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⬇ Download MP3 Della had the good fortune of a life that many would have wanted to live. She grew up in a loving environment. She went to college. She started a family. She became a doctor and worked in emergency. She wasn’t looking for anything. She didn’t have...

333. Joey Lott

⬇ Download MP3 Joey Lott is not a spiritual teacher. He’s not offering enlightenment, awakening, liberation, or any such carrot to keep you searching for something else. Instead, he’s just a fellow person who had the fortune to discover that the willingness to stop...

332. David Ellzey

Creative Artists/Musicians

⬇ Download MP3 Once called by Norman Cousins, “An accomplished court jester to humanity,” David Ellzey is a transformative speaker, entertainer, author, and mentor – who has inspired a quarter of a million people worldwide to explore the oneness of humanity and of...

331. Salvadore Poe

⬇ Download MP3 Salvadore Poe was a successful musician from New York, making records, touring, having videos on MTV, and doing film scores when in 1997 he had a life-changing experience that propelled him on a single-pointed inquiry in search of enlightenment....

330. Norio Kushi

Spiritual Activism/Service

⬇ Download MP3 Brief history of Norio: I always loved wheels ever since I was a small child. The first set of wheels was a bicycle, which by age nine, I was riding 40 miles at a time. Age 19, I drove a taxi in Boston for five years. I began driving a truck, as well...

329. Andrew Harvey

⬇ Download MP3 Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired,...

328. Michael Roads

Refined/Celestial Perception

⬇ Download MP3 Michael Roads passed away April 28, 2024. His wife writes, “To our Dear Heart Family… Carolyn here. It is with an open and heavy heart that I share with you Michael transitioned at 3:06 AM, 28 April, Brisbane time. He had a very difficult...

327. John Astin

Creative Artists/Musicians

⬇ Download MP3 John Astin is the author of three collections of poetic and prose reflections on the non-dual nature of reality, Too Intimate for Words, (2005) This Is Always Enough(2007), and Searching for Rain in a Monsoon (2012). He is presently at work on a new...

325. Stanislav Grof

⬇ Download MP3 Stan Grof, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist with more than fifty years’ experience researching the healing and transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. His groundbreaking theories influenced the integration of Western science...

324. Gail Brenner

Spiritual Activism/Service

⬇ Download MP3 Gail is a clinical psychologist and author in Santa Barbara, CA, who joyfully speaks from her own experience about the possibility of moving from common everyday problems to living in the deepest acceptance and peace. Problems are seen as...

323. Adam Bucko

⬇ Download MP3 Adam Bucko is an activist, spiritual director to many of New York City’s homeless youth, and co-author of a new award-winning book called “Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation (Sacred Activism)“. He grew up in Poland...

322. Prajnaparamita

Rick Speaking or Being Interviewed

⬇ Download MP3 Originally from the Netherlands, Prajnaparamita has been in search of her true nature all her life. Initially investigating and studying psychology, religion and philosophy, she eventually met a truly awakened soul and surrendered her heart, her mind...

321. Rick Archer at the Science and Nonduality Conference, 2015

⬇ Download MP3 Science and Spirituality: Potential Allies in Discovering Truth My talk was accompanied by a multimedia presentation, which has been edited into this video. There were technical issues: the official camera wasn’t there, so a friend recorded...

320. Dorothy Hunt

Buddhist/Zen/Mindfulness

⬇ Download MP3 Dorothy Hunt serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request of Adyashanti. She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy and has practiced psychotherapy since 1967. She is the author...

319. Jane Anderson-Ross

⬇ Download MP3 Jane Anderson-Ross is a wife, mother, and grandmother currently living in Rochester, NY. Raised in a New Jersey suburb of Philadelphia, Jane always had the gifts of love and compassion, and even as a young child, felt that her life path was to help...

318. Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) and Karen Johnson on Nondual Relationships

Group Discussions

⬇ Download MP3 A. Hameed Ali was born in Kuwait in 1944. At the age of eighteen, he moved to the USA to study at the University of California in Berkeley. Hameed was working on his Ph.D. in physics when he reached a turning point in his life and destiny that led...

317. Richard Moss

⬇ Download MP3 Richard Moss is an internationally respected leader in the field of inner transformation, subtle body-mind dynamics, and living a path of conscious relationships. In 1977 Richard was a practicing medical doctor when he experienced a spontaneous...

316. Robert Thurman

Buddhist/Zen/Mindfulness

⬇ Download MP3 Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of...

315. Steve Ford

Addiction/Recovery

⬇ Download MP3 I grew up in a hard-working family, none religious. At the age of 18, I learned that the Father I’d known all my life was not, in fact, my biological Father. This new-found fact destabilized the identity I had become accustomed to. The idea of...

314. Bruce Joel Rubin

⬇ Download MP3 Bruce Joel Rubin is an Oscar-winning screenwriter for the film Ghost. His films include Jacob’s Ladder, My Life (which he also directed), Brainstorm, Deep Impact, Stuart Little 2, The Last Mimzy, and The Time Traveler’s Wife, among...

312. Group Discussion at Sofia University, Part 2

Group Discussions

⬇ Download MP3 While out in California for the Science and Nonduality Conference, I had some downtime before the conference started, so I decided to tape a long panel discussion with a rather large group of friends, most of them previous guests on Batgap. Sofia...

311. Group Discussion at Sofia University, Part 1

Group Discussions

310. Karen McPhee

⬇ Download MP3 Karen’s spiritual journey has been long and eventful, with many insights, realizations and awakenings. She has been blessed by the influence and support of wonderful teachers including Joel Goldsmith, Eckhart Tolle and Pamela Wilson. After many...

308. David (Davidya) Buckland

Spiritual Teachers General

⬇ Download MP3 David grew up on the SW coast of Canada. In the mid-’70s, he discovered the subject of consciousness, then Transcendental Meditation (TM). This was quite a revelation. He quickly became an avid seeker, attending many talks and courses. Nine...

307. Canela Michelle Meyers, 2nd Interview

⬇ Download MP3 Canela Michelle Meyers offers very practical, supportive Satsang events and sessions for people to drop deeply into what is happening in each moment. There is a strong transmission of Self in Satsang with Canela, supporting people to ‘fall in’ with...

306. Kiran Trace – 2nd Interview

Spiritual Teachers General

⬇ Download MP3 Kiran Trace is an internationally known spiritual teacher and author. She died of massive spontaneous awakening into her true nature, then eight years later, and at the encouragement of Moni Vangolen, Thomas Stubbs, Adyashanti, and others, she began...

305. Loch Kelly

⬇ Download MP3 Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is the author of, Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness. He is an educator, licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of nondual meditation who was asked to teach Sutra...

304. Joel Morwood

Spiritual Scholars

⬇ Download MP3 Since the Center for Sacred Sciences was founded in 1987, Joel Morwood has served as the spiritual director and primary teacher for its community of practitioners. Joel’s first book, Naked Through the Gate: A Spiritual Autobiography, tells the...

303. Gary Renard

Course in Miracles

⬇ Download MP3 Gary Renard is the author of The Disappearance of the Universe trilogy of books. He speaks regularly all over the world, teaching the principles of A Course in Miracles, which is the fundamental focus of his books. In 1992, he began to be visited in...

302. Guy Finley

Spiritual Scholars

⬇ Download MP3 Best-selling “Letting Go” author Guy Finley’s encouraging and accessible message is one of the true bright lights in our world today. His ideas cut straight to the heart of our most important personal and social issues – relationships,...

301. Robert Rabbin

Tantra/Kundalini

⬇ Download MP3 In January of 2012, Robert was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and told he had nine months to live. However, consistent with his contrarian nature, he lived a productive life until passing away in 2017. Robert was struck by a strong curiosity...

300. Cheryl Abram

Christian Based

⬇ Download MP3 Cheryl Abram is a mother of 4 from southern Louisiana. She’s a graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and holds a Master’s degrees in Social Work in Quality Systems Management. Cheryl currently lives in Northern...

299. Joan Shivarpita Harrigan – Kundalini Vidya

Tantra/Kundalini

⬇ Download MP3 Bri. Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, Ph.D. is the spiritual director of Patanjali Kundalini Yoga-Care (PKYC-USA). Shiva has practiced, studied, and taught Raja yoga and Advaita Vedanta for more than thirty years. She has been tutored as the designated...

298. Enza Vita

⬇ Download MP3 Enza Vita is the author of “Instant Presence: Allow Natural Meditation to Happen” and the founder of the MahaShanti Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to spiritual awakening. Enza Vita was born in a small village in Sicily and immigrated...

296. Rev. Michael Dowd

Christian Based

⬇ Download MP3 Rev. Michael Dowd is a bestselling evolutionary theologian and pro-future evangelist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Discover, and on television nationally. His...

295. Shellee Rae

Addiction/Recovery

⬇ Download MP3 Shellee Rae, a Reiki Master for 15+ years, trained to the master level in many other energy modalities, and is certified in numerous body-centered therapies. Her work in this field became full-time in 2000. Sexually abused as a child, followed by 27...

294. Frank Kinslow

Founder of Methodology

⬇ Download MP3 Dr. Frank J. Kinslow is the discoverer of Quantum Entrainment® and the founder of The Kinslow SystemTM, a practical new way of approaching your life that quickly allows it to become more productive, fun and fulfilling. Frank has been researching and...

293. Wayne Wirs

⬇ Download MP3 Wayne took his own life on August 31, 2017. Discussion in the Batgap Community Facebook Group. Eulogy written for Wayne by Jerry Freeman. Putting his words in the past tense, Wayne Wirs was a transparent, rational, nondual mystic. Wayne blogged about...

292. Stuart Schwartz

Creative Artists/Musicians

⬇ Download MP3 Recently at a Whirling Dervish Meditation in Istanbul I read how Rumi summarized his life: I was immature; I became experienced; I was consumed. I could divide this lifetime in those categories also, starting with a life driven by conditioning...

291. Chris Beckett

⬇ Download MP3 Until two years ago, my only interest in spirituality was self-improvement. I wasn’t interested in what was true, only to make my experience better. For whatever reason, I just didn’t care. About five years ago I turned abruptly away from any kind of...

289. Bonnie Greenwell

Tantra/Kundalini

⬇ Download MP3 Bonnie is a non-dual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti, and a transpersonal therapist who has specialized in working with spiritual emergence issues for 30 years. She has published several books and articles related to kundalini and spiritual...

288. Peter Fenner

Buddhist/Zen/Mindfulness

⬇ Download MP3 Peter is a leader in the Western adaptation of Buddhist wisdom. He is a pioneer in the new field of nondual psychotherapy. He was a celibate monk in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions for nine years. He has a Ph.D. in the philosophical psychology of...

287. Amma Sri Karunamayi

Devotional, Divine Mother, Heart-based

⬇ Download MP3 Sri Karunamayi is revered in India as an embodiment of Divine Motherly Love, due to the love and affection that she showers liberally on all people, animals, and even plants, the spiritual knowledge and guidance that she gives freely to all of...

286. Ellen Emmet

⬇ Download MP3 Ellen’s deepest longing for the absolute was fulfilled when she met her teacher, Francis Lucille. In his presence, over many years, she awakened to her true nature of peace and happiness through continuous and deepening glimpses. The process of...

285. John Prendergast