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Channelers, Mediums, Intuitives

Illness, Surrender, and Awakening Karen Richards shares the story of a sudden and radical awakening that arose in the midst of intense suffering and serious illness. In this conversation, she describes how physical breakdown, emotional strain,...

113. Andrée Morgana

Unbounded Consciousness, Orixás, and Cosmic Souls Andrée Morgana joins Rick Archer for a wide-ranging conversation about meditation, consciousness, and her decades of exploration into Afro-Brazilian spiritual traditions. Drawing on her long...

112. Elle Collier Re

Creative Artists/Musicians

From age 7, Elle was awake to divine Word. At 17, a revelatory spiritual experience increased this capacity and began her lifelong commitment to God-centered awareness. Elle awakened into Unity consciousness in her early 20's. For the next two...

111. Suzanne Foxton

Suzanne Foxton is a mother, wife, writer and artist who works and lives in Kew in the United Kingdom. She was born a Hoosier (native of the US state of Indiana). She muddles along as best as she can, like most of humanity. Suzanne believes the...

110. Sharon Landrith

Buddhist/Zen/Mindfulness

Sharon is a gifted intuitive and a spiritual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti. Sharon has a devotion and great love of the Truth. Adyashanti asked her to teach 2003 and guide those genuinely drawn to the path of Truth. Since then, Sharon...

109. Eli Jaxon-Bear

Illusory Medicine, Ego Fixation, and Direct Realization Eli Jaxon-Bear joins Rick to explore awakening, egoic fixation, and the role of spiritual practices as “illusory medicine” for an illusory disease. He shares how his search moved through...

108. Mariana Caplan

Discernment, Enlightenment, and Spiritual Teachers Mariana Caplan, PhD, MFT, RYT 500,  is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and the author of six books in the fields of psychology and spirituality, including Yoga & Psyche, the...

107. Tony Parsons

The Open Secret of Absolute Nonduality Tony Parsons joins Rick Archer for a direct conversation about his uncompromising nondual teaching, often called “The Open Secret.” The discussion centers on the illusion of separation, the seeker’s search...

105. Matt Kahn

Matt Kahn: Nonduality, Sincerity, and the Freedom from Certainty Matt Kahn is a spiritual teacher and mystic whose work blends nondual insight with a wholehearted embrace of the personal, emotional, and mystical dimensions of life. In this...

104. Lisa Cairns

Nonduality, Spiritual Scholars

The Illusion of Cause and Effect and the Fall of Doership Lisa Cairns speaks with Rick Archer about awakening, the end of doership, and the way suffering softens when the belief in a separate self begins to fall away. She describes how her seeing...

103. Greg Goode

Non-Doership, Identity, and Direct-Path Nondualism Greg Goode is a teacher of nondualism known for his breadth of expression, clear philosophical mind, and sense of humor. In this conversation, Greg and Rick explore the direct path, non-doership,...

102. Canela Michelle Meyers

Psychic Awareness and Spiritual Awakening Summary: This conversation explores psychic sensitivity, addiction recovery, and the moments that opened into a deeper recognition of awareness. It also looks at how awakening shows up in ordinary life...

101. Bob Nickel

Ramana-based

Satsang with Bob Nickel was a great opportunity to be with someone who points to the pure truth of Awakening in a simple and clear way. One of the recent attendees at Bob's satsang wrote, "I was deeply moved by Bob’s blissful presence as well as...

99. Robert Wolfe

The Myth of Enlightenment and the Illusion of Self Robert Wolfe talks about enlightenment, non-duality, and the way spiritual seeking can be distorted by expectations. Drawing from years of solitude in a redwood forest, study, and direct...

98. Natalie Gray

Natalie Gray is an ordinary person who spent the first 25 years of her adult life searching for meaning and answers. In her search, she looked for those answers in several places, including trying to find a calling (as an actress, teacher and...

96. Jon Bernie

Buddhist/Zen/Mindfulness

Awakening, Healing, and the End of Seeking Jon Bernie shares his long and unusual spiritual journey, beginning with an awakening experience at sixteen and continuing through years of Zen and Theravada Buddhist practice, monastic life, and later...

95. Rupert Spira

Awareness Recognizing Itself From an early age Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. For twenty years he studied the teachings of P.D.Ouspensky, J.Krishnamurti, Rumi, Shankaracharya, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Nisargadatta...

94. Jeff Foster

Non-Duality, Allowing, and the End of Seeking Jeff Foster graduated in Astrophysics from Cambridge University and, after a period of depression, illness, and an intense spiritual search, came to see through the seeking mechanism itself. In this...

92. Gangaji

Stop Thinking and Recognize Who You Are Gangaji shares a simple, direct invitation: shift your allegiance from the activities of the mind to the eternal presence of your being. In this conversation, she speaks about the “lottery of...

91. Ellie Roozdar

The Invisible Vision, Kundalini, and Nothingness Ellie Roozdar shares a deeply personal account of childhood experiences of being seen from outside the body, the persistent question “Who am I?”, and the long path that followed through meditation,...

90. Unmani

Identity Search, Not Knowing, and Awakening Unmani shares a strikingly direct account of growing up without a clear sense of personal identity, traveling widely, and eventually discovering that what she had been searching for was already here. In...

89. Karen Richards

Spontaneous Awakening Amid Chronic Fatigue In February 2008 at the age of thirty-three, Karen experienced a sudden and radical awakening. Prior to this realisation, no teachings or practices were followed – in fact at that time the terms...

088. Florian Schlosser

Ramana-based

Florian passed away in 2022. People have always loved sitting and sharing in the presence of an awakened human being and experiencing that tender beingness. For about 7 years Florian Tathagata and his life companion Julia have travelled around...

087. Krishna Gauci

Trillium Awakening

Core Wound, Nonduality, and Trusting Being Krishna Gauci is a spiritual teacher associated with Waking Down in Mutuality, and in this conversation he explores the paradox of awakening as both the absolute and the human. He and Rick discuss the...

86. Joan Tollifson

Awakening Integration (Embodiment)

Joan Tollifson: The Illusion of Self, Choice, and Authorship Joan Tollifson speaks with unusual clarity and humor about bare-bones non-duality, awakening, and the deep assumptions that shape ordinary life. In this conversation, she explores the...

85. Adyashanti

The Spirit of Inquiry and What Falls Away I’m sorry about the video quality. We had technical problems which we weren’t able to surmount. In this 2011 Buddha at the Gas Pump interview, Adyashanti explores spiritual awakening as something alive,...

84. Pamela Wilson

Ramana-based

Pamela Wilson: Supreme Intelligence, Relaxation, and Awakening In this conversation, Pamela Wilson speaks about Advaita and non-duality through the lens of relaxation, natural intelligence, and the living mystery of awakening. Pamela points again...

083. Zenji

Awakening / Self-Inquiry

Self-Inquiry, Mooji, and the Recognition of Awakening At 28 I moved to New York City, a fulfillment of a childhood dream. Oddly enough, even though I had received what I wanted on many accounts, I felt like I was having a premature midlife...

82. Tom Stine

Illusion of Choice, No Free Will, and Awakening For over two decades, several questions have been foremost in my mind: What is this life about? What is the nature of reality? What is truth? How do we live and thrive in this world? For many years...

81. Robert Augustus Masters

Devotional, Divine Mother, Heart-based

Spiritual Bypassing and Transformation Through Intimacy Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D., is the author of 11 books (including Transformation through Intimacy and Spiritual Bypassing), a relationship expert, a spiritual teacher, and a highly...

79. Wayne Liquorman

Addiction/Recovery

Wayne Liquorman: Authorship of Action and the End of Seeking Wayne Liquorman was both a spiritual seeker and a family man with a successful export business, when he met his first and final guru, Ramesh Balsekar, in September 1987. In April 1989...

078. Jan Esmann

Deeksha/Shaktipat

Jan passed away on July 5, 2025. Jan was born 1960 and grew up in Bury, England. His parents were Danish. In 1967 the family moved to Denmark. Jan’s dad is an engineer and there was no spiritual influence from either parent. Yet Jan showed strong...

76. Joi Sharp

Devotion, Surrender, and Awakening One fine morning when I was in my mid-twenties, I woke up and the life I had previously led was over. I was consumed by a longing to be truly intimate with God, the one truth. This great longing grew daily, and...

75. John Sherman

John Sherman: Just One Look and the End of Separation John Sherman shares the remarkable life story behind his direct, uncompromising teaching on awakening. From prison, political extremism, and years of inner struggle to the discovery that a...

74. Martha Creek

Questioning Thoughts, Kindness, and The Work Martha Creek is a certified facilitator for Byron Katie’s The Work, and in this conversation she shares how questioning stressful thoughts can transform perception, soften reactivity, and reveal a...

71. Julie Chimes

NDE/Other Side

Stabbing, Near-Death Awakening, Veritas, and Other Realities Julie Chimes was living a successful life in London when a violent attack nearly took her life and unexpectedly opened the door to a profound spiritual transformation. In this...

70. Allan Morelock

Trillium Awakening

From Transcendent Consciousness to Embodied Awakening Allan Morelock shares a wide-ranging spiritual journey that moves from early childhood remembrance and fierce seeking, through decades of meditation and devotion, into a deep exploration of...

69. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Zen Buddhism, Non-Dual Awareness, and the Ceasing of Identity In this conversation, clinical psychologist Michael Hall, Ph.D. shares the long arc of his spiritual journey through Zen practice, meditation retreats, and repeated glimpses of...

68. Richard Sylvester

Illusion of Separation, No Path, and the Ordinary Miracle Due to technical problems, this video only contains still shots of Richard, while Rick’s video is normal. Richard Sylvester is a humanistic psychologist, therapist and lecturer. For thirty...

66. Saniel Bonder & Linda Groves-Bonder, Pt. 2

Founder of Methodology

Ego After Enlightenment and Integration Saniel Bonder is the author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and the founder of the Waking Down in Mutuality work. He has been a pioneer in the widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary exploration...

65. Saniel Bonder & Linda Groves-Bonder, Pt. 1

Founder of Methodology

Waking Down in Mutuality and the Spirit-Matter Split Saniel Bonder is the author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and the founder of the Waking Down in Mutuality work. He has been a pioneer in the widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary...

64. Chris Hebard

Chris Hebard: The Path from Ego-Inflation to Self-Realization Chris Hebard is the founder and creator of StillnessSpeaks.com, a premier resource on the internet aggregating the text, audio, and film of authentic contemporary and traditional...

63. Thomas Gates

NDE/Other Side

Near-Death, Silence, and the Birth of Consciousness This interview is in audio only. From http://thomasgates.com/bio: Thomas was born in Texas in 1950 and grew up in the rural countryside not far from Dallas. He spent much of his childhood...

62. Paul Hedderman

Addiction/Recovery

Paul Hedderman: Selfing, Recovery, and the Illusion of Self Paul has been involved with the recovery community since 1988 and has been leading workshops and holding talks for 18 years. He has been assisting those with addiction problems for many...

61. Tim Freke

Spiritual Scholars

Lucid Living, the Mystery Experience, and the Deep Awake State Video is in two parts. Part 1: Part 2: Tim is a philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakening, which fully embraces...

59. Nick Gancitano

Ramana Maharshi, Self-Inquiry, and Surrender Nick Gancitano has spent most of his adult life delving into the mysteries of the ancient spiritual teachings and has undergone a conscious transformation that has made him a specialist in the field....

58. Mandi Solk