Tools for Awakening w/ Daniel Schmidt

About this episode

Daniel Schmidt discusses best practices for spiritual awakening, including meditation and relating practices.

Daniel Schmidt, the documentarian behind the fantastic Samadhi film series, shares the best practices he's found for spiritual awakening. This includes the ones used in the Samadhi Center's 7-Day I AM Retreat. We touch on meditation, psychedelics, and even relating practices (like Charles Berner's two-person method of self-inquiry). But most of all, we investigate how any spiritual tool for awakening might be used on the Pathless Path. Schmidt's wide-ranging interests and masterful way of co...

People in this episode

Guest: Daniel Schmidt

Topics covered

• spiritual awakening
• meditation
• psychedelics
• self-inquiry
• relating practices
• Pathless Path

Keywords

• spiritual awakening
• meditation
• psychedelics
• self-inquiry
• relating practices
• Samadhi Center
• Pathless Path

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Samadhi Center

Books & works: Samadhi

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