Byron Katie - The Story Of The ONE - Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2012-06-21 | Byron Katie 'The Story Of The ONE' Interview by Iain McNay Author of many books including, 'A Thousand Names For Joy', 'Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life ' and 'Who Would You Be Without Your Thinking.' Creator of 'The Work,' Katie talks about her life and how she sees reality. 'Stay in the place you are not creating the illusion. Stay in the I AM.' 'I am the awareness of Consciousness observing itself'.The transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://www.conscious.tv/text/29.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Henry Shukman ‘Finally, I Gave Myself Up.’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2021-11-05 | Henry has written several books, some biographical, some poetry, and some novels. This interview is based on his latest book; his autobiography ‘One blade of Grass.’He takes us through his life; from severe eczema, depression and anxiety to finding meditation and Zen. He travelled for a time in South America and had an extraordinary experience on a beach which left him in awe but puzzled as he had no reference point to what had happened. Back in the UK after finding meditation and then Zen he started to work with Koans. In time he discovered the hidden treasures that contemplative practice and Zen can reveal. He now runs the ‘Mountain Cloud Zen Centre ’in New Mexico.
Rhonda Byrne ‘Finding The Greatest Secret’ Interview by iain McNay. conscioustv 2021-07-10 | Rhonda Byrne ‘Finding The Greatest Secret’ Interview by iain McNay.After reading books about manifesting abundance and the law of attraction when her life was in crisis Rhonda dramatically changed her priorities and everything changed for her. She then had the idea of making a film of what she had learnt and called it ‘The Secret.’ On release it was immediately a huge success and that encouraged her to write a book of the same name which to date has sold over 35 million copies. She then went on a sustained spiritual search over many years to find deeper levels of truth. That took into the world of Esoteric Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism as well as studying teachers such as J. Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharishi. And then one day she found a video of an interview with David Bingham and something finally clicked, she woke up, and she knew for sure who she really was. This led to her writing her latest book, ‘The Greatest Secret’ where she goes into detail on what she found and the teachers who helped her the most.In this interview she talks in detail about her life and her journey and how she eventually found the greatest secret…
David Bingham ‘Effortless Being’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2021-06-18 | David is a spiritual guide and has helped many people to realise their True Nature.We did some interviews with David many years ago in the early days of conscious.tv and you can find his story of awakening in those.In this interview he explains how Self Realisation is becoming increasingly easy and that determination is the most important factor in achieving it. He tells us a few stories about some of his students who Woke Up recently.‘Realisation is effortless and is not an experience.’ We need to realise that we are already Effortless Being, that’s all we can ever be and by resting in it solutions we need will arise from infinite intelligence.He also explains what the biggest obstacle to realise ones Being is and the difference between Self Realisation and Waking Up. He talks about Integration and refinement following Self Realisation and different ways to disengage the Mind and integrate effortless Being into daily experience.
Rick Brown ‘Trust in Krishna’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2021-06-04 | Rick Brown ‘Trust in Krishna’ Interview by Iain McNayRick was the singer in the innovative American psychedelic rock band The Misunderstood formed in the mid-1960s. They were discovered by John Ravenscoft (soon to be Peel) and with his help moved to London where they signed to Fontana Records. They were admired by many including The Move and the Pink Floyd and were considered highly influential in the then-emerging genre. They only recorded a handful of songs before being forced to disband.Rick was then conscripted into the US Army to fight in Vietnam. In the boot camp he was turned onto the Bhagavad-gita and deserted and fled to India via the UK with a false passport. He moved into a Hindi ashram where no-one spoke English and became a monk staying for over 6 years. He begged for his food and had to deal with many serious health issues. While there he learned to speak Bengali and Hindi and read Sanskrit and Hindi. In 1979, after 12 years in exile, he returned to the US where he was granted amnesty as a conscientious objector and discharged from the Army. He now lives in Thailand where he deals in gemstones. His story is fascinating and has many phases; from potential rock star to fugitive to Hindi monk to rediscovering active life from a different vantage. It is quite a tale…‘You start off with blind faith and then circumstances causes that faith to be tested and then when the tests work out it becomes experience and then it becomes knowledge and then it is no longer blind faith’
Paul Holman ‘Freedom Through Spatial Awareness’ Interview by Iain McNay. conscioustv 2021-01-22 | Paul is author of ‘Living Space - Openness and Freedom through Spatial Awareness.’ He is a Doctor with 40 years’ experience in psychiatry and has a lifelong interest in mind-body relationships. He began to realize that an expanded experience of space was reported by individuals who had woken up. The work ofDouglas Harding had an immediate and extraordinary effect on him and he started to look for other accounts of radical changes in perception. He feels that as Westerners we are preoccupied with foreground experiences and our attentional style is narrow which has pervaded most aspects of our lives and leads to narrow focus. Becoming aware of space has made an enormous difference in his practice and his work with clients.In this interview he talks about his experiences and his work and how an awareness of Spatial Awareness can lead to freedom.
Ishtar (Thomas Howell) ‘Relax… And Enlightenment is Waiting For You.’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2021-01-08 | Ishtar (Thomas Howell) ‘Relax… And Enlightenment is Waiting For You.’ Interview by Renate McNayIshtar is a Meditation teacher, Ishaya Monk, Gardener, Writer and intuitive Astrologer.He had a sense of himself until the age of 7 and saw the World infused with boundless and bottomless Light.At 13 he was in a car accident that took his Mothers life and initiated an NDA (near death experience)which threw him into a profound Samadhi experience where he saw in a flash his whole Life before his eyesin perfect detail along with the knowledge of every time he made a choice from fear, limitation or conditioning.After the Samadhi faded he fell into intense grieving and depression and wanted to find his way back. He began a meditation practice and ascetic discipline with cold showers at 3am, fasting and many hours of meditation, he became a monk in his own home. Years later he found a practice known as the Ishaya Ascension and startedliving in a monastic environment dedicated to the practice and training to become a teacher. Miracles and wildmanifestations were frequent and Awareness slowly saturated more and more of his life.A good spiritual practice is guiding us into the most fundamental and expansive octave of our nervous system.He says: “One doesn’t have to do anything to wake up, just relax. Samadhi is waiting for us to relax. In Samadhi the psychic impressions are being destroyed and freeing up our Nervous System.”He also talks about his lifelong interest in Astrology which is a fascinatingly accurate window into the strengthand weaknesses of Peoples psyche. In his work he’s tuning into the multi-layered music of the Soul.
Helen Hamilton ‘The Silence and The Fear’ interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2020-12-05 | Helen has written 7 books including ‘Reality Check - a simple guide to enlightenment,’ and ‘The Story of I. ’ She was always searching for something in my life and for many years she didn’t know what it was. She always felt different as a child and could see energy and auras around her and desperately tried to fit in and find peace but it never came. A sense of an empty void began to grow inside her in her twenties and eventually she realised she was suffering from depression. She tried various forms of healing, reiki, meditations but they only gave her temporary relief. But then for one brief moment all mind chatter stopped and when it resumed she spent years searching for how to get back to that "place". She pursuing yoga, Kundalini teachings, Vipassana meditations and much more and experienced awakening in what seemed to be stages. During her awakening she experienced lengthy delays and many obstacles and issues and struggled to overcome blocks and got stuck many times. There were many delays and dark moments. In this interview Helen talks us through her journey and explains how she now sees reality.
Stephan Bodian ‘The Seeker is the Sought’ Interview by Renate McNay. conscioustv 2020-10-16 | Stephan is a spiritual teacher who offers Satsangs and Retreats. He is a Psychotherapist and the Founder and Director of ‘The School for Awakening,’ an annual six-month awakening intensive. In 2001 Adyashanti gave him Dharma transmission and invited him to teach. He is the author of several books including “Beyond Mindfulness”, "Wake up Now” and “A Guide to the Journey of Spiritual Awakening.”After a difficult Childhood Stephen was longing to transcend the burden of his busy mind, the pain of his Childhood, and his anxiety. He found himself on the doorsteps of Buddhism and Zen and practicing “Mindful Meditation” intensively as a Zen Monk for a decade. He developed the capacity to sit with unwavering focus for hours at a time but after many years of mindfully following his breath he felt that he reached the limits of mindfulness. He felt there was no sign of any insights or awakening. He left the monastery he was in and met the Advaita teacher Jean Klein who told him to “Stop meditating and instead discover the Meditator….don't make Meditation a Habit”. One day driving down the Freeway a phrase Jean Klein had often repeated drifted through his awareness: “The Seeker is the Sought”. Suddenly his reality turned inside out and he had a profound awakening.Stephan talks about his journey, the work of Embodiment after Awakening, and reflects on the abuse shown by some spiritual teachers.
Michael McCaffrey ‘The Trap of the Absolute’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2020-10-02 | Michael McCaffrey ‘The Trap of the Absolute’ Interview by Iain McNayMichael grew up with a nagging sense that something wasn’t quite as it seemed. As a child he spent time contemplating life, death and infinity. In his mid-teens he medicated myself through his discomfort and then things started to spiral out of control. He was pretty much high 7 days a week. He fell and became a shadow of his former self.He decided to try meditation and ended up going to India. He discovered that what he’d been seeking his whole life was right here. He was it. It was like a reset button had been hit and he saw everything differentlyOver the next few years he spoke at non-duality events but found them to not be for him.He came do discover through these talks that he had got himself caught in a secondary trap, the trap of the absolute.‘The only way out is in. Right at the centre of the storm is where we find peace.’He realised that the work to be fully human is the work of a lifetime.
‘Beyond Imogen’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2020-07-31 | Imogen Sita Webber is a Spiritual Mentor and Writer. She was raised with the understanding that "everything is consciousness” as the underlying basis of life. She started practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) aged 6 and attended both the Maharishi School in the UK and the Maharishi University in the USA. The Vedic knowledge of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the paradigm she grew up in and therefore never considered herself a “spiritual seeker” because she never had any other context or knowledge of spirituality outside of this viewpoint. Imogen had a fairly difficult upbringing and suffered from catatonic depression. Meditation and Anti-depressants gave her the tools to avoid what she was feeling inside. After her closest friend committed suicide she walked out of her Life and questioned her whole existence. She realised that she wasn’t truly happy. While reading Suzanne Segal’s book “Collision with the Infinite” she experienced a dramatic spontaneous non-dual awakening and lived for several months in joyful bliss. The complete Awakening happened after a transmission 18 months later through an American teacher called Ramaji. Following the transmission the profound realisation dawned on her that there was nothing to “get” and there wasn’t and never had been any-ONE to get it! The sense that “I” am a separate “self” or “doer” who thinks and acts autonomously in this “world” was obliterated. Now Life is utterly raw, spontaneous, beautiful, inclusive of all and utterly in the “NOW”.
Howdie Mickoski ‘Falling Into The Truth.’ Interview by Iain McNay. conscioustv 2020-06-26 | Howdie is the author of ‘Falling For Truth’ and ‘the Power Of Then.’ His first job was working as a professional comedian. When he heard an ex-girlfriend had been murdered it left him shattered and a deep questioning started inside him. His journey led him to study the ancient Egyptians and to work with some very powerful teachers. He realised that he could never know what the ancients were building and doing because he was thinking like a modern human. To understand the ancient past he had to think like the ancients.In 2005 he had an accident when he nearly drowned. As a result of this he saw reality completely differently.Howdie talks us through his life, his accident, his realisations, and his process of integration.
Martin Wells ‘Sitting In the Stillness’ Interview by Iain McNay. conscioustv 2020-06-13 | Martin Wells ‘Sitting In the Stillness’ Interview by Iain McNay. Martin is author of the book ‘Sitting In the Stillness’ and works as a psychotherapist in the British NHS. In his late teens he started to be drawn to Eastern philosophy and meditation. He began reading Jung avidly and started on an unconscious search to change his core belief. After years of practising as a therapist and meditation teacher he was becoming increasingly jaded when he went to a lecture by Jean-Marc Mantel. Almost immediately he had the experience of everything falling away, of all his searching coming to an end, and a feeling of peace and fulfilment and stillness. This experience started a completely new way of relating to life, and his work.
Conversations on Awakening Books - An Introduction by Iain McNay conscioustv 2020-03-10 | Iain talks about some of the interviews that are included in the two new conscious.tv ‘Conversations on Awakening - Parts 1 and 2
Leonard Jacobson ‘The Path Of Champions’ Interview by iain McNay conscioustv 2019-06-21 | Leonard Jacobson ‘The Path Of Champions’ Interview by iain McNayAuthor of ‘Journey Into Now - Clear Guidance on the Path of Spiritual Awakening, ’ ‘Words From Silence,’ and ‘Bridging Heaven and Earth: A Return to the One.’Leonard was originally working as a lawyer in Australia when he spontaneously resigned one day to follow a new path. Shortly afterwards he heard two words, ‘Creativity and Communication’ and this led him to become a copywriter. In Xmas 1981 he had the first of a dramatic spiritual opening on a retreat which completely changed the path of his life and his understanding of reality. More awakening experiences followed each with a period of integration in between.He now has a unique teaching which has two basic steps; the first step leading to presence, and the second to mastery. The second step is divided into 4 stages.Resistance of the Ego; Denial of who you have become; Repression of past emotions and Entanglement to the Other. In this interview Leonard talks about his path and his teaching.
Shakti Caterina Maggi How Consciousness Becomes Human Interview by Renate McNay. conscioustv 2019-02-15 | Shakti Caterina Maggi How Consciousness Becomes Human Interview by Renate McNay.Shakti is a spiritual teacher sharing her message of embodied awakening to our True Nature. As a child she already had spiritual experiences and in 2003, while working as a financial reporter in Milan, had her first Kundalini awakening. She fell asleep with a deep sense of love and woke up at 2am with all her body in bliss.A friend took her to a Satsang where Caterina realised that she had never existed. She never felt as a Person again, or fell back into identification. She saw that she was not in charge of her spiritual Life and it’s not a Person who wakes up, it’s Consciousness. She explains what true Embodiment means and how Consciousness becomes a Human Being. Her message is: "Awaken to Life and not run away from it and see Life through the Emptiness of the Heart."
Jonathan Donahue ‘The Lamp Went On’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2019-02-06 | Jonathan Donahue is co-founder, vocalist and songwriter with the American band Mercury Rev whose seminal album is ‘Deserters Songs.’ After the release of the band’s third album he experienced an opening which changed the way he saw life and wrote and performed songs.‘True creation comes when there is space for it, when there is a letting go of our images and identity. There is also more appreciation of the whole; how everything fits together. The music becomes more like a stream of consciousness.’
Linda Clair Enlightenment is in the Body Interview By Renate McNay conscioustv 2018-11-08 | Linda Clair 'Enlightenment is in the Body.' Interview By Renate McNayLinda is a Meditation Teacher based on ZEN practice. She is the Author of the book 'What do you want - Conversations about Enlightenment.'In this interview which is the second conscious.tv one with her Linda says that enlightenment is the beginning of a whole new way of living and although its the end of suffering and fear, there is no end to the practice as long as one is in the body. To be fully free you need to go through being grounded, so grounded that you’re able to let go of everything—even enlightenment.Stay in your body. The silence is in your body. Its not out there. Stay in your body and you’ll be surprised what happens. To really become immersed in the silence, you need to free your body - purify your body of the past. Only then will there be silence and that silence is overwhelming. www.simplemeditation.net
Jez Alborough ‘My Personality Just Fell Apart…..’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2018-10-26 | Jez Alborough ‘My Personality Just Fell Apart…..’ Interview by Iain McNayAuthor of ‘The Story Of You and ‘The Infinite Journey.’Jez was a very successful children’s author having sold over 8 million books. He was always aware of two sides of his life; a creative, outgoing character who loved and enjoyed himself and also deep down a traumatised, damaged side which was mostly hidden away. While cycling he would sometimes experience ‘the sensation of golden light in my spine which put my thinking process in neutral and released me into a state of bliss. I could observe my life but there was a distance to it, almost as if it was happening to someone else.’Later when his career took off he would sometimes feel strange. ‘It was as if something in me had fused: my hands went cold and my heart started racing; I felt abnormally stressed.’ These episodes disturbed him.At one point he took a holiday which he hoped would put right whatever was wrong with him. But at one point, ‘my knees buckled beneath me, my whole Personality just fell apart - there was no coming back. It was what UG Krishnamurti calls “the calamity.” I couldn’t pull myself together. The centre from which I‘d previously operated just wasn’t functioning, this was accompanied by tremendous anxiety.’In this interview Jez tells us his fascinating story as well as the realisations that he came to through this process, and the world he now lives in.
Susanne Marie “Living Beyond Unity” Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2018-10-12 | Susanne Marie is a Mystic, spiritual Mentor and Guide and currently writing her first book about her journey to Awakening.In this interview she talks about the 3 different major awakening she had.1. Emptiness of Mind…Mind waking up to itself2. Unity Consciousness…the Heart understood the truth of form, the form itself is divine and I AM THAT not just I AM 9 years of integration and embodiment followed when a realisation happened she wasn’t anticipating…3. Her Body released itself of identity, she was left with NO SELFThe Body contains identity within its own structure, the sense of ME which is needed to help it function. When the ME fell away within the body nothing was ever the same. There is no landing place anymore. Self reflection came to a permanent End. There is only pure experience only NOW. She says: “Go directly to the experience and feeling of what is arising, drop deeper into the vastness of your Being, rest there, no need to interpret, let go without knowing.”
Chris Bache ‘Diamonds From Heaven’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2018-07-05 | Chris Bache ‘Diamonds From Heaven’ Interview by Iain McNayChris is author of several books including ‘Lifecycles – a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research’; ‘Dark Night, Early Dawn – a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness’; and ‘The Living Classroom,’ an exploration of teaching and collective fields of consciousness.’ He is currently completing his new book, ‘Diamonds from Heaven: A 20 Year Journey into the Mind of the Universe.’This latest book is a detailed account of 20 years of discovery initiated by taking 73 high doses of LSD. This journey was inspired by Stan Grof’s book ‘In Realms of the Human Unconscious’ which convinced him that the entire intellectual tradition he had absorbed was based upon a superficial experience of the human psyche. He felt he couldn’t turn down the invitation of extending his experience of his mind to have first-hand knowledge of these domains.In this interview Chris shares some of the boundaries crossed, lessons learned and the experiences he had during this 20 year psychedelic journey. Categories include: crossing the perinatal plain, the ocean of suffering, Deep Time and the soul, the Greater Real of archetypal reality, the birth of the Future Human, Diamond Luminosity, and integrating the Infinite. This really is a very unique interview.You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Georgi Y Johnson ‘The Psychology of Awakening’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2018-06-21 | Georgi Y Johnson ‘The Psychology of Awakening’ Interview by Renate McNayGeorgi is a spiritual teacher and with her partner Bart ten Berge runs an international teaching and healing practice in Nondual Therapy and Spiritual Psychology. She is the Author of “I AM HERE”, Opening the Widows of Life and Beauty, “Nondual Therapy” The Psychology of Awakening and “Stillness of the Wind” A Collection of Nondual Poetry.In this interview Georgi talks about Nondual Therapy. She was involved with her team and students in a shared evolutionary project where they used themselves as guinea pigs to discover the immense healing power of Nondual Qualities of our True Nature. Nondual Therapy, which Georgi is pioneering around the World is a process which supports the release of energetic contractions in the Psyche which are frozen forms of those Nondual Qualities. She also talks about the purpose in our suffering, that it is NOT private and inseparable of the suffering of the whole. Every moment we live the Universe is experiencing itself and how to be free within an experience or feeling. The Art of living this Life and that Individuality is a precious manifestation of Source in motion.You can find out more about conscious tv here:Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Shawn Nevins ‘The Way Of Subtraction’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2018-05-24 | Shawn Nevins ‘The Way Of Subtraction’ Interview by Iain McNayShawn is author of four books including ‘Subtraction: The Simple Math Of Enlightenment.‘ In the foreword he says, ‘This book answers the question of how to find out the answer to who and what you are beyond any shadow of a doubt.’ His spiritual search ended on December 28th 1999 having started 7 years earlier. During that time he meditated for thousands of hours, fasted, prayed, retreated, met spiritual teachers, and never gave up.His primary teacher was Richard Rose but he also spent time with Bernadette Roberts, Douglas Harding and others. His breakthrough came when he read through a transcript of a talk by Franklin Merrell-Wolff.Shawn’s story has many ups and downs. His sincerity during his search shines through and his many realisations on his path are tangible.You can find out more about conscious tv here:Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Carolyn Cowan ‘The Mantle Of Grace’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2018-05-10 | Carolyn Cowan ‘The Mantle Of Grace’ Interview by Renate McNayCarolyn is a Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Teacher Trainer and Psychosexual Therapist specialising in Addiction & Trauma Recovery.Dramatic early Childhood experiences led her into addiction to Smoking, Drugs & Alcohol. Whatever she tried nothing could kill her pain. She became a body painter and worked with many famous Artists such as Bryan Ferry, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Elton John. When doing the make-up for David Bowie one day her life changed dramatically. David took one look at her and told her she was in trouble. He was at the time himself in recovery and wanted her to get well too. He encouraged her to attend AA and stay sober. Soon afterwards she found Kundalini Yoga and started to meditate which has brought great transformation for her. She says: ‘Sometimes the pain comes on so suddenly and that can be devastating. When you stay with it ‘The Mantel of Grace’ can descend and you realise that you have taken a step through a door and nothing will ever be the same again. You can then see how divine Life is here on this Planet.In the interview Carolyn speaks about Addiction, Trauma and the abstractness of the spiritual journey, and how healing began when she became bored with her own story of suffering.You can find out more about conscious tv here:Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Stephen Snyder ‘The Transformative and The Transcendent’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2018-04-18 | Stephen Snyder ‘The Transformative and The Transcendent’ Interview by Iain McNayStephen is the co-author of ‘Practicing the Jhanas: Traditional Concentration Meditation as Presented by the Venerable PA Auk Sayadaw.’ He has been a Buddhist practitioner for over 40 years. In the 70’s he read ‘Three Pillars Of Zen’ which started him on his path of meditation and then a few years later he had a significant awakening experience which showed him the nature of reality. He discovered the Jhana path of meditation and found he strongly connected with that. He now works with Tina Rasmussen teaching meditation and is also a practicing lawyer. He has found that it is really important to work on the Transformative and The Transcendent and talks in detail about this in the interview. http://www.awakeningdharma.comYou can find out more about conscious tv here:Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Alberto Manni ‘The Forgotten Jewel of Self Knowledge.’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2018-04-13 | Alberto Manni ‘The Forgotten Jewel of Self Knowledge.’ Interview by Renate McNayAfter the sudden ending of an intimate relationship Alberto suffered greatly with painful thoughts and feelings. He saw no way out. This pushed him onto a spiritual path. He discovered the “Gnostic Movement” and dived headlong into this knowledge. After a time when he had found a new relationship he and his partner sold their house, resigned from their jobs, and left Italy to move to South America where the School was based. They devoting their lives to the deepening of their understanding of their inner nature and worked for the good of the School. They loved it. After a time though they discovered some inconsistency between the School’s doctrine and the leaders behaviour. Eventually they left and lost all their friends at the school as nobody would greet them anymore. They were treated like strangers and had to rebuild their lives. What Alberto brought out with him from the School was the teaching of "Self Remembering". When we do not remember ourselves we are asleep, we are not there. The only “real Life” we have during our day is what we do when awake; what is done from a state of Presence. Normally this is about 1%. We can live a whole day and perform most tasks that are required of us without being present or remembering our real selves.Alberto also developed the “Conscious Learning course" for University students of all Faculties. You can find out more on the website below:www.spaziosereno.comYou can find out more about conscious tv here:Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Michael James ‘The Real Behind All Appearances’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2018-04-07 | Michael James ‘The Real Behind All Appearances’ Interview by Iain McNayAuthor of ‘Happiness and The Art Of Being - An Introduction to the philosophy and practice of the spiritual teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana.’ Michael travelled overland to India when he was 19 to help find some deeper meaning to his life. He discovered the book ‘Who Am I’ by Ramana Maharashi and went to Tiruvannamallai where Ramana had lived to find out more about him. There he connected with Sri Sadhu Om who had been a student of Ramana Maharashi and ended up living there for 20 years. He learnt Tamil and translated many books into English. He is widely regarded now as the principle scholar of Ramana’s teachings and spends his time translating his work. You can find out more here:www.happinessofbeing.comYou can find out more about conscious tv here:Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Tina Rasmussen ‘Living The Enlightenment Drive’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2018-04-01 | Tina Rasmussen ‘Living The Enlightenment Drive’ Interview by Renate McNayTina teaches Jhana Meditation and helps students recognise their deeper nature, both on the cushion and in daily life. She wrote the book “Practicing the Jhanas” with her teaching partner Stephen Snyder. She also worked as an organisation development consultant and coach for more the 25 years and published several books on humanistic business practices.Tina learned to meditate at age 13 and had been attending long silent meditation retreats. For years she practiced in Buddhist and Non-Dual traditions. She had a natural talent for concentration meditation and undertook an intensive year-long solo retreat during which a profound awakening to true nature occurred. After life-changing experiences Tina felt the strong pull to become a “cave yogi” but as the awakening matured, it was compelling to her to function in the world from an awakened perspective. She was the first Western Women who completed the entire Samatha path including the eight Jhanas and was authorised to teach by Burmese meditation Master Ven.Pa Auk Sayadaw. She is also practicing the “Diamond Approach” by H. A. Almaas. http://www.awakeningdharma.comThe transcript of this interview is available to view here:http://www.conscious.tv/text/149.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Christopher J. Smith ‘Discovering My Secret Self’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-12-20 | Christopher J. Smith ‘Discovering My Secret Self’ Interview by Iain McNayAuthor of ‘The Secret Self – A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening and Inner Freedom.’ From an early age Chris had a sense that society didn't feel right and felt strange how people believed and identified with things which were not real. As a child he had subtle experiences of 'no identity.' He left school and joined the army where he learnt the true meaning of conditioning, he felt it was like a prison within a prison. A Corporal said to him. ‘we want to break you down and rebuild you as we want you.’After leaving he started to have paranormal experiences and then his first real breakthrough occurred when he was 21 after being hospitalised with food poisoning. It looked like he wasn’t going to recover so he completely let go of the struggle and allowing death to happen and then a great sense of peace, calm and clarity came which allowed his mind began to rest for the first time.Life was up and down for a time until he found the following online: ’As you look at a tree, see the tree and not the thoughts about the tree. When you look at it observe the shape, colour and presence of it without thinking about the shape, colour and presence of it. Just look quietly and then you will see the reality of this thing called the 'tree', as you will see the reality of any object'. Contemplating on this shifted him into an experience of complete oneness with the tree and everything else; any filter dropped away. There was no longer a watching or watched, just one in the same.‘I could not say what was me and what was not me. It was like floating in an ocean.’
Arthur Brown - Part 3 ‘The Core Of Stillness‘ Interview by iain McNay conscioustv 2017-07-14 | Arthur Brown - Part 3 ‘The Core Of Stillness‘ Interview by iain McNay Arthur has recorded many albums over a 50 year period and is best known for his No 1 Worldwide hit ‘Fire.’ He has been a major influence on many successful artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls.His music has always been driven by his spiritual realisations. In Part 3 Arthur talks about his time spent studying and teaching the Beshara tradition. He then moved to Austin, Texas where he forged links with Gurdjieff groups while running a painting and decorating business with the Mothers of Invention drummer, Jimmy Carl Black. He tells an amusing story about being with Da Free John and talks about three people that had significant influence on this spiritual development, Mooji, Satyananda and Ganga.He formed a ‘Healing Songs Therapy’ group with counsellor Jim Maxwell where a song was created for each of their clients to help them heal.He toured with Robert Plant and in 2013 recorded an album ‘based on the Cosmos’ called ‘Zim Zam Zim.’His spiritual journey was always in the foreground, ‘Who Am I? Not my body, Not my thoughts.My mind is at peace. I can bear without the slightest restlessness all manifestations – all thoughts and images that arise – both pleasant and painful. Suddenly I know that this awareness of all and everything is itself a limitation. Subjects, object and consciousness are one and the same’
Loch Kelly ‘Falling Into Awake Awareness’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-06-28 | ‘Falling Into Awake Awareness’ Interview by Iain McNayAuthor of ‘Shift Into Freedom. ’ Loch was a keen sports player when young. After one ice hockey game when he played in goal and made several amazing saves someone asked him how he did it. He explained, ‘time slows down, I feel open and connected, I get really quiet inside and it seems it is strangely quiet on the outside too.’Someone gave him the ‘Zen and the Art of Archery’ book and he realised that others had had this experience too. At times he could feel exactly what was going on but wasn’t thinking.He then started to investigate meditation.And then one night when walking home from college and feeling an overwhelming grief as a result of some recent losses his thoughts quietened, his heart broke open and the weight of despair lifted. He looked up at the stars and noticed that his usual sense of self had gone, yet he felt fully embodied and alive. A new process had begun. Experience showed him that consciousness can shift intelligently but he didn’t know yet how to shift it intentionally.He went to Sri Lanka where he did long retreats and then India where he saw the Dalia Lama who recommended he study with Tulka Rinpoche where he learnt Awake Awareness. Over the next few years he embodied this teaching.He worked for many years with people in homeless shelters in NY and sees his life as a continual series of shifts.‘There is no end to the mystery of Life – most of it is beyond human understanding’ www.lochkelly.orgThe transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://conscious.tv/text/135.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
‘Arthur Brown - Part 2 – The Outer And The Inner become One.’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-06-23 | ‘Arthur Brown - Part 2 – The Outer And The Inner become One.’ Interview by Iain McNayArthur has recorded many albums over a 50 year period and is best known for his No 1 Worldwide hit ‘Fire.’ He has been a major influence on many successful artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls.His music has always been driven by his spiritual realisations, ‘So many times I have come away from a gig, head full of stars, ears full of hissing, my throat sore with cinders. My body tired but my heart satisfied with song. What I lived I lived in the moment of performing. I didn’t know how to receive the applause, that was not what I was there for, it was the moment when I was not there… my voice was singing but I was in bliss.’From an early age he roamed the hills near where he lived singing, talking in rhyme and making up poetry. His spiritual path led him to practice TM; Shivapuir Baba’s ‘decision exercise;’ spend time living in a Gurdjieff community with JG Bennett and visiting Israel and singing for injured soldiers of both sides, as well as many other adventures.During this time he had many realisations: ‘‘suddenly I was consciousness listening to me. I heard the beginning of everything, it sounded like a huge bell. Just before that I heard voices, sounding like Ohm. I knew that everyone heard it differently and that on different levels of consciousness the sound was different. I had in this meditation entered into the bliss body. It had in the contemplation of the sound become apparent that the bliss body was the balance of yin and yang. The movement of these two, from the original hum sound produced all subsequent sounds.’You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
‘Arthur Brown – Part 1 - The God Of Hellfire’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-06-22 | ‘Arthur Brown – Part 1 - The God Of Hellfire’ Interview by Iain McNayArthur has recorded many albums over a 50 year period and is best known for his No 1 Worldwide hit ‘Fire.’ He has been a major influence on many successful artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls.His music has always been driven by his spiritual realisations, ‘So many times I have come away from a gig, head full of stars, ears full of hissing, my throat sore with cinders. My body tired but my heart satisfied with song. What I lived I lived in the moment of performing. I didn’t know how to receive the applause, that was not what I was there for, it was the moment when I was not there… my voice was singing but I was in bliss.’From an early age he roamed the hills near where he lived singing, talking in rhyme and making up poetry. His spiritual path led him to practice TM; Shivapuir Baba’s ‘decision exercise;’ spend time living in a Gurdjieff community with JG Bennett and visiting Israel and singing for injured soldiers of both sides, as well as many other adventures.During this time he had many realisations: ‘‘suddenly I was consciousness listening to me. I heard the beginning of everything, it sounded like a huge bell. Just before that I heard voices, sounding like Ohm. I knew that everyone heard it differently and that on different levels of consciousness the sound was different. I had in this meditation entered into the bliss body. It had in the contemplation of the sound become apparent that the bliss body was the balance of yin and yang. The movement of these two, from the original hum sound produced all subsequent sounds.’The transcript of this interview is available to view here:www.conscious.tv/text/146.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Jon Bernie ‘Ordinary Freedom’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-06-15 | Author of ‘Ordinary Freedom’ and ‘The Unbelievable Happiness Of What Is.’When he was 4 years old Jon looking up at the stars and asked “what is going on here? Where are we? What is this?” At 6 he started to learn the violin and practiced 2 to 4 hours a day. At 16 he decided to sit in a chair indefinitely to see if he could find what he was looking for. ‘Suddenly there was no more room, and there was no more me. It was like I had merged into the sun — like I had become the sun. It was like a kind of universal orgasm, as if every cell in my body had had its own nuclear explosion.’Later he became a monk meditating for 8 hours a day. After leaving the monastery he met Jean Klein who he describes as his ‘root guru.’ He also spent time with Robert Adams and Adyashanti.‘There was a deep letting go that I realized I had been waiting for a long, long time, and now here it was. In the past there had always been some remaining fear that kept me from fully letting go, but now it was time, and finally I just let it happen - was like a complete annihilation - would later refer to this experience as the end of fear.’The transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://conscious.tv/text/136.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Jürgen Ziewe ‘Vistas Of Infinity’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2017-04-20 | Jürgen Ziewe ‘Vistas Of Infinity’ Interview by Renate McNayAuthor of ‘The Ten Minute Moment,’ ‘Multi-Dimensional Man,’ and ‘Vistas of Infinity.’ Jürgen started to meditate at an early age and at one point suddenly discovered himself out of his body. At first he didn’t realise what had happened but found confirmation in the books of Carlos Casteneda.He found that there is a wormhole right in the centre of our brains which can catapult us into a parallel world. This world can be experienced with the same level or greater conscious waking awareness as our physical life.He talks us through his many dramatic adventures to other worlds and the important realisations that gave him and how through his astral travel he lost his fear of death. ‘Every day I wake up it is the first day of an infinite future.’The transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://www.conscious.tv/text/139.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Jürgen Ziewe ‘The Ten Minute Moment’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-04-12 | Jürgen Ziewe ‘The Ten Minute Moment’ Interview by Iain McNayAuthor of ‘The Ten Minute Moment,’ ‘Multi-Dimensional Man,’ and ‘Vistas of Infinity.’ After 40 years of meditation which had gradually taken him to deeper and deeper places Jürgen went on a 7 day personal retreat in as remote cabin in Scotland. He meditated most of the day and experienced a profound awakening…. ‘After a meditation I slowly opened my eyes and sized up my surroundings - my body had become part of the furniture. I could still perceive the external world through my eyes but my body had turned into a shell – a cardboard cutout – reality was being stripped away before my eyes. I could no longer be sure of what was happening – it was beyond and outside anything I had come to know. The stillness was too vast in its scope to be grasped. There was no reality as I knew it. The thing is it has always been different but I hadn’t noticed. It was reality stripped of any familiarity. I could almost not bear it. For a moment I wanted to go back. In an instant I recognised that I was just a thought; an imagination without no substance.This was the death of all deaths. I had arrived at zero point. I was about to be surrendered and reabsorbed into the source. One more step and there would be no return – I was staring into the merciless face of God.’ He also talks us through his life, how he refused to accept that the 5 senses was all there is to reality and how that led to a life long quest to find out who or what this consciousness was conscious of.You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Paul Harris ‘Postcards From Beyond’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-03-25 | Paul Harris ‘Postcards From Beyond’ Interview by Iain McNayPaul suffered from depression and was full of fear and self-doubt when he was younger. His saviour at that time was Indie music and his guitar. He then spent time in India and at one time just ‘gave up.’‘The release was truly remarkable. It was like I was freed from my body completely. From the root of my being all the way above my head I just opened up completely. I was no longer ‘Paul’ or even human.’But his depression came back again in time and he was again miserable and unfulfilled. He found the Aukana Buddhist Monastery in Wiltshire in the UK and moved in for full time training. He meditated for 4 or 5 hours a day and developing mindfulness. For 9 years he pretty much lived on an acre of land.He now leads the monastery.‘I teach the way I have travelled so I know it works. The enlightened mind does not crave for life to be different.’The transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://conscious.tv/text/129.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Sheikh Burhanuddin ‘The Journey Of A Modern Sufi Mystic’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-02-19 | Sheikh Burhanuddin talks about his fascinating journey and experiences along his way to become a Sheikh under the guidance of his master, Sheikh Nazim. From an early age when he was very drawn to be in nature he soon committed his life to finding a master who could guide him on his path. His spent time on different ‘seclusions’ which were very influential and helpful him with many realizations. He also had a session with spiritual healer Stephen Turoff which triggered a very deep state which lasted for nearly 3 years. He goes on to explain the Uwaysi System which is now an integral part of his teaching.The transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://conscious.tv/text/128.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Paul Morgan-Somers ‘Paul disappears into the ocean (and Messi is God!)’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2017-02-13 | Paul Morgan-Somers ‘Paul disappears into the ocean (and Messi is God!)’ Interview by Iain McNaySomething happened out of the blue to Paul when he was 15 playing football which was his passion. (he was signed as an apprentice to Cardiff City FC and wanted to become a professional footballer.)He had a strong sense to sit quietly and was overwhelming by a deep brilliant sense of beauty and peace. This went on for 18 months. He felt his sense of free will and choice was dropping away and that he was ‘losing the story of Paul.’ Life was becoming like a boundless football game. He felt like a kid on beach playing in an ocean of energy with no control over his experiences.He went on to stay in a monastery for 5 years and then lived as a hermit for a year in a caravan.He later married and had two children and now travels and talks with people.He says, ‘My character just fell into the ocean.’You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Mary Reed ‘The Journey Of An Unwitting Mystic’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2016-12-03 | Mary Reed ‘The Journey Of An Unwitting Mystic’ Interview by Iain McNay Mary is author of the book, ‘Unwitting Mystic – Evolution Of The Message Of Love.’ In the Summer of 2000 she heard a voice deep inside her saying ‘You are supposed to be doing something very important.’ It didn’t leave her alone; the more she tried to ignore it the more persistent it became. She then started to have visions of Christ, Buddha, the Dalai Lama and others. She had no religious or spiritual background and tried to find help to understand and integrate them. Everything failed to make sense to her. Her life fell apart and she attempted suicide by taking 97 pills, but woke up 2 days later. She felt remorse and supreme surrender. Eventually she found help which led her to India where she is now based in a Nunnery.She tells her fascinating story and she talks about the realisations she has had.The transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://www.conscious.tv/text/117.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Michael A. Rodriguez ‘The Uncreated Light Of Awareness’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2016-11-26 | Michael A. Rodriguez is a spiritual Teacher and Author of the book “The Uncreated Light of Awareness”In this interview Michael tells us about his spiritual yearning as a child and his voracious thirst for Truth, how he became disenchanted with academia and entering a monastic life. He ate, drank, breathed, lived and slept Non-Duality and went through a 5 year purification and alchemical transformation called “Poverty” by Meister Eckhart. He says: “If you think the Universe came first, you are it’s prisoner, when you know that you came first, you are free”.You can find out more about Michael at https://www.BoundlessAwareness.org.The transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://conscious.tv/text/114.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Cynthia Bourgeault ‘Seeing With The Eyes Of The Heart’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2016-11-19 | Cynthia Bourgeault ‘Seeing With The Eyes Of The Heart’ Interview by Renate McNayThe Reverend Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest and writer. She divides her time between solitude and traveling globally to teach and spread the recovery of the Cristian Contemplative and Wisdom Path.Author of several books including, “Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening”,“Wisdom Jesus”, "The Meaning of Mary Magdalene”, “Love is Stronger than Death”. In this Interview Cynthia tells us how her Christian Life began encountering the presence of Jesus when she received her first communion and then how she started searching for the missing message in the Church. Very important teachers were Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. She studied the Sacred Dances and Movements which threw her at times into a Rabbit Hole. She also talks about Freedom and the willingness to bare our suffering, GOD’s Love, Solitude and Silence.You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
John Butler ‘Discovering Stillness – Part 2’ Interview by Iain McNay. conscioustv 2016-09-17 | John Butler ‘Discovering Stillness – Part 2’ Interview by Iain McNay.Author of ‘Wonders Of Spiritual Unfoldment’ and Mystic Approaches.’ His loves were farming and meditation. Tells his story of spiritual unfoldment and how he discovered stillness. It was not always an easy path for him and he went through periods of depressions and hopelessness.‘Realisation is not a personal attainment – it usually comes at times of deep prayer or quietness when the mind is clear of personal me…’‘I’m just a quiet old man of regular habits going up and down the hill to church each day, sitting on a bench when the weather is warm. I don’t speak much. Adventures are inside.’‘From worldliness the absolute completion of Pure Being can seem out of touch, more theoretical than real. How can it be relevant to need? Once known however any return to ordinary worldly ways only seem to emphasise its loss.Total longing brings its own reward but all feelings of achievement disappear. Incomparable gifts of Heavenly Grace instruct, inspire, save us from drowning in the world.’You can find out more about John Butler by following this link;http://www.spiritualunfoldment.co.ukThe transcript of this interview is available to view here.http://www.conscious.tv/text/134.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
John Butler ‘Discovering Stillness – Part 1’ Interview by Iain McNay. conscioustv 2016-09-17 | John Butler ‘Discovering Stillness – Part 1’ Interview by Iain McNay.Author of ‘Wonders Of Spiritual Unfoldment’ and Mystic Approaches.’ His loves were farming and meditation. Tells his story of spiritual unfoldment and how he discovered stillness. It was not always an easy path for him and he went through periods of depressions and hopelessness.‘Realisation is not a personal attainment – it usually comes at times of deep prayer or quietness when the mind is clear of personal me…’‘I’m just a quiet old man of regular habits going up and down the hill to church each day, sitting on a bench when the weather is warm. I don’t speak much. Adventures are inside.’‘From worldliness the absolute completion of Pure Being can seem out of touch, more theoretical than real. How can it be relevant to need? Once known however any return to ordinary worldly ways only seem to emphasise its loss.Total longing brings its own reward but all feelings of achievement disappear. Incomparable gifts of Heavenly Grace instruct, inspire, save us from drowning in the world.’You can find out more about John Butler by following this link; http://www.spiritualunfoldment.co.ukYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Ginger Gilmour. Bright Side Of The Moon conscioustv 2016-09-03 | Ginger Gilmour ‘ Bright Side Of The Moon’ Interview by Iain McNay Author of ‘ Bright Side Of The Moon’ Met and married Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour with whom she had 4 children. Started her spiritual journey when she became very ill and discovered meditation. Worked and trained with Irena Tweedie, Cecil Collins, Dr Wenger Engel and Gerhard Adler on her processes over the years. ‘I discovered the answer to the shadow Collective Unconscious including Anima and Animus. I realised I had always placed a shield between myself and my shadow – I only wanted to focus on Love light and Beauty – I discovered the shadow was marked – ‘do not enter broken dreams’ I was a puppet controlled by the darkness.’In this interview she talks about her life, her passions, her struggles and breakthroughs and her realizations. Ginger now works as a painter and sculptor. You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Mick Collins My Crisis And Transformation’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2016-08-30 | Mick Collins ‘My Crisis And Transformation’ Interview by Iain McNay Author of ‘The Unselfish Spirit.’ Mick left school at 15, working as a manual labourer before joining the army. Visited a Tibetan Monastery intending to stay 2 days and ended up living there for 3 years. ‘I started contemplating various attachments and aversions in my conventional existence’ and began reflecting on the significance on what a more intimate perspective could mean in the way he lived; began to observe and question how duality was embedded in my thoughts and behaviour.’ He was also fascinated by the interplay between form and emptiness. But on a long train journey had an extraordinary experience where he had a heightened sense of compassion and profound feelings of love followed two days later by a slide into a diametrically opposed state. Was flooded by intense emotions; felt he was caught in a conflict between good and evil compounded by feelings of fear and terror. Left monastery and slowly started to find balance again with the help of Jungian work. Felt he had taken a journey into the unknown without a map.Eventually integrated the spiritual crisis and started to learn the interplay between doing and being which is now his passion.You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Conscious.tv - An Introduction conscioustv 2016-08-21 | You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Chloe Goodchild ‘The Voice Of Silence’ Interview by Renate McNay conscioustv 2016-08-13 | Chloe Goodchild ‘The Voice Of Silence’ Interview by Renate McNayChloe is the founder of The Naked Voice and the heart of her work is the practice of the spoken and sung voice as a Gateway to discover our Non Dual Awareness. Deafness in childhood catalysed Chloe’s discovery of inner sound and silence. This deep encounter with her inner self, catalysed questions like: “ Who Am I“ “Who is Singing”, “ How can I transform my sadness”. Chloe had many encounters with indigenous wisdom teachers, spiritual and classical Indian music masters, ultimately leading to a transformative ‘no-mind’ experience in Northern India, inspired by the great luminary and saint, Anandamayi Ma. This gave birth to the unique method of sound and voice, which Chloe eventually named, The Naked Voice. Her autobiography, The Naked Voice – Journey to the Spirit of Sound tells the story of these formative early years. In this in-depth interview with Renate she talks about her life and her work. http://www.thenakedvoice.comYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Christopher Titmuss ‘An Awakening Life.’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2016-07-11 | Author of 14 books including 'An Awakening Life,' 'Light On Enlightenment', 'Transforming Our Life' and 'Inner Calm', Christopher talks about his life including his time as a Buddhist monk in Thailand. Part of that time was spent living in a cave in the mountains. He explains what he calls, 'the new way of being a human being' and the 'Four Noble Truths.'The transcript of this interview is available to view here :http://www.conscious.tv/text/28.htmYou can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Andrew Rawlinson ‘THE HIT’ Interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2016-05-21 | Andrew Rawlinson ‘THE HIT’ Interview by Iain McNayAuthor of ‘The Hit – Into The Rock’N’Roll Universe And Beyond’ and ‘The Book Of Enlightened Masters – Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions.’Andrew Talks about his life and how he was aware that he was continually ‘hit’ by realisations, small and large, that enabled him to see through his conditioning. ‘The HIT is both a grace and a disturbance.All worlds are a show..Reality is openIt is constantly transforming itselfIt goes beyond itselfIt is where illusion begins All derangements are connected. Like sub atomic particles they just keep reflecting each other jumping between each other and turning into each other. Just like a magic trick where certainty and deception change places.It’s a jungle, as soon as you find a path you loose it. Everybody is looking for who they are ------- but they are nobodyNot only is the world stranger than you imagine – it is stranger than you can imagine. And we are all collaborators in creation.And what is it to collaborate? To know that we are the mirror as well as the face in it, pain and what cures pain. This is the expanse of spirit: rich and dark.Yes, it’s the Gods who are rocking us, who are looking for someone to receive them.There is really no reality without identity, and identity is a show.’You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
Stephen Fulder ‘Awakening Arrives By Itself.’ interview by Iain McNay conscioustv 2016-05-01 | ‘The spacious groundless sense of being needs to become part of our nature, to be familiar territory and then awakeningarrives by itself. The ultimate cannot belong to anyone nor can there be someone who is awakened.’ Stephen talks us through his spiritual journey and realisations. From realising that there was no fixed reality when he was a child to having his earlier insights confirmed when he took LSD in his 20s. He was drawn to India and the ‘Mother Ganges’ where he discovered the teachings of S.N. Goenka. Spent time on many retreats with Sayama and other Buddhist teachers such as Stephen Batchelor and Christopher Titmuss. Formed the Israel Insight Society; distanced himself from Buddhism but fully embraced the teachings of the Buddha and still teaches around 15 retreats a year. Also works in the area of Palestinian/Israeli reconciliation….’There is no way to peace, Peace is the way.’Can describe his lived experience with great precision and clarity; took part on a study which explored 3 stages:Stage 1 – ordinary sense of self and boundaryStage 2 - sense of dropping boundary to some extentStage 3 - dissolution In this interview he explains these stages in detail.You can find out more about Conscious TV here.Website - http://www.conscious.tvFacebook - facebook.com/conscioustvFacebook community group - facebook.com/groups/178560532548Twitter - twitter.com/ConsciousTV_UK
