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Individual Talks

Hundreds of CSS Sunday talks and retreat teachings (each about 1 hr long) are available online. The talks are organized below by category. Alternatively, you can view them organized from introductory to advanced (designed to follow the sequence of lessons in the distance studies course) or as an iTunes podcast.

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FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

The Five Fundamentals (Set of 5)

First Fundamental: Consciousness Alone Is Absolutely Real

Joel Morwood

9/15/96

68

cd122

Second Fundamental: Ignorance of the Real...

Joel Morwood

10/13/96

63

cd123

Third Fundamental: the End of Suffering...

Joel Morwood

11/10/96

67

cd124

Fourth Fundamental: the Way of Selflessness

Joel Morwood

1/19/97

62

cd125

Fifth Fundamental: Perfect Realization

Joel Morwood

2/9/97

61

cd126

Practicing the Precepts (Set of 4)

Practicing Precepts: 1 of 4

Joel Morwood

9/26/99

71

cd77

Practicing Precepts: 2 of 4

Joel Morwood

11/21/99

68

cd78

Practicing Precepts: 3 of 4

Joel Morwood

12/19/99

78

cd79

Practicing Precepts: 4 of 4

Joel Morwood

1/30/00

64

cd80

The Seven Virtues (Set of 7)

First Virtue: Courage, 1 of 7

Joel Morwood

11/12/95

72

cd183

Second Virtue: Humility, 2 of 7

Joel Morwood

12/10/95

65

cd184

Third Virtue: Justice, 3 of 7

Joel Morwood

1/14/96

66

cd185

Fourth Virtue: Patience, 4 of 7

Joel Morwood

2/25/96

68

cd186

Fifth Virtue: Gratitude, 5 of 7

Joel Morwood

3/10/96

65

cd187

Sixth Virtue: Mercy, 6 of 7

Joel Morwood

4/14/96

46

cd188

Seventh Virtue: Joy, 7 of 7

Joel Morwood

5/12/96

61

cd189

Seven Stages of the Spiritual Path (Set of 7)

One: Awakening of Faith

Joel Morwood

3/9/97

59

cd83

Two: Investigation of Teachings

Joel Morwood

4/27/97

62

cd84

Three: Unification of Self

Joel Morwood

5/11/97

59

cd85

Four: Purification of Mind

Joel Morwood

6/22/97

61

cd86

Five: Illumination of Heart

Joel Morwood

7/13/97

73

cd87

Six: Kenosis

Joel Morwood

7/20/97

69

cd88

Seven: Gnosis

Joel Morwood

8/10/97

69

cd89

Is There Help from Above? (Set of 2)

Is There Help from Above? Part 1 of 2

Joel Morwood

7/25/93

57

cd258

Is There Help from Above? Part 2 of 2

Joel Morwood

7/25/93

55

cd259

Practices of the Night (Set of 2)

Practices of the Night I -- Spiritual Interpretation of Dreams

Joel Morwood

4/19/98

75

cd92

Practices of the Night II -- Meditation in Dreams

Joel Morwood

4/26/98

69

cd93

Purpose of the Spiritual Path

Joel Morwood

10/4/92

37

cd402

The Retreat

Joel Morwood

7/21/96

70

cd109

Mystical Prayer

Joel Morwood

11/23/97

76

cd179

Why Walk a Spiritual Path?

Joel Morwood

6/21/98

77

cd170

Four Principles of the Path

Joel Morwood

11/8/98

74

cd111

Why Morality Matters

Joel Morwood

3/14/99

63

cd127

Anatomy of Awakening

Joel Morwood

8/13/00

75

cd95

Liberating Emotions

Joel & Andrea

1/28/01

79

cd97

Chain of Conditioning

Joel Morwood

7/8/01

77

cd117

Varieties of Mystical Experience

Joel Morwood

2/17/02

67

cd98

Self Inquiry: a Guided Meditation

Joel Morwood

3/24/02

75

cd91

Four Kinds of Practice

Joel Morwood

6/26/05

59

cd400

Introduction to CSS: Mission, Programs, Teachings

Tom McFarlane

9/18/11

55

cd876


ENLIGHTENMENT

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

There Is Only One Enlightenment

Joel Morwood

8/11/91

43

cd267

"My" Enlightenment

Joel Morwood

8/16/92

69

cd226

Enlightenment: A Thirteen Year Perspective

Joel Morwood

8/4/96

69

cd176

Are There Levels of Enlightenment?

Joel Morwood

11/17/96

53

cd177

How Does a Gnostic Live?

Joel Morwood

8/9/98

60

cd180

The Journey In God

Joel Morwood

12/13/98

48

cd137

What's Inside My Head?

Joel Morwood

2/21/99

78

cd112

Three Fruits of Enlightenment

Joel Morwood

8/8/99

62

cd101

Truth Cannot Be Denied

Joel Morwood

8/11/02

65

cd121

Spiritual Death

Joel Morwood

8/10/03

73

cd246

Awakened by Death

Todd Corbett

2/23/05

64

cd374

Direct Pointing

Joel Morwood

8/14/05

62

cd414

Consciousness Unveiled: Fred's Awakening

Fred Chambers

3/29/06

61

cd450

Post-Enlightenment Stories

Joel Morwood

8/10/08

51

cd615

Nothing Attained

Joel Morwood

10/26/08

49

cd622

Enlightenment: a twenty-six year perspective

Joel Morwood

8/9/09

47

cd619

Untying the Knot in the Heart: Matt's Awakening

Matt Sieradski

4/28/10

56

cd649

What is Spiritual Realization?

Matt Sieradski

6/19/11

63

cd873

The Fire God Comes Seeking Fire

Joel Morwood

8/11/19

49


ASPECTS OF PRACTICE

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Inquiry: Talks from the Fall 2006 Retreat

Inquiry #1: Preparation Meditation

Joel Morwood

10/14/06

67

cd478

Inquiry #2: Impermanence and Emptiness

Joel Morwood

10/15/06

61

cd479

Inquiry #3: Causes and Correlations

Joel Morwood

10/15/06

50

cd480

Inquiry #4: Are You a Body?

Joel Morwood

10/16/06

66

cd481

Inquiry #5: Are You Emotions?

Joel Morwood

10/17/06

63

cd482

Inquiry #6: Are You Thoughts or Will?

Joel Morwood

10/18/06

64

cd483

Inquiry #7: Are You the Experiencer?

Joel Morwood

10/19/06

60

cd484

Inquiry #8: Doing Nothing

Joel Morwood

10/20/06

65

cd485

Devotion: Talks from the Fall 2005 Retreat

Devotion #1: Verbal Prayer

Joel Morwood

10/16/05

60

cd416

Devotion #2: Prayer in the Heart

Joel Morwood

10/17/05

62

cd417

Devotion #3: Purifying the Heart

Joel Morwood

10/18/05

64

cd418

Devotion #4: Entering the Spiritual Heart

Joel Morwood

10/19/05

72

cd419

Devotion #5: Unceasing Prayer

Joel Morwood

10/20/05

68

cd420

Devotion #6: Silent Prayer

Joel Morwood

10/21/05

67

cd421

Devotion #7: Doing Nothing

Joel Morwood

10/21/05

60

cd422

Meditation: Talks from the Fall 2003 Retreat

Meditation #1: Concentration Practice

Joel Morwood

10/12/03

68

cd298

Meditation #2: Choiceless Awareness

Joel Morwood

10/13/03

58

cd299

Meditation #3: Liberating Thoughts, Desires, and Aversions

Joel Morwood

10/13/03

57

cd300

Meditation #4: Returning to the Source

Joel Morwood

10/13/03

64

cd301

Meditation #5: Doing Nothing

Joel Morwood

10/13/03

61

cd302

Transforming Emotions: Talks from the Fall 2009 Retreat

Emotions #1: Spacious Awareness

Joel Morwood

10/16/09

69

cd601

Emotions #2: Understanding Emotions

Joel Morwood

10/17/09

69

cd602

Emotions #3: Desire and Aversion

Joel Morwood

10/18/09

62

cd603

Emotions #4: Pride and Envy

Joel Morwood

10/19/09

60

cd604

Emotions #5: Ignorance

Joel Morwood

10/20/09

61

cd605

Emotions #6: True Nature, Part 1

Joel Morwood

10/21/09

62

cd606

Emotions #7: True Nature, Part 2

Joel Morwood

10/22/09

59

cd607

Listening to the Stones: Talks from the Fall 2011 Retreat

Stones #1: Learning to Listen

Joel Morwood

10/8/11

61

cd881

Stones #2: Impermanence

Joel Morwood

10/9/11

58

cd882

Stones #3: Emptiness of Objects

Joel Morwood

10/10/11

56

cd883

Stones #4: Emptiness of Self

Joel Morwood

10/11/11

59

cd884

Stones #5: The Nature of Consciousness Itself

Joel Morwood

10/12/11

59

cd885

Stones #6: Universal Sameness

Joel Morwood

10/13/11

59

cd886

Stones #7: No Goal, No Boundaries

Joel Morwood

10/14/11

59

cd887

Stones #8: The Great Perfection

Joel Morwood

10/15/11

57

cd888

Ego & Egolessness

Joel Morwood

1/12/92

62

cd247

Beyond Good and Evil

Joel Morwood

1/19/92

40

cd248

Precepts & Perfection

Joel Morwood

3/29/92

44

cd249

Who Are You, Really?

Joel Morwood

5/21/92

75

cd403

Passion

Joel Morwood

5/24/92

43

cd244

Fear of Enlightenment

Joel Morwood

6/28/92

61

cd250

Fairness & Forgiveness

Joel Morwood

7/12/92

44

cd251

Gnosis and Dreaming

Joel Morwood

7/19/92

69

cd225

Sex and Sacrament

Joel Morwood

9/20/92

44

cd253

Who Am I?

Joel Morwood

10/25/92

55

cd254

The Left Hand of God

Joel Morwood

11/8/92

52

cd255

Meditation and Decisions

Joel Morwood

1/10/93

55

cd274

Breath of the Buffalo

Joel Morwood

5/16/93

48

cd227

Karma and Compassion

Joel Morwood

9/19/93

60

cd229

Thought

Joel Morwood

12/19/93

73

cd230

Tolerance

Joel Morwood

4/10/94

71

cd232

Beauty

Joel Morwood

4/24/94

80

cd233

Practical Advice for the Path

Joel Morwood

5/8/94

40

cd234

Go as Nothing

Joel Morwood

5/29/94

64

cd236

Gnosis and Compassion

Joel Morwood

7/31/94

68

cd193

The Heart of Yearning

Joel Morwood

9/18/94

70

cd237

Practicing at Work

Joel Morwood

5/28/95

67

cd175

Remember to Remember

Joel Morwood

6/18/95

70

cd190

Reality, Morality, and Illusion

Joel Morwood

10/15/95

69

cd194

What Jesus Taught

Joel Morwood

12/25/95

53

cd195

From "It" to "I": the Experience of God

Joel Morwood

6/30/96

50

cd197

Undertaking a Solo Retreat

Jennifer Knight

12/15/96

73

cd241

Transforming Relationships

Joel Morwood

9/29/96

60

cd108

The Paradox of Self-will

Joel Morwood

2/23/97

47

cd110

Inner Guidance

Joel Morwood

3/16/97

66

cd165

Ladder of Love

Joel Morwood

3/23/97

67

cd166

Here to Learn, Here to Love, Here to Serve

Joel Morwood

9/14/97

59

cd178

The Wisdom of Myth and Dreams

Joel Morwood

5/16/99

49

cd114

Spiritual Warfare

Joel Morwood

5/23/99

63

cd138

Expectations

Joel Morwood

6/27/99

51

cd115

Worldly Pleasures and the Spiritual Quest

Joel & Andrea

11/14/99

47

cd102

Basic Awareness Meditation A Guided Meditation

Andrea Pucci

3/12/00

66

cd90

The Role of Devotion on the Mystical Path

Joel Morwood

3/26/00

54

cd172

Everything Is Love; includes a meditation w/Andrea

Joel & Andrea

4/9/00

57

cd173

The Subtleties of Surrender

Joel Morwood

6/18/00

76

cd181

Experience and Knowledge

Joel Morwood

7/9/00

61

cd94

Enlightenment and Practice

Joel & Andrea

12/10/00

67

cd96

Loneliness: the Heart of Longing

Andrea Pucci

2/11/01

67

cd129

The Function of Insight

Joel Morwood

3/18/01

55

cd141

Taking the Teachings to Heart

Joel Morwood
Tom Kurzka

4/8/01

57

cd142

Finding the Center of Your Mandala

Andrea Pucci

4/29/01

64

cd143

Depression and The Dark Night

Joel Morwood

11/11/01

52

cd100

The Relationship Between Love and Truth

Joel Morwood

12/9/01

59

cd103

What Use Is Grief?

Joel Morwood

1/13/02

55

cd81

Cutting Through Spiritual Attachments

Joel Morwood

3/17/02

59

cd99

Deconstructing the Delusion of Time

Joel Morwood

6/30/02

66

cd119

Passion on the Path

Joel Morwood

11/10/02

54

cd134

Faith, Practice, and Awakening

Joel Morwood

11/24/02

52

cd136

What Is Love?

Joel Morwood

7/27/03

52

cd245

Finding a True Teacher

Joel Morwood

2/8/04

57

cd297

What to Practice

Joel Morwood

6/13/04

58

cd319

Cultivating Love and Compassion

Joel Morwood

9/26/04

61

cd342

Taking the Bodhisattva Vow

Joel Morwood

11/13/04

52

cd362

The End of Struggle

Todd Corbett

3/20/05

64

cd374

Inner Renunciation

Joel Morwood

10/15/05

62

cd500

From Relationship to Aloneness

Todd Corbett

11/20/05

55

cd415

How Suffering Gets Us to the Truth

Todd Corbett

12/11/05

71

cd449

Take Up Your Cross

Todd Corbett

6/11/06

68

cd462

Drop the Story

Joel Morwood

7/9/06

58

cd465

Truth Has No Name

Todd Corbett

11/12/06

69

cd476

Awareness of Neediness

Todd Corbett

1/21/07

62

cd477

Sweet Little Babies

Todd Corbett

4/26/09

58

cd620

Treasure Hunt for God

Fred Chambers

5/17/09

35

cd621

Atonement

Joel Morwood

1/25/09

60

cd616

Teachings, Practices, Truth

Todd Corbett

2/15/09

55

cd617

Breaking Out of Prison

Fred Chambers

3/22/09

37

cd618

Appreciation and Gratitude

Todd Corbett

12/9/07

65

cd547

Tag! You're It!

Todd Corbett

7/20/08

64

cd548

Self-Surrender and the F-Words

Fred Chambers

6/14/09

41

cd646

Resting in Impermanence

Todd Corbett

10/25/09

50

cd647

Spiritual Psychology 103: Sufi Perspective

Fred Chambers

5/16/2010

46

cd653

Spiritual Psychology 104: Hindu Perspective

Fred Chambers

6/27/2010

53

cd654

Discovering Enlightened Nature Within Discouragement

Todd Corbett

2/8/2010

54

cd648

Spiritual Psychology 101: Buddhist Perspective

Fred Chambers

1/31/10

64

cd651

Spiritual Psychology 102: Jewish Perspective

Fred Chambers

3/21/10

47

cd662

From Bardo to Awakening

Todd Corbett

6/20/10

55

cd650

Memorial Service for George Mottur

Joel Morwood

8/3/11

76

cd875

How to be Happy in the Hospital

Joel Morwood

9/25/11

52

cd721

Liberation and the Heart-Knot

Matt Sieradski

1/22/12

66

Illuminating False Identity

Todd Corbett

3/11/12

69

Matt Q&A

Matt Sieradski

3/25/12

73

Compassionate Attention

Todd Corbett

5/20/12

65

Certainty Through Naked Attention

Todd Corbett

6/17/12

56

Working with Imaginary Distinctions

Todd Corbett

2/24/13

63

Compassion - Courage to Cross the Abyss

Matt Sieradski

4/21/13

58

The Body, Pain, and Mindfulness

Matt Sieradski

6/9/13

71

The Path of Attention

Todd Corbett

7/14/13

56

Who Needs to Meditate?

Todd Corbett

3/16/14

69

Contemplating Nonduality

Todd Corbett

6/15/14

70

Investigating Mind

Todd Corbett

7/13/14

67

Actions and their Fruits

Matt Sieradski

6/28/15

43

Angels and Demons

Todd Corbett

2/21/16

66

Recognizing & Releasing Self-Centered Emotions

Matt Sieradski

4/18/16

58

Devotion Through Unknowing

Todd Corbett

6/19/16

61

Awareness, Suffering and Compassion

Todd Corbett

6/11/17

62


MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Religion: Exoteric & Esoteric

Joel Morwood

9/30/90

51

cd264

The Problem of Evil

Joel Morwood

9/8/91

44

cd268

Gratitude & Grace

Joel Morwood

11/24/91

57

cd269

In the Beginning Was the Word:

Commentary of the Gospel of John

Joel Morwood

12/25/91

67

cd270

Consciousness Without Form

Joel Morwood

1/26/92

42

cd271

The Infinite Finite

Joel Morwood

3/8/92

44

cd272

Boundaries and Compassion

Joel Morwood

7/26/92

61

cd252

Shifting the Base of Reference

Joel Morwood

8/8/92

65

cd404

Two Truths: the Relative and the Absolute

Joel Morwood

6/13/93

58

cd257

Suffering and Indifference

Joel Morwood

6/27/93

59

cd228

Time and Eternity

Joel Morwood

1/30/94

67

cd231

Reality, Karma, and Rebirth

Joel Morwood

12/11/94

60

cd238

Mysticism and Madness

Joel Morwood

4/9/95

61

cd239

Three Pillars of Mysticism

Joel Morwood

3/24/96

77

cd107

The Purpose of Suffering

Joel Morwood

11/24/96

72

cd198

The "New Age" from a Spiritual Perspective

Joel Morwood

11/15/98

75

cd171

I Was a Treasure

Joel Morwood

2/14/99

62

cd131

God & Emptiness

Joel Morwood

3/21/99

68

cd130

Mother in the Mystical Traditions

Joel Morwood

5/9/99

59

cd113

Everything Perishes Except His Face

Joel Morwood

7/18/99

75

cd139

An Overview of the Spiritual Path

Joel Morwood

9/19/99

55

cd106

Synchronicity on the Mystical Path (diagram)

Joel Morwood

2/13/00

72

cd116

Identity and Difference

Joel & Andrea

2/27/00

59

cd104

Christianity: Esoteric and Exoteric

Joel Morwood

5/21/00

79

cd174

Consciousness: Two Worldviews

Joel Morwood

10/29/00

65

cd132

To Practice or Not to Practice

Joel Morwood

12/17/00

67

cd140

Talking About Nothing

Joel & Andrea

1/21/01

56

cd128

Forsaking Yourself Day by Day

Joel Morwood

5/27/01

57

cd144

Mystics of Ancient Greece

Tom McFarlane

3/10/02

48

cd82

What's the Story on "Stories?"

Joel Morwood

7/14/02

60

cd120

What Are Sacred Sciences?

Joel Morwood

10/27/02

57

cd133

Gnosis and the World

Joel Morwood

5/25/03

61

cd242

Reincarnation

Joel Morwood

11/23/03

66

cd275

Subject and Object are One

Joel Morwood

8/8/04

60

cd341

Gnosis, Ego, and Love

Joel Morwood

1/15/05

52

cd373

Christmas Mandala

Joel Morwood

12/25/08

46

cd623

Oneness

Todd Corbett

2/27/11

51

cd871

Spiritual Ignorance

Todd Corbett

5/22/11

56

cd872

Striving for Happiness

Todd Corbett

6/26/11

45

cd874


MYSTICISM & SCIENCE

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

Tom McFarlane

2/18/90

61

cd296

Understanding Quantum Mechanics

Tom McFarlane

3/12/95

81

Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

Joel Morwood

1/26/97

77

cd164

Mathematics and the New Worldview

Tom McFarlane

1/11/02

85

The Great Debate in Quantum Physics

Tom McFarlane
Damien Pierce

11/17/02

69

cd135

Logos and the New Worldview

Tom McFarlane

6/22/03

68

cd243

Beyond Theories

Tom McFarlane

1/11/04

46

cd280

Darwinism, Creationism, and Mysticism

Joel Morwood

7/17/05

70

cd401

Pointing to Infinity

Tom McFarlane

6/28/09

58

Consciousness and Cosmos

Tom McFarlane

6/13/10

46

The Path of Knowledge

Tom McFarlane

6/12/11

59

Investigating the Nature of Time

Tom McFarlane

11/13/11

44

cd889

A Mystic's View of Science

Joel Morwood

5/25/14

67


MYSTICISM & SOCIETY

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

The City of God: the True Spiritual Community

Joel Morwood

6/16/91

41

cd266

The Spiritual Root of Intolerance

Joel Morwood

1/31/93

53

cd256

Peace

Joel Morwood

5/22/94

52

cd235

Answer to Auschwitz

Joel Morwood

5/21/95

63

cd240

Our Moral Responsibility to Children

Joel Morwood

5/24/98

45

cd169

September 11: How Do We Respond?

Joel Morwood

9/23/01

79

cd118

The Feminine Face of Mysticism

Joel Morwood

7/31/05

45

cd413

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