Ep105: Simply Always Awake - Dr Angelo Dilullo
In this interview, I am joined by Dr Angelo Dilullo, anaesthesiologist, spiritual teacher, and author of ‘Awake! It’s your Turn’.
We learn how a profound existential angst in childhood and adolescence propelled Angelo into spiritual practice and, at the age of 24, precipitated a radical spiritual awakening.
Angelo details the practices, shifts, and consequences of his awakening, and shares the process of coming face to face with deeply held conditioning.
Angelo also discusses certainty and religious experience, and reveals why he is absolutely certain that not only can anyone wake up, but that anyone who wants to will.
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Topics include:
00:00 – Intro
00:45 – Profound existential suffering during childhood and adolescence
05:44 – Transcendental Meditation and a life-changing encounter
09:56 – Angelo’s awakening
14:11 – More on Angelo’s teenage existential angst
19:42 – Anyone can wake up
20:20 – Awake nature and Angelo’s certainty
24:54 – Is certainty a valid basis for truth claims?
31:11 – Certainty = truth?
41:14 – More on Angelo’s pre-awakening practice and awakening experience
45:26 – Past life recall and disappearance of the self structure
50:31 – Sampling Zen
54:07 – More details on Angelo’s past life experience
55:20 – Consequences of awakening
59:18 – Sexuality after awakening
1:12:08 – Agency and motivation after awakening
1:21:51 – Facing conditioning, behavioural guard rails, & people pleasing
1:35:15 – Authenticity and socialisation
1:44:26 – Differentiating Angelo’s truth claims
1:54:34 – How Angelo began to teach
2:02:49 – Paradox, objective claims, and moving beyond concept
To find out more about Dr Angelo Dilullo, visit:
www.simplyalwaysawake.com
Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James