E130: Ceasing to Contract Consciousness
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Consciousness is the most important aspect of existence, without which nothing has meaning. We suffer because we contract our awareness onto one small, self-centered point of creation—our own thoughts, emotions, and preferences—rather than letting consciousness remain open and expansive. Daily life becomes a spiritual path by using our relationships, experiences, and internal reactions as opportunities to stop focusing on our egos and begin allowing consciousness to remain open, free, and in harmony with all that is.
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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. Jaggertyf, Jamestrus, the most amazing, meaningful topic that anyone can ever discuss, ever, is consciousness. Why? |
| 1:12.4 | Let's start there. |
| 1:18.1 | If everything else in the universe, everything exists, |
| 1:20.9 | but nothing is aware of it. |
| 1:22.3 | It has no meaning. |
| 1:25.9 | You could debate what has meaning, |
| 1:29.1 | but you're not there to have the debate. There must be this thing called awareness. |
| 1:32.2 | I am aware that you're sitting there. |
| 1:36.0 | I am aware that there are atoms. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm aware that there are stars. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, what if you're not? |
| 1:42.0 | What does that mean? |
| 1:43.0 | What if there's no awareness? |
| 1:47.7 | There's not this stuff called awareness, |
| 1:50.3 | something that knows, that it knows, that it knows. |
| 1:52.3 | That's the consciousness is. |
| 1:54.1 | Then nothing has meaning. |
| 1:55.8 | Nothing, nothing at all has meaning. |
| 1:59.8 | And if no one is conscious and no animals are conscious, |
| 2:02.7 | there's no consciousness, then there's no awareness. |
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