The Wonder Land

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Become a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast So much of our suffering comes from striving for arbitrary ideals such as “being good” and "being happy". In this episode Amanda and Alex explore what this “being good” goal is all about and the freedom that comes from untethering our lives from these learned ideals

Do you struggle with trying to understand what we are talking about? If so, this episode explores what that is, why that might be, and attempts to illustrate how that’s a good thing. We have had feedback about a strange phenomenon where listeners have no idea what is being discussed, yet leave an episode feeling lighter, shifted…or maybe more confused! Listen in to see how these conversations can...

In this episode Amanda and Alex explore the dynamic of living a life where our “habits” of thought and behavior never change. Without the shiny promise of how great life will be once we start/stop (insert habit or behavior) would we approach our relationship with it and with ourselves differently?

Do you notice how the mind tries to hold things in place, in the hopes of being ok or feeling in control? Or maybe you feel like you’ve lost an insight or feel dark and the light is nowhere to be seen. We explore how noticing that every single experience is dynamic…and vanishing, and the freedom and release in that realization. Consider fireflies- how they light up and then apparently vanish back...

When it is seen that the past and the future are illusions, what happens to our goals and dreams? In this episode we share how dreams and goals have shifted for us as we spend more time in the Wonder Land. “Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Hold onto your seats as Amanda and Alex dive into the theory of the holographic universe. Exploring experiments in quantum physics as well as a puzzling outcome to an experiment of the way we seemingly react to a world “out there”. Listen in as we see how this is at all relevant to living more freely and with even more awe of The Wonder Land

Alex and Amanda explore the concept of "waking up" "The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph. D. In waking up." Jed McKenna What if the only thing keeping us from waking up is our expectations of what it should be like? What is waking up is not a big event? What if it is subtle and immediate yet indescribably profound? “Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and ne...

Listen in as Amanda and Alex explore experience that seems to come as a result of noticing that everything arises and dissolves all on its own. When the longing to be different, better, and get to a next place collapses we can see that only the longing remains; but it’s whole and complete in itself.  Perhaps the unseen belief that there is someone or something making it all happen or not happen in...

It's finally here!  ⁠www.thewonderlandcourse.com⁠ Join us starting February 2024 for deeper explorations of The Wonder Land themes and topics.  This will be an opportunity to expand, explore, and play in The Wonder Land together. Questions? Reach out at  ⁠ podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com ⁠ Details: Dates/Times: Thursdays 8amPT/10amCT/11amEST 90 mins February 15th, 22nd, 29th, and March 7th 202...

If you are feeling in a dark place  Ask for help You are loved You are lived We need you https://988lifeline.org/ ---------------- Alex and Amanda explore the concept of hopelessness and its seeming opposite - hope Hope as a projection of who we thought we were and where we though we were headed vs hopelessness as the losing of the continuity and trajectory of that person we imagined we were becom...

The Mind Theater  Listen is as we explore the phenomena of the Mind Theater. Discover how we can wake up to the illusions of what we think is happening and at the same time fully engage in the plotlines arising with abandon. The Oscar winning performances and scenes depicting both tragedy and beauty are so seamlessly arising in the Mind Theater that some go looking for an exit… but what if the ver...

It's finally here! www.thewonderlandcourse.com Join us starting February 2024 for deeper explorations of The Wonder Land themes and topics. This will be an opportunity to expand, explore, and play in The Wonder Land together. Questions? Reach out at podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com Details: Dates/Times: Thursdays 8amPT/10amCT/11amEST 90 mins February 15th, 22nd, 29th, and March 7th 2024 Early b...

Alex and Amanda explore the voice or murmur that seems to play in the background. The music score of our experience that is often negative and rarely helpful. Alex and Amanda explore how universal and generic these stories and judgements are which begs they question: who is it that these judgements refer to?

Alex and Amanda explore how Through the Looking Glass describes the experience of seeing that we are a fluid thoughtstream, without edges…where before there was an illusion of a solid ME gazing out into a solid world….now there can be a softening of all the edges and we find ourselves falling through the looking glass of thought. Falling freely as we always have been.   “You are a collage of memor...

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”  ― Alan Watts fluid nature self and how this far off nebulous ideal can cause a never ending striving and subsequent suffering. Any concept of becoming is false —  this ideal self we...

Amanda and Alex explore how strange it is to be alive

This is an exploration on all the facets of what we call love Love as the underlying energy of aliveness that needs nothing from us or others. The love that knows no conditions as it knows no-thing at all. The immediacy of love showing up as us every single moment You don’t need more money, more patience, more information, more time. You don’t need anyone else, not even yourself Because love is en...

How often do you find yourself lost in predictions of the future and rumblings of the past? Amanda and Alex explore the phenomena of a mind preoccupied with this conceptual maze that seems to lead us nowhere. How can we come to realize there is another way to experience ourselves? Listen in to see how we can awaken now to a wonderland where programming and conditioned ideas can return to their rar...

The Cauldron is a metaphor for the experience of sprinkling little ideas and inspirations into the void of the unknown—the cauldron where we don’t know what will transpire, but with a certain degree of playfulness and curiosity we are enchanted by the happenings that we have no control over. “Web of thought spins itself into this dream world and we are its enchantment.” Nancy Neithercut Get in tou...

Exploring the idea of the spider in the web- what is this phenomenon that takes ownership of feelings, thoughts, experiences…the very web of life itself? The spider, when identified in as our selves, elicits the impulse to resist, push away, or bring in what looks like the better web to weave.  What would it be like to recognize the spider as simply the weaving of the web, rather than separate and...

Does the mind’s function to make sense of things give us an illusion of being in control?  What happens when nonsense is made? Does that make us feel out of control?    We explore in this episode how sense and control seem to be inextricably linked, and how by noticing this phenomena, we have the capacity to embrace the impulse to make sense of things without added suffering if it all goes awry! G...

“In a place called Lost, strange things are found.” The Lost Bookshop What does it mean to be or feel lost? The deconstruction of the story into its sensed parts (including thinking) with no assumed continuity or cause and effect. The connotation of "being lost" is that of being disoriented and that this is a negative thing. Yet it is often the orientation of knowing and of imagining a c...

Let’s explore this idea of “being present, or being in the now”- what does this mean?? Why does it seem like a useful pointer until it smolders on the burn pile?   ·      The concept of now and “the present moment” seems to be a facet of the kaleidoscope of attention. It FEELS like one can direct attention, but who is doing that? Where is the mechanism that allows that to feel this way?? ·      Wh...

Get in touch! podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com   Nothing happens "again" As we move through experiences there may be a perceived familiarity in the oneness and non-duality that seems to underlay our day to day "reality" Nature exhibits the shape of spirals: shells, galaxies, and even our very own experience of being human The Spiral points to a deeper different seeing that clari...