{"podcast":{"title":"Awareness Explorers","slug":"awareness-explorers-939256","podcast_index_feed_id":939256,"rss_url":"https://awarenessexplorers.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.awarenessexplorers.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/2/1/f/921f16b9c35042d8/Awareness_Explorers_Green_Sky_GIMP_2_80pct_487kb.jpg","author":"Jonathan Robinson","episode_count":215,"summary":"If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience. Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor explore ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-06T00:21:09.843978+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256"},"episode":{"title":"214: Approaches to Spiritual Growth","slug":"214-approaches-to-spiritual-growth","published_at":"2026-06-05T12:17:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256/214-approaches-to-spiritual-growth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256","url":"https://awarenessexplorers.libsyn.com/214-approaches-to-spiritual-growth","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awarenessexplorers/AE_Episode_214_Approaches_to_Spiritual_Growth.mp3?dest-id=640914","summary":"Awareness Explorers episode 214: Approaches to Spiritual Growth In this episode, we discuss different models of spiritual growth, exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each, and sharing our personal experiences across multiple approaches, including books, coaching, religion, satsang, peer support, AI chatbots, retreats, 12-step programs, YouTube teachings, transmissions, communes, and workshops. • Includes a guided meditation helping you to intuitively assess which models might be most suitable for your personal spiritual journey. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the \"Donate\" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one. To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit https://findinghappiness.com/ and https://www.playawarenessgames.com/ You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash","meta_description":"Awareness Explorers episode 214: Approaches to Spiritual Growth In this episode, we discuss different models of spiritual growth, exploring the advantages…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3633,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awareness-explorers-939256/episodes/214-approaches-to-spiritual-growth/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256/214-approaches-to-spiritual-growth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}