Craig Holliday is both a Nondual teacher and Licensed Professional Counselor, offering Nondual Therapy and Meditation workshops, retreats and Satsang. His work is dedicated to the discovery of our innate Divinity through embracing our Humanity. He works in a way that addresses our everyday suffering as a doorway to our inherent freedom. He meets with individuals in Durango, Colorado and from around the world on Skype.

At just 19, Craig began apprenticing under his teacher David in Southwest Colorado. David, a little-known meditation master, (who lives a private meditative life) guided Craig for 20 years, in the lineage of Sri Aurobindo. This relationship deeply shaped Craig’s life and teachings.

During the last 10 years Craig also studied with Adyashanti who guided him through 4 profound awakenings (head, heart, Hara and Kundalini). Upon request from others, Craig began sharing these nondual teachings in Satsang.

Over the years, Craig has received ongoing support with teaching and his personal life from David, Adyashanti, Lama Tsultrim and others. Despite profoundly awakening to the truth of his own being, Craig also understands the evolutionary nature of our souls and values the work of continually examining our humanity (both individually and with teachers), while surrendering to our Divinity in greater and greater ways. He shares this same invitation to others.

Website: craigholliday.com

Book: Fully Human Fully Divine, Awakening to our Innate Beauty through Embracing our Humanity

Other BatGap episodes involving Craig:

• Craig Holliday in Panel at Sofia U. Part 1 | Part 2
• Panel discussions on ethics and spiritual teaching
• SAND Panel Discussion on Sexual Misconduct, Money, Power, Trauma & Ethics in Spiritual Communities

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 1/3/2015

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

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:04:38 – Meeting the Teacher and Spiritual Experiences
• 00:08:45 – Meeting David Shapiro and his Teaching Journey
• 00:12:51 – Opening to Your Direct Experience of God
• 00:16:55 – The Guru-Apprentice Relationship
• 00:21:27 – Beyond Ego and Desires
• 00:25:53 – The Transcendent Awakening and Illusion
• 00:30:19 – The Embodiment Process and Overcoming Egoic Nature
• 00:35:21 – The Importance of Spiritual Practice and Surrender
• 00:40:13 – Being Present to What’s Here Right Now
• 00:45:05 – Willingness to Feel Pain
• 00:49:36 – Opening Fully to Pain
• 00:54:16 – The Power of Pain and Bliss
• 00:59:06 – Trusting in Your Nature
• 01:03:39 – Experiencing Spaciousness in Everyday Life
• 01:07:58 – Falling in Love and Divine Orchestration
• 01:12:14 – God’s Purpose in Terrible Things
• 01:16:49 – The Unfolding of Reality
• 01:21:17 – The Awakening and Impersonal Experience
• 01:26:58 – The Paradox of Pain and Bliss
• 01:31:54 – The Implosion of Personality into Divinity and the End of Seeking
• 01:37:05 – The Dynamic Aspect of God’s Evolution
• 01:41:40 – The Individuality and Awakening
• 01:45:58 – Kundalini Awakening and Intense Experiences
• 01:50:50 – Resting in the Quiet Silence
• 01:55:46 – Kundalini Experiences and Practices to Avoid
• 02:00:38 – Embracing the Egoic Nature and the Collective Egoic Nature
• 02:05:42 – The Journey of Surrender to Divinity
• 02:10:31 – Different Awakenings and Personal Maturity
• 02:15:12 – Hope and Inspiration in Listening from the Heart
• 02:19:07 – Sign up for exclusive content

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Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality. For the last several  years he has been included in Watkin’s list of the ‘100 most spiritually influential living people.’ His books have been published in 16 languages, while his articles and essays have been published in over 40 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.’ Andrew Harvey has said of his work, ‘Its importance for our menacing times and for the transformation being birthed by them cannot be exaggerated.’ Steve is also a poet; his first book of poems and spiritual reflections, The Meaning, has just been published. Steve lives in Manchester, England with his wife and three young children

Books:

• Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent
• The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of A New Era
• Out of the Darkness: From Turmoil to Transformation
• Back To Sanity: Healing the Madness of Our Minds
• The Meaning

Steve’s website

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 6/15/2013

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

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Steve Taylor and his Work
• 00:03:10 – Healing the Pathology of the Human Psyche and Moving Towards Harmony and Enlightenment
• 00:06:44 – The Ego Explosion and the Development of Individuality
• 00:10:28 – The Shift to Male Domination and Exploitation of the Natural World
• 00:14:10 – The Expansion of Consciousness and the Rise of Empathy
• 00:17:49 – Jean Gebser’s Theory of Evolution
• 00:21:25 – The True Nature of our Being and Increasing Collective Harmony
• 00:25:17 – Awakening in the Midst of Suffering
• 00:28:28 – Shifting into a Different Appreciation of Life
• 00:31:46 – Transformation and Inner Well-Being
• 00:35:20 – Surrender and Transformation
• 00:38:57 – Bliss and the Return Journey
• 00:43:16 – Awakening to the Radiance of the Universe
• 00:47:24 – Regaining Awareness of Spirit Force, Identity, and Individuality
• 00:51:05 – Fear and Separateness
• 00:54:11 – Awakening and Integration
• 00:57:37 – The Search for Understanding and Integration
• 01:00:57 – Parenthood and Spiritual Development
• 01:04:13 – Awakening to a Larger Reality
• 01:08:06 – The Role of the ‘I’ in Decision-Making
• 01:11:46 – The Role of the Ego in Spiritual Awakening
• 01:15:14 – Spiritual Awakening and Psychosis
• 01:18:17 – Signs of Awakening and the Restructuring of Consciousness
• 01:22:01 – The Emergence of the Higher Self
• 01:25:37 – Inner Harmony for World Peace
• 01:28:45 – Detachment and Awakening
• 01:32:44 – Letting go of Attachments and Beliefs
• 01:38:57 – Letting Go of Attachments
• 01:45:10 – Bringing Yourself Back to Now
• 01:49:29 – The Power of Reading Poetry Aloud
• 01:52:29 – Updates and Future Plans

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Yukio ‘Ramana,’ MA, CCHT, started his study of meditation and psychology in 1967 with Zen meditation and Gestalt Therapy. His studies continued through the 1970’s with a Taoist Master, Chu Fong Chu in Berkeley, California, where he continued his studies in Psychology and Taoist philosophy. In 1977, he was certified as a biofeedback therapist and maintained a private practice and lectured on biofeedback in Berkeley, California. He pioneered a Rolfing/Biofeedback study which confirmed in 1977 that the Rolfing work was stabilized with Biofeedback.

In the early 1980’s, he co-founded the Fellowship of Awakening along with Shakti Gawain (author of ‘Creative Visualization’), Tolly Burkan (firewalking teacher to Tony Robbins) and Mark Allen (publisher of Ekhart Tolle’s, ‘The Power of Now’) , teaching creative visualization, affirmation, rebirthing, biofeedback and principles of clearing consciousness. He then obtained Master’s degree is in Psychology and Transpersonal Studies from Norwich University, New Hampshire.

In 1990, Ramana co-founded and was the Education Director of the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Institute. Here, he brought his skills as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, an NLP Master Practitioner Trainer’s Trainer, an Ericksonian Hypnosis Master Practitioner, a Certified Biofeedback Therapist to help make the training institute one of (then) top three hypnosis and hypnotherapy professional training schools in the United States.

Ramana has lectured at the world famous Esalen Institute, the University Extensions of San Francisco State and Davis University, the University of Wyoming, and at the Association for Transpersonal Psychology’s Annual Conference. He worked with the Denver General Hospital’s Cancer Support Network, and became well known in that group for some of the ‘miracles’ of cancer recovery from people who worked with him.

In 1993, Ramana studied with a great Indian saint, Hari Lal Pooja (affectionately known as ‘Papaji’) in the Punjabi district of India. Papaji was a direct disciple of one of India’s greatest saints, Sri Ramana Maharshi. In turn, before Papaji passed, gave Yukio the name ‘Ramana’, after his own beloved master Ramana Maharshi, and encouraged him to carry the message of truth to groups and individuals.

In 1997, Ramana combined his years as a Transpersonal psychotherapist, hypnosis, NLP, biofeedback, Taoist philosophy, creative visualization with his studies of ancient Indian teachings (from masters throughout India) to create “Radical Awakening and the Opening to Heart Consciousness’ which precipitates an opening into the true self of Being. He has found that when Being is in alignment with the true self, the space of unbounded of love and energy emerges, which sometimes opens deep healings at a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level.

Ramana has been teaching and maintaining a private psychotherapy and healing arts practice since 1978. He now resides in both New York and India. Since 1997, he has traveled full-time throughout the United States, Canada and the East sharing his work, Radical Awakening and the Opening to Heart Consciousness, and has trained hundreds of practitioners to continue his work.

Ramana’s website

Interview recorded 4/6/2013

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

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Ramana, the Diverse Teacher
• 00:03:41 – Questioning the Natural State
• 00:07:37 – Looking Back and Finding the Perceiver
• 00:11:39 – Ramana Maharshi’s Teachings
• 00:15:08 – The Focus of the Radical Awakening Work
• 00:19:31 – The Function of a Guru
• 00:23:39 – Power Spots and Energy Signatures
• 00:29:13 – The Net of Grace
• 00:32:46 – The Paradox of Multidimensionality of Life
• 00:36:42 – Shiva, the Destroyer of Dreams
• 00:41:25 – The Flipping of Primary Identification
• 00:45:51 – No More Practices
• 00:49:55 – The Story Behind My Name
• 00:53:39 – The Significance of Getting a New Name
• 00:56:18 – The Power of Hindu Names
• 00:59:23 – The name Yukio Ramana and the story of Hemuna’s encounter with Yogi Ram Saratkumar
• 01:02:40 – Reflections and Karaoke Names
• 01:06:54 – The Enneagram Workshop and Satsang with Papaji
• 01:11:07 – The Messenger’s Ultimate Function
• 01:14:53 – Different Approaches to Self-Inquiry
• 01:19:27 – Influencing States with Words
• 01:23:15 – The Origin of “Radical Awakening”
• 01:26:37 – The Opening to the Heart of Consciousness
• 01:31:04 – Throwing Away the Black Bag
• 01:35:22 – The Invitation to Stay
• 01:38:20 – A True Fall from Whatever
• 01:43:04 – Moments of Grace and Self-realization
• 01:48:11 – The Spark of Presence in Horrific Circumstances
• 01:52:48 – The Feminine Aspect and Multidimensional Existence
• 01:58:11 – The Heart Meditation
• 02:02:00 – Various Ways to Support the Channel

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