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709. Philip Weber

Philip Weber: The Kiss, Kriya Yoga, and the Natural State Summary: A grounded conversation about spontaneous awakening, years of Kriya Yoga practice, and how realization gets integrated into ordinary life. The discussion also explores grace,...

707. Swamini Brahmaprajnananda Saraswati

Swamini Brahmaprajnananda Saraswati: Karma, Free Will, and Moksha Summary: A conversation about Advaita Vedanta, including how knowledge, practice, and guidance help dissolve ignorance. The discussion also explores karma, free will, dharma, maya,...

706. Philip Wade

Philip Wade: Infinite Silence, Spheres of Light, and Self-Realization  Summary: A conversation about awakening through meditation, the emergence of Infinite Silence, and a practical framework for understanding consciousness. The discussion also...

705. Josh Jost

Josh Jost: Disillusionment as the Path to Awakening  Summary: A conversation about how repeated disillusionment can become a catalyst for spiritual awakening. The discussion moves from strict religion and biblical study to Christ consciousness,...

704. Anna Yusim

Anna Yusim: Mental Health, Spirituality, and Psychedelic Healing Summary: This conversation explores how psychiatry and spirituality can work together to support real healing. It also looks at fulfillment, psychedelics, collective trauma,...

703. Constance Casey

Constance Casey: Gentle Buddhist Practice, Stream Entry, and Daily Life  Summary: This conversation explores a gentle, sustainable approach to Buddhist meditation and how awakening can unfold alongside ordinary responsibilities. It also covers...

702. Neil Theise

Neil Theise: Complexity Theory, Consciousness, and Nonduality Summary: This conversation explores how complexity theory, quantum physics, and contemplative practice can illuminate the nature of life and mind. It also examines why consciousness...

701. Kimberly Lafferty

Kimberly Lafferty: Waking Up vs Growing Up Summary: This conversation explores why profound spiritual experiences do not automatically produce psychological maturity or ethical behavior. It also looks at Tibetan Buddhist practice, anomalous...

700. Bob Davis

Bob Davis: Veridical NDEs and the Brain as a Filter Summary: A conversation about extraordinary human experiences and the evidence that consciousness may not be produced by the brain. The discussion ranges from Kundalini awakening and spiritual...

698. Swami Medhananda

Swami Medhananda: Vijnana Vedanta and the Real World Summary: This conversation explores Vijnana Vedanta as a broader vision than classical Advaita, asking whether the world is illusion or a real manifestation of the divine. It also examines...

697. David Doyle

David Doyle: Kundalini Awakening, Auras, Psychic Abilities, and Channeling Summary: This conversation explores a long and often intense spiritual path shaped by early Kundalini events, meditation practice, and the development of psychic...

696. Mary Terhune

Mary Terhune: Mystical Awakening, Kundalini, and Brahman Summary: A spontaneous mystical encounter during a life crisis opened into kundalini awakening, direct realization, and a long search for context. The conversation also explores...

695. Scott Hiegel

Scott Hiegel: Kundalini Awakening, Cosmic Consciousness, and Gopi Krishna  Summary: A conversation about a life collapse that opened into kundalini awakening, unusual perceptions, and deeper states of love and unity. The discussion also explores...

694. Yvonne Kason

Yvonne Kason: Five Near-Death Experiences, Kundalini, and STEs Summary: A medical doctor recounts five near-death experiences, a Kundalini awakening, and the unfolding of clairvoyant and past-life memories. The conversation also explores how...

693. Jem Bendell

Jem Bendell: Spiritual Growth Through World Crisis Summary: This conversation explores what it means to face societal and climate collapse honestly without turning away into denial or despair. It also looks at how mortality, spiritual practice,...

692. Ruth Kastner

Ruth Kastner: Transactional Interpretation, Free Will, and Quantum Reality Summary: This conversation explores how quantum theory may point to a deeper level of reality beyond space-time and why the standard view may be missing a receptive, or...

691. Jennifer Lisa Vest

Jennifer Lisa Vest: The Ethical Psychic and the Case for Spiritual Integrity Summary: This conversation explores the ethics of psychic and healing work, with a focus on training, humility, and protecting clients from harm. It also looks at spirit...

690. Bill Witherspoon

Bill Witherspoon: Near-Death Awakening, Desert Solitude, and the Eye of the Heart Summary: A near-drowning experience opened into a state of boundless bliss and redirected this life toward meditation, solitude, and art. The conversation also...

689. Lorna Byrne

Lorna Byrne: Guardian Angels, Signs, and Angelic Guidance Summary: This conversation explores guardian angels, subtle guidance, and how to recognize the impulses that may be helping shape your life. It also touches on prayer, signs, nature,...

688. Bob Harwood

Bob Harwood: When Reality Disintegrated and the Self Vanished Summary: A construction contractor describes a lifelong search for answers that led from intellectual inquiry into Zen practice and direct experience. The conversation follows a...

687. Carter Phipps

Carter Phipps: Why Spiritual Teachers Misbehave and Mystical Blind Spots Summary: This conversation examines why spiritual teachers and communities can develop ethical blind spots even when genuine awakening is involved. It also looks at how...

686. Dr. Etta D. Jackson

Dr. Etta D. Jackson: Soul Memory, the Aquarian Age, and Inner Guidance Summary: A conversation about inner guidance, soul memory, and why forgetting our pre-birth choices may be essential to earthly experience. The discussion also explores the...

685. Lucy Grace, 2

Lucy Grace: Awakening Without a Teacher or Map Summary: Lucy Grace reflects on what happened after her first BatGap interview brought an unexpected wave of attention and connection. The conversation explores humility, illness as a teacher, the...

684. Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer: The Left Brain Illusion of Self Summary: This conversation explores how the left brain constructs a convincing story of self, often confusing interpretation with reality. It also looks at how neuroscience, Buddhism, and...

683. Jeff Carreira

Jeff Carreira: Conscious Contentment and Effortless Meditation Summary: This conversation explores Conscious Contentment, effortless meditation, and the recognition of an underlying okayness that is present beneath thoughts and feelings. It also...

682. Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor: Whole Brain Living, Character 4, and Consciousness Summary: This conversation explores Whole Brain Living, a framework for understanding four distinct brain-based characters and how they shape thought, emotion, and behavior. It...

681. Cynthia Larson

Cynthia Larson: Reality Shifts, Mandela Effects, and Quantum Jumps Summary: This conversation explores reality shifts, the Mandela Effect, and how quantum physics may point to a more participatory universe. It also looks at time, synchronicity,...

680. Daniel Stone on Meher Baba

Daniel Stone: Avatar, Silence, and the Hidden Work of Meher Baba Summary: This conversation explores Meher Baba’s silence, his understanding of the Avatar, and the role of universal spiritual work in human evolution. It also examines how...

678. Emelie Cajsdotter

Emelie has been working fulltime since 1995 with empathic communication with other species, non-hierarchal riding and handling of horses, alternative treatments such as acupuncture, homeopathy and herbal medicine. She has published three books on...

677. Seán ÓLaoire

Fr. 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....

676. Lissa Friedman

There have always been three deep interests that have informed my life; and those are art, spirituality, and psychotherapy which all tend to reflect each other. I have been an artist since my childhood, had spiritual experiences since I was 6,...

675. John Churchill

Born in London, Dr. Churchill's interest in psycho-spiritual development, Integral theory, Contemplative studies, Western Esotericism, and Mahayana Buddhism began in his adolescence,. During this time, John received the esoteric Planetary Dharma...

674. Debra Martin

Debra Martin is a World-Renowned Intuitive Healer and an International Research Lab Certified Medium with the Windbridge Research Center. Debra is a Spiritual Coach, Survivor of three near death experiences, cancer and an author of six books. Her...

673. Anthony Peake

Anthony Peake is the author of 12 books. He has lectured across the UK and Europe and has also given talks in New York and Melbourne, Australia. He has appeared on national television in Germany and France and has been interviewed on numerous BBC...

671. Jude Currivan, 2nd Interview

Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, author, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University...

670. Robin Chaurasiya

Robin was born and raised in the US with a very religious and schizophrenic mother as well as a violent and atheist father. At 14, Robin started volunteering with various non-profits organizations and traveling the world, two lifelong passions...

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...

668. Anastasia Wesselink Moellering

Anastasia is a Reiki Master Teacher, Meditation Coach, Intuitive Life Coach, Corrective Exercise Specialist, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and a self-proclaimed recovering Zumba Instructor that has turned her lifelong pursuit of holistic wellness...

667. Mark Anthony

Mark Anthony, JD Psychic Explorer/ Psychic Lawyer, world renowned psychic medium, Oxford educated attorney, near-death experience researcher, paranormal expert and legal analyst appears internationally on TV and radio and headlines at conferences...

666. Ann Mathie

Ann has been practising yoga and meditation for nearly 20 years and has since completed her Masters in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS University with ongoing Sanskrit training. Ann was inspired from an early age by her father’s...

665. Mario Beauregard

Dr. Mario Beauregard, PhD., is a neuroscientist currently affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. He has received a bachelor degree in psychology and a doctorate degree in neuroscience from the University of Montreal....

664. Isira, 2nd Interview

Isira is an awakened spiritual teacher who has been initiated in advanced spiritual practices and rites across a number of traditions including Australian Aboriginal, Yogic Indian, African Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhist. When she was a young...

663. Brian Thomas Swimme

Brian Thomas Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon. From the publication of The Universe Is a Green Dragon to the Emmy Award–winning PBS documentary Journey of the...

662. Emilio Diez Barroso

Emilio Diez Barroso perfected the art of appearing very successful. He manages two family offices, a venture investment firm, sits on the board of over a dozen companies etc... but up until recently, he was always trying to get somewhere other...

661. Anneloes Smitsman

Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (Ph.D., LLM), is a futurist, evolutionary systems scientist, coach, healer, and award-winning bestselling author. She is the Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre. Her programs, practices, and strategies are sought after...

660. Alaya Dickinson

Alaya first experienced brief glimpses leading to a spontaneous awakening in 1997. This left her with a burning fire for truth and a determination to find a release from her suffering. She was drawn to satsang and to the feet of her beloved...