Incident Report

A deep dive down the rabbit hole of our astonishing, non-conceptual experience of what IS. John Astin is a health psychologist, meditation teacher, musician, and the author of four books on spiritual practice, including This Extraordinary Moment. His guided meditations can be found on Sam Harris's Waking Up app. He has a Ph.D. in health psychology and is an adjunct professor of clinical and counseling psychology at Santa Clara and Notre Dame de Namur Universities. Find his books, teachings, and more on his website. Here's our prior interview with John. Here are all our videos on consciousness, meditation, and awakening. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasting/john-astin-2/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:52 What are we? How consciousness identifies with its contents 6:33 The thought/conceptual world vs. the experiential world 11:25 Concepts can’t capture raw experience, quantum physics vs gross reality 16:24 The conceptual world and the spiritual “journey”, the nature of impermanence 23:37 How “long” is NOW? 2