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The Wonder LandEpisode 107: Dropping the Sense of BecomingInterested in becoming our Patreon?https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcastGet in touch!podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com Interested in working with us? Check out our websites:Amanda's website: https://www.uncoveryspace.com/Alex's website: https://canaimacoaching.com/In this episode Alex and Amanda explore the sense of becoming something else in time and space2025-05-0722 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 105: Make No DamsAlex and Amanda explore the vast simplicity of life's flow and discuss the effort of resisting life's unknowableness by creating dams of certainty.2025-04-2323 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 103: Growing in the DarknessListen in as Alex and Amanda explore the powerful hidden growth that happens in the silence of the Shadow2025-04-0916 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 102: The BodyListen in as Amanda and Alex take a look at The Body from a slightly different view. We can explore this topic a lot of ways, but in The Wonder Land we get to see how the body arises in awareness rather than the other way around, and the implications of that recognition. We also conclude that a “normalized” experience of being in a body can swing wildly out of the constraints that we are conditioned to try to stay within. 2025-04-0216 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 101: What is on the Other Side of Your Desire to Change?Alexandra and Amanda explore what is beneath all our desires to change and how seeing the subtle promise can shift our relationship with change 2025-03-2618 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 100: Revisting Episode 1 - The Feeling that Something is OffIt has been an amazing journey for us to record and share these 100 episodes.
We are deeply grateful to each of you who has listened, shared, supported, and encouraged us along the way.
Here is to 100 more!
Alex and Amanda2025-03-1921 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 99: An Ode to the Non-LogicalAlex and Amanda explore that space where "we know we know but we don’t know how we know it"
The wonder-ful open space of being where we need no reasons and no explanations.
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2025-03-1223 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 98: The Exquisite Simulation
Dive in with Amanda and Alex as they take a look around The Simulation theory and the constructs of us and a world. Discover the freedom in seeing this in a deep, experiential way and what it might look like to see through the struggle of one construct trying to meet the demands of another construct. Using the example of ancient stories like Plato’s Cave and Zhuangzi’s Dream, we can find the Wonder Land in any simulated experience.
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2025-03-0517 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 97: There is Nothing You Need to KnowAlex and Amanda explore the nagging feeling that everything will make sense and improve once we know the ONE thing.
What is this pervasive sense that something is being kept from us? That if we could just see it and know it we would settle into peace and happiness.
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Amanda's website: https...2025-02-2620 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 96: The Ink BlotToday Amanda and Alex explore our creative Ink Blot experience. Sensing a world that is immediately shaped by lines and definitions can often fool the self-idea into believing these lines and boundaries and meanings are actual and true. In addition to a world of Ink Blot, there is a center of consolidated ink that spreads out as that world---what is implied to be in the center? Listen in to discover what this means for the struggle and fight to defend what we think we see.
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4th Wing
Alex and Amanda explore how the math always running in the background of our mind can create a limited experience that we call "reality"2025-02-1222 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 94: Ancient Architecture
Join us as your tour guides through a haunted ancient castle today. This is a very familiar architecture: rooms of Reasons, Guilt and Blame, and many more common concepts are explored from a guest’s point of view. Listen in as we watch the phantoms transform in real time as we discover the alchemy of awareness.
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In this episode, Amanda and Alex look at the often immediate yet absurd certainty that we have about the self idea and how it’s not a wrong absurdity, but rather a whimsical absurdity that we can come to recognize and lighten up around. Listen in as we explore stripping the rules of certainty away from who we think we are and/or should and how that can allow us to be freely flowing in this dream of existence.
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...2025-01-2914 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 92: I See Only the PastIn this episode Alex and Amanda explore the possibility that preferences, ideas, and our very imagination are reflections and refractions of memory.
2025-01-2224 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 91: Wild Insecurity
Join Amanda and Alex as they explore the experience of
insecurity. What is it? Why does it seem to be a malfunction to correct? Why are we taught that the self-idea can be secured and stabilized in any way?
Listen in for the good news about insecurity and how perhaps no security is the only security.
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Amanda and Alex explore how it seems like the projection of
how things appear is tethered to a sense of Me. Does that sense of a tether feel constricting, and does that constriction further created distance and separation?
If so, what can we see about this phenomenon? Not in searching for a better projection, or a clearer one- but perhaps the projection itself is already untethered. With no distance, there is vastness.
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...2025-01-0814 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 89: There are No ProblemsAlex and Amanda explore the unfathomable. Could it be that there are no problems? The very contemplation may have your mind protesting how absurd it is to consider that problems are not real.
“Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable”
Khalil Gibran The prophet
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Join Amanda and Alex for another egg scrambler! This one
looks at the source of information we get- that being the brain and how we can get really curious about it’s veracity. What does it mean to discover that reality as you see it is also not as it really is? What’s the practical value of this discovery? Inspired by the writing of the late Howard Chance, we dive into some really fascinating rabbit holes including what it’s like to not have a secure source of information but rather a wonder-filled kaleidoscope of anythi...2024-12-2519 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 87: The One About NothingIn this episode Alex and Amanda explore Nothing!
Nothingness is obvious - what we call not something that has no explanation but that which transcends explanation to exist
“Nothingness is the fundamental reality. The most real state is the state of Nothing”
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Have you noticed how the function of comparison is on
virtually all the time? Alex and Amanda explore this phenomenon of thought and look at how its functionality is brilliant, but when taken as a reality it can wreak
havoc. Without comparison, what or who are you? What needs to change? What’s wrong? These questions seem absurd in the absence of the very insidious function of comparison. Can we find out what it’s like to see the function and not fall for the illusion that comparison holds any objective truth?
2024-12-1116 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 85: You Don’t Have a BodyIn this episode Alex and Amanda explore the idea that we are inside this body.
Are we just haunting these meat bags with our personalities, quirks and habits?
But how is our body different from our environment? Our lines and edges? The weather of emotions?
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Listen in as we explore the liminal spaces and how worry is
just as much an experience of this in-between suspension as any other. How can
we find rest and discovery here? Why does being in a liminal space feel so odd?
Amanda and Alex also explore the phenomena of watching the self and its world
be re-built out of the liminal space between sleep and waking- and how that
awareness has huge implications on experiencing an everyday Wonder Land.
2024-11-2717 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 83: The Great IncomprehensibleIn this episode Alex and Amanda discuss the distance created by trying to explain and describe the world.To try to understand is in a way to minimize, to reduce down to the units which can be captured by our limited knowledge.The Great Incomprehensible is then our biggest joys and our biggest tragedies. Any attempt to put them into words - to reduce - seen as futile and unnecessary.One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a...2024-11-2017 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 82: The Paradox of IsolationWhat is this feeling of aloneness that seems to trail us? How can this seeming isolation be experienced when there is not-two? (no separate things, selves, etc.) Listen in as Amanda and Alex explore this strange phenomenon and look at how feeling alone and/or the longing to connect is actually a signal that we are believing our projection to be at a distance to us. Where can we find the Wonder Land here? It’s closer than we think.
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2024-11-1316 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 80: Rebel YellInterested in becoming our Patreon?
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Amanda and Alex explore the way rebellion shows up and how it can be respected as a siren call back home. Where are we trying to contort ourselves within rules that the limitless nature of us will not stand for? This Rebel Yell isn’t the cry of a limited, scared, self idea; rather we discover it transcends all those limits and will always be a call home.. into the expansive unknown.
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Amanda and Alex explore the learned ideas and beliefs about money and how they manifest in ways that are actually highlighting anything BUT money. Does money ever have a different tone than urgency? Learn about the inseparability of Money and Me and where a freedom and playfulness can be revealed.
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Alex and Amanda explore the pattern of how chasing pleasure or chasing peace can become the same rat race.
“The more you get it, the less you need it, because you already have it” Michael Singer
"Loss is not as bad as wanting more." ~ Lao zu
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This episode explores the curious way the Cathedral of Me requires constant thought activity in the search for what is real and what is fiction. Amanda and Alex attempt to look at this phenomenon and although found it a challenge to talk about, there is a sense of freedom in seeing all thought activity not as maintenance for an elusive Cathedral, but simply children playing in imaginary minds.
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Alex and Amanda explore love and joy and how both, love and loss, dissolve and diffuse our solid sense of self.
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Listen in as Amanda and Alex explore the phenomena of anxiety and worry. Looking at the capacity to create a 3d future scenario with a character who will experience it reveals how this illusion can create a landscape of fear, anxiety, and worry. Find out how that landscape can transmute into The Wonder Land.
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2024-09-1816 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 73: Call SecurityInterested in becoming our Patreon?
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Alex and Amanda explore what we have learned about our human instincts and our "primal brain"
Is it true that all we do during our lives is based on our drive to survive or is this a simplification of what we really experience moment to moment?
“To put this still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A soci...2024-09-1120 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 72: Lens of Mass DistortionInterested in becoming our Patreon?
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Listen in as Amanda and Alex explore the strange phenomena of how we perceive through a lens of distortion. We turn this around and ask if there is such a thing as “seeing clearly” or seeing through a non-distorted lens? How would we know? What freedom is revealed by stopping the search for clear seeing of an objective reality?
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“We exhaust our internal resources when we try not to be something.” Debbie Ford
individual to experience.
The ocean of what arises expands as our filtering diminishes.
"Each of us is a whirlpool in the tide of existence, and a whirlpool holds no water" Alan Watts
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Interested in working with us? Check out our websites...2024-08-2821 minThe Wonder LandSpecial Announcement: September 2024 - The Wonder Land CourseJoin Alex and Amanda for a 5 session online Wonder Land jaunt in September! Please visit https://www.uncoveryspace.com/the-wonder-land-course for more information and to register. We hope you can join us!2024-08-2100 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 70: Dream Fatigue Part Two - The Fatigue of ContinuityInterested in becoming our Patreon?
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Following up from our Dream Fatigue episode, today’s episode explores more specifically the fatigue of apparent continuity—the way it looks like things don’t change and the tension felt in that. Listen in as we dive into this gift of fatigue, as we can come to recognize it- and how it pops us out of the hallucination of conditioning—into a space where doubt about what this moment is, means, or should be is utterly absent. Just sensing, listening, respecting the awe an...2024-08-2122 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 69: C'est la VieInterested in becoming our Patreon?
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“Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life” Prince
Alex and Amanda explore the simplicity of life as it shows up from moment to moment. Facing life exactly as it shows up without our imaginations and illusions of how it should be is the fastest way to escape the web of complexity that exists only in thought.
But how? spoiler alert - you already are...now it is tim...2024-08-1424 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 68: The Shapes of ConfusionHow do you get to the bottom of something that is bottomless? Listen in as we explore the cloud of description we seem to live in and how that cloud gets mistaken for reality…and the shapes of confusion that can signal a recognition of this phenomena.
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"The acquisition
of more things
Doesn't work.
Simply
Because,
It's the
Same amount
Of nothing."
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What is right in front of your nose? The Elusive Obvious looks at what is being sought for- beauty, fascination, specialness, joy and the really easy way to find it. As sentient creatures, we have the ability to imagine what does not exist, often at the expense of the mystery and magic of this here now. Listen in as we explore the alchemy of the mundane into the extraordinary.
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...2024-07-2418 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 65: Sneak Up on Yourself“Sneak up on yourself first thing in the morning before you realize it is you” Abraham Hicks
Alex and Amanda explore the phenomena momentary lack of identity with the self.
Playing with ways to get our conditioned thinking out of its painful and heavy orbit into the joy of the chaos.
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Every good fairy tale has elements of struggle, strife, and fear. Listen in as we explore where our orientation to our tale is. Are you feeling stuck in a repeating cycle of struggle? Our tales are meant to unfold and there is a way to reorient ourselves to break out of misunderstanding and old conditioning.
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Vast story arcs we cannot see in the midst but upon reflection are pointing to how humans have tried to make sense of the chaos of life for millenia.
“The timeless empty streets of mind are flooded with ancient daydreams…” Nancy Nethercut
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So we go off on the search for permission, for acceptance, yet nothing really works while we are acting from the mind’s learned premise that we are wrong and imperfect. Listen in as we explore what it’s like to BE with abandon, maybe for the first time in a long...2024-06-2615 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 61: A Haunted Mind“The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it then you make it worse because you project onto it all kinds of bogies and threats which don’t exist in it at all.
Whenever you meet a ghost, don’t run away. Because the ghost will capture the substance of your fear and materialise itself out of your own substance. It will kill you eventually because it will take over all your own vitality.
So, then, whenever confronted with a ghost walk straight into it. And it will di...2024-06-1918 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 60: The PortalAmanda and Alex explore how some experiences in life can have a profound impact on how we see the world2024-06-1220 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 59: You are Not Damaged GoodsAlex and Amanda explore the prominent, yet sometimes hidden (and very painful) story that we have been damaged by circumstances of our life and we must work to fix ourselves.
“The secret is that you are already a completely whole, perfect person. You are not damaged goods, you are not incomplete, you are not flawed, you are not unfinished, you do not need remodeling, fixing, polishing or major rehabilitation. You already have within you everything you need to live a wonderful life. You have common sense, wisdom, genius creativity, humor, self esteem...you are pu...2024-06-0517 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 58: Why are You so Certain?Join our Patreon:
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In this episode, Alex and Amanda explore our relationship with certainty and how feeling secure in our knowledge can sometimes be painful. Certainty can exclude possibilities from arising.
Can anything in life really be described as: fixed, settled, dependable, reliable, inevitable, detined, indisputable?
“It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
― Claude Bernard
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."Voltaire
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Can you remember when you stopped playing? Did you ever? Listen in as we untangle the concepts of “Adulthood” and the strange assumptions and agreements that we live in. What if being a “responsible adult” is the same sense of make-believe we had as children? What is the deal with the concept of “work/life balance”? Join us in this particularly fascinating corner of The Wonder Land.
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What is waiting? What is this sense of time standing still, on hold for a decision? Is there anything in nature that waits or rushes?
Are conclusions and decisions necessary for the movement of life to occur?
“If you are bewitched by the clock you will therefore have no present. “Now” will be no more than the geometrical point at which the future becomes the past. But if you sense and feel the world materially, you will discover that there never is, or was, or will be anything except the present.”
Alan Watts
“H...2024-05-1518 minThe Wonder LandReminder: New Course - Uncovery UnleashedAmanda talks about her upcoming course Uncovery Unleashed starting May 16th. You are invited! Visit https://www.uncoveryspace.com/courses-copy for details and to sign up.2024-05-1301 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 55: The KaleidoscopeJoin our Patreon:
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"The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you, are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts." -James Allen
Listen in as we explore the kaleidoscope metaphor. This can be a useful concept to start to understand the phenomena of our seemingly shifting experiences. What happens when the I is also included in the shifting colors and shapes?
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We explore the phenomena of feeling like our internal dialogue (manager) is making every decision yet when things don't go as planned or we do not follow through with the relentless orders the manager is nowhere to be found.
Have you really stopped to look at who is this decision maker? The doer of things we attribute our very best and our very worst to?
Where is the persistent, continuous entity responsible?
2024-05-0127 minThe Wonder LandSpecial Announcement: New Course - Uncovery UnleashedAmanda talks about her upcoming course Uncovery Unleashed starting May 16th. You are invited! Visit https://www.uncoveryspace.com/courses-copy for details and to sign up.2024-04-2401 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 53: The HomecomingJoin our Patreon:
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How do we deal with worry, fear, anxiety? Amanda and Alex explore the ironic answer to this that seems to counter act our conditioning about how we learn to “deal”. The separation between Me and My feelings is a big clue that is uncovered in this episode. Listen in and explore what may be welcomed home that may have been previously banished at your doorstep….and keeps knocking.
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What we resist persists - but what persists is a story, not the actual feeling or emotion
The only things that can be repetitive is stories and concepts - nothing else stands still
We spoke about the feeling of familiar - now looking into the feeling of resisting
Resistance IS a feeling that we can
The feeling of resistance full stop
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Do you feel like you battle between what you or things are supposed to look like, and the feelings that come up when they don’t match the mind’s image?
Amanda and Alex explore this phenomena and how it turns out not to be a flaw that needs correction, but a portal out of the merry-go-round of seeking and confusion.
“You" and “your feelings" are the same phenomenon.
No wonder they are hard to isolate and control.” Michael Ma...2024-04-1021 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 48: The Tyranny of Being GoodBecome a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TheWonderLandPodcast
So much of our suffering comes from striving for arbitrary ideals such as “being good” and "being happy". In this episode Amanda and Alex explore what this “being good” goal is all about and the freedom that comes from untethering our lives from these learned ideals
2024-03-2025 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 46: What if Nothing Changes?In this episode Amanda and Alex explore the dynamic of living a life where our “habits” of thought and behavior never change. Without the shiny promise of how great life will be once we start/stop (insert habit or behavior) would we approach our relationship with it and with ourselves differently?2024-03-0624 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 43: The Holographic UniverseHold onto your seats as Amanda and Alex dive into the theory of the holographic universe. Exploring experiments in quantum physics as well as a puzzling outcome to an experiment of the way we seemingly react to a world “out there”. Listen in as we see how this is at all relevant to living more freely and with even more awe of The Wonder Land2024-02-1422 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 42: Wake UpAlex and Amanda explore the concept of "waking up"
"The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up."
Jed McKenna
What if the only thing keeping us from waking up is our expectations of what it should be like?
What is waking up is not a big event? What if it is subtle and immediate yet indescribably profound?
“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and ne...2024-02-0720 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 41: Beautiful MelancholiaListen in as Amanda and Alex explore experience that seems to come as a result of noticing that everything arises and dissolves all on its own. When the longing to be different, better, and get to a next place collapses we can see that only the longing remains; but it’s whole and complete in itself. Perhaps the unseen belief that there is someone or something making it all happen or not happen in imaginary separation is what hurts so much. Can you sense a soft, quiet, bittersweet melancholia in your experience? What a wonder that is!2024-01-3119 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 40: Hopelessness is the thing with feathersIf you are feeling in a dark place
Ask for help
You are loved
You are lived
We need you
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Alex and Amanda explore the concept of hopelessness and its seeming opposite - hope
Hope as a projection of who we thought we were and where we though we were headed vs hopelessness as the losing of the continuity and trajectory of that person we imagined we were becoming.
Hope time tr...2024-01-2424 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 38: Sticks and StonesAlex and Amanda explore the voice or murmur that seems to play in the background.
The music score of our experience that is often negative and rarely helpful.
Alex and Amanda explore how universal and generic these stories and judgements are which begs they question: who is it that these judgements refer to? 2024-01-1023 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 37: Through the Looking-GlassAlex and Amanda explore how Through the Looking Glass describes the experience of seeing that we are a fluid thoughtstream, without edges…where before there was an illusion of a solid ME gazing out into a solid world….now there can be a softening of all the edges and we find ourselves falling through the looking glass of thought. Falling freely as we always have been.
“You are a collage of memories struggling against ideas.
You are the tension between the conceptual storm on the outside and the sublime quiescence in the center.
Y...2024-01-0325 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 35: How StrangeAmanda and Alex explore how strange it is to be alive2023-12-2021 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 33: The ShiningHow often do you find yourself lost in predictions of the future and rumblings of the past?
Amanda and Alex explore the phenomena of a mind preoccupied with this conceptual maze that seems to lead us nowhere. How can we come to realize there is another way to experience ourselves?
Listen in to see how we can awaken now to a wonderland where programming and conditioned ideas can return to their rare usefulness rather than being a map for what’s arising now.
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Amanda's web...2023-12-0616 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 32: The CauldronThe Cauldron is a metaphor for the experience of sprinkling little ideas and inspirations into the void of the unknown—the cauldron where we don’t know what will transpire, but with a certain degree of playfulness and curiosity we are enchanted by the happenings that we have no control over.
“Web of thought spins itself into this dream world and we are its enchantment.” Nancy Neithercut
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Amanda's website: ...2023-11-2921 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 31: The Spider in the WebExploring the idea of the spider in the web- what is this phenomenon that takes ownership of feelings, thoughts, experiences…the very web of life itself?
The spider, when identified in as our selves, elicits the impulse to resist, push away, or bring in what looks like the better web to weave.
What would it be like to recognize the spider as simply the weaving of the web, rather than separate and troublesome?
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Interested in working with us...2023-11-2220 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 30: Glorious NonsenseDoes the mind’s function to make sense of things give us an illusion of being in control?
What happens when nonsense is made? Does that make us feel out of control?
We explore in this episode how sense and control seem to be inextricably linked, and how by noticing this phenomena, we have the capacity to embrace the impulse to make sense of things without added suffering if it all goes awry!
Get in touch!
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Interested in workin...2023-11-1523 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 29: Get Lost“In a place called Lost, strange things are found.”
The Lost Bookshop
What does it mean to be or feel lost?
The deconstruction of the story into its sensed parts (including thinking) with no assumed continuity or cause and effect.
The connotation of "being lost" is that of being disoriented and that this is a negative thing. Yet it is often the orientation of knowing and of imagining a certain outcome or future where our suffering comes from.
Get in touc...2023-11-0816 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 28: Where is the Present?Let’s explore this idea of “being present, or being in the now”- what does this mean?? Why does it seem like a useful pointer until it smolders on the burn pile?
· The concept of now and “the present moment” seems to be a facet of the kaleidoscope of attention. It FEELS like one can direct attention, but who is doing that? Where is the mechanism that allows that to feel this way??
· What entails a “present moment” separate from a past or future moment? Why is it preferable to create a place called Now- is it bette...2023-11-0119 minThe Wonder LandEpisdode 27: The SpiralGet in touch!
podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com
Nothing happens "again"
As we move through experiences there may be a perceived familiarity in the oneness and non-duality that seems to underlay our day to day "reality"
Nature exhibits the shape of spirals: shells, galaxies, and even our very own experience of being human
The Spiral points to a deeper different seeing that clarifies a question we didn’t even know we had and as all recognition it uses our past experiences as a guide
E...2023-10-2520 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 26: What Are You Afraid Is True?Amanda and Alex explore an experience of going into a narrative that was old and repeating…
The inquiry appeared: “what am I afraid is true here? “
By saying those fears aloud, they immediately dissolve and their nature is revealed- as thoughts/story…absurdities.
This inquiry has a powerful impact on penetrating the outer crust of fear where the undefined is assumed to be no-man’s land.2023-10-1822 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 25: Dream FatigueThis is a concept that culminated from talking to clients: When the dream of separation gets so concentrated and dense. Where the swirl of selfing takes on a main role for what seems like ever.
The system will fatigue – not just from the energy expended to try to escape, but from the deep fatigue from expending energy into a world that does not actually exist outside of the imaginary landscape.
What are some example of this concept experience?
· Thoughtstorms that feel old and repetitive
· Unanswerable questions concerning the nature of one’s life- whe...2023-10-1118 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 24: Self-Help Baggage Claim“Self-fulfilling prophecies occur when a prediction brings about its own fulfillment. In layman’s terms, that means that if you believe something to be true, you’ll act as if it were true. And your actions double down on your prediction to make it a reality. It’s kind of a vicious cycle.”
Cleveland Clinic
- Self-help concepts and ideas often provide explanations to life’s mysterious and unknowable workings.
- These concepts can be soothing and helpful yet very often can become restricting.
In his episode we are exploring some common c...2023-10-0420 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 23: Goldilocks in WonderlandEP 23
“How long did we wait for our lives to begin? Believing that everything had to be 'just right', so we could finally relax
When you least expect it, when all hope is gone, when you realize that tale will never get pinned on the donkey, when you realize that all the ladders in the world will never reach the moon, when you're tired of trying to catch the wind, kiss your reflection in the moonlit pond, that it was simply a misconception that you were in charge of the stage door, and had to tu...2023-09-2719 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 22: What do you Expect?-Looking at the “yes, buts” and expectations that hold exceptions about what this is, what you are and how “this” should feel/look
Interested in working with us? Check out our websites:
Amanda's website : https://www.uncoveryspace.com/
Alex's website: https://canaimacoaching.com/
“You are the joy of simply being awareness aware that it is aware. Right now......you are that......It is only your expectation of a different condition that blocks your view.” MM
“It sounds like you are expecting or waiting for something to h...2023-09-2017 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 21: The VaultWhat is the Vault?
What is in the vault?
Learned connects and frameworks for how the world works that create what we call our reality or "how the world works" from our vantage points.
Some common ones:
Having more money is better than not
Being skinny is better
We should always try to be happy
We need love to live
Concepts/beliefs that tend to be drivers of behavior and story. The key ring...2023-09-1322 minThe Wonder LandAnnouncements: Fall Courses!Hello Wonderlings!
This is Alex and I have a couple of exciting announcements –
Amanda Jones will be coaching during the 6 week course - Little School of Big Change this Fall. The course begins this Monday September 11th.
Enrollment closes on Thursday September 14th and enrollment info is below:
www.dramyjohnson.com
Coach Becky Gagnon and I will be leading a 4 week course starting Thursday Oct 5th called “Who do you think you are?” where we will be exploring the role of our id...2023-09-0902 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 20: What is Real?First, we have to acknowledge that Real and Unreal are words, concepts, thought. So we need to ask what are the parameters we are using to define Real and Unreal?
Is it Real because I can see it, taste it, touch it, feel it?
Is it Unreal because it seems to only exist in thought? Is Real and Unreal not thought as well?
Where is the boundary between Real and Unreal?
How does this particular exploration help us? What could this revelation free us from?
Interested in w...2023-09-0621 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 19: Knowing, Insights, and Truth
The misunderstanding that insight is precious, an “only if you’re lucky” phenomena…a thing that is lost or gained, a brick on the road to OZ.
Knowing and insights as the currency of engaging in this inquiry can become a heavy burden
"The truth is simple. If it were complicated, everyone would understand it" Walt Whitman
What is knowing and how do we know?
Jed Mckenna excerpt:
“When we start looking at what we really know and how we...2023-08-3020 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 18: The PromiseWhat promise may be hidden in the swirling thoughtstorm that seems to circle around us? Let’s explore what The Promise is and how we can inquire into it, revealing the phenomena of inseparable thinker and thought.
Interested in working with us? Check out our websites:
Amanda's website : https://www.uncoveryspace.com/
Alex's website: https://canaimacoaching.com/
Quotes:
“It's a long and lonely road across the vast desert dream when you don't know what you want or where you are going
And all sign p...2023-08-2321 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 17: The Critic in Your Head has a Message for YouIs the critic in our heads really after us because it thinks we are not good enough?
What if the critic is our biggest cheerleader? A delusional set of expectations of a better version of ourselves the ego, the self, believes possible. A conditioned response to keep moving towards an imagined place or state of perfection.
Inspired by Rick Rubin's The Creative Act book, this episode explores what is this critic and are our assumptions of its intentions and motives part of how it hides and persists in our...2023-08-1619 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 16: There is No Such Thing As Change (and All There is IS Change)EP 16: There’s No Such Thing as Change (And All There is is Change)
“The attempt to change your behavior becomes the behavior that defines you.” MM
What is change?
The way the brain seems to be conditioned to notice change and apparent non-change.
How Time seems to be the bedrock underlying the mind’s determination of “change”
So what is really going on? What is this elusive concept and why when it is applied to the self-idea do we suffer from it or yearn for it?...2023-08-0922 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 15: TimeEP 15 Time
“The mind wants to dissect time and space to see how the mechanism works. Little pieces of life strewn all over the place. Removed from their symphony.”-
- Michelle Annette
Exploring conditioned/learned ideas like “time is precious”, time is to be rationed, etc.
How do these seemingly baked in ideas cause suffering and frustration?
We don’t ever experience “time”. Do you feel like your age? The dream-like quality of memory…even one minute ago.
Time isn’t the container of experience; it is the content/line of story (story...2023-08-0226 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 14: The Cadence of AlivenessEp 14 The Cadence of Aliveness
Opening Quote
"What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy" Alan Watts
“All this time you have been searching in someone else’s illusory world for a way to understand your own.” MM
What if this (whatever...2023-07-2622 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 13: The Dragon StoryEp13 The Dragon Story
Sharing the Dragon Story that was shared with Amanda by Michael Neill in the very beginning of her awakening. This powerful parable broke everything open in terms of the radical realization that suffering was not coming from habits, addictions, preoccupations.
The story is in Amanda's book Uncovery
“We drew the dragon and then started building the castle to protect ourselves from it.” MN
“You spin and spin and spin and spin. Chasing after rainbows chasing after dreams chasing aft...2023-07-1923 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 12: The CrashesEp12 The Crashes
Opening Quote:
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Soren Kierkegaard
Exploring the phenomena of a “setback” based on a story of “oh no here I am again”.
This conversation/exploration has the tendency to create a set of expectations that can only be exposed when they are not met—and how that is a GOOD thing.
“She was enthralled by the arrows shot at the moon. Until some of them started coming i...2023-07-1222 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 11: What is the Rush?Opening Quote: “No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.” ― Alan Watts
*Exploring the urgent seeking energy for things to be different, for a better, next moment or experience
*Questioning the need...2023-07-0516 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 10: The Phenomena of ThoughtWhat is Thought?
* Exploring what thought is, how it creates reality and what use is it to realize this.
*How the phenomena of thought is like disappearing ink and what the ‘Mother of all thought’ is.
*How thought acts like a razor to slice up experience and create separation
*Waking up to the fact of thought is groundbreaking, and what are some of the obstacles that can appear during that process.
The Wonder Land is a deep dive into questioning what has been learned and believed about reality, suffering, and awakening. Join coaches Alex Linares and Amanda Jones as they drop...2023-06-2826 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 9: The SandcastleA fun exploration using the metaphor of a sandcastle to describe the self identity and how it is constantly re-constructed after the ocean tide comes in and destroys it.
The realization that a more hard-packed sandcastle, with even more turrets and moats will not prevent the tide coming in…and that when we see we are the ocean and not the castle, we can play in the sand of impermanence.1
The Wonder Land is a deep dive into questioning what has been learned and believed about reality, suffering, and awakening. Join coaches Al...2023-06-2122 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 8: What is So Great About Being Happy?Opening Quote:
"It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while." Mark Twain
Exploring the realization that we really don’t know and aren’t able to consistently define or describe “happiness”. That fact is a fascinating curiosity when this concept has been indoctrinated as being the goal, pursuit, and the ultimate achievement.
The self idea was not programmed to be “happy”, it’s programmed to search for “happiness”.
What is beyond the incessant seeking for happiness? This exploration le...2023-06-1426 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 7: Beliefs: What are They and Can We Change Them?What has been learned and not questioned about what they are?
Why does it feel like they are MY beliefs?
Beliefs are thought-concepts/words/ideas that seem to have more substance, more solidity. And the impression of substance and solidity seem to be the ingredients the mind uses to determine “Real” or “True”.
There is a sneaking suspicion, an intuited feeling that what is going on is permanently fleeting and has no edges to hold.
Beliefs are like an imaginary line drawn in mid-air.
Beliefs as crystallized knowledge units
Beliefs seem to be necessary to navigate conceptua...2023-06-0727 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 6: The Burn PileWhat is the Burn Pile?
When do concepts and ideas lose their usefulness and how do we know?
The funny way an idea or concept starts to look confusing or we feel we need to understand it better or differently so it fits into the new landscape that is appearing…what if it’s already headed to the burn pile?
Handholds: what they are, how they appear and dissolve on their own.
Handholds are mistaken to be needed when there is resistance to what is AS it is.
We feel...2023-05-3122 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 5: The Map is Not the TerritoryWhat does "The Map is Not the Territory" mean? An abstraction derived from something or our reaction to it is not the thing itself
· Exploring the mental map/conceptual overlay that is laid upon “reality” (territory)
· How I believe things and myself are (map) and how it is actually experienced (territory)
· What can happen when the map is seen AS the territory: limitation, confusion, seeking, etc.
· We may live in concepts of success and happiness but concepts don’t satify
· Exploring this apparent discrepancy can reveal that the two are inseparab...2023-05-2419 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 4: You are not Afraid of the UnknownIn this episode Amanda and Alex explore the theme of "being afraid of the unknown" to uncover some inconsistencies in that mind's narrative. What the mind calls the "unknown" is found to be all the thoughts (images, sounds, and sensations) that create worse case scenarios and the mind's tendency to catastrophize.
· Is it possible that the unknown and uncertainty are not the phenomena we are afraid of?
· What IS the mind afraid of then?
· The rules and requirements that fill in the blanks of the unknown
· Realizing that what we are afra...2023-05-1724 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 3: Plato's Allegory of the Cave· The Allegory of The Cave:
In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world.
· We explore how the shadows on the cave wall are synonymous with our experience of thought
· ...2023-05-1025 minThe Wonder LandEpisode 2: What is the Wonder Land?The wasteland, which is a landscape that some of us get caught in, is based on false concepts and beliefs that have been conditioned. For example, “life is hard,” “life is a struggle,” “you have to fight,” and so on. In this episode, Amanda and Alex explain that if the landscape is populated with those ideas, we feel like everything grey—along with some flukes of brightness.
Today’s discussion involves:
· Our capacity to see that the world hasn’t actually changed, rather the way that our mind identifies it has.
· The false idea that we have to ex...2023-05-0328 min
The Wonder LandEpisode 1: The Feeling that Something is "Off"Welcome to the first episode of The Wonder Land, hosted by Amanda Jones and Alex Linares. Today we’ll be talking about the exploration that we go through in our lives. For many people, it always seems like there’s a void that needs to be filled; like something is off. Why do we feel compelled to keep seeking for answers?
Today’s discussion involves:
· Two quotes to outline what the goal of this podcast is.
· What drives the seeking and different modalities we go through in our lives.
· Understanding that the belie...2023-04-2929 min