The Awareness Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford welcomes transpersonal psychologist, best-selling author, lecturer and spiritual poet, Steve Taylor, PhD.

Steve shares his own personal awakening experiences that began at a young age and that ultimately led him to devote his life to the study, investigation and process of spiritual awakening.

In his newest book, The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Steve explains, through his research of hundreds of people who had a profound spiritual awakening, that these experiences are not mystical or extraordinary, but rather they are more common than we realize. Many people may not even know that they are living their lives in a natural state of awakening or enlightenment.

Steve explains what he believes are the eight essential aspects of spiritual awakening that anyone can cultivate, and he discusses how guided meditations, contemplative exercises, and other practices can bring about spiritual transformation in our everyday lives.

Steve also shares a bit about his upcoming four-part live series for Center for Awakening beginning on July 8th entitled Four Steps to Awakening: Cultivating the Qualities of Spiritual Enlightenment.

For details on how you can join Steve for this interactive and experiential series visit: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/steve-taylor 

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Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati was born in the USA and her spiritual journey took her to India, where she has lived for many years in the Parmarth Niketan Ashram ashram.

In this edition of the Awareness Podcast, Bill Free chats to Sadhviji about her recently published memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation.

Sadhviji speaks about her very conventional American life that was turned upside down by a vacation to India when she was 25 years old and in the middle of a PhD at Stanford.

It was there that she met her guru, HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and her life changed forever.

For more on Sadhviji, visit her website: https://sadhviji.org/

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Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

What does it mean to be Open Minded?

During this conversation with Rona and Cyndi you will learn…

• The Open Mind is an empty mind
• How the Open Mind is an effect – it is never a “cause” and it can never be forced.
• How the Open Mind is the gift received from willingness and intention

Join Cyndi and Rona for this discussion and set the intention to empty the mind.

Would you like to join Cyndi and Rona live each week and explore spiritual awakening in the company of like-minded men and women? We invite you to join our online spiritual Community called Evolve. Learn more and register here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-community

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

When Bill Free sat down with spiritual teacher Francis Lucille to discuss what it means to live the non-dual understanding, he did not expect that they were going to be talking about the Holy Spirit. 

However what unfolded was a fascinating conversation about the importance of how we define terms, the self-evidence of awareness and what Francis calls the greatest revelation.

Learn more about the The Awareness Podcast and access show notes for every episode at: www.teachersofgod.org/podcast

Original music by Omashar

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

Hello and welcome to The Awareness Podcast — brought to you by the Center for Awakening — a nonprofit dedicated to supporting people on the spiritual journey of awakening to their true nature, and discovering the peace and happiness that are ever-present within us.

Here, you’ll find teachings, reflections and meditations rooted in nonduality — invitations to rest as awareness itself, and to remember the peace that’s already here.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re striving for peace, chasing calm, or trying to “get it right,” this podcast is for you. Each week, a new teaching, reflection or meditation will be shared to help you release effort, let go of the stories of the mind and body, and return to the stillness that never leaves.

This is about discovering the wholeness you already are — and letting that presence carry you into daily life.

So we invite you to subscribe now, wherever you listen to podcasts, and join us each week on The Awareness Podcast.

Because true peace isn’t something you have to create. It’s something you remember.

Thank you for being here — and for remembering with us.

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

In this episode of Conversations in Truth, Bill and his guest Rosalyn Rourke discuss Rosalyn’s new book, When Wisdom Arrives:  From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom. Tune in to hear...

• How Rosalyn felt when her daughter died unexpectedly at the age of 39
• What prompted Rosalyn to write this book 
• Rosalyn explains her favorite sentence in the book: "If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts.”
• What Rosalyn means by “okayness” and how you can live there always

Learn more about Bill's One Year Masterclass for Awakening here. 

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

Join Susan and Jac O'Keeffe for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really means to live an awakened life. 

Susan and Jac discuss

• What it means ( and what it doesn’t mean) to be awakened 
• The importance of dealing with our humanness
• How to wake up and grow up spiritually 
• How there is no final destination in awakening 
• That even after awakening, there is still work to be done 
• How Jac’s own journey has been all about finding out the truth for herself
• What attachment to non duality is and what it signifies

To learn more and to join Jac for her 4-Part live Masterclass: The Gifts and Perils of Power beginning on November 6th, 2023 in Evolve, visit here. 

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

A great working definition for patience is being here Now without focusing on outward future goals.

When you join Rona and Cyndi you will discover…

• The gift in being OK with the present moment just as it is.
• How natural patience becomes when you Trust.
• An invitation to watch for the subtle signs you are believing something has to change for you to be okay.
• Instruction on how to bring the “wanting things to change” to present moment awareness and what once may expect as a result.

Join Cyndi and Rona as they continue to offer insight on how to use all the Tools for Awakening in your day-to-day life.

About Rona Marren:
Rona Marren is currently a student of A Course in Miracles and non duality. She spent 20 plus years as a spiritual seeker and in 2020 had her first glimpse of awakening. Rona is a wife, mother, daughter and caregiver. She integrates Knowing the truth of Who I Am into her daily activities continuing to attend courses, workshops, and retreats, volunteering with the Teachers of God Foundation, and by frequent moments of resting as awareness.

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

In this episode, Jenny's guest, Heena Vasani describes how her mother abandoned her at a very young age, and Jenny and Heena discuss how the trauma from that experience led to inner work over many years to find resolution and healing.

Heena describes how her spiritual journey started in her early 20’s with a profound glimpse of her true nature that occurred when she was about to undergo a kidney transplant.

Jenny and Heena also discuss:

• The importance of fully facing the feelings that are a residue of trauma.
• How the fact that we don’t choose our thoughts means that we don’t choose our conditioning, and our parents didn’t choose their conditioning either. That understanding removes a huge amount of anger and blame.
• How motherhood provided Heena with the lessons she needed for her non-dual understanding to become fully integrated with her everyday life. Children are very good at pushing our buttons and they instantly detect any lack of authenticity.
• The uncertainty of life.
• The freedom that comes with living in not-knowing.
• The joy of continuing to learn and discover.

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

Join Bill Free for this episode of Conversations in Truth, as he welcomes Justin Gold to hear:

• What Justin learned from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
• What he learned about meditation from a 3 year old child.
• His multi-dimensional answer to Bill’s question, without the use of memory, who are you?
• The importance of “supervision” on the spiritual path.
• About Justin’s spiritual community and the social and aid work they do.

Learn more about Bill's One Year Masterclass for Awakening here. 

Support the show

Deepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here.

You can find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: centerforawakening.org/podcast

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org