Actualization Station

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode we pick up where we left off in Ep. 26 - Going Meta, Buddhist Metta, and now we continue where we left off in our inquiry, to delve ever deeper into the direct experience of this phenomena of awareness. From the episode: "Laden over this most primary sense of awareness, we all have these filters we perceive through, our different histories, and experiences, different challenges, accomplishments, and struggles, preferences and styles of interacting, but we all share the same experience of awareness that all of this occurs in, and through that, the same capacity for suffering, as well as the same capacity for overcoming, for creativity and co-creativity, for partnership, for love, and through love, the same capacity for consideration, for going beyond judgement to understanding, and forgiveness. This same sense of awareness upon which our frames of perception are laid over, this that is ultimately empty of features, is as consequence also too full of potential t

How can we see past our images of each other, to know each other as we are this moment, regardless of our different beliefs, as the always-changing ongoing miracles we truly are?  Can we be without a prebuilt image of another, while still holding a prebuilt image of ourselves? Behind descriptions of who we are according to traits, such as I am a [this profession], [this nationality], [this religion], with this name, these accomplishments, who is the I that has them?  When we say, I am this or I am that, I like this, I like that, Who is the Actual I? Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, we explore how we may drop the images, and see how we need not be attached to the ideas we hold, as they are simply tools we can use to interact with the world.  Rather than allowing the ideas that appear in our minds to be our masters, we make peace with this figment of self we've come to mistake for the most fundamental Truth of our being. It's time to get back in the driver seat. Let us embrace th

Thanksgiving has passed and we have officially kicked off the Season of Giving. This is the first part of Tis the Season, a multi-part special series where we celebrate this magically, sparkly time of year, sharing new insights, inquiry, and wonder. We're kicking it off and getting holly and jolly up in here!  So grab your elf ears and mistletoe and let's rile up some good vibes for this special time of year. Today, we talk Thanksgiving, mac n cheese, and gratitude. Keeping it light with this episode. May you listen and be joyful! Thanks for tuning in! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, we share the deep relaxation and opening of awareness that meditation allows. We delve into the sense of spaciousness around the breath to attune and resonate consciousness with the presence of this very moment. Here at Actuali, we practice what is known as the Direct Path, through self-inquiry style meditation, which invites us to be most immediately, and directly aware of presence itself, to identify the True ground of our being that is before all thoughts, ideas, conceptions, self-image. We delve into the deepest, most direct experience of being itself, for from here, we may cultivate the peace we seek in life. Join us and be refreshed! Much Love. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Welcome back to Actuali for Poetry Night Vol. 3 In this episode I read a selection of poems by Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky: And Applaud Cast All Your Votes for Dancing Saints Bowing in the Mountains Awake Awhile Laughter At this Party No Other Kind of Light Not With Wings And after these, I read a few of my own: Flight Serene Untitled and 3 from my Autumn Sings series. Enjoy the show! Join us on Instagram! @Actuali.podcast and @Christopher.Kinley --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, I respond to the idea that humans are a disease, which Jason Mamoa, Aquaman, recently helped popularize at the recent UN Climate Conference. We further address the alarming rate of increase of anxiety, depression, and suicide, particularly among young people, and consider some of the more potentially detrimental language being thrown around today as response to environmental crisis. Specifically, we consider an alternative point of view to this suggestion that humanity is a mistake, a virus, or cancer to this world. And we consider instead, how we may be a light amidst the darkness. We also continue our inquiry into how integral a sense of the Sacred, a sense of wonder and awe is to our individual lives, as well as to the wider world. The hope may be small, but our highest goal remains: that we may be that change we wish to see in the world, and change this world from the inside-out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Suppo

Welcome to Ep. 21 of Actuali podcast.  In this episode, we take a deep dive to discover and realign with a sense of the sacred, the ineffable, the wondrous mystery that is life.  We discuss that innate sense of wonder that we are all born with, and how this may be the most integral aspect of our humanity that allows us to overcome even the greatest challenges we face as a species. Excerpt: If there is not a sense of reverence, of that innate wonder for life that we are born with, we all too soon become lost to a maze of searching, and searching, and only fleetingly finding. We search for artificial fillers and distractions to fill a sense of meaningless in life, to decompress from the drudgery that is life. But it is here, always available, that sense of wonder. That sense of natural amazement, the great inhalation/exhalation that occurs when there is awe, when we experience such profound awesomeness, that we can but smile and revel in exhilaration. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor

Ep. 20 of Actuali podcast (formerly Actualization Station) - We may have an idea of what we can do to improve ourselves; but until we fully commit to doing so, we cannot know what it takes to make a lasting, positive change within ourselves, and in the wider world. Take back the reigns. If you blame the world outside, you are making excuses that obscure the reasons why you can still succeed. And maybe you will fail; maybe random circumstances will prevail, but how will you know what's possible until you try? Many people have risen out of worse circumstances than we can imagine. They did not blame their lot on outside forces and make excuses for giving up. They took note of the challenges they faced, and focused on solutions and ways around the hurdles life presents us. They persevered, and accepted no excuses from themselves. They committed despite their fears despite all anxieties and depression. They committed despite all outside circumstances. They made a change within themselves, and did not stop until th

In this episode Actuali podcast (formerly Actualization Station), we go within to explore the very sense of Self, and get a feel for this style of meditation, Self-Inquiry, also known as The Direct Path. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Hey everybody! In this episode of Actuali podcast (formerly Actualization Station), we inquire into the Art of Stillness, as well as cover a few poems I wrote which go with posts you can find on our respective Instagram and Facebook pages. And!  I introduce a new name for the podcast: Actuali !!!  What does this mean? And how will the podcast change?  Rest assured, I will maintain the aim and direction of this podcast, which in short, is to invite you to share in this process of ongoing Self-Realization, that we may  be that change we wish to see in the world. Together, we go within to discover our inherent nature, an ever deepening sense of peace, well-being, and with this freedom, we actualize our highest potential, for the sake of all that is good in this world! As I go into in this podcast, the term I am coining: Actuali, represents the deepest nature of ourselves.  Who is the Actual I?  What is this inherent awareness behind all thoughts, feelings, and sensations?  Th

Welcome to Actuali Podcast (formerly Actualization Station) - A Prayer in Poem: Next Lvl: The path is getting narrow as we come nearer to this peak, this apex/locus of potentials, both majestic and bleak. Will we continue on, after we make this summit, will we take our voices and our hearts with us as we ascend, and rather than fall to one or the other side, could we rise together, transcend that pattern that has pit us against each other, and ourselves for so long? I wonder, and I am full of hope, but I’m not sure that I am hopeful, only that I don’t feel so alone anymore. Yet, the mission remains: to reintegrate, inspire, uplift, empower, and sustain only that which so obviously smacks of wisdom it transforms you, and you are changed. There are times that face us, when a great leap is called for: and we are almost beckoned to by some miracle, arise anew, reborn, reintegrated, and able to earn a way to ascend the next peak, and today we are more connected than ever. If ever there was a time, if ever there

Welcome to Actuali podcast (formerly Actualization Station). We're all artists, creative in myriad ways. We can find home in those most elative moments when we are "lost in the music", the art, the moment, as it pertains to art we create purselves, or find appreciation in. But what if we give no bounds to this experience, none at all, and let our love of giving what is most essential and true from each One of us not be limited to any edge, to any bounds, to stretch out beyond known limits? In this episode we explore this, and inquire into relating points of interest to further elucidate this insight. #potential #limitless #art #actualization #meaning #transcendence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Welcome to Actuali podcast (formerly Actualization Station).  In this episode, we take a look at a side of being in the world described as "relevance realization", a posture of acceptance to how relevant everything we do really is that I picked up from "Rebel Wisdom" (not Rebel Media! Whoops! Sry guys!) that I find complimentary to the zen term "shoji" points to the finite nature of life, and also expresses the immediate relevance of our individual lives and wider world context we share as a social species. From this persoecive we may see that the most effective way forward must be to be the very change we seek, and to Change this World from the Inside-Out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

In this episode I share a conversation with Artist and Professor Gary Bergel. We discuss art as a path to reintegration with the world, the underlying interrelationship of everything, and inquire into how to see this in the midst of life and "take the beauty forward". Enjoy the show!

 To Be at Home Wherever You Are There is a stillness that pervades, a spacious aliveness. There is a beauty in just being something very relaxing It's like homebase.

In this episode we delve deeper into the meaning behind the following  quotes (shown below), recently shared as Actualization Station posts on social media. Stay tuned at the end of the episode to hear a free track from another project I'm involved in, American Dharma band. Join us for more  inspiring messages @ Instagram.com/Actualization.Station.podcast >> See video-cast of this episode << Follow American Dharma band on Spotify, on Instagram, on Facebook, and YouTube The present can be felt as synonymous with the Self, the truest, deepest aspect of Self. There is a stillness that pervades. There is a beauty in just being. Something relaxing, and consoling. It's like home base. Music in this episode: 'The background', by artist: alkor 'Damaged Coda', by American Dharma #Podcast @ Anchor.FM/ActualizationStation⠀⠀ for Explorations into Life's Greatest Questions,⠀⠀ Guided Meditations for Relaxation and Realization,⠀⠀ A Podcast on Self-Transcendence⠀⠀ and Self-Actualization⠀⠀

Welcome back for another episode of Poetry Night!  In this episode, we hear a couple of Robert Frost's poems read by the poet himself, specifically: "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening", and "Birch". I also read a couple poems of my own "Tree's Song", and "River's Song".   You are invited to share poems you enjoy as well, by yourself or anyone else (or favorite lyrics, excerpts from stories etc.) Just be sure to provide attribution.   To take part in Poetry Night, simply download the Anchor app (totally free) on your Apple or Android device, then find Actualization Station and an episode of Poetry Night. Once it's up click the Message button on the bottom of the screen to call into the show to share a poem, or offer your own thoughts and questions.   Looking forward to hearing what you have to share!   Music in this episode: Sara Afonso - Behind The Door http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sara_Afonso/~/Sara_Afonso_-_Behind_The_Door From http://freemusicarchive.org/ Attribution-NonCommercial: http

Today, we return to the most essential practice of life: the art of meditation, that we may know the truth of who we are, before descriptions and conceptions are built. With our attention on the spacious awareness that all thoughts arise in, the alive nature of this very moment becomes self-evident. We realize the true freedom and peace is already inherent in this very moment. Music in this episode: Alkor, "The Background" Music provided by Kahvi.org and Scene.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

Includes excerpts from Jordan Peterson & Stephen Fry. In this episode, we consider how contentiously held points of view can contribute to the increasing polarization of our societies. There’s probably many of you out there who are noticing the amount of division in the world today, the fanning of flames apparent on mass media news, as well as on social media feeds. Maybe you’ve been concerned by some of what you’ve seen as well. I would rather see us building bridges than deepening these divides, so in this episode we we explore how we might stand independently and observe as impartially as we are able, both sides of the story, and what’s contributing to this divide. With hope and a bit of consideration, we may see beyond the labels and over-generalizing group distinctions to which we can all fall prey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actuali/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/actuali/support

In this episode, we explore how the great martial artist, Bruce Lee, was inspired by the writings of J. Krishnamurti. As perhaps the most well-known martial artist the world has ever known, Bruce Lee is credited not only with being instrumental in the popularization of Martial Arts in the West, but with being one of the main influences for the formation of Mixed Martial Arts as it exists today. From interviews of those closest to him, we learn how the writings of J. Krishnamurti were integral to Lee's formation of his Way of No Way philosophy. (Music and media in this episode: 1st Artist/Track: Alexey V, "Wisdom" 2nd Artist/Track: The Radical Revolution, "J. Krishnamurti- The Radical Revolution" 3rd Artist/Track: Abjective, "Journey" CC 3.0) FAIR USE NOTICE: This media may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such material per Title 17 U.S.C. (U.S. Code) section 106A-117 of U.S. Copyright Law. --- Send in a voice m