The Most Natural Thing For Us to Do! -- (Awakening Story - Sophie)

[@danielmaina4942]

Thanks for the amazing content! and for answering our questions😊

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thank YOU so much !

[@TPot1222]

When you say “carry the inquiry with you throughout the day.” Is it just asking the question throughout the day and letting it permeate, or does one allow thought into the inquiry process in making connections or acknowledging internal realizations??

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I wouldn't take the thought path here, it will permeate experience and deepen naturally if you don't get on the thought train.

[@TPot1222]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake beautiful- thank you for the clarification ♥️

[@christinaguimond1706]

I love when she says she realized that she shouldn’t read about awakening, rather “It has to be found in direct experience”.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I agree. That’s very good instinct there

[@christinaguimond1706]

My favourite interview so far. The way you report about the naturalness of all of the insights is great and so true. Also, I love your perspective about retreat and that whatever this is should be found here right now.

[@arazetteh5376]

Thanks Sophie and Angelo. I relate to so much of what you said. Personally, truth is all I ever really wanted. The two of us might have done well in boarding school together, Sophie. Buddhism pretty much drove me nuts when it became 'a thing.' And what the hell was this enlightenment stuff? 🤔 Fortunately, in my experience, the Heart can kind of awaken itself..If we want it. Grief and tears do need to do their thing - it is just terribly painful at times, isn't it? To deny pain is to deny Reality. I wish you and your children much happiness., Sophie. 💛

[@noelletangelder]

💕 lovely lady! Lovely talks! Thanks again, Angelo 😉

[@wes_1001]

Thank you! I’ve been realizing that emotional/5 sense work is really gonna be the pathless path for me. Its just a matter of exhausting the seeker until I am just accepting what happens naturally rather than trying to mold experience to my will. This process processes itself.

[@keena1487]

Probably the most important interview I’ve listened to yet. So crazy relatable to my own experience. Busy mom with no time for retreats, religious upbringing that always felt wrong, even the bike riding - one of my favorite times to do self inquiry. I think doubt is by far my biggest obstruction. I think I need a swift kick in the @$$ from a really good teacher. Let me know if you know anybody 😂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🦶

[@ssstrong529]

These stories are SO helpful. Feels as one person wakes up, it makes it more possible for "me."

[@macparker3549]

I feel the same, Sarah. 🙏🌻

[@GetMeThere1]

I definitely had multiple "non-dual" experiences as a child. That made me theorize only recently (as I recall them again, in my late 60s), that those who become interested in the issue as adults are perhaps those who had such experiences as a child -- AND, that those who had such experiences as a child perhaps simply had a "different" schedule of ego development, such that they could recall them (if only subconsciously, initially) later on.

[@arazetteh5376]

Then you get old enough to walk around on your own and the 'BS meter' comes online...Looking up into an older person's face and thinking "Why is she using baby-talk and speaking to me as if I don't understand what is going on?"

[@satsitananda]

Love your sharing via the interview format. Really helpful! Thank you!

[@alphonsewilliams9878]

Another wonderful interview. 👏👏👏Keep them coming. I wonder, though, if some some may wrongly conclude that early childhood experiences of non-duality, oneness, or whatever, are a per-requisite for awakening and if you didn't have any, you won't wake up. I know that thought crosses my mind from time to time.

[@macparker3549]

So happy for you, Sophie. And so happy you got to have this conversation with maybe the best person in the world you could talk with about this. Lovely. 🙏🌻🦋

[@skyofhoney7]

Thank you for this interview. ❤

[@PinkyBar374]

Love this! Really awesome to hear this stuff. Thank you both so much!

[@GetMeThere1]

Wow, the first 20 minutes of this really resonates with me --- as having EXACTLY the same childhood experiences as you both describe. Two examples: I ASKED to go to church as a child (about 7), and then, going there, thought "No, this isn't it. These people aren't really experiencing what they're claiming, etc." Then, YES, I could always see how some adults had felt pain. It's like it was written all over them, and I couldn't understand how OTHER adults couldn't see it.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

That’s so funny, kids have such good intuition

[@jasongeyer2111]

me too

[@omarmiz]

Respecr and gratitude 🙏 I’m interested in that self-enquiry approach Sophie joined where you have a guide and they ask you a question everyday. Does anyone have a link to that group/approach?

[@Cp_9900]

Its a forum called liberation unleashed, its free

[@annal2740]

@@Cp_9900 Thank you!

[@Kim-sherie]

I find it so interesting to hear these awakening stories and to hear about your early days in childhood. Children are seriously more in contact with their nature than adults realise. Thank you for sharing your journey, I’m very happy for you 😊

[@ziya5952]

Feel the same about the Buddhism part that is where i started. It works but it seems rigid though. It depends heavily on the master as well as linage/tradition? Im not in position to comment in fact as I don’t follow enough. The information about the emotions is very helpful. Thank you Sophie and Angelo❤️❤️❤️

[@arazetteh5376]

I guess the thing about modern popular Buddhism that irritated me was 'seeking' śūnyatā. (People said the translation meant 'empty.') I guess I relate more to Zen and Yoga (union). I somehow thought that learning about popular Buddhism could somehow resurrect an experience I had once when sitting down outside a Zen temple in Kyoto. Kinda funny, but that was my secret hope, no doubt.

[@Darksagan]

Lots of similarities in this conversation.

[@christinaguimond1706]

I grew up in a very Catholic household. My mom actually lived in a convent from age 18-25. I hated church and the whole thing seemed strange to me. Lots of shame, guilt, fear of eternal hellfire, etc.

[@katehiggins9940]

i empathize with you. i grew up in the south in a fundamentalist christian culture. it was awful. ❤️❤️❤️

[@anncairns1099]

🌹

[@brendanlea3605]

❤️🙏

[@cwb1400]

I grew up religiously as well. The longer I’m away from it the more I realize how detrimental and disturbing it is.

[@katehiggins9940]

@@cwb1400 yes!!! we could start a support recovery group !!!! and i’m not kidding 😜😜😜❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@humanbeing4995]

Thank you for sharing your experience, Sophie.

[@humanbeing4995]

I'm still here supporting but going to refrain from comments. It's become clear that a lot of thought goes into liking a comment for most people, all that decision making: phew. Never needed to think to click a button for everyone. Nothing I say makes any sense most of the time (the whole point is to smile) and I still haven't figured out how the likes go up and down especially in a place like this. More sand than layers? I dunno. Just run out of things to say if I have to be me less. Even still, I love you.

[@nat998]

​@@humanbeing4995 Your comments were always fine, and made perfect sense to me, at least. In fact, they were sublime: "The void communicates in images and I in words. In the seeming stillness of the early hours, the night bird connects me with her call." 💛 What can I say? As far as comment likes going up/down: my advice is to focus on You. If it inspires you to say something, do. If not, don't stress. There's no expectation or pressure to do anything. Silence is so easy, and sometimes the best way to replenish mental stores. I don't really feel I have anything to say either. It feels natural to rest in quiet silence. I am at peace and will be listening to this vid, and others to come in solidarity and support with the vision, and spirit of this awesome channel. 🙏 Take care of yourself, and may you be at peace, and live out your highest truth. I wish that for you. Be well Xx 💛💛💛🤗

[@humanbeing4995]

@@nat998 lol. I'm not dying or going anywhere. It is what it is. It was never necessary to speak to begin with. If one is to be kind to their demons, one is also to consider slaying the buddha to see what remains. Be well.

[@nat998]

@@humanbeing4995 yeah, well as long as that brings you towards experiential insight, self-realization, and truth... then, that's the way and path. Go with your gut. Peace, love, and gratitude for your honesty! xxx Love, me

[@macparker3549]

Always appreciate and enjoy you, HB, whether you speak, write, or go into silent retreat. 😎🦉🫥

[@lindagumbleton6569]

Just felt to share a sense I have had a couple of times. It is an experience of everything arising in my direct experience of simply being present where I am. It’s tricky to explain but it’s a kind of relaxed peaceful sense that everything around me in my life is the Self expressing through me. I am writing this in response to Sophie raising the point of sensing not needing a group because from that shift of perspective you are not alone everything IS you. I offer this in humility because I have not fully awakened but feel that glimpse I had is relevant to your conversation 🙏

[@nat998]

Thank you for sharing, Sophie! Beautiful insights, and reflections... particularly in the 2nd half of the interview (no self, unbound consciousness, transient nature of dynamic reality... "bubble-like", I like that!) There's only sensations...you feel it... A field of potentiality...💛

[@apoorvamurthy5197]

When you spoke about the gambling experiment, I remembered an instance with a stray puppy I knew. I was in the garden, she was outside the gate and she couldn't see me but i could see her, she could smell my scent, and there was her tail wagging. It all happened at once, the sensing and the response to that sensation, that's the tail wagging and all this without any conscious thought. After I recognised that in her, I see it in myself many many times.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

What a sweet story

[@apoorvamurthy5197]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake yes it is :)

[@anncairns1099]

Excellent interview ❤💗

[@Sashas-mom]

Wow, I distinctly remember being not just curious but even irritated with other kids because I would look into their eyes and say to myself hello?! Is anybody in there? What is happening?! 🤷‍♀️😆 I tried to explain to ppl in the past then I realized I sounded weird so stopped talking about it.

[@Mali-qq6tl]

Hi Sophie--if you read this, would you mind commenting on if your children felt that you were in some ways, distant or not able to bond with them after you awakened? As a mom, I'd really like to know. Thank you.

[@johnb2138]

This story really struck me, it almost became experiential, I felt like I could intimately relate to Sophie's descriptions, almost as if I've had them, which I've not, I think??? Thanks so much for doing this.

[@thegringoscottproductions1699]

Either you will or you won't. Is there any choice in the matter? Where is my damn free will? Lol

[@dipdip2481]

I just love these awakening experience conversations….so relatable….thank you so much Sophie and Angelo 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤✨

[@tim2269]

“Tune in to that intention” ❤

[@gracefrazier4775]

Gratitude.

[@chriswatts8218]

I find something to relate to in each new interview you do Angelo. Please keep them coming, they are helping me catch little glimpses each day. SOPHIE'S discussion today reminded me of several instances I've had before.

[@JoSpring]

2, 10, and 28. I remember each with great clarity. I could never "believe" anything because I couldn't fool myself and my father encouraged critical thinking. I always knew it was still dogma or bullshit covered in flowers. I could never do small talk and that can be problematic. 😆😆😆

[@JoSpring]

I "tried" to believe in this and that, but I knew I was a poser because I just couldn't even for a minute. And I laugh at the "wrong" times too. Hahaha. I love her! 💕🌸

[@macparker3549]

Couldn’t do small talk? Saved yourself a lot of time and energy! 😎😁 Seems like a sign of integrity to me!

[@JoSpring]

@@macparker3549 Still can't! 🤣 I want to know the things you've never told anybody else. 😆🌸

[@macparker3549]

Absolutely. I love that. I often tell people I get most interested in the conversation/interaction RIGHT at the point where most people want to run away! Not surprisingly, not everyone is eager to have conversations with me. 🤨😁😂😎

[@JoSpring]

@@macparker3549 I'm exactly the same. And when someone's really willing to go there, it's like everything else disappears but what is spontaneously shared! Pure exuberance and wonder. Funny that. 😆

[@loridrake813]

I love her accent! :) wonderful message

[@smashingtwoscoops4999]

Beautiful conversation with a couple of beautiful souls. ❤️

[@amazias9213]

Beautiful.

[@johnjacquard863]

love it!

[@professordeb]

This is wonderful. So much of what she describes is my experience, too…sans awakening. Thank you for these interviews, Angelo. They really help de-mythologize awakening.

[@lynnhunter4493]

🙏🙏🙏

[@annal2740]

It's so odd, but even before Sophie started speaking, just looking at her image I knew she would be English.

[@billromas]

A many layered conversation which i feel many of us can relate to through our own experience. So heartfelt , peaceful and the knowing WE are All in this Together and the compassion that arises{which is all ways there} for those Yet to see and hear and feel, Much Love!!

[@musicmoments8510]

It's interesting what you both say about being repelled by the church as children. I had a similar thing - when I was a child I spent some time being raised by adults who were into the new age stuff and I found it inauthentic and uncomfortable. It actually put me off looking into spiritual things for many years.

[@MikeB-lm6yw]

Great conversation. Loved it! Thank you, Angelo and Sophie.

[@stephenharper4956]

Thankyou both , can relate so much to this ❤️❤️

[@lindagumbleton6569]

I get so much reassurance and support from these interviews. The gentle and relaxed tone of this dialogue resonated deeply with me. Maybe it’s an English way of being based on cultural influences as I too was born in London, am an analytical over thinker and have had a lifelong search from a very early age for meaning questioning everything and wondering why I seemed so out of sync with everything going on around me. However thankfully now experiencing an alignment with the Self and having a much better experience Hooray 😁🙏❤️🫂thank you both