UndoTheEgo's podcast
by Cara Beckett
Discussing all matters relating to serious spiritual growth! Suitable for students of Dr. David R. Hawkins, A Course In Miracles, Eckhart Tolle or any serious spiritual seeker who understands or who wants to understand the workings of the ego and consciousness. Also included are shows on different aspects of consciousness, reviews of spiritual books, and coverage of spiritual concepts with occasional interviews. This is a replay of the show 'Consciousness, Ego Enlightenment!' carried by CFBX radio 92.5 FM the X, in Kamloops, BC Canada. Hosted by Cara Beckett.
Episodes
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CEE Searching For The Truth
An overview of some of the philosophies that underpin various spiritual approaches. This show aired May 25, 2021.
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CEE Life Is Supporting Life
What we think of as our own body is life being supported by other life, rather than something we "own". It's hard to separate our body out from all the other life supporting it. The concept of a separate "I" based on a separate body is false. Adding to the May 4, 2021 show. This show aired May…
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CEE Life is Living Us
This is a radical concept that can be hard to hear. It can also be very effective in helping to let go of the ego. What if it were true - that life is living us - meaning there isn't an ego, and there can't even be an individual I? This show aired May 4, 2021.
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CEE Letting Go of the Physical World
It's a difficult thing to do! Changing how we look at just one principle - that the physical world is strong than we are and controls us - makes a huge difference.
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CEE Direct Experience Greg Goode
Looking again at the experiences we have and how they are more created by the mind than the body's senses - our mind tricks us into thinking our senses have told us about the world.
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CEE Non Duality Part 2
A continuing of a hopefully simple explanation of non duality (not-two). A key part of our seeing the world as duality (many things) lies in the use of the body as our boundary between ourselves (me) and the rest of the world (not me.) But is this a valid way to decide that there is a me…
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CEE Everyday Explanation of Non-Duality
Asked by a listener to provide an every day, "layman's" guide to understanding non-duality - a challenge! This is part 1, and it focuses almost entirely on understanding the role of awareness. Part 2 (planned for next week) will talk about the more abstract facets of non-duality, all of which…
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Direct Path Options
Even though the words, "Direct Path" imply there is ONE direct path to enlightenment, in reality there are many paths considered "Direct Path" with differing orders of magnitude of difficulty. Defining a Direct Path is not necessarily exact. There are many definitions. A Direct path usually has…
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CEE Touching God With Awareness
We've learned (and chosen) to believe that we are limited, and these beliefs draw our attention away from our own awareness. In fact, without your awareness you would have no experience at all. The two are inextricably interlinked. Your awareness never changes, it never ages, it never grows…
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CEE Ego and Absolute
The ego and the Absolute cannot be compared, as the Absolute is not definable. It is ironic that we spend so much time studying or training to come enlightened, when the Absolute is always there, and always has been.
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CEE Comparison as Ego Base
If the concept of past/ future is integral and needed for the ego to exist, so too is the concept of comparison. Choiceless awareness is the alternative. Podcast only version that does not appear on 92.5 the X.
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CEE Devotion As A Practice
Ever wondered what it would mean to be devoted to your God, or to your spirituality? What it would mean to be dedicated to God? This is a podcast-only version, as CFBX radio, where the show normally airs, is on hiatus over the Christmas season.
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CEE Time and Ego Part 2
Another look at time and the ego - a slightly different look at the same principle. Aired Dec. 17 2020 as a follow up to the Dec. 10, 2020 show
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CEE Time is the Base of the Ego Dec 10 2020
By dividing time into past, present and future, we move out of the present moment. Our brains then decide that if we existed in the past, and we exist in the present moment, there must be an "I" that will exist, into the future - and the ego is born.
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CEE A Loving Society - Love From The Inside
A loving society would be one that is built with love for others as the criterion in every matter. Can we build this? What would it take? To start with, your personal commitment to love for all.
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CEE Being Loving in a Negative World
Are you finding it hard to be loving in a negative world? Is it hard to be positive when you see natural disasters, crime, plague and other terrible issues affecting the world? The climate crisis, climate change deniers, political polarization, and more... how does one stay positive and loving…
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CEE Religions As One
What if the major similarity between the world's major religions, was at the core, nothing but love?
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CEE 12 Spiritual Steps
The ego is addicted to itself, the ego. Is it possible to use a 12 step process with the addiction to the ego, just as we use a 12 step process for many other addictions?
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CEE Surrender and the Ego Oct 22 2020
Surrendering the ego is never easy. "Letting go" may be a short cut to surrender. Both "letting go" and surrender achieve the same end goal - the lessening of the ego and greater happiness in life.
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Compassion - Way of the Mind, Heart or Service
Considering compassion can help us become more compassionate. This show suggests three different, but interlinked ways to consider and increase your compassion. All decrease the ego. Special emphasis on information from the book, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong.
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The World Doesn't Need You
Questioning the spiritual concept that "we don't need to change the world" is confusing to many people. What? We shouldn't help the homeless or help out in a natural disaster? These people are working off karma and we should just let them work it off? The answers may be just as confusing, as they...
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CEE Understanding the Ego
A follow up show to the August 27th show on the ego being brain function. It's useful to understand how the ego got started, the value of lessening it, how the ego resists spirituality and some simple tips on lessening the ego.
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Book Overview Shortcuts to God
Written by Gerald Jampolosky, MD, the book is an engagingly simple set of 18 steps called 'Shortcuts to God". Despite the use of the term 'shortcuts' none of these steps are simple to implement although the description of what is needed is valuable. For example, forgiveness (the first shortcut)…
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CEE Choose-again.com e-book review
An overview/book review of the Choose Again Toolbox.
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Moving Closer to God?
How does one move closer to God, if you don't know what God is? A discussion of what God could mean, and how one could express the dedication of moving closer to God. Perhaps the question, How do I move closer to God, should really be, How do I uncover that which is already within me?
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Ego as Brain Activity
We've considered the ego as a built up sense of self; in effect a psychological self and an illusion. Take this a step further. The ego is nothing more than brain activity. Basically, the ego is the mind thinking about itself and setting up what the minds thinks of as a person.
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The Relationship Between Trust and Judgment
There is an inverse relationship between trust and judgment. The more you trust God; the less you judge. The more you judge, the less faith you have in the world and God. When you judge, you are trusting the ego.
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Judgment and Discernment Aug 13 2020
Judgment is often, well, judged as bad in spiritual circles. The reality is that we all have to make choices. We can make them with discernment or with judgment.
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CEE Trust Aug 5 2020
What is trust? How do we trust? Trust is a social construct, of an image that we believe in. This includes our spirituality. We trust our concept of the spiritual.
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Watch the Mind Operate July 31 2020
It's not always easy to just watch your mind (being mindful), especially when you are just learning to be mindful. Rather than pure vipassana (insight clarity) meditation, you can go through your day, watching the mind, by throwing your ego a bone. We throw a dog a bone to keep it busy. You can…
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A Course In Miracles Chapter 31
A summary of Chapter 31 of A Course In Miracles.
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CEE The Untethered Soul Overview
The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer is well worth this second look. The first look at the book, recorded some time ago, offered more of a chapter by chapter viewpoint. This episode tries for more of an overview approach.
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CEE Peace Pilgrim July 2 2020
1st in a series on those who appear to be enlightened but are either not well known or who appear to go on with life of spirituality. The Peace Pilgrim lived a quiet life of service, walking the country to spread awareness of peace.
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ACIM Song of Prayer
The Course In Miracles supplement, the Song of Prayer, turns our ideas of prayer, forgiveness and healing upside down.
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Advaita
A brief look at some of the principle tenets of Advaita: duality, division, conflict as a result of division, the ego, that which was never split does not have to re-join itself, and the Absolute. The show aired June 18, 2020
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Impermanence
Nothing lasts forever. Everything has a beginning and an end : until you look at the Absolute and see clearly that there is that, which all things arise from and subside into. Show aired June 11 2020
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CEE Racism and Spirituality
A brief look at spirituality and racism. A great deal more could be said.
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CEE Interrelatedness May 28 2020
Inter-relatedness, aka inter-dependency, is an essential spiritual viewpoint. All things are temporary and depend on conditions to arise and fall away, including ourselves. Any sense of separation is just a mind set.
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Some Spiritual Basics
What do you see as the basic underpinnings of your spiritual beliefs? Understanding this will help you remain true to your spirituality.
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Faith
Faith is having complete trust or confidence in someone or something. It's both an operative belief and a limitation. It's a habit and a force to be reckoned with/ What do you have faith in?
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CEE Quarantined Ego April 30 2020
An ego that has been quarantined may not be a pretty thing. But are egos ever pretty? Some thoughts on being quarantined with your ego.
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A Course In Miracles Chapter 30 April 16 2020
A brief look at Chapter 30 of A Course In Miracles - you are not your body but unlimited, everlasting spirit.
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Covid-19 and Fear - specifics
Taking a closer. more specific look at fear in the time of Covid-19. Show aired April 16 2020
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Some Thoughts Covid-19 and Spirituality
Fears seems to be the biggest response to Covid-19. It's a great test of your spirituality. It's prime time for fear, as though our society has been carrying a lot of fear that is now being expressed as a group. The first of three planned shows on cover-19 and spirit, this show is general in nature.
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Fred Davis and Paying for Enlightenment
Taking a quick look at the work of Fred Davis, and then the questions: should you pay to be enlightened, can someone enlighten you, and if so, what is a reasonable rate? This has to be a personal decision; my "opinion" does not matter.
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CEE Wakechild Toolkit March 10 2020
Some time ago, Thomas Wakechild (www.ACourseInMiraclesForDummies.com) published a toolkit for creating change in your life. Dealing with your responses to life, it promises to end fear and improve your relationships.
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CEE Secular Meditation Book Review March 3 2020
We're taking a look at the book, Secular Meditation. Focusing primarily on the first section on Loving-Kindness, and then on another meditation: Yes! We Have No Bananas. While not truly a meditation in the sense of sitting for 30 minutes, Yes! We Have No Bananas is a tool that you can use...
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CEE Awareness as Spirit Feb 25 2020
Does the saying, 'The spirit lives on after death' seem to be a bit too general for you? What happens to your thinking if you replace the word 'spirit' with 'awareness'? The show is based on Rupert Spira's use of the words 'awareness' and 'consciousness' as the recognition of the part of you that...
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CEE Chapter 29 A Course In Miracles
A summary of Chapter 29 of A Course In Miracles.
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CEE Consciousness Awareness and Context
Are consciousness and awareness the same thing? Is consciousness a focusing of awareness? Is it awareness that underlies everything?
About this show
Discussing all matters relating to serious spiritual growth! Suitable for students of Dr. David R. Hawkins, A Course In Miracles, Eckhart Tolle or any serious spiritual seeker who understands or who wants to understand the workings of the ego and consciousness. Also included are shows on different aspects of consciousness, reviews of spiritual books, and coverage of spiritual concepts with occasional interviews. This is a replay of the show 'Consciousness, Ego Enlightenment!' carried by CFBX radio 92.5 FM the X, in Kamloops, BC Canada. Hosted by Cara Beckett.
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