640. Andrew Holecek

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Rick Archer

Andrew Holecek has completed the traditional three-year Buddhist meditation retreat and teaches internationally on meditation, dream yoga, and the art of dying. He is the author of six books, and many articles, including scientific papers on lucid dreaming. Dr. Holecek is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and a concert pianist, with degrees in music, biology, and a doctorate in dental surgery. He is the co-founder of Global Dental Relief, which serves impoverished children in six developing countries; the founder of the online platform Night Club, which supports the nocturnal meditations, and the founder of the Preparing to Die Institute, a nine-month spiritual and practical training program to help with the end of life.

Books:

Website: andrewholecek.com

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Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded March 27, 2022

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590. Theresa Cheung

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Rick Archer

Theresa Cheung was born into a family of spiritualists. She has a Masters degree from Kings College, Cambridge, and has written numerous bestselling dream, angel, afterlife, ritual, and spiritual titles and Encyclopedias, including two Sunday Times top 10 bestsellers. She has been a guest on Russell Brand’s Under the Skin and Coast to Coast AM and featured in numerous newspapers and media.

Main points discussed:

Theresa’s bio and background
Movies can be a powerful means of popularizing spiritual knowledge.
Supernatural experiences are part of the human experiences. We should not idolize those who have them but investigate the possibility of having them ourselves.
Dreams inspire interest in spirituality.
The pandemic “lockdown dream phenomenon”.
“Dreams are your intuition, your internal therapist”
The inner guide is switched off in the modern busy world, but the pandemic switched it back on.
Night visions and how they may be much more than dreams.
Lucid dreaming
Confronting difficulties in dreams can prepare one to deal with difficult situations in waking life.
Theresa’s investigation of mediumship.
Discussion of cults and the importance of spiritual integrity.
The importance of humility on the spiritual path.
We’re all ordinary people who have extraordinary experiences from time to time.
Everyone’s path is unique.
It can be tempting to follow a teacher and intoxicating to amass followers.
An extensive discussion of angels.
The importance of kindness and caring for others.
The importance of a scientific approach to spirituality.
The importance of open-mindedness and not knowing all the answers.
When someone dies, there is a relationship in spirit not limited by space and time.
Heaven on earth. The life we live here determines the quality of the afterlife.
The importance of forgiveness.
Theresa mentions that ‘forgiveness’ is somewhat neglected in contemporary spirituality.
Relationships with animals.
The importance of curiosity.

A few of Theresa’s books:

Website: theresacheung.com

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Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded March 6, 2021.

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552. Lars Muhl

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Rick Archer

Lars Muhl is a Danish author, mystic, and musician, born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1950.

Already as a 10-year-old, Lars Muhl had experienced glimpses of another reality. The shock following the sudden death of his younger sister, caused painful kundalini-like experiences, giving access to the ethereal worlds and a hypersensitive insight into other people’s pain. This lasted for three years.

A turning point came when Lars was 15 and received a book anonymously in the post. Hazrat Inayat Khan’s ‘Gayan Vadan Nirtan’ became the start of a lifelong esoteric study.

Like Paulo Coelho, Lars was for many years a successful singer/songwriter who, concurrently with his music, studied the world’s religions and esoteric knowledge. Then in 1996, he was struck down by an unexplained illness, which neither doctors nor alternative therapists could diagnose. For three years he lay in bed without being able to move or think straight.

Through a close friend’s intervention, Lars was put in touch with a seer who, via the telephone, brought him back to life. That was the start of a completely new existence and the beginning of that quest he has so grippingly described in his trilogy book ‘The O Manuscript: The Seer, The Magdalene, The Grail’.

Other books:

Movie Lars referred to during the interview: The Gate of Light by Lars Muhl

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Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded May 30, 2020

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