Awakening Now

About 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

Publisher

Ilona Ciunaite

Category

education · religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Aug 2023

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

143 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Claiming Your Magic with Jeffrey Smith

   Send me your thoughts in a Text Message What if you could change deeply held patterns without years of working through them? What if feeling safe could open the door to possibilities you never imagined? In this episode of Awakening Now, I speak with Jeffrey M. Smith, best known for his work exposing the risks of genetically modified foods. But there's another side to Jeffrey's life that many people don't know about. After decades of exploring consciousness, including approximately 50,000 hour...

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   3 Oct 2026

   What Remains When You Stop Believing Your Stories? with Giotto De Filippi.

   Send me your thoughts in a Text Message What if the version of yourself you're trying to become is the very thing standing in the way? In this conversation, Ilona speaks with Giotto De Filippi about enlightenment as realization rather than achievement. Giotto walks through the beliefs that quietly run our lives, the idea that things should have gone differently, the sense of being in control, the identity we build and defend, and what it looks like to stop taking those stories as absolute tru...

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   19 Sept 2026

   Can Sound Take You Beyond The Mind With Sam Kukathas

   Send me your thoughts in a Text Message What happens when someone who spent years questioning everything stops arguing and starts listening. In this episode, I sit down with Sam Kukathas, a former academic philosopher who spent over a decade as a skeptic before finding he could work with the human voice as a kind of frequency, bringing people back into their own body and their own knowing. When I ask him what he actually does, he stops explaining and offers to show me instead. We talk about r...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

7 ratings

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