What Is Awakening? | Awakening, Explained Ep. 1 (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

How to wake up from the dream that we are separate and destined to suffer. This is episode 1 in the series Awakening, Explained with my guest Dr. Angelo DiLullo. Angelo is a practicing anesthesiologist and author of the book "Awake: It's Your Turn." Get Angelo's book and his awesome meditation app here: https://books.simplyalwaysawake.com/ Full transcript, links, audio podcast, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-1 Full interview series on Awakening: https://zdoggmd.locals.com/content/vi... Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Key Topics: 0:00 Intro Why you should (or shouldn’t) watch this video about awakening 6:00 Introduction to Dr. Angelo DiLullo and his book Awake: It’s Your Turn 11:00 Who might be interested in awakening and why 15:23 True awakening vs. a mystical (or peak) experience 18:02 Suffering and anxiety as an impetus for Angelo’s awakening 25:40 Dr. Z’s brush with awakening (a peak experience) 30:12 Disclaimers and warnings, with consciousness expansion can come contraction (temporarily) 35:23 About resistance 45:00 More about the unique aspects of Angelo’s book 52:40 First stage of awakening/barrier to entry: realizing it’s possible 1:00:00 Mechanics of awakening /what is awakening 1:10:00 Post awakening process and deepening of realization 1:14:30 Dr. Z’s first post-pandemic in-person talk: anger, shame, and handling emotion 1:20:50 Children and emotion 1:24:00 Story of a recent awakening 1:30:50 Enlightening, THEN going to medical school 1:32:47 Spirituality and burnout in medicine 1:38:00 Working with strong emotion #SpiritualAwakening #EnlightenmentExplained #ADoctorExplains