Don Lee Daniels | The Astral Monk

A tiny point of blue light appeared in meditation — and nothing was ever the same. In this episode, I share my first encounter with the Blue Pearl — the luminous point of light that the mystics have described for over a thousand years as the very seed ...

Direct experience reshapes your reality. And you can learn how to access these states of consciousness deliberately — and at will. In this episode, Don Lee Daniels (Swami Jnanananda Swaraswati) addresses something that doesn't get said clearly enough: ...

Most people cross the threshold of sleep unconsciously and return with nothing. This episode introduces the concept of deliberately crossing it — and what you'll find on the other side. You can learn how to willfully induce an out-of-body experience, r...

The grocery store is full of Shakti — the energy of the universe. This isn't a metaphor. This is what happens when you've been practicing meditation long enough — higher consciousness begins to open up into ordinary life. And one afternoon in the produ...

In 1978, as a young monk in India, I had two experiences that changed everything — a meditation in which a tiny blue point of light expanded into pure consciousness, and a verified out-of-body experience conducted with a fellow practitioner at 2 a.m. T...