After years of radical liberation in my own absence eventually became another kind of prison, I found freedom from “Enlightenment” in the freedom to live a richly human bittersweet life, in a new way, the way of transimmanence, in which the spiritual and the material are unified, and everything including suffering is a sacred expression of the divine.
Discovering how many other people have been harmed by modern adaptations of liberation via self-negation teachings, I’ve become a Spiritual Emergence Coach, and run peer support groups for people experiencing spiritual crisis, especially related to Neo-Advaita.
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Summary and Transcript of this interview
Interview recorded August 21, 2022
YouTube Video Chapters:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
- 00:04:02 – Childhood Panic Attacks and Existential Thoughts
- 00:07:49 – Dissolution of the Sense of Self
- 00:11:20 – The Beginnings of Pure OOCD and Existential Thoughts
- 00:15:26 – Awakening Beyond Thought and Self
- 00:19:43 – The Path of Jnana Yoga
- 00:23:34 – Exploring the Demise of Ego and Boundaries
- 00:27:20 – The Dark Side of Radical Contentment
- 00:31:35 – Concerns about Neo-Advaita in Self-Help Books
- 00:35:20 – The Relief of Realizing Nothing Matters
- 00:39:45 – The Fear of Death and Martyr Complex
- 00:44:23 – Embracing Paradox in Spiritual Awareness
- 00:47:58 – The Erosion of Language and Relationships
- 00:51:59 – The Pitfall of the Spiritual Ego
- 00:55:35 – The Shift into Depersonalization
- 00:59:26 – The Value of Going through Different Phases
- 01:03:32 – Exploring New Paradigms of Reality
- 01:07:40 – The Illusion of Selflessness and Awakening
- 01:11:09 – The challenge of Neo-Advaita spiritual teachings
- 01:14:48 – The Non-permanence of Flashy Experiences and the Misunderstanding of Realization
- 01:18:32 – Interpretations of the Ultimate Truth
- 01:22:24 – Embracing Fear and the Process of Rebirth
- 01:26:02 – Realization of the larger aspect of one’s nature
- 01:29:25 – Dissolution of Physicality and Meditation Process
- 01:32:59 – Kundalini Awakenings and the Dangers of Neo-Advaita
- 01:36:27 – The Nothing Conference
- 01:40:17 – The Oneness of Individuals
- 01:43:30 – Eye Gazing and Unividuality
- 01:47:23 – The Severe Consequences of Toxic Teachings
- 01:50:52 – Living in Boundlessness and Boundaries
- 01:54:18 – Subscriber Notification System
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