Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Why is Growing Up as Important as Waking Up?

Send us Fan Mail This podcast opens with a description of the human stages of development or Growing Up, from caveman to enlightened sage. The hosts make the point that

What is the Witness and Where Does it Go in Non-Duality?

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes the Witness as pure consciousness, the background that always is in all states of awareness. In the conventional waking state, we are

Inner Work After Awakening

Send us Fan Mail “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”—the third Chinese patriarch of Zen. Today Neil describes the role of preferences, l

Exploring Higher States of Emotion

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes the higher emotions that arose before and after his awakening: well-being in the physical and subtle bodies, nectar in the mouth, bl

Where am I? The Awakened GPS

Send us Fan Mail What is the location of an awakened consciousness that is beyond space/time? How do we situate ourselves in space when the dualities of local/nonlocal o

Waking Up to the One Life of Everything Everywhere

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes an overview of his journey from psychic intuition to the Knower, to the Traveler beyond space/time, to the dissolution of subject/obj

Dr. Neil Responds to Listener Questions

Send us Fan Mail Podcast listeners have posted some interesting questions to us: What is the difference between your Knower and the arrogance of a know-it-all? Is there

Dr. Neil’s Experience of Many Kinds of Emptiness

Send us Fan Mail "Form is emptiness; emptiness is form." This adage from the Heart Sutra describes non-dual reality in Buddhist terms: all form is basically empty, that

Enlightened Perception: Expanding the Senses in the Subtle Bodies

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes how, since his unity with everything has stabilized, the sensory perceptions of his astral, mental, and celestial bodies have clarifi

Varieties of Non-dual Higher States

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes several states of consciousness beyond ego – pleasure, well-being, joy, ecstasy, and radiance. He explains that they exist as eternal

Dr. Neil Recalls Past Lives: His Soul’s Journey Beyond Death

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes soul awareness as a stage that emerged for him after his awakening to non-duality. He recalls six past lives (one that includes Me),

Freedom from I, Me, Mine

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil explores the development of a separate identity as a necessary step in evolution as part of the heroic ego’s journey. Then he describes current

Expanding Nonduality to the Astral Body and Astral Plane

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil explores several ways to access the astral plane. He describes a recent experience in which his astral body became transparent and infinite, li

Awakening and Transcending the Linear Timeline

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes the conventional experience of time -- past, present, future -- as the ego’s time. But he suggests that this is a mental construct be

Morality is Different in Different Levels of Consciousness

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil explores human evolution from caveman, to tribal, to individual, to heart-centered levels of consciousness. Each stage has its own moral/immora

Mapping the Expansion of Consciousness in the Context of Our Relationship

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes the role of physical, emotional, and mental separateness with me, his wife, as a foundation for the expansion of consciousness. He su

How Consciousness Woke Me Up

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neil describes his personal journey of awakening from a past life to this rebirth, young age, teachers and guides, practices, and life circumstances

Awakening and Health from the Soul’s Point of View

Send us Fan Mail Who is healthy? Who is ill? As the individual human soul leaves the divine source and incarnates in a body/mind, it carries the influence of several kin

Awakening and Attachment to Family and Friends

Send us Fan Mail What is attachment, and how does it evolve? Dr. Neil describes the nature of attachment when we identify as egos, as souls, and as Spirit or pure consci

Non-Dual Action, Karma Yoga, and Service as a Path

Send us Fan Mail Every great spiritual tradition teaches about sacred service. Dr. Neil points out that service is structured in consciousness. We can take action and se