The Art of Waking Up – A Podcast Conversation

Ready to dive down the rabbit hole of enlightenment?

Please allow me interrupt your American Thanksgiving for a moment and give you something juicy to listen to while you’re traveling or walking off pie.

In this talk with the women of Vanilla Weeds, I discuss the deepest spiritual inquiries some of us will ever face.

Here, I plunge alongside explorers Mia Boyle and Natalia Blagoeva into awakening, non-duality, living in the Now, and what it means to surrender totally and completely to What Is.

Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Enjoy. As always, your comments and questions are welcome!

Love,

Erin

About the Episode (from Vanilla Weeds)

In this episode, Mia Katherine Boyle and Natalia Blagoeva are hosting a conversation with our guest Erin Reese – a spiritual teacher, an intuitive, and the author of Truth Seeker: A Spiritual Adventure of Love, Loss, and Liberation, part of The Soul of India trilogy.

Erin’s books are deeply personal spiritual memoirs of her journey. They start with her own existential crisis and the willingness to lose everything to find true, lasting freedom. That ultimately led her to the end of seeking and the end of suffering.  

Although the books are about Erin’s spiritual journey, they are a great companion to anyone who may feel any existential suffering or anyone standing on a cliff, having to dive into the unknown.  

Indeed, during our conversation, we spoke of spirituality and other spiritual concepts like living in the now, seeking, awakening, non-duality, and surrendering. However, what came through in the end is that the ultimate result of such a journey is living a life here on Earth of joy, easiness, fulfillment, and richer self-expression. That is the natural result of the step-by-step removal of all separations we have built and surrendering to life instead of trying to control it. It is about reconnecting to our true selves, to each other and to Nature, and ultimately, to the natural rhythm of life.  

About Vanilla Weeds

Today, we perceive weeds as valueless. So, we destroy them. Similarly, we see value in grooming humans to think alike. We claim to appreciate diversity, but we live in bubbles, scared of the messiness and lack of control over the “wild field” full of diverse opinions and values. We also take a “vanilla approach” to how we show up in the world. We show the beauty but hide the messiness in our heads and lives. This podcast of Dayu Dwirani (Indonesia), Mia Boyle (United States), and Natalia Blagoeva (Bulgaria/Switzerland) ventures beyond right and wrong into the unknown, yet familiar space, from where we can create a life worth living. Together.

Visit the Vanilla Weeds podcast here.