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161. Noah Samarkand (Choboji)

Noah Samarkand (formerly, and referred to in the interview as Choboji) was a truth seeker from an early age. His approach has been one of meditation and creativity; uniting the relative and the ultimate truths. After many years of seeking he had an awakening...

160. Ian Wolstenholme

Ian Wolstenholme is an ordinary man who randomly awakened to the realized space in 1969. The assimilation of this process continues to this day, Ian was not transformed into a god or bestowed with remarkable powers. His consciousness was expanded to include the...

154. Cesar Teruel

At the age of 4 or 5 I was already feeling puzzled and confused by human behavior. At the age of 11, due to the discovery of the identity of my real mother, I lost respect and credibility for human culture and there arose in me an urge to understand the...

151. J. Stewart Dixon

J. Stewart Dixon is an awakening/enlightenment adviser, author, and blogger. Born in 1969, J. Stewart Dixon spent most of his adult life seeking spiritual awakening/enlightenment in the company of some of the world’s preeminent spiritual luminaries, including Adi...

139. Kenny Johnson

From Prison to Spiritual Awakening Kenny Johnson spent more than twenty years in prison, and his life afterward became a powerful example of transformation, service, and spiritual awakening. In this conversation, he shares how incarceration, addiction, and the hard...

136. Barbara Berger

Mind, Consciousness, and Sane Self-Talk Barbara Berger has spent her life exploring how to move beyond suffering and live with greater clarity, freedom, and happiness. In this conversation, she shares the winding path that took her from political rebellion and life...

134. Howard Falco

Why Your Perfection Is Unavoidable Howard Falco is an international author, speaker and spiritual teacher specializing in self-awareness and the power of the mind as it relates to the creation of the experience of life. His book on human understanding and potential...

128. Bill Bauman

Unlearning Everything, Grace, and Pure Awareness Bill’s side of the video is “frozen” during the first 5 minutes of this interview but is normal after that. Bill Bauman, PhD, is a modern mystic, spiritual teacher, and co-founder of the Center for...

125. Nirmala

How Big Is the Truth? After a lifetime of spiritual seeking, Nirmala met his teacher, Neelam, a devotee of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji). She convinced him that seeking wasn’t necessary; and after experiencing a profound spiritual awakening in India, he began...

122. Ellie Roozdar, 2nd Interview

Ellie is a happily married woman for 29 years. She has been blessed, with two beautiful children—a lovely daughter and a sweet son. She has graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook and has been teaching mathematics in high school and community colleges. After changing...

112. Elle Collier Re

From age 7, Elle was awake to divine Word. At 17, a revelatory spiritual experience increased this capacity and began her lifelong commitment to God-centered awareness. Elle awakened into Unity consciousness in her early 20’s. For the next two decades, her...

105. Matt Kahn

Matt Kahn: Nonduality, Sincerity, and the Freedom from Certainty Matt Kahn is a spiritual teacher and mystic whose work blends nondual insight with a wholehearted embrace of the personal, emotional, and mystical dimensions of life. In this conversation, he speaks...

104. Lisa Cairns

The Illusion of Cause and Effect and the Fall of Doership Lisa Cairns speaks with Rick Archer about awakening, the end of doership, and the way suffering softens when the belief in a separate self begins to fall away. She describes how her seeing changed after...

102. Canela Michelle Meyers

The journey for Canela Michelle towards this realization was happening long before she had heard of the potential of consciously living in the stateless state of Being.  Once she heard that this was possible in 1995, the path was lit up and speedy until she ended...

91. Ellie Roozdar

The Invisible Vision, Kundalini, and Nothingness Ellie Roozdar shares a deeply personal account of childhood experiences of being seen from outside the body, the persistent question “Who am I?”, and the long path that followed through meditation, energy...

89. Karen Richards

Spontaneous Awakening Amid Chronic Fatigue In February 2008 at the age of thirty-three, Karen experienced a sudden and radical awakening. Prior to this realisation, no teachings or practices were followed – in fact at that time the terms non-duality and awakening...

82. Tom Stine

Illusion of Choice, No Free Will, and Awakening For over two decades, several questions have been foremost in my mind: What is this life about? What is the nature of reality? What is truth? How do we live and thrive in this world? For many years these questions...

74. Martha Creek

Questioning Thoughts, Kindness, and The Work Martha Creek is a certified facilitator for Byron Katie’s The Work, and in this conversation she shares how questioning stressful thoughts can transform perception, soften reactivity, and reveal a deeper kind of honesty....

44. Leslie Temple-Thurston

Cave Experience, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, and Consciousness Shifts Leslie Temple-Thurston is a teacher of enlightenment, who since 1988 has wholeheartedly dedicated her life to inspiring and guiding people towards reaching their spiritual awakening at this most...

43. Ishvara

Quantum Leap in Consciousness, Feeling-Knowing, and New Consciousness Ishvara was born in 1945 in Missouri USA and raised a fundamentalist Christian. While involved in church ministry at a young age, he became frustrated with the limitations of restricted belief....

33. Gary Crowley

Ordinary Enlightenment, Illusion of Free Will & the Experiencing of Living Gary Crowley was born in 1965 and was raised in Massachusetts as a practical-minded New Englander. He graduated from Stanford University in 1987 with degrees in Economics and Political...

27. David Spero

Sahaja Samadhi, Spontaneous Awakening & the God-Intoxicated Condition In my youth, I was not prone to easy laughter or the common jokes that circulated among human beings. I lived in a world all by myself, thinking, feeling and being led innocently toward a...

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