The Wonder Land

"Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities." 4th Wing Alex and Amanda explore how the math always running in the background of our mind can create a limited experience that we call "reality"

Join us as your tour guides through a haunted ancient castle today. This is a very familiar architecture: rooms of Reasons, Guilt and Blame, and many more common concepts are explored from a guest’s point of view. Listen in as we watch the phantoms transform in real time as we discover the alchemy of awareness. Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Get in...

In this episode, Amanda and Alex look at the often immediate yet absurd certainty that we have about the self idea and how it’s not a wrong absurdity, but rather a whimsical absurdity that we can come to recognize and lighten up around. Listen in as we explore stripping the rules of certainty away from who we think we are and/or should and how that can allow us to be freely flowing in this dream o...

In this episode Alex and Amanda explore the possibility that preferences, ideas, and our very imagination are reflections and refractions of memory.

Join Amanda and Alex as they explore the experience of insecurity. What is it? Why does it seem to be a malfunction to correct? Why are we taught that the self-idea can be secured and stabilized in any way? Listen in for the good news about insecurity and how perhaps no security is the only security. Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Get in touch! pod...

Amanda and Alex explore how it seems like the projection of how things appear is tethered to a sense of Me. Does that sense of a tether feel constricting, and does that constriction further created distance and separation? If so, what can we see about this phenomenon? Not in searching for a better projection, or a clearer one- but perhaps the projection itself is already untethered. With no distan...

Alex and Amanda explore the unfathomable. Could it be that there are no problems? The very contemplation may have your mind protesting how absurd it is to consider that problems are not real. “Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable” Khalil Gibran The prophet  Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Get in touch! podca...

Join Amanda and Alex for another egg scrambler! This one looks at the source of information we get- that being the brain and how we can get really curious about it’s veracity. What does it mean to discover that reality as you see it is also not as it really is? What’s the practical value of this discovery? Inspired by the writing of the late Howard Chance, we dive into some really fascinating rabb...

In this episode Alex and Amanda explore Nothing! Nothingness is obvious - what we call not something that has no explanation but that which transcends explanation to exist  “Nothingness is the fundamental reality. The most real state is the state of Nothing” Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Get in touch! podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com   Interested i...

Have you noticed how the function of comparison is on virtually all the time? Alex and Amanda explore this phenomenon of thought and look at how its functionality is brilliant, but when taken as a reality it can wreak havoc. Without comparison, what or who are you? What needs to change? What’s wrong? These questions seem absurd in the absence of the very insidious function of comparison. Can we fi...

In this episode Alex and Amanda explore the idea that we are inside this body. Are we just haunting these meat bags with our personalities, quirks and habits? But how is our body different from our environment? Our lines and edges? The weather of emotions? Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Get in touch! podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com   Interested in...

Listen in as we explore the liminal spaces and how worry is just as much an experience of this in-between suspension as any other. How can we find rest and discovery here? Why does being in a liminal space feel so odd? Amanda and Alex also explore the phenomena of watching the self and its world be re-built out of the liminal space between sleep and waking- and how that awareness has huge implicat...

In this episode Alex and Amanda discuss the distance created by trying to explain and describe the world. To try to understand is in a way to minimize, to reduce down to the units which can be captured by our limited knowledge. The Great Incomprehensible is then our biggest joys and our biggest tragedies. Any attempt to put them into words - to reduce - seen as futile and unnecessary. One of the m...

What is this feeling of aloneness that seems to trail us? How can this seeming isolation be experienced when there is not-two? (no separate things, selves, etc.) Listen in as Amanda and Alex explore this strange phenomenon and look at how feeling alone and/or the longing to connect is actually a signal that we are believing our projection to be at a distance to us. Where can we find the Wonder Lan...

“Oh no, my wonder is not "childlike." My whimsy is old. My frivolity is steeped in ancient wisdom. My silliness is battle worn. My awe at the world has been long forged through trial & tribulation. I have earned this wonderment. I have protected it for decades against a society that tells me constantly that it should not belong to me. I was born with wonder, and I have carried it, against all odds...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast⁠ Amanda and Alex explore the way rebellion shows up and how it can be respected as a siren call back home. Where are we trying to contort ourselves within rules that the limitless nature of us will not stand for? This Rebel Yell isn’t the cry of a limited, scared, self idea; rather we discover it transcends all those...

In this episode Alex and Amanda explore the expansive nature of meaninglessness. And just when the sweetness of the vast open space of no meaning is known - meaning is brought into the fold as part of the beauty of experiencing the arising of concepts, cause and effect and other artifacts of the human experience

Interested in becoming our Patreon? ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast⁠ Amanda and Alex explore the learned ideas and beliefs about money and how they manifest in ways that are actually highlighting anything BUT money. Does money ever have a different tone than urgency? Learn about the inseparability of Money and Me and where a freedom and playfulness can be revealed.  Get in touch! pod...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast⁠ Alex and Amanda explore the pattern of how chasing pleasure or chasing peace can become the same rat race. “The more you get it, the less you need it, because you already have it” Michael Singer "Loss is not as bad as wanting more." ~ Lao zu Get in touch! podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com   Interested in wor...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast⁠ This episode explores the curious way the Cathedral of Me requires constant thought activity in the search for what is real and what is fiction.  Amanda and Alex attempt to look at this phenomenon and although found it a challenge to talk about, there is a sense of freedom in seeing all thought activity not as maint...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Alex and Amanda explore love and joy and how both, love and loss, dissolve and diffuse our solid sense of self. Get in touch! ⁠podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com⁠ Interested in working with us? Check out our websites: Amanda's website: ⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.uncoveryspace.com/⁠⁠ ⁠ Alex's website: ⁠ ⁠⁠https://canaimacoac...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Listen in as Amanda and Alex explore the phenomena of anxiety and worry. Looking at the capacity to create a 3d future scenario with a character who will experience it reveals how this illusion can create a landscape of fear, anxiety, and worry. Find out how that landscape can transmute into The Wonder Land. Get in to...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Alex and Amanda explore what we have learned about our human instincts and our "primal brain" Is it true that all we do during our lives is based on our drive to survive or is this a simplification of what we really experience moment to moment? “To put this still more plainly: the desire for security and th...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Listen in as Amanda and Alex explore the strange phenomena of how we perceive through a lens of distortion. We turn this around and ask if there is such a thing as “seeing clearly” or seeing through a non-distorted lens? How would we know?  What freedom is revealed by stopping the search for clear seeing of an objecti...

Interested in becoming our Patreon? ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcas “We exhaust our internal resources when we try not to be something.” Debbie Ford  individual to experience. The ocean of what arises expands as our filtering diminishes. "Each of us is a whirlpool in the tide of existence, and a whirlpool holds no water" Alan Watts  Get in touch! podcast.thewonderland@gmail....