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713. Tree Wiseblood 2

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Tree works as a Spiritual Mentor, Kundalini Support, Certified Global TRE® Instructor, Transformational Bodyworker and a Healer from the Shamanic tradition.

Tree believes healing trauma can precipitate spiritual awakening and it is from this precept she works. She works with the body releasing contraction and with the nervous system establishing balance – with the understanding that a disregulated nervous system can hold the beingness hostage.

She believes enlightenment is achieved not by bypassing the body, but by going into the body. By addressing and releasing trauma bound in the flesh and stored in the nervous system. This is true freedom and the result is presence – embodied.
Tree has been a devotee of Meher Baba since she was 21.

She and her husband are establishing a Retreat Centre on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia called Meher Farm Healing and Awakening Centre.

Tree is the author of Hot Flush Dark Cave describing her healing and awakening journey through the portal of menopause.

She is a devoted mother, grandmother and healer – her favourite past time is swimming in the river and the ocean and chanting to God.

Website: awakeningthroughthebody.com.au

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group

Summary and transcript of this interview

Interview recorded August 3, 2024

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:03:53 – The Correlation Between Consciousness and Neurophysiology
  • 00:07:53 – The Loop of an Agitated Nervous System
  • 00:11:35 – The Nervous System and the Flow State
  • 00:15:38 – The Impact of Early Trauma in Human Beings
  • 00:19:39 – The Importance of Healing the Nervous System
  • 00:23:22 – Trauma and its manifestations
  • 00:27:11 –  “Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance”
  • 00:31:06 – Body Work and Spiritual Awakening
  • 00:35:21 – Kundalini Awakening and Working with the Body
  • 00:39:05 – Working through Impressions
  • 00:43:00 – The Beginning of the Involution
  • 00:47:13 – Understanding vs Realization
  • 00:51:05 – Avatars and Spiritual Teachers
  • 00:54:55 – Astral Exorcism and Healing Dance
  • 00:58:44 – The Kundalini Awakening Process
  • 01:02:31 – Kundalini Awakening and Spontaneous Movements
  • 01:06:19 – Purging Negativity
  • 01:09:54 – The Annihilation of the Apparent World
  • 01:13:37 – The Final Destination and Different Planes of Existence
  • 01:17:35 – The Journey of Awakening
  • 01:21:44 – The Existence of Ego in Different States
  • 01:25:51 – Kundalini Awakening and the Sacred Fluids
  • 01:29:42 – The Value of a Life
  • 01:33:33 – Different Types of Meditation
  • 01:37:30 – Releasing Emotions
  • 01:41:18 – The Presence of Benign and Caring Intelligences
  • 01:45:17 – Healing Ceremonies and Nature Retreats
  • 01:49:19 – Following Intuition and Divine Orchestration at 61
  • 01:53:24 – Following the Synchronicities
  • 01:56:55 – In Touch for the Next 15 Years

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648. Karen V. Johnson

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Karen V. Johnson is a graduate of Georgetown Law Center (J.D.), a former Fulbright Scholar in Afghanistan, and holds Masters Degrees in Public Health and Public and International Affairs (MPH, MPIA). Karen is a retired federal administrative law judge who practiced criminal and energy law for more than 30 years. She also is a former U.S. Army officer, Major, USAR (inactive). Karen was personally trained by Alberto Villoldo, and is faculty at the Four Winds Society and a Master Practitioner of Energy Medicine. She has trained extensively in the techniques of Illumination, Soul Retrieval, Extractions of Energies and Entities, Divination, and Death Rites. Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss is her first book.

Website: karenjohnson.net

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Summary and Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded May 28, 2022

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:05:21 – Finding Comfort in Belief of Life After Death
  • 00:09:08 – Life After Death
  • 00:13:05 – Communicating with Subtle Beings
  • 00:16:51 – The Old Man in the Basement and Childhood Experiences+
  • 00:20:32 – Orchestrating the Unfolding of Events
  • 00:24:17 – The Journey of Grief
  • 00:28:36 – Providing Help in Grief and Isolation
  • 00:32:15 – Ceremony and Healing Practices
  • 00:36:38 – Finding Meaning in Regrets and Life Experiences
  • 00:41:25 – The Journey of Ben’s Difficulties
  • 00:44:59 – Struggles and Loss
  • 00:48:14 – Awakening to Other Realms
  • 00:51:48 – Beings on the Other Side
  • 00:55:38 – The Significance of Dream Time
  • 01:00:08 – The Dangers of Isolation and Conspirituality
  • 01:03:45 – The Eternal Self and the Purpose of Death
  • 01:06:44 – The Revelations of Time
  • 01:11:15 – The Science and Spirituality Interface
  • 01:15:32 – Traveling the World and Pursuing Different Traditions
  • 01:19:53 – Metaphors of Journey and Healing
  • 01:23:57 – Working with Luminous Energy Fields
  • 01:27:06 – Discovering a Path for Change
  • 01:30:12 – The Feeling of Being Invisible
  • 01:33:38 – Finding Your Personal Path to Meditation
  • 01:37:05 – Embracing Diversity in Spirituality
  • 01:40:24 – The Beauty and Complexity of the World
  • 01:43:13 – Closet Believers in Woo Woo
  • 01:46:54 – The Importance of Practicing Beauty
  • 01:51:05 – The Beauty and Joy of Life
  • 01:54:42 – Upcoming Interview with Delayed Author

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628. Betty Kovacs

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Dr. Betty J. Kovacs’ understanding of consciousness and spirituality is based on both scholarly research and symbolic, visionary experience.  In fact, she has written two books concerning these subjects.  Her first book is about her family’s profound visionary experiences surrounding multiple deaths in their family.  Her second book relates to our ancestors’ experience of a vaster consciousness, Cosmic/Christ Consciousness.

Within a three-year period, Dr. Kovacs experienced the deaths of her mother, her son, and her husband in separate automobile accidents.  While she had studied shamanism before her son’s accident, she and her husband actually experienced their son’s consciousness after his death for an extended period of time.  These experiences completely changed their lives.  Her first book, The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life, is about these altered states of consciousness.  After her retirement, she began an intensified period of research into our ancestors’ experience of a vaster consciousness, Cosmic/Christ Consciousness, which she relates in her new book, Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of the Nautilus Silver Book Award and The Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize.

Dr. Kovacs’ extensive research tracked the existence of a shamanic-mystic-scientist culture from at least 40,000 BCE.  Our ancestors had developed symbolic language and various shamanic techniques to trigger altered states of consciousness.  Some of these ancestors achieved great skill as visionaries, mystics, and scientists, while others, it is not known how many, achieved the ability to experience Cosmic Consciousness.

The consistent suppression of this ancient wisdom is the root cause of our current planetary crisis.  And it can only be healed through the consciousness of the heart that births a just and feeling world.  This same tradition, on which our survival now depends, has once again emerged today—and it can change the world.

Website: kamlak.com

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Summary and Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded December 19, 2021.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:04:09 – The Search for Meaning and Belief
  • 00:07:58 – The Ancient Wisdom of Shamanism
  • 00:12:11 – Uncovering Ancient Wisdom
  • 00:16:28 – Suppression of the Sacred Feminine
  • 00:20:47 – Living with the Tao and the Awakening
  • 00:24:48 – The Distorted Story of the Tree
  • 00:28:47 – The Hidden Tradition of Christianity and the Gnostic Experience
  • 00:33:03 – The Church’s Resistance to Scientific Exploration
  • 00:37:30 – A Journey of Search and Freedom
  • 00:41:36 – The Power of the Feminine and the Importance of Listening 
  • 00:45:05 – Plans Being Made for Us
  • 00:49:13 – The Hidden Tradition within the Church
  • 00:53:25 – The Dangers of Manipulating Human Nature
  • 00:57:18 – Unfolding our Full Inner Potential
  • 01:01:09 – The Wholeness of Mind Experience
  • 01:05:14 – Ancient Wisdom and Indigenous Cultures
  • 01:09:43 – The Deep Spiritual River
  • 01:14:00 – A Father’s Vision
  • 01:18:04 – Decaying and Transforming Darkness into Light
  • 01:22:15 – The Earth’s Longing for Love
  • 01:26:36 – Interactions with Higher Forms of Life
  • 01:30:31 – Integration of Cosmic Consciousness
  • 01:34:56 – The Relevance of Connecting to Vast Intelligence
  • 01:39:30 – The Power of Creativity and Love
  • 01:43:41 – True Stories and Organizing Principles
  • 01:47:33 – The Wisdom of Integration
  • 01:51:59 – Finding Purpose Despite Circumstances
  • 01:55:45 – Finding Fulfillment and Inner Peace on the Spiritual Path
  • 01:59:24 – The Power of Lighting a Candle

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