Rupert Spira Podcast Episode 81: Amira Arora (Under the Tree Podcast)
Oct 8, 2025
Rupert Spira, a contemporary spiritual teacher and author, joins hosts Aryaan and Amira Arora to dive deep into non-duality and the nature of consciousness. They explore how reality is a seamless consciousness that manifests by dividing into subjects and objects. Rupert explains that time and space are merely illusions, asserting that all experience happens in the eternal 'now.' He uses a fascinating dream analogy to illustrate consciousness's separation while remaining whole. The conversation touches on free will and how awareness can know itself beyond the finite mind.
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Consciousness Is The Only Reality
- Reality is one infinite, indivisible consciousness that contains all forms as unmanifest potential.
- Manifestation occurs when consciousness seems to divide into subject and object to know itself.
Subject–Object Division Creates Form
- Creation manifests when consciousness localizes as a perceiver and perceived in subject-object relation.
- That division is the mechanism through which potential becomes experienced form.
Dream Analogy For Localization
- Rupert uses the dream of walking London while asleep in New York as an analogy for how mind localizes consciousness.
- The dreamer feels located on the streets while the entire dreamed world exists within one mind.