The Experience That Changes Everything - Doug Red Hail Pineda

Thank you for that question, Miracle, and it's an excellent question because I think that goes back to the fundamental element of the basis of this kind of spiritual practice.

It's not different than any other religion.

We're inspired by other religions by taking the distilled truths that if you take away the dogma, the system of rewards and punishments, You take away the structure of the organization and you take away the books.

The core teachings of every religion practically share the same core components.

And at the very core of all of them are two things, love and forgiveness.

Those seem to be the two redeeming qualities out of every religion.

Those two elements are mostly tied to the question that you have about awareness and consciousness.

So when I'm in this position to create a structure around a spiritual practice, that is a very incredibly large task to accomplish.

And it has a lot of...

There's a lot of consequences to that as well because...

I'm not trying to put myself at the center of a religion.

That's not it because there's already the religions to where if you want to have a conversation with God, the creator, whatever your position is, there's usually people that you have to go through as an intermediary.

in the form of people that put themselves in that position that you have to go through them to reach God or to learn about God.

And you can have that direct relationship yourself.

So the first part is the understanding of what is awareness and what is consciousness.

Because people usually take those two words and they use them interchangeably.

And that's where the first level of confusion becomes.

That's where it happens.

So if we put that on the side for a second, awareness and consciousness, those are the two areas we're trying to get to.

One, we're trying to expand our awareness.

That's the spiritual development of awareness, to expand awareness.

And then for consciousness, the spiritual practices have a deeper relationship with it.

Because those two things have been removed from us, having a direct relationship with the practice of expanding our awareness.

And also, if we want to have a deeper relationship with our consciousness, source consciousness, God, the creator, you usually have to go through somebody else to do that.

A priest, you know, that type of role or position in a religion.