E99: Why Spiritual Experiences Are Not Enough

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Spiritual liberation is not about attaining extraordinary experiences; it is about releasing the internal blockages that keep us from a permanent state of well-being. The cause of suffering is not life—it is our belief that life must be what we want in order for us to be okay. We can learn to let go of this constant sense of lacking by releasing the stored blockages from our past. When this purification takes place, we become open, peaceful, and capable of living with unconditional joy regardless of circumstances.

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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. Chagotive. Chiamasters.
1:02.4	There's so many stages on your spiritual growth.
1:08.9	The more sincere you are, the more stages there are.
1:11.9	It's not happen right away.
1:14.0	You can have experiences, but they're experiences you had.
1:18.5	I've learned over my years that put a whole lot of weight into spiritual experiences.
1:23.9	Why, I guess they come and they go.
1:25.9	One and two things happen.
1:27.1	You get inspired, well, it's good.
1:28.3	They get inspired to do the real work because the experience is just a gift,
1:32.3	a momentary peak into some place you're not yet.
1:35.3	Or you get frustrated, you're disappointed, and you give up because you had an experience,
1:40.3	you can't get it again, causes frustration and anger, all kinds
1:44.3	of things, disappointment. So spiritual experiences are very nice, but they are not the spiritual
1:50.2	path. They're not the spiritual path. So what is the path? Well, if you catch on experiences
1:57.6	aren't everything, and most people don't, they try for experience, they run they run over the place trying to get something some shaktir guru can give to them and have an
2:06.6	experience and tell people how good I am because I had an experience then you go a little deeper
2:10.8	and you realize well that was nice had an experience but I'm not there I don't live there
2:15.4	I'd like to live there but I don't live there and you'd like to live there, but I don't live there.
2:19.1	And, you know, it's like a drug.
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