Alan talks about his life and his work. Having been adopted by Catholic Nuns at an early age he started to find his way when he discovered Carl Rogers and Encounter Groups. He describes his awakening: "I disappeared into the most brilliant oneness in the whole of existence. All the boundaries dissolved". Alan worked at the Community Centre in London before going to Poona and becoming a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later Osho). At this time he becomes known as Rajen and ran Encounter groups before moving on to the Rajneesh ranch in Oregon. In this interview, Alan reflects on his time with Bhagwan/Osho and talks about 'The Art Of Being.'

The Art Of Being

Alan Lowen - The Art Of Being

Adyashanti is author of several books including, 'Emptiness Dancing' 'Falling Into Grace' and 'The End Of Your World.' In this interview he talks in detail about his years as a Zen meditator; life as a top athlete; his two significant awakenings; the obstacles he discovered in the way, and the nature of illusion.

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Adyashanti - Awakening

Author of many books including, 'A Thousand Names For Joy', 'Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life' and 'Who Would You Be Without Your Story? Byron Katie is the creator of 'The Work'. Here she talks about her life and how she sees reality. She says: 'Stay in the place you are not creating the illusion. Stay in the I AM.' 'I am the awareness of Consciousness observing itself'.

Byron Katie - The Story Of The One

Ex-punk band bass player and author of several books including 'Hardcore Zen' 'Sit Down And Shut Up' and 'Zen Wrapped In Karma Dipped in Chocolate', Brad explains that 'If you question everything thoroughly enough, the truth will eventually hit you upside the head and you will KNOW. But here's a warning: It won't be what you imagined. It won't even be close.'

Brad Warner - Hardcore Zen

Billy is a Spiritual Teacher and Yoga Teacher in the Kashmir Tradition, and author of the book "The Mirage of Separation". He had a strong spiritual orientation early in life and started to explore non-dualistic teachings in his twenties. He met Jean Klein, a master of Advaita and Yoga who became his teacher for 14 years. He practiced 'Art of Listening' and self-inquiry and then one day, while on a silent retreat, "all identification with a separate Entity dissolved" and he then knew himself as Silence.

Billy Doyle - The Mirage Of Separation

In the Vietnam War a mortar landed nearby that blew Bart into a clear and brilliant blackness that, "Felt like home. I would have gladly stayed in that blackness, but instead I was brought back into a world I could no longer view in the same way." When he returned in 1968 he experimented with LSD, read everything he could find that might offer clues to what had happened to him, studied meditation and attended workshops. After 20 years he hit a wall as a seeker and then met the teacher Richard Rose whom he studied with for 5 years. It was after a weekend with Douglas Harding that a breakthrough finally happened. "Being the source of everything that is nothing - everything and nothing, only this emptiness."

Bart Marshall - Only This Emptiness

Author of 14 books including 'An Awakening Life,' 'Light On Enlightenment', 'Transforming Our Life' and 'Inner Calm', Christopher talks about his life including his time as a Buddhist monk in Thailand. Part of that time was spent living in a cave in the mountains. He explains what he calls, 'the new way of being a human being' and the 'Four Noble Truths.'

Christopher Titmuss - An Awakening Life

Neuroscientist and author of 'Making Up The Mind - How the Brain Creates Our Mental World' talks about how experimental studies have shown that the brain creates our mental world. 'The distinction between the mental and physical is false; it is an illusion created by the brain which also creates the illusion that our own mental world is isolated and private. Our perception of the World is a fantasy that coincides with reality.'

Chris Frith - Making Up The Mind

Joe is probably best known for his appearances in the successful film, 'What The Bleep Do We Know?'. He also wrote the highly regarded book, "Evolve Your Brain". In this interview Joe talks in detail about his accident when he was in his early 20s which changed his life. He was a successful chiropractor in California when he was knocked off his bike by a truck in the middle of a triathlon race. Faced with the only 'cure' conventional medicine could offer him that would have involved a life of pain and restriction of movement in his back, he chose to ignore this advice and find his own way to healing. Joe has spent decades studying the human mind, how it stores information and why it perpetuates the same behavioural patterns over and over.

Dr Joe Dispenza - The Science Of Changing Your Mind

David is an Artist and had his first experience of the timeless realm when looking at a painting by David Hockney when studying art in Art School. The highest purpose of art is to reveal the Self. He demonstrates how art can lead to Self-Realisation without the need for spiritual beliefs or practices and shows examples of paintings which can activate the experience of silence and stillness in the viewer. He also talks about the acceleration of the Evolution of Consciousness and that Self-Realisation is happening now on a much larger scale. The idea of a dramatic shift is receding and that clear seeing and acceptance of one's ever present Realisation is all that is required.

David Bingham - Art And Self Realisation

The sixth programme in a new series about the Enneagram and the 9 different personality types. Here type 5 is discussed in detail.

Enneagram Type 5 - The Observer Discussion

The seventh programme in our series on the Enneagram. Three 8's talk about themselves and their lives.

Enneagram Type 8 - The Challenger Discussion

The fifth programme in a new series about the Enneagram and the 9 different personality types. Here type 9 is discussed in detail.

Enneagram Type 9 - The Mediator Discussion

There is often a reluctance for those who have attained a level of awakening to be interested in worldly concerns. The planet is rapidly approaching a man-made crisis. Do we care? What does being awake mean on a practical basis when it comes to our custodianship of the planet?

Elisabet Sahtouris, Will Pye And Jeff Warren - So, Now We Are Awake, Are We Going To Save The Planet

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an evolution biologist, futurist, author, speaker and consultant on Living Systems Design. Showing the relevance of evolving biological systems to organizational design, she travels as a speaker in North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Dr Sahtouris is a citizen of the United States and of Greece, with a Canadian Ph.D. She did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, taught at the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T., was a science writer for the HORIZON/NOVA TV series. She was invited to China by the Chinese National Science Association, organized Earth Celebrations 2000 in Athens, Greece and has been a United Nations consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a participant in the Humanity 3000 dialogues of the Foundation for the Future, the Synthesis Dialogues with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and consults with corporations and government organizations in Australia, Brazil and the USA. Her books include "Biology Revisioned", "A Walk Through Time" and "EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution". She uses nature's principles and practices revealed in biological evolution, as useful models for organizational change. She applies them in the corporate world, in global politics and economics, in our efforts to create sustainable health and well being for humanity within the larger living systems of Earth.

Dr Elisabet Sahtouris - Earth Dance

Eli's spiritual path started in 1971, when he was a federal fugitive during the Vietnam war. In 1978, Kalu Rinpoche appointed him the president of the first Kagyu dharma centre in Marin County. In 1982, he was presented with a Zen Teaching Fan at ChoShoJi Zen Temple in Japan. After a search took him around the world and into many traditions and practices, his path and his search ended when he was pulled to India in 1990, where he met his final teacher, Sri H.W.L. Poonja. Confirming Eli's realization, his teacher sent him back into the world to share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering in support of self-realization. Eli infuses the teaching with his teacher's living transmission of silence. He presents a unique map of egoic identification as a vehicle for ruthless self-inquiry and final realization of true freedom. He dedicates his life to passing on the transmission of his teacher. Eli currently meets people and teaches through the Leela Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal self-realization. He is the author of "Sudden Awakening into Direct Realization" (New World Library), "The Enneagram of Liberation: From Fixation to Freedom" (Gangaji Foundation Press), and he is the editor of Wake Up and Roar: Satsang with H.W.L. Poonja

Eli Jaxon Bear - Wake Up!

Author of 'Liberation From The Lie - Cutting The Roots Of Fear Once And For All' Eric talks very candidly about his search for freedom. He learnt that the 'fear-self' is at the root of our difficulty to free ourselves and feels that his book is a 'liberation manual' containing the keys to deconstructing ourselves. 'The World is in crisis and we are in crisis.'

Eric Gross - Liberation From The Lie

Former Blondie bass player (then known as Gary Valentine) and author of several books including "New York Rocker", "A Secret History Of Consciousness", "Turn Off Your Mind" and "Jung The Mystic"

Gary Lachman - My Journey From Blondie To Jung

Gangaji shares a simple message: 'This is an invitation to shift your allegiance from the activities of your mind to the eternal presence of your being'. Born in Texas in 1942, Gangaji grew up in Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1964, she married and had a daughter. In 1972, she moved to San Francisco where she began exploring deeper levels of her being. She took Bodhisattva vows, practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, helped run a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center, and had a career as an acupuncturist in the San Francisco Bay area. Despite her successes, Gangaji continued to experience a deep and persistent longing for fulfilment. She pursued many paths to change her life including relationship, motherhood, political activism, career, and spiritual practice, but even the greatest of her successes ultimately came up short. In the wake of her disillusionment, she made a final prayer for true help. In 1990, the answer to her prayer came unexpectedly, taking her to India and to the meeting that would change everything. There on the banks of the river Ganga, she met Sri H.W.L. Poonja, also known as Papaji, who opened the floodgates of self-recognition. In this meeting, Gangaji's personal story of suffering ended and the promise of a true life began to flower and unfold. Today, Gangaji travels the world speaking to seekers from all walks of life. A teacher and author, she shares her direct experience of the essential message she received from Papaji and offers it to all who want to discover true and lasting fulfilment. Through her life and work, she powerfully articulates how it is really possible to discover the truth of who you are and to be true to that discovery.

Gangaji - The End Of The Story

Author of the book, Molecular Consciousness: Why The Universe Is Aware Of Our Presence, Francoise studied for many years with Colette Aboulker-Muscat and works as a researcher in Chemistry for the Hebrew University. She says, 'According to science we are all victims of a fantastic sensory illusion. In quantum mechanics any particle of matter behaves like a solid body in some cases and like waves in other cases. This depends on the observer. We and everything around us are only waves, waves of probabilities, and when interacting with this very sophisticated device called our brain, these waves are reduced to certainty, a certainty WE choose.'

Francoise Tibika - Molecular Consciousness

People have always loved sitting and sharing in the presence of an awakened human being and experiencing that tender beingness. For about 7 years Florian has travelled around the world inviting seekers to recognize in their own experience who they really are and to live as an embodiment of truth in everyday life. In his unmistakable manner he embraces the daily and simple life that he is sharing with a constantly increasing number of 'friends of truth', as he calls all those being interested. Again and again visitors of meetings tell of spontaneous awakening, of an all penetrating silence, of simple clarity and presence and of overflowing love and gratitude which they experience in Florian presence. With both legs firmly rooted in normal everyday life and at the same time in the heart deeply connected with Ramana Maharshi, Papaji, Jiddu Krishnamurti and his teacher and friend Isaac Shapiro, Florian speaks and is silent, laughs and cries, is present with everyone who would love to savour the truth of awareness. In this interviews Florian talks about relationships and how this has impacted his life.

Florian Schlosser - Consciousness And Relationships

Faisal Muqaddam is the originator of the Diamond Logos teachings. He is a psycho-spiritual teacher and a trained Reichan and bioenergetics therapist. He has been teaching for the last 35 years in the USA, Middle East and Europe. In this interview we explore the concept of 'the family hole' and how the child develops his personality structure based on what's psychologically 'missing' in the family. Also we explore the essential states of each type and which organs in our body are related to its ennea-type.

Faisal Muqaddam - The Essential Enneagram As A Spiritual Path To Awakening

Author of 'Lucid Dreaming - Gateway To The Inner Self', Robert talks about his early dream experiences and how he discovered Lucid Dreaming after reading Carlos Castaneda. He quantifies the scientific evidence that now exists on this subject and explains why he feels that Lucid Dreaming is a revolutionary tool to explore the actual nature of reality. It can clearly show shadow issues and the limiting nature of self-attachments and may lead to an experience of non-dual awareness. He says: "Something pre-exists the sense of self. The making of the 'I' is a mistaken perception, the source of a whole series of errors."

Robert Waggoner - Lucid Dreaming

Rupert has appeared on conscious.tv several times before and we very much value his wisdom and clarity. He has two new books coming out on Non-Duality Press this Autumn entitled, 'Presence: The Seamless Intimacy Of Experience' and 'Presence: The Art Of Peace And Happiness' These two deep, intimate interviews are great trailers for these two books.

Rupert Spira - The Journey Into Presence

Rupert is a renowned ceramic artist whose book "Bowl" was published in 2004. He works from his studio in Shropshire, England, and has his work exhibited regularly in many prestigious galleries. He is also an advaita teacher and his book on this subject "The Transparency of Things" is available on Non-Duality Press. In this interview Chris Hebard reads quotes from "Bowl" and encourages Rupert to explain in a great deal of depth his feelings about the connections between art and consciousness.

Rupert Spira - Art And Consciousness

Rupert Spira - The Seamless Intimacy Of Experience

'The Open Secret communication can only point to the simple wonders of being, and attempt to illuminate the futility of seeking for it. It does not accept or reject the teachings of spiritual path or process but it will expose, without compromise, the singular and fundamental misconception that drives the belief that there is something called a seeker that needs to find something else called enlightenment. The Open Secret does not compromise with the needs and expectations of the seeker. Neither does it attempt to attract or please with promises of an easy and pleasant experience of liberation. Who could promise that, and who would experience it? Because the idea of individual free will and choice is seen as an illusory dream, there is no agenda or intention to help or change individuality. As far as the apparent individual is concerned, there is nothing for sale here.' Tony talks here about Non-Duality and his early life and experiences. He is the author of several books including, "As It Is: The Open Secret of Spiritual Awakening" and "Invitation To Awaken: Embracing Our Natural State Of Presence".

Tony Parsons - The Open Secret

Tom Condon, author of The Dynamic Enneagram and of How to See Enneagram Styles in the Movies, combines in his trainings his knowledge of the Enneagram, Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP to bring about change. Tom has also produced over 50 DVD's and CD's. In this interview we go deeper into the exploration of what other factors, besides our Enneagram type, influence our patterns of behaviour in how we relate to people and to our world. We explore parental points, the Enneagram style of the family, the subtypes and much more. Tom says: "As you apply what you learn to your life, you might remind yourself that an Enneagram style is more than the sum of someone's visible behaviour. The Enneagram describes the inner strategies that drive behaviour. It's not what people do, it's why they do it".

Tom Condon - The Enneagram And Relationships

Author of 'The Dynamic Enneagram - How To Work with your personality style to truly grow and change.' Tom explains how the Enneagram is an inner map of what we have learnt, but it is incomplete. It offers many clues to out truth strengths and can greatly help us improve our communications with others and our relationships. It is a springboard for change. We are in a deep trance, only perceiving a fraction of reality. We are living the story of our lives rather than our actual lives. The Enneagram can be an invaluable vehicle to help us wake up to who we really are.

Tom Condon - Living With The Dynamic Enneagram

Author of 21 works talks about his latest book, 'Teach Us To Be Still' a fascinating biographical tale about how he eventually cured himself of a long standing physical pain and through this discovered Vipassana meditation.

Tim Parks - Teach Us To Sit Still

Tim is a passionate and entertaining voice for our collective awakening, whose enthusiasm for life is contagious. He's clear, irreverent, down-to-earth and not remotely interested in setting himself up as some sort of 'guru'. His controversial books and animated live performances have inspired many thousands of people throughout the world. He has an honours degree in philosophy and is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality. He has spent his life exploring the expanded state of consciousness he calls 'the magical mystery experience' or being 'deep awake' or 'lucid living' and he has a unique talent for helping others to experience this amazing state for themselves. He is the author of over twenty books that have established his reputation as a groundbreaking scholar and original free-thinker. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Christian Gnosticism with his close friend Peter Gandy, including "The Jesus Mysteries", which was a top 10 best-seller in the UK and USA, and a 'Book of the Year' in the UK Daily Telegraph. Tim is the founder of The Alliance for Lucid Living and on the board of advisors for Team Humanity; organisations dedicated to our collective awakening. He is often featured in documentary films and chat shows broadcast by the global media such as the BBC and the History Channel. In this interview he talks about the importance of meditation practice in his life and finishes with a short meditation.

Tim Freke - Lucid Living Meditation

Tim is a passionate and entertaining voice for our collective awakening, whose enthusiasm for life is contagious. He's clear, irreverent, down-to-earth and not remotely interested in setting himself up as some sort of 'guru'. His controversial books and animated live performances have inspired many thousands of people throughout the world. He has an Honours Degree in philosophy and is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality. He has spent his life exploring the expanded state of consciousness he calls 'the magical mystery experience' or being 'deep awake' or 'lucid living' and he has a unique talent for helping others to experience this amazing state for themselves. He is the author of over twenty books that have established his reputation as a groundbreaking scholar and original free-thinker. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Christian Gnosticism with his close friend Peter Gandy, including "The Jesus Mysteries", which was a top 10 best-seller in the UK and USA, and a 'Book of the Year' in the UK Daily Telegraph. Tim is the founder of The Alliance for Lucid Living and on the board of advisors for Team Humanity; organisations dedicated to our collective awakening. He is often featured in documentary films and chat shows broadcast by the global media such as the BBC and the History Channel. In this interview he talks about his realisations, awakenings and how he integrated these in his life. His new book is called "How Long Is Now" and is the basis for the interview.

Tim Freke - How Long Is Now

Theodore (Ted) is author of 'Instinctual Intelligence - The Primal Wisdom Of The Nervous System and The Evolution of Human Nature.' He discusses here how we are all, to some extent, affected by trauma and addiction which keep us bound to our personalities. By understanding that process we can move beyond this and open to the bigger picture of who we really are.

Theodore Usatynski - Instinctual Intelligence – Part 2

Theodore (Ted) is author of 'Instinctual Intelligence - The Primal Wisdom Of The Nervous System and The Evolution of Human Nature.' He talks about how Instinctual Intelligence reveals the hidden dimensions of our most personal experiences. It is a comprehensive resource for the newest pathways for harnessing the innate energy of our basic biological programing - the next stage of human evolution.

Theodore Usatynski - Instinctual Intelligence – Part 1

Theodore Usatynski - Breath Meditation

Founder of the retreats 'Gathering Essence: The Master Game', Tez takes us through his life. After years of struggle and alienation he started to find his way through studying the Daoyin system, The I Ching, Meditation and Qi Gong. After a series of openings which 'permanently re-opened the Universal Field' of his consciousness, Tez spent time developing and understanding the meditative process and cultivating the potential of the life force and its field. He says: 'The communion of body-mind and spirit with the Universal Field brings us into the effortless awareness of Wu Wei and leaves us standing at the doorway to the Absolute, to boundless Wholeness.'

Tez Sawicki - The Master Game

Fear of death through an experience when she was only eight, set Tess off on a journey to find the meaning of life. After 30 years of inquiry into her mind and experience she woke up to find there was NO SELF. From reading the work of Saint Teresa of Avila and through her personal experience, Tess has come to see that the most difficult obstacle on one's own path is the overcoming of self-esteem. She also believes that taking full responsibility for your own Awakening will set us free.

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