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Waking Up Is Not Enough: Flourishing In the Human Space

A Podcast by Polly Young-Eisendrath & Michael Berger

Our podcast, “Waking Up Is Not Enough: Flourishing in the Human Space,” offered free on all podcast networks, through our non-profit Center for Real Dialogue, fills a unique need. Many people are now engaged with “awakening” through meditation, spiritual practice, psychedelics, near-death experiences, or being born again. Our podcast speaks frankly about awakening – what it is and what it promises and what it may fail to deliver. Awakening puts a person into direct contact with the undivided love that is called among other names God, Spirit, or Buddha Nature. This universal love opens our hearts and we want to express our caring and kindness. But our self-protective defenses and self-promoting ego do not move directly from awakening to helping us become kinder, more responsible or even more loving. Awakening may or may not increase our self-awareness in the ways we relate to others or to ourselves.

Our podcast draws on science, spirituality, psychology, dreams, philosophy, meditation, psychedelics and much more to integrate a new vision for the future of human consciousness. Human consciousness is aware of its own awareness: we are self-aware. Our sciences are just now clarifying the idea that there is no stable world apart from our awareness of it. We participate in making the world we see, hear, and feel.

So, on one hand, the podcast is about awakening and human development. On the other hand, it is about the end of materialism and the hypothesis our self-aware consciousness will play a major role in our understanding of the “universe” that we participate in creating, moment by moment.

Your support for this podcast goes directly to the non-profit Center for Real Dialogue at www.realdialogue.com to permit us to pay the podcasters, the producer, and the Center instead of charging our listeners or offering the podcast with annoying advertisements. If you appreciate our cutting edge, support us now. We are grateful to you.