677. Seán ÓLaoire

Sean O’LaoireFr. Seán ÓLaoire was born in Ireland and earned a B.Sc. degree (major in Mathematics) from the National University of Ireland. Ordained a catholic priest in 1972, he spent 14 years working in Kenya. He is multi-lingual and has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology; he is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice. He is co-founder and the Spiritual Director of a non-denominational community called “Companions on the Journey” based in Palo Alto. He is the author of five books and co-author of a sixth:

  1. “Ukweli ni Nini?” (What is truth?) – written and published in Swahili in 1983
  2. Spirits in Spacesuits – A Manual for Everyday Mystics”- published in 2003
  3. Souls on Safari” – published in 2006 – Translated into German in 2007
  4. A Sensible God” – published in 2008
  5. Why? What Your Life Is Telling You about Who You Are and Why You’re Here” – published in 2013 (with Matthew McKay, PhD and Ralph Metzner, PhD) – Translated into Korean in 2015
  6. Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We’ve Created in Our Own Image” – published in 2021

Summary and transcript of this interview

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group

Interview recorded February 25, 2023

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

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump. Mythology and ‘Thin Places’ 
  • 00:06:40 – The Wisdom of Proverbs in Different Cultures
  • 00.09:00 Trying to domesticate God 
  • 00:12:16 – The Cycle of Knowledge and Ignorance
  • 00:17:39 – The Disadvantages of Incarnation
  • 00.23:20 Transformation of Consciousness 
  • 00:23:46 – Ineffective Structures and People’s Transformation
  • 00:29:20 – The Rural Electrification Scheme in Ireland
  • 00:34:51 – The Invitation to Self-Transcendence
  • 00:40:08 – The Complexity of Existence
  • 00.41:15 Karma and Pre-conception Contracts 
  • 00:45:44 – Pulling Life Over the Cliff
  • 00:51:22 – The Purpose of Incarnations
  • 00:56:54 – Understanding Karma and Destiny
  • 01:00:45 The Science of Spirituality 
  • 01:02:47 – Reincarnation in Christianity
  • 01:08:15 – The Three Axes of Spiritual Awareness and Metrics in Spirituality
  • 01:14:12 – The Constraints of the Scientific Method
  • 01:20:35 – The merge of science and spirituality
  • 01:26:15 The Global Awakening 
  • 01:26:24 – Awakening to Powerful Spiritual Experiences
  • 01:31:56 – Confrontation and the 80:20 Rule in Spiritual Teachings
  • 01:37:49 – The Types of Civilizations and Our Current State
  • 01:43:41 – The Role of Healing Modalities in Personal Growth
  • 01:43:54 Healing Trauma 
  • 01:49:43 – The End of Reincarnation?
  • 01:55:22 – Separating from Narcissists
  • 01:56:34 The Trifurcation of Homo Sapiens Sapiens
  • 02:00:41 – Forming Community and Overcoming Superiority
  • 02:06:17 – The Unity of All Life
  • 02:12:18 – Communicating with Animals

669. Neil Douglas-Klotz

Neil Douglas-Klotz is an internationally known scholar in the fields connecting religious studies (comparative Semitic hermeneutics) and psychology as well as a poet and musician. He is the author of Prayers of the Cosmos, Desert Wisdom, The Hidden Gospel, and The Genesis Meditations as well as coauthor of The Tent of Abraham with Sr. Joan Chittister and Rabbi Arthur Waskow. He is the past chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion and is active in various international colloquia and conferences dedicated to peace and spirituality.

Website: abwoon.org

Amazon Author’s Page, listing all of his books

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded November 5, 2022

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


YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Neil Douglas-Klotz
  • 00:03:29 Neil’s background
  • 00:04:40 – A Childhood of Alternative Beliefs
  • 00:09:22 – How I Made Major Life Decisions
  • 00:12:20 Aramaic, Sanskrit, Sound and Meaning
  • 00:13:42 – The Connection Between Language and Objects
  • 00:15:54 Chanting, mantra and the evolution of consciousness
  • 00:17:47 – Human Consciousness and Modern Life
  • 00:20:34. Changing the cultural paradigm of materialism
  • 00:21:52 – Separation from Family Conditioning
  • 00:22:09 Yeshua’s healings and the culture of his time.
  • 00:24:14 Did Jesus exist?
  • 00:26:29 – The Transmission History of the Gospels
  • 00:26:55 How and when were Jesus’ words first written down?
  • 00:30:22 – The Origins of Aramaic and Greek in Jesus’s Vicinity
  • 00:31:11 Aramaic and Greek at Jesus’ tme.
  • 00:33:04 Hundreds of early gospels.
  • 00:34:50 – The Origins of Christian Creeds
  • 00:35:49 Modern Christian religion and politics.
  • 00:37:03 Neil’s new book Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: his method and texts
  • 00:39:04 – The Translation of Scriptures
  • 00:39:10 The King James Version of the Bible
  • 00:40:27 “What would Jesus do?”
  • 00:43:29 – The Connection to the Source of the Self
  • 00:44:10 Evolution of Neil’s work
  • 00:45:07 “I am the way, the truth and the life….”
  • 00:47:50 – The Meaning of “Hayye”
  • 00:50:15 Jesus’ miracles and healings, and early human consciousness.
  • 00:52:13 – Healing through Connection to the Unseen
  • 00:54:15 The important Aramaic words usually translated “good” and “evil”
  • 00:56:50 – Ripening in the Breath
  • 00:59:50 Jesus and prayer, with and without words
  • 01:00:45 – Entraining with the Teacher’s Consciousness
  • 01:03:01 Worst mistranlation that empowers colonialism and ecocide.
  • 01:04:49 – The Injustices of the World
  • 01:06:56“Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven…”
  • 01:08:57 – The Interconnection of Inner and Outer Life
  • 01:09:09 The “sin against the Holy Ghost.”
  • 01:12:06 The Aramaic “lord’s prayer” in brief
  • 01:14:37 – Hollowing oneself for resonance with the cosmos
  • 01:18:57 – The Aramaic Prayer of Dedication
  • 01:20:39 Conversion, “saving the soul” or the soul saving you
  • 01:23:18 – The history of Christianity and religion’s impact
  • 01:23:40 Snake handling?
  • 01:25:28 “I and my father are one.”
  • 01:27:25 – The Living Togetherness with the Creating Source
  • 01:29:38 “omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent?
  • 01:30:45 “only begotten son”
  • 01:31:36 – Jesus, the Cross, and Trust
  • 01:35:05 “Did Jesus die on the cross?”
  • 01:35:40 – The Possibility of Jesus’ Survival on the Cross
  • 01:37:53 Seeing angels or beings from other faiths
  • 01:39:04 Jung’s “Christian yoga”
  • 01:39:44 – Awakening and Healing with Neil Douglas-Klotz
  • 01:40:56 “original sin”
  • 01:43:46 “judge not lest you be judged”
  • 01:43:57 – Finding Your Path in Life
  • 01:45:51 What is mine to do?
  • 01:47:47 Jesus suffering
  • 01:48:12 – The concept of pain and suffering in Christianity
  • 01:50:32 “let him who is without sin cast the first stone”
  • 01:52:02 – Tangled Relationships and Casting Stones
  • 01:54:19 the “house divided against itself”
  • 01:56:11 – Representatives of Anything Worthwhile
  • 01:57:36 “you shall know them by their fruits”
  • 01:57:56 non-dual existence
  • 02:00:32 – The Concept of Hell in Ancient Semitic Mysticism
  • 02:00:38 The ancient Semitic afterlife
  • 02:02:28 Reincarnation in the Bible?
  • 02:04:54 – The Power of Chants and Music
  • 02:05:40 The source of Neil’s Aramaic chants
  • 02:07:36 Chanting Abwoon d’bashmaya
  • 02:10:34 – The Power of Transformation

642. Sebastián Blaksley, 2nd Interview

Sebastián BlaksleySebastián Blaksley is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1968 he was born into a large traditional Catholic family.

He attended the Colegio del Salvador, a Jesuit school of which the headmaster was Jorge Bergoglio, the current Pope Francis. Sebastian enjoyed sport in his youth, particularly Rugby football, a game that a number of his family have a long involvement with in Argentina.

Although he wanted to be a monk as a young man, his family did not consider it acceptable, and the inner voice that he always followed let him know that: “You must be in the world, without being of the world.” He studied Business Administration in Buenos Aires and completed his postgraduate studies in the United States and Argentina. He also undertook further studies in England.

He held several highly responsible positions in well-known international corporations, living and working in the USA, England, China, and Panama. He then founded his own corporate consulting firm in Argentina which he led for over 10 years. He has willingly given the company he owned to employees who wanted to continue the business. Sebastián has two daughters with his former wife.

At the age of six, Sebastián was involved in a near-fatal accident during which he heard a voice, which later identified itself as Jesus. Ever since he has continued to hear that voice. Sebastián says: “Since I can remember, I have felt the call of Jesus and Mary to live abandoned to their will so that despite my various activities, I always put spiritual and religious reality at the center. I am devoted to my faith.”

In 2013, he began to record messages from his mystical experiences. In 2016, he miraculously discovered the books comprising A Course of Love (“received” from Jesus by Mari Perron) and felt the call to devote himself to bringing the course to the Spanish-speaking world. More recently Sebastian receives, transcribes, and shares what the voice of Christ—the voice of love—mystically dictates to him.

Most recently he has “received” an astonishing, and most beautiful and uplifting series of messages from Heaven resulting in the Choose Only Love series of seven books, the first of which was published in October, 2019. The seventh and final book was published in March 2022.

Sebastian is living on a small island in the Tigre Delta waterways on the outskirts of Buenos Aires; overseeing the building of a retreat property called, at the suggestion of Mother Mary, the Refuge of Divine Love. People from around the world are warmly invited to spend time here in this tranquil and verdant haven covering some 23 secluded acres, to “live the books” in the company of Sebastian as a welcoming host.

Sebastián is president of the nonprofit charity Fundación Amor Vivo,  through which he shares A Course of Love, as well as the sublime channeled angelic messages which found their home in the Choose Only Love books and audios. The angels lovingly refer to him as “a pencil in the hands of God.”

Websites:

Books: Choose Only Love (7 book series) – English

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcripts of this interview:

Interview recorded April 10, 2022

First BatGap interview with Sebastián.

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

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:04:37 – Receiving Messages from Celestial Beings
  • 00:08:54 – Receiving Communications from God
  • 00:13:27 – Universal Love and Recognition of Divine Beings
  • 00:18:07 – Jesus’ Appearance and Artistic Representations
  • 00:22:22 – The Essence of Angelic Beings and Love
  • 00:26:37 – Becoming One with God
  • 00:31:04 – The Universal Connection and Divine Dialogue
  • 00:35:13 – Making the Choice for Love
  • 00:39:36 – Communication without Words
  • 00:43:21 – The New Understanding of Prophets and the Second Advent
  • 00:47:51 – The New Earthly Kingdom
  • 00:51:46 – The Choice between Love and Fear in Times of Transformation
  • 00:56:04 – Understanding the True Identity of Others
  • 01:00:00 – Acting out of Love
  • 01:04:16 – The Union of Mind and Heart
  • 01:08:44 – Return to Unity with the Divine Source
  • 01:13:10 – Remain in me, remain in peace
  • 01:17:49 – The Interconnected Universe
  • 01:21:52 – The Pale Blue Dot and Our Cosmic Existence
  • 01:26:14 – Integrating our Humanity with our Divine Aspects
  • 01:30:02 – The Role of Holy Spirit in Relation to Jesus, Mary, and Archangels
  • 01:33:52 – Not participating in the chain of fear
  • 01:37:46 – The Importance of Higher Consciousness
  • 01:41:39 – Longing for Spiritual Awakening
  • 01:45:20 – Achieving Inner Congruence
  • 01:48:58 – The Debate and the Growing Love and Truth
  • 01:53:11 – The Healing Power of Consciousness
  • 01:57:28 – Unity with God and Consciousness after Death
  • 02:01:36 – Near-Death Experiences and the Undying Nature of the Self
  • 02:04:59 – Love in Action