293. Wayne Wirs

Wayne took his own life on August 31, 2017. Discussion in the Batgap Community Facebook Group. Putting his words in the past tense, Wayne Wirs was a transparent, rational, nondual mystic. Wayne blogged about his day-to-day life as a semi-homeless, van-dwelling drifter and had been doing so before, during, and after his awakening experience in 2009. Wayne considered himself more of a spiritual explorer than teacher, so his "teachings" tended toward first-hand, real-world experiences (open-ended, integral, mystical and evidence-based) rather than academic hard and fast truths. Unlike many nondual teachers who focus on an all-or-nothing approach to awakening, Wayne advocated a simple yet integral fading of the ego based on key qualities: Eternal (soul, practical), Radiance (love, emotional), Emptiness (awareness, rational), and Intimate (mystical experience). He called this dynamic, flowing, magical way of living Mystical Oneness. Wayne had two key sayings which best describe his message: "The less there is of you, the more there is of the Divine." "The smart have their books. The wise have their scars." Website: waynewirs.com Books: Mystical Oneness and the Nine Aspects of Being: A step-by-step guide to enlightenment and beyond Fading Toward Enlightenment A Mystic's Journal: The Dilemma of Divine Surrender A Simple Explanation For Everything Seeing Clearly Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 5/23/2015 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:02 - Living a Nomadic Lifestyle 00:07:36 - A Stern Confrontation 00:16:03 - The Journey to Teacher Mode 00:22:16 - Detaching from Thoughts and the Thread of Existence 00:27:31 - The Divine Interaction in My Life 00:33:58 - The Limitations of Personal Experience and Concepts in Enlightenment 00:40:18 - The Wisdom of Scars 00:45:15 - A Beautiful Encounter with a Mentally Slow Man 00:49:00 - The Experience of the Flowing Self 00:53:18 - The Importance of Living the Experience 00:58:16 - The Practice of Living True and Karmic Implications 01:02:36 - The Challenges of Swearing and Fading into Enlightenment 01:06:38 - Communion with God and Nature 01:11:16 - The Four Stages of Spiritual Awakening 01:15:57 - The Hardest One: Emptiness and Thoughts 01:20:28 - Surrendering to Her Will 01:23:56 - Facing Fear in the Dark 01:27:02 - Setting Boundaries and Taking Action 01:30:10 - Balancing Flow with Individual Intention 01:33:52 - Going with the Flow and Divine Intelligence 01:37:24 - Evidence of God and the Denial of Atheism 01:40:10 - Awakening and Becoming a Mystic 01:43:31 - The Concept of Opposites and Polarities 01:47:00 - The Perspective on Death 01:50:21 - The Illusion of Fixed Identity 01:53:52 - Living from the Heart 01:56:47 - Charging for Skype Conversations 02:01:18 - Wrap-Up and Appreciation for Wayne Save Save Save Save