Awakening Now
Join Ilona Ciunaite for honest conversations and guided explorations into the nature of self, consciousness, and awakening.
This podcast is for those who are looking not just to understand awakening, but to see it — directly, in their own experience.
Each episode invites you to slow down, inquire, and notice awareness itself.
Through guided Deep Looking sessions and dialogues with teachers, authors, and fellow explorers, Ilona opens the door to what many call spiritual awakening — seeing through the illusion of self, and discovering peace that doesn’t come and go.
You’ll explore:
– Self-inquiry and direct experience
– Deep Looking and seeing beyond the mind
– The process of awakening and integration
– Presence, awareness, and the end of seeking
Ilona Ciunaite is a guide, author, and co-creator of the Liberation Unleashed community. For over 14 years, she has been helping seekers all over the world discover freedom through direct experience.
If you are ready to look within, this podcast offers clear guidance and grounded conversation — simple, sincere, and free of spiritual jargon
Awakening Now
Latest Episodes
Seeing Through the Self Illusion: 8-Week Experience
In this episode, I speak about the upcoming 8-week guided experience and what it is really about.The enrollement is open untill the 20th of April. More info here.
Where Are You Looking From?
Today I share a very simple way of looking at experience.Using a drawing of two lines, we explore what is here in direct experience.One line represents life as it is happening — movement, thoughts, sensations, everything that appe...
What Happened to the Original Awakening Message? with Ananta Kranti
In this episode of Awakening Now, I speak with Ananta Kranti about awakening and what the word actually points to.When Ananta first began sharing this message, awakening was described very simply — waking up from the dream of be...
I Psychoanalyzed an AI… Something Uncanny Happened, with Robert Saltzman.
In this episode of Awakening Now, Ilona Ciunaite speaks with psychotherapist and author Robert Saltzman about awakening, the illusion of a separate self, and what actually changes when the sense of a personal controller is questioned.<...
There Is No Mind — So Why Can’t You Stop Thinking?
If there is no mind, why does it feel so loud?In this episode I look at what we call “the mind” as a living stream of thoughts appearing. Images, commentary, expectations about awakening, ideas about how this should feel and what should ...
Fan Mail
thank you for this episode Ilona. Before listening I was concerned about my flip-flopping amongst teachers/teachings. Now it makes perfect sense. I resonate with Pierce's exploratory nature! You and your work are a gift to the World.
Houston, Texas