This episode describes my life, summarizes my journey from Cradle Catholic to spiritual awakening, and gives an idea of why I am making these podcasts.

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Have you read Jonathan Livingston Seagull? That one book has influenced my life for more than 30 years. In this episode, I talk a little about my initial spiritual curiosity outside of organized religion and summarize the book that has brought me full circle.

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Tying together Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Jonathan Livingston Seagull and relating those lessons to your own life.

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One of my first "aha" moments with spiritual awakening was discovering the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. You can listen to the audio recordings that really resonated with me on audible.com: "Baruch Spinoza: The Giants of Philosophy" written by Thomas Cook and narrated by Charlton Heston, and "New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656" an L.A. Theatre Works production written by David Ives and performed by Ed Asner and others.

You can find an examination of Spinoza's life and writings here: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/#Biog)

And you can find a short biography of Spinoza here: Great Thinkers—Baruch Spinoza (https://thegreatthinkers.org/spinoza/biography/)

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In this episode, I talk about David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, and some of my key takeaways from his book Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender. I relate some of my personal experiences, and pass on some of the knowledge I've gained through reading this book.

On my blog at spiritualbnr.org, you will find a full transcript of this episode.

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In this episode I'll be talking about what I have learned from reading Dr. David R. Hawkins' book "The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden". This book delves deeply into awareness, what it means to exist, the meaninglessness of time, the role of the mind, and the nature of God.

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Andre Halaw has a wonderful way of wording things, and he explains the concept of Nothingness in a beautiful way that reinforces the ideas from the resources we've explored in previous episodes. This book takes us step by step through the process of revealing our true natures, and is a great lead-in to the next podcast in which I'll discuss the concept of Neti-Neti meditation using another book by Halaw as a reference.

You can find the audio and full transcript of this episode on my website at SpiritualBNR.org/blog/making-sense-of-nothingness.

For a video version of this podcast, go to https://youtu.be/x--EwTTxfLY.

Other resources that might be helpful:

Books (as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases made through these links):

• God is Nothingness (Kindle version)

https://amzn.to/3xh5uLI

• God is Nothingness (paperback version)

https://amzn.to/3awKjLZ

Websites:

Non-Duality – Applied Advaita and the 'Direct Path':

https://not-two.net/advaita-zen-dzogchen-and-taoism/

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism#Hinduism

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In this podcast, Jill summarizes key points from chapters one through three of Andre Halaw's book "Neti-Neti Meditation".

For a video version of this podcast (including subtitles), go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeyAmTqsGQLmfMWaogH7mQ.

For a written transcript, go to https://www.spiritualbnr.org/blog/part-1-a-review-of-neti-neti-meditation.

Link to "Neti-Neti Meditation" by Andre Halaw on Amazon.com: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00GP62LU0

Link to "True Meditation" by Adyanshanti (another insightful meditation resource I found on Audible.com): https://www.audible.com/pd/True-Meditation-Audiobook/B002V0153I?asin=B002V0153I

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