I’ve heard a few stories lately about people with brain injuries and how they might affect their “free will”. On today’s show I talk about those stories and think about them from a Three Illusions perspective. Want to subscribe to the series? You can find us on iTunes, or click the “Subscribe” links below this […]
Our guest on this episode is Jon from Minnesota. We talk about his journey from growing up in a fundamentalist religion, to being a minister, to first hearing me talk about free will five years ago and thinking I was “full of shit”, to where he is today. Want to subscribe to the series? You […]
Our guest on this episode is Adin from Portland. He came on to clarify my position on the nature of time, tells us about his experiences living in a Buddhist monastery and there’s some discussion about Tina Turner. Want to subscribe to the series? You can find us on iTunes, or click the “Subscribe” links […]
We chat with our first guest, Martin Darlington, who has condensed the book down into a witty poem – and improved it tremendously in the process. Want to subscribe to the series? You can find us on iTunes, or click the “Subscribe” links below this post and you’ll get what you need. If you know […]
The last episode taken from the book and the one where we get to the final message. Want to subscribe to the series? You can find us on iTunes, or click the “Subscribe” links below this post and you’ll get what you need. If you know how to manually subscribe to a podcast, use this […]
Who – or what – are you? Most people will say something about mind, body, soul, spirit – but as we’ll see in this episode, as soon as you scratch the surface, those concepts quickly fall apart. They are merely what one neurologist calls a “confabulation”. We’re going to argue that your misunderstanding about what […]
I often hear people say they have seen that the self / ego is an illusion and that they are “the one” – but then they lost it. They often say things like “the ego came back” or “life got in the way”. I’m hear to tell you that the realisation that can be lost […]
The fundamental need that every single person has is to “fill the hole”. We struggle to name “the hole”, but it exists inside all of us. It manifests itself in different ways for different people, depending on their genetics and conditioning and environment, but it’s the same hole. It’s that feeling that you are irrevocably […]
Once we have seen our true nature, there is no going back. It is a permanent transformation. It’s like a blind person being given the gift of sight. You’ll never again think of yourself in the old way. Enlightenment (aka realization) happens suddenly although it may take years of work to be ready for the […]
The Great Teaching is very simple. It is so simple that most overlook it, even when given to them freely. They complicate it with ideas and concepts, with prejudice and fear. They believe they are not worthy of it and so delay their acceptance of it. This is not their fault – they do what […]