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Fundamental Shift Podcast
by Rob Scott
Bringing our awareness to some small things can bring a fundamental shift in awareness and understanding. This shift can deeply transform our maps of the world, and bring deep meaning to our lives.
Episodes
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A Bit About Relationships
This talk is about being in relationships with others. It describes mistakes we make that end up leaving us hurt and confused. It also describes successful relationships and what we should strive for when we come together. We are always in relation with everything. Even when we identify ourselves...
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Big Things From Little Changes or How to Have a True “Identity Shift”
Why is it so hard to make big changes in our lives? We all seem to want things to be different than they are. We’d like to lose weight, make more money, be more organized, eat better. In this talk I point out a couple of ways to help bring lasting change. One of the ideas many people hold is that...
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Do You Have A Practice
This talk is meant to suggest the importance of a regular meditation practice. The pull of the world, and the normal distractions and natural egoic self builders don’t remind us that we need to see that there is more than thought. There is experience. We can exist without our minds running all…
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A Rainy Day in Philadelphia
Something a little different today. No talking. Just watching. What do the faces say to you? Where do our minds go as we walk through this life? How many of us are really here, and when are we most here? There's the pigeon, and the playing. The begging, and the pain... The energy underneath it…
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Looking Through Other Peoples Eyes
What is the difference between a healthy perspective shift, and losing oneself in another through co-dependent behavior? The difference is when we know who we are. Other’s perspectives should inform us, but our actions need to remain based on our own values. This touches deeply on understanding…
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Introduction to States and Stages
This talk is an introduction to states and stages of consciousness. States of consciousness are our now experience, and stages of consciousness deal with the growth of self along many lines of development in time. In this talk I want to explain the importance of each of these perspectives of...
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Learning to be Detached
I was recently having a discussion with a good friend of mine. He mentioned that people who have had trauma and have learned to detach to protect themselves would make great Buddhists. They may have spent their lives not attaching to things because things or events had hurt them in the past. A...
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Do We Change The World Or Accept It
Integral theory and spiral dynamics talk about the difference between states and stages. And while a full explanation of the difference is beyond today’s talk, I will say that we are definitely trying for deeper states of consciousness, but also (and possibly more importantly) higher stages of...
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Fearlessly Feeling Fear
The worst thing I see in people, and myself, is when we resist what is. When I am resisting life, I am deeply unhappy. When I accept what is, I can face anything. I can fearlessly feel fear. Whenever I choose to spend my time wanting what is not, rather than appreciating what is, I’m lost. The...
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From Clutter to Clarity
External clutter is linked to your internal state of mind. Ownership of things is part of what the self is trying to accomplish. It feels bigger and more important when it has more. Because of this, we tend to let things define us. This is one of the problems of finding true happiness. Things...
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Nested Duality
What is nested duality? This talk begins to discuss the play of opposites. I talk about the importance of relating in new ways to good and bad. Ultimately this talk is trying to convey the error of nested duality which is when we make the non-dual experience something good. As we look at good and...
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Mastering Perspectives
This talk is about mastering perspectives. It assumes that someone capable of seeing more perspectives is better informed, and more able to act appropriately, happily, and well. There are many perspectives to any situation. Every moment there is your point of view, someone else’s point of view…
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The Problem With Self Protection
Our self is more than partially defined by the assumptions and beliefs we hold about the world. Our emotions arise as that self rubs up against its edges. Emotions often tell us when our boundaries, or self, have been compromised. There is no doubt that we need to work on our understanding of...
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Introduction to Transparency
When something is transparent it is able to be seen through. In this talk I make an effort to show the link between transparency and awareness, making the assumption that awareness is healthy. Transparency is an idea that can be applied to any system to allow that system to behave healthily and...
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We May Need To Kill Faith
How can we make faith make sense? So many of us are lost in rational minds. Rational minds that are right in the external sense of “right”, but they lack the inner connection to being. Faith is something that often sounds too “religious”. But faith may end up being important, but maybe we need to...
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Dive In or Drop It
This talk is inspired by the question: In meditation, do we dive into frustration when it arises or do we drop it? I use this question to do an overview of meditation, and then answer at the end. Meditation is really about state management. We are trying to foster a better state of mind. To do...
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Learn To Surrender
Surrender means to give oneself over to something. The type of surrender I’m discussing in this talk is not a sign of weakness, in fact, it might be the greatest sign of strength. The ego doesn’t usually like to hear about giving in or surrendering, but one of the greatest teachings we can learn…
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Goals That Make Us Happy
This talk tries to explain the motion of desire, and our two choices. One choice is to satisfy the desire, and again science is showing us more and more that that doesn’t work in a lasting fashion. We always want more. The other thing to do is to make well-being our real goal. Once we realize…
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Realizing We Have Enough
It makes sense that people who don’t have much feel a sense of lack. It doesn’t make as much sense that people who have tons of stuff, lots of money and means, also feel lack. One point of this talk is that the sense of external lack is driven by an internal lack. If we learn to get our joy from...
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Informed Morality
This talk is about how non-dual experience can inform our morality. It was inspired by a magazine article that painted non-duality as morally irresponsible. Non-duality is not irresponsible. In fact, it can deeply inform our morality. What is morality? Morality defines and distinguishes between...
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Means to an End
In this podcast we have a fist fight at a gun show. Two men, both deeply interested in safety, take very different stances on how to achieve that goal. One, having been mugged and beaten before feels as though having a gun will offer him safety. The other man, losing his son to a gun accident,...
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Connecting to the Vine
In this talk I also discuss Jesus and the idea that he was the expression of being connected to the vine. If we change our concept of Jesus from needing to go “through him” to understanding that he was showing us “how to be” connected, we can actually begin to emulate how he lived. If we leave it...
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Shining Light on the Shadow
Part of evolving as a human being, and part of the teaching that I’m trying to promote, is about bringing awareness to all the aspects of our lives. One of the big accomplishments in psychology has been identifying and naming what’s been called the shadow. To understand the shadow we’ll try to...
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Turning Subject Into Object
Turning subject into object is both a concept and a practice. In this talk I discuss the difference between inner and outer experience and how that relates to subjective and objective experience. We need to define perspective – subjective experience is what I identify as “me”. Objects exist…
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A New Kind of Judgement
There are two types of judgement or choice, and it is a mistake to make either of them bad. In this talk I will describe the two kinds of choice, introducing a new kind of judgement. Many people in the spiritual community condemn judgement. They’ve had experiences where they saw the freedom in…
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Honoring Imbalance
In this show I discuss honoring imbalance. Many people (including myself) critique the world and describe the need for “balance” (listen to my last show, I use that very term). This talk discusses three ideas: The first idea is that everything is in a state of achieving balance. Every action has…
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Getting to the Beauty
This talk is really an exercise looking at the split between internal/external, and thinking/experiencing. I discuss the words below and ask you to identify with each word as I do: thinking experiencing form feeling outer inner external internal different similar motion stillness time now...
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This Path is Not Easy
Everyone listening to a podcast like this is trying to better themselves. I want to commend all of you for trying to do that. This work is difficult, and not enough teachers say that’s the case. Many sell this path as an easy fix for people. It can often be very difficult. Meditation is hard.…
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The Pleasure Pain Treadmill
Basic ideas: Seeing that good and bad, or pleasure and pain are in all things. We can use pain to promote change. Ultimately, we can get off the treadmill of pain and pleasure. Our desire to avoid pain and experience pleasure tends to push us around if we are not paying attention. When we use...
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Finding the Similarity
It would help us greatly if we decided to look at others for our similarities instead of for our differences. It is very natural to see someone of different color, or ideas, and focus only on the differences. In this show I discuss some examples of how we focus on the differences, and how things...
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The Next Evolution of Man
Today I want to discuss evolution. There are many ways to think about evolving: Individual evolution, societal evolution, human evolution Evolutions like Homo Erectus to Homo Sapien, etc. Agricultural age, to Industrial Age, to Information age An individual growing through identification with…
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Bring It Back To The Breath
In this show I promise not to be too deep. Today I spend a few moments fostering presence with you. I open with a couple of conscious breaths, then onto examples of, and reasons for, bringing your focus back to your breath. I end mentioning that in regard to any learning, we deeply need to apply...
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Are We Stuck In Time
In this talk I describe why we seem to be stuck in time, and what an enlightened mind might look like. If we have the fundamental understanding that there is only this moment; meaning we cannot leave it to go elsewhere, or more specifically that time is a construct of thought, we can start to...
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Making Changes – Intention, Hypnosis, NLP, Goal Setting
Today’s show will be a brief overview of the power of Intention Setting, Hypnosis, Neural Linguistic Programming, Hemi Sync, Goal Setting and Positive Thinking. All of these “technologies” affect our opinions and beliefs, and hence our perception of the world. Referenced: Tony Robbins
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Why We Can’t Hold On To Stillness
In this talk I want to discuss what might be our biggest challenge. To find a state of stillness, and remain productive in the world. How do we accomplish, while remaining present. Why are most of us unable to hold on to stillness? Many of us can find stillness, but why isn’t it easier to just…
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Dealing with Death – Ours and Others
Fear of death and the unknown is enormous. But death makes everything matter. Living forever would take value away from lots of things. You’d be able to take literally forever to master things, so being a master chef as an example would have little meaning. We’d constantly be approaching everyone...
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Ending Addiction For Good
We’re going to discuss what addiction is, and then talk about how we can come to terms with it and what can we do to stop it. To do this, I’ll talk about addiction, in broad terms. Then we’ll do a quick exercise that might help you find what your addictions are. This could be considered an...
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Can We Make It All Sacred
If we as a people could see the importance in loosening our attachment to sacred things, or rather, notice that everything is sacred, we could begin to end conflict. No land is better than any other land. Everything has the essence of being in it. Space does, objects do. That awareness is in you,...
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The Pressure We Create
So what pressure are you creating? This talk points out that we can spend time working on, or watching, what pressures we create for ourselves. The exercise we could do would be to learn to find your self created limits, or pressures. Once you see what yours are, you may choose to soften them, or...
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What Does Paradox Have To Do With It?
Question I’d really like answered for a future talk: What, if anything, would be the best thing humans could do to make the world a better place? Please leave an answer as a comment to this blog or email me directly. In this talk we explore paradoxes and logic and point out where we’ll find them…
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Doing It In The Now
When we come to the Now in this moment (whenever that is), we realize that this moment is always here. So that is all we have to do. The mind will kick up again and say things like “You won’t be able to do that in the future.” And that may even knock us off a bit, but seeing that once we DO come...
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Expectation vs. Experience
Important thought: The gap between our experience and our expectation is our unhappiness. Experience is what’s happening to us. Expectation is what we’d like to happen to us. How many people do you know who live in a state of almost constant disappointment over their life situation? They are…
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You Can’t Kill God
If we can learn to identify with god-consciousness, we will see that we are a part of the whole. That realization allows us to not fear things. We are temporary, but we are part of the infinite. All things in the infinite will change, but the infinite itself is timeless.
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What Really Makes You Happy
Happiness comes from being. All the things we enjoy (dancing, drinking, drugging, driving cars, watching sports, etc.), the parts of those things that bring joy are the “being” parts. So what this means is that the things we chase don’t bring us joy or bliss. We already have happiness inside us…
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How Committed Are You?
Making any kind of change is very difficult when we aren’t truly committed to it. So what is commitment and how do we find it? In this talk, the light switch is the idea that being committed makes change easy. Finding commitment can be hard, but once we find it quitting smoking, eating…
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The Different Meanings of To Be
I want to clarify what I mean by “to be” because it is actually more than one thing. It is both “to be – still” and also “to be – what you are.” This may be hard to stomach because these seem to be in opposition, but they are both really important. It’s actually many many layers, and facets of...
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Turning Anger into Compassion
Anger has its place. It is there to move us. It tells us things aren’t right. But we don’t want to get lost in anger. We need to be conscious of it. Compassion means: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. There are two phases to turning anger into...
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Language is a Lie
I discuss the need to talk. The need to fill space with commentary. Truth comes from the act of listening, not speaking. I also mentioned oneness and unity consciousness. Mentioned the book Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Bucke, and Ken Wilber’s No Boundary. All the greats had this state of mind,...
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You Don’t Have to Fix It
The main point of this talk is that once you find yourself with strong opinions, use that as an anchor to wake up. Even if you are morally correct, once you are attached to an idea, you start to become just as lost as someone doing wrong. It is much more important to bring presence to a…
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How to Stop Worrying
All worry is the same thing and we need to learn what it really is: An irrational habit of imagining a future that often doesn’t come. We ruin this moment when we worry. We think we’re helping ourselves by planning for the worst, but it’s a very negative, and unhealthy way to live. We can see…
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Bringing our awareness to some small things can bring a fundamental shift in awareness and understanding. This shift can deeply transform our maps of the world, and bring deep meaning to our lives.
HOSTED BY
Rob Scott
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