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Podcast October/November 2011
In this 2-part podcast we go right back to basics and ask the question, ‘What is Nonduality?’ Nic Higham and Jeff Foster start from scratch and use simple language to point back to the essential oneness (wholeness, completeness, unity) of life, a wholeness which exists here and now, prior to any apparent separation. Nonduality is simply a word that points to an intimacy, love beyond words, right at the heart of present moment experience. Simply put, it’s a word that points us back Home. And despite the compelling appearance of separation and diversity there is only one universal essence, one reality. Oneness is all there is – and we are included!
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Podcast September 2011
Jeff and Nic share a new perspective on depression, anxiety, grief, love and mental illness. Jeff talks about – the deeper meaning of ‘depression’ from a non-dual standpoint (what is the ‘self’ that is depressed?) – going beyond depression as a ‘disease’ and finding the truth in it – our tendency to escape pain and create suffering – and the possibility of finding freedom within that very suffering. He discusses how nonduality and wholeness relate to the experience of mental illness, how unconditional love and compassion can be discovered here and now, and the paradox of impersonal truth within personal experience.
Podcast August 2011
Jeff and Nic talk about The Light in the Darkness. What is sin? What is evil? What is negativity? We separate good from evil, positive from negative, light from dark, and then unconsciously go to war with the ‘shadow side’ of reality. We fight the dark, hoping one day to reach the light – and we forget that the light is in the dark, that the dark is just rejected light – and that in reality all of these ‘opposites’ are just illusions of mind, and who we really are is beyond all the opposites.
Podcast July 2011
Jeff and Nic talk about nonduality as a Total Embrace of our Humanness, a radical acceptance of this embodied ‘personal’ experience, rather than as a cold, impersonal rejection of it, and how in the end, the impersonal and personal are not at war – they are inseparable. And in meeting each other beyond our individual stories, we discover a love and compassion that go beyond our limited ideas of love and compassion. Love isn’t something we ‘do’ – it’s what we are….
Podcast June 2011
Jeff and Nic continue their conversation about “The Deepest Acceptance of Life”. We try so hard to accept life, to be okay with what happens, to be ‘spiritual’ in the face of challenges, and yet the reality is that often we fail to accept, fail to be okay. However, there is an acceptance far deeper than anything the individual could ‘do’ – this is the acceptance of Life itself. In the same way that the ocean unconditionally ‘accepts’ all of the waves, consciousness already ‘accepts’ everything that appears in consciousness…
Podcast May 2011
Jeff and Nic talk about “The Deepest Acceptance of Life”. We try so hard to accept life, to be okay with what happens, to be ‘spiritual’ in the face of challenges, and yet the reality is that often we fail to accept, fail to be okay. However, there is an acceptance far deeper than anything the individual could ‘do’ – this is the acceptance of Life itself. In the same way that the ocean unconditionally ‘accepts’ all of the waves, consciousness already ‘accepts’ everything that appears in consciousness…
Podcast April 2011
Jeff and Nic discuss roles in relationships, identity and death. What are roles? What happens when ‘others’ die? What happens when we die? Are there really ‘other people’ out there, in the world, or is this simply part of our dream? Is there something that transcends the cycle of birth and death?
Podcast March 2011
Jeff and Nic Higham of nonduality network discuss how nonduality relates to therapy and healing. What place does ‘therapy’ have in the nondual view? Who get healed? Who needs to be fixed? Who heals whom? Well, it all depends on your definition of the word ‘therapy’….
Podcast February 2011
Running away from the bad stuff to the good stuff…
There’s an idea popular among spiritual seekers that one day we’ll have a kind of ‘force field’ around us that won’t let any bad stuff in. As spiritual seekers we crave that ‘wow-factor’. We want all the good stuff and do anything we can to be numb to all the bad stuff. Jeff and Nic discuss.
Podcast January 2011
This month Jeff Foster and Nic Higham of nonduality network talk about motivation, passivity and the drive to do good, and how all of this is seen from the nondual ‘view’. Also, can we ‘use’ nonduality in our everyday lives?
Podcast December 2010
Each month Nic Higham is joined by author and speaker Jeff Foster to talk about the mystery we call life. Jeff is not affiliated with any spiritual path, teacher, tradition or lineage. He believes that the truth – that which is present and alive – is absolutely free and cannot be captured by any religion, ideology, philosophy, belief system… or person. However, perhaps it can be shared, in friendship and openness, with those who are open to going beyond what they know. This is about the discovery of freedom in every experience….