What do you get when two men leave the big city, come together through a spiritual connection, and move to a mountaintop meditative retreat center in Western MassachusettsSpirit Fire Radio A radio show about practical mindfulness and the myriad of ways that the principles of meditation express in everyday life. We are Tim Darter and Steve Kramer. We run an educational non-profit named Spirit Fire, and were taking its mission to the airwaves. Our mission is simple: to cultivate spirituality and educate people on the importance of consciousness in their everyday lives. One of the ways we do this is through Spirit Fire's own 14-step meditation practice, The Practice of Living Awareness. It is a modern Vipassana meditation technique designed for beginners and for those wishing to deepen an existing practice. Vipassana means to see things as they really are. Through meditation, one learns to observe the mind as it really is and create a very unique relationship with it. There is a common mi