E164: The Fall from the Garden—Distraction, Identification, and the Birth of Ego

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Consciousness is the experiencer of all things, and spiritual growth means realizing you are that consciousness, not what you are conscious of. When our awareness is consistently distracted by objects, be they outside or in, we begin to identify with them, which creates lasting inner impressions. From these, we form the ego with its constant attempts to control life. Liberation comes through inwardly relaxing, letting go, and remaining in witness consciousness, allowing stored disturbances to dissolve and restoring us to the natural state of freedom and oneness.

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0:00.0	Jaguative, giant mestra.
0:04.0	The more you grow, growth means personally, spiritually, everything, it's all the same.
0:11.0	The more you realize that consciousness is everything.
0:17.0	How we don't realize that? I have no idea. because if you're not conscious of something then it
0:24.0	doesn't exist not for you if you're conscious of something then it exists well consciousness is
0:31.7	is the awareness of being you know you're in there you know that You know you're in there. You know that you know you're in there.
0:42.3	You know you have thoughts. You know you have emotions. You know you have a body. And you know that your
0:50.3	senses pick up a world out there. What does that?
0:57.0	Your hand doesn't know it's there.
1:00.0	You know your hand is there.
1:02.0	Your thoughts don't know you see them,
1:06.0	but you see them.
1:08.0	That's consciousness.
1:10.0	Consciousness and awareness are the same thing. Why do we have
1:14.5	to talk about that? Because you are it all the time. You've been in ever since you're born.
1:19.6	On your deathbed, you'll know you're dying. So consciousness is what experiences. It's not the
1:26.4	experience itself. The experience is something you're
1:30.2	experiencing. So yoga and true spirituality is all about who is the experiencer, not what is the
1:38.9	experience. That's the entire shift from spiritual to lost.
1:45.3	That's the fall from the garden.
1:47.4	They put forth the garden.
1:49.6	Everything's wonderful.
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