Michael Singer Podcast E130: Ceasing to Contract Consciousness
Nov 17, 2025
Explore the profound depths of consciousness and its pivotal role in our lives. Discover how focusing awareness on the ego narrows our experience and learn techniques to expand consciousness. Delve into the transformative stages of meditation, from withdrawing senses to merging with the universe. Understand how relationships can reveal ego attachments and practice unconditional love. Emphasize acceptance as a tool for transcending personal preferences, ultimately leading to a liberated state where inner peace prevails.
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Consciousness Is The Core Of Reality
- Consciousness is the fundamental and most meaningful aspect of existence; without awareness nothing has meaning.
- Michael Singer emphasizes that being conscious of something is what gives it reality and significance.
Stop Contracting, Don't Expand
- Consciousness is already infinitely expansive but we habitually contract it onto small objects like thoughts and feelings.
- Singer reframes spiritual work as stopping the contraction rather than trying to expand consciousness.
Oneness As Liberation
- Enlightenment equals ceasing to restrict awareness to the personal self and merging with universal awareness.
- Christ's phrase "my father and I are one" exemplifies this unified state of consciousness.
