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Kundalini, Heart Chakra, and Multidimensional Consciousness Janet Sussman is a transformational musician, seminar leader, intuitive counselor, and published author. She has given concerts throughout the United States and has created two albums,...

44. Leslie Temple-Thurston

Cave Experience, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, and Consciousness Shifts Leslie Temple-Thurston is a teacher of enlightenment, who since 1988 has wholeheartedly dedicated her life to inspiring and guiding people towards reaching their spiritual awakening at...

43. Ishvara

Quantum Leap in Consciousness, Feeling-Knowing, and New Consciousness Ishvara was born in 1945 in Missouri USA and raised a fundamentalist Christian. While involved in church ministry at a young age, he became frustrated with the limitations of...

41. Jac O’Keeffe

Nonduality

Ghosts, Ayahuasca & the Myth of Existence Jackie O'Keeffe was raised in rural Ireland. Wanting to know about God she studied theology and music. After graduating in the 1980's, Jac found her studies had left her disillusioned and a...

40. Bill Farber

Healers

Life Energy Alignment, Distant Healing & Omniscient Energy Bill Farber passed away in 2016. He practiced his Life Energy Alignment Processes for over 20 years. His work was internationally known due to his advanced distant healing and intuitive...

39. Dana Sawyer

Spiritual Scholars

Aldous Huxley, Perennial Philosophy & Embracing Mystery Dana Sawyer was born in Jonesport, Maine in 1951. He was a full-time professor of religion and philosophy at the Maine College of Art and an adjunct professor of Asian religions at the...

38. Richard Schooping

AIDS, Spiritual Awakening & Transcending Illness Through Self-Love I simply awoke. I suffered for more than 20 years with depression, fear, guilt, anger, judgment, confusion, a lack of connection and dis-ease. I lost friends and three lovers over...

37. Joel Rumbolo

TM, Advaita & the Shift from Witnessing to Being Silence I was born on June 14, 1946 in Elizabeth, NJ and now live in Northwest Jersey. As a child I was aware of a vast stillness each night when I would close my eyes and lay down for sleep. The...

36. Takuin Minamoto

Spontaneous Awakening, No-Self & Life Beyond the Image Takuin Minamoto was born on May 24th, 1973. Despite not having an interest in spiritual seeking, on December 1st, 2006, Takuin exploded into a being devoid of search and searcher. This...

35. Swami G

Hindu/Vedic

Kundalini Awakening, Tantra & Non-Dual Liberation Guru Swami-G was born March 24, 1950, and started the search to find God and Truth at a young age. Her journey began in earnest when at the age of 18 while within an esoteric order Kundalini was...

34. Rick Laird

Mahavishnu Orchestra, Gangaji, & the Shock of Realization Richard Quentin 'Rick' Laird was a jazz musician, born on 5 February 1941 and died on July 4, 2021. He was a bass player best known for his place in The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Laird was...

33. Gary Crowley

Devotional, Divine Mother, Heart-based

Ordinary Enlightenment, Illusion of Free Will & the Experiencing of Living Gary Crowley was born in 1965 and was raised in Massachusetts as a practical-minded New Englander. He graduated from Stanford University in 1987 with degrees in Economics...

32. Cynthia Lane

Shamanic/Indigenous

TM Nun, Kundalini, Non-Doing & First Light Transformations Until I was nine, I lived in one of New York City's "melting pot" neighborhoods, where a wonderful mix of freely mingling cultures, languages and races welcomed me into life on Earth....

31. Doc Roberts

Psychologists/Therapists

Near-Death Awakening, Pure Consciousness & the Cosmic Joke The moment for me was instantaneous. The old me died literally, the new “me” emerged. More accurately stated, awakening took over the life of Doc Roberts as if this worldly life was...

30. Chuck Hillig

Psychologists/Therapists

Life Is But a Dream: Non-Duality, Psychotherapy & Enlightenment for Beginners Chuck Hillig is a modern spiritual teacher, author and licensed psychotherapist whose clarity of expression has earned him the admiration and praise of many notable...

28. Timothy Conway

Nondual Awakening, Neo-Advaita Critique & the Pathless Path This “insubstantial figure in the dream, pointing to the Divine Dreamer,” has lived and studied the nondual essence of our sacred traditions for 40 years since an utterly life-changing,...

27. David Spero

Sahaja Samadhi, Spontaneous Awakening & the God-Intoxicated Condition In my youth, I was not prone to easy laughter or the common jokes that circulated among human beings. I lived in a world all by myself, thinking, feeling and being led...

26. Dr. Rahasya Fritjof Kraft

Osho/Rajneesh

Ten Years with Osho, Primal Therapy, and Life After Seeking What happens when an emergency doctor who trained with Osho for ten years spontaneously awakens during a sunrise? Dr. Rahasya Fritjof Kraft shares his extraordinary spiritual odyssey —...

25. Ted Strauss & Hillary Davis

Rick Speaking or Being Interviewed

Waking Down, the Second Birth & Rotting Out of Idealism What happens when spiritual seeking stops aiming for transcendence and starts aiming for embodiment? Ted Strauss and Hillary Davis call this process "rotting out of idealism" — the necessary...

23. Rick Archer Interviewed by Richard Miller

(Photo taken in front of the American Gothic House in Iowa and is jokingly meant to emulate the famous painting American Gothic. We don't usually dress like that! Or hold pitchforks!) TM, Integration & the Nervous System as Reflector Richard...

22. James Braha

Astrologer, Nonduality

Astrologer, Non-Duality Teacher & Student of Sailor Bob Adamson After thirty years of seeking liberation, James Braha had nearly given up on finding fulfillment. His mind began to change, however, when he encountered the Hindu/Vedic philosophy of...

20. Fali Engineer

Spiritual Scholars

Zoroastrian Elder & Theosophist on the Ruler Within & Consciousness as Currency Am a Zoroastrian by birth but a theosophist by inclination; was educated in South India as a civil engineer and worked in Pakistan from 1950. I learned TM in 1974...

19. Igal Moria

From 25 Years with Maharishi to Evolutionary Enlightenment: Leaving the Ashram Igal Moria was infected with the spiritual bug in his teens has no plans of recovering. He joined Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at 19 (in 1973) and was involved with the TM...

17. Mary Foster

Sensory Expansion Into Infinity: Celestial Beings, & Continuous Awakening Mary Foster was the very first guest on Buddha at the Gas Pump — appearing with her husband George on the inaugural episode in October 2009. In this solo follow-up...

16. John Speer

Cosmic Consciousness, TM, and the Path from Mormon Faith to Non-Dual Awakening John Speer is a spiritual teacher and psychotherapist whose awakening journey is grounded in authenticity, acceptance, and integration. John candidly shares how his...

15. Andy Schulman

Silence as a Solvent, Byron Katie & a Gradual Path to Awakening I remember having the thought at age 26, “What am I going to do, I will never make it through the second year of graduate school”? Having just completed my first year in training as...

13. Sandra Glickman

Waking Down in Mutuality, Witness Consciousness & the Embodied Paradox A lifelong seeker of spiritual awakening, Sandra has deeply applied and correlated many teachings, methods, disciplines, healings, experiments, adventures, and views of...

12. Michael Baxter

Shankara's Three Laws: Solid Existence & Why the World Lacks Reality bax (or baxishta if he’s feeling uppity) does not consider himself fully awakened, but knows for sure that he’s recognized glimpses of the self. He says this puts him in an...

11. Brad & Pam Keene

Tantra/Kundalini

Marriage as the Path: Sacred Dance, Kundalini & the Personal God Pam Keene currently resides in Fairfield, Iowa with her husband Brad. A conscious seeker since the age of nineteen, she has been influenced by a variety of spiritual teachers....

10. Christopher Roberts

Belief Systems Crumble, Then Peace in Not Knowing Based on this 2010 interview for Buddha at the Gas Pump, Christopher Roberts is a spiritual seeker who experienced a profound awakening around that time. Growing up in Peoria, Illinois,...

9. Tom Traynor

From Headhunter to Soul Hunter - A Journey Through Awakening I had been a seeker for most of my life. I began to meditate in 1973 and followed that path for the next 28 years. In 1983 I had a very intense Near Death Experience that left me with a...

7. Sue Berkey

Nothing Happened — A Yoga Teacher, Artist, and Rebirther's Awakening Sue Berkey is a multi-talented artist, spiritual practitioner, and teacher based in Fairfield, Iowa, where she has lived for over 25 years. Sue is recognized for her deep...

6. Steve Winn

Christian Based

The Cone of Silence — A CEO, a Christian Minister, and a Date-Specific Awakening Rev. Winn’s experience is that the Kingdom of Heaven is a state of higher consciousness. He focuses on understanding and experiencing the Christian mystical...

5. Fax & Sharon Gilbert

Not Even One — Falling Into Actual Size Fax and Sharon Gilbert met on a Transcendental Meditation teachers' course in 1972 in Santa Barbara California and have been teaching together ever since. They’ve administered meditation centers and...

4. Steve and Winifred Boggs

Waking Down, Not Up — Ordinary People, Real Awakening Steve and Winifred Boggs join Rick Archer to share their journeys of spiritual awakening, from decades of Transcendental Meditation practice to the discovery of Waking Down in Mutuality and an...

3. Stan Kendz

The Mahahaha — Sudden Awakening, Sanghita, and the End of the Fear of Death Stan Kendz (Sta) is a popular experiential, motivational, and business coach/mentor who has been guiding advanced personal-achievement seminars at the corporate and...

2. Angela Mailander

Scientists/Research

Deep Silence Through War, Celestial Experiences, and the Angel of Silver When Angela Mailander was five years old, she bicycled through hand-to-hand combat in Nazi Germany and experienced something no child should: an unshakeable "deep silence"...

1. George & Mary Foster