E106: From False Identification to Liberation: Returning to the Seat of Self
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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The essence of yogic teachings is that the universe is a single field of consciousness vibrating at different rates, manifesting as everything from physical matter to thoughts and emotions. At the human level, consciousness is the unchanging witness of our thoughts, emotions, and sensory experiences. Our sense of freedom is lost when we identify with what we are conscious of instead of consciousness itself. Suffering is created when we develop a false concept of self and try to make the outside world match this concept. Spirituality is not about controlling life to match our concepts but about freeing ourselves from them so consciousness can rest in its true nature, which is one of unconditional joy and peace.
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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. |
| 0:59.7 | Let's talk about something very deep tonight. |
| 1:05.5 | You can call it yoga, but yoga is taught so many different ways, there's so many different philosophies and asanas and gurus and its whole |
| 1:14.5 | Mishigas. |
| 1:18.1 | Let's talk about what's really going on, |
| 1:20.9 | and bring it from the highest to the lowest level, and then work its way back up. |
| 1:26.1 | First of all, what's going on? |
| 1:30.4 | And science beautifully has some close, so close to get into the core of yoga. They may never make it actually there, |
| 1:36.2 | but they are so close. And it's really beautiful that you live in a time with the support of your |
| 1:42.2 | exact sciences, support just within inches of the great wisdom |
| 1:49.0 | that the ancient Rishi's and the Upanishads and these great texts tried to teach you thousands, |
| 1:56.1 | thousands of years ago. The whole universe is consciousness. |
| 2:06.6 | That's what it is. |
| 2:07.6 | Consciousness is a thing. |
| 2:09.6 | It's in essence. |
| 2:11.6 | You can go study the ocean. |
| 2:13.6 | You talk about the reefs and you can talk about the fish. |
| 2:16.6 | But there's the ocean right the whole thing |
| 2:18.9 | is the ocean that's what it is well the whole universe all of matter and you're going to see |
| 2:25.8 | everything else is made of consciousness well do scientists know that no They say very close that the omnipresent universe everywhere is all stars, all galaxies, all atoms, |
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