Awareness Explorers
If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience. Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor explore ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.
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179: Everything You Don’t Like is Your Guru
01/31/2025
179: Everything You Don’t Like is Your Guru
In this episode we talk about how the things in our lives that we don’t like can show us where we are resistant and attached, and can trigger new ways to transcend and learn from those daily occurrences. • Includes a guided meditation that shows us how we can hold two opposites in our minds together, for instance, pain and ease, anxiety and peace, as a way of healing resistance. 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: #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart, #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart, #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart, #6 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart, #38 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart. 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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178: Beyond the Mind and Into the Mystery
01/17/2025
178: Beyond the Mind and Into the Mystery
In this episode we explore methods for entering into a state of mystery and wonder through specific questions and contemplations. • Includes a guided meditation that uses questions to direct you into an experience of mystery, humility, and awe. 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: #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart, #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart, #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart, #6 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart, #38 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart. 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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177: Cindy Teevens, Guest Explorer
01/03/2025
177: Cindy Teevens, Guest Explorer
In this episode, we talk to Cindy Teevens, author of Alchemy, How to Feel Good No Matter What, as well as The Happiness Lie—which challenges the belief that external factors control our happiness—about her “explosion of love” experience of intense bliss and joy for no external reason, eroding the idea of separation, and leading to a profound awakening. • Includes a guided meditation that gives a taste of her “Two Minute Technique to Inner Peace,” utilizing the power of attention to shift focus from thoughts to sensory awareness. To learn more about Cindy Teevens, please visit: or And listen to her podcast, Mind Blind at: MindBlind.show 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: . #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart . #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart . #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart . #6 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart . #38 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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176: Favorite Movies and Books to Inspire
12/20/2024
176: Favorite Movies and Books to Inspire
In this episode, we share a gift bag of movies and books that have inspired us over the years and talk about how they can be powerful tools for inspiration and spiritual growth when approached with an open, receptive mindset. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Movies: Brother Sun, Sister Moon - directed by Franco Zeffirelli Resurrection (with Ellen Burstyn) - directed by Daniel Petrie Peaceful Warrior - directed by Victor Salva Harold and Maude - directed by Hal Ashby The Razor's Edge (Bill Murray version) - directed and co-written by John Byrum Waking Life - written and directed by Richard Linklater Books: The Zen Teachings of Huang Po - by John Blofeld (Translator) True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness - by Adyashanti A Search in Secret India - by Paul Brunton The Razor's Edge - by W. Somerset Maugham Being Aware of Being Aware - by Rupert Spira The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow - by Joey Green In addition, don’t forget these books: Awareness Adventures - by Brian Tom O’Connor The Enlightenment Project - by Jonathan Robinson NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart #38 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart 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. CORRECTION: The Bill Murray version of The Razor’s Edge does indeed take place during the early twentieth century, just as in the novel. To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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175: Saja Fendél, Guest Explorer
12/06/2024
175: Saja Fendél, Guest Explorer
In this episode, we talk to Saja Fendél, founder of Thought Dojo, about forgiveness, and explore practical methods for realizing unconditional happiness, and how, through a lack of resistance to experience, all experience is seen as being one with awareness. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to recognize the intimacy of our experience by showing us how all we touch and see is made of awareness. To learn more about Saja Fendél, please visit The Thought Dojo at Or his YouTube channel: Or his Instagram channel (@sajafendel): Here’s an image of the yin and yang symbol that Saja talks about 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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174: Alex Shailer, Guest Explorer
11/22/2024
174: Alex Shailer, Guest Explorer
In this episode, we talk to Alex Shailer about fully experiencing feelings as a way to release them, identifying with our true nature as consciousness, and resting as open awareness, rather than trying to forcefully cultivate positive states. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to turn our attention to direct sensory experience, inviting us to notice the “I” in thoughts while resting as open awareness itself. To learn more about Alex Shailer, please visit his website at Or his YouTube channel: Or Instagram channel (@alex_shailer): 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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173: Time, Now, and the Non-Future
11/08/2024
173: Time, Now, and the Non-Future
In this episode, we discuss the non-reality of the future and its traps that keep us from the now and obscure our true nature. • Includes a guided meditation using various methods to shift our attention from the future to the only time when awakening can be experienced: now. The Louis C.K. video mentioned in this episode: “Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS” 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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172: Colette Martin and Boris Feldman, Guest Explorers
10/25/2024
172: Colette Martin and Boris Feldman, Guest Explorers
In this episode we talk to Colette Martin and Boris Feldman about their Deepening Protocol, which guides people through progressively deeper states of fundamental well-being and awakening. The process involves sinking into present experience, letting go of resistance, and allowing deeper states to emerge naturally. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to ever deepening levels of present moment experience. To learn more about Colette Martin and Boris Feldman, please visit their website at Or visit Colette’s website at For a good description of Jeffrey Martin's Locations of Fundamental Wellbeing: or The Martin Matrix, a Comprehensive Map of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience (Enlightenment/Nondual) 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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171: The Future of Consciousness
10/11/2024
171: The Future of Consciousness
In this episode we discuss how consciousness exploration will change in the future due to emerging technologies and societal changes, and we contemplate how to know if these changes are useful or just mere distractions. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to visualize our awakened future self and how we can take steps to embody that in our current lives. 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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170: Eva Müller, Guest Explorer
09/27/2024
170: Eva Müller, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Eva Müller about her spiritual journey, her meditation techniques, and her healing transmissions. • Includes a guided meditation from Eva, focused on clearing energies and allowing more light and higher vibrations, while emphasizing relaxation, joy, and the understanding that everything is perfect as it is. To learn more about Eva Müller, please visit her websites at and 14 day-free trial: In addition, Eva offers a free Healing Group Meditation on Zoom: Also mentioned in this episode: Transcendence Technique: Partha Srinivasan is a spiritual teacher who teaches the Transcendence Technique (“TT“), channeled by Swamiji Sri Atmananda. This technique helps to clear the human system from Samskaras (karma) and helps to raise the vibration of the collective consciousness: 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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169: Remedies for Cognitive Distortions
09/13/2024
169: Remedies for Cognitive Distortions
In this episode we talk about how limited thinking patterns can be looked at, dissected, and overcome. • Includes a guided meditation providing ways to identify a cognitive distortion and come up with a rebuttal to go beyond it. 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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168: David Farmer, Guest Explorer
08/30/2024
168: David Farmer, Guest Explorer
In this episode, David Farmer talks about how Japanese culture, including archery, led to spiritual insight, and his further explorations with David Bingham that led to his realization of our true nature and effortless being. • Includes a guided meditation showing us how looking at every aspect of our experience can lead us to the direct realization of effortlessness and what it is to simply be. To learn more about David Farmer, please visit his website at Or his YouTube channel at 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: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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167: Negative Thought Patterns
08/16/2024
167: Negative Thought Patterns
In this episode we talk about patterns that keep our thinking locked in mental stories and keep us from present moment awakening. • Includes a guided meditation providing ways to ask questions that challenge our thinking and put thought in a wider perspective. 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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166: Walter Dennison, Guest Explorer
08/02/2024
166: Walter Dennison, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Walter Dennison about his experiences with diving into the center of emotions in order to let go of resistance and open a doorway to unveiled reality. • Includes a guided meditation that uses your feeling-imagination to scan first for your non-existent separate self, and then for old emotional energy being kept in your body. To learn more about Walter's Meetup group, please visit the "Rupert Spira NY Non-Duality Group" on Meetup: 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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165: Positive Psychology and Awakening
07/19/2024
165: Positive Psychology and Awakening
In this episode we compare and contrast the techniques of positive psychology with the techniques of nondual awareness practices. • Includes a guided meditation that focuses on raising one's vibration through gratitude in order to relax into pure beingness. Books or authors mentioned in this episode: by Jonathan Robinson By Tal Ben-Shahar By Tal Ben-Shahar By Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D. 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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164: What to Do When You're Triggered
07/05/2024
164: What to Do When You're Triggered
In this episode we talk about what triggers you, what we normally do with triggers, and seven ways to make good use of them on the path to awakening. • Includes a guided meditation to use when you are triggered involving allowing the arrow of love to crack open your defensive armor and awaken the love in your heart. 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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163: Seye Kuyinu, Guest Explorer
06/21/2024
163: Seye Kuyinu, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Seye Kuyinu about his book, This Glorious Dance: Contemplations About Who We Are, as well as about questions that explore our true nature, and a variety of topics such as anxiety, hypnotism, and contemplative practice. • Includes a guided meditation, based on a Gurdjieff practice, helping us to awaken a sense of aliveness in each body part, while at the same time allowing that part to be the full container for attention. To learn more about Seye Kuyinu, please visit… and And you can read his book, This Glorious Dance: Contemplations About Who We Are, On or listen on . 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart, #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart, #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart, #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart, #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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162: What Makes a Good Human Being?
06/07/2024
162: What Makes a Good Human Being?
In this episode we explore what it means to be a really good human and the various factors and approaches that help create inspiring people. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to envision and embody who you would like to become. DISCLAIMER: The quote from Albert Einstein, reputed to have been from a letter written to his daughter, is now considered to be a fabrication, but whoever wrote it, it's such a profound sentiment, and so germane to our topic, that we decided to leave it in. For more information, see: and 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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161: Paul Austin, Guest Explorer
05/24/2024
161: Paul Austin, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Paul Austin about microdosing psychedelic substances to enhance productivity, mood, and spiritual awaking, and how these altered states can be transformed into altered traits. • Includes a guided meditation using breathing and present moment awareness to tap into deeper beingness. To learn more about Paul Austin, please visit: Twitter & Instagram: @paulaustin3w And check out his book, Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life on . And if you're interested in the extended practitioner training program, 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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160: How to Quiet Your Mind Part 2
05/10/2024
160: How to Quiet Your Mind Part 2
In the second episode of this two-part exploration, Jonathan describes his favorite methods to quiet the mind and how he often uses them in a particular order for deepening quiet within himself. • Includes a guided meditation in which you are led into ever deepening levels of silence through a series of mind quieting methods. 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: #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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159: How to Quiet Your Mind Part 1
04/26/2024
159: How to Quiet Your Mind Part 1
In the first episode of this two-part exploration, Brian describes three different approaches to freeing ourselves from the grip of thought and runs through his favorite methods in each category. • Includes a guided meditation offering various examples of the three basic approaches to quieting the mind. 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 : #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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158: Rastal, Guest Explorer
04/12/2024
158: Rastal, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Rastal about his journey from trauma and depression to fundamental wellbeing, his experience with a method from Jeffery Martin's Finder's Course, as well as how he navigates the many different levels of fundamental wellbeing, bringing it to the foreground of our experience. • Includes a guided meditation for sinking into one's direct experience as a vehicle for deepening into various levels fundamental wellbeing. To learn more about Rastal, please visit: Other sites mentioned in this episode: The Fundamental Wellbeing Foundation Jeffery Martin, The Finders Course, etc.: The Finders book: 45 Days to Awakening Course: For a good description of Jeffrey Martin's Locations of Fundamental Wellbeing: or The Martin Matrix, a Comprehensive Map of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience (Enlightenment/Nondual) 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: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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157: Karen Thorson, Guest Explorer
03/29/2024
157: Karen Thorson, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Karen Thorson about the interplay between health, pain, worry, responsibility, and being present with what is, as well as using the body for direct experiencing, and our unique paths among the various modalities for continuous explorations. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to feel the vast fullness of breath, and the field in and around our bodies, bigger than our skin, connected with everything, expanding with life, wellness, and joy. To learn more about Karen Thorson, please visit: Other sites mentioned in this episode: Epienergetics: Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Jeffery Martin, The Finders Course, etc.: The Finders book: 45 Days to Awakening Course: For a good description of Jeffrey Martin's Locations of Fundamental Wellbeing: or The Martin Matrix, a Comprehensive Map of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience (Enlightenment/Nondual): ~~~~~~~~~~ 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: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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156: The Downsides of Awakening
03/15/2024
156: The Downsides of Awakening
In this episode we explore the potential drawbacks of our spiritual journey, and how awareness of these drawbacks can help us to sidestep them. • Includes a guided meditation in which we acknowledge potential challenges that arise in awaking, and how we can accept and allow them with compassion. 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: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on Unsplash
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155: Judith Blackstone, Guest Explorer, Part 2
03/01/2024
155: Judith Blackstone, Guest Explorer, Part 2
In this episode, we talk to Judith Blackstone about her new book, The Fullness of the Ground, different approaches to nonduality, and inhabiting the body as a way to connect to Fundamental Consciousness and the ground of being. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to connect the space of our body with the environment, allowing us to experience both as the same space. 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. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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154: Free Will and Non-Doership
02/16/2024
154: Free Will and Non-Doership
In this episode we delve into the practical use of thinking that we have free will and the liberating implications of imaging that we do not. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to imagine the consequences to your view of the world if you do not have free will and are not the doer. 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: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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153: A Sense of Mission
02/02/2024
153: A Sense of Mission
In this episode, we talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks to aligning with and pursuing a sense of mission. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to remember past moments of purposefulness, and to create a guiding sense of mission for the upcoming year. 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: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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152: Rosalyn Rourke, Guest Explorer
01/19/2024
152: Rosalyn Rourke, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Rosalyn Rourke about her book, When Wisdom Arrives, the Enneagram, how to deal with feelings, and using more relatable terms that are not spiritual jargon to help people reduce suffering. • Includes a guided meditation allowing us to reframe an upsetting experience in light of eight basic emotions, thereby going beyond emotional thought loops and imagined unworthiness. To learn more about Rosalyn Rourke, please visit: And to sign up for her Glimpses, 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: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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151: Identification and Disidentification
01/05/2024
151: Identification and Disidentification
In this episode we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both identification and disidentification, and when it’s appropriate to use each in daily life and in our spiritual practice. • Includes a guided meditation that helps us notice that what we hear and what we feel are simply appearances in the larger field of awareness. 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: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by on
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150: Sid Friedman, Guest Explorer
12/22/2023
150: Sid Friedman, Guest Explorer
In this episode we talk to Sid Friedman about how his technique—Effortless IFS—grew out of Internal Family Systems, and how we can heal contractions and life difficulties while celebrating the fulfillment inherent in our nature. • Includes a guided meditation using music to help us experience the causeless joy that is ever-present. To learn more about Sid Friedman, please visit: For Sid’s Effortless IFS YouTube page, please visit: Or on Facebook: IFS Nondual Community Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: The audiobook version of Jonathan’s new book, is now out! Also available in Kindle and Paperback. Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 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 and You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian
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