Spiritual Development
Deep Practice and the Mind Body Spirit Connection | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on April 26, 2017
John discussed in this week’s call the four pillars for practice: wake up, grow up, clean up and show up. Wake up: You need to stay awake Grow up: You need to go to the highest level of your moral development Clean up: You need to deal with your shadow, trauma, and screwed up childhood…
Read MoreIs Using Technology Cheating? & Flow States? | Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call – March 22, 2017
John explores flow states, Stealing Fire, answers questions about long-term PMP3 use, is it cheating, etc. Click to Play or Download Audio Themes from this call: Flow States Practice Doug Prater Joins the call Is it cheating? How do you use iAwake tracks at work? ______________________________________________________ Questions/Comments I spent over a decade doing dozens…
Read MoreWhat IS Spiritual Technology 2.0? | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call – March 15, 2017
John discussed spiritual technology and how spirituality deals with ultimate questions: “Who am I?” “What am I?” “What am I here to do?” Technology is any tool to assist you in doing something. How meditation (especially in using iAwake tools) helps in finding your deepest self. Certain meditations focus on the heart center –…
Read MoreFlow States & Micro Doses | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Live Coaching Call on March 8, 2017
This week John discusses: • Extended Meditations – do 2 hours instead of 1 hour • Flow States • Stealing Fire book • Flow State’s STER: Selflessness – Timelessness – Effortlessness – Richness • Translucent Revolution • Radical Brilliance • 16 Neurohacks: Digital Coffee – Digital Energy • Deep Delta • Micro-dosing LSD • Trans…
Read MoreStormy Monday | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Live Coaching Call on March 1, 2017
This week John discusses: • John starts off with an electric blues version of Stormy Monday, per request from the group the week before. • Practice: work your body, emotions/mind… shadow, spiritual • Integral Recovery (& upcoming podcast) Click to Play or Download Audio Questions/Comments: • “One question I have is what are practitioner’s experiences…
Read MoreWhat is your super power? iAwake Call 2.22.17
This week John discusses: Integral Recovery Cleaning up – waking up – growing up – showing up What is your Super power: Practice Many questions & comments Download the audio Questions/Comments: 20:06 – What is your experience of excavating deep fears in epsilon as contrasted by trauma in deep delta? 29:44 – Do you ever…
Read MoreDoug Prater, iAwake user, establishing a daily meditation practice – iAwake Weekly Call 2.15.17
Themes from this call: Doug Prater shared what drew him to iAwake. Found them through the Superhuman Operating System. Doug shares how to get the practice of meditation going. Pick a meditation track that speaks to you, that you connect with. Start slowly and make it an everyday thing. Upcoming Spiritual Technologies 2.0 Online…
Read MoreEmergence of a New Genre of Guided Brainwave Entrainment Meditation
For quite a while, I had the idea that a guided meditation could take on a little more life than it normally does—that the listener could be brought in more and connect with the meditation more fully, be more engaged. Over time it came to me, what if we merged some sort of storytelling element…
Read MoreiAwake, Consciousness Hacking, and the Future of Transformative Technologies
Excerpted from a conversation about transformative technologies and practices and their individual and cultural effects, with sociologist Harley Bergroth, currently researching his PhD at the University of Turku, Finland, and iAwake’s CTO and sound energy artist, Javi Otero, creator of Fractal Entrainment, a method of using sound energy to resonate the whole body. Harley: …
Read MoreRiding the evolutionary surfboard with binaural beats – iAwake Weekly Call 9.7.16
Download the audio Themes from this call: 3 Perspectives of God Show up – Grow Up To ride the evolutionary surfboard Passion – persistence – on purpose – purity Physical Healing Deep Recovery Dealing with overstimulation from the tracks Questions on the call: 1) Can you recommend tracks that help with physical healing? 2) Do…
Read MoreOn the Frontline of Meditation Coaching: Taoism, Practice, Shadow Work
Javi Otero speaks from his heart, responding to people from around the world who seek advice on a wide range of issues. The letter below is adapted from Javi’s response to a young woman who asked which teachings speak to him in particular. Javi is iAwake’s CTO, Experiential Customer Support person, and one of iAwake’s brilliant…
Read MoreHow You Can Entrain Your Brain & Your Body to Deep Delta States
Learn how you can naturally entrain your brain and your body to deep delta states by listening to psychoacoustic music in this interview with Leigh Spusta, one of iAwake’s new producers. iAwake CEO John Dupuy and Leigh discuss the benefits of “natural entrainment,” deep delta — which can bring you into profound states of relaxation, bliss, and joy,…
Read MoreHow Do You Know if You’re Enlightened?
Well, I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you. (Laughs) How do you know if you’re enlightened…? Well, first of all, you have to come up with a definition of what that means—to be enlightened. It’s a great question, by the way, and I think it’s a question that we all have…
Read MoreIntroducing Fractal Entrainment: An Interview with Javi Otero
John: Today we will hear from Javi Otero, who lives in Spain and is one of the really interesting people working in this field of transformation, meditation, coherence, Integral practice—and bringing it to where the rubber meets the road. Javi, tell us about your new technology and the new product that will be released very…
Read MoreThe Way of Gratitude, Part 3: Emotions Like the Weather
Years back, my relationship to emotions was the same as my relationship to the weather is now. For example, I don’t really follow any weather forecast—for me, it’s quite easy to look through the window or just get out and be in the weather. I don’t really care if there are prospects of good or…
Read MoreThe Illusion of Obstacles
Coherence is a peak state, characterized by the harmonious functioning of our mental, emotional, and physical systems. When measured, it tends to show balanced biomarkers, especially those related to heart rhythms, as suggested by the fascinating work being done at HeartMath Institute. When experienced, coherence often feels like an effortless-and-filled-with-joy-can-do attitude, during which we might…
Read MoreThe Way of Gratitude – Part 1 of 3
I like to think about meditation as the art of being present. Being present is something that is quite difficult sometimes, mainly because the mind tends to wander and take us on unexpected trips to either the future or the past. It is often busy producing thoughts that might create anxiety in us, or fear,…
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 MoreTransformational Life Technology: The Chrysallis Project
John: Hello everyone! We have a special show today. It’s a real honor to have Eric Brown with us, who is working on the Chrysallis project, as the business manager or the… Eric: (Chuckles). Thanks, John. Good morning, everyone! If you were to put a title on me, it would be Business Development, as I’m in…
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…
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