Interview with Rick Archer of Buddha at the Gas Pump!
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- That's right, we've swapped roles and just like the night that Johnny Carson was a guest on Letterman, Rick was kind enough to agree to an interview. He brings a tremendous wealth of knowledge to the topic of spirituality and awakening. check it out!
Buddha at the Gas Pump: shorturl.at/aM358
BATGAP RUclips Channel: / @batgap
Main Points touched on in this conversation:
- Rick's spiritual history. The TM program.
- The importance of integration and stabilization on the spiritual path.
- The value of spiritual development in unfolding our full potential.
- About Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi)
- The masculine and feminine aspects of spirituality.
- Compassion, kindness, generosity, and such qualities as expressions of holistic spiritual development.
- The Association for Spiritual Integrity and the importance of ethics on the spiritual path.
- What is the best spiritual practice?
- Are there any detrimental practices? (Psychedelics? Neo-Advaita?) Harmful teachers?
- The qualifications for being a spiritual teacher and the importance of discerning between qualified and unqualified teachers.
- The importance of humility and genuineness in teachers.
- We all have different roles to play. Awakened people aren’t necessarily teachers and don’t necessarily use spiritual terminology.
- The relevance of channeling, mediumship, etc. to spirituality.
- Different dimensions of reality.
- “God” as an unbounded self-interacting ocean of consciousness.
- We are characters with some improvisational latitude in the Divine Play. The playwright has our best interest in mind.
- Staying aligned with the Divine “stream”.
- Trusting your instincts.
- Global problems are symptomatic of the quality of collective consciousness, which is trending toward awakening, perhaps as a response to the dire nature of these problems.
- The cumulative nature of spiritual practice.
- Recommended books.
- The importance of where you put your attention.
- The complimentary relationship between knowledge and experience.
- The importance of taking the first step on the spiritual path, and one thing will lead to the next.
Rick finally gets to talk his heart out and Irene can’t tell him he’s talking to much ☺️Love it!
lol, ur right, good call 🤣
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I know , I couldn’t resist 😉
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Rick is a legend, and BATGAP is a wonderful resource. The opening music never fails to lift my spirits. 🙏
I agree
It's been my ringtone for a long time. Rick offers it free on his site :)
@@niallbourke7963 ok. Agree to disagree. Everyone has their level of tolerance for what they seem stupid/silly/woowoo. I used to nitpick everything spirituality/nondual teachers and interviews said and did to try and find faults, to diminish their status/believability. After a while I realized that was a fruitless endeavour. If I disagree, I turn it off, without judgement. I've found a lot of what I turned off previously, I now appreciate. And I certainly don't judge an interviewer for a particular guest's comments. I look at the whole of the interviews, net positive or negative. Rick has certainly provided me a net positive, no question.
Re: Rick saying thank you in response to him being enlightened, I'm not sure what else one would say, whether you think you are enlightened or not
Maybe silence? But that would seem rude. Maybe saying/clarifying that being enlightened is no longer a concern of his? Sure. But I personally have no desire to split hairs or put anyone on such a pedastal as to expect perfect responses to comments/questions every time. Again, I look at his interview style as a whole, if it resonates, listen. If it doesn't, no worries. I think I pick up on what you are saying regarding Rick, he does have some apparent ego(tistical) qualities that come through, which he may or may not be aware of. But that certainly doesn't preclude me from appreciating his dedication and hard work in this field... For which the original comment "Rick's a legend" was referring to, I'm sure.
@@gkannon77 just FYI, I removed the comment you responded to. The point of this comment section isn’t to criticize guests, guests of guests etc. There are 658864367 places on the internet to criticize people in unproductive ways, this just isn’t one of them 😂.
Bernardo Kastrup has insights that are important to listen to
What a great interview! My husband, two dogs and I run into Rick frequently in the park. He’s always listening to interviews and audible books for his upcoming interviews. He’s as affable in person as he is in this interview and on Batgap❤
What an amazing surprise!! So great to see Rick being interviewed and by you! Love it! I really hope this helps BATGAP reach 100K! Lots of love to you both! ❤️✨❤️✨
"If you think you're enlightened go spend a weekend with your parents." LOL What a fascinating interview with Rick, something to behold. Will watch again, definitely. Thank you Angelo!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Yes, so true!! they can also be your teachers too
Yay, Rick & Angelo together again!
So nice to hear someone interviewing Rick for a change. 😍
Amazing to see Rick in another light. I always hated how while interviewing his guests he would try to show his knowledge of the books. This is more genuine than anything he put in his RUclips videos so far. Thanks for changing my mind about him. He needs to do more of these. He's got a lot to bring to the table with the right interviewer. Thanks Angelo
He’s a wealth of knowledge and experience
I'd like to see you interview Anna Brown
Great interview. I think a lot of the new wave non-duality people do not understand the difference between relative reality and absolute reality and it's an important thing to know. Zen handles this well.
Well said!
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 💕
Two great guys talking about, as Ram Dass says, "the only game in town"! Thank you for this very interesting video.
Rick is a very knowledgeable and interesting guy🤓
nice he gets his turn to be interviewed
Thank you both of you👏
I'm finding the interveiw format really helpful. The spontaneity of conversation reveals real human experience. I wasn't aware how much external validation I was seeking.
Trust my experience, my new mantra. 💜🙏
THANKYOU! Loved this. Especially the part where you both agreed on what “God” means to you. I had a sudden experience about 15 years ago and haven’t had it since unfortunately BUT it has remained my touchstone of faith ever since. I would take pages to describe all that happened in that one moment/ hour or 2, but I remember it like it was yesterday and I bawled my eyes out with utter relief for ages during and after it, “knowing” that everything is in good hands 🥰…..despite how it looks.
I suddenly realised that this personality/prescence/love was not only all around me, but inside EVERY nano particle of me and knew me more than I could possibly know myself. It felt like a gift - the best gift you could ever receive. The gratitude I felt was off the scale. It was as though “it” was saying “yoo hoo! I’m here! I’ve always been here!” And it knew how incredulous it was to me and found it almost amusing. So wonderfully strange. I almost felt embarrassed 😁…..like….”OH! I’m a superficial, naive overlay to THIS”……like a young infant finding out that the innocent lies it was trying to tell had been known all along by the adoring, forgiving parent. I hope to manage to reach that mysterious place again. I don’t know how it happened but it seemed like Grace. Interestingly though, I had been watching the thoughts after listening to The Power of Now ❤️
You should look into Susan Blackmore. She had similar experiences and became the authority on out of body experiences, etc. She got a PhD in related fields and spent a good part of her life following up on this stuff.
The Power of Now came to mind when they were discussing what book to recommend to introduce a person to the concepts of enlightenment. As for a program or path, I find the 12 Steps of AA and Al Anon to be good guidance.
To your question Angelo, regarding ‘detrimental practices’, one trap I landed in stemmed from blind faith 27:31 / spiritual naïveté.
Our teacher gave our group a line from The Gita to practice as homework - ‘I am not this mind, I am not this body’ - a statement of absolute reality, but no where near my experience back then.
But being earnest, I took up the practice with gusto, & subsequently spent many years disconnected from my body & my body’s experience.
Today, I am this body.
And I just am.
We are forever grateful for Rick and the many amazing guests he has sourced to teach us x such an incredible memory and understanding on life x thanks Rick we love you mate
what a beautiful interview. What really touched me was the deep dive to the ordinariness, like some kind of desire for more started to dissolve and the sense of just this was revealing,, such a nice heartful talk.
Not just the topic but the authenticity of both of you.
Thanks to Rick I discovered Adyashanti and many others, certainly helped me much in life. What a powerful resource it is. Also thanks to him i discovered this channel :D so that blew me away also!
Thank you, thank you, thank you
What a delightful surprise! It was an interview Rick did that sent me down the rabbit hole years ago which has led to Angelo! Synchronicity ❤️
Excellent interview Angelo, you handled it very well. Good questions, good pace and a lovely well balanced interaction.
Thx
heck ya awesome, I was just watching the episode you were in on his show yesterday. was really good, one of the best ive seen on buddha at the gas pump! glad to see him on here hes usually interviewing , i dont think I've ever seen anywhere with him being interviewed about himself... great guy I really like him a lot! 👍🏻👍🏻 ❤❤❤🙏🙏
This presentation was really a treat for me. I appreciate Angelo and Rick so very much They are both so "real" , full of practical, valuable knowledge and wisdom, and have open minds and loving hearts. I hope that they will have more presentations together. Maybe do a "deep dive" into a particular topic or two. Thank you both, and Namaste.
Two of my favorite people 👏❤️😀Rick, you introduced me to Angelo and so many wonderful teachers. May life richly bless you both for all that you give. Grateful - not just for this interview! 🙏
Come on!!! This is amazing 😊 Thank you!
What a delight! Thank you❤️
Our pleasure!
Loved this interview. Thank you Angelo!❤
Angelo, your interviews are truly my favorite thing! ❤ 🙏✨
Wonderful interview! Great questions Angelo. Ive always wanted to know Rick's story too. Wow!
Thanks Rick for sharing yourself in this way 💜
Have enjoyed Batgap for years. You're a real treasure. 💐
Fantastic conversation. I love both your channels and it's lovely to see you both speaking so honestly and from such a clear viewpoint.
Thanks for visiting
This man has made some of the best interview episodes on this topic. He is the reason I discovered this channel and Angello, my very best Christmas 🎄 and new year wishes to him. Thank you sir🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview! I'm just bursting to mention John Vervaeke after the mention of the Axial age and wisdom etc. He has a lecture series here on youtube called Awakening from the meaning crisis which was hugely influential on me and helped frame and put A LOT of thing into a broader context. For example the concept/practice of "internalizing the sage", it feels like I have a little Angelo in my head that I can have dialogue with after reading your book (it being written in conversational style magnified this effect greatly).
Thanks for the recommendation. Bookmarked one of his videos.
I fell asleep during a talk by the Dalai Lama. 😂 Thay was a real human. A mensch.
BATGAP have teached me a lot. Thanks Rick.
Finally we can comment unders Rick interview :P
You bet!
There must be many thousands who started this process decades ago but never meet like ones. It would be great to have a contemporary version of kumba mela to meet and enjoy.
I love this!!! I was wondering when the REAL STAR of the Budhha at the Gas Pump - Rick Archer - was going to be interviewed. Thank you so much Angelo! This is so awesome. And also I'm super looking forward to your presence and sharing in the Awakening Mind Documentary!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful conversation, thank you both! ❤
Glad to see comments open on your channel.
Great interview again. Thanks Angelo. Seth is a spiritual teacher no longer in physical form that I follow. Was channelled by Jane Roberts in the 60s,70s and 80s. Great stuff and was the first to coin 'you create your own reality'
I've been thinking about the fact that 3 different and significant channeled works - ACIM, the Seth material and The Law of One AKA the Ra material - all popped up in the same decade and in the US; we must have shown promise, eh?
Here's hoping humanity rises to this scary occasion - the brink of the 6th great extinction - as our beautiful planet teeters. Of course, consciousness continues - but we were given Eden for a reason. (Not alluding to the religious Eden tho.)
Paz y luz. ✨🌍🍃🦋🙏✨
Thanks 🙏 So true - that quote of Goethe. I remember the first time I read it - it jumped off the page and grabbed my attention in a most wonderful way.
I visited AMA when she came to Australia :)
Somehow ended up getting pushed to the front of the line out of everyone
Was only a very quick hug from her but I'd love to spend a longer amount of time with her or at her ashram.
I've heard her shakti and energy is so intense with her after 12 or more hours of giving darshan shed then go out on the streets in India cleaning up for hours
Thx for sharing 🤗
That was Alan Watts, "When you get the message, hang up the phone". Great interview with my man, Rick!
Rick Archer and Batgap are life changinf resources. I have learned so much. I don't know if I have listened to all 670 something, but I am working on it. The opening revelry prepares me, and opens my mind ❤️ . Thank you Rick!
I love Rick Archer. What an amazingly interesting man.
This is fantastic! I was so curious about Rick's journey! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Pranam , it's great luck to see you two
Always welcome
Wonderful interview of a beloved person!
Very beautiful, thank you! ❤❤❤
People feel the same kind of feelings around psychopaths and this industry draws them as well, and people should be aware of that. Women are particularly vulnerable.
I like hard questions that both Rick and Angelo take on. They have helped many of us. Namaste !❤💚
Love Rick! 🙏🏻
What a wonderful interview! I love the 60's vibe he carries around still :)
It was your Batgap interview that introduced me to you, Angelo. Such a fabulous resource.
Oh, I was waiting for this. So excited to hear this conversation!
What a wonderful sum up of all the spirituality of the last few years !
Thank you both for your interest and attention in regards to Awakening 👏🏻
Wow, thank you both so much.
Our pleasure!
The “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do…” quote, which Rick attributed to Goethe, was actually penned by the Scottish mountaineer, W.H. Murray, and can be found in his book, ‘The Scottish Himalayan Expedition’.
Insightful conversations. more than just getting to know a little more about Rick, but a lot of deep ground covered as well. Thanks for this interview, both of you.
My two favourites! I enjoyed this talk so much, thank you ♡
Doc, love all the interviews you do for the channel! Thanks as always.
Thanks Angelo and Rick :)
Thank you, wonderful conversation!
Thanks for listening
Great interview with Rick Archer 👍
The guest was insightful and new to me. Your reflections on similar experiences were very additive info that does not come out in your regular videos and makes us see you more. Like your interview demeanor which is to not force anything which can be distracting for the listener
Excellentl Relaxed and precise.
Thank you, Angelo and Rick, for this incredible interview. I've watched Rick and his interviews at BATGP for several years and credit him and and some of his guests for helping "me" to knowingly recognize true Self, beyond name and form. Gratitude to both of YOU. 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Absolutely wonderful. 🙏
Wonderful interview! Thank you.
Listening to his interview of you on BatGap!
Ahhh! 2 of the Most open ....!
my heart is with both of you
Awesome!!!
You are!
Angelo and Rick, thank you so incredibly much for what the both of you do... Taking steps 🙃🙃🙏🙃🙃
Rick Archer, so courageous of you to share about your time with drugs, your rather traumatic childhood, the challenges of your parents. Your journey has been amazing 🌷🌷
Great conversation. Thanks a lot.
Great interview!! I so loved it and got a lot form it!❤
Heck of a nice fella.
wonderful conversation. Thank you both. 🙏❤️
Rick is the sweetest, most modest, man on this earth. Does great service to enhance knowledge and integrity, to the complex spiritual community. Impressive and knowledgeable interviewer.
I have been looking for an interview with Rick for long time !! Thank you! 💓
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Absolutely! 💕
It’s early Christmas! 🎁🙏
On speaking of psychedelic experiences Alan Watts said "When you get the message, hang up the phone...bro" (One word added 😂)
Ricks a Gem
Me encantó esta entrevista con Rick. He visto muchas de las que el hace y ahora fue su turno. Es una persona maravillosa. Gracias querido Angelo.🙏🏻💕
Wow this is the interview I didn't know I needed. :)
Great conversation guys! ❤
This is great! Thank you!
What a wonderful interview! Thank you so much to both of you🧡🙏
It was Alan Watts who said "hang up the phone". Conscious tv and the wonderful New Thinking Allowed by Jeffrey Mishlove are definitely on a par. Jeffrey has been going since the 70s or something. He's still going and has many wonderful interviews. How lovely to see Rick as the interviewee. I was going to say Fr Thomas Keating as well. And many others on BATGAP. Swami Sarvapriyananda is in a class on his own imho. Wonderful. Thank you.
Wonderful. Thanks
Welcome!
I have been bouncing around with your videos. One of them you mentioned something about a "sneak attack". I think it had something to do with transmissions. Do you have any videos containing some of these "sneak attacks" ( from what I remember they're meant to circumvent the analyzing mind)
There are easter eggs hidden everywhere in my videos and book :)
Rick is great!
Thank you!
cool that Rick credits Jeffrey Mishlove, his 'Thinking Allowed' is a great series
what a good idea to interview Rick, he remains for me a puzzle.
I was wondering if astral projection and other things are not the type of thing inside mind( even if cosmic mind)/soul (subconscious), and in that sense, not really related to awakening.
Thank you! Liking!
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
Rick, I haven’t watched this interview, I was just commenting because I was watching Raphael’s interview with you, and I cannot comment there, I’m loving it. I was wondering, Have you ever thought of interviewing Igor Kufayev?
1:11:08 loved Rik’s response here
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Great to hear you talk about your siddhis experience. Since awakening I’ve had many visions of seeing my future. Always mundane, nothing special. Then I started seeing beings that look like “aliens” that were radiating a high frequency of unconditional love. Feel like the more “normal” people talk about it, the more it will become normalized. It’s just what’s happening. So the pathless path leads some here, apparently.
Thanks for sharing!
I would suggest you read about Susan Blackmore who had similar experiences as a student at Oxford. She spent much of her career, including a PhD, following up on this and investigating the experiences of others. She is brilliant and insightful, but gets attacked relentless for being honest about what she found.
@@TomsDone awesome! Thank you. It’ll be great when all this is just common knowledge and people don’t look at you like you are crazy.
Thank you
Welcome!
Begin it?..do i have a choice?..nope❤