Idiot's Guide to Awakening (For Dummies) 

1- Going beyond conceptuality (taste) 2- Don't mistake this experience with awakening 3- orienting towards that taste, find a way to break open, give yourself to it 4- find a focus of inquiry + stay in the living truth, simplicity is key, go thru the fear barrier (ultimately in awakening) 5- post-awakening honey moon period, fluidity, there is flow for weeks or months 6- emotion work, shadow work, equanimity work, you feel things intensely, deep inquiry (moment to moment) and final realisation (fall of sense of self)

the beauty about Michael Scott in the The Office was that the awkwardness he projected was his sincere attempt to belong, his love was free.

I'm 61 now and just now trying to return to this profound realization I had when I was maybe 11 or 12 years old. I remember the moment so vividly...I was in the bathroom looking in the mirror...and suddenly had this profound feeling..."I'm alive" and just looked at myself...and kept saying that in surprise...touching my face, realizing I'm really alive...I'm actually here. As a kid it sort of freaked me out. I actually tried to shake the feeling. Go back to the board game so to speak. Over my life I think I've been both drawn to and afraid of that feeling. It produces anxiety and peace at different times. It's both simple and confusing... so thanks...I needed this idiots guide. :)

thank you for sharing. collective awakening is happening.

I appreciate that you donate the funds from your videos! Thanks for doing that! In the depths of being, I realize these videos are a distraction - there's a subtle pull that nudges me to turn the damn video off and just be present. It's AMAZING how subtle delusion really is. Anyway, someday I'll watch my last RU-vid video; it's already happened. But in the meantime, I'm grateful my modern conditioning can be leveraged for a greater good. Much love ❤️

So wonderful donating to a charity helping to clean the plastic from the ocean ... Helps to save the lives of our fellow sea creatures!

A long time ago, I decided to meditate with my pet rabbit sitting on my lap. I thought she will hop of in a minute, so that would be fine. During the meditation, my thoughts did stop. However, I experienced the strangest thing. I was being awashed by energy from outside myself. I'm sorry I'm pretty inarticulate, but this energy was unconditional love. It wasn't a feeling or thoughts, it was something beyond anything I know. After it had finished, to my surprise, my rabbit was still sitting on my lap and 45 minutes had passed. I still feel so grateful to have experienced, whatever that was. My search for a way to be has many ups and downs, but I will continue. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and wisdom.

I have never heard my experience explained back to me... thank you. I've been having that sensation from time to time since I was 5 and it scared me. It was the closest feeling to complete madness i could describe. Every time it happened I thought "is this the time I don't come back?" I thought I was just dissociating but... no. I can still do it at will if I want to. I need to learn the next steps I guess!

I got the image of someone misplacing their car keys when you mentioned that we all have it and we’ve just hidden it from ourselves…. “Damnit, where the hell did I put that dow?!? It’s gotta be around here somewhere!” 😂. Thanks for another great talk, Angelo. Hoping we can all locate those friggin keys. 🙂

Only once did I realize “no self.” I was so shocked I jolted out of meditation immediately. I kept thinking about getting back there but it felt too needy. I struggle with strict regimented practices, but I think that is something I’m avoiding. Glad to hear the update on your channel’s earnings and charity work 🥰

I'm not awakened as it's usually described. I haven't had any unusual transcendence experiences, so I count myself as not an awakened human being. I'm totally fine with it because I have realized that by just leaving mind concepts and thoughts of labels of things from experiences everything changes. E.g. there is sound in my awareness, and the mind says "I'm hearing the sound coming there". That's my usual mind function. But if I drop off "I", "Hearing", "the sound", and "coming there" what is left? There is still the same phenomenon, the same experience, but no labels for things. After that magic seems to happen. Suddenly there is no separation or distance in experience. IS just is. Not even "all is" because there is no all, there is only one IS. All has happened just by dropping off labels and mind concepts. Being awakened is maybe something more, but anyway, that realization has helped me a lot to be with for example physical pain and fear which has been structured in my body-mind. Nothing needs to change in that experience without labels.

Ha ha. Love your different facial expressions in the announcements of a new video. Helps to keep it light. Thank you💕

I've had a spiritual awakening recently and it's scary. It's turned everything I've thought about life upside down. Now that I'm seeing the world from another side (and that's an understatement), it's scary as hell. Especially since 99.9 percent of those around me would think I've lost it if I described what's happened. And yet, it's one of the most profound things I've ever experienced.

Just discovered you on the BatGap interview, Best one I've seen yet and I've seen hundreds! You're very clear and easy to listen to! Loved this one! Great background visual and audio as well! You have gained a new idiot fan! Lol!

We’re you trying to pump me up?!😂 Thank you 😊 for the encouragement

It's not a way of being, it's just a way

Thank you for explaining the simplicity of Being! Thank you for your’ donation remarks at the end of the video as well❤️🌟

Haha I just started laughing for a minute after I noticed your tshirt. 😂 love u man 👍🏼

I like how the book spelled “idiot” as “idoit”! Nice touch!

Gratitude.

I used to be like dam is this ever going to end. Now I'm like OMG is this really the end. And then I'm gone.

Cute title for the video. In your introduction above, where you said "If you an idiot like I am..." Perfect introduction. "I am" is an idiot! 😂 Thank you.

So everything is "meaningful" ❤️

I've said it before, but really loving your titles and thumbnails lately. Hilarious!🤣

I do get stuck on the self, I realize I am not my body or my thoughts but I feel like I am on a separate perceiver experiencing all of these external and internal feelings… I’m very in tune to my internal energy, and even the slightest movement of it … I’ve almost become hyper aware of every sent noise, site, thought and energetic residence… Which just makes me feel even more separate I guess

Completely transcendent offering. Thank you so much for all your videos. These listening have shifted something and deepened whatever this is that cannot stop digging into the fullness of what is here. Instability seems to arise periodically and trust holds it when unsteady. The simplicity is glimpsed and seems slippery. Meeting experience head on,fearlessly, with no resistance is driving the occasional lack of confidence underground and the sense that some help is needed comes up. Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

Tremendously helpful 🙏 This body-mind appears to be stoked that it found your channel 🛹 Your content is enlightening. 🧘‍♂️ Namaste 🕉

Great teaching, thank you so much!🙏

This was wonderful, thank you 🙏🏼 Thanks for donating, ad clicked. 👍

Thank you.❤

Thank you, that summary was helpful!

Very much enjoyed this, thanks. Reminded me in ways of Jed McKenna's work.

So frustrating and sad when you cannot get it... Read his book. Watch at least two videos every day. I try.

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From consuming to Being consumed .

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Incredible video

I've had that taste several times, in the past, and now that I know what it is . . . . I have a goal.

LOL Dr. Angelo. I am currently reading "The Real Christ" by Bernadette Roberts. Only because it's entertaining and it's what i do

Thanks!

Thank you just thank you ☺️ finally I get what's happening to me 😊

Question… and I believe by asking I’m violating the ‘simplicity’ point, but there’s no reason why one can’t use self inquiry even before they have had a fleeting taste of ‘no self’, could that get one to that orienting point?

Angelo, can you make a video on, or can someone help me with this : how to say in a few sentences what I am moving towards, choosing to see, experiencing, etc. without being confrontational or holier than thou, etc. I have nastily been called Pollyana, or uncaring, uninformed, etc if I don't join friends in the commiserating in negativity about politicians, war, state of the world, etc. I find ego getting involved if I try to "hold my own" but still want to find a succinct and gentle way to say why I don't want to engage. I think this might be a common situation for newbies. Thank you always for all the wonderful work you are doing!!

Love the shirt 💯👏🏼

Thank you!

Cheers Morpheus

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Exactly

I used magic mushrooms to achieve this.

Your videos are SO helpful. Thank you. Also, friendly reminder,, it's Ramana Ma-har-shi (not MahaRIshi). 😁💕

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Angelo...you crack me up!

I wonder if the first awakening is something, that like so much of this, varies from person to person. That it manifests differently, in very personal ways. I ask because of when I first got knocked on the head and the world changed. October of 2014, in a playground, keeping an eye on my daughter as she played. For those three hours I checked every thought as it appeared, working diligently to make sure attention stayed in this very moment, never allowed to move. First everything clarified, and grew sharper, more real, more detailed and vibrant. I felt things gradually drop away and things became silent. I felt freed, liberated. There wasn't any clinging or resisting, just allowing everything to be. Finally it was time to leave. As I left the park with my daughter, I noticed that arms and hands came from out of nowhere, and then disappeared as the arms moved forward and back. Out of a spaceless void, and back into the spaceless void. As the mouth opened to speak, words emerged from a bottomless well of nothing. Amazing! This wasn't "my" voice, those weren't "my" arms coming and going. The lights were on, but nobody was home, just a silent observer, and a quiet intelligence that knew what to do when any action was needed, in the absence of a central agent, an "I" or "me". This was how the rest of the evening passed, with this witness watching things come and go, not experiencing difficulties or problems, even as reactions to "bad" or "unpleasant" things arose and passed away (such as my daughter having a tantrum at the dinner table). Nothing has been the same since, even though that deep experience has since passed (although it has come and gone many times since then, and it can be experienced again if certain things are done). Was that first awakening? I don't know, but everything changed since then, even though things are quite ordinary, That moment was a definite line of demarcation of before and after. Before and after what? I have no idea, only before and after. The falseness in how I talk and think about myself showed up after taking the Finders Course in 2019. It still shows up as a difficulty in using words such as "I", "me", etc. It feels like lying. Frequently it only makes sense to refer to this being in the third person. It feels like an extension of the former. Hoping this will eventually deepen and stay persistent. I assume the specifics to what you describe in the segment "Simplicity is Key" are to be found in your book?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Hi, great videos and just bought your book (equally great reviews here in the UK). Can you tell me how we can push past a purely intellectual understanding, how can I get past what feels like a blockage, a knot that's getting in the way of me experiencing something much more tangible than 'understanding'? Thanks!

Well done

Is it fair to say stages are cyclical to certain point ? Thank you 🙏 always for your videos.

I recamend Kundalini yoga for them not awakened or on the path its the most powerful yokeing to what is or not there is but its easy if you want to know who you are

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What do you do if you haven't had that initial glimpse?

You will no way miss it when you wake up because you won't know what's you and whats not you you will think your walking on the side of the sky you will be upsidedown rightside up everything will be strange you forget how to walk right it's totally crazy when it happens you will not miss it trust me you will know

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I watch these kinds of videos to mud check people like im doing you now lol lol lol

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Thank you - signed, an idiot. :)

You more than anyone as an anesthesiologist knows how the brain “works”. Are you completely convinced consciousness is not created by the brain? When you put people under anesthesia, doesn’t it shut down the patient’s consciousness that resumes once the medicine is discontinued?

Would you say this is a good starting point video? You've got a bunch and wasn't sure what to pick for friends/family.

To truely being inlightened is you realized you don't know any dam thing about nothing but it comes to you thats what it is

Can the honeymoon period last around 10 days only?

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He is not real?!!! This sucks, crossing out Awakening from My List For Santa.

I got here through " Moojiji " Only one month in. Thought I had enough problems being anti jab.

Who am I... mou

First! :)

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Santa Claus isn't real?

So you are (this video) is the oneness speaking to itself? Or refers to itself? Self referencing…

Thuis tolk is very frustrating. IT sounds like endless bla bla bla

It don't exist at all do it lol lol lol

I KNEW NOTHING…nobody led me to where I AM … except HOLY GHOST 🩸💯…

Commenting for the algorithm. Very share-able video, thank you for this.

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