Best Untethered Consciousness Podcasts (2025)

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E115: Spiritual Evolution: From Control to Equanimity 56:08

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Spirituality is inner evolution—adaptability to reality instead of struggling with the outside world because you can’t handle it. Begin by relaxing and releasing inner resistance the moment it comes up, rather than storing life’s events as past negative impressions. This will gradually harmonize your inner energy flow with the unfolding of life. Wi…

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E114: The Third Way: Transmuting Energy Instead of Suppressing or Expressing 55:21

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The essence of spiritual growth is learning to work directly with your inner energy rather than trying to affect it indirectly by controlling outer circumstances. When the outer world does not meet your preferences, your inner energy gets disturbed, and you either try to suppress it (which creates blockages) or reactively express it (which can caus…

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E113: The Perfect School: Life as the Path to Liberation 48:26

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The purpose of life is to release the inner blockages (samskaras) that obscure the natural flow of energy and keep us trapped in patterns of fear, desire, and resistance. External events are not punishments but opportunities to see and let go of what is stored within, transforming suffering into growth. Liberation comes through non-resistance, rela…

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Making Alliances with Dr. Will Evans 47:19

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What a blessing to sit down with Dr. Will Evans, a long-time ER doc who expanded his understanding of health and wellness through the study of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and Tai Chi. Will explores the roles of awareness, heart coherence, sacred geometry and nature in supporting wellness. Also discussed, the present state of fear and…

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E112: The Dance of Shakti: Conscious Energy and Liberation 58:35

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All of life is Shakti, the universal conscious energy that vibrates at different rates to manifest as physical form, thoughts, emotions, and the flow of spiritual energy. Our suffering arises when we resist life’s experiences and block this flow, storing disturbances that shape the personal mind and distort our lives. Freedom comes when we stop pus…

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Show 860: How to be Happy for People Who Enjoy This 1:07:52

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Neal reminisces on how a terrifying boiler house was once serene, traces the suprising number of life stages that come after old age, considers leaving your mind to science without donating your brain, makes the argument for cryogencially freezing kitchen waste and discusses hacking overnight toilet breaks for better caffeination, how Einstein’s ma…

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E111: The Mind Isn’t the Problem—It’s That You are Listening to It 50:36

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The deep spiritual teachings emphasize that the real problem is not the mind itself but our attachment to it and the impressions we’ve stored inside that distort our experience of life. We mistakenly look outward for solutions to this problem, when the real work is to release the inner disturbances that block the natural flow of energy and cause su…

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E110: Awareness: The Essence of the Spiritual Path 51:24

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The essence of spirituality is directly experiencing awareness itself. Your thoughts, emotions, body, and external objects are simply things you are aware of. They are not aware of you—you are aware of them. Spiritual growth is learning to remain centered in that awareness, letting experiences pass without clinging or resisting. This allows you to …

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E109: You Are Already There: Letting Go of Distraction 47:43

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Deep spirituality is not about techniques, beliefs, or outer practices. It is about recognizing that you are already pure consciousness—whole, infinite, and one with the universe. But your awareness is constantly distracted by the outside world and your thoughts and emotions. You are unlimited, but what you are looking at is limited to the tiny sum…

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E108: Understanding the Personal Mind and the Path to Liberation 56:18

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The personal mind is a self-created mental construct formed by holding on to past experiences we have tagged with like and dislike. Whatever we experience passes through this layer of mind, which has the effect of distorting our perception and causing suffering. Liberation requires recognizing that you are the awareness noticing these thoughts, not…

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E107: Becoming Okay Inside 53:11

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The fundamental spiritual question is not “How do I be okay?” It is “Why am I not okay?” Our inner discomfort is not caused solely by external events but by what we have stored inside: past disturbances, fears, and self-concepts that continually distract us from our natural state of well-being. The ego, built from these stored impressions, causes u…

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Hold Nothing, Elena Brower 1:20:29

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Mother, mentor, poet, artist, volunteer, bestselling author, and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena Brower is a celebrated international yoga and meditation teacher on Glo, guiding transformative practices since 1999. Her debut book, Art of Attention: A Yoga Practice Workbook for Movement as Meditation, was published in 2012 and has since been…

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Show 859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog? 1:23:22

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In a feature length episode Neal defends his pronunciation of typer writer, talks you through waking up on an operating table, shows how an only child leads an only dog astray, scrutinises the practicalities of turning the other cheek, explains how your miniaturised cat experiments are driving friends away, advises on cat dialogue for screenwriters…

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E106: From False Identification to Liberation: Returning to the Seat of Self 54:12

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The essence of yogic teachings is that the universe is a single field of consciousness vibrating at different rates, manifesting as everything from physical matter to thoughts and emotions. At the human level, consciousness is the unchanging witness of our thoughts, emotions, and sensory experiences. Our sense of freedom is lost when we identify wi…

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E105: The Meaning of Life Is Life Itself 51:51

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Life’s deepest purpose is not to get what you want or avoid what you don’t want, but to use every moment between birth and death to evolve spiritually. By being open to life’s challenges, instead of resisting and storing them as blockages within you, your entire life can be a fantastic journey to liberation. True spiritual evolution comes from usin…

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E104: Gratitude for the Miracle of Life 48:19

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Gratitude is not about getting what you want but about appreciating the profound gifts of existence that are freely given to you. These include the flow of your breath, the beat of your heart, the ability to think and feel, and above all, the gift of conscious awareness. Suffering stems from ignoring all of this and fixating on your personal prefer…

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Kryptonite Killers: Removing the Power Drainers From Your Life. Feat Ryan McLean / solocast 33:53

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Solo cast You know that thing that drags you down? That person, habit, or mindset that makes you feel weak, stuck, or like you’re never enough? Yeah… your kryptonite. In this solo rant, I’m calling it out loud, naming it, and ripping it out of my life—and yours too. This isn’t some fluffy self-help spiel. We’re talking real talk: How to spot the en…

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Road Trip Reflections - Untethered + Escaping the Digital Realm & Living the Good Life. Feat. Stephen Prazenika 1:45:24

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“Road Trip Reflections: Escaping the Digital Realm & Living the Good Life” Description: Join me on a soul-searching road trip to Rainbow Springs with Holly, the holistic nurse, and Steve Prazenica, entrepreneur, traveler, and philosopher, as we explore stories of personal evolution, practical life hacks to unplug from the digital world, and strateg…

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Unplugged Life and Living beyond the scrolling - reclaiming your focus / purpose / passion / 1:06:16

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A reflective journey in the art of living well. Detox from your phone and upload a retro life of purpose, passion, adventure. All your dreams are coming to you but your too distracted and over consumed to even awaken to them. The art of digital detox to find flow states. Join in on the road trip!By Ryan Mclean

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E103: From Preference to Presence: The Journey Beyond the Mind 51:13

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We create tremendous suffering by shrinking our world to the narrow confines of our personal preferences. They have the effect of locking us in a house of our own building wherein we don’t realize there is a whole universe outside that house. Through sincere inner work, we can expand our awareness beyond the limits of ourselves into a world of peac…

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Untethered with Ellen Bradley 1:42:22

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Ellen Bradley is a mother, master yoga teacher, author, and visionary guide devoted to reawakening the innate wisdom in women and girls. After spending eight years worldschooling her three daughters across 40+ countries, Ellen’s life became a living classroom—rooted in presence, connection, and the courage to untether from convention. She is the fo…

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E102: Reality Is Bigger Than You Think 48:55

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We don’t realize how tightly confined we are to our personal mind—its thoughts, beliefs, preferences, past experiences, and suppressed emotions. This represents such a tiny subset of reality compared to the vastness of what actually exists. Spirituality is about transcending that limited frame of reference and opening up to a world that is not filt…

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E101: Transform Daily Life into Your Deepest Spiritual Practice 54:22

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Meditation alone cannot bring lasting peace into this world. This is because we return from meditation to the same deeply seated, unresolved disturbances we’ve been storing in the mind. True liberation comes by relaxing through and releasing these disturbances rather than struggling with them on a daily basis. As we purify the mind, divine energy (…

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Show 858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection 1:01:24

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Neal ponders the practicalities of being Greek god of thunder, reveals why air crash survivor guilt is a good thing, worries about your supermarket trolley deposit, explains what palaeonthologists and NASA could learn from Winston Churchill and discusses the true meaning of last meals on death row, screaming on roller coasters, hedge trimming besid…

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Plant Medicine, Shaman Vibes & the Lazy River of Life 31:29

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In this solo ride, Ryan McLean dives deep into the power of plant medicine, the evolving role of the modern-day shaman, and how the art of living meets the art of chill—all while mentally packing for an adrenaline-fueled water park and floating down the lazy river of life. From high-speed slides to slow-breath meditations, this episode weaves betwe…

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Ligers, Lions & Reiki: A Wild Day with the Holistic Nurse at Tiger King’s Rival : Episode #1 23:31

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In this wild first episode of Swell Dayz Podcast, we link up with Holly the Holistic Nurse at the not-so-quiet rival to Tiger King’s sanctuary (yeah… Carol Baskin’s got competition). We feed ligers, chill with bears, throw snacks to lions, and somehow end up vibing with what felt like the cast of The Lion King—including a surprise spiritual visit f…

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E100: You Are Not What Happened: You Are Who Experienced It 45:28

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We misperceive life and spirituality by fixating on tiny fleeting experiences and projecting personal meaning onto them. We build our entire self-concept and emotional world out of a narrow slice of reality that we selectively store in the mind—what we liked, disliked, feared, or attached to—while ignoring the vastness of the universe unfolding all…

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E99: Why Spiritual Experiences Are Not Enough 47:35

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Spiritual liberation is not about attaining extraordinary experiences; it is about releasing the internal blockages that keep us from a permanent state of well-being. The cause of suffering is not life—it is our belief that life must be what we want in order for us to be okay. We can learn to let go of this constant sense of lacking by releasing th…

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Show 857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega 1:01:17

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Neal grudgingly gives a dog some credit, issues a stark warning about video game points, considers the reported last words of Mother Teresa, prescribes a mental workout involving your bathroom window, recalls a true childhood tale of lucky bags and death at the sweet shop and discusses predictable circus routes, a 1974 Twin Towers tightrope walk, w…

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E98: The Guru Within: Returning to Consciousness 48:34

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True spiritual masters are not mystical icons, they are beings who have transcended the distractions of mind and emotion to rest in the constant ecstasy of pure consciousness (Sat Chit Ananda). This is in drastic contrast to the suffering we incur by allowing our preference-driven mind to control our lives. The path back is simple but profound: beg…

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E97: Spirituality Is Awareness—Not Beliefs or Concepts 49:18

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Spirituality is about realizing that all experiences, thoughts, and emotions are just objects that consciousness is aware of. It is awareness that gives meaning to the object, but we get fixated on the object itself. By learning to remain centered as the objects of consciousness pass before you, you can stop being pulled down into suffering and beg…

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E96: Untethering Consciousness: The Path Back to Your True Self 51:06

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All living beings share the same divine consciousness, but the sophistication of the human body, mind, and heart allows us to expand our consciousness into very broad frames of reference. Unfortunately, we limit that expansion by constantly being distracted by an entire barrage of personal preferences formed by our limited past experiences. True sp…

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Show 856: Why Signatures Should be Assigned at Birth 56:51

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Neal makes the case for government assigned signatures for new borns, considers how sitcom kids have become so sophisticated, explains his virtual toast rack invention and how it relates to Mary Poppins and discusses making a raw chicken asthetically pleasing, turning a parking space into a home, ordering fruit juices with an extra shot, a decade o…

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E95: Relax, Release, and Rise: The Real Work of Spiritual Growth 45:31

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Deep spiritual growth is not about collecting more techniques but about releasing the inner disturbances we have stored from our past. These suppressed energies—called samskaras—remain inside, continuing to influence and limit our lives. Instead of struggling to cope with life’s experiences, we can learn to welcome them as opportunities to release …

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E94: Spiritual Freedom Is Simpler than You Think 46:20

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Life is fundamentally simple—we’re sitting on a tiny planet spinning through infinite space for a few years, and that’s it. We make it complicated by deciding how everything must be for us to be okay. This creates suffering, anxiety, and endless worries. Spirituality is about opening up, honoring, and appreciating life as it is. As we let go of our…

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E93: The Practice of Unconditional Openness 48:45

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When you’re open, life feels beautiful and joyful; when you're closed, everything seems wrong. This leaves you with two choices: find things that open you or find out how not to close. The first leads to a life of struggling with people, places, and things to match your preferences, while the second leads to the spiritual state of unconditional wel…

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The Ecology of Healing with Lindsay Branham 1:03:30

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In this episode, Eaden Shantay interviews Lindsay Branham, an environmental psychologist and eco-dula, who shares her profound journey of reconnecting with nature and the healing it has brought her. Lindsay discusses her eco-awakening, the importance of understanding the subject-object relationship with nature, and how historical disconnection has …

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Show 855: Your Cat’s Bar Tab and the Law 59:15

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Neal discusses Smurfs versus Avatar, explaining ball point pens to a cat, the argument against Meccano, early childhood memories: were those nurses or aliens, hand-me-down Lego management, raising children in a void, Lego Batman, listening in July, the man who made North Korea boring, watching with your ears, the future of home decor, the nation’s …

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E92: Releasing the Meaningless Moments That Create the Personal Mind 41:10

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The central spiritual teaching is that we are not the mind but the awareness behind it. The personal mind, composed of impressions from past experiences, creates a false sense of self (ego) that causes suffering and distraction. Spiritual growth begins by recognizing this addiction to the personal mind and learning to lean away from its pull rather…

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E91: Allowing Life to Remove Your Blockages 35:20

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The foundational flaw in human behavior is the belief that "I'm not okay." What follows is the lifelong attempt to fix this through external achievements, relationships, and coping mechanisms. Spiritual growth begins by shifting from trying to fix one's discomfort to inquiring why the discomfort exists in the first place. Life itself becomes the gu…

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Natural Mystic with Akah Jackson 1:54:31

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What an absolute blessing to interview Akah Jackson, a deeply spiritual natural mystic. Akah has a background in traditional and non--traditional medicine and herbalism. He is a medical Qi Gong instructor, recovery coach, artist, Kundalini yoga teacher and musician. Akah is such an amazing storyteller. I have no doubt you will enjoy these beautiful…

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E90: How to Stop Minding and Start Living 54:38

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“Do you mind?” We “mind” everything, from traffic to childhood memories, and this habitual minding creates endless mental ripples that disturb our peace. Spiritual growth is not found through adding practices but through subtracting resistance, through relaxing and letting go of what disturbs us. Every moment becomes an opportunity to free ourselve…

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E89: Freedom from Preference: The Evolution of Caring 48:17

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The ego often says “I don’t care” as a defense mechanism to avoid pain or disappointment. Truly not caring isn’t about becoming indifferent, but about genuinely letting go of the need for things to be a certain way. When we stop resisting life and release our inner preferences, we experience a peaceful state where nothing has to change for us to be…

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Show 854: The Miming Submariner’s Post Apocalypse Raincheck 50:05

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Neal discusses how to eat a spring roll, cuckoo clock apartments, how many cats an ark needs, how the Mona Lisa ended up like that, lubricated uphostery, Mr Crow from Wandarly Wagon, where America should house your national TV archive, an unfortunate first impression of Philadelphia, Mountain Dew versus stout, pelicans, puffins and penguins, saying…

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E88: The Power of Nonresistance 52:13

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Resistance is the inner act of opposing what is, and it is the root cause of all suffering. Whether you are resisting emotions, thoughts, or life events, it is this opposition—not the events themselves—that causes disturbance. Spiritual freedom comes through a deep state of nonresistance: allowing reality to pass through you without blocking it. On…

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E87: The Path to Nonduality 50:52

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Nonduality is not an abstract philosophy but a practical spiritual path rooted in everyday life. The Universe is one unified system, but we can’t see it that way because we need certain parts to be certain ways. This is because we don’t feel whole within ourselves, so we differentiate the outside based on what we think will make us feel better or w…

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E86: The Addiction to Self: Breaking Free from the Ego’s Hold 55:12

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Spiritual growth begins not by seeking higher states, but by fully recognizing how we built the ego out of thoughts from our past and are now identified with it. Our resultant preferences and suppressed past experiences make us suffer and constrict our awareness to ourselves. True liberation comes not by spiritualizing the ego, but by relaxing behi…

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E85: You Are Not Who You Think You Are 51:46

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You are not your thoughts, emotions, or experiences—you are the conscious awareness behind them. Identifying with these inner phenomena creates a disturbed inner world that you mistakenly try to fix with the outside world. Spiritual growth involves changing your relationship with your mind and emotions by releasing their past stored blockages and r…

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E84: Unconditional Love Is Who You Are 50:59

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The true meaning of Mother’s Day is to celebrate the idea of unconditional love—a love that does not judge or withhold. Most humans misunderstand this because the mind judges everything, creating inner resistance and leading to closure of the heart. Spiritual growth is the process of learning how to stop judging by understanding the root of judgmen…

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E83: You Are Not Broken—You’re Just Full of Unreleased Energy 52:54

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The belief that your inner state is fundamentally not okay, and you must spend most of your life struggling to be okay, is the cause of great suffering. Eventually, you will come to realize that it is only because you stored unresolved past experiences inside your heart and mind that you don’t feel a natural flow of great joy within. These stored b…