Hello, my friends in podcast land. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Rupert Spira.

He's a teacher of the non-dualism direct path, an author, and a potter.

Non-dualism is a state of consciousness that many contemplative practitioners aim to achieve.

It's a dissolving of the barrier between the observer and the experience.

It's incredibly complex, but thankfully Rupert is one of the clearest and most direct teachers of non-duality.

Today we tackle literally some of the biggest questions in enlightenment.

Like, what are we at our essence? What is consciousness? What does it mean to say that you are the same person that you were 20 years ago?

What are we referring to when we say, I, and what happens when you take away everything that we identify with?

This is such a gorgeous conversation. Rupert, I think, perhaps takes the biscuit the title of most beautiful voice on this podcast, after mine, of course.

There's a meditation partway through about 35 minutes in where he asks some questions and suggests that you imagine what it would be like if you stripped away all of the different parts of you that you identify with.

It's just beautiful. If you enjoy his work, he's got tons of stuff on YouTube. You can go and check it out. He's a really, really lovely guy.

And the insights that you get today are super, super profound. You're going to love this one.

Before we get to other news, an update on the Modern Wisdom reading list.

It is with the designer. It is nearly finished. We have proved it. And it will be out. I promise within a couple of weeks.

It'll be out sometime very soon. I'm just finishing up the landing page, making sure that everything works before I announce it.

This is so good. A hundred books that you need to read before you die. It's got descriptions from me and my favorite takeaways.

And they're all categorized. It's gorgeous. So get ready for that. And thank me massively when it comes out. It took ages.

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