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Awareness Explorers

Awareness Explorers

By: Jonathan Robinson & Brian Tom O'Connor
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If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience. Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor explore ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.2018 Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor Spirituality
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  • 190: John Travis, Guest Explorer
    Jul 4 2025

    In this episode, we interview John Travis, founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation Center, exploring his spiritual journey and teachings, and his emphasis on the importance of integrating mind, heart, and body in spiritual practice.

    • Includes a guided meditation grounding attention in the body and sense perceptions as a pathway inward to the recognition of awareness as encompassing everything, thus breaking the illusion of separateness.

    To learn more about John Travis, please visit:
    https://www.mtstream.org/
    and
    https://www.mtstream.org/john-travis

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:

    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    # 6 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart
    # 7 in the Top 100 joy All time chart
    # 6 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart
    # 8 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart
    # 45 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

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    58 mins
  • 189: Trauma and Awakening
    Jun 20 2025

    In this episode, we discuss the relationship between trauma and spiritual awakening, and how trauma can not only obscure awareness but can also catalyze awakening. We also describe some effective trauma healing approaches.

    • Includes a guided meditation helping us to see an upsetting incident from the past within the larger peaceful space of pure awareness, which is unshaken by traumatic experience, and which holds and supports everything.

    The YouTube playlist mentioned in this episode:
    Spiritual Laughter
    Particularly, “Jeff Foster - All That's Left is Laughter”

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:

    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    # 5 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart
    # 6 in the Top 100 joy All time chart
    # 5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart
    # 7 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart
    # 44 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian


    Photo by Fernando @cferdophotography on Unsplash

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    50 mins
  • 188: Exploring Intuition
    Jun 6 2025

    In this episode we discuss intuition, its nature, how to access it, and its relationship to awakening.

    • Includes a guided meditation helping you to cultivate the open receptivity required for intuition.

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:

    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    # 5 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart
    # 5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart
    # 5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart
    # 7in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart
    # 43 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian


    Photo by Kiki Siepel on Unsplash

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    46 mins

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