🍀 Double Barrel Non-Duality with Erik Ireland !!! 🍀

[@ganazby]

When the wizards speak, I listen. Thanks, fellas.

[@macparker3549]

Wize! 😊😁😂

[@HP-is-here]

Erik has such a comforting and warm presence ❤

[@charlottenorris8855]

About 6 months ago I said to myself, "I want to live in reality". Man! I had no idea what I was wishing for! Amazing. Thank you Angelo, and I'm delighted to discover Erik.

[@ms-wt2rd]

Thanks!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

thank YOU

[@ami156]

2 hours of pure gold. Need double barrel merch

[@ms-wt2rd]

Beyond grateful for the opportunity to dialogue with Angelo and Erik, and the interactions are still percolating through the separate sense of 'me' and beyond. Just love.

[@1lovehenry1]

Please speak full on and directly on reality! Gratitude abounds for triggering truth - let’s ride that wave!

[@macparker3549]

To the writer: Love both Eric’s and Angelo’s answers to really look into what’s there. After seeing myself as a writer for much of my life, that impulse and that identity is simply gone, at least for now. For me, writing was a way I was trying to achieve, justify my existence, be seen, heard, loved, important, etc. With the gradual realization of those motives, the need and desire to write has almost completely disappeared. This may not be true for you at all. Your motivation may be a true expression. For me, even though I was a good and modestly successful writer, the motivations were largely revealed to be empty. And realizing this has made the ways I express more immediate, direct, personal, and satisfying. Best wishes in your own discovery process, whatever turns out to be true for you. I am not suggesting that my experience will be true for you or for anyone else. I just wanted to share it in case it has any value or resonance.

[@macparker3549]

Lovely! So wise to leave no stone unturned. Yes, I will actually be very interested to hear what you discover under there! Thanks for responding… 🙏🔥🥲🫥😁🌻

[@ganazby]

Hi Mac. Thanks for your thoughtful comment. It chimes with my own experience, albeit in a musical context. Cheers.

[@macparker3549]

Philip! Nice to see you! Cool. I didn’t know you were a musician. Fascinating to experience how this unfolds, yes? All the best to you as your life continues to collapse and everything you cared about is yanked away from you… 🤨😊😁😂😂😂

[@ganazby]

@@macparker3549 🤣 Likewise, Mac! Yeah, I’m still lurking around these parts. My life is a sort of functional shitshow, anyway, so total annihilation of the main protagonist doesn’t seem too bad a prospect. That said, there has been quite a lot of fear, on and off, which caused me to back off for a while. I’m (or something is) leaning towards attending the retreat in July (European chapter). Currently trying to organise a quite location for same.

[@macparker3549]

Philip, a “functional shit show!” I love it. Better than a dysfunctional shit show? 🤨😁 I’ve been there! I seem to be in a quieter part of the current right now. A deepening calmness, albeit perhaps before the storm? Who knows? I enjoy our comment kinship. Happy you are going to experience a retreat. Very glad you exist… 🙏💜🔥🫥⭕️🌻

[@Jade33]

Thank you Eric and Angelo, and all of you who participated and shared. It was beautiful and powerful. I was so in and out with sketchy wifi connection, just grateful I was there.

[@demogadget]

pure gold from the begining until the end.

[@zoyaskir]

Thank you Angelo & Eric

[@Maart-je]

"So that is the Unknown and you are in it" (-: I am so grateful for these conversations, thank you all!

[@kimtaylor4480]

Eric is clear ❤ and authentic.

[@ambermarie24]

WOW! This was amazing! I’m so grateful for these double-barrel nonduality videos. I loved hearing Erik’s perspective. So insightful!

[@watcherofvideoswasteroftim5788]

Great video, found a new sense of compassion and a lack of judging which was refreshing! I've been reading Iain McGilchrist's the master and his emissary in which he characterizes the two hemispheres and their dynamic co-existing with each other. I find his characterization very compelling as it illuminates human dichotomies really neatly. In the book he talks about how the left hemisphere can perceive the right as a presence watching it or something being outside of itself, "Other". This trait or inclination of the left hemisphere to feel observed seems to resonate with a lot of peoples experience when going through the awakening process as introspection or, as it were, observing yourself and your internal states might trigger the left hemisphere to feel this presence more clearly as you become more conscious. These direct pointers to non-duality felt so distant a few months ago but now it seems like everything is coming together and making sense in a deep way that feels so natural and I want to extend my gratefulness to everyone, especially you Mr. Awake.

[@Sashas-mom]

This is so good! Thanks to everyone.

[@nicolabishop996]

So much in here. Thank you both.

[@plantlove2585]

Amaaaaazing DBND-Episode! Thank you both so much. I got so much out of this. Big hugs!

[@smileyjones730]

SO love this! And all the double-barrels, really. The usefulness of these is beyond measure, truly. THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙏☺❤‍🔥 Eric is so grounded and beautiful and I really appreciated what he said and his entire manner/ presence. Finding myself wishing I had an Eric in my life to hang out with 😊

[@smileyjones730]

🧙‍♂👍😄

[@susanamos6237]

This was all excellent, amazing questions, so helpful..

[@josephmitchell6796]

Holy moly wizard is an understatement, just beautiful!

[@mtotheptothed]

So good. Love and thanks to you both.

[@skyofhoney7]

This is very interesting. I was diagnosed ADHD (I took myself to the dr after reading Gabor Mattes book scattered and was diagnosed age 55years). The second questioner interaction was interesting to me. I have a lot of anxiety about getting stuff done. This was helpful to hear. I too get a bit obsessed about knowing about the original trauma and knowing how to navigate the impacted resistance.

[@anncairns1099]

Thanks Angelo 🫂👏💗

[@n-xsta]

So cool thank you ❤

[@anthony7416]

This is F….ing brilliant interview. Thank u 🙏🏾

[@Leena1234-j3c]

Great interview. I can identify with the first questionnaire. Listening to him, self grounded. Thank you

[@anthony7416]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@A2Zdogmd]

So lovely ❤🙏

[@francesb-p2441]

Wonderful!

[@mike-t02]

Another great video with much info that always seems to relate to my current situation.

[@AbscentOrange]

Curious Angelo or Eric, I like the idea of self-compassion, but isn't that more thoughts to support and accept the separate self? I am definitely not trolling here, but this AM when I sat on the edge of the bed and felt into the morning pain/frustration/despair, "I" met those thoughts with, "its okay to feel like this, we'll get through this together..." it dawned on me that was just more thought. I'm just in a really rough spot, but is really comforting thoughts with more thoughts, counter-productive? Bonus question - can this awakening process manifest otherwise legit physiological concerns like heart palpitations. After my AM of self-compassion I had a wicked / LEGIT short episode of heart palpitations, and after a trip to urgent care I get, "You look and sound great...." ....WTF.

[@ListenToSleep]

Hi Rob. Self-compassion is a practice along the lines of metta (loving kindness). My experience of it is that it's more about intention than thought and the quality of the practice isn't thought-based, but more sensation-based. There's a quality to love and compassion that is prior to thought and setting intention there is what's worked best for me. Rather than being about accepting the separate self, it's about deeply accepting our human-ness and all that comes with it. I hope that helps.

[@AbscentOrange]

@@ListenToSleep Thanks Eric! Yes, definitely helps. Life is hard right now, and I can see the flow of emotions, then the thoughts that follow. Pain, to tears, to the thoughts of what should be different or better. What I am dealing with has no predictability, and it is crushing me right now.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

What Erik said

[@korneliaheidegger3116]

❤️❤️❤️

[@MacParker-hj8vq]

Hey, Bernd, I know what you mean by celebratory. Very liberating, isn’t it? Happy for you, brother! 🔥🫠🫥🐣🌻

[@lmarks8345]

Request: Eric the Wizard emoji!? 🧙‍♂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes!!!

[@lynnhunter4493]

🙏🙏🙏

[@tyvrymch]

Wizard hat omg!!!

[@brightchange6065]

The language, words and terminology that people use are inscrutable at times ... individuals use words that they heard or learned from a book, teaching, or "teachers" use and but it can be very confusing because these terms could mean SO much to different people. It's very individual ...

[@StevenLeMieux]

32:10 ...😮🤯 Holy crap

[@Selambehere]

🙏🏾💖🌟

[@So-Awake-]

Just 😯

[@lauriethiboutot6971]

How do I know about these so I can be part of it live?

[@josephschulz5256]

When I keep hearing the word resistance I’m not exactly sure what that word means. Does it mean being defensive?

[@dylanevartt3219]

With "negative" emotions like fear, anger, ect. the sensations aren't a problem, the problem is the thoughts that say "I can't bare this any longer", "I'm worthless", and so on. That's often where the resistance is. But it isn't always overt thoughts, often just a feeling of pushing against sensations that we think should be other than they are

[@josephschulz5256]

Very well said. Thanks!

[@macparker3549]

For me, I feel it in the body. Any edge or defiance that is against whatever is happening in any moment. Can be very obvious and very subtle. Oddly, in the process of looking into this, one of the first things that seems to happen is to “resist the resistance.” We can confuse ourselves into thinking that non-resistance means to “stop resisting.” Which, of course, turns out to be…resistance! 🤨🤬😁😂 In “my” process, it has been key to notice that acceptance accepts EVERYTHING, including resistance… 💜🔥🫥⭕️🌻

[@josephschulz5256]

@@macparker3549 In other words that word “equanimity” that they often use!

[@josephschulz5256]

Excepting everything!

[@beckya7522]

Hi Angelo You noted how you were almost in tears after Erik’s response to Kelly. I did have tears when listening. What is that???

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

BC Erik is the Man!

[@beckya7522]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Absolutely 😃

[@bobnegri6098]

(1:03:12) Oh my God, I want to see that (says the mind). 😮

[@bobnegri6098]

If I'm being honest and qualifying nothing, I want that. I want to see that. With all my being.

[@bobnegri6098]

And I’m drawn back to this section again and again. “There is no…, there is no…” What is the draw? Escape? Home?

[@quietbydayYT]

Where can we find the version of the heart sutra that Angelo recites?

[@dylanevartt3219]

I'm also curious

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Someone told me it is online but IO have no idea where. It should be related to the Rochester Zen Center

[@quietbydayYT]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I think I found it, thanks. I don't think I can post a link here in comments, but if you google "Rochester zen heart sutra pdf", it's the first link (a PDF document) that shows up, on p.11. Thank you!

[@anthony7416]

Ok so…Mooo is cracking me up 😂. Everytime I say it. In a weird way it does bring me back to present. And makes everything un-important. Advice?

[@anncairns1099]

Susan 🫂🌹

[@ericmunn330]

The explanation of non-dual @30mins was brilliant 🤌 Love the topic of liminal conduits at 50mins -- be great to hear more on that. Years ago when doing practical work for astral travel it was also that sort of liminal state where its easiest to access.