Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Awareness Explorers
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| 202: The Future of Transformational Technologies | 19 Dec 2025 | 01:04:56 | |
In this episode, we explore how technology is accelerating human transformation and consciousness, and we outline the five key areas that are driving this shift: psychedelics, nootropics, gadgets, new techniques, and AI coaching. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to recall a specific, highly awakened or peaceful experience and how to amplify the feeling with deep breaths and visualization. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy,
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| 201: Amy Islip, Guest Explorer | 05 Dec 2025 | 01:06:18 | |
In this episode we talk to Amy Islip about her experiences with guided MDMA therapy, the profound spiritual awakening that ensued, and the resulting embodiment of spacious, open-hearted, love. • Includes a guided meditation leading us first, to rest in what is, free from stories and plans, allowing our bodies to soften, dissolve, and expand, and then, leading us to draw that expansiveness back into our bodies, minds, and the roles we play in everyday life. To learn more about Amy Islip, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 192: Samuel Jacob, Guest Explorer | 01 Aug 2025 | 00:58:19 | |
In this episode we talk to Samuel Jacob, a contemporary spiritual teacher specializing in radical self-inquiry. He emphasizes the immediate availability of awareness, completeness, and happiness in the present moment. • Includes a guided meditation focusing on being aware that all appearances arise "here" without effort, and emphasizing the relaxation of any attempt to arrive here, which is where the I, awareness is. To learn more about Samuel Jacob, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| AE Episode 102 Powerlessness and Uncertainty | 11 Feb 2022 | 00:46:35 | |
In this episode we talk about how to make friends with powerlessness and uncertainty, and how letting go of resistance is the way to greater peace. • Includes a guided meditation using a systematic way to become more okay with these difficult feelings. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Jakub Kriz on Unsplash | |||
| AE Episode 101 Anna-Lisa Adelberg | 28 Jan 2022 | 01:07:13 | |
In this episode we talk to Anna-Lisa Adelberg of the Luminous Awareness Institute about how various aspects of healing and awareness can combine to embody a richer and deeper expression of awakening. • Includes a guided meditation leading us through the experience of awareness of interconnected oneness, taking us from borderless formless awareness to fullness awareness. To learn more about Anna-Lisa Adelberg, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 100: Greatest Hits and Your Questions | 14 Jan 2022 | 00:53:56 | |
We celebrate our 100th episode by reviewing some of the key insights of the last three years of Awareness Explorers, and by answering questions from our listeners. We'd like to thank these listeners for sending in their excellent questions and giving us the opportunity to reflect on them in this episode: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: Although we don't have a guided meditation in this episode, if you want to listen to the meditations from other episodes alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Marcel Eberle on Unsplash
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| 99: Your Relationship with Thoughts and Emotions | 31 Dec 2021 | 00:50:20 | |
In this episode we talk about how to change your relationship with your thoughts and emotions and identify with pure awareness. • Includes a guided meditation that takes you step by step from full identification with an emotion to full connection with awareness. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Louis-Philippe Poitras on Unsplash | |||
| 98: Judith Blackstone, Guest Explorer | 17 Dec 2021 | 00:56:21 | |
In this episode we talk to Judith Blackstone about The Realization Process, and practical methods for fully inhabiting your body as a way of connecting with fundamental consciousness. • Includes a guided meditation to help you attune to the central core of the body by tuning into the head, heart, and pelvis. To learn more about Judith Blackstone, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 97: If Life is a School... | 03 Dec 2021 | 00:48:27 | |
In this episode we reflect upon the benefits of seeing life as a curriculum to learn certain lessons and how that interacts with our true nature as awareness. • Includes a guided meditation in which you are given the opportunity to review events from your past through the lens of what there was to learn from them. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash
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| 96: Being Yourself | 19 Nov 2021 | 00:49:34 | |
In this episode we describe various layers and aspects to being more fully your ego personality as well as your higher universal self, including obstacles in the way to being each, and how to gently overcome them. • Includes a guided meditation showing how the universal self can set the individual self free. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Aditya Saxena on Unsplash | |||
| 95: John Prendergast, Guest Explorer | 05 Nov 2021 | 00:58:35 | |
In this episode, we talk to John Prendergast about a somatic and heart-based approach to opening up to different levels of beingness. • Includes a guided meditation taking us through deepening layers of peace from groundedness to open heartedness. To learn more about John Prendergast, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 94: Time and Timelessness | 22 Oct 2021 | 00:48:54 | |
In this episode we explore the illusion of time, the reality of the present, and how to embrace more fully the only moment we live in—now. • Includes a guided meditation that uses phrases that point to the illusion of past and future and the portal of this eternal present moment. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Srikanta H. U on Unsplash | |||
| 93: Witness Consciousness | 08 Oct 2021 | 00:47:33 | |
In this episode we talk about the many levels of witness consciousness and the many ways to experience it in daily life. • Includes a guided meditation to help you merge the witness and the witnessed into simply witnessing. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Ian Stauffer on Unsplash
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| 191: Inward and Outward Paths | 18 Jul 2025 | 00:41:20 | |
In this episode we explore the concepts of the inward and outward facing paths. They are presented as different approaches in various traditions that, if pursued to their core, eventually arrive at a direct experience of a unified life. • Includes a guided meditation that extends the ancient neti neti practice of excluding all concepts of what you conceive yourself to be, and then re-including all so-called outer experience, thereby seeing that all is awareness and not separate from your true self. Short phrases to help you get a handle on the inward and outward facing paths: The song Jonathan mentioned in this episode is "Impermanence" by John Astin: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one. To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy,
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| 92: Colin McMorran, Guest Explorer | 24 Sep 2021 | 00:52:28 | |
In this episode we talk to Colin McMorran about transpersonal therapy, disidentifying from thought, and using analogies and metaphors for transcending the illusory self. • Includes a guided meditation bringing us down into the spacious room of inner silence and then bringing that silence back into everyday life. To learn more about Colin McMorran, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 91: The Value of Self-Love | 10 Sep 2021 | 00:51:44 | |
In this episode we talk about obstacles to self-love, and we offer practical ideas and methods to cultivate self-acceptance, compassion, and kindness. • Includes a guided meditation for moving from a part of ourselves that we don't like to an experience of openness, tenderness, and compassion. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Jackson David on Unsplash
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| 90: Getting Love, Giving Love, and Being Love | 27 Aug 2021 | 00:43:47 | |
In this episode, we talk about different types of love, the obstacles to love and methods to uncover the love of our true nature. • Includes a guided meditation using the mirror analogy to reveal how to connect to the love that we are. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy,
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| 89: Chris Niebauer, Guest Explorer | 13 Aug 2021 | 01:04:54 | |
In this episode we talk to Chris Niebauer, PhD. about his book, No Self, No Problem, and the parallels between recent discoveries in neuropsychology and spiritual practices such as Buddhism and Nonduality. • Includes a guided meditation taking us through a series of questions to help us let go of who we are not. To learn more about Chris Niebauer, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 88: Overcoming Your Judgmental Mind | 30 Jul 2021 | 00:54:35 | |
In this episode we discuss the pitfalls of having a judgmental mind, and present simple methods to use when judgment arises. • Includes a guided meditation in which five phrases are used to help you transcend your judgmental nature. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy,
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| 87: Inquiring into Inquiry | 16 Jul 2021 | 00:53:19 | |
In this episode we inquire into the five different types of inquiry, and how each can be used to connect with deeper peace and happiness. • Includes a guided meditation using questions to lead us into an experience of our true identity. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash | |||
| 86: Deepak Chopra, Guest Explorer | 02 Jul 2021 | 00:46:14 | |
In this episode we talk to Deepak Chopra about his latest thoughts on awakening, consciousness, and his book, Total Meditation. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to see how we are in everything, and how every experience includes, and is, the background of awareness. To learn more about Deepak Chopra please visit: Photo by Michael Allen Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 85: Eric Zimmer, Guest Explorer | 18 Jun 2021 | 01:07:01 | |
In this episode we talk to Eric Zimmer, host of The One You Feed podcast, about how to create good spiritual habits through support, emotional regulation, acceptance, and finding the middle way. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to experience body sensations, hearing, and breathing in one field of awareness. To learn more about Eric Zimmer please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 84: Stepping Out of Your Story | 04 Jun 2021 | 00:47:54 | |
In this episode we explore how our minds continually create stories about ourselves, others, and the world, and we present many methods for stepping out of our stories and into inner peace. • Includes a guided meditation to help you step out of stories that block you from peace, and instead enter into the stream of eternal presence. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 83: Lion Goodman, Guest Explorer | 21 May 2021 | 01:14:07 | |
In this episode, we explore all things about beliefs with Lion Goodman, such as how they affect us, how to change them, and how to try on new beliefs that might help with awakening. • Includes a guided meditation to help you let go of a limiting belief and try on and integrate a more beneficial belief. To learn more about Lion Goodman please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 190: John Travis, Guest Explorer | 04 Jul 2025 | 00:58:27 | |
In this episode, we interview John Travis, founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation Center, exploring his spiritual journey and teachings, and his emphasis on the importance of integrating mind, heart, and body in spiritual practice. • Includes a guided meditation grounding attention in the body and sense perceptions as a pathway inward to the recognition of awareness as encompassing everything, thus breaking the illusion of separateness. To learn more about John Travis, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 82: Zoom with You | 07 May 2021 | 01:04:30 | |
In this episode we're joined by a group of listeners to explore what helps and hinders them on the path of awakening, including how and when to share spiritual ideas with others. We're sending our deep thanks for your wisdom and eloquence to all those who joined: Ajay, Barbara, Boris, Brent, Clint, Donna, Eliza, Elizabeth, George, Glynnis, Haran, Jana, Melanie, Robert, Steve, Tatini (and anyone else whose names we didn't catch.) Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy,
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| 81: Pure Experiencing | 23 Apr 2021 | 00:44:40 | |
In this episode we talk about what pure experiencing is, what it feels like, what prevents it, and how to enjoy it in daily life. • Includes a guided meditation using the visual sense to guide you to the peacefulness and joy of pure conscious experience. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 80: Tami Simon, Guest Explorer | 09 Apr 2021 | 00:55:14 | |
In this episode we talk to Tami Simon, the founder and CEO of Sounds True, about her personal practice, what she's learned from leading Sounds True, and various wisdom she's received from interviewing dozens of teachers. • Includes a guided breathing meditation from Tami on connecting with and filling your body with the natural upflow of energy from the Earth. To learn more about Tami Simon, please visit: You can also listen to her podcast, Sounds True: Insights at the Edge, here: To Learn more about her program, The Inner MBA, visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, | |||
| 79: Endarkenment | 26 Mar 2021 | 00:46:39 | |
In this episode we discuss the freedom of not trying to be spiritual and allowing your shadow to show up as a path to greater awareness. • Includes a guided meditation to imagine how you would be different if you could be free of fear and inhibitions. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: | |||
| 78: Sanjay Manchanda, Guest Explorer | 12 Mar 2021 | 01:08:58 | |
In this episode we talk with psychotherapist and neurofeedback expert Sanjay Manchanda. In our exploration, we discuss how psychotherapy and awakening can support each other, how new technologies can lead to expanded states of consciousness, and how to use trauma and strong emotions as a vehicle for further awakening. • Includes two guided meditations from Sanjay. The first, for quickly disidentifying with contracted parts of oneself, and thereby open to various qualities of pure beingness, and the second, for delving into the unknown. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
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| 77: Overcoming the Dualistic Mind | 26 Feb 2021 | 00:43:48 | |
In this episode we discuss how separation is created in the mind, and ways to overcome it through seeing underlying unity. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to the experiential sense of the unity of opposites. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
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| 76: Is There Something to the Law of Attraction? | 12 Feb 2021 | 00:43:49 | |
In this episode, we tease out the useful kernels of truth and techniques of the Law of Attraction (LOA) as well as how its ideas and methods can be misused. • Includes a guided meditation for using LOA principles to create an experience of higher consciousness in your day and in your future. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: | |||
| 75: Jeffery Martin, Guest Explorer | 29 Jan 2021 | 01:37:00 | |
In this episode we talk to Dr. Jeffery Martin about his research into what helps people awaken, what methods are most useful, the nature of Fundamental Wellbeing, and common misconceptions about awakening. To learn more about Jeffery Martin, please visit: You can also find Dr. Martin's book, The Finders on Amazon: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 74: The Voice in Your Head | 15 Jan 2021 | 00:48:17 | |
In this episode we explore what the voice in your head is, how to change your relationship to it, and what's on the other side when you don't fully identify with it. Includes a guided meditation to help loosen your identification with the voice in your head, and how to experience reality wordlessly. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
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| 73: Fred Davis, Guest Explorer | 01 Jan 2021 | 01:14:16 | |
In this episode we talk to Fred Davis about his awakening, his methods to help others wake up, and what gets in the way of living as awakeness. Includes a guided meditation that gives a quick sampling of various direct inquiry approaches to living as awake space. To learn more about Fred Davis, please visit Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: | |||
| 189: Trauma and Awakening | 20 Jun 2025 | 00:49:33 | |
In this episode, we discuss the relationship between trauma and spiritual awakening, and how trauma can not only obscure awareness but can also catalyze awakening. We also describe some effective trauma healing approaches. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to see an upsetting incident from the past within the larger peaceful space of pure awareness, which is unshaken by traumatic experience, and which holds and supports everything. The YouTube playlist mentioned in this episode: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy,
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| 72: Control vs. Surrender | 18 Dec 2020 | 00:47:01 | |
In this episode we look at surrender as an alternative to the idea that we can control our experience, and we include unique methods for experiencing surrender. Includes a guided meditation presenting several subtle ways to let go of control and enter into the realm of surrender. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: | |||
| 71: Bruce Pardoe, Guest Explorer | 04 Dec 2020 | 00:59:14 | |
In this episode we talk to Bruce Pardoe about Heart Fluency, a system for awakening and for healing trauma by integrating difficult emotions into a field of spaciousness. Includes a guided meditation delving into the process for meeting and healing emotions such as feelings of unworthiness or trauma. To learn more about Bruce Pardoe and Heart Fluency, please visit Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 70: Your Relationship to Fear | 20 Nov 2020 | 00:48:38 | |
In this episode, we talk about types and approaches to fear and ways to effectively handle them for greater freedom and awakening. Includes a guided meditation leading us to the safety of the present moment. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 69: Awareness and the Creative Process | 06 Nov 2020 | 00:42:35 | |
In this episode we talk about the similarities between the creative and spiritual process, including what opens us up to each, and what tends to block their full fruition. Includes a guided meditation to help us open up to the creative spark and let it manifest in daily life. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 68: Pamela Wilson, Guest Explorer | 23 Oct 2020 | 00:53:02 | |
In this episode we talk to Pamela Wilson about clear seeing, honoring ourselves and all that arises within, and resting in the background of stillness, which is our true nature. Includes a guided meditation leading us into the silent, warm, benevolent, all-welcoming space of gratitude and stillness in the formless spiritual heart. To learn more about Pamela Wilson, please visit Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 67: Peace in Turbulent Times | 09 Oct 2020 | 00:51:16 | |
In this episode we talk about the concepts of allowing vs. resisting, and how to find peace while also helping to reduce suffering in world. Includes a guided meditation to help allow our emotional reactions to events and thereby experience unity consciousness. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 66: Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, Guest Explorer | 25 Sep 2020 | 00:55:49 | |
In this episode we talk to Bridgit Dengel Gaspard about how the various parts of oneself can be integrated into an aware ego. Includes a guided meditation to explore and assimilate two opposite parts of yourself. To learn more about Bridgit's book, The Final 8th, please visit To learn more about Bridgit Dengel Gaspard and Voice Dialogue, please visit: This episode is dedicated to the memory of Hal Stone, co-creator of Voice Dialogue, who died on May 23rd, shortly before this episode was recorded. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top 15 Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 65: J Jaye Gold (Justin), Guest Explorer | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:57:03 | |
In this episode we talk to J Jaye Gold (Justin), who was Jonathan's spiritual teacher for 26 years, and discusses his unique angle on spiritual groups, meditation, and his system of tools for uncovering consciousness. Includes a musical meditation. J Jaye Gold (Justin) has been assisting people in their search for inner meaning for 40 years. He is currently living in the Sierra foothills of Northern California where he works with several dozen seekers of truth. To learn more about Justin, please visit To check out Justin's books, please visit: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top 15 Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 64: The Yoga of Relationships | 28 Aug 2020 | 00:50:24 | |
In this episode we explore how relationships can be used as a vehicle for awakening and for overcoming obstacles that get in the way of knowing the nature of love. Includes a guided meditation asking several questions that can help deepen the connection in any relationship. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top 15 Spiritual Podcasts: To learn more, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: | |||
| 63: Daniel Schmidt and Tanya Mahar, Guest Explorers | 14 Aug 2020 | 01:09:05 | |
In this episode we talk to Daniel Schmidt and Tanya Mahar about their films, Inner Worlds Outer Worlds and Samadhi, the different approaches to Samadhi, and the various paths to awaking across many cultures. Includes a guided meditation to help us drop all the obstacles that keep us from allowing the present moment to be exactly as it is. Daniel Schmidt and Tanya Mahar are the creators of the films, To learn more about Daniel Schmidt and Tanya Mahar, please visit Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top 15 Spiritual Podcasts: | |||
| 188: Exploring Intuition | 06 Jun 2025 | 00:45:45 | |
In this episode we discuss intuition, its nature, how to access it, and its relationship to awakening. • Includes a guided meditation helping you to cultivate the open receptivity required for intuition. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: Or on our Awareness Explorers website: To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy,
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| 62: What About Anger? | 31 Jul 2020 | 00:45:49 | |
In this episode we examine different types of anger, the causes of anger, and possible methods for dealing with anger and bringing it to awareness. Includes a guided meditation that helps us experience anger without the story attached to it. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top 15 Spiritual Podcasts: | |||
| 61: Steve Farrell, Guest Explorer | 17 Jul 2020 | 00:55:24 | |
In this episode we talk to Steve Farrell about oneness, conscious business, and the necessity of having large portions of humanity wake up. Includes a guided meditation to help us feel into the inner light that is ever-present and connects each one of us. To learn more about Steve Farrell, please visit Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top 15 Spiritual Podcasts:
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| 60: What's Keeping You from Presence? | 03 Jul 2020 | 00:49:24 | |
In this episode we explore the many ways we avoid presence, and how to overcome them in daily life. Includes a guided meditation asking three questions to help us let go of obstacles to presence. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top 15 Spiritual Podcasts: | |||