Rev. Shawna Summers  interviewed Laura Bedford. Laura is an inspiration living as a Peace Pilgrim in a way the world might think of as crazy.  In 2015, Laura walked coast to coast to raise awareness that Inner Peace is our True Divine Christ Nature. Every lack of Inner Peace flows from not knowing our True Self.

Laura had her first mystical experience in childhood that helped raise questions in her mind. Since 1992 she has been involved with learning and practices for enlightening to our True, Divine Christ Nature. She makes no claim to enlightenment, saying she has simply been given (mystical) windows that confirm to her the existence of God.  Join us to discover more about her unique journey!

Listen to the Audio Here

Listen to the audio

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed  Natalie Gray.

When asked for her biography, Natalie wrote:

“I’m an ordinary being who spent a good part of my childhood and the first 25 years of this adult life searching for meaning and answers. This seeking took many forms including: practicing Catholicism, trying to find a calling (as an actress, teacher and life coach), attending self-help and awareness seminars, study and initiation with various spiritual teachers and teachings and using drugs. After coming to the realization that no one or no thing outside of me was going to provide the answers, an intense internal search for the truth ensued. “The end of seeking” occurred in 2010. There were no more questions. There was no more need for answers. What was sought had been found.

I have been married for 20 years, I do voiceover work for a living, I had a cat until she died last year, I am currently in remission from breast cancer, and I work a 12-step program.

Along with some YouTube videos and a few blog entries, I have mostly shared my experience and insights through one-on-one conversations. It has been nine years since the end of seeking occurred. There has been no shift or change in the perspective I gained then—a clear understanding of what has always been true.”

Listen to the audio

or

Watch Video

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed  Suse Wicks.

This is our second Satsang with Suse Wicks. Our last Satsang interview with Suse can be found at this link. When asked for her latest biography, Suse wrote: “This expression best reflects my sharing: Seeking confirms that one feels a loss, something missing, a separateness that needs to be fulfilled. Seeking is the search and belief that something has to be better than what is or something better is attainable. That is why the position of a seeker is endless. Everything that is appearing in every nano second is always whole, complete and pure just as it is. One has to make this discovery for oneself. Living life with no explanation is living life as unconditional love.”

Suse’s Blog- susewicks.blogspot.com

Eshwar Segobind shared his message and it was startling in its simplicity.  Eshwar’s spiritual path is remarkable both for its brevity and for the depth of practical insight he manifests.   In less than a year, Eshwar went from a recovery program to a profound spiritual awakening to his true nature. He shared about his journey and how he came to know the Truth as it is for him now. Enjoy his stark clarity. It is palpable.

Listen to the audio here

Watch Video here

He also extended an invitation that he is happy to speak to those with sincere questions and does not charge for his time. He can be reached at sensewithoutmind@gmail.com.

Upon listening to the recording of the Satsang, Eshwar requested that the following note be added to this post for clarity:

There was an error on my part when I refered to “Nothing.” The way it seemed was as though this nothing is what you are, and this “nothing” is a goal to attain. I did not realize this. Just clear seeing that even the sense of existence never existed. Nothing ever happened, nothing is going to happen and nothing ever happened. “Nothing” is not anything. Muted. No-thing, not a thing, not anything, not nothing.

The second part: it may seem as though i was eluding to a TRUE Self that you become. The above clarification dismisses that possibility. What was being pointed at: We must accept that we are here and now and that we do exist, whatever shape and form that takes for each of us. The idea of a separate self or individual or the way we think of ourselves is just that, an idea. Only then can we accurately de-construct whatever it is that we believe exists. This idea that we are something and even more subtle, when the idea is gone, this nothing that’s left is what we are. This nothing that’s everything and nothing.

Here’s the follow-up Satsang with Eshwar:

Watch video here

or

 Listen to Audio

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed Loch Kelly.

Listen to the audio here

Watch Video here

Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW, is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the 501c3 non-profit, Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. Loch teaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage using an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science and psychotherapy. Loch is grateful to all his teachers and shares from his own experience that has given him great joy, freedom and love. Loch’s work is to help people access awakening as the next natural stage of human development. He offers in-person retreats, workshops, and online video and audio courses. His new book is called The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. His website is https://lochkelly.org/

Regina Dawn Akers interviewed Dr. Jeffrey Martin.

Listen to the audio here

Watch Video here

Dr. Jeffrey Martin is the author of The Finders, a scientific work that studied the enlightenment experience of thousands of subjects. This research resulted in the first reliable, cross-cultural and pan-tradition classification system for these types of experience. He discussed how this research has helped to make systems available to help people obtain profound psychological benefits in a rapid, secular, reliable, and safe way.

Click Here to Watch Video

or

Click Here to Listen

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed John Mark Stroud on Zoom. John Mark Stroud shared about his awakening to a felt communion of the Light, Awareness, Consciousness within. He described how it is for him now in his journey. He also answers important questions about what surrender really means and what it is not. With such profound clarity John Mark once again allowed us to glimpse the great Joy of the Truth of the ever present Love. He also reminds us that we all have a unique unfolding in our journey in Awakening and to remember to let go of comparisons and wanting our journey to look like or be like someone else’s. In addition, John Mark has a website where there is a lot of helpful videos about what it feels like to embody this Trinity of Light at onewhowakes.org.

John Mark and his wife, Cindy, have done a series of videos entitled Beyond Belief into Presence. You can find them on his website as well as Wake Up with the Movies compilation. John Mark has used movies on his spiritual path of Awakening and he has made commentaries on a number of movies that may enlighten you as well.

Listen to the audio

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed Dean Sluyter (pronounced “slighter”). Dean has taught natural methods of meditation and awakening since 1970. His five highly acclaimed books include Natural Meditation (Amazon #1 stress management bestseller, and Nautilus Gold Medal winner for best mind-body-spirit book) and Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction. Dean gives talks, workshops, and retreats throughout the United States and beyond, from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. His media appearances have included National Public Radio, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Coast to Coast AM, The Dr. Oz Show, and O, The Oprah Magazine.

A grateful student of Eastern and Western sages in several traditions, Dean has completed numerous pilgrimages and retreats in India, Tibet, Nepal, and the West. He is known for conveying authentic teachings in forms that are relaxed, accessible, and down-to-earth. When not writing or teaching, he narrates audiobooks, makes music, and happily tools around town on his Vespa.

Dean’s Books:

Listen to the audio or watch the video below.

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert and Anne Blanchard interviewed James Swartz. James notes that Vedanta, “The knowledge that ends the quest for knowledge” is not a philosophy or a mystical path. It is a proven means of self-knowledge compiled over thousands of years by countless Indian Seers that systematically reveals the nature of reality and our place and purpose in it.  For the inquirer, it irrevocably removes the ignorance that causes suffering, leaving only the awareness of who we are: limitless consciousness, whole and complete. Once this knowledge is assimilated and the Self is revealed, all existential suffering comes to an end, you are set free.

Coming from an impeccable lineage and endowed with 40 plus years of teaching experience, James unveils this timeless knowledge with clarity, candor and humor.  He has become one of Vedanta’s most powerful voices for East and West alike. His website Shiningworld.com is a major resource of non-dual wisdom and his best-selling book “How to Attain Enlightenment” has taken the spiritual world by storm.

Listen to the audio or watch the video below.

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed Joan.

Joan Tollifson has roots in Buddhism and Advaita, but she belongs to no formal tradition. She is interested in seeing through the imaginary problems that we think are binding us and waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Joan’s bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites a meditative exploration that is non-methodical and awareness-based, encouraging people to look and listen for themselves and to question all second-hand ideas and beliefs.

Joan is the author of 4 books: Nothing to Grasp; Painting the Sidewalk with Water: Talks and Dialogs about Nonduality;Awake in the Heartland: The Ecstasy of What Is; and Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life. 

Joan offers private sessions and other meetings. For more information, visit her website at JoanTollifson.com.