Episode 82: Colet House (Episode 4)
Rupert Spira Podcast
In the fourth episode in the series recorded at Colet House in London, Rupert answers questions about whether it’s possible to overdo spiritual practice, why emotional stability is important when investigating our true nature and the relationship between ‘I’, ‘self’, and awareness. Also discussed are how our relationships and work may transform as our understanding deepens, the most difficult thing to give up on the path of devotion and why enlightenment is not an experience but simply the recognition of the nature of being.
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Episode 81: Amira Arora (Under the Tree Podcast)
Rupert Spira Podcast
This is the second of two episodes with hosts Aryaan and Emira Arora of the ‘Under the Tree’ podcast. In this episode Rupert speaks with Amira Arora about the fundamental principles of non-duality and how consciousness creates the appearance of reality. They discuss how creation emerges through consciousness dividing itself into subject and object, how our experience always takes place in the eternal 'now' and 'here' rather than in time and space, and how the understanding of non-duality reveals that nothing truly exists apart from infinite consciousness. They also explore the nature of...
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Episode 80: Aryaan Arora (Under the Tree Podcast)
Rupert Spira Podcast
This is the first episode of two with hosts Aryaan and Emira Arora of the ‘Under the Tree’ podcast. In this episode, Rupert speaks with actor, musician and composer, Aryaan about the fundamentals of non-duality, the source of suffering in relationships, and what it means to awaken from the dream. They also explore the true nature of love, why many seekers experience a sense of emptiness after self-recognition, what happens after awakening, what it means to become established in your true nature, and the only experience that is absolutely true.
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Episode 79: Colet House (Episode 3)
Rupert Spira Podcast
In the third instalment in the series recorded at Colet House in London, Rupert answers questions about the correlation between deep sleep and our experience of death, how consciousness responds to our prayers and communicates with individuals, and why, after awakening, desire diminishes. Also discussed are the causes of the physical responses – of tears and joy – that often occur when entering these gatherings, how compassion fits within the non-dual understanding, and whether there are other ways besides the Direct Path to find the true ‘I’.
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Episode 78: Colet House (Episode 2)
Rupert Spira Podcast
This is the second installment in the series of curated conversations from gatherings with Rupert at Colet House in London. The episode begins with a meditation and includes dialogues on how we can understand deep sleep when the finite mind cannot comprehend it, where our attention should go in meditation, and what happens to awareness after the death of the physical body. Other topics include how the recognition of our true nature takes place outside time and space, how, in awakening, nothing dies apart from the illusory sense of separation and the sorrow and conflict that attends it, and the...
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Episode 77: Federico Faggin
Rupert Spira Podcast
Rupert speaks with physicist, engineer and inventor of the microprocessor, Federico Faggin. The conversation is moderated by speaker, author and BBC broadcaster, Simon Mundie. The episode includes topics such as why the ultimate science is the science of consciousness and how the scientific community is waking up to this understanding, how the divide between science and spirituality is completely artificial, and how we can use AI in the pursuit of truth and love. They also discuss why the real point of interest is the hard problem of matter, not the hard problem of consciousness, and they...
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Episode 76: Swami Sarvapriyananda (Moderated by Bill Free)
Rupert Spira Podcast
In this episode Rupert speaks with the head of the Vedanta Society of New York, Swami Sarvapriyananda. The dialogue is taken from the Awake in Stillness: The End of Dreaming Conference and is moderated by Bill Free from The Centre for Awakening. The conversation touches on many topics related to Advaita Vedanta, such as the Progressive Path, the Direct Path and the Pathless Path, the process of awakening, and what life is like after realisation. They also discuss free will, seeing the true reality behind all appearances, the nature of awareness, and they talk about how we can stay grounded...
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Episode 75: Colet House (Episode 1)
Rupert Spira Podcast
The first in a series of curated conversations from gatherings with Rupert at Colet House in London, this episode begins with a meditation and includes dialogues on coping with depression, dealing with challenging people and circumstances, and understanding feelings of existential dread. Other subjects include what it means to embody being, how to effortlessly remain with being, and how the thought ‘I am’ is different from all other thoughts.
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Episode 74: André Duqum
Rupert Spira Podcast
This discussion with André Duqum from the ‘Know Thyself’ podcast delves deeply into non-duality, different types of meditation, and the essence of our true nature. Rupert also offers practical guidance on how we can cultivate a deeper connection to our true self by challenging habitual beliefs and thoughts, shows us how we can explore being through self-enquiry and explains how our innate longing for happiness shapes our experience.
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Episode 73: Tami Simon
Rupert Spira Podcast
In this episode Rupert speaks with founder and CEO of Sounds True, Tami Simon, about how we may realise lasting happiness, whether we should value both being and becoming, and how to remain at peace amidst turmoil. They also discuss Rupert’s idea of original ADD (awareness deficit disorder), absolute and relative levels of truth, and the Buddhist phrase ‘original face’.
info_outlineIn this latest episode, Rupert takes part in a riveting debate on consciousness with Bernardo Kastrup (scientist) and Christof Koch (neuroscientist), hosted by the Oxford Psychedelic Society.
With such a vast scientific and non-dual knowledge between them, this fascinating conversation delves into many aspects of consciousness and the nature of reality, including: awareness and the human mind; phenomenal consciousness; reductionism; idealism; Integrated Information Theory (IIT); meta and artificial consciousness; and psychedelics.