{"id":43290,"date":"2019-10-20T14:47:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=43290"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:06:35","slug":"interview-with-brian-tom-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/interview-with-brian-tom-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Brian Tom O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8\">This is the recording of the first two hours of the Fall Retreat that was broadcast live in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. It includes an interview with Brian Tom O\u2019Connor, the author of a book called <em>Awareness Games: Playing with Your Mind to Create Joy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Brian Tom\u00a0O\u2019Connor is an actor, theatre director, cabaret performer, and formerly depressed guy who stumbled onto the source of joy and happiness in the background of all experience. He is not an enlightened person, which, in fact, is a good thing, because if someone as imperfect and\u00a0flawed as he is can find it, so can you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">So try the games and make up your own.\u00a0 Experiment.\u00a0 See what works for you.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about your direct experience.\u00a0Play with pure awareness and discover the background of all experience, where happiness is hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivehq.com\/file\/df.aspx\/publish\/RAkers\/RDAPublicFolder\/AwakeningTogether\/Featured Talks\/InterviewBrianTomOConnor.mp3\">Listen to audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">or<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wRKWSCdy0hs\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the recording of the first two hours of the Fall Retreat that was broadcast live in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. 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