Podcasts

How is it that we can stay centered, even if we feel someone is getting in our way? In this talk, Michael discusses the tipping point at which we become more interested in our own reactions to unconsciousness rather than the unconsciousness being perpetrated against...

Meeting with our teacher and asking the questions that burn in us, helps us along the Path. In this talk, Michael discusses how recognizing that we are always WITH everything else all the time, pushes our realization into our conscious experience. Bringing this...

Great teachers make great maps, at least in the spiritual realm. In this talk, Michael uses a brief set of instructions written by Ken Wilber that point directly toward our Witnessing Awareness. Uncovering this Witness, this essential opening of Spirit, is made very...

In his introduction, Michael lays out a foundation for how we can live from the Ultimate realm rather than just the conventional, or normal, reality that we typically deal with each day . The talk then goes into how all things are temporary, interdependent, and...

In the beginning of this talk, Michael discusses how we can question our most significant attachments. What, for instance, do we do with war? Is it ever justified? Can we ever come up with answers to why "bad things happen to good people?" Or are we just supposed to...

In this talk, Michael discusses how we can notice great performers, when they are in full expression, can reflect our own sense of Spirit. In a recent performance, Kurt Elling pointed this out to Michael and his wife, reminding them both that great art allows us to...

In this talk, Michael discusses our conscious participation in life with an awakened mind. He discusses the ways in which meditation helps us in this endeavor. At the same time, ego can think that it is Awake. This is an amazing trap, but there are tell-tale signs...

This is the second of three talks Michael gave on our October weekend intensive. In this talk, Michael gives us some pointers in relation to the five major hindrances to Awakening. Becoming intimate with these hindrances allows us to live intimately in this life, and...

This is the first of three talks Michael gave on our October weekend intensive. His theme for the weekend centered around living "right there with everything" as everything shows up. This is how we live intimately in this life, and this is the process of Awakening.

In this talk, Michael articulates a path towards an ever-deepening gratitude for this life, no matter what the circumstances. This is a "thanks giving" at each moment in life.