372. Harri Aalto – 3rd Interview

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Rick Archer

Harri’s descriptions soar from the mundane to the sublime and explain the intimate details, understanding, and experience of the awakened state in an entirely fresh way. He shows us how this life of ours can be naturally transformed into the delightful liveliness of expanded consciousness even within the activity of daily life.

Harri has worked as a fine artist/designer, a businessman, and a meditation teacher for his whole life. Throughout these very busy years, his experiences of refined states of consciousness and perception have expanded greatly.

He shares his insights in his book, The Landscape of Enlightenment: With Doors and Windows to Our World, which includes his amazing life story from early childhood to the present with very personal, simple stories, works of art and inspired understanding that will uplift your awareness and stir the onset awakening.

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Transcript of this interview.

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Interview recorded 11/12/2016.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 – BATGAP Interview # 372 Harri Aalto
00:05:09 – Major Shifts in Consciousness
00:09:21 – A Finnish Joke and Being Outgoing
00:13:00 – The Experience of Being Always Awake
00:17:12 – Experiencing Pure Consciousness
00:21:25 – The Illusion of Going Away
00:25:54 – The Different Experiences of Awakening
00:30:31 – The Experience of Contentment and Equanimity
00:35:20 – Enlightenment as a Walking, Talking, Everyday Living
00:40:24 – The Challenges and Transformation in Artistic Process
00:45:05 – The Artistic Process and Poetry
00:50:31 – Explaining the State of Consciousness
00:55:41 – The Forms of Intelligence Beyond the Physical
01:00:28 – Opening to Subtle Dimensions
01:05:13 – The Feeling of Wanting to Meet Others with Similar Experiences
01:09:09 – Swimming in Pure Consciousness
01:14:49 – Wholeness and Divine Consciousness
01:19:45 – The Relationship Between Human Consciousness and Universal Consciousness
01:23:30 – Experiencing the Beauty of Venice and the Panorama of Enlightenment
01:27:27 – The Unified Experience of God and Self-Realization in Everyday Life
01:32:29 – The Obstacle of a Job
01:36:45 – The Illusion of Reality
01:41:44 – Enlivening Facets of Enrichment
01:46:14 – Life Beyond Death
01:50:00 – The Vibration of Consciousness
01:54:25 – Perceiving Existence
01:59:13 – Experiencing the Landscape of the Absolute
02:04:18 – The Log Toboggan Incident
02:08:38 – Life is a Precious Gift
02:14:02 – The Impact of Spiritual Unfoldment
02:18:08 – Rick and Harri Conversation

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360. David Newman

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Rick Archer

David passed away from a malignant brain tumor on April 18, 2024.

David Newman was an author, inspirational teacher, world-renowned devotional singer, songwriter and recording artist. He traveled extensively sharing his music, and teachings on the path of love as a vehicle for spiritual awakening. David was also the creator of the The Stay Strong Project and the founder of Yoga On Main. He has been featured on NPR, and in The Washington Post and Yoga Journal among many others. David, also known as Durga Das, lived with his wife Mira and daughter Tulsi just outside of Philadelphia, USA.

Website: davidnewmanmusic.com

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 8/31/2016.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:07:12 – From Tennis to Yoga to Kirtan Singing
00:13:16 – Introduction to Kirtan and Neem Kurali Baba
00:20:41 – The agenda of a great being
00:28:22 – Medication and Mental Health among Youth
00:35:10 – Stay Strong, Keep Your Faith Alive
00:46:16 – The Dance between Nondual Awakening and Bhakti Path
00:54:16 – The Intensity of the Moment
01:00:49 – The Nature of Seeking and the Shift Away from Seeking
01:07:46 – The Power of Devotion and Self-Knowledge
01:15:12 – The Expression of Bhakti
01:24:12 – Bhakti Yoga and the Higher Paradigm
01:29:35 – A Shift in Progress
01:31:10 – Feeling a Shift
01:32:45 – A Shift in Energy
01:34:20 – A Shift in Perception
01:35:55 – Shift
01:37:30 – Feeling a Shift
01:39:05 – A Shift is Felt
01:40:40 – A Shift in the Atmosphere
01:42:15 – A Shift in Perspective
01:43:50 – A Shift in the Atmosphere
01:45:25 – Feeling a Shift
01:47:00 – A Shift in Energy
01:48:35 – Shift
01:50:10 – Shift in Perspective
01:51:45 – Feeling the Shift
01:53:20 – A Shift in Consciousness
01:55:48 – Irene Recommends an Interview with David Shapiro
02:04:29 – Music

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350. Jurgen Ziewe

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Rick Archer

Jurgen Ziewe has been following a strict regime of meditation since 1969. In 1973, after a six-month stint of intensive meditation for up to five hours a day, he decided to abandon the practice completely, being disappointed with the lack of progress and some negative side effects. Then one day out of the blue, at breakfast, he spontaneously experienced a total dissociation from his body and entered a state of what he described as one of absolute clarity. After this he continued his meditation practice, but now paying homage to the experience with more humility than before. He directly attributes the spontaneous Out-of-body experiences that followed for the next forty years, to this powerful experience of consciousness singularity.

Jurgen has spent hundreds of hours, mostly in a super waking awareness in these out-of-body states, which frequently lasted several hours at a time. He soon mapped out what he considered to be the multidimensional reality man inhabits after physical death.

On one of these non-physical excursions he was met by a Chinese Master who put him through an intensive training process in order for him to reach much higher states of consciousness. In 1980, on one of these OBE journeys, he was taken once more into a state of absolute clarity. This and other significant experiences were chronicled in his diaries and later published in his books, “Multidimensional Man” in 2008 and “Vistas of Infinity” in 2015, by which time he had experienced another singularity event on a solitary mountain retreat, later published in his book, “The Ten Minute Moment”.

Jurgen sees himself as a reporter, not as a teacher. His down-to-earth narrative has attracted the attention from the science community and he has recently contributed a chapter to a science publication entitled, “Consciousness Beyond the Body: Evidence and Reflections” by Alexander de Foe, where he explores the nature of nonphysical consciousness, in collaboration with other experiencers.

In his working life Jurgen Ziewe is a sought after commercial illustrator with a global clientele. Using the latest CG technology of the film industry has allowed him to document his experiences in alternate realities in a very visual format. His graphic testimonies have been likened to those of Swedenborg and his accounts of the higher spiritual realms give a vivid insight into the infinite strata of human consciousness which is rarely reported in such depth and detail.

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