013. Sandra Glickman

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2010

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

A lifelong seeker of spiritual awakening, Sandra has deeply applied and correlated many teachings, methods, disciplines, healings, experiments, adventures, and views of every kind to forge a comprehensive understanding of human identity. She attended the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, an interdisciplinary program, experientially based, and purposed toward personal transformation. Her investigations led her to become a devotee of Adi Da Samraj between 1986 and 1996. She then began studying with Saniel Bonder, founder of Waking Down in Mutuality, with whose guidance she awakened in 1996, to a non-dual conscious embodiment of both her divine and human nature. She is currently a Senior Teacher of Waking Down, participating also in the ongoing creation of dharma, organizational structure, courses, and workshops. Sandra has been in private practice as a transpersonal psychotherapist since 1987. She has been a resident of Fairfield, Iowa since 2004. Her personal web site Interview recorded 2/24/2010. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:03:41 - From Hollow to Spiritual Awakening 00:06:43 - Discovering the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology 00:09:27 - Transition to the Spiritual Path 00:13:14 - Living in the Spiritual Community 00:16:07 - Awakening and Controversy in the Community 00:19:16 - Recognizing Awakening in Sanyal Bondar 00:22:37 - Breaking Free from the Incubator 00:25:37 - Leaving the Communion and Finding a Realizer 00:28:35 - Discovering the Witness Consciousness 00:32:32 - Adi Da's Multidimensional Awakening 00:37:01 - The Mystery and Paradox of Adi Das 00:40:37 - The Paradoxical Nature of Realization 00:44:05 - The Anatomy of the Sinoatrial Node 00:47:35 - Realization and Transformation 00:51:08 - Witness Consciousness Awakening 00:54:23 - Falling in Love and Transformation Journey 00:57:22 - Protecting His Own Life 01:00:56 - Challenging Assumptions and Gratitude for Relationships 01:03:47 - A Ceremony of Resolution 01:06:06 - The Subtle Awareness and Confirmation of Awakening 01:09:20 - The Paradox of Personal Identity 01:12:43 - The Location of Consciousness 01:15:16 - Living in the Present Moment 01:19:12 - Awareness and Self-Reflection 01:22:21 - Contentment and the acceptance of death 01:25:55 - Further Awakening and Progressive Awakening 01:29:29 - Unique Expressions of Awakening 01:33:52 - The Never-Ending Unfoldments of Awakening 01:37:21 - The Upwelling of Consciousness 01:40:26 - Buddha at the Gas Pump

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump, the weekly show in which we talk with people who have had or have undergone a spiritual awakening.
0:35.6	I'm always trying to come up with better terminology
0:38.3	than that, but so far that's the best I come up with. Maybe my guest this week.
0:42.3	Sandra Glickman will coin a better phrase for me.
0:45.3	Sandra holds the distinction of being the first guest on this show to not have a TM background,
0:52.3	Transcendental Meditation background, which is great.
0:55.0	Not that there's anything wrong with having a TM background, but it's hard to find anybody
0:59.0	in Fairfield, Iowa, who doesn't have one, and yet who has had a spiritual awakening.
1:04.0	So I was glad that Sandra agreed to come on the show. So maybe that gives us a good starting
1:10.0	point. How did you end up in Fairfield?
1:11.7	I was living in California, San Francisco Bay Area.
1:15.9	I was involved in a practice there with a group of people called Waking Down in Mutuality.
1:22.4	And this group was invited to come to Fairfield and teach, do some introductory teaching
1:30.8	and bringing our ideas about awakening to a group of people here.
1:37.7	You mean you're asked to have a representative come?
1:39.6	Yes.
1:40.6	I see.
1:41.6	Yes.
1:42.6	And so I happen to be the representative, myself and another woman whom I teach with.
1:49.6	And so we came here, we gave an introductory course, and we came back again, and people
1:57.3	liked what we were doing.
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