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Awareness Explorers

Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
Awareness Explorers
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  • Awareness Explorers

    214: Approaches to Spiritual Growth

    05/06/2026 | 1 h
    Awareness Explorers episode 214: Approaches to Spiritual Growth
    In this episode, we discuss different models of spiritual growth, exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each, and sharing our personal experiences across multiple approaches, including books, coaching, religion, satsang, peer support, AI chatbots, retreats, 12-step programs, YouTube teachings, transmissions, communes, and workshops.
    • Includes a guided meditation helping you to intuitively assess which models might be most suitable for your personal spiritual journey.
    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.
    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/
    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z
    Or on our Awareness Explorers website: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations
    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    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 
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and 
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/
    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n
    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

    Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash
  • Awareness Explorers

    213: Eric Zimmer Guest Explorer

    22/05/2026 | 1 h 16 min
    Awareness Explorers episode 213: Eric Zimmer Guest Explorer
    In this episode we talk to Eric Zimmer, host of the podcast, "The One You Feed," about his new book, How a Little Becomes a Lot: The Art of Small Changes for a More Meaningful Life, his approach to personal transformation combining both inner spiritual practices and outer behavioral changes, and how to balance both acceptance and change. We also discussed the importance of community and social connections in spiritual development.
    • Includes a guided meditation from Eric moving us through three different modes of experience—body sensations, sounds, and breathing—and then noticing them at the same time, and letting the three merge into one field of awareness.
    To learn more about Eric Zimmer, please visit: 
    https://www.oneyoufeed.net/

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.
    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/
    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z
    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations
    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    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 
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and 
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/
    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n
    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian
  • Awareness Explorers

    212: Life Force

    08/05/2026 | 51 min
    Awareness Explorers episode 212: Life Force
    In this episode Jonathan and Brian explore the nature of life force energy, two paths to access the life force, and possible obstacles to its full expression.
    • Includes a guided meditation focusing on how we can get out of its way and allow the universal life force to express itself through our temporary form with all of its talents, gifts, abilities, and limitations.
    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.
    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/
    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z
    Or on our Awareness Explorers website: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations
    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    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 
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and 
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/
    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n
    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

    Photo by Juan Cruz Mountford on Unsplash
  • Awareness Explorers

    211: Salvadore Poe, Guest Explorer

    24/04/2026 | 1 h 13 min
    Awareness Explorers episode 211: Salvadore Poe, Guest Explorer
    In this episode we talk to Salvadore Poe, a spiritual teacher and author who shared his journey from rock musician to spiritual awakening, and described his concept of "having a holiday," that is, recognizing pure being without fixing on any particular experience. The discussion covers topics including spiritual bypassing, doership, and meditation practices.
    • Includes a guided meditation leading you to relax the focus of attention, notice the movements of life, and see that what you are is not moving. This pure being at the core of all of the movement is that which never moves, and is who you essentially are.
    To learn more about Salvadore Poe, please visit:
    https://www.liberationis.com/
    Books by Salvadore Poe:
    https://www.liberationis.com/books
    Liberation IS: The End of the Spiritual Path
    The Way of Freedom: Conversations with Salvadore Poe
    Blown Wide Open: A Collection of Holidays
    The Audacity of Freedom: A Journey of Spiritual Liberation
    Discussed in this episode:
    Jnani: 
    A Sanskrit term for a wise person, sage, or "knower of the Self" within Hindu philosophy, particularly in jnana yoga, the Hindu "path of knowledge" or wisdom.
    Bhakti: 
    A Sanskrit term meaning intense love, devotion, attachment, and surrender to a personal deity or guru, often serving as a path to spiritual liberation. It is often practiced as bhakti yoga, focusing on devotion through service.
    Karma:
    Karma Yoga, or the "yoga of action," is a spiritual path focused on selfless service, purifying the heart, and reducing ego by performing duties without attachment to results.
    Shiva Shakti Amma
    https://sivasakthiammaiyar.com/
    Ajja
    https://myajja.weebly.com/
    Dolano::
    https://www.friendsofdolano.org/
    Dzogchen:
    Dzogchen, or "Great Perfection," is the highest teaching in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, focusing on recognizing the innate, radiant, and empty nature of the mind. It emphasizes that enlightenment is not a distant goal but is already inherently present and requires only recognition through effortless, non-conceptual awareness.
    I Am That book by Nisargadatta Maharaj
    https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/I-Am-That-by-Sri-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.pdf
    POK (Perfectly Okay):
    Perfectlyokay.org is the social and support center of Jeffery Martin's Finders Course alumni community,
    Tiruvannamalai and Mount Arunachala:
    Arunachala hill has been considered sacred for centuries and is located within the temple town of Tiruvannamalai, one of the most ancient heritage sites of India and the home of the Ramana Maharshi Ashram. 
     
    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.
    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/
    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z
    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations
    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    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
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/
    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n
    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian
  • Awareness Explorers

    210: The Problem of Compartmentalization

    10/04/2026 | 48 min
    Awareness Explorers episode 210: The Problem of Compartmentalization
    In this episode we explore the problem of compartmentalization and how applying spiritual awareness to some areas of life (such as meditation), but not others (such as money or relationships) creates a spiritual identity that fails to integrate shadow material, thereby inhibiting the cultivation of non-dual awareness alongside engagement in ethical, human action.
    • Includes a guided meditation helping you to visualize a challenging compartment in your life and to bring impartial witnessing to that compartment, while gaining insight into what obstacles trigger reactivity and impede your true nature.
    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.
    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/
    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z
    Or on our Awareness Explorers website: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations
    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    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 
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and 
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/
    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n
    Enjoy, 
    Jonathan and Brian
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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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