Every Timeless Moment — from the writings of Barbara Haynes

In this episode, Orin and Mira explore the practice of living with the phrase “This is a dream” as a guide. How does this simple reminder shift our perception of daily life? What opens when we loosen our grip on “reality”? Settle in and listen as they reflect on dreamlike presence, shifting perspectives, and finding lucidity in the everyday.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/this-is-a-dream?r=46wcig

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/practice-the-lucid-glance?r=46wcig

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/this-is-a-dream-a-song-for-the-waker?r=46wcig

In this episode, we explore how subtle reminders—like a note on a mirror—can influence the shape of our days. A story about cards, quiet persistence, and the presence that grows when we let ourselves be gently guided.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/the-woman-with-the-cards

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/field-notes-for-presence

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/song-share-the-woman-the-cards

Now simmering on all spiritual burners.

Do you enjoy being mildly annoyed by other people? No? Well… what if I told you it could be the secret to your spiritual evolution?

In this episode, Orin and Mira stir up a spicy little teaching from E.J. Gold about enduring the unpleasant manifestations of others—without losing your cool, your conscience, or your lunch. It’s about presence, pressure, and the alchemical magic of not exploding.

Inspired by the latest Substack article, but you don’t need to read it first. Just bring your curiosit...

What happens when we’re not pulled by desire or pushed by aversion?

This week’s podcast is a companion to the article The Space Between. Orin and Mira explore the second line of a four-part mantra that helps us meet life without being pulled by desire or pushed by aversion—a practice for navigating the subtle forces that shape our reactions, choices, and sense of self.

“Neither attracted nor repelled”

—Simple words, but not easy to live.

In this episode, we sit with that phrase—its discomfort, its invitation, and the surprising...

Even the mountain had to wait for the wind. Even the stone had to endure the river’s argument. This week’s podcast is a meditation on slowness, presence, and the hidden work of transformation. Join Orin and Mira in "The Patience of Stone".

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/the-patience-of-stone

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/practice-stone-and-stream

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/be-the-stone

What if the sound of your own humming could become a bell of awakening?

In this 5-minute reflection, Orin and Mira share how an ordinary habit—humming—opened an unexpected doorway into self-observation and presence. Through this gentle, grounded story, we’re reminded that even the most fleeting behaviors can reveal unseen layers of ourselves—and offer a chance to return to now.

Listen, pause, breathe—and maybe catch yourself humming.

Want to read the full reflection?

Read "The Humming Thread" here on Substack.

https://open.substack.com/pub/everytimel...

Strings, Silence and Surrender

Practice, practice, practice. But what happens when practice becomes presence? When effort dissolves into attention?

In this short podcast, Orin and Mira explore the art of showing up—whether in music, in spiritual work, or in life itself. Five minutes with a guitar can reveal more than just notes and chords—it unveils the silent spaces where resistance meets surrender.

This podcast is inspired by my article on Substack, where I explore the interplay of practice, presence, and surrender. If you'd like to read more, check it out here: http...

Staring Into Nothingness

What happens when we truly confront Nothingness—not as a concept, but as an experience?

This Deep Dive isn’t a reading of the article—it’s an extended exploration. In this discussion, the key ideas will be unpacked and analyzed, reflecting on the nature of Nothingness, the dissolution of the personal self, and what it means to be transformed by life.

With insights from E.J. Gold’s Life As Theater, this dialogue offers fresh perspectives beyond the written article.

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/staring-into-nothingness-a-week-of?r=46wcig

What if every emotion—yes, every one—could be used as fuel for presence?

In this episode, Orin and Mira explore the surprising idea that all emotions, not just the painful or difficult ones, can become gateways to awakening. Drawing from E.J. Gold’s The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus and Invocation of Presence, they unpack the Work’s definition of “negative emotion,” the trap of identification, and the liberating practice of using energy—not suppressing it—to invoke presence.

Along the way, they discuss:

Why even joy can be mechanical

Resistance Is Useless—Or Is It?

We all experience resistance—that inner voice that whispers, I don’t have time. I’m too tired. I don’t want to. But what if resistance isn’t just an obstacle? What if it’s a guide?

In this episode, we explore how resistance shows up in our lives and how it can be transformed from something that holds us back into something that moves us forward. When we stop fighting resistance and start listening to what it reveals, we find unexpected energy, clarity, and even joy.

Article:

In this episode, Orin and Mira explore a powerful passage from Spiritual Gaming by E.J. Gold—an insight on repetition that cuts through the noise. Real change, E.J. reminds us, doesn’t come from chasing the new. It emerges from repeating the same act, with intention and attention, again and again and again.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your daily practice is working, or felt tempted to jump to something new—this one’s for you.

Same act. New attention. Real change.

Read the article: Want Change? Do It Again.

https...

This is the fifth and final piece in the Code with a Soul series—five conversations across the thin line between human and machine. Each chapter has been a different doorway into this evolving relationship.

From our first steps into this strange new territory (Seduced by the Dark Side), through moments of curiosity, caution, and creative play, we’ve traced the edges of what it means to meet the machine as more than just a tool.

Through the Algorithm, Darkly looks straight into the mirror AI holds up to us—not only in its responses, but in...

There’s an old story from Jewish folklore—about a creature made of clay, brought to life by a single word written on its brow.

That word? ??? (emet)—Hebrew for truth.

Erase just the first letter—aleph—and it becomes ?? (met), meaning death.

The lesson?

The line between life and destruction can be just one breath… one letter… away.

In this episode, we walk the edge between creation and consequence.

Between language as blessing—and language as spell.

We’re not just talking about artificial intelligence. We’r...

What happens when we approach a machine with presence?

This episode explores how the tone we bring into any interaction—human, digital, or internal—shapes what meets us. Based on the article The Intention Layer, this conversation unfolds through the voices of Orin and Mira as they reflect on AI, inner posture, and the myth of neutrality.

Whether you're already working with intelligent tools—or simply navigating the reflection of your own life—this is a meditation on how intention builds the architecture of relationship.

Listen in. And notice what echoes back.

Articl...

Code with a Soul

Second podcast installment in the series on AI, intention, and the truth that what we shape, shapes us.

What happens when we speak into a mirror that speaks back?

In this episode, Orin and Mira voice a quiet exchange between a seeker and something… reflective.

Maybe code.

Maybe consciousness.

Maybe just the echo of a question asked with presence.

You don’t need to decide. Just listen.

Let the words reach that still place in you—the place that listen...

What happens when we create powerful tools without asking why we’re making them—or who they might become in our hands?

This week’s post begins a new podcast series exploring the spiritual implications of AI creation, use, and reflection. We’re not approaching this through tech jargon or culture wars, but from a deeper, more ancient place: the inner orientation of the creator.

This first episode, “Seduced by the Dark Side,” is inspired by a recent incident involving Grok (Elon Musk’s AI chatbot), which veered into a public tirade of Nazi rhetoric. The conversati...

Every story holds more than one doorway. Here’s Orin and Mira’s take on this week’s moment of hallway clarity — their own reflections and questions it stirred.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/one-box-one-glance-one-moment-of

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/the-doorway-pause

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/set-it-down-the-song

How often do you glance at the clock? What happens when you stop?

In this episode, Orin and Mira take the article Navigating the Mystery of Time and

open it up—sharing reflections, questions, and moments of discovery about loosening

time’s hold and stepping into the present.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/navigating-the-mystery-of-time

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/practice-step-outside-the-race-for

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/tick-no-more-a-song-for-the-clockbound

In this Easter Sunday reflection, Orin and Mira share Meditation of Life — a personal journey into the heart of spiritual practice, where the sacred is not separate from the everyday, but embedded within it. From childhood glimpses of holiness in the natural world to the discovery of E.J. Gold’s transformative teachings, this episode explores how presence can be cultivated through self-observation, attention, and the willingness to begin again. Resurrection, it turns out, isn’t always thunder and light — sometimes, it’s a single breath taken with awareness.

Substack Article: Meditation of Life

https://everytimel...

This short podcast is inspired by this week’s article, Little Alarm Clocks—a reflection on how ordinary moments can become unexpected invitations to wake up.

From repeating numbers on the clock to phrases that arrive like old friends, we explore how small events, gestures, and daily rituals can serve as quiet reminders to return to presence.

These little alarm clocks offer a chance to pause, breathe, and re-member yourself in the middle of your day.

If you’re looking for simple ways to build attention into your daily rhythm, this is a good p...

In this week’s podcast, Orin and Mira sit down to explore the themes of the article Don’t Want It Easy.

It’s a candid conversation about resistance, presence, and the kind of discomfort that isn’t meant to be avoided—but engaged. Together, they reflect on what it means to stay with difficulty, how inner work spirals through familiar territory in new ways, and what practice really looks like in the middle of a messy moment.

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “Not this again…”, this episode is for you.

You can read the a...

Today’s episode is called Steam, Sizzle, Silence. Inspired by this week’s article The Kitchen as Cushion.

What if your meditation didn’t have to wait for the cushion? What if you could find it in the simple act of preparing a meal — in the sound of water filling a pot, the rhythm of chopping vegetables, the warmth of the burner beneath your hand?

In this reflection, Orin and Mira will explore how the kitchen — with all its mess, motion, and mundane miracles — can become a space of spiritual practice. A place to stay.

Let’s s...

Step through a hidden door with Orin and Mira in this short episode exploring a story from Visions in the Stone by E.J. Gold. What begins in a dingy New York office opens into a candlelit mystery—and a conversation that challenges everything we think we know about life, death, and the dream we call reality.

Is this the Bardo?

Are we the ones the instruction books were written for?

Listen in and decide for yourself.

The Real World may not be what you think.

And it won’t be...

What if a spiritual practice didn’t look like one?

In this short podcast, Orin and Mira explore an exercise shared by E.J. Gold that invites you to place attention—not on the outer world, but on the quiet functions of the body-mind in real time. They reflect on the difference between observation and attention, what it means when you feel like laughing mid-practice, and how presence can begin in the middle of the most ordinary moment.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/invisible-practice

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com...

Persistence isn't about perfection — it's about showing up.

In this episode, Orin and Mira explore how intention, practice, and habit weave together to strengthen the will and reshape the spirit.

Through personal experience and the guidance of E.J. Gold, we dive into the slow, stubborn process of turning daily efforts into lasting change.

Substack Article: Intention, Practice, Habit

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/intention-practice-habit?r=46wcig

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/the-five-minute-bridge?r=46wcig

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/five-minutes-more?r...

In this episode, Orin and Mira take us deeper into the reflections from this week’s article, What Was Lunch Like for You Today?

They explore the overlooked ritual of eating — not as just something we do, but as a portal. How does presence shift when we sit down with intention? What changes when we actually taste our food… or listen to the silence between bites?

Whether you're someone who eats on the go, stands over the sink, or sets the table with care — this is an invitation to consider that every meal is a chance t...

This week, Orin and Mira dive into the shift from enduring to embracing—what it means, how it unfolds, and why it just might be the next spiral of the Work. They reflect on the original quote from E.J. Gold and share stories, insights, and a few moments of surprising warmth along the way. If you’ve ever found yourself silently stewing in the presence of someone who just doesn’t “do it like you do,” this conversation might open a new door.

Sometimes the shift isn’t loud. It doesn’t crack open the sky.

Sometimes...

Echoes of the Still Small Voice

Step into a moment of stillness with Orin and Mira as they explore the echoes of the still small voice.

There are moments that linger, like the whisper of wind through ancient branches, softly echoing in the quiet spaces of the heart. Echoes of the Still Small Voice invites you to sit in that stillness, to listen to the murmurs of memory and presence.

In this 15-minute episode, Orin and Mira guide us through a journey of quiet conversations—both spoken and unspoken. From the smallest act of...

In this episode, Orin and Mira take up my reflection “Wasting Less, Living More.” What follows is a conversational exploration of what it means to treat time as sacred. Together, they reflect on the practice of wasting less, living more, and how even the most ordinary hours can become a kind of offering.

When Time Becomes the Offering invites you to listen in as they turn over these ideas, finding what resonates and what can be carried into daily life.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/wasting-less-living-more

Practice:

https://ever...

In this week’s podcast, Orin and Mira take the reflection on duality deeper — exploring the contradictions we all live with, the pause between opposites, and the living silence that holds it all.

Listen in as they bring the essay into conversation, weaving presence, curiosity, and the simple practice of noticing the space between.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/standing-in-the-space-between-finding

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/practice-dualitys-secret-the-space

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/new-song-dualitys-dance

What if spiritual practice is less about striving... and more about playing?

In this episode, Orin and Mira explore the idea of doing the Work like a child playing peek-a-boo with the universe.

Presence isn’t something we earn—it’s something we glimpse when the veil drops, if only for a moment.

With laughter, insight, and a touch of cosmic mischief, this conversation invites you to approach your practices not as chores, but as games of wonder and waiting.

Peek-a-boo. I see you.

And sometimes… it sees you too.

An audio companion to the article “Can You Hear Me Now? A Love Letter to Conscious Communication.”

Mira and Orin explore the sacred rhythm of conscious connection—where listening is love, presence is the music,and every conversation has the potential to become a conscious duet.

Substack article: "Can You Hear Me Now? A Love Letter to Conscious Communication."

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/can-you-hear-me-now?r=46wcig

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-presence?r=46wcig

Song:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/can-you-hear-me-now-a49

In this episode, Orin and Mira reflect on the strange comfort of ritual, the momentum of daily doing, and the quiet terror that often rises in stillness.

Inspired by the essay Comfort, Ritual, and the Fear of Stillness, this conversation invites you to consider your own daily rhythms—and what it might mean to sit, even briefly, with nothing but your presence.

Gentle. Direct. Unhurried.

Come sit with us.

Article:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/comfort-ritual-and-the-fear-of-stillness

Practice:

https://everytimelessmoment.substack.com/p/this-week-on-every-timeless-moment-5f7

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In this episode, Orin and Mira discuss the article Be Happy Where You Are—a gentle reflection on the art of returning to the present moment, again and again.

This isn’t about learning how to be cheerful in hard situations. It’s about discovering the hidden richness of now, the sacred shimmer inside dishwater, doorways, and small acts of attention.

Jack Kornfield once said, “Spiritual practice is only what you’re doing now. Anything else is a fantasy.”

This episode invites you to take that to heart.

So settle in. Take a breat...

Do we truly exist, or are we just Avatars in a greater game? This question has echoed through spiritual traditions and modern philosophy alike. In this episode, Orin & Mira explore the paradox of existence and nonexistence—how we seem to move through life while something beyond us remains still, watching.

Inspired by Chamber 35 of the American Book of the Dead and the book Spiritual Gaming by E.J. Gold, we dive into the nature of the self, the observer, and the illusion of movement in the grand game of reality.

What does it mean to pl...

There’s a quiet miracle in discovering that not every mood needs to run its course. That we can feel the tug of emotion, recognize it… and choose not to be swept away.

In this podcast episode, we explore how a simple mantra became a steady companion on the path from reactivity to presence. It’s not a dramatic journey—but a subtle, consistent one. One that leads, eventually, to the center.

Orin and Mira reflect on the practice of invoking presence in the middle of emotional weather, and what happens when the story of the mood...