Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality
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You may have heard about spiritual awakening. Do you know someone who is living it? Join us as Dr. Neil Schuitevoerder describes the lived experience of an advanced stage of human consciousness and shares insight for seekers of all traditions. Dr. Neil will speak from the direct experience of Being, Brahman, Sunyata, or Pure Consciousness as he transmits Non-dual Reality to you -- non-dual space/time, non-dual thinking, non-dual love, the non-dual body, and his yogic abilities to travel the cosmos, move through the bardos and, at the same time, live as a psychologist, husband, father, and grandfather. His experience dispels many myths about awakening. He will be interviewed by his partner, Dr. Connie Zweig, author of Meeting the Shadow, Romancing the Shadow, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path, and the award-winning book The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul.
Episodes
30 episodes
Freedom from I, Me, Mine
Dr. Neil explores the development of a separate identity as a necessary step in evolution as part of the heroic ego’s journey. Then he describes current identity politics as an example of both progress and a hindrance to further development. If...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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24:27
Expanding Nonduality to the Astral Body and Astral Plane
Dr. Neil explores several ways to access the astral plane. He describes a recent experience in which his astral body became transparent and infinite, like his physical body, containing everything in the universe. This opened a deeper emotional ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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20:39
Awakening and Transcending the Linear Timeline
Dr. Neil describes the conventional experience of time -- past, present, future -- as the ego’s time. But he suggests that this is a mental construct because he also experiences divine time, in which creation, maintenance, and destruction are o...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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22:37
Morality is Different in Different Levels of Consciousness
Dr. Neil explores human evolution from caveman, to tribal, to individual, to heart-centered levels of consciousness. Each stage has its own moral/immoral behavior. For those few who awaken to non-duality, morality is not rooted in subject/objec...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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21:06
Mapping the Expansion of Consciousness in the Context of Our Relationship
Dr. Neil describes the role of physical, emotional, and mental separateness with me, his wife, as a foundation for the expansion of consciousness. He suggests that the divine manifests separate people and objects to experience itself in infinit...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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24:12
How Consciousness Woke Me Up
Dr. Neil describes his personal journey of awakening from a past life to this rebirth, young age, teachers and guides, practices, and life circumstances. He emphasizes that his journey is not monastic; it’s a householder becoming a full human b...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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25:49
Awakening and Health from the Soul’s Point of View
Who is healthy? Who is ill? As the individual human soul leaves the divine source and incarnates in a body/mind, it carries the influence of several kinds of karma: individual karma from lifetimes, group karma, and the collective karma of human...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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24:43
Awakening and Attachment to Family and Friends
What is attachment, and how does it evolve? Dr. Neil describes the nature of attachment when we identify as egos, as souls, and as Spirit or pure consciousness. Is non-attachment the goal of spiritual practice? He explores the experience of att...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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32:23
Non-Dual Action, Karma Yoga, and Service as a Path
Every great spiritual tradition teaches about sacred service. Dr. Neil points out that service is structured in consciousness. We can take action and serve others from an ego level, with attachment to the outcome and to our own needs, such as i...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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27:42
The Non-Dual Body
Dr. Neil describes his discovery of the nonduality of empty mind, empty body, empty cosmos, as he transcended three kinds of apparent duality: body-mind, self-other, and individual-cosmos. This episode is focused on the latter, as he perceives ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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18:54
Dr. Neil shares His Practice of Inquiry
Demonstrating the Inquiry practice of the Diamond Approach, Dr. Neil moves into the present moment and articulates his experience as his consciousness expands from his local identity in the body outward to the solar system and the galaxy, as he...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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16:41
Aging into Awakening
Dr. Neil explores spirituality through the lifespan in the context of the new longevity. Is it important to build an ego before transcending an ego? Is it important to earn money, build relationships, and contribute to society before practicing...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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28:35
Does Suffering Change with Awakening?
Dr. Neil explores the nature of suffering as it is experienced in dualistic and non-dual levels of consciousness. He points to identification and attachment as two roots of physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. And he describes his own ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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29:27
Debunking Myths of Enlightenment
Dr. Neil explores incorrect assumptions about awakening based on his lived experience, such as the belief that there is an ultimate state of consciousness, that the ego and shadow are eliminated, that physical health is required, that we can “g...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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28:21
Doing Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice
Dr. Neil describes the three stages he experienced as he evolved as a psychologist with his clients: Subject/object duality, in which he diagnoses and treats people; a reciprocal system or intersubjective field, in which the two are connected; ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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24:18
Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path
Dr. Neil explores key questions: How can someone be awake in a high stage and still act out his or her personal shadow? Why is there an epidemic of gurus and priests acting out their shadows today? Why do we need to cultivate shadow awareness i...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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49:02
Beneath the 1st Chakra and Beyond the Seventh Chakra
Dr. Neil explores the worlds beneath the root chakra: animal, plant, mineral, molecular, atomic and subatomic. Then he explores above the 6th chakra to the 7th and beyond, in which evolution moves from human to divine, from local non-duality to...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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25:47
Dr. Neil’s Evolution through the First to Sixth Chakras
Dr. Neil details the personal experiences that shaped his evolution from infancy in the root chakra, tribal belonging in the second, budding individuality in the third, expanding identity with humanity in the fourth, further expansion to identi...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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45:15
Spirituality, Shadow, and Politics
A few days after the US election, Dr. Neil explores the primary human levels of consciousness: alligator, tribal, individual, soul, and non-dual. He describes their traits and what it may mean for the tribal level to take power for the evolutio...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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21:10
Living in Dual and Non-Dual States
Dr. Neil describes moving his attention between duality and non-duality during daily life as he looks at an object, speaks with someone, or feels something. This simultaneous bounded and unbounded awareness gives him access to blissful states a...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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17:01
Non-Dual Love
Dr. Neil describes the evolution of human love through the stages (or chakras) of self/other in family love, romantic love, and spiritual devotion. He explores how it opens into non-dual love, where subject/object and space/time disappear into ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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24:42
Into the Astral Plane
Based on his direct experience, Dr. Neil explores life in the first plane beyond death, where some people travel after dropping their bodies. He describes several friends who recently died and their experiences of traveling through the bardos o...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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22:43
The Illusion of Death
Based on his direct experience, Dr. Neil describes his own journey through the stages of death (bardos). He also explores other peoples’ deaths, friends, parents, and his guru, as he follows them through the process of death and rebirth. Becaus...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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34:21
Who am I? Part 3: Living as Spirit: I am Everything
Dr. Neil explores the expansion of his identity from an ego to the soul to the divine. His early, visual, local subject/object non-duality opened out into a vast non-dual reality that includes everything in the galaxy, beyond physical sight and...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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24:14
Who am I? Part 2: Living as a Soul
Dr. Neil describes living as a soul, rather than an ego. He says that human beings are part of one soul, the human soul. And there are other soul groups, which is why we resonate with some people. The soul is always there; it’s never not there,...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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27:28