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Wouldn't it be great if your most profound awakenings, expanded states and deepest insights could be part of day to day life? Yet at times it can feel like the desire for a ‘rich life’ requires a very different perspective than a spiritual one.
The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth offers a profound and unique vision that reconciles ultimate realisation with the realities of work, family & relationships. To purchase a copy the book, visit: amazon.co.uk/Hierarchy-Heaven-Earth-unabridged/dp/1908774835
Join Richard Lang and Amir Giles in an online discussion, exploring a wise, compassionate and exciting perspective on reality, entirely rooted in observations you can verify for yourself.
We had a blast in this conversation, discussing amongst other things:
-Douglas Harding and the writing of The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth
-The hard problem of consciousness: you only know consciousness
-The spirit of wonder and curiosity about your existence
-The Law of Reflection and Projection
-Distance, Time, Evolution
-Mind & Body = experience of the world and the world's experience of you
-The stars look down upon us
-The here and there - oneness and multiplicity
-The self is known via the not-self
-Interdependency
-The the traditional journey of the mystic
Richard is the world’s foremost proponent of Headless Way, interviewed by Sam Harris on his podcast and now features as a teacher on the Waking Up meditation app. He was a longtime student of Douglas Harding, the author of On Having No Head, among other books. Richard has written several books, including Seeing Who You Really Are, The Man with No Head, and Open to the Source: Selected Teachings of Douglas Harding. In 1996, Richard co-founded Shollond Trust, a charity created to help share Harding’s vision as widely as possible.
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00:00 Intro
06:21 How the book tackles the hard problem of consciousness
11:43 Defining The Headless Way
15:13 Unravelling and redefining the universe from a first-person perspective
20:10 What am I? Expanding on the meaning of having no head
23:43 Explaining the Reflection of Projection
29:57 Observations of an evolving perception of self
40:53 Perceptions of Mind and Body: self, other and the power to shift centres
48:40 How depth or distance changes our perception of self
52:40 The Paradox of Oneness - Between Self and Other
58:32 The relationality between alternative views of self
01:06:37 Navigating the paradox of having no head
01:11:19 Finding meaning in the Headless Way
01:14:49 Using the Headless Way in everyday life
01:20:42 Discussing feelings about never being able to see your own face
01:28:03 The value and privilege of having a unique point of centre and accepting others
01:30:06 The implications of perceiving reality as an illusion
01:34:30 Outro: knowing yourself through others
Wouldn't it be great if your most profound awakenings, expanded states and deepest insights could be part of day to day life? Yet at times it can feel like the desire for a ‘rich life’ requires a very different perspective than a spiritual one.
The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth offers a profound and unique vision that reconciles ultimate realisation with the realities of work, family & relationships. To purchase a copy the book, visit: amazon.co.uk/Hierarchy-Heaven-Earth-unabridged/dp/1908774835
Join Richard Lang and Amir Giles in an online discussion, exploring a wise, compassionate and exciting perspective on reality, entirely rooted in observations you can verify for yourself.
We had a blast in this conversation, discussing amongst other things:
-Douglas Harding and the writing of The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth
-The hard problem of consciousness: you only know consciousness
-The spirit of wonder and curiosity about your existence
-The Law of Reflection and Projection
-Distance, Time, Evolution
-Mind & Body = experience of the world and the world's experience of you
-The stars look down upon us
-The here and there - oneness and multiplicity
-The self is known via the not-self
-Interdependency
-The the traditional journey of the mystic
Richard is the world’s foremost proponent of Headless Way, interviewed by Sam Harris on his podcast and now features as a teacher on the Waking Up meditation app. He was a longtime student of Douglas Harding, the author of On Having No Head, among other books. Richard has written several books, including Seeing Who You Really Are, The Man with No Head, and Open to the Source: Selected Teachings of Douglas Harding. In 1996, Richard co-founded Shollond Trust, a charity created to help share Harding’s vision as widely as possible.
To join future events, newsletter and access ad-free event recordings go to:
adventuresinawareness.com
Your contributions support future content, and are greatly appreciated:
- adventuresinawareness.com/membership
- One-off PayPal donations: paypal.com/paypalme/adventuresin
Follow the Adventure:
- Subscribe to us on youtube: youtube.com/@adventuresinawareness
- Twitter: https://x.com/AdvInAwareness
- iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-in-awareness/id1535917754
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2jiebSpdVu9YbpLOtWlKYU
- Facebook: facebook.com/adventuresinawareness
00:00 Intro
06:21 How the book tackles the hard problem of consciousness
11:43 Defining The Headless Way
15:13 Unravelling and redefining the universe from a first-person perspective
20:10 What am I? Expanding on the meaning of having no head
23:43 Explaining the Reflection of Projection
29:57 Observations of an evolving perception of self
40:53 Perceptions of Mind and Body: self, other and the power to shift centres
48:40 How depth or distance changes our perception of self
52:40 The Paradox of Oneness - Between Self and Other
58:32 The relationality between alternative views of self
01:06:37 Navigating the paradox of having no head
01:11:19 Finding meaning in the Headless Way
01:14:49 Using the Headless Way in everyday life
01:20:42 Discussing feelings about never being able to see your own face
01:28:03 The value and privilege of having a unique point of centre and accepting others
01:30:06 The implications of perceiving reality as an illusion
01:34:30 Outro: knowing yourself through others
