648. Karen V. Johnson

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Rick Archer

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.

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded May 28, 2022

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

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

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Rick Archer

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.

Their Gift, the blueprint for our evolution, is the knowledge that we are all immortal, divine, and creative. This blueprint is revealed in the heart wisdom of the mystic and the new science of quantum physics.

Unfortunately, in the West, this sacred tradition was suppressed by both Church and State and lost to mainline culture, but it survived underground in the Hermetic arts, Alchemy, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and Mystic Christianity. This powerful tradition emerged four times in European history in an effort to integrate this larger consciousness into mainline culture.

Each time the tradition emerged, the culture experienced a renaissance, as in the High Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment, and the German and English Romantic Period. Each of these attempts was suppressed.

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

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded December 19, 2021.

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

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:04:09 – 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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614. Clay Lomakayu Miller

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Rick Archer

Clay Lomakayu Miller lives in Cottonwood, Arizona, just outside of Sedona, where he has been serving clients from all over the world to assist them in living at the center of the circle of who they are. Medicine of One is the outcome of this service. It is a nondual shamanic path that has formed from his work with clients for 25 years and his time in the Ancient sacred land of the Southwest. He uses a unique form of healing called Soul Dreaming to help free people from the stories from their past so they may gift the world their true presence. He is also the creator of Primordial Movements for trauma and emotional integration. He considers his primary service as the sharing of Medicine of One. At his side are his Wolf-Dog Helpers assisting people with their presence and love. Medicine of One is summed up in the One Noble truth, which is to live at the center where, from true being, comes our true doing. The first action is the True Action of self Love.