Posts by John Dupuy
For Ukraine, One Year Later: A Song and a Conversation
February 24, 2023 was the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Of course you could say the invasion began in 2014 when the Russians illegally invaded and stole Crimea from Ukraine. This was after the Budapest Memorandum, in which the US and Russia declared that the current (as of 1994) boundaries of Ukraine were…
Read MoreOn the Meaning of Life: How to Wake Up and Show Up
I’d like to talk about the meaning of life and tell you what that is from my perspective. First of all, I think we have to wake up. We have to remember; we have to know who and what we really are and wake up to our true identities, because before that we’re just wandering…
Read MorePlaying Golf in the Zone: An Interview with the Creators of VISION54
John: We have with us today two of the premier teachers and coaches of golf on the planet: Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott of VISION54. Pia and Lynn are getting ready to release a bundle of iAwake Technologies tracks for those who are interested in improving their golf game—deepening it, working on their inner game,…
Read MoreWhere a Contemplative Practice with Brainwave Entrainment Can Take Us
I’ve been doing a brainwave entrainment meditation practice on a daily basis for eight years now. It’s hard for me to imagine living life without a contemplative practice at this point, and hard to imagine living without the benefits that I’ve gotten from this ongoing commitment to my inner work and inner growth. This technology…
Read MoreMeditate Like a Rock: The Way to Spiritual Maturity
I was meditating the other day and thinking about the four noble truths of Buddhism: 1) Life is suffering. 2) We suffer because we’re attached. 3) The cessation of suffering is attainable. 4) The way out of the suffering, the path, includes practice. I went over this in my heart, in my mind, in my experience,…
Read MoreRelationships, Pain, and Finding Our Deepest Selves
Famous American psychiatrist and author William Glasser says that how we negotiate and take care of the handful of extremely important relationships we will have in our lives, in a large way determines whether we’re happy or not. Our relationships with our parents, our wives, our husbands, our children, our best friends, our mentors, our pets, are…
Read MoreTips for Beginners: Getting Started with Brain Entrainment Meditation
To those of you who are just starting out with the Profound Meditation Program, I want to say that I’m very excited for you, because the changes, shifts, and transformation that can happen are really remarkable. Here, I’d like to give you a few tips, and hopefully some really useful information, to get you on the…
Read MoreA Powerful Meditation Practice Can Improve Everything That Matters
In the Hindu tradition, they talk about how siddhis emerge after one begins a process of deep meditation and awakening. Siddhis are special abilities and capacities, the equivalent of charisms or “gifts of the Spirit” in the Christian sense. In the Letters of Paul, in the New Testament, he talks about how different gifts of the Spirit were emerging in…
Read MoreA Dedicated Daily Meditation Practice Makes All the Difference
I think that enlightenment is a process—not one where somebody flicks on a light bulb and then you’re enlightened forever, and you’re perfect, and you speak all languages—no. It’s not like that. But it is a process, and when we engage in a daily meditation practice, perhaps that is the most enlightened choice that we can make…
Read MoreUnder Intense Stress? Do a Brainwave Entrainment Meditation Marathon
It’s the last day of a five-week Integral Recovery intensive and I feel really good about it. There was a lot of healing, a lot of practice, and people are at a different place from where they started. We did a lot of work: We meditated an hour every morning and 40 minutes every evening. Then we…
Read MoreTechnological Grace: Just When We Needed You Most
While I was meditating today, I was thinking about all the breakthroughs people are having doing this practice of using brain entrainment and biofield technology while meditating. If you could sit where I sit, hear, and read all of the testimonials from people that are using the iAwake technology—from our beta testers, from the students…
Read MoreVision Questing in the Postmodern World: Now More Important Than Ever
Vision questing is a very personal topic for me; I have vision quested for years and also developed wilderness therapy programs that put hundreds of people out on vision quests. I’m talking about the traditional type of vision quest here, in which the individual goes into the wilderness and finds a spot. When we were helping…
Read MoreEmotional Alchemy: Holding the Pain, Transmuting the Darkness
My contention is that if we really want to get in the evolutionary fast lane, we’ll dedicate one hour a day to our meditation practice. For most people, mornings are the best time—before the world gets going and our opportunity to sit quietly slips away. So many of us tend to make excuses and skip…
Read MoreUsing the Profound Meditation Program to Move Closer to Our Source
I was talking to a client the other day, and he said, “I lost my signal because I’m so far away from my source.” He was talking about his Wi-Fi source. I said, “That’s really deep.” He said, “Yeah, it is.” And we both wrote it down. If we lose our signal, our capacity to…
Read MoreHow a Daily Meditation Practice Gives Us Direction and Purpose
One of the really essential things that we need at a certain level of development, in order to balance our lives and get into the zone of our own actualization, is a sense of vocation, a sense of, “Oh, this is what I’m supposed to be doing in the world.” Like the old U.S. Army ad used…
Read MoreA Poem by John Dupuy: Before the Stillness
Before the stillness the storm. Before peace the war. Before rebirth the destruction and the fire. Before forgiveness the pain of the violated. Before God the despair of the soul that is lost and has forgotten. Before dawn the darkness. Before awakening the dreams. The dreamer awakes to the source, is the source, the maker…
Read MoreBreaking our Addictive Patterns with the Profound Meditation Program
When we meditate with the Profound Meditation Program, we are consciously engaged in the process of evolving and healing our brains in an integral and holistic way. Unfortunately, this type of healing technology has not been available until very recently, and many of us are suffering from neurological deficits and emotional wounding based on our past…
Read MoreMeditation and the Butterfly Effect: Why What We Do Matters
I was thinking about our ambitions and our egos recently and how, as time goes by, as we struggle to do our inner work—our meditation, our contemplative practice, and our prayer work—the ego starts to shape itself into a functional, helpful form. Of course we know that the end purpose of all things is not…
Read MoreFacing the Depths in Our Meditation Practice: Here Be Lions
Last Sunday, I was sitting doing my meditation, and I noticed how my ego really wanted to avoid going deep. There was a strong signal: No, no, no. Let’s stay on top. Let’s think about anything rather than surrendering into the depths. I’ve noticed the same thing with my students and clients, that oftentimes there’s a…
Read MoreThe Power of Brainwave Entrainment Meditation to Help Release Trauma
I have been kind of a spiritually-oriented person most of my life since I was about 11 years old when I had my first big opening. For many years, I struggled with the idea that I needed to have a meditative practice—a consistent interior practice. This was always very, very hard for me to maintain. Finally,…
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