016. John Speer

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2010

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Interview recorded 3/31/2010. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of John Speer 00:03:45 - Questioning Existence and Meaning of Life 00:06:50 - Puzzling Reality and Spiritual Awakening 00:09:23 - The Feeling of Joy and Destiny 00:12:09 - Discovering Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 00:14:41 - A Chance Encounter with Transcendental Meditation 00:17:03 - Introduction to Meditation Journey 00:19:27 - Meeting Elaine and Falling in Love 00:22:14 - A Profound and Loving Experience 00:25:00 - A Profound Sense of Joy and Witnessing Human Emotions 00:28:00 - The Death of Our Son 00:31:05 - The Science of Free Will and Determinism 00:34:06 - Returning to Fairfield 00:36:41 - Resonating with a Spiritual Experience 00:39:25 - Discovering Raja Ram 00:42:01 - Freedom from Belief and Dependency 00:45:00 - The Freedom of Experience 00:47:52 - A Near-Death Experience 00:50:10 - The Dome and TM City Program 00:53:06 - The Experience of Oneness 00:56:29 - The Embodiment of the Universe in Christ 00:59:05 - The Omnipresence of God 01:01:43 - Christ as the Savior for Each Other 01:04:37 - Finding Fulfillment on the Spiritual Path 01:07:39 - Reflecting the Essence of the Soul 01:10:36 - "Light that is one, though the lamps be many" 01:13:00 - The Awakening Moment 01:15:34 - The Essence of Seeking and Finding 01:18:10 - Ramana Maharshi and the Essence of Spiritual Awakening 01:20:42 - The Mahavakya and a Good Stopping Point 01:23:09 - Conclusion and Farewell

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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 have a conversation with someone who has had a spiritual awakening.
0:34.6	My name is Rick Archer and my guest tonight is John Spear. And in a minute,
0:40.5	John will introduce himself and give us a little biography of his life and interest. But before
0:47.0	he does that, I would like to make a few brief comments as I sometimes do. I just want to say that
0:52.3	this show is, well, first of all, I want to say that they're practicing hair in the next room and you might hear
0:57.0	Aege of Aquarius coming through in the background. But aside from that, this show is totally unscripted.
1:04.0	I don't plan out questions ahead of time. I generally don't have any extensive conversation with my guests about what we're going to talk about.
1:10.0	It's extemporaneous. We just wing it. And on the other side of it, it is unedited. After the
1:17.1	show has been taped, we slapped titles on at the beginning and end and basically air it as it is,
1:24.1	without any editing. And that being the case, I often think back to things I have said in certain interviews
1:31.4	that I wish I had phrased them differently, or my statements might be misconstrued.
1:37.8	And last week in particular, I was making some comments about Romana Maharshi and the Sargadatta Maharaj and Ramesh Balzakar,
1:48.0	which I stopped myself because what I was saying was coming out sounding derogatory, at least to my ear.
1:55.0	And I just want to say that I had no intention of sounding that way, and I have the utmost respect for those teachers.
2:01.2	What I was actually trying to say is that I found better words for it in the subsequent
2:05.2	week because I've been listening to an interview series called the Great Integral Awakening
2:09.3	hosted by a man named Craig Hamilton.
2:11.9	And his contention, and that of some of the people he's studied under, is that not
2:16.6	only the expression of enlightenment evolves as the culture evolves,
2:21.3	you know, from 2,000 years ago or whatever to the present, but the actual experience of enlightenment evolves because we are evolving beings.
2:29.3	And our ability to fathom and reflect the spiritual or deeper realities that we've been discussing is actually
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