Viivi Jokela facilitates awakening in people who are inclined in that way. She had a spontaneous, deep awakening to true nature in 2022, followed by a strange and at times intense acclimation, which she refers to as no self realization or simply the natural state.
Viivi communicates a direct approach to realization, grounded on experiential insight on the aspects of awakening. She invites you to inquire into and recognize the awe-striking immediate, inherently awake radiance of your own being and of all being.
Website: sensingradiance.com
In this interview, Viivi Jokela shares her journey of spiritual awakening and self-realization. She discusses her early life, her struggles with suffering and alienation, and her eventual deep awakening to her true nature in 2022. She describes the intense acclimation process she went through, which she refers to as no self-realization or the natural state. Viivi also talks about her experiences with a yoga school that turned out to be a cult, her powerful Kundalini awakening, and the subsequent purification process. Throughout the interview, she emphasizes the importance of understanding the nature of experience and the difference between direct experience and mental interpretation.
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Summary and transcript of this interview
Interview recorded June 29, 2024
YouTube Video Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:03:37 - Early Suffering and Alienation
00:07:22 - Finding Yoga in the Hospital
00:10:22 - The Powerful Kundalini Awakening
00:13:16 - The Journey of Purification
00:16:27 - Challenges after Kundalini Awakening
00:19:46 - Recommendation for Kundalini awakening practitioners
00:23:23 - Finding the Right Meditation Practice
00:26:55 - Defining Enlightenment and Liberation
00:30:16 - The Experience of Self
00:33:57 - Multi-Dimensionality of Life
00:37:16 - The Personal and Impersonal within a Larger Wholeness
00:40:18 - The Dance of Relative and Absolute
00:43:30 - Holding Multiple Perspectives Amid Conflicting Views
00:46:24 - Appreciating Different Perspectives
00:49:52 - Understanding the "I got it, I lost it" syndrome
00:53:22 - Extracting Instructions for Awakening
00:56:35 - The Beginner's Mind and Approaching with Curiosity
01:00:16 - Different Types of Meditation
01:03:58 - The Collapse of Fundamental Structures of Reality
01:07:38 - The Teacher and the Experience of Death
01:11:20 - Moments of Transcendence and Nothingness
01:14:34 - The Reality of the Deep Homecoming and Healing Through Realization
01:18:22 - The Disappearance of God
01:21:34 - Kundalini: The Most Powerful Energy
01:24:54 - The Relationship between Trauma and Relational Healing
01:28:34 - Dismissive Attitudes and Lack of Empathy
01:31:58 - The Contradictory Nature of the Experience
01:34:44 - The Importance of Having a Broad Perspective
01:38:40 - Exploring Aggression and Self-Respect
01:42:37 - Closing Remarks and Next Interview Preview