About this episode
Salvadore Poe was a successful musician from New York, making records, touring, having videos on MTV, and doing film scores when in 1997 he had a life-changing experience that propelled him on a single-pointed inquiry in search of enlightenment. During the next seven years, he immersed himself in intensive retreats in USA, Europe, and India, met many teachers, including U.G. Krishnamurti, Douglas Harding, Toni Packer, among others, and eventually moved to India where he lived for two years in the ashram of Ajja, a recognized spiritual master, and then for a year in the ashram of another spiritual master, Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar. During all these years he meditated countless hours, had numerous mystical, transcendent experiences, and then finally, frustrated with it all, met his last teacher, Dolano in 2004, and his search was over. Eight years later, living an ordinary life making music in India, someone he met asked him to work one on one with a spiritual seeker. Since then Salvadore has been offering a means of inquiry intended to let you come to know for yourself that you are now and always have been complete, whole, lacking nothing and free. This recognition, when true and doubtless, ends seeking automatically, as it is seen that what you have been seeking is already true and realized. What has kept you from this ‘knowing’ are all of the myriad ideas, beliefs, and spiritual concepts given to you by culture and religion, which you have taken for granted without really investigating. But once clearly investigated they all fall, leaving you at ease here and now with and as what is. Seeking is finished, there is no cause of it any longer. Life is lived at ease. Salvadore currently divides his time between India and New York State, writing and recording music and sharing the inquiries. Websites: http://www.salvadorepoe.com http://liberationis.com Books: Liberation IS: The End Of The Spiritual Path The Way of Freedom: Conversations with Salvadore Poe Articles of Peace, a collection of 39 articles, some were transcribed from group meetings and others were written, inspired by a particular topic. I offer this collection freely and encourage you to share them freely with anyone who might be interested. Transcript of this interview. Interview recorded 2/6/2016 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - An Awakening Plea for Help 00:05:12 - A Life-Changing Moment 00:09:29 - The Search for Enlightenment through Drugs and Meditation 00:13:31 - The Light is Going to Come for You 00:17:54 - Frustration with Seeking and the Shift to Knowing 00:21:54 - The Wind-Down of Conditioning 00:25:29 - The End of Seeking 00:29:30 - Recognizing the True Nature of Oneself 00:33:17 - The Integration of Transcendence and Imminence 00:36:41 - The Natural State of Consciousness 00:40:13 - The Unknowing 00:44:04 - The Shift of Knowing 00:47:33 - The misidentification of a separate self 00:49:49 - The Birth of Compassion 00:52:17 - The Illusion of Lost Thoughts 00:56:00 - Delineation between consciousness and awareness 01:00:02 - Purification of the Mind 01:04:16 - Recognizing the Sense of Lack 01:07:41 - The Journey of Self-Discovery 01:11:07 - Stabilizing Certainty and Clarity 01:15:13 - The Illusion of Self and Strengthening Intention 01:19:12 - The Illusion of the Self 01:22:56 - Levels of Spiritual Maturity 01:26:25 - Evidence of Reincarnation and Alternative Explanations 01:29:59 - The Illusion of Solid Form 01:33:24 - The Knowing Itself 01:37:09 - The Experience of Enlightenment 01:41:20 - The Impact of Awakening on Personality and Society 01:44:42 - The Impact of the Internet on Education 01:49:29 - The Nature of Awareness 01:55:50 - Wrapping Up and Thank You Save Save