331. Salvadore Poe - a podcast by Rick Archer

Salvadore Poe was a successful musician from New York, making records, touring, having videos on MTV, and doing film scores when in 1997 he had a life-changing experience that propelled him on a single-pointed inquiry in search of enlightenment. During the next seven years, he immersed himself in intensive retreats in USA, Europe, and India, met many teachers, including U.G. Krishnamurti, Douglas Harding, Toni Packer, among others, and eventually moved to India where he lived for two years in the ashram of Ajja, a recognized spiritual master, and then for a year in the ashram of another spiritual master, Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar. During all these years he meditated countless hours, had numerous mystical, transcendent experiences, and then finally, frustrated with it all, met his last teacher, Dolano in 2004, and his search was over. Eight years later, living an ordinary life making music in India, someone he met asked him to work one on one with a spiritual seeker.Since then Salvadore has been offering a means of inquiry intended to let you come to know for yourself that you are now and always have been complete, whole, lacking nothing and free. This recognition, when true and doubtless, ends seeking automatically, as it is seen that what you have been seeking is already true and realized. What has kept you from this ‘knowing’ are all of the myriad ideas, beliefs, and spiritual concepts given to you by culture and religion, which you have taken for granted without really investigating. But once clearly investigated they all fall, leaving you at ease here and now with and as what is. Seeking is finished, there is no cause of it any longer. Life is lived at ease.

Salvadore currently divides his time between India and New York State, writing and recording music and sharing the inquiries.Websites:

http://www.salvadorepoe.comhttp://liberationis.com

Books:Liberation IS: The End Of The Spiritual Path
The Way of Freedom: Conversations with Salvadore PoeArticles of Peace, a collection of 39 articles, some were transcribed from group meetings and others were written, inspired by a particular topic. I offer this collection freely and encourage you to share them freely with anyone who might be interested.

Transcript of this interview.Interview recorded 2/6/2016

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.Chapters:


00:00:00 - An Awakening Plea for Help00:05:12 - A Life-Changing Moment
00:09:29 - The Search for Enlightenment through Drugs and Meditation00:13:31 - The Light is Going to Come for You
00:17:54 - Frustration with Seeking and the Shift to Knowing00:21:54 - The Wind-Down of Conditioning
00:25:29 - The End of Seeking00:29:30 - Recognizing the True Nature of Oneself
00:33:17 - The Integration of Transcendence and Imminence00:36:41 - The Natural State of Consciousness
00:40:13 - The Unknowing00:44:04 - The Shift of Knowing
00:47:33 - The misidentification of a separate self00:49:49 - The Birth of Compassion
00:52:17 - The Illusion of Lost Thoughts00:56:00 - Delineation between consciousness and awareness
01:00:02 - Purification of the Mind01:04:16 - Recognizing the Sense of Lack
01:07:41 - The Journey of Self-Discovery01:11:07 - Stabilizing Certainty and Clarity
01:15:13 - The Illusion of Self and Strengthening Intention01:19:12 - The Illusion of the Self
01:22:56 - Levels of Spiritual Maturity01:26:25 - Evidence of Reincarnation and Alternative Explanations
01:29:59 - The Illusion of Solid Form01:33:24 - The Knowing Itself
01:37:09 - The Experience of Enlightenment01:41:20 - The Impact of Awakening on Personality and Society
01:44:42 - The Impact of the Internet on Education01:49:29 - The Nature of Awareness
01:55:50 - Wrapping Up and Thank YouSave

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