Interview with Rick Archer of Buddha at the Gas Pump!

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Жыл бұрын

That's right, we've swapped roles and just like the night that Johnny Carson was a guest on Letterman, Rick was kind enough to agree to an interview. He brings a tremendous wealth of knowledge to the topic of spirituality and awakening. check it out!
Buddha at the Gas Pump: shorturl.at/aM358
BATGAP KZfaq Channel: / @batgap
Main Points touched on in this conversation:
- Rick's spiritual history. The TM program.
- The importance of integration and stabilization on the spiritual path.
- The value of spiritual development in unfolding our full potential.
- About Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi)
- The masculine and feminine aspects of spirituality.
- Compassion, kindness, generosity, and such qualities as expressions of holistic spiritual development.
- The Association for Spiritual Integrity and the importance of ethics on the spiritual path.
- What is the best spiritual practice?
- Are there any detrimental practices? (Psychedelics? Neo-Advaita?) Harmful teachers?
- The qualifications for being a spiritual teacher and the importance of discerning between qualified and unqualified teachers.
- The importance of humility and genuineness in teachers.
- We all have different roles to play. Awakened people aren’t necessarily teachers and don’t necessarily use spiritual terminology.
- The relevance of channeling, mediumship, etc. to spirituality.
- Different dimensions of reality.
- “God” as an unbounded self-interacting ocean of consciousness.
- We are characters with some improvisational latitude in the Divine Play. The playwright has our best interest in mind.
- Staying aligned with the Divine “stream”.
- Trusting your instincts.
- Global problems are symptomatic of the quality of collective consciousness, which is trending toward awakening, perhaps as a response to the dire nature of these problems.
- The cumulative nature of spiritual practice.
- Recommended books.
- The importance of where you put your attention.
- The complimentary relationship between knowledge and experience.
- The importance of taking the first step on the spiritual path, and one thing will lead to the next.

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@Alykat736 Жыл бұрын

Rick finally gets to talk his heart out and Irene can’t tell him he’s talking to much ☺️Love it!

@jasongeyer2111 Жыл бұрын

lol, ur right, good call 🤣

@ganazby Жыл бұрын

🤣

@Alykat736 Жыл бұрын

I know , I couldn’t resist 😉

@carriesewell3460 Жыл бұрын

🤭

@tim2269 Жыл бұрын

😅

@ganazby Жыл бұрын

Rick is a legend, and BATGAP is a wonderful resource. The opening music never fails to lift my spirits. 🙏

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

I agree

@gkannon77 Жыл бұрын

It's been my ringtone for a long time. Rick offers it free on his site :)

@gkannon77 Жыл бұрын

@@niallbourke7963 ok. Agree to disagree. Everyone has their level of tolerance for what they seem stupid/silly/woowoo. I used to nitpick everything spirituality/nondual teachers and interviews said and did to try and find faults, to diminish their status/believability. After a while I realized that was a fruitless endeavour. If I disagree, I turn it off, without judgement. I've found a lot of what I turned off previously, I now appreciate. And I certainly don't judge an interviewer for a particular guest's comments. I look at the whole of the interviews, net positive or negative. Rick has certainly provided me a net positive, no question. Re: Rick saying thank you in response to him being enlightened, I'm not sure what else one would say, whether you think you are enlightened or not Maybe silence? But that would seem rude. Maybe saying/clarifying that being enlightened is no longer a concern of his? Sure. But I personally have no desire to split hairs or put anyone on such a pedastal as to expect perfect responses to comments/questions every time. Again, I look at his interview style as a whole, if it resonates, listen. If it doesn't, no worries. I think I pick up on what you are saying regarding Rick, he does have some apparent ego(tistical) qualities that come through, which he may or may not be aware of. But that certainly doesn't preclude me from appreciating his dedication and hard work in this field... For which the original comment "Rick's a legend" was referring to, I'm sure.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

@@gkannon77 just FYI, I removed the comment you responded to. The point of this comment section isn’t to criticize guests, guests of guests etc. There are 658864367 places on the internet to criticize people in unproductive ways, this just isn’t one of them 😂.

@susanj5591 29 күн бұрын

Bernardo Kastrup has insights that are important to listen to

@TheSierra108 Жыл бұрын

What a great interview! My husband, two dogs and I run into Rick frequently in the park. He’s always listening to interviews and audible books for his upcoming interviews. He’s as affable in person as he is in this interview and on Batgap❤

@JoSpring Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see you interview Anna Brown

@awakeningtobehuman Жыл бұрын

What an amazing surprise!! So great to see Rick being interviewed and by you! Love it! I really hope this helps BATGAP reach 100K! Lots of love to you both! ❤️✨❤️✨

@TerryLightfoot Жыл бұрын

Yay, Rick & Angelo together again! So nice to hear someone interviewing Rick for a change. 😍

@fernandocardenas2264 Жыл бұрын

"If you think you're enlightened go spend a weekend with your parents." LOL What a fascinating interview with Rick, something to behold. Will watch again, definitely. Thank you Angelo!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@ho5286 Жыл бұрын

Yes, so true!! they can also be your teachers too

@tchaffan9998 Жыл бұрын

Amazing to see Rick in another light. I always hated how while interviewing his guests he would try to show his knowledge of the books. This is more genuine than anything he put in his KZfaq videos so far. Thanks for changing my mind about him. He needs to do more of these. He's got a lot to bring to the table with the right interviewer. Thanks Angelo

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

He’s a wealth of knowledge and experience

@JoSpring Жыл бұрын

Great interview. I think a lot of the new wave non-duality people do not understand the difference between relative reality and absolute reality and it's an important thing to know. Zen handles this well.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Well said!

@JoSpring Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 💕

@jillturner7669 Жыл бұрын

THANKYOU! Loved this. Especially the part where you both agreed on what “God” means to you. I had a sudden experience about 15 years ago and haven’t had it since unfortunately BUT it has remained my touchstone of faith ever since. I would take pages to describe all that happened in that one moment/ hour or 2, but I remember it like it was yesterday and I bawled my eyes out with utter relief for ages during and after it, “knowing” that everything is in good hands 🥰…..despite how it looks. I suddenly realised that this personality/prescence/love was not only all around me, but inside EVERY nano particle of me and knew me more than I could possibly know myself. It felt like a gift - the best gift you could ever receive. The gratitude I felt was off the scale. It was as though “it” was saying “yoo hoo! I’m here! I’ve always been here!” And it knew how incredulous it was to me and found it almost amusing. So wonderfully strange. I almost felt embarrassed 😁…..like….”OH! I’m a superficial, naive overlay to THIS”……like a young infant finding out that the innocent lies it was trying to tell had been known all along by the adoring, forgiving parent. I hope to manage to reach that mysterious place again. I don’t know how it happened but it seemed like Grace. Interestingly though, I had been watching the thoughts after listening to The Power of Now ❤️

@TomsDone Жыл бұрын

You should look into Susan Blackmore. She had similar experiences and became the authority on out of body experiences, etc. She got a PhD in related fields and spent a good part of her life following up on this stuff.

@jeannieoliver5137 8 ай бұрын

The Power of Now came to mind when they were discussing what book to recommend to introduce a person to the concepts of enlightenment. As for a program or path, I find the 12 Steps of AA and Al Anon to be good guidance.

@Mimi-xs7gi Жыл бұрын

Rick is a very knowledgeable and interesting guy🤓 nice he gets his turn to be interviewed Thank you both of you👏

@KK-qd6ro Жыл бұрын

I'm finding the interveiw format really helpful. The spontaneity of conversation reveals real human experience. I wasn't aware how much external validation I was seeking. Trust my experience, my new mantra. 💜🙏

@katnip198 Жыл бұрын

Two great guys talking about, as Ram Dass says, "the only game in town"! Thank you for this very interesting video.

@user-nb4ex5zk3w 5 ай бұрын

There must be many thousands who started this process decades ago but never meet like ones. It would be great to have a contemporary version of kumba mela to meet and enjoy.

@christied425 Жыл бұрын

What a delightful surprise! It was an interview Rick did that sent me down the rabbit hole years ago which has led to Angelo! Synchronicity ❤️

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

@Amazinglight7 Жыл бұрын

We are forever grateful for Rick and the many amazing guests he has sourced to teach us x such an incredible memory and understanding on life x thanks Rick we love you mate

@paulkininmonth6972 Жыл бұрын

To your question Angelo, regarding ‘detrimental practices’, one trap I landed in stemmed from blind faith 27:31 / spiritual naïveté. Our teacher gave our group a line from The Gita to practice as homework - ‘I am not this mind, I am not this body’ - a statement of absolute reality, but no where near my experience back then. But being earnest, I took up the practice with gusto, & subsequently spent many years disconnected from my body & my body’s experience. Today, I am this body. And I just am.

@kennyrumrill1860 Жыл бұрын

This presentation was really a treat for me. I appreciate Angelo and Rick so very much They are both so "real" , full of practical, valuable knowledge and wisdom, and have open minds and loving hearts. I hope that they will have more presentations together. Maybe do a "deep dive" into a particular topic or two. Thank you both, and Namaste.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

@mooskamoo Жыл бұрын

Excellent interview Angelo, you handled it very well. Good questions, good pace and a lovely well balanced interaction.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Thx

@margitellis3948 Жыл бұрын

What a delight! Thank you❤️

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@JoSpring Жыл бұрын

I fell asleep during a talk by the Dalai Lama. 😂 Thay was a real human. A mensch.

@jasongeyer2111 Жыл бұрын

heck ya awesome, I was just watching the episode you were in on his show yesterday. was really good, one of the best ive seen on buddha at the gas pump! glad to see him on here hes usually interviewing , i dont think I've ever seen anywhere with him being interviewed about himself... great guy I really like him a lot! 👍🏻👍🏻 ❤❤❤🙏🙏

@LeftTheMatrix Жыл бұрын

Two of my favorite people 👏❤️😀Rick, you introduced me to Angelo and so many wonderful teachers. May life richly bless you both for all that you give. Grateful - not just for this interview! 🙏

@lukystaify Жыл бұрын

what a beautiful interview. What really touched me was the deep dive to the ordinariness, like some kind of desire for more started to dissolve and the sense of just this was revealing,, such a nice heartful talk. Not just the topic but the authenticity of both of you. Thanks to Rick I discovered Adyashanti and many others, certainly helped me much in life. What a powerful resource it is. Also thanks to him i discovered this channel :D so that blew me away also! Thank you, thank you, thank you

@watcherofvideoswasteroftim5788 Жыл бұрын

Great interview! I'm just bursting to mention John Vervaeke after the mention of the Axial age and wisdom etc. He has a lecture series here on youtube called Awakening from the meaning crisis which was hugely influential on me and helped frame and put A LOT of thing into a broader context. For example the concept/practice of "internalizing the sage", it feels like I have a little Angelo in my head that I can have dialogue with after reading your book (it being written in conversational style magnified this effect greatly).

@mortalclown3812 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation. Bookmarked one of his videos.

@siobhanmacm Жыл бұрын

Loved this interview. Thank you Angelo!❤

@ashley5627 Жыл бұрын

Come on!!! This is amazing 😊 Thank you!

@suemoseley4707 Жыл бұрын

Angelo, your interviews are truly my favorite thing! ❤ 🙏✨

@vajraloka1 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see comments open on your channel.

@nevillefernandez8933 3 ай бұрын

What a wonderful sum up of all the spirituality of the last few years !

@deb4610 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful conversation, thank you both! ❤

@ConsciousMoney Жыл бұрын

Fantastic conversation. I love both your channels and it's lovely to see you both speaking so honestly and from such a clear viewpoint.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Thanks for visiting

@MariaLoysen Жыл бұрын

Wonderful interview! Great questions Angelo. Ive always wanted to know Rick's story too. Wow! Thanks Rick for sharing yourself in this way 💜 Have enjoyed Batgap for years. You're a real treasure. 💐

@carolsherriff7871 Жыл бұрын

I love Rick Archer. What an amazingly interesting man.

@danielmaina4942 Жыл бұрын

This man has made some of the best interview episodes on this topic. He is the reason I discovered this channel and Angello, my very best Christmas 🎄 and new year wishes to him. Thank you sir🙏

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@TheSususer Жыл бұрын

This is fantastic! I was so curious about Rick's journey! Thanks!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@demogadget Жыл бұрын

BATGAP have teached me a lot. Thanks Rick. Finally we can comment unders Rick interview :P

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

You bet!

@Hermetic7 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful interview of a beloved person!

@laurafearns4264 Жыл бұрын

Love Rick! 🙏🏻

@arazetteh5376 Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 So true - that quote of Goethe. I remember the first time I read it - it jumped off the page and grabbed my attention in a most wonderful way.

@annal2740 Жыл бұрын

It was your Batgap interview that introduced me to you, Angelo. Such a fabulous resource.

@Nadyamantra Жыл бұрын

Rick Archer and Batgap are life changinf resources. I have learned so much. I don't know if I have listened to all 670 something, but I am working on it. The opening revelry prepares me, and opens my mind ❤️ . Thank you Rick!

@Hanna-Nyasa Жыл бұрын

I visited AMA when she came to Australia :) Somehow ended up getting pushed to the front of the line out of everyone Was only a very quick hug from her but I'd love to spend a longer amount of time with her or at her ashram. I've heard her shakti and energy is so intense with her after 12 or more hours of giving darshan shed then go out on the streets in India cleaning up for hours

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Thx for sharing 🤗

@LisaNatoli1 11 ай бұрын

I love this!!! I was wondering when the REAL STAR of the Budhha at the Gas Pump - Rick Archer - was going to be interviewed. Thank you so much Angelo! This is so awesome. And also I'm super looking forward to your presence and sharing in the Awakening Mind Documentary!!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@rubyslippers9140 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Angelo and Rick :)

@poembypp8032 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Pranam , it's great luck to see you two

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Always welcome

@korneliaheidegger3116 Жыл бұрын

Very beautiful, thank you! ❤❤❤

@thomasdevlin2666 Жыл бұрын

I like hard questions that both Rick and Angelo take on. They have helped many of us. Namaste !❤💚

@sethspeaksdaily7260 Жыл бұрын

Great interview again. Thanks Angelo. Seth is a spiritual teacher no longer in physical form that I follow. Was channelled by Jane Roberts in the 60s,70s and 80s. Great stuff and was the first to coin 'you create your own reality'

@mortalclown3812 Жыл бұрын

I've been thinking about the fact that 3 different and significant channeled works - ACIM, the Seth material and The Law of One AKA the Ra material - all popped up in the same decade and in the US; we must have shown promise, eh? Here's hoping humanity rises to this scary occasion - the brink of the 6th great extinction - as our beautiful planet teeters. Of course, consciousness continues - but we were given Eden for a reason. (Not alluding to the religious Eden tho.) Paz y luz. ✨🌍🍃🦋🙏✨

@aphroditeg5714 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful interview! I love the 60's vibe he carries around still :)

@joellynpeterson6612 5 ай бұрын

Great conversation! Thank you.

@tim2269 Жыл бұрын

Thank you both for your interest and attention in regards to Awakening 👏🏻

@praviplavokutnik Жыл бұрын

Oh, I was waiting for this. So excited to hear this conversation!

@Sashas-mom Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you both so much.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@georgeshepherd3381 Жыл бұрын

Listening to his interview of you on BatGap!

@vedremo9240 11 ай бұрын

my heart is with both of you

@pignut9361 Жыл бұрын

Great interview with Rick Archer 👍

@carriesewell3460 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, wonderful conversation!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

@JoSpring Жыл бұрын

People feel the same kind of feelings around psychopaths and this industry draws them as well, and people should be aware of that. Women are particularly vulnerable.

@FreddyFairhair Жыл бұрын

It’s early Christmas! 🎁🙏

@ganazby Жыл бұрын

The “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do…” quote, which Rick attributed to Goethe, was actually penned by the Scottish mountaineer, W.H. Murray, and can be found in his book, ‘The Scottish Himalayan Expedition’.

@lealvo Жыл бұрын

Wonderful interview! Thank you.

@paparingo5163 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

You are!

@catherinemittinger1894 Жыл бұрын

Ahhh! 2 of the Most open ....!

@munirah_a Жыл бұрын

My two favourites! I enjoyed this talk so much, thank you ♡

@iscottke Жыл бұрын

Excellentl Relaxed and precise.

@MrSimonj1970 Жыл бұрын

Heck of a nice fella.

@maxxandlouie Жыл бұрын

Doc, love all the interviews you do for the channel! Thanks as always.

@poopsmcgee2k6 Жыл бұрын

Wow this is the interview I didn't know I needed. :)

@radaztraci1830 Жыл бұрын

The guest was insightful and new to me. Your reflections on similar experiences were very additive info that does not come out in your regular videos and makes us see you more. Like your interview demeanor which is to not force anything which can be distracting for the listener

@yasminel-hakim4348 Жыл бұрын

wonderful conversation. Thank you both. 🙏❤️

@amazias9213 Жыл бұрын

Great conversation. Thanks a lot.

@tahchridaya Жыл бұрын

Great conversation guys! ❤

@georgeshepherd3381 9 ай бұрын

This is great! Thank you!

@ericmccarty65 Жыл бұрын

Insightful conversations. more than just getting to know a little more about Rick, but a lot of deep ground covered as well. Thanks for this interview, both of you.

@SonyaSunny Жыл бұрын

Great interview!! I so loved it and got a lot form it!❤

@loriscunado3607 6 ай бұрын

Rick is great!

@georgeshepherd3381 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@angelikavoss6794 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful interview! Thank you so much to both of you🧡🙏

@timeDrapery Жыл бұрын

Angelo and Rick, thank you so incredibly much for what the both of you do... Taking steps 🙃🙃🙏🙃🙃

@marialampe1659 Жыл бұрын

Me encantó esta entrevista con Rick. He visto muchas de las que el hace y ahora fue su turno. Es una persona maravillosa. Gracias querido Angelo.🙏🏻💕

@PritiAnand1BSG Жыл бұрын

Rick Archer, so courageous of you to share about your time with drugs, your rather traumatic childhood, the challenges of your parents. Your journey has been amazing 🌷🌷

@georgeshepherd3381 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Liking!

@I-Am-Aware Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Angelo and Rick, for this incredible interview. I've watched Rick and his interviews at BATGP for several years and credit him and and some of his guests for helping "me" to knowingly recognize true Self, beyond name and form. Gratitude to both of YOU. 🙏

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@I-Am-Aware Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Absolutely wonderful. 🙏

@staticchair Жыл бұрын

Ricks a Gem

@nogaei1 Жыл бұрын

Rick is the sweetest, most modest, man on this earth. Does great service to enhance knowledge and integrity, to the complex spiritual community. Impressive and knowledgeable interviewer.

@melaniemuller-schroder4555 Жыл бұрын

I have been looking for an interview with Rick for long time !! Thank you! 💓

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

@melaniemuller-schroder4555 Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Absolutely! 💕

@shipratrika2586 10 ай бұрын

Rick, I haven’t watched this interview, I was just commenting because I was watching Raphael’s interview with you, and I cannot comment there, I’m loving it. I was wondering, Have you ever thought of interviewing Igor Kufayev?

@amanitamuscaria7500 Жыл бұрын

It was Alan Watts who said "hang up the phone". Conscious tv and the wonderful New Thinking Allowed by Jeffrey Mishlove are definitely on a par. Jeffrey has been going since the 70s or something. He's still going and has many wonderful interviews. How lovely to see Rick as the interviewee. I was going to say Fr Thomas Keating as well. And many others on BATGAP. Swami Sarvapriyananda is in a class on his own imho. Wonderful. Thank you.

@XOXO-mb2vh Жыл бұрын

This was a good interview

@lau-guerreiro Жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Thanks

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@bodhidharma9363 10 ай бұрын

cool that Rick credits Jeffrey Mishlove, his 'Thinking Allowed' is a great series

@kennyjacob9521 Жыл бұрын

On speaking of psychedelic experiences Alan Watts said "When you get the message, hang up the phone...bro" (One word added 😂)

@nbenda Жыл бұрын

what a good idea to interview Rick, he remains for me a puzzle. I was wondering if astral projection and other things are not the type of thing inside mind( even if cosmic mind)/soul (subconscious), and in that sense, not really related to awakening.

@RichardBoyer Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

You're most welcome

@ww9519 Жыл бұрын

Great interview… I like that is was very honest and direct. Half way through the interview there was this discussion about the core of spirituality and the so called indulgent-woo-woo stuff. I just want to share a cartoonish idea that came to mind about it: imagine, in one of the higher realms where there are angels and all kinds of astral-embodied beings, etc, there is their version of a "high-spiritual" seminar. There are spiritual beings, angels there wearing spiritual symbols, practicing their unique type of yoga... And there is of course a being of light on the stage which just surrounds everything with love, light… And there is this little soul in the corner that has a question (all word-less of course): and the Master answers it instantly: Fantasizing about this odd dream of incarnating into a human form and living there as a spirit-filled gross matter is an unnecessary distraction … just merge with this light and be One with it… Well, isn’t a definition of a spiritual distraction always relative and it depends on which realm you actually happen to apparently reside?

@poembypp8032 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@SimplyAlwaysAwake Жыл бұрын

Welcome!