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Awareness Explorers

Awareness Explorers

By: Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience. Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor explore ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.2018 Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor Spirituality
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  • 193: Kat van Oudheusden, Guest Explorer
    Aug 15 2025

    In this episode, we talk to Kat (Katrijn) van Oudheusden, author of Seeing No-Self, and Beyond Illusion, about discovering the illusion of separation, and her set of essential inquiries that use empirical investigation of direct experience to point to our true nature.

    To learn more about Kat van Oudheusden, please visit:
    https://katoudheusden.com/

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:

    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    # 6 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart
    # 7 in the Top 100 joy All time chart
    # 8 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart
    # 8 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart
    # 46 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

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    55 mins
  • 192: Samuel Jacob, Guest Explorer
    Aug 1 2025

    In this episode we talk to Samuel Jacob, a contemporary spiritual teacher specializing in radical self-inquiry. He emphasizes the immediate availability of awareness, completeness, and happiness in the present moment.

    • Includes a guided meditation focusing on being aware that all appearances arise “here” without effort, and emphasizing the relaxation of any attempt to arrive here, which is where the I, awareness is.

    To learn more about Samuel Jacob, please visit:
    https://www.samueljacob.org/
    or on YouTube:
    @being-happiness
    or on Instagram:
    @samueljacobness

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:

    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    # 6 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart
    # 7 in the Top 100 joy All time chart
    # 6 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart
    # 8 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart
    # 45 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

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    58 mins
  • 191: Inward and Outward Paths
    Jul 18 2025

    In this episode we explore the concepts of the inward and outward facing paths. They are presented as different approaches in various traditions that, if pursued to their core, eventually arrive at a direct experience of a unified life.

    • Includes a guided meditation that extends the ancient neti neti practice of excluding all concepts of what you conceive yourself to be, and then re-including all so-called outer experience, thereby seeing that all is awareness and not separate from your true self.

    Short phrases to help you get a handle on the inward and outward facing paths:
    Nothing you can name or conceive of is awareness. Nothing you could name or conceive of is not awareness.
    Meditating with your eyes closed and looking within at awareness, and meditating with your eyes open and looking at the world as awareness.
    “Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
    ― Nisargadatta Maharaj

    The song Jonathan mentioned in this episode is “Impermanence” by John Astin:
    https://music.apple.com/us/song/impermanence/72793994

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:

    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    # 6 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart
    # 7 in the Top 100 joy All time chart
    # 5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart
    # 8 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart
    # 45 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers

    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian


    Photo by Vladislav Babienko on Unsplash

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    41 mins
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