The Wonder Land
by Amanda Jones
Want to support the Wonder Land Podcast? Become a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcastThe Wonder Land is a deep dive into questioning what has been learned and believed about reality, suffering, and awakening. Join coach Amanda Jones as she drops down the rabbit hole with weekly explorations and realizations.I am not medical professionals. As a coach, I am not providing healthcare or medical services or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any physical, mental, or emotional issue or illness.
Episodes
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Episode 184: The Unanswered
Is there something unanswered, unknown or unresolved that haunts you? What can we see deeper about the sense that we are suspended in a loop without an anchor that an answer would provide? Perhaps unquestioned thought is the haunting, and the answer has been here all along. 💥Become a Patron &…
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Episode 183: This Devastating Love
In this episode, the word Love is synonymous with the infinite, the eternal mystery of this, the strange fact that anythingexists at all. The sense that we long for and that identities and conditioned thoughts seem to shield. Until this Love starts to burn through all that is not love. Sometimes...
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Episode 182: A Trembling Balance
What is true "balance"? We often long for more of the light and less of the dark, but this ends up to be a false harmony. This episode explores what we can see when neither side is exiled, separated or battling to win. 💥Become a Patron & Join the Deep Dives Get early access to course discounts,...
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Episode 181: The Realm of Acceptance
Similar to A Mythic Courage, there is a Realm of Acceptance that can sneak in as a promise to peace- once achieved. But why does it seem difficult to fulfill? Where is this Acceptance meant to be conjured and by whom? Listen in for a more precise understanding of this realm, and the relief and…
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Episode 180: The Kingdom of the Undefined
Visiting the space where the abstractions of thought do not reside is a powerful way to refresh our day to day experience. The Kingdom of the Undefined is where all objects arise from, so it is worth a visit when we start to feel overwhelmed by narratives, thought structures, and the repeated...
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Episode 179: The Endurance of Echoes
What story about yourself have you been enduring for so long that it feels true? This endurance will have a flavor of identity, which is really the only indicator a mind needs to find it worthy of enduring. But for how long? Perhaps those flavors of identities are simply echos that never demanded...
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Episode 178: The Forgetting
If you've had a taste, a glimpse, of what you really are beyond the conditioned mind... and then forgotten...Does is feel like a personal failure? Why does that happen, and what is the gripping demand that The Forgetting never happen again? 💥Become a Patron & Join the Deep Dives Get early access...
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Episode 177: Bewildered
When was the last time you allowed Bewilderment to arise without rushing past it? Certainty and Control are usually preferred to bewilderment, but if we are honest, they depend on each other. A mind can't rehearse its way through bewilderment...and maybe that is a clue: Bewilderment can offer...
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Episode 176: The Authority Audit
It's time for an audit! Where is Fear and/or Memory getting more authority than they actually deserve? Where is the focus of attention on these experiences perhaps draining energy? Listen in to to hear how the mask of the persona can soften from taking an audit of where devotion is directed....
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Episode 175: The Future’s Reimbursement
A curious phenomena we have been trained to engage in is the idea that the future will pay us back for suffering in the past. If we hold onto 'what happened', the future will compensate us and provide meaning to our suffering. This is innocent in its intent, yet notice if it creates a life of...
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Episode 174: An Anchor Made of Sugar
This episode explores the feeling of the separate self that serves as a reference point for experience. But what kind of reality does it have? We have explored this many times, and there is something new that may be revealed as we ask a different question: If it feels so real, what quality of...
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Episode 173: The Burden of Worth
A lot of our struggles have a hidden (or not so hidden) belief about our worth or lack of worth. It's a curious thing to see how we learn that there a prerequisites to Being. The mind is convinced that something must be proved, and approval is given or restricted. This episode explores the cost…
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Episode 172: The Altar of Doubt
This episode is an invitation to notice if you find yourself consulting The Altar of Doubt a bit too often. What is usually promised is Clarity... but what if Clarity doesn't actually need to be summoned through doubt? There is one offering that we can bring to the altar to receive...
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Episode 171: The Exile of Urgency
What is seen when Urgency is given the chance to be heard, beyond the outward focus it seems to demand? There is something once deemed too dangerous to feel that has been exiled from the kingdom of Me, and Urgency is its call to be allowed back inside. Listen in to hear how we can invite a…
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Episode 170: The Origami of Ghosts
The way we fold ourselves into smaller and smaller shapes to navigate this dimension can be explored as a way to understand why it's sometimes necessary, and also how our light inevitably escapes the folds. There would be no Origami of your light if it wasn't known deeply to be profound…
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Episode 169: The Seduction of Perfection
The idea of perfection seduces in many ways. The promise of a safety net to cushion the terror of uncertainty, or a temporary substitute for a feeling of lack. Listen in to find out what is revealed as we start to disobey the seductions of perfection. 💥Become a Patron & Join the Deep Dives Get...
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Episode 168: The Trickster
There is an energy that arises when something has become too fixed, too certain, to serious. This energy often gets labeled as impending doom, fear, or any other host of descriptive stories the conditioned mind comes up with. This episode introduces a portal that invites you to discover this…
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Episode 167: Ten Thousand Failures
What is the hidden truth behind failures, and what can we see that helps us understand why they happen? Listen in to find out why your failure to control, achieve, manage or otherwise live up to some ideal is actually a success... and a relief that can help us relax around constantly trying to...
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Episode 166: The Spell of Uncertainty
Why is uncertainty so painful for us? What can we see about breaking this spell that seems to arise uninvited? This episode is an invitation to remember that there is a realm where uncertainty is the law, not the anomaly... and that perhaps the spell is broken not by generating certainty but by...
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Episode 165: A Forgotten Portal
Listen in to explore the portal that lies beneath all of the leaned, sold, and taught paths and gateways to freedom and change. The portal that has never asked to be healed. The depth that has no need for clinical understanding. If you have exhausted all portals of preparation, all promises of...
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Episode 164: A Mythic Courage
Do feel like you lack the courage or bravery to make a change, release an identity, or stop a habit? Maybe you have been sold an idea that courage is what's needed- and if you could conjure some up, you would be free. This mythical courage is something that we can start to see for what it…
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Episode 163: The Aesthetics of Dreaming
What are the adornments and corridors of your dreaming right now? Listen in as I walk us through a meditation to ignite awareness into the darker, softer places that speak in intuition and ephemeral tones. Consider what it's like to invite something ineffable to be your actual grounding. Become a...
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Episode 162: A Magnificent Deception
What happens when protection becomes identity? Is there a warrior guarding the soft spots, keeping fear at bay? Listen in as I explore what a magnificent deception all identities are, and the whisper underneath all of them that we can begin to tune into more and more. Become a Patron & Join the...
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Episode 161: A Promiscuous Reality
What is the golden thread that weaves a tapestry of both experience and commentary? And what does that thread tell us about "being present?" This episode explores this golden thread, not to see it as a burden or a cause of suffering, but to understand it's function so that the system ceases from...
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Episode 160: From Contradiction to Dimensionality
How do we find balance when the contradiction between our internal awareness of timeless, infinite being and the perceived outside view of ourselves becomes painful? What does it take to really land the insight that you are truly beyond this physical plane yet at the same time experiencing the…
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Episode 159: The Myth of Sabotage
Have you been subject to the concept of self-sabotage? Have you failed to make yourself behave and start living up to your idealized, fantastical potential? If so, this episode is designed to help crumble a myth that disguises itself as understanding. Become a Patron & Join the Deep Dives Get…
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Episode 158: The Field Returns
Back in episode 112 we explored The Field. Today is another invitation to remember, recognize, and stop hovering around the unknown. The Field is the unseen, yet sensed wonder, the birthplace of synchronicity. The aliveness you are thatprecedes explanation, personality, capacity, or any…
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Episode 157: The Burden of Control
In The Wonder Land we have explored the concept of control and how precarious it is, how it seems like a necessary and even virtuous ability to have over oneself and life. But today I invite us to see the hidden cost: the burden. The burden of empty promises and the frustration that results. If…
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Episode 156: The Labyrinth of Dysregulation
Have you been under the impression that a dysregulated nervous system is a problem for you to solve? This episode looks at an important distinction to be made between a system that regulates itself, and a self-idea that believes it carries that burden. Become a Patron & Join the Deep Dives Get...
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Episode 155: The Education of Caution
At one point you reached for something for the simple fact of desiring experience. But objects, people, circumstances, etc can disappoint and so we start to learn the education of caution. We start to measure and calculate consequence before we reach again. Listen in to explore this phenomena and...
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Episode 154: Rituals of Repair
Why is it so hard to change a seemingly old habit or pattern? This episode reveals a simple invitation to consider: perhaps this thing you are healing is already a ghost. Listen in to learn how you can recognize this phenomena, and in turn cease the rituals of repair. Become a Patron & Join the...
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Episode 153: Between Altitude and Gravity
What's going on when we feel the expansiveness of seeing through the illusion of thought and experiencing a new reality, and then in the blink of an eye plummeting back down into a density of old conditioning and illusion? What can we see about how and why one seems like a better state, and one...
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Episode 152: Left Unsupervised
Do you have a supervisor on call? A manager staying vigilant in case of threat? What flavor does it carry? Health, money, food, relationship? Listen in to find out how to recognize this phenomena, and begin to lessen it's authority. The devotion it demands is ready to be returned to you. Become a...
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Episode 151: The Devastating Generosity of the Temporary
Listen in as Amanda explores a perspective on why there is such a fear and struggle with impermanence. Why does the mind cling and grasp, and how can we start to release the pattern of mistaking change for loss? Become a Patron & Join the Deep Dives Get early access to course discounts, group...
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Episode 150: Belief Forensics
Today we take a look at a way to recognize beliefs that carry suffering and concern-and how a certain starting premise is vital. To look at patterns and beliefs in a forensic and impersonal way, we get to watch the concern be dissolved around the feelings they can manifest. Listen in to hear some...
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Episode 149: The Unemployed Present
What if the present moment isn’t here to do anything for us? In this episode, we explore the idea that “now” may be deliberately unemployable — not here to justify the past, secure the future, or prove we’re on track. We’ve turned the present into a job, asking it to generate meaning, clarity…
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Episode 148: The Caught Up Claim
Have you ever said, “I’m so caught up”? What’s actually happening in that moment? In this episode, we look closely at what it means to feel caught—caught in thought, caught in repetition, caught in stories that seem to loop without resolution. We explore the assumptions hidden inside that…
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Episode 147: Directional Fog
Fog is usually treated as something to fix or escape. In this episode, we explore fog as a legitimate state of intelligence—one that interrupts prediction, softens urgency, and invites presence. Directional Fog reframes uncertainty not as a problem, but as a phase where clarity is intentionally...
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Episode 146: Late to the Party
Today’s episode explores why we often feel late—just out of reach of something, or running just behind a version of reality where everything is calm, content, and unmoving. Are we living in a delay? How did we come to believe we’re moving through a corridor of time, searching for a present moment...
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Episode 145: The Impractical Guide for the Living (Part 2)
“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.” In this episode, we step outside the mind’s demand for practicality and question what that word is really protecting. Practicality often masquerades as…
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Episode 144: The Impractical Guide for the Living (Part 1)
Join us as we take a jaunt out of the mind’s need for practical answers. What happens when we stretch the edges of what seems useful and necessary? Where in your life has practicality become limiting and fear-based? Listen in for an invitation to live a little more impractically—and discover what...
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Episode 143: Bones and Mud
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” — Alan Watts When a bone breaks, we don’t heal it—we cast it. Not to fix it, but to stop ourselves from interfering while something deeper does the work. In this episode, we explore how emotional and mental wounds behave the same way. Thought…
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Episode 142: A Cognitive Glitch
Today’s episode explores a quiet but destabilizing realization: the “I” cannot be found. It has never been directly experienced, yet it is assumed to stand behind all experience. We examine how this inherited linguistic structure and emotional habit comes to feel essential to seeing, hearing, and...
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Episode 141: Dimensionless Possibilities
In This Episode We explore the difference between possibility and positivity—and why confusing the two quietly keeps us trapped. Possibility is not optimism. It is not hope, reframing, or emotional correction. It is neutral, dimensionless, and unbound by history or expectation. This episode…
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Episode 140: The Trembling Scaffold
What is fear, and what gets built around it? This episode explores fear as an architecture shaped by the search for safety. We trace the trembling scaffold beneath our thoughts and identities and ask a simple, destabilizing question: what are we actually trying to stay safe from? A quiet dose of...
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Episode 139: First Nature
What existed before we learned how to manage ourselves In This Episode We explore the idea of First Nature—the original, untrained intelligence of the body and nervous system—before optimization, self-improvement, or survival strategies took over. In this conversation, we touch on: • The…
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Episode 138: The Missing Glue
What if free will is just a story thought tells? This episode explores the subtle “glue” that turns events into a personal narrative—and how blame, guilt, and shame fall away when that glue dissolves. Patreon: patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast Contact: [email protected] Amanda:...
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Episode 137: Knock Kock
What if the voice urging you to do more, be better, fix yourself… isn’t actually you? This episode explores the illusion of the inner “knocker,” the self-improvement loop it creates, and the freedom that appears when you realize the voice was never yours. Patreon: patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast...
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Episode 136: The Empty Battlefield
What if the battle between thoughts and feelings is empty—held together only by the habit of remembering to worry, fear, or ruminate? In this episode, we explore what happens when the mind forgets to remember, and how consciousness reveals itself as wide, spacious, and never out to harm—only to...
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Want to support the Wonder Land Podcast? Become a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcastThe Wonder Land is a deep dive into questioning what has been learned and believed about reality, suffering, and awakening. Join coach Amanda Jones as she drops down the rabbit hole with weekly explorations and realizations.I am not medical professionals. As a coach, I am not providing healthcare or medical services or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any physical, mental, or emotional issue or illness.
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