E55: From Psychology to Spirituality: Transcending the Mind’s Struggles

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Psychology focuses on understanding and managing the mind’s learned patterns, emotional struggles, and conditioned behaviors. Spirituality is about transcending these mental and emotional constructs to center on the consciousness which is aware of them. From this seat of witness consciousness, you can actually watch the mind create a false concept of self that is based on your past experiences. This false self leads to suffering unless the world matches how you think it should be. True spirituality involves realizing yourself as the conscious observer and learning to embrace life’s experiences as a gift from Creation. You can learn to free yourself from suffering and achieve a state of peace, love, and self-realization.

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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. Jayacrative, Jay Masters. The difference between spirituality and psychology is not a problem. It's really should be heralded, rejoiced. Let's take Freud.
1:16.4	He said that you were in ego and super ego. I'm not going to do a psychology course today,
1:24.9	but it's not difficult for you to see what he was talking about.
1:30.5	The difference, again, you're taught witness consciousness. He wasn't taught that. I once sent
1:38.4	a lot of time looking. So no evidence in Freud's writings that he had stepped back and saw that these things were of the mind,
1:48.1	but that consciousness was aware of them. He came up with his theories by studying other people,
1:55.0	and many people he studied were from institutions. They were institutionalized patients.
1:58.9	So that's extreme. And so what he saw, and I want to know if you see it, when you watch your mind, do you
2:06.0	ever see that your mind talks about body things, drives, hunger, sexual things, pain,
2:15.4	you know, discomfort of the body, and so on?
2:18.2	You have a voice inside your head, you know you do.
2:20.5	It talks to you all the time.
2:22.6	Does it ever talk about, I need this, I'm hungry, I want that, I'm this, I'm that, about body, animal, basic instincts, basic things, basic functions.
2:37.7	Yes or no? Have you noticed? noticed okay that's what he called id you're not id it it is something your mind talks to you about well people say to me
2:46.8	sometimes why is the voice talk so much well's a good thing it talks some because you
2:52.0	could get lost in consciousness or lost in mind somewhere, think about things and not eat
2:57.1	and be cold and be in trouble, okay? So it calls you back. So if you're out there lost in thought
3:05.4	and your body needs something, wants something, the voice says,
3:09.5	hey, you come out here, take care of me.
3:11.7	That is a voice of the mind.
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