposite of duality, and how a deeper understanding can resolve this apparent conflict and bring us to a deep acceptance of all forms and individuations.

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the tendency to believe that awakening out of the dream of ego-self is in a future moment when the self becomes "ready" to awaken. Together they explore this fallacy and how it perpetuates psychological suffering. 

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about some of the ideas, imaginations, hopes and dreams that are common to the spiritual seeker, and how we can start to see through these veils of perception to the truth that freedom is right here now. www.amodamaa.com

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Henry Shukman , Zen teacher at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico ( www.mountaincloud.org ) and author of One Blade of Grass. Together they explore some of the parallels between the Zen and the Nondual approaches and understanding of awakening.  After a spontaneous awakening at the age of 19, and a childhood marked by severe chr...

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the possibility of a radical shift in consciousness when a "bifurcation point" (or "maximum stress on the system") is reached and how this relates to our individual awakening and collective evolution.

In this episode, Amoda is in conversation with Kavi about the relevance of the spiritual term "satsang" to the contemporary search for truth. They also explore how life itself is an ongoing invitation to deepen into the truth of our essential nature beyond the narratives and identities of the ego-mind.

In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the deeper meaning of the biblical phrase "In the World, But Not Of The World" and how this relates to awakening out of the dream of separation whilst still living a fully human life. 

In this podcast episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with John Prendergast, Ph. D. ( www.listeningfromsilence.com ), spiritual teacher, author, psychotherapist, and retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Together they explore the role of psychological insight in the awakening process and the gifts and challenges of being a modern-day spiritual tea...

In this episode, Amoda is in conversation with Kavi about how we can align with an inner authority that is of the true Self. 

In this episode, Amoda is in conversation with Rebecca Hanscombe (director of the School of Ecstatic Movement in the UK). www.schoolofecstaticmovement.com They explore the body as a gateway to presence and the role of movement in the awakening process. 

In this episode, Amoda is in conversation with Kavi about the urgency of meeting each other beyond division if we are to evolve individually and collectively.

In this episode, Amoda and Kavi explore whether relationship can take place in an awakened individual's life and how this differs from the conventional paradigm of relationship based on the need to be loved. They also discuss some of the key aspects of their own relationship and how love itself is the primary relationship. 

Amoda is in conversation with Paul Cash, publisher/editor at Larson Publications, which publishes a variety  of life-changing books in the genres of spirituality, inspiration, and personal transformation—including the widely acclaimed 16-volume "Notebooks of Paul Brunton" and Amoda's "Falling Open in a World Falling Apart". https://www.larsonpublications.com/

In this episode, Amoda Maa talks with Kavi about softening our gaze on the world and how this allows the tension of "me" and "other" to relax into a deeper acceptance of all that is. 

In this episode, Amoda and Kavi have an unusual conversation about the deeper meaning of tantra and how this relates to nonduality, as well as exploring Amoda's personal experience of the tantric way.