Deep Transformation Podcast: Self - Society - Spirit

12/26/2025

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): "...So, that's why the more we are loved initially, the more we grow up with basic trust."

🎙️ Into the Absolute: At One with the Radiant Source of All, with A. H. Almaas (Part 1 of 2)

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Trailer Transcript:

It's not like trusting somebody. It's trusting reality. And it is inherent in our soul, really, because it comes from true nature. We sort of know we have a true nature without knowing it consciously. So that's why the little infant is completely trusting. I mean, if you don't hit it, it's fine. It's happy... (John: They haven't read the news yet!) ...enjoying and all of that. Only later, when it knows about all the trouble in the world, that trust... (laughs) But trust is connected to love, too. The inherent nature is good, and that goodness expresses itself as what people call love or heart. So, that's why the more we are loved initially, the more we grow up with basic trust.

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12/24/2025

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): "...If there's no flowering, there's no true realization."

🎙️ Into the Absolute: At One with the Radiant Source of All, with A. H. Almaas (Part 1 of 2)

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📺 Watch the FULL video conversations or 🎧 listen to the FULL audio only interviews of the A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series:

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Trailer Transcript:

If there's no flowering, there's no true realization. I mean, the spiritual path is to be a true human being, expressing the spiritual quality that a potential human being has of heart, mind, and everything and functioning. So, we're both generous and selfless and kind and we could do it in our teaching or in just living our life. We live like that—a life of authenticity and spontaneity and naturalness.

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12/23/2025

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12/20/2025

“The absolute itself is majesty, and the universe that emerges is beauty.”

🎙️ Episode 213
Into the Absolute: At One with the Radiant Source of All, with A. H. Almaas (Part 1 of 2)

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The 16th dialogue of the A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series is about the absolute, the source dimension of all manifestation, deeper than any other dimension, the vastness beyond vastness. In Part 1, Hameed gives a wonderful description of the majesty and the blackness of the absolute, and tells the story of when he first experienced being one with the absolute himself. When Roger Walsh asks him, what are the doorways to the absolute, Hameed talks about mystical poverty and also the way of the heart. “When the true beloved shines through the heart, it’s an amazing ecstasy… a mindblowing kind of beauty,” he says. He discusses the fear people often feel as they approach cessation of all perception, and the need for the basic trust we were born with (which often gets clobbered as we grow up) to proceed. What changes after an experience of the absolute? John Dupuy asks. If one abides in this realization, it cleanses the soul of all impurities, and our action embodies the virtues, Hameed answers. Recorded October 9, 2025.

12/17/2025

“Opening to the darkness and the pain is the gift of this time. We are all one; we cannot continue to separate ourselves into our comfortable silos.”

🎙️ Exposing Injustice & Suffering in Palestine & Around the World with Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo

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Exposing Injustice & Suffering in Palestine & Around the World with Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo“There is no spiritual work without trauma work.”----❤️...

12/15/2025

Zaya Benazzo: "...This is where we have to strip those labels and really see that if we really believe in interconnectedness, in oneness, if our brothers and sisters are suffering, we're suffering too because we're connected! Just from that level, we need to turn towards the pain and be with the pain. Even though, we can't solve it, we cannot look away."

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🎙️ Exposing Injustice & Suffering in Palestine & Around the World with Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo (Part 2 of 2)

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Trailer Transcript:

You probably have noticed the silence in most spiritual communities, and they're like, "Oh, that's politics. We don't want to deal with politics." I think that goes also to the very essence of the issue of our times that we have separated what we call justice, politics, spirituality, ecology. They're kind of silos that, "Oh, I work on ecology. Now I do politics," and it's not like this. This is where we have to strip those labels and really see that if we really believe in interconnectedness, in oneness, if our brothers and sisters are suffering, we're suffering too because we're connected! Just from that level, we need to turn towards the pain and be with the pain. Even though, we can't solve it, we cannot look away.

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12/13/2025

“Opening to the darkness and the pain is the gift of this time. We are all one; we cannot continue to separate ourselves into our comfortable silos.”

🎙️ Episode 212
Exposing Injustice & Suffering in Palestine & Around the World with Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo (Part 2 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/exposing-injustice-suffering-palestine-worldwide-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo/

In Part 2 of the compelling conversation with SAND founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, the discussion turns to the making of their 2021 documentary film about the tragic injustices inflicted upon Palestinians in the West Bank. Where Olive Trees Weep is a very beautiful, heartbreaking, and eye opening film we highly recommend to our listeners. “How do we stop the violence?” asks co-host John Dupuy. No one knows the answer, but “each of us can find a way to alleviate the suffering in Palestine now as we grapple with the question of how to stop the wounds that continue to bleed,” Zaya and Maurizio contend. “We can stand for justice, food, and human rights, recognize the dignity of Palestinians and fight for their freedom.”

Spiritual communities are mostly quiet on this issue, Zaya mentions. But “it’s not a political issue,” she says, “it’s a human issue—we are losing our humanity. If we believe in oneness, we need to face our discomfort and turn towards the pain, towards the suffering. Discomfort is the very essence of the issue on a psychological and archetypal level,” Zaya adds. Zaya and Maurizio are also working on a remarkable series of films called The Eternal Song, an ongoing project to bring forth teachings from Indigenous communities around the world. To date, they have released The Eternal Song, Mauri: The Vital Essence of All Beings, and most recently If an Owl Calls Your Name. Thank you, Zaya and Maurizio, for contributing your gifts in these stunning films, so poignant and important in these disconnected, turbulent times, and for sharing your extraordinary wisdom with our Deep Transformation listeners. Recorded October 16, 2025.

12/13/2025

Maurizio Benazzo: "...then at the end, we're going to show the movie about Palestine. People cannot deny that this is a settler colonial project with the same genocidal intent that has been done all over the world in the past few hundred years or even more. But then, October 7 happened..."

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🎙️ Exposing Injustice & Suffering in Palestine & Around the World with Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo (Part 2 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/exposing-injustice-suffering-palestine-worldwide-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo

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Trailer Transcript:

Maurizio: The movie was part also of the idea of going around the world and make films about the impact of colonization. And the idea was, in our mind, oh yes, we go now, after Palestine, we're going to go to Brazil, to New Zealand, to Greenland, to Africa, to the United States. We'll go all over the world and we'll show these movies about what colonization is and the pattern. And then at the end, we're going to show the movie about Palestine. People cannot deny that this is a settler colonial project with the same genocidal intent that has been done all over the world in the past few hundred years or even more. But then, October 7 happened, and we find ourselves with this material in hand. We said, we cannot hold with this. We have to take it out. This document.

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12/09/2025

Zaya Benazzo: "We're never healed. Healing never ends. It's a lifelong journey."

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🎙️ Where Science, Spirituality & Indigenous Wisdom Meet: The Remarkable Contributions of Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo (Part 1 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/science-spirituality-indigenous-wisdom-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo/

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Trailer Transcript:

Zaya: We're never healed. Healing never ends. It's a lifelong journey. This is why we have this human body. This is why we're here. So that's also a good way to counteract modernity because modernity is like, okay, if you do these three things, you're going to be fixed. On the other side, you can actually start living. It's like, no, it doesn't work that way. We need to live now with the pain, with the wounds and keep loving life as it is, in a way, which is not always easy. And the other big learning is that trauma is not individual. You know, we have our trauma that started in childhood, but now we know trauma is intergenerational, is collective, is historical. No trauma work can really be holistic without including the history that we all carry. And they're very unique.

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12/09/2025

Zaya Benazzo: "...there's no spiritual work without trauma work. They're one and the same. "

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🎙️ Where Science, Spirituality & Indigenous Wisdom Meet: The Remarkable Contributions of Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo (Part 1 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/science-spirituality-indigenous-wisdom-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo/

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

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Trailer Transcript:

Zaya: We do feel like there's no spiritual work without trauma work. They're one and the same. I think that awareness now is everywhere. We see it.

Maurizio: Yeah, and not only there is no spiritual work, period, there is life. Every breath we take is spiritual. The way we buy milk instead of—everything is spiritual work. Everything we do is spiritual. If you start separating spiritual... "Oh, this is spiritual. This is social. This is politics. This is ecology. This is..." Those divisions are—you know.

Zaya: Initially a lot of the spiritual teachers at SAND did not want to deal with the human pain. It was like, let's just—You know, spiritual bypassing. I'm sure you've had conversations on that.

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12/05/2025

“There is no spiritual work without trauma work.”

🎙️ Episode 211
Where Science, Spirituality & Indigenous Wisdom Meet: The Remarkable Contributions of Filmmakers Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo (Part 1 of 2)

🎧 https://deeptransformation.io/science-spirituality-indigenous-wisdom-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo

Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned.

Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo are not only the founders of the longstanding and highly regarded Science & Nonduality Conference (SAND), but also brilliant filmmakers, producing stunning documentaries about the injustice and suffering occurring in Palestine and elsewhere, as well as films that feature the eternal wisdom of elders from Indigenous communities around the world. Zaya and Maurizio are clearly passionate about their work, and co-host Roger Walsh points out they do a beautiful job of intertwining the personal, professional, and spiritual into an offering that meets the needs of our time. As Maurizio says, “There is no spiritual work. Period. Everything is spiritual work! It’s life.”

In Part 1 of this episode, lively and inspired, Zaya and Maurizio share what they’ve learned about life, spirituality, trauma, healing, guidance, and the deep-time perspective of the Maori. They relate the trajectory of SAND’s evolution from featuring male-dominated nondual teachings to include an understanding of trauma, somatic healing, feminine, earth-oriented teachings, and Indigenous wisdom. “Healing never ends; it’s a lifelong journey—there’s no modern solution that will ‘fix’ you,” Zaya tells us. Also, “We are constantly being guided if we just listen.”

In Part 2, Zaya and Maurizio describe the making of their 2021 documentary about the tragic mistreatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, a beautiful, heartbreaking film called Where Olive Trees Weep. Also their film The Eternal Song, an ongoing project to bring forth Indigenous teachings, so valuable and timely for us now in our chaotic, disconnected world. This whole conversation is thought provoking, delightful, profound, paradigm shifting, and inspiring all at once. Recorded October 16, 2025.

12/04/2025

“Be attentive to the inner calling. Inner pleasure far surpasses outer pleasure.”

🎙️ A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series (Dialogue 15)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXrJQAKbM0

A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali): “Be attentive to the inner calling. Inner pleasure far surpasses outer pleasure.”Recorded September 11, 2025.----❤️ Our podcast is...