André Duqum

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8,115 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6d ago

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Know Thyself · E207 - Jim George: Stillness Expert: “How To Not Miss Your Life” · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

What we say and declare that we want from any given experience or relationship or work is because the feeling state we actually want behind it, we want a pleasant, pleasurable experience. That's fundamentally why we think we want anything. Would you agree with that? matched

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drinklmnt.com slash know thyself i hope you enjoy back to the show there is this internal belief and orientation that we often carry through life that to have an improved experience of life i must acquire more things yes relationships experiences the house the car yes matched

and why the definition of stillness and of examining what we truly want is so beautiful because, matched

it lets us stop trying. I love that. It's exhausting. Good call. It's exhausting to always be under the notion that your ideal life is outside of you. Yeah. And it's freeing to say then, okay, if what I'm actually desiring and seeking is a lack of seeking. End of that. An end. Yes. Then perhaps what I want is not more stuff, but to let go of matched

This yin and yang, this teeter-totter between order and chaos that we find ourselves in is something I want to explore a bit more. When you look at the Gnostic origins of the various religions, even the Abrahamic ones... matched

It boils down to an individual having a profound, perhaps prophetic experience of life, so much so that we remember their names thousands of years later. And yet, when you look past the way that kings and empires have changed texts and controlled narratives throughout time, you get back to the conception, inception, and the genesis of these individuals' experience. matched

you begin to see a similarity across the board from people of all walks of life in different places on the planet that bring into question what actually is spirituality. I love that. What is it that is essential within us that we are adding so many names to and languages for, which is fun and is what we do on this podcast and they always are going to be limiting and describing. Sure, sure, sure. matched

But do you feel then that, because you use the word holotropic, right? Coming into wholeness. And we throw... Incline toward, turning toward. Yeah. So do you believe that as we experience a diffused and more grand and vast sense of self, that when we taste that, not only can we see that more readily in others, but that's actually what we would use as a term God. That when we see that and witness that in others, matched

The natural happening from that realization is just pure laughter. The only sane response. Yeah, the only sane response. Literally. It's like we set up this, we, whatever, life, this illusion of separation for the experience of itself happens and we need to forget ourself and have this amnesia so we can remember ourself. What a beautifully intelligently designed dance. And that's... matched

I'm saying that oscillation is what a life well-lived is. And there is a commercialization of, and the wellness industry has become a trillion-dollar industry on this perspective of subject and object. Yes. You know, when we talk about self-love, right, and what that looks like. Mm-hmm. matched

insight and revelation that we can we talked a bit about this this morning yeah maybe we can even put in a little clip talking about this concept of revelation and right revelation to reveal the gold mine that was right under your feet but you were just too busy to notice it before for something to be revealed a removal of what was obstructing it must move away matched

Since revelation is an internal phenomena, what is obstructing must be mental. Stillness is the means by which we create the necessary conditions for mental obstructions to fall away and revelation to occur. Salvation comes through revelation. Revelation comes through stillness. Your salvation depends on your stillness. matched

It goes back into this externalization of acquisition as opposed to living from an emptiness, like valuing emptiness and what that can create a wellspring of in your life. Yes. Now, the way that you speak about practical spirituality, because you talked about instead of chasing it off in spirituality, matched

retreats and advice and podcasts. Here we are, I'm doing a retreat. We do these things. But the powerful reminder is that every moment of the day, we have the opportunity to come back into that stillness. Now to make this extremely actionable for people, what is it literally like in your internal experience matched

when you recognize you're not still, you're lost in thought, emotion, and that reminder of coming back into stillness. And how can we, as individuals, find those opportunities in our day? And what are you really doing with your body, your mind, your breath? If you have the capacity to just... matched

And what you're doing there is, in essence, would you say exerting will to push aside almost or to release tension? God, that's a great question. matched

I love that. He has quite an articulate explanation of the byproducts of this realization, which I would love to just read the list out and see how they relate to your experience. Wow. So these are like bonuses of the recognition of the true self. Wow. An enlivening of the senses. Absolutely. Absolutely. matched

A complex of interrelated psychophysical changes including whole body alertness in place of the heady intermittent sort, as if one were poised through and through to run through the race of one's life. A reduction of stress, particularly in the region of the eyes and mouth and neck, as if one were at last letting them go. matched

A progressive lowering of one's center of gravity, as if losing one's head were finding one's heart and guts and feet, which are now rooted in the earth. A striking downward shift of one's breathing, as if it were a belly function. In fact, a general come down, as if all the good things one had vainly strained after in the heights were awaiting one in the depths. matched

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