I talk a lot on the show about what we experience as humans. What we go through, the questions we ask the universe and the journey life takes us on. It’s an ongoing process where we are always learning and my goal with the show is to continue to explore the journey and encourage that growth. My guest this week is John Siddique and we are talking about Becoming & Unfolding on Your Spiritual Path. John shares his wisdom and insights from this book Signposts of the Spiritual Journey: A Practical Road Map to a Meaningful Life.
John and I discuss awareness, presences, basic human freedoms and what this means for us on our spiritual journey. There are many signposts that guide us along the way and John shares some examples from his book. John explains vasana and samskaras, what the pain body is and spiritual bypassing. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed talking with John!
More about SIGNPOSTS OF THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY: A PRACTICAL ROAD MAP TO A MEANINGFUL LIFE: Popular meditation leader and poet John Siddique draws on more than 40 years of practice to offer this uniquely helpful road map to the spiritual journey, highlighting the changes that show us we’re making progress and the obstacles that will certainly come up. This book is a guide to the spiritual path that clearly reveals the signposts of success on the journey, as well as the blockages and traps that hold us back from a life of presence, meaning and enlightenment. By laying out the signs and blockages clearly and honestly and with a lot of love and humour, the book offers a wonderful resource for growth. Whatever level of freedom the reader feels drawn to – basic human freedom, or the great goal of the spiritual life of enlightenment – this roadmap will guide readers to tread the path of their ordinary life and receive the benefit in the here and now.
From Signpost 1, The Arising of Questions to, finally, Signpost 16, Giving Everything to Love, the book explores all the indications of progress those who embark on a spiritual journey will encounter, offering reassurance as well as highlighting blocks such as the painbody, object consciousness, spiritual bypassing, the cult of individualism and dualistic thinking, and hard-to-spot cultural, religious and spiritual influences.
In addition to sharing encouraging real-life stories, the book also offers a huge range of tools and practices, from using writing and drawing to explore our own teachability to self-reflections designed to expand awareness and let go of ego, to instructions for effective, safe, meditative practices little known in the West.
More About John Sidiqque: John Siddique is a teacher, writer and poet who has published seven previous books. He runs retreats and classes with students around the world, and his “Self-Acceptance Through Authenticity” course has 20,000 registered students. He offers meditations via the Insight Timer app and live classes via the Wellness Coach app. John has had awakenings throughout his life, from the age of six, as well as a full near-death experience that led him to wish to share these teachings with anyone who would benefit from them. Find out more at: www.authenticliving.life. You can also connect with John on social media:
- https://twitter.com/john_siddique_
- https://www.instagram.com/watkinswisdom/
- https://www.facebook.com/johnsiddique/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8z_0SOx1HU1jlJGQ7gTZvA
- https://www.instagram.com/johnsiddique/
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