The Absolute Free Fall of THIS (Previously LIVE)

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This episode of The ZDoggMD Show was recorded in front of a live studio audience...on Facebook. Which is always a little bit of magic 🪄 What happens when the appearance that seems to construct our sense of self, our sense of the one who EXPERIENCES experience...just stops? A (previously) live interactive exploration of what's left when YOU leave (listen to find out what the hell that means 😂). Full video with a great AI summary of everything covered, click here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: ⁠https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd⁠ Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: ⁠https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd⁠ More about Dr. Z: ⁠https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/⁠ Topics and chapters: 00:00 - Introduction: What is Freefall? 01:47 - Pure Experience and Centerless Wonder 03:15 - Flow States and the Dropping of "Me" 04:50 - The Spirituality Story Problem 06:38 - Speaking from Silence 08:29 - The Illusion of Self and Awakening 10:03 - When the "Me" Starts to Crack 14:23 - The Impossibility of Words 16:05 - Direct Experience vs. Conceptual Knowledge 18:04 - Birds Birding, Trees Treeing 21:06 - Problems with "Aware Space" Concepts 24:42 - Criticizing Spiritual Teachers and Concepts 27:11 - The Perfection of What Is 28:25 - Questions About Existence and Determinism 30:14 - Aging and Letting Go 32:40 - The Jupiter Storm Metaphor 34:18 - The Great Defeat: Personal Story 39:04 - Free Will vs. Determinism Discussion 41:14 - Exhaustion as Your Best Friend 44:00 - Life Without "Me" 46:06 - The Spiritual Seeking Trap 49:33 - Rick and Morty References and Mr. MeSeeks 52:31 - Final Thoughts and Closing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One, two, three.
0:01.7	Just give it patience.
0:04.7	Yeah.
0:18.8	Freefall is what I kind of titled this.
0:20.2	Freefall is, others have used this term to kind of titled this. Freefall is, others have used this term
0:22.8	to kind of describe this.
0:26.9	And I think it's a decent term,
0:29.2	although words don't describe this,
0:31.6	this, what this is, what's happening.
0:35.7	Apparently.
0:38.1	The mind has all kinds of stories about it,
0:39.7	and by the mind I just mean a series of thoughts
0:41.8	that appear as this, in this, this,
0:46.3	these apparitions, this appearance
0:48.4	of what we're calling reality.
0:50.7	The mind makes a story of it, it creates time,
0:53.7	it creates space, it creates a history, it. It creates time. It creates space.
0:54.9	It creates a history.
0:55.9	It creates an identity called me that owns the experience.
1:01.5	But what can seemingly happen is that appearance of identity, of the me that's owning experience, that's aware of this, interacting with this, that me can simply stop.
1:20.4	Just like when you leave a room, the room's no longer there.
1:26.3	When the me relaxes or temporarily disappears
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