67 episodes
The Wonder Land Amanda Jones and Alex Linares
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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 down the rabbit hole with weekly explorations and realizations.
We are not medical professionals. As coaches, we are not providing healthcare or medical services or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any physical, mental, or emotional issue or illness.
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Episode 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 disappear.”
— Alan Watts
Alex and Amanda explore how our mind and thought patterns seem to be like ghosts that haunt our lives. The more attention and focus the more real these specters show up in our experience.
And as Alan Watts reminds us, the only reality of a ghost is our fear of it. If we never look under the bed, those monsters are far more real.
Facing head on any feeling that arises challenges the very reality, the very substance we have embued upon it. -
Episode 60: The Portal
Amanda and Alex explore how some experiences in life can have a profound impact on how we see the world
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Episode 59: You are Not Damaged Goods
Alex 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 pure potential...you are missing nothing.” -
Episode 58: Why are You so Certain?
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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
Tao Te Ching – Verse 48
In pursuit of knowledge,
every day something is added.
In the practice of the Tao,
every day something is dropped.
Less and less do you need to force things,
until finally you arrive at non-action.
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
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Episode 57: The Illusion of Adulthood
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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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Alex's website: https://canaimacoaching.com/
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Episode 56: What are You Waiting for?
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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
“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss
Get 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/