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Changing Your Life Won’t Set You Free | Awareness, Ego, & Letting Go

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We explore what freedom actually is and why you’ll never find it in the material world. Continue reading Changing Your Life Won’t Set You Free | Awareness, Ego, & Letting Go

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The Illusion of Choice | Krishnamurti, Nisargadatta, & the Nature of Being

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What if the feeling of making a choice is itself just another conditioned response? Continue reading The Illusion of Choice | Krishnamurti, Nisargadatta, & the Nature of Being

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The Sense of “Me” | Awareness, Identity & the Illusion of Individuality (w/ Reed)

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Is the “me” you experience every day an actual entity, or just a reflection of your conditioned experience? Continue reading The Sense of “Me” | Awareness, Identity & the Illusion of Individuality (w/ Reed)

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Non-Dual Awareness: What is Permanent in a World of Change?

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If everything in life is changing what, if anything, is permanent? In this episode, we explore the nature of consciousness and have our first live Q & A.

Continue reading Non-Dual Awareness: What is Permanent in a World of Change?

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The Meditative Life Then | Sobriety, AA, and Enlightenment

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In this episode, I share what my life was like before, during, and after a spiritual awakening that occurred while I was sober and active in Alcoholics Anonymous. Continue reading The Meditative Life Then | Sobriety, AA, and Enlightenment

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The Meditative Life Now | Choiceless Awareness

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This conversation centers on choiceless awareness: the recognition that there is no personal will or control, and that everything—thoughts, emotions, actions, reactions—is arising spontaneously on its own. Continue reading The Meditative Life Now | Choiceless Awareness

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Your Life is None of Your Business | Step 3 and Non-Duality

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During a prolonged state of existential despair, I heard something that helped re-frame my life and my recovery:

“From this moment forward, your life is none of your business.” Continue reading Your Life is None of Your Business | Step 3 and Non-Duality

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I Was Chasing a High – I Just Didn’t Know It | Football, Identity, and Fear

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I thought I was pushing through fear and pursuing my dreams, but I was really just chasing a high. Continue reading I Was Chasing a High – I Just Didn’t Know It | Football, Identity, and Fear