E102: Reality Is Bigger Than You Think

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We don’t realize how tightly confined we are to our personal mind—its thoughts, beliefs, preferences, past experiences, and suppressed emotions. This represents such a tiny subset of reality compared to the vastness of what actually exists. Spirituality is about transcending that limited frame of reference and opening up to a world that is not filtered through our ego. Every moment is part of a vast cosmic unfolding, and the key to joy and spiritual freedom lies in expanding awareness beyond oneself.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications.
0:22.5	For more information about Michael Singer's work, access to all prior episodes, and information
0:28.7	about upcoming releases, we invite you to join us at Michael Singer Podcast.com. Jackardive, Jamestris. We are so caught in the frame of reference of our minds that very few of us ever get loose from that, ever see what's really going on.
1:12.6	Spirituality is not about a particular set of mind, a particular set of beliefs,
1:17.6	hopes, dreams, concepts, views, opinions, preferences, etc.
1:22.6	These are all part of the state of mind.
1:25.6	It's so hard for people to listen and talk about because they haven't
1:30.1	gotten out. But I want to talk about a frame of reference. You have a frame of reference.
1:37.4	Everybody has a frame of reference. So what does that mean? There's an area of consciousness
1:43.2	called a frame that your mind is involved in.
1:49.2	Those are your hopes, your dreams, your concepts, your views, your beliefs, likes, and dislikes, and special people.
1:56.2	It's just this collection that we call in set theory a subset.
2:02.6	It's not everything that exists.
2:05.6	It's this tiny little subset of what exists.
2:09.6	What makes the subset?
2:11.6	Your thoughts.
2:12.6	Please understand.
2:14.6	You don't have so many thoughts you think.
2:16.6	They're so noisy. There's such a noisy mind. You've got nothing going on. Your thoughts are meaningless. I mean, how many thoughts during a day? How many things do you think about? I don't care, 100,000, 10,000, 100,000. How many things are there that could be thought about during the day. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn rings and storms
2:37.0	in Jupiter, like every minute. The way I look at it is every single spot in all of creation,
2:46.0	on every single planet, wherever it is, on every star, what it's made of, where the planet's
2:52.3	circling it, where the galaxies on every spot. Don't think what galaxy did this big spiral
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