Wanna know how deep the awakening rabbit hole goes? Are you SURE?

This is episode 5 in our series Awakening, Explained with my guest Dr. Angelo DiLullo. Angelo is a practicing anesthesiologist and author of the book "Awake: It's Your Turn."

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Key Topics:
0:00 Intro: What happens AFTER awakening?
2:37 The honeymoon period after the awakening “event” and the mass of conditioned beliefs and repressed emotions
6:38 How and why we need to address postawakening fixations and why conceptual thinking fails us
9:08 Surrender vs. Intention in deepening realization, and avoiding fixation on one or the other
11:50 The fixation of dualism dissolving to nondualism: the experience of space & distance
18:23 The fixation of identity and “self” and nondual realization, and the paradox of dualistic language
23:31 If there are no unenlightened people, why do we talk about ending suffering, “Zen Stink”
26:01 The fixation of “agency” and the experience of “No Self Apart”
31:40 The mundane coming alive
34:12 The fixation of the tendency of mind to “frame” reality