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Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Connie Zweig

26 episodes

3 days ago

Send us a text Dr. Neil describes the role of physical, emotional, and mental separateness with me, his wife, as a foundation for the expansion of consciousness. He suggests that the divine manifests separate people and objects to experience itself in infinite ways. He explores the experience of emptiness as his essential nature and how it shapes his personal love, our love, and non-dual love without an object. The balance between separateness/independence and unity/Oneness is a tricky issue ...

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Send us a text Dr. Neil describes the role of physical, emotional, and mental separateness with me, his wife, as a foundation for the expansion of consciousness. He suggests that the divine manifests separate people and objects to experience itself in infinite ways. He explores the experience of emptiness as his essential nature and how it shapes his personal love, our love, and non-dual love without an object. The balance between separateness/independence and unity/Oneness is a tricky issue ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Episodes (20/26)

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

How Consciousness Woke Me Up

Send us a text Dr. Neil describes his personal journey of awakening from a past life to this rebirth, young age, teachers and guides, practices, and life circumstances. He emphasizes that his journey is not monastic; it’s a householder becoming a full human being and using what life offers as his spiritual curriculum.

2 weeks ago

25 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Awakening and Health from the Soul’s Point of View

Send us a text 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 kinds of karma: individual karma from lifetimes, group karma, and the collective karma of humanity (as we witnessed in the pandemic). It’s also influenced by genes, environment, and lifestyle choices. Dr. Neil explores the interconnections of health, longevity, and consciousness.

1 month ago

24 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Awakening and Attachment to Family and Friends

Send us a text 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 consciousness. Is non-attachment the goal of spiritual practice? He explores the experience of attachment while living in non-dual states and duality at the same time.

1 month ago

32 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

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

Send us a text Every great spiritual tradition teaches about sacred service. Dr. Neil points out that service is structured in consciousness. We can take action and serve others from an ego level, with attachment to the outcome and to our own needs, such as in transactional relationships. We can act and serve at a soul level, with deeper compassion and less attachment, but still within duality. And we can act or serve with a non-dual level of consciousness, in which subject and object disappe...

2 months ago

27 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

The Non-Dual Body

Send us a text Dr. Neil describes his discovery of the nonduality of empty mind, empty body, empty cosmos, as he transcended three kinds of apparent duality: body-mind, self-other, and individual-cosmos. This episode is focused on the latter, as he perceives the planets in his body, the macrocosm in the microcosm—as above so below. And he calls the cosmos a giant empty body that enfolds an infinity of empty bodies, like our own, all arising and dissolving together.

2 months ago

18 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Dr. Neil shares His Practice of Inquiry

Send us a text Demonstrating the Inquiry practice of the Diamond Approach, Dr. Neil moves into the present moment and articulates his experience as his consciousness expands from his local identity in the body outward to the solar system and the galaxy, as he perceives it, then unifies with it. His awareness moves from dualistic to non-dual realities as he inquires into the nature of the microcosm and the macrocosm and their intimate connection.

3 months ago

16 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Aging into Awakening

Send us a text Dr. Neil explores spirituality through the lifespan in the context of the new longevity. Is it important to build an ego before transcending an ego? Is it important to earn money, build relationships, and contribute to society before practicing meditation? What is the ideal age to begin a spiritual practice? What are the risks of starting too early and skipping developmental stages? What is the purpose of later life according to most spiritual traditions?

3 months ago

28 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Does Suffering Change with Awakening?

Send us a text Dr. Neil explores the nature of suffering as it is experienced in dualistic and non-dual levels of consciousness. He points to identification and attachment as two roots of physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. And he describes his own experience while speaking during the podcast with a headache.

4 months ago

29 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Debunking Myths of Enlightenment

Send us a text Dr. Neil explores incorrect assumptions about awakening based on his lived experience, such as the belief that there is an ultimate state of consciousness, that the ego and shadow are eliminated, that physical health is required, that we can “get” enlightened, and that death interferes with our evolution.

4 months ago

28 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Doing Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice

Send us a text Dr. Neil describes the three stages he experienced as he evolved as a psychologist with his clients: Subject/object duality, in which he diagnoses and treats people; a reciprocal system or intersubjective field, in which the two are connected; and the non-dual field, in which the world soul is in the room. Each stage transcends and includes the earlier stages.

5 months ago

24 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path

Send us a text Dr. Neil explores key questions: How can someone be awake in a high stage and still act out his or her personal shadow? Why is there an epidemic of gurus and priests acting out their shadows today? Why do we need to cultivate shadow awareness in the context of our spiritual lives? Because there is shadow material stored in the subtle body at each chakra, he goes through each one and describes the risk of eruption of shadow material at that stage.

5 months ago

49 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Beneath the 1st Chakra and Beyond the Seventh Chakra

Send us a textDr. Neil explores the worlds beneath the root chakra: animal, plant, mineral, molecular, atomic and subatomic. Then he explores above the 6th chakra to the 7th and beyond, in which evolution moves from human to divine, from local non-duality to vast, cosmic non-duality.

6 months ago

25 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Dr. Neil’s Evolution through the First to Sixth Chakras

Send us a textDr. Neil details the personal experiences that shaped his evolution from infancy in the root chakra, tribal belonging in the second, budding individuality in the third, expanding identity with humanity in the fourth, further expansion to identify with the planet in the fifth, and the deepening of mystical experience in the sixth chakra. He explains that most of humanity remains gripped by tribalism in the second chakras and that this explains a lot of our current crises. It also...

6 months ago

45 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Spirituality, Shadow, and Politics

Send us a textA few days after the US election, Dr. Neil explores the primary human levels of consciousness: alligator, tribal, individual, soul, and non-dual. He describes their traits and what it may mean for the tribal level to take power for the evolution of consciousness. He suggests that we can engage in activism with a broader and deeper awareness that we are all connected and that our activism does not stem from ego or personal attachment but is part of a larger flow of life. So, rath...

7 months ago

21 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Living in Dual and Non-Dual States

Send us a textDr. Neil describes moving his attention between duality and non-duality during daily life as he looks at an object, speaks with someone, or feels something. This simultaneous bounded and unbounded awareness gives him access to blissful states and to subtle sources of knowing. He describes his initial awakening during a migraine and his current experiences of physical pain in the context of his vast awareness.

7 months ago

17 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Send us a textDr. Neil describes the evolution of human love through the stages (or chakras) of self/other in family love, romantic love, and spiritual devotion. He explores how it opens into non-dual love, where subject/object and space/time disappear into boundless love, a quality of the divine. And he describes his experience of our 30-year relationship as it evolved, for him, into non-dual love.

8 months ago

24 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Into the Astral Plane

Send us a textBased on his direct experience, Dr. Neil explores life in the first plane beyond death, where some people travel after dropping their bodies. He describes several friends who recently died and their experiences of traveling through the bardos or planes beyond physical death, revealing common misunderstandings about the astral plane.

8 months ago

22 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

The Illusion of Death

Send us a textBased on his direct experience, Dr. Neil describes his own journey through the stages of death (bardos). He also explores other peoples’ deaths, friends, parents, and his guru, as he follows them through the process of death and rebirth. Because his consciousness is everywhere at once—no near/far, no past/future – he lives here now and at the same time on the other side.

9 months ago

34 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Who am I? Part 3: Living as Spirit: I am Everything

Send us a textDr. Neil explores the expansion of his identity from an ego to the soul to the divine. His early, visual, local subject/object non-duality opened out into a vast non-dual reality that includes everything in the galaxy, beyond physical sight and beyond space/time. His current state: I am everything everywhere.

9 months ago

24 minutes

Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Who am I? Part 2: Living as a Soul

Send us a textDr. Neil describes living as a soul, rather than an ego. He says that human beings are part of one soul, the human soul. And there are other soul groups, which is why we resonate with some people. The soul is always there; it’s never not there, even between lifetimes. It’s always becoming, or evolving, as distinct from the being or the unchanging nature of pure awareness or consciousness. He experiences both at all times and feels free of his desires or limitations because he is...

10 months ago

27 minutes