E159: How Consciousness Becomes Trapped in Thought
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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The most basic function of mind is to receive messages from the senses so the indwelling consciousness can experience the outer world. Suffering begins when consciousness fixates on certain experiences and refuses to let them pass. These fixations become stored impressions that form the ego mind, distorting the perception of reality. Liberation comes not from controlling life to match the ego, but from letting go of identification with the personal mind so experiences pass through freely and actions arise from clarity and compassion instead of ego.
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| 0:00.0 | Drag-Gyrative, gymesters. |
| 0:05.0 | You can talk about God, only one. |
| 0:10.0 | If you want to get close and know about God, you have to work with mind. |
| 0:17.0 | It's just how it is. |
| 0:20.0 | Thinking about God is not the same thing as knowing God. Why mind? |
| 0:26.6 | If you watch, you will notice that there's this thing called mind in your life. It's not your foot, not your hand, not your nose. It's inside and it talks. |
| 0:43.3 | That's what it does. It talks. Why did I do that? I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't have done it. No, it's okay. They didn't notice. |
| 0:51.3 | Yes or no. |
| 0:55.0 | Very good. |
| 0:56.0 | So you noticed. |
| 0:59.0 | In truth, that's what witness consciousness is. |
| 1:02.0 | It's not something very complicated. |
| 1:05.0 | It's, have you noticed that there's this thing called mind? |
| 1:10.0 | And that's rather loquacious and have you noticed |
| 1:14.1 | that things it says can cause your heart to change all by themselves just all of a sudden |
| 1:24.9 | you just says something and you feel bad it says something you feel good |
| 1:28.8 | the problem is |
| 1:30.9 | most people don't consider that a problem |
| 1:34.6 | it's just |
| 1:36.8 | what is |
| 1:37.9 | it's just always been that way |
| 1:40.3 | always is that way |
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