Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond
Episodes
Fear #3: fear of harm to or death of another
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the fear of something happening to the most precious people in our life means we miss out on true intimacy with them.
Fear #2: the fear of death and physical harm
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing the look at fear, we explore more specifically the fear of harm to the body or death.
Fear and threat to self / body
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the body will protect itself from physical danger and how the protection of the self identity is on its way out.
Toxic people
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring whether there is such a thing as a toxic person.
Heaven and hell
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the assumed heaven of having everything we could ever want is also the hell of losing it.
Grief
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what to do with overwhelming sadness
Abuse and honouring
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the honouring of the miracle of being is a natural implication of a deeper understanding of who we are.
Sovereignty
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do we have power and control? Or are we being controlled? Or is something else entirely going on...
Competition
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how competition can be an attempt to secure the self or an opportunity to see what is really true.
Needing to be liked
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How needing to be liked is based on misunderstanding of self and other.
Contraction and expansion
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the avoidance of suffering only serves to limit the immersion in life and reality.
Desire
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the understanding of who we are unveils the pure desire of life in form.
Relief
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the temporary relief from suffering keeps experience trapped in a vicious circle, while the relief of knowing who we really are is enorm...
Being
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the identifiers of the 'I am' must be clung on to when there is insecurity or defence and how that has nothing to do with the ...
Acceptance
27 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the self that resists the thing, the voice that says the self must accept the thing and the thing itself are all the same.
Forgiveness
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how forgiveness is not the freedom we imagine it to be.
Goggles
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that we are wearing distorting goggles is often used in conversations about how thought creates reality. That can lead to frustration and sel...
Unconditional love vs. doormat
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why unconditional love is not the same as being a doormat
Anger
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the attempt to not feel anger and the personalisation of it come from a misunderstanding of what is true.
Success
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what success really is.
Maturity of understanding
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the stages of human development in how the concepts of self, other and the world appear.
Wrong behaviour and misalignment
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how behaviour will always be 'right' for whatever understanding of self and other it emerges from and how the only place of naviga...
Changing other people's behaviour
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what is going on when we want other people's behaviour to change.
Instructions
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the self believes it is what makes the decisions and dictates whether instructions will be obeyed or not. It never is.
Taking offence
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how being offended reinforces the idea of a separate, insecure self or can reveal what is actually going on.
Resistance
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how resistance is a sign of confusion and not the navigating tool it is assumed to be.
How do I share this with other people?
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what that question is really saying...
Jealousy
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how jealousy can send us deeper into the illusion of self or indicate where authentic expression is veiled
Confusion and no man's land
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how a period of confusion and lack of drive is a logical consequence of the falling away of the idea of a separate self.
Immersion
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how anything - including a conversation about oneness - can be used to separate out from the world. But when suffering is a sign to enquir...
The end of lying and manipulation
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the understanding that there is no other makes it impossible for lying or manipulation to occur.
The end of identification of self with body
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how it could be possible that the self is the body, it is not even in it. The body appears within the self.
What is in the way of a goal being achieved?
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it that often goals, desires or intentions are not met?
The end of hatred
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how only an understanding of who we and the other really are can end the mirrors-facing-each-other effect of defence and protection.
What creates behavioural change?
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how transformative behavioural change can only come from a shift in understanding of self, other and reality.
Shame and embarrassment
06 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how shame and embarrassment come from a misunderstanding that actions could be different and that the self idea needs to be protected
Solipsism, the other and oneness
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why solipsism - the idea that nothing exists outside of my perception - cannot be true and what we are beyond the narrative of separation.
Taking a stand
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the stand of 'I am right' is a brittle, fragile platform that must be defended at all costs and how it can give way to the org...
The world of people, things and places
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens with the realisation that there is no separate individual and no objective reality? Do people, things and places disappear?
Love: impersonal and unconditional
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Looking at the realisation that our true essence is unconditional and impersonal love.
Rejection, approval and the self
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how a misunderstanding of what the self is, is a roller coaster swinging between rejection and approval.
Does this understanding change us and the world?
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how this understanding changes everything... for no one.
Confidence
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how trying to build up the self in order to be confident just reinforces the illusion that the self is in control of anything...
Cause and effect
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the understanding of cause and effect changes as the self is explored.
The easy life
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why the apparent form of life is never any indication of how easy it is.
Defence
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the body will respond automatically to any physical situation. The defence of the self identity though is something else altogether.
Finding our bearings
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how to navigate a constantly changing world
Vigilance and honouring
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how vigilance over experience, behaviour, thought and emotions is an attempt to secure the self. And how beneath it, all there is is the ope...
Three realities
24 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring three ways reality of self and other appears: 1. as unquestioned objective truth 2. the other is created by MY thoughts and beliefs 3. th...
A better dream..?
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Often people say 'OK fine it's all a dream or a film but how do I make it a better dream or a film in which I am happier and more fulfilled?...
Are there toxic people?
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how a self that must be protected and defended and loved will always encounter people that threaten the identity. Seeing who we really are m...
Control or no control?
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the idea that I am in control of my behaviour, thoughts and experiences is essentially the same belief as I am not in control.
Self blame, responsibility and free will
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how self blame is a separation from reality, while the understanding that there is no free will creates completeness and present responsibil...
Potential
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why potential can never have anything to do with the idea of who we are, how it is revealed in the absence of any idea.
Pets and unconditional love
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An unusual topic today - exploring the unconditional love from a pet and what this can tell us about human relationships
Insecurity
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the attempt to secure ourselves by controlling the people or the world we see around us and why that will never work.
Triggering and readiness for something else
16 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why physical and mental health symptoms would ramp up when the self identity is questioned and how all peace and freedom is realised right t...
Desire
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Desire can be the separation out of this moment. And it looks like the way to go with this conversation is turning away from all form. But actually th...
The conditional self
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Life can seem to be about trying to make sure all conditions are met so that we can be happy and fulfilled. But when it becomes clear that condition...
The lightly held I
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the objectified I is never real and as that dissolves it leaves a lightly held concept that is simply part of expression.
What's the point?
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how for the self that is seeking freedom, peace and happiness there is no point in this conversation. In fact it is torture for that self. Y...
Where is the centre?
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how there is no 'I' in the body, the body is in the 'I'.
Discomfort and resistance
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why all the emotions, thoughts, feelings and symptoms that we have been trying to avoid might get worse in this exploration...
Let's be realistic...
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what it actually means to 'be realistic' - and it isn't the superficial, unquestioned belief in an objective reality...
The limits and possibility of a teacher
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the limit of any teacher is the extent to which a belief has become a position to defend.
The unimaginable
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The unimaginable - that there is no controlling self making life happen - becomes the only possibility.
Somewhere to get to? Nowhere to get to?
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how realisation of who we are makes it clear that realisation of who we are is not necessary...!
wisdom
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why there is nothing the self can do to access greater wisdom.
Dissociation
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how a genuine exploration of reality is full immersion and nothing to do with dissociation or denial.
Does anything exist?
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how nothing exists in the way it is believed to exist.
Intimacy
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how intimacy has nothing to do with proximity or time.
Nothing is personal
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how nothing is personal. Even though it looks like it is.
The story-less self
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the compelling refuge, distraction and apparent order of stories and how ultimately the self is absent of all story.
The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind?
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how trying to find peace through making sure that only the 'right' emotions, thoughts and circumstances are experienced is hiding ...
The body
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the lightening of the idea of self allows for a transformation in the body.
When the going gets tough
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the relief and comfort of having what we think we need or getting rid of what we think we don't want is not the freedom it appears ...
Purpose
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how purpose is a thought created idea and how perhaps ultimately the only purpose of life is the dissolving of all concepts - including the ...
Enlightenment and the onion
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the idea of self is like an onion and layer by layer it can dissolve to reveal there is absolutely nothing there.
The search for okness
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the attempt to hold on to and seek the 'right' experiences, thoughts and emotions and to resist the 'wrong' ones is ...
Beyond values
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the idea of values maintains an identity that is separate from the world around it and how, in the dissolving of that identity, our true...
Could illness be impersonal?
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the apparently ludicrous - that there is no one to be ill or to experience illness.
Feeling stuck?
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of how the discomfort when we feel stuck can take us deeper into a belief in limitation or can show that belief for the imagination it ...
What does it mean to flourish?
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how flourishing has nothing to do with what we think.
Fear... but what is being protected?
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what is going on with fear and how it often has nothing to do with physical danger and everything to do with the loss or vulnerability of so...
Suffering and other people
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the suffering apparently caused by other people is telling us 'there is no other'.
Evidence and navigation
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is so much evidence for our beliefs. So they can remain unquestioned. Or we can start to explore how the beliefs themselves create the evidence....
The future - insanity or simplicity?
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how believing the imagined idea of the future is a delusion and the source of suffering while the concept of time, understood for what it is...
It is what it is... and it also isn't
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how this apparent reality is all there is. And how that apparent reality is never all there is.
Peace
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the search for peace in the right emotions and right circumstances is hiding the peace we're searching for...
Behaviour and habits
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how trying to change behaviour fixes it in place and where change really arises from.
Acceptance
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what is going on when we try to accept something.
Flow
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how flow is what we are - not something we have to achieve
Freedom
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the freedom we really are.
Panic and reality
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what is going on with panic
Characters in our story
05 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how other people, events and circumstances are the characters in a story of self and what that tells us about who we really are.
The roller coaster
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the roller coaster of emotions and experience and how trying to stay at the top with the right emotions and experience is pointless.
What if I run out of ideas?
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the idea of a limited self is evidence of creativity in action.
How do I know what to do?
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring navigation of a thought created world
Beyond limitation
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the perception of limitation and how it is never what we think it is.
Concepts, sanity and freedom
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the nature of concepts (including the concept of self and Coronavirus) and how believing them to be actual reality hides everything we are l...