Transcript, links to Angelo's book, channel, and website, and more shows on Awakening: zdoggmd.com/awakening-doubt/ 00:00 Intro 00:16 Could you have had an awakening and not know what it was? What is awakening, presence/consciousness, the role of distorting thought reflections. 8:14 Lacking a context in which to place “awakening” experiences or foretastes 9:48 The role of faith, doubt mass, and determination in enlightenment/awakening/realization. Distinguishing faith from “belief.” 17:11 The deep dissatisfaction and suffering (dukkah) that can light a fire to seek authentic, living truth 25:25 Can people with “good” lives and success wake up? The role of brutal honestly and authenticity in self-realization 26:15 Medical professionals, “successful” people and the threat to identity that awakening might represent, the role of surrender and authenticity 28:06 If you start down the path, DON’T STOP (here’s why), dealing with frustration and roadblocks 34:03 The crucial importance of the present moment (rather than thought or stories ABOUT presence), the mind’s time-based hypnosis 37:00 The difference between “experience” and “realization” and the loosening of thought-based identity structures 47:00 Non-duality (no subject-object distinction, just experiencing experiencing itself) 49:45 Suffering is the entry point, the role of retreat and surrender

After coming back from the war, I was all sorts of aimless and messed up. Wasn’t living up to my full potential. Started reading good self help books, seeking out mentors. Got in good shape. Took control of my health and my relationships. Then, I did some psychedelics. All of those things completely destroyed my life. And replaced it with a better one. Keep seeking truth in everything you do people. It won’t lead you astray.

This entire conversation is like that scene from Spaceballs. "Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now." I can't take it. Not now, or now.

Love listening to you two talk about something you can’t explain with words. It’s helping me very much and making me feel less alienated in this superficial world.

Angelo takes no hostages. And that's why I love him.

"Reality is deeply satisfying when you don't resist it. When you resist it at 1%, it's deeply uncomfortable" 😅 Fantastic talk guys. So direct. So simple. Without spiritual mumbo jumbo. Thank you. Looking forward to the next episodes with Angelo. I watched all of them and I'm always so hooked.

It’s great to hear MDs talking publicly about this stuff and not try to associate them with mental illness. I had a mystical experience or after death communication 5 years ago and an out of body experience when I was 7. I am 51 now. It all happened spontaneously of course I was in deep grief at the time. I felt like I was nearing death. I had a spiritual awakening and kundalini awakening and my chakras were all just blown wide open. I honestly thought my body was preparing for death. It’s been quite the journey. So many people have been brought into my life that have helped to guide me. It is like the Holy Spirit takes over and helps you get through the most challenging time in your life. My psychic abilities initially were just crazy sensitive and now they’ve balanced out. I have retained many psychic abilities and have taken courses in energy healing and intuitive and psychic development. I’ve even learned remote viewing. All cool stuff. I am very grateful and blessed for this journey as difficult as it was for me early on. I continue to channel my journey and learn lessons along the way and teach where and when I am able to. 🙏

The waking equivalent of a lucid dream that lasted several weeks where I was not moving through the world but the world was moving through me. Where I was everything and everything was me. I was without a second and all that appeared to be a second, third, fourth was in reality but appearances of Me. I could go on and on and no matter how much I say about it, I can't even begin to describe it because it was transcendent and at the same time imminent. It was beyond mind-blowing and the closest I can come is point at how NDE survivors relate some of their perception of Oneness, Unity, Love, Source, whatever. What triggered it? Aside from a decade of meditation and consciousness studies the proximate push seems to have been a mind-blowing precognition coming back from a mountain pond fishing trip. I never bought into all the paranormal stuff but what happened is beyond explanation. I knew what was going to happen 45 minutes before and 30 miles away. It was actually disturbing, sickening even, and I cried my eyes out for an hour driving through the mountains heading home. It literally soaked my shirt...

What a breath of fresh air talking about this.

Found your channel for the takes on pandemic. Staying for the content on consciousness/meditation/mindfulness.

I had a near death experience during a car accident 40 years ago. It was realer than real. I was out of my body.....It was a classic NDE It changed me totally.

Thank you for this ZDogg and Angelo. It’s so helpful.

Hey! Thanks for posting this. Your introduction was very accurate formulated and pretty much pointed to what apparently happened to me for about 17 years ago. Years prior to this "experience" I had read a couple of books (The Power of Now/ New Earth) by a guy named Eckhart Tolle. In his books he points to the present moment as the gateway to the true self, the "I" beyond the false mind created self. These books helped me to realize that time and the sense of a past and future was an illusion. 17 years ago I was lying on my back in bed, stressed and exhausted, and seemingly out of nowhere I pictured all the young men that stormed the Normandie beach under the 2nd WW. Something "clicked" when there suddenly was something "within me" that recognized that not only were there no one on that beach, but it never happened. What followed was the recognition that everything I had ever experienced was a mirage ..... it wasnt real. It never happened. What happened next is impossible to describe. The sense of being a person disappeared, and all of the tension/ contraction in my body vanished, like a billion strings were cut over, and my body felt like it was floating above the bed. There was only "this"; no person, no sense of being separate, no "me" .... only the moment. There was no movement, nowhere to go ..... there was nothing happening. It took me 10 seconds to realize that the laughter I heard was apparently made by me. I have never laughed like that before. For the first time in my life ( its not my life, off course .... just life) something knew that there has always been this moment, just "what is", and that everything else is an artificial reality. "What is" can never be known, because then "we" would have to go outside of "what is" and look in, which is impossible. There really is no separate individual, and only in the "dream" of being a separate entity is there a past, a now and a future, and an experience of there being a prior cause to what apparently is happening right now. There is no you going anywhere. "What is" doesnt move. Only the illlusory "me" has somewhere to go ..... to make this moment more satisfying. "What is" is nothing appearing as something that communicates with itself. This is so obvious, but the separate individual can never understand this. ..... so it continues its apparent hopeless journey to understand what it can never get. The immediate "now" is freedom!

Thank you so much for bring out this subject that most of us have been feeling.

A lot of this discussion centers around concepts that have been part of Buddhism for literally centuries or longer. It's good that the world may have the chance to be exposed to the basics of Mindfulness and the task of easing suffering. Thanks.

I have been going through this since 2012. My favorite topic. I had to seek spiritual teachers in the past. Where I am at now, being in healthcare is quite difficult. I feel THAT is not my path any more. But my path is to help people in a different manner.

Though I listen to all your Covid talks, I’m so happy to listen to something else, especially on something so profound.

strongly suggest, if you haven't already, inviting Eben Alexander, former neurosurgeon, on staff for 15 years at Harvard Medical, and talk to him about his near death experience and how it drastically changed his concept of the nature of consciousness, the nature of death and the human condition. Extremely articulate!

I probably managed to send the instruction to watch this video to myself one year ago. It's synchronicity after synchronicity. I'm grateful that I ended up here!

Thank you for this, reminder. The presence, the now. 🙏

Since my death experience and spending time in the universe of reality I have tried to remember it and live my life that way. This Awaken thing is news to me but I believe that is how I've been living. So cool!

Hey! So excited I got this early! I recently bought awake and have read the first chapter, can’t wait for this book!

I medidated to this. Felt so still. Thank you 🙏

Love this. I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I find Fred Davis really compelling. I have come close with some of his talks.

Thank you so much

Thank you so much . Great information about awakening .

Some people will just not be able to handle the truth. They're comfortable being ignorant.

Thank you💜

I absolutely love this series. Well I, who am I? No I, but enjoyed 🤣🤣🤣🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ can't wait to buy your book Dr angelo. Wow is all I have to say ❤ thank you x

Nice segway from correcting medical misinformation to nonduality. I'm with you Zdogg.

Excellent and important conversations gentlemen.

I think you are just remembering being in the womb. No thinking, no self, no doubt, just pure comfort and contentment. That's what we all are. Just beings that by a quirk of evolution are able to, on a deep level, remember that state and long for it through our lives without realizing it. That is where I have been at for a long time in terms of understanding myself. I haven't been able to, or even contemplated the possibility of, it actually having a positive influence on my life and how I experience life. I am very materialistic though, so no aspect of this has any relation to anything objectively profound that exists outside of human experience, for me.

Such a great on Spot questions-answers!!!

Luv this thank u 🙏

Do we even exist though without a past or a present? Our human experience is in memories and imagination coming to fruition.

Can you be awake, spiritually, not suffering emotiinally, but have physical disease and be suffering physically? I have always been drawn to Buddhism, and eastern thought. Studying it practicing it as best I knew changed my life. When stressed out, i tell myself you got to get in " your Zen state", (just breathe lol), totally believe in the now. "What if" questions make me cringe. I spend my now feeling grateful and finding the joy. But my physical now is physical pain and suffering. Losing my husband I learned that losing material things could never cause me pain. I do not live in the world of expectations of people or circumstances, but I am trying not to "expect" the end of disease and my physical suffering. Most of the time I accept my "reality" of physical pain and do better on those days. Any insights please???? 37 years Med/Surg RN still working fulltime mentoring new grad RN teaching them to breathe, until Long Covid.

Thanks!

I knew it! I could tell from your content that you practice medicine very consciously. Love it!

People see what they want to see and if they don't see it they see it anyway

Everyone needs to be awakened to a relationship with their creator.

i wonder if there is a prevention concept in this for future us

I am a person of habit and one day as if it was real saw a car accident at a corner that I always went by so I decided to not go by there for awhile and the very next day there was a 3 car pile up and a child died there at that corner. It's scary when I have that feeling about something as I have had beforehand and this usually happens when I least expect it. So I have learned to just adapt to what will happen and listening to your guest speaker this is a different type of being awakened. Physical and emotional as well as spiritual awakening are all different. And some people have all 3 of these.

Last one made sense, but this one - I have no idea what you all are talking about :)

I'd love to watch this on rumble

I see that Guru zdoggs plan is coming to fruition

Where’s the TWENTY LIKES button?!?’

I’m super fascinated and interested to learn how far down the “rathole” you’ve gone! Seth material? 🤯

Does anyone know of any good organizations or online communities where I could meet other people exploring these ideas?

Eve n in a roundabout way you are taking about four noble truths that is with intelligence you know ut that us called. Pragha wisdom

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There's definitely a peculiar take on this when an Angel(o) writes the book.

Is that what you find when you stop seeking? But then there's nothing to be found because it was already there... 😳

Right now, in this moment I'm feeling irritated because Dr Angelo talks too fast and doesn't form his words fully and I'm having a hard time understanding what he's saying. I have the speed setting at .75, but when ZDogg speaks it sounds weird at .75. Awakening didn't ruin my life, it put me more in touch with it, including the crappy bits... it's still better though.

My system 2 is almost all I have for memory

Now that I've found Peace At Last Tell me Jesus Will it last? - The Blue Nile 💙 💙 💙

Honestly the answer is no not everyone can do what it takes.

Second

We're just a bunch of molecules rearranging other molecules and nothing matters.

This whole concept presumes that I am "asleep" and ignorant of the fact that I am "asleep".

Interviewer needs to keep the points short and let Angelo speak

Third?

That last part was awkward

More like go with the flow we create all the trama and adversity in our lives and it's all done inside your brain , when you understand reality reflects what you feel like a mirror you can alter your perceptions to change how things flow around you with a different perception and emotional context and the universe responds to that perception instead. Why because your reality is created inside your mind from information and how you respond or perceive it is a choice you can make to change the nature of what's unfolding around you. Everything is consciousness you are creating Everything from reactions to actions to sensory information your brain constructs into reality giving you the illusion it's all happening outside of your brain when in fact everything you experience is from your interpretation of outside information recreated inside your brain with illusion it's all happening out there including your problems and pain. Although consciousness reality is participatory you have more control of your piece of reality than you might imagine. This is why law of attraction works it has nothing to do with the universe in the way they define it, it's all about what you are creating in your own mind and how you feel and respond to it. The universe is real but we never actually see it. What we do see is information sent though our senses and interpreted as the five senses giving us a very physical reality to interact with, but that physical reality is only happening inside the brain you can never experience what is outside in the actual universe only a creation of it inside your brain thefore reality is all consciousness all the way down to the smallest units of consciousness atoms and particles which ate also created inside your brain and we may not be seeing them as they actually really are because we can not see outside of what is translated into perception. Think of the universe as a wave not unlike a sound wave but you experience it differently because you are part of that wave of consciousness and your senses only translate that field of energy into a physical reality you experience as real physical experience. How your senses construct reality is like a computer translating code into a visual object thefore we never experience the code of reality only it's translated perception.

#165👍🤔🤷🌪🕊💖💭Exactly.....

Is this not a new attempt to represent and make new the arguments of William James, Carl Jung, and every scientist who admits they can’t grasp the metaphysics beyond our sciences? Archetypal psychology hits us with what we all know is common sense but we can not explain and may never be able to?

I miss DocVader

Is anyone just really confused??

Zen dog

I was waiting for the offering of a blue or red pill....

Funny that this podcast is very much thought centered when it's purportedly trying to describe something that isn't thought. I'm lost because of the over intellectualization of the guest.

THERE IS NO I , 😀 😀 😀 , WORDS ARE NOT THE TRUTH , 🙄🙄🙄🙄

lmao

Dear heavens I am trying to understand this but you might as well be talking Chinese 😂. It's giving me anxiety trying to comprehend what the heck you two are trying to get across

Fast talk. Take a breath.

A white Deepak Chopra. Sell those books brother.