668 – Awareness Home: From Fragmentation to Oneness
Awareness has the intrinsic ability to move in sophisticated ways. Some of them are helpful, but John describes how any self-orientation ultimately reinforces separation.
639 – The Path Dissolves: Turning Into the Truth You Seek
This conversation goes to the heart of what enables the full return to one's innermost, revealing the pitfalls of a spiritual practice.
626 – Beyond Success and Failure: Moving from Clarity
Is it possible to invest a lot of time and energy in a project and not be caught up with its success or failure? There's a quality of being that makes all the difference, and John explains.
595 – When a Crumb of Truth in Your Heart is Your Home
John responds to a spiritual dilemma: a desperate longing for realization, coupled with the fear of nothingness that seems to come with it.
589 – Starting Over: Living Your Awakening Before You Die
After many years on a spiritual path, this person is no longer interested in more teachings. Can there really be nothing to do? John describes what stands in the way of living our awakening, and the value of doing that before we die.
585 – Beyond Your Understood Powers: Your Real Life, Within
“Who am I?” In this dialogue, John is responding to a person who really wants his spiritual search to be over but doesn’t know how that can happen.
573 – Meditation: Can it Become a Trap?
“Meditation is a help, it isn’t you.” This conversation uncovers how a helpful technique can become a self-made trap, and John shares the key to moving beyond it.
552 – No Aim, No Clue: Your Sweet Return to Simply Being
Two questions: one about the vanishing aim of enlightenment, the other about the effects of being on a computer all day. John’s answer applies equally to both, and it all has to do with enjoying being, within.
509 – Bonds of Being
In this detailed and at times humorous dialogue, John reveals the magical bonds of being that occur when one spectrum of consciousness encounters another.
485 – Real Community: A Location of Oneness
How is a community formed if it's not moved by intention? A question about love opens a conversation about the oneness at the heart of real community.
481 – From a Spiritual Practice to a Living Mantra
Meditation, spiritual traditions, mantras … do they really work? As John explains, there is a living mantra, but you won't hear it in words.
438 – Beyond a Daily Practice: Why Working on Your Beingness Doesn't Work
The man in this dialogue is ready to make whatever sacrifices necessary to let go of the self and move deeper into his being. He discusses with John his various practices, and the two-edged sword of any doing to be becomes clear. Together they arrive at the only way that works.
