Also see batgap.com/salvadore-poe/
Chapters:
00:00:00 - An Awakening Plea for Help
00:05:12 - A Life-Changing Moment
00:09:29 - The Search for Enlightenment through Drugs and Meditation
00:13:31 - The Light is Going to Come for You
00:17:54 - Frustration with Seeking and the Shift to Knowing
00:21:54 - The Wind-Down of Conditioning
00:25:29 - The End of Seeking
00:29:30 - Recognizing the True Nature of Oneself
00:33:17 - The Integration of Transcendence and Imminence
00:36:41 - The Natural State of Consciousness
00:40:13 - The Unknowing
00:44:04 - The Shift of Knowing
00:47:33 - The misidentification of a separate self
00:49:49 - The Birth of Compassion
00:52:17 - The Illusion of Lost Thoughts
00:56:00 - Delineation between consciousness and awareness
01:00:02 - Purification of the Mind
01:04:16 - Recognizing the Sense of Lack
01:07:41 - The Journey of Self-Discovery
01:11:07 - Stabilizing Certainty and Clarity
01:15:13 - The Illusion of Self and Strengthening Intention
01:19:12 - The Illusion of the Self
01:22:56 - Levels of Spiritual Maturity
01:26:25 - Evidence of Reincarnation and Alternative Explanations
01:29:59 - The Illusion of Solid Form
01:33:24 - The Knowing Itself
01:37:09 - The Experience of Enlightenment
01:41:20 - The Impact of Awakening on Personality and Society
01:44:42 - The Impact of the Internet on Education
01:49:29 - The Nature of Awareness
01:55:50 - Wrapping Up and Thank You
Salvadore Poe was a successful musician from New York, making records, touring, having videos on MTV and doing film scores, when in 1997 he had a life changing experience that propelled him on a single-pointed inquiry in search of enlightenment. During the next seven years he immersed himself in intensive retreats in USA, Europe and India, met many teachers, including U.G. Krishnamurti, Douglas Harding, Toni Packer, among others, and eventually moved to India where he lived for two years in the ashram of Ajja, a recognized spiritual master, and then for a year in the ashram of another spiritual master, Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar. During all these years he meditated countless hours, had numerous mystical, transcendent experiences and then finally, frustrated with it all, met his last teacher, Dolano in 2004, and his search was over. Eight years later, living an ordinary life making music in India, someone he met asked him to work one on one with a spiritual seeker.
Since then Salvadore has been offering a means of inquiry intended to let you come to know for yourself that you are now and always have been complete, whole, lacking nothing and free. This recognition, when true and doubtless, ends seeking automatically, as it is seen that what you have been seeking is already true and realized. What has kept you from this ‘knowing’ are all of the myriad ideas, beliefs and spiritual concepts given to you by culture and religion, which you have taken for granted without really investigating. But once clearly investigated they all fall, leaving you at ease here and now with and as what is. Seeking is finished, there is no cause of it any longer. Life is lived at ease.
Salvadore currently divides his time between India and New York State, writing and recording music and sharing the inquiries.
Websites:
www.salvadorepoe.com
liberationis.com
Book: Liberation IS: The End Of The Spiritual Path
Interview recorded 2/6/2016