The xMonks Drive
Don’t let your assumptions define you. Be driven by choices that provide experience and teach you. When you set out to discover what you really care for by identifying your purpose and living from that space, you have access to Gaurav’s podcast, “The xMonks Drive”. It’s about beginning the journey to be your best self and live what you really care for! Hear Gaurav’s personal selection of his interviews with thought-leaders, social change makers, masterful coaches, spiritual gurus, entrepreneurs as well as business giants, who are doing something meaningful in their life. With this extensive selection of episodes featuring insightful lessons, you can learn a great deal while listening to the podcast when you are in between activities or a daily workout. Get started today by choosing an episode that helps illuminate your path to identify your purpose and live from that space!
The xMonks Drive
Shai Tubali on Dissolving the Self, the Flexible Mind, and the Bliss of Not Knowing
What if transformation begins with forgetting everything you know?
In this soul-opening episode of The xMonks Drive, host Gaurav Arora is joined by Dr. Shai Tubali—consciousness researcher, philosopher, and creator of the Expansion Method—to explore why self-improvement is the biggest obstacle to awakening.
At 23, Shai experienced a spontaneous shift into a year of pure bliss, laughter, silence, and universal love—triggered not by effort, but by the realization that his "self" was an illusion.
Together, they explore:
- Why self-help often strengthens the very illusion we need to dissolve
- How deep questioning and mystical negation can expand consciousness
- The neuroscience behind why our brains resist truth—and how to outwit them
- How to recognize whether you’re operating from cosmic flow or ego’s shadow
- The role of spiritual ego, charisma, and capitalism in modern "enlightenment"
- What it means to live as an expression of the universe—not the self
This episode isn’t self-help. It’s self-disillusionment, insight, and surrender. With roots in Upanishadic wisdom, Socratic dialogue, and consciousness studies, Shai’s words offer a path for those seeking not improvement—but liberation.
🎧 If you’ve ever felt that life’s answers lie in the space beyond identity, attachment, or knowing—this one’s for you.
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