Daniel J. Schmidt founded the not for profit Awaken the World Initiative in 2012. It’s purpose is to create films and materials which are made available for free in over 30 languages for the awakening of humanity.
Daniel Schmidt
Daniel is the creator of the award winning film “Inner Worlds Outer Worlds” the “Samadhi” film series and is also one of the creators and speakers in the Awakening Mind series. It is Daniel’s intention to convey the one perennial teaching that is inherent within all of the spiritual traditions. Daniel created the Samadhi Center in Ontario Canada and the Awaken the World Initiative as an outer reflection of his inner world. His approach combines self-inquiry with traditional forms of meditation so that participants have the opportunity to simultaneously realize their transcendent nature, and to purify themselves of conditioned patterns so that the human vessel becomes permeable to their true nature. Daniel emphasizes that Samadhi can be experienced not merely as a temporary “state” but as a “stage” of development. Check out this interview with Daniel from the Awakening Mind film.
The “pathless path” is to realize an ever-deepening development process within the self-structure, and to simultaneously realize the emptiness of the self-structure. When these are realized as one, it is Samadhi.
YouTube Playlist of Dan’s Guided Meditations
Interviews
Lilla Balint
Lilla Balint is an integral part of the retreats at the Samadhi Center co-facilitating Self-Inquiry dyads and co-creating healing sound journeys with Dan.
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Jerome Giovinazzo
From a young age Jerome has been passionate about people and the human spirit, continuously endeavoring to learn deeper ways to connect with both himself and others. In understanding that the root of all our happiness comes from taking care of others, Jerome has dedicated his life to serving through his passions of yoga, meditation, coaching and cooking. Jerome has been fortunate to study with many great spiritual teachers in various lineages ranging from Tibetan Buddhism, Vedanta, and hatha yoga, to mention a few. Having completed a 2 year solitary yoga & meditation retreat deep in the mountains of southern Arizona, Jerome realized the power of going inward, which enables each of us to create the change we want in our lives. His teachings are predicated on the idea that how we experience the world in our daily lives is dependent upon our how we treat others, including ourselves; everything is essentially a blank movie screen upon which we project our reality — if we want to change the “movie”, then we must change change our behavior of body, speech & mind. Helping people achieve their dreams of health & happiness, Jerome brings joy, humor, and sincerity into his sessions. Jerome’s cooking for the retreats at the Samadhi Center reflects his wisdom that the key to happiness is in service to others. Check out this video to get a sense of his humor and love for cooking.
Tayama
Tayama is a breath facilitator trained in numerous modalities. Her role is to guide participants through deep inner release of conditioned patterns.
Alex Litardo
At the age of 15, the book Sidharta, by Herman Hesse, marked the beginning of Alex’s spiritual quest. During those years, the teachings of Jung, Krishnamurti, Huxley as well as entheogens and chemical experimentation briefly revealed powerful periods of communion with the whole, which marked his life forever. Immigrating to the States at the age of 20, studies, jobs, family obligations, and a digital imaging career unfortunately veiled his spiritual path for years. Towards the turn of the century, a conscious decision to simplify life and make his work activities independent, Alex refocused his exploration on the nature of reality and being. A revelation about the coherence between quantum physics and spiritual teachings fostered a resurgence of his inner quest, gaining deep understanding and insight through the consistent, interdisciplinary and powerful presentations of Dan’s teachings and guidance. Today, Alex is profoundly grateful to be part of the ATW initiative, managing the development of online resources, communications and translation projects.
Jason Secord
Born in New Brunswick, Jason was interested in the deeper exploration of life from an early age. He
studied to be a massage therapist at the age of 20 and continued his studies into the present day.
Areas of focus have included Yoga, meditation, Qigong, shamanism and transpersonal psychology. For
the past 15 years he has taught yoga, meditation along with workshops. His philosophy is that life itself
is our teacher. He brings what he has learned through his own healing journey to his teachings. Jason teaches weekly online yoga classes with his own non-dual approach. He can be reached at qiflow@protonmail.com
Chad Charles
Having grown up in a ‘New Age’ household, Chad has been steeped in esoteric influences and alternative healing therapies from a young age. With that, he has adventurously pursued many modalities and experiences along the direct path, with dark room, vision quests, meditation, psychedelics, tantra, sound and light experiments, and energy cultivation through stillness, movement, and Eros. With the many fingers pointing to the ineffable and non-dual, his early childhood kundalini awakenings, experience with epilepsy, and a penchant for entering into and mastering trance states have all pointed him towards the One.
Eventually, from the mid-2010’s, he has chosen to share and offer the practices that have most informed his own path, conscious connected breathwork and 5-MeO-DMT, in both ceremonial and therapy contexts. He has brought 5-MeO-DMT to the I AM retreats at the Samadhi Centre and offers breathwork experiences online through the ATW community.
ATW Daily Meditations Hosts
The Awaken the World online Meditation Community was formed as a supportive, inclusive virtual space which provides an incentive to begin and maintain or deepen a regular practice. The last Saturday of every month, Dan joins us on a guided meditation to practice together then connect and share our experiences.
All are welcome to join us for these free, drop-in gatherings.
Sean Campbell
“ Silence is the best and most potent initiation. Silence is ever speaking. It is a perennial flow of language which is interrupted by speaking. …..Silence is the true teaching. It is the perfect teaching which is suitable only for the most advanced seeker…”
( Ramana Maharshi).
What better way to serve Silence in this mad world of Maya than to help host these meditations ?!’
Sibasis Sahoo
After hundreds of experiences in 2017 that science could not explain, I was forced to turn inward and realized the inward is a mess as well.
Turning inward and facing myself, started a transformation that still continues. This was surrender.
If we can begin to understand what we are without trying to change it then what we are begins to undergo a radical transformation.🙏
Akram Mahani
It has been a true blessing and a privilege to host some of the daily silent meditations. These have helped me deepen my own practice.
Plus, I feel I’m part of a community of seekers who come together everyday for a common purpose. I greatly appreciate the opportunity!
Traudel Deffner
After 2 years of regular participation in the daily silent meditations, it now came about that I am allowed to help as a host to keep the meditations going. The biggest challenge for me is the handling of the digital tools – while staying in silence has proven more and more to be bliss and a blessing as well as a deepening of clarity and love. I appreciate this group very much, many thanks to all who participate!
