The Wonder Land

Amanda and Alex explore an experience of going  into  a narrative that was old and repeating… The inquiry appeared: “what am I afraid is true here? “ By saying those fears aloud, they immediately dissolve and their nature is revealed- as thoughts/story…absurdities.  This inquiry has a powerful impact on penetrating the outer crust of fear where the undefined is assumed to be no-man’s land.

This is a concept that culminated from talking to clients: When the dream of separation gets so concentrated and dense. Where the swirl of selfing takes on a main role for what seems like ever.  The system will fatigue – not just from the energy expended to try to escape, but from the deep fatigue from expending energy into a world that does not actually exist outside of the imaginary landscape. W...

“Self-fulfilling prophecies occur when a prediction brings about its own fulfillment. In layman’s terms, that means that if you believe something to be true, you’ll act as if it were true. And your actions double down on your prediction to make it a reality. It’s kind of a vicious cycle.”  Cleveland Clinic    -       Self-help concepts and ideas often provide explanations to life’s mysterious and...

EP 23 “How long did we wait for our lives to begin? Believing that everything had to be 'just right', so we could finally relax When you least expect it, when all hope is gone, when you realize that tale will never get pinned on the donkey, when you realize that all the ladders in the world will never reach the moon, when you're tired of trying to catch the wind, kiss your reflection i...

-Looking at the “yes, buts” and expectations that hold exceptions about what this is, what you are and how “this” should feel/look   Interested in working with us? Check out our websites: Amanda's website : ⁠https://www.uncoveryspace.com/⁠ Alex's website: ⁠https://canaimacoaching.com/⁠ “You are the joy of simply being awareness aware that it is aware. Right now......you are that......It is...

What is the Vault? What is in the vault? Learned connects and frameworks for how the world works that create what we call our reality or "how the world works" from our vantage points. Some common ones: Having more money is better than not Being skinny is better We should always try to be happy We need love to live Concepts/beliefs that tend to be drivers of behavior and story. The key ri...

Hello Wonderlings!    This is Alex and I have a couple of exciting announcements –   Amanda Jones will be coaching during the 6 week course - Little School of Big Change this Fall. The course begins this Monday September 11th.    Enrollment closes on Thursday September 14th and enrollment info is below:   www.dramyjohnson.com   Coach Becky Gagnon and I will be leading a 4 week course starting Thur...

First, we have to acknowledge that Real and Unreal are words, concepts, thought. So we need to ask what are the parameters we are using to define Real and Unreal? Is it Real because I can see it, taste it, touch it, feel it? Is it Unreal because it seems to only exist in thought? Is Real and Unreal not thought as well? Where is the boundary between Real and Unreal? How does this particular explora...

The misunderstanding that insight is  precious,  an “only if you’re lucky” phenomena…a thing that is lost or gained, a brick on the road to OZ. Knowing and insights as the currency of engaging in this inquiry can become a heavy burden "The truth is simple. If it were complicated, everyone would understand it" Walt Whitman   What is knowing and how do we know?   Jed Mckenna excerpt: “When...

What promise may be hidden in the swirling thoughtstorm that seems to circle around us? Let’s explore what The Promise is and how we can inquire into it, revealing the phenomena of inseparable thinker and thought. Interested in working with us? Check out our websites: Amanda's website : ⁠https://www.uncoveryspace.com/⁠ Alex's website: ⁠https://canaimacoaching.com/⁠ Quotes: “It's a long...

Is the critic in our heads really after us because it thinks we are not good enough? What if the critic is our biggest cheerleader? A delusional set of expectations of a better version of ourselves the ego, the self, believes possible. A conditioned response to keep moving towards an imagined place or state of perfection. Inspired by Rick Rubin's The Creative Act book, this episode explores wh...

EP 16: There’s No Such Thing as Change (And All There is is Change)   “The attempt to change your behavior becomes the behavior that defines you.” MM   What is change?  The way the brain seems to be conditioned to notice change and apparent non-change.  How Time seems to be the bedrock underlying the mind’s determination of “change”    So what is really going on?  What is this elusive concept and...

EP 15 Time   “The mind wants to dissect time and space to see how the mechanism works. Little pieces of life strewn all over the place. Removed from their symphony.”- - Michelle Annette   Exploring conditioned/learned ideas like “time is precious”, time is to be rationed, etc. How do these seemingly baked in ideas cause suffering and frustration? We don’t ever experience “time”. Do you feel like y...

Ep 14 The Cadence of Aliveness Opening Quote "What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy" Alan Watts   “All this time you have been sea...

Ep13 The Dragon Story Sharing the Dragon Story that was shared with Amanda by Michael Neill in the very beginning of her awakening. This powerful parable broke everything open in terms of the radical realization that suffering was not coming from habits, addictions, preoccupations. The story is in Amanda's book Uncovery “We drew the dragon and then started building the castle to protect oursel...

Ep12 The Crashes  Opening Quote: "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard⁠ Exploring the phenomena of a “setback” based on a story of “oh no here I am again”. This conversation/exploration has the tendency to create a set of expectations that can only be exposed when they are not met—and how that is a GOOD thing.   “She was enthralled by t...

Opening Quote: “No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”  ― Alan Watts *Explori...

What is Thought? * Exploring what thought is, how it creates reality and what use is it to realize this. *How the phenomena of thought is like disappearing ink and what the ‘Mother of all thought’ is. *How thought acts like a razor to slice up experience and create separation *Waking up to the fact of thought is groundbreaking, and what are some of the obstacles that can appear during that process...

A fun exploration using the metaphor of a sandcastle to describe the self identity and how it is constantly re-constructed after the ocean tide comes in and destroys it. The realization that a more hard-packed sandcastle, with even more turrets and moats will not prevent the tide coming in…and that when we see we are the ocean and not the castle, we can play in the sand of impermanence.1 The Wonde...

Opening Quote: "It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while." Mark Twain Exploring the realization that we really don’t know and aren’t able to consistently define or describe “happiness”. That fact is a fascinating curiosity when this concept has been indoctrinated as being the goal, pursuit, and the ultimate achievement.  Th...

What has been learned and not questioned about what they are? Why does it feel like they are MY beliefs? Beliefs are thought-concepts/words/ideas that seem to have more substance, more solidity. And the impression of substance and solidity seem to be the ingredients the mind uses to determine “Real” or “True”. There is a sneaking suspicion, an intuited feeling that what is going on is permanently...

What is the Burn Pile? When do concepts and ideas lose their usefulness and how do we know? The funny way an idea or concept starts to look confusing or we feel we need to understand it better or differently so it fits into the new landscape that is appearing…what if it’s already headed to the burn pile? Handholds: what they are, how they appear and dissolve on their own. Handholds are mistaken to...

What does "The Map is Not the Territory" mean? An abstraction derived from something or our reaction to it is not the thing itself ·      Exploring the mental map/conceptual overlay that is laid upon “reality” (territory) ·      How I believe things and myself are (map) and how it is actually experienced (territory) ·      What can happen when the map is seen AS the territory: limitation...

In this episode Amanda and Alex explore the theme of "being afraid of the unknown" to uncover some inconsistencies in that mind's narrative. What the mind calls the "unknown" is found to be all the thoughts (images, sounds, and sensations) that create worse case scenarios and the mind's tendency to catastrophize. ·      Is it possible that the unknown and uncertainty ar...

·      The Allegory of The Cave: In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations...