Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
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Interviews with profound, yet down-to-earth spiritual teachers. Hear their life stories and nuggets of wisdom that you can apply to your spiritual search. If the great mysteries of life intrigue you, then you will enjoy this show.
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
3w ago
Message in a Bottle: Reflections on the Spiritual Path is a new book from the TAT Foundation Press. Rather than another book by a spiritual teacher, this book takes the approach of asking spiritual seekers, those still on the path to “finding,” to share their stories and wisdom. Interestingly, each contributor to this volume also ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
6M ago
August “Augie” Turak was the first student of Richard Rose and played an key role in introducing me to the spiritual search through his founding of the Self Knowledge Symposium. Thus, I was happy for the opportunity to interview him in support of his new book, Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
7M ago
What happens when you take the rigor of a physicist and combine that with the earnest desire of a seeker of enlightenment? In his mid-twenties, Shawn Pethel picked up a book by Ken Wilber and was introduced Eastern philosophy and the idea enlightenment. As a scientist, he recognized that these Eastern meditators were true spiritual ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
10M ago
My reading this episode is two extracts from the works of Ramana Maharshi. The first is an excerpt from a longer work entitled “Who Am I,” and the second is titled “Self Enquiry.” The “Self Enquiry” piece was written around 1901, and both writings appear in Author Osborne’s The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
1y ago
My reading this episode is an excerpt from Eddie Traversa’s book, Truth Realization. Eddie was an extraordinarily sincere spiritual teacher and friend who passed away in 2022. His website no longer exists, but at least as of the time of this writing, his book is still available, and you can listen to my podcast interview ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
1y ago
I credit Joseph Sadony with inspiring me to explore the realm of intuition and giving a taste of the difference between an emotion that is a reaction to a thought, and a thought that is a reaction to a feeling. Every so often, I dust off my copy of Gates of the Mind and get ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
1y ago
The tagline on Maury Lee’s website reads ” Sixty-nine year old male, expressing non duality, realization, by the grace of God.” The simplicity, yet depth, of that line is a good summation of Maury Lee. Maury was recommended to me by Michael Casari, and I found him to be an otherwise quiet soul who became ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
1y ago
This episode’s reading is an essay by Alfred Pulyan titled “The Penny That Blots Out The Sun.” Pulyan was a little-known Zen teacher based in Connecticut and active in the 1950s through his death in 1966. Like so many authentic teachers, he labored in relative obscurity, yet his words and deeds continue to affect many ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
1y ago
This episode’s reading is an essay by William Samuel titled “The World is After the Fact” from his book The Child Within Us Lives! In it, William Samuel reaches out to the audience laying bare the depth of his understanding and felt experience of Reality. I’ve only scratched the surface of William Samuel’s teachings, so ..read more
Journals of Spiritual Discovery by spiritualteachers.org
1y ago
Jac O’Keeffe has been in the nondual “scene” since 2008, but it would be a mistake to limit her message to nondual teachings. In fact, as she explains in this interview, her teaching has continually evolved over the years. The current focus of Jac O’Keeffe is pointing to what is “deeper than that” in relation ..read more