Episodes
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Serendipity
My glaring omission from last week’s article: Serendipity! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe
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Divine Laughter
Divine Laughter “I want you to laugh with your whole countenance, with your whole heart and soul, with all the breath of your life. In order to be able to laugh in this way you must have implicit faith in the power of the Self and try to Bring the outer inner parts of your being into perfect...
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Resentment, Sincerity, & Humility
Do not pay attention to the faults of others. It blurs the vision, defiles the mind, and adds to the load of the world’s sin. Therefore, try to see only the bright side of things in whatever you perceive. It is the good and beautiful which are true and living, whereas the bad and ugly are only…
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Experiencing Boundlessness
When we fix ourselves onto a set outcome for our experience, we know the shadow Hunger. When we are fully present to experience what is, life is full of possibilities. We experience the Boundlessness of experience itself. To do this we must have open hearts. Compassion – and getting to Compassion...
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Nonduality & Krishna Consciousness
How the contrasts of Nonduality & Devotion were dissolved in my heart – before, during, and after my travels into the center of Bengali Vaishnavism. The assumption of duality is also within Oneness; some advocate this opinion. They say that even in the midst of this lila, Oneness remains...
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Breathe of Life
Each of us is perfectly designed to be a master at something. Our genius appears as an innate Enthusiasm. Feeling the presence of life in one’s chest – in one’s body – is our natural born state. When did we lose the enthusiasm to live fully in this moment? The beauty is, we can enjoy our gifts in...
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Your Voice in the Now
Unlock the potency of your voice. Your awareness is sacred. Attune to this moment. Observe how thoughts and feelings come and go, like waves on the ocean. This witnessing awareness, when established in the voice, becomes alchemical. Like Orpheus, you sing spirit into stones, and all types of...
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Experiencing Radical Authenticity
No-one told us our unique contribution was perfectly designed in us as our natural gifts. Your unique Contribution wants so much to shine and to be expressed in the most natural and effortless ways. No self-sacrifice is needed, only letting go of the stuff that is not really us. In order to be...
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Experiencing Simplicity
Our simple awareness can do so much for us, when we let it. We have fear of being fully present, and victim patterns which outsource our power. When we touch this world – with our hands, feel, smell, taste, and love – we enter into the most powerful experience of uniqueness and diversity of life....
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I Have Listened
In this episode I talk about Divine Receptivity – how listening and receiving transforms situations and life, unlocks magic, generates opportunity, and allows abundance. You can speak with your ears. Let the truth come through in all the different ways by being Receptive. Stop and listen. Receive...
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Upon Awakening with Rama Chandra Das
This episode I am joined in conversation with Rama Chandra Das – aka Rob from Rob & Melissa, the renowned kirtan duo. We talk about bhakti, what it means, and how he found it. We dive into the story of Sita and Ram from the Ramayana. We talk about experiences of unconditional love – Agape, and…
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Deep into Caring
We dive deep into the source of our Altruism and Caring with breathwork and meditation in this 30 min episode. When we tap our Selflessness, our life supporting energy, we are tapping the real “free energy”. The holy grail of fuels. This is the energy that makes an acorn grow into a maple tree.…
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How to Grow a Sense of Humor
This week there was a glaring omission in my podcast. What is so darn funny about chaos? Is it possible to grow a pear? …I mean, a sense of humor? Is it possible that stopping and enjoying this moment could make all our dreams come true? Impossible! Listen for the answer… and for the true secret…
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Deep in Play
We experience everything as Chaos or Cosmos - meaningless change, or divine ordering. When we see through the eyes of a child, we see everything is Play. Everything is a divine game of pretend and everything is a part of this play. That’s what is so serious about it. Ha. Everything has a chance…
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Experiencing Growth
Celebration is the sacred potential of healthy Detachment. When we accept our expectations and attachments, and then let them go, something happens. We are able to celebrate every event – every feeling, expansion, reorientation, reinvention – as beautiful and part of the unfolding of life. This...
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Awakening Experiences
Change can shock us. We have to at times directly experience the precariousness of our own lives, the fragility of this miracle we call life. We must experience our nakedness to fate, to life, to change, in order to awaken to the spiritual logic of it all. We face the limits of our projections…
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Deep into Inner Authority
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. - Viktor Frankl Each of us is an Authority in something, even if it is an authority at simply being ourselves. We are each...
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Sacred Journey, Rishikesh
Here I read some stories of my time in Rishikesh. Being attacked by dogs (or was it Krishna?), Bathing in the grace of the Goddess, Hiking to the Beatles’ Ashram, Ecstatic Dance Partying, Resting at Her banks. Har Har Mahadev on a “Scooty” and More. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
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Open in Awareness
Tuesday-Sunday (March 24-29) our sun is transiting Gate 17, Opinions. This is about our Awareness, and how we can let it be narrowed by our identification with only one perspective. Or, we can let our deep desire for having an opinion – finding and protecting the integrity of reality in any…
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Deep Into Universal Love
From Thursday March 19, to Monday March 23rd, our sun transits Gate 25, Universal Love. This gift of Loving Spirit and Acceptance carries the shadow of Constriction. It is what happens when we forget our natural capacity to Love everyone and everything. It draws us deep into our fears, like a…
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Transit Meditation: Suffering & Compassion
I am back from my trip to India! More on that soon. But for now, here are my reflections on this week’s archetype: Compassion. This week, Friday through Wednesday (March 13-18th), we will experience the gifts of our Humanity, our emotional Suffering, and ultimately our Compassion. I talk about...
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Transit Meditation: Abundance
Wednesday February 18th to Monday the 23rd, our sun transits Gate 55 in the Human Design astrological mandala. This gift moves us from Victimization to Freedom. This is a new collective Freedom coming from individual awakening. This Gate is at the center of the Gene Keys teachings. It represents…
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Transit Meditation: Desire, Shakti & Bhakti
Friday the 13th through Wednesday the 18th we are in the Days of Feelings & Desires. Desires are endless. Fulfilling them never brings lasting peace. Our desire is meant to move us into evolution, but it also forms the basis of our longing for Divine Union. This comes by feeling our feelings....
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Transit Meditation: Revolution
Saturday through Thursday Feb 7-12 Our sun transits gate 49: Revolution. “Unhappiness is the first sign that something powerful stirs within you.” There is a powerful motivation to protect humanity, protecting humans, protecting the vulnerable, standing up for human beings and living your...
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Transit Meditation: Listening
This week our sun transits Gate 13: Listening. In these days of Listening. Listening is not hearing. Listening is absorbing the sound. It is listening to the whole story, the experience, the experiencer, the past, the whole problem, beyond any raw desire to accomplish a goal, It is Deep…
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Transit Meditation: Sensitivity
This week Tuesday-Sunday (Jan27-Feb1) our sun transits Gate 19: Approach, Codependency, Sensitivity and Sacrifice. Where is our healthy Sacrifice? What is unhealthy Sacrifice? We naturally want to serve, serve community and individuals. We thrive when others thrive. But we can forget or...
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Transit Meditation: Emanation
From Thursday to Monday Jan 22-26, our sun transits Gate 41: Emanation, Fantasy, Anticipation. These can be our days of Emanation, being in the Anticipation of the unfolding of our dreams. In this gate we can live in Fantasy, or we can embrace our manifestation – the energy to honor our hopes and...
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Transit Meditation: Containment Magic
Friday through Wednesday Jan 16-21, our sun transits Gate 60: Regulation, Realism, and Limitation. Your Realism is magical. Seeing things as they are is to see magic. Creation structures freedom, because structuring serves energy. These days of Containment, of Embodied Magic, show you the power…
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Intimacy With What Is – Erin Reese
In this episode of Upon Awakening, I talk with Erin Reese – astrologer, psychologist, and writer. Listeners will recognizer her name, as I have been quoting her for some time, regularly tuning into her astrology forecasts. I am honored to present our conversation here, where I ask her to read for...
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Transit Meditation: Mystery
Sunday through Thursday 1/11-1/15 our Sun transits Gate 61: Mystery, Inner Truth, Inspiration and Sanctity. Enjoy these days of “The Divine Door” by getting still in the body, at peace, or in your breath. Rudd says once we end our Psychosis, the gifts of Inspiration and Sanctity naturally come.…
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Transit Meditation: Drive
This week, our Sun transits Gate 54 in the Human Design mandala. The thing about Greed is it is mistaking winning with the process of playing. Acquisition is not prosperity. The secret of material success and of spiritual success are found when we experience them as one and the same. We can be...
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Transit Meditation: Honoring
This week Tuesday-Sunday, our Sun transits Gate 38: Opposition. Struggle is part of life. How much meaning and purpose we give to our life determines how much meaning and purpose our struggles have. The more we are attuned to the depth of our being, the more we can experience Opposition as the...
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Transit Meditation: Bliss
This week our sun transits Gate 58: The Joyous. What are you doing with your life on Earth? “Why are you “there”, when you’re everywhere?” – to quote John Lennon. Bliss is our nature and our birthright. It cannot be faked, and according to Richard Rudd, our dissatisfaction will continue to point…
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Transit Meditation: Being Human
Saturday through Wednesday (12-20 to 12-24), our Sun transits Gate 10: Being Human, Treading, Love of the Self, with the Gene Keys of Naturalness, Being, and Self-Obsession – the unique soul spark, the Atman inside the heart, integrating into the voice, intuition, and creative source. This is...
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Re–membering with Liva Nayeli
A conversation with Liva Nayeli. We talk about “depth with delight”, hypnotherapy, the subconscious, being fully here in this moment, the magic of receiving, bringing joy in offering, strengthening connection in life through collaborating in new ways, and sharing authentically. This touches on...
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Transit Meditation: Mind of Light
The sun transits Gate 11 this week. Monday-Friday. Ideas, Idealism, The Mind of Light, and the Language of Light. I call it Ideation. And Ideation is an important part of manifesting the best world and life. Even the “unimaginable” can become manifest in the Language of Light as this gift carries...
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Transit Meditation: Heartworks
This week our sun transits Gate 26: The Sacred Salesperson. This gift is all about imagining an abundant future for others, selling, and the right use of willpower. This is a great time to know thyself, and love thyself. Whenever someone works with you, hires you, or buys your product, they are...
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Full Moon Conversation with James Governale
James Governale and I have an expansive conversation around the Full Moon this week (fullest at midday Thursday Dec. 4th 3:30pm Pacific). How the Full Moon draws out the polarity between Sagittarius and Gemini is discussed as a spectrum of experiential knowledge we can choose to engage with. The...
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Transit Meditation: Everyday Timelessness
Wednesday-Sunday [Dec 3-7], our Sun will be transiting Gate 5: Patience. The energy here is to listen to our inner timing to create healthy habits, rituals, and patterns. If the foundation is laid in this inner listening and inner timing, our patience becomes very active and vital. We are able to...
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Transit Meditation: Determined Heart
What is there to be so Determined about? Your inner magic, your Heart’s Magic, is immortal, invincible. It has dreams. And when our dreams are this natural, so deeply natural, all they want to do is become fulfilled. Accepting all that is, and knowing just what is essential and where to put our...
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Transit Meditation: Force vs Power
Have you felt your Majesty lately? Saturday through Thursday (Nov 22-27), our Sun transits Gate 34: Gate of Power. This gate is about the difference between Power and Force. Between outer Force and Inner Strength. Each of us has the gift inner power, and when naturally expressed it is...
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Transit Meditation: Innate Genius
This week (Sunday through Friday, Pacific) the sun transits Gate 14: Power Skills. The shadow here is Compromise, which is really about inner compromise; Doing what we know is not right for us. When we do what is resonant with out inner wisdom, inner authority and actual gifts and innate genius…
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Transit Meditation: Breakthrough
Gate 43 will be active Tuesday through Saturday, Pacific time (Nov 11-15). Breakthrough, Crashing Through, Determination, Insight, and Inner Wisdom are all key here. The paradox to insight is that it is not found in the mind. Our greatest Insight and Epiphany come when we listen to what our body…
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Weekly Transit Meditation: Creative Beauty
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe
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Weekly Transit Meditation: Patterns
This week, Friday-Tuesday, our sun transits Gate 44: Coming to Meet. This gate is about Teamwork and Patterns that keep us supported and supportive, and those that cause Interference. Looking at our karma and clearing it can be of great benefit. We can forgive the past. There is a simple tool we...
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Weekly Transit Meditation: Purposefulness
This week the sun transits Gate 28: Great Preponderance. Our fear of death keeps us in our “sin” and keeps our inner demons in the dark. With courage of heart, and knowledge of our true gifts – ourselves, we can see life for what it is; a game. Our great challenge in life is to let it come, and...
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Weekly Transit Meditation: Resonance
This week (Sunday through Friday, Oct 19-24) our Sun transits Gate 50: Cosmic Order. We take for granted how much we are all working together to support each other. Life is always helping life. We are so adjusted to a baseline of dysfunction, of struggle, of failing systems and false promises, we...
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Weekly Transit Meditation: Impermanence
Monday-Saturday (Oct 13-18), our sun transits Gate 32: Preservation, Failure, and Veneration. The only constant is change. Impermanence is our spiritual reality. What endures? What is worth enduring? We only fail when we cut ourselves off from the whole. “Failures” in life are needed to further...
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Weekly Transit Meditation: Intuition
This week, Tuesday-Sunday Oct 7-12, our sun transits Gate 57: Intuition. The shadow here is Unease, what happens when we don’t trust our Intuition. If we put our authority outside ourselves, in expert authority, peer pressure, rationalization, or any other form of understanding that is not within...
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Weekly Transit Meditation: Wisdom
This week, Thursday through Monday (Oct 2-6 Pacific), our sun transits Gate 48: The Well; Wisdom. This gift of Wisdom is really about the gift of Resourcefulness, tapping something within us that has a answer for every need. That is our nature, because it is the essence of nature; Creative...
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