Paul Constant Interview

Shake up your preconceptions about spiritual awakening and enlightenment by joining my guest, Paul Constant.  Paul is a frequent presenter at TAT Foundation retreats, as well as holding events of his own on the East Coast.

I hope you find this interview of Paul Constant inspiring and informative.

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Selected Links and Notes from this Episode

• TAT Forum articles by Paul Constant. [02:14]
• The beginning of Paul’s spiritual search. [03:00]
• “Waking Sleep” and Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous. [04:06]
• The Fourth Way by P.D. Ouspensky. [04:40]
• Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti [06:34]
• The two camps of seekers: those drawn to the mystical and those repulsed by life. [06:50]
• Studying psychic phenomena. [08:07]
• Being raised a Catholic. [09:47]
• On the value of a wholesome life. [11:00]
• Feeling the need to meet other people involved in the spiritual life. [13:49]
• Meeting Richard Rose. [15:50]
• Reaching a spiritual plateau. [21:10]
• The value and beauty of the spiritual journey. [24:30]
• Friendship as one of the messages of the TAT Foundation. [26:01]
• Spiritual realization happening in stages. [30:14]
• Paul’s realization of Nothingness. [32:06]
• The simplicity of the answer could not be accepted. [37:23]
• Meeting a Shakti-oriented teacher awakened Paul’s “Tin-Man” heart. [38:22]
• Paul’s last teacher, who systematically undercut every concept about enlightenment. That Grand Mal Enlightenment is another concept. [41:30]
• Becoming Everything. [44:37]
• Is there an end to spiritual seeking? [49:12]
• Shifting into awareness versus observing thoughts. [55:25]
• Life is the contact between our true nature and the relative. [1:06:00]
• The most common blocks to achievement. [1:17:43]
• Rapport retreats. [1:23:30]
• “I’m not a teacher. I don’t go in with the attitude that I have something that you don’t.”[1:26:35]
• Psychology of the Observer by Richard Rose [1:29:55]
• It’s Time to Wake Up Now by Don Oakley [1:31:30]
• I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj [1:32:20]
• Books by the TAT Foundation [1:33:00]
• Brain book [1:33:40]
• The film Closer Than Close [1:34:35]
• The dramatic change in relationship to people. [1:36:00]
• Come to a TAT meeting. [1:38:50]
• Paul’s website SearchWithin.org [1:39:50]
• Remembering as a spiritual practice to counter the mind’s ability to forget. [1:41:56]