045. Janet Sussman
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Rick Archer
4.7 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2010
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . |
| 0:03.0 | I'm |
| 0:07.0 | . Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. |
| 0:28.9 | My name is Rick Archer and my guest this week is Janet Suspin. |
| 0:33.5 | And we're recording in the home of some friends here in Fairfield, Iowa. |
| 0:38.9 | So we have a small audience, including a dog, |
| 0:41.6 | who'll probably sleep through the whole thing. |
| 0:45.0 | And Janet, I don't think you know much about this show, |
| 0:48.8 | and I don't know much about you, so let me just introduce |
| 0:52.3 | what the show is about. |
| 1:00.2 | And then we'll start to, you know, get into your story, which I am told is very fascinating. |
| 1:09.8 | I just, about a year ago I had the idea to do a show in which I interviewed people who had had a spiritual awakening. |
| 1:13.6 | And I've done about 46 of them now. And everybody's story is different, although there are often fundamental similarities, |
| 1:20.6 | you know, from one person to the next. |
| 1:23.6 | And it's fascinating to sort of see how consciousness awakens or how awakenings occur |
| 1:30.3 | in a variety of people and the value of this I think is that it shows people who watch it |
| 1:38.3 | doesn't necessarily all have to fit into one particular mold. There are many ways in which |
| 1:45.8 | awakening can occur so that if they had been sort of stuck on a particular concept of |
| 1:50.6 | what it's going to be and feeling that they were a million miles away from it because |
| 1:54.8 | that concept didn't seem to jive with their experience, you know, hearing the story |
| 1:59.3 | of a variety of people might just make them realize that there's something in their experience, you know, hearing the story of a variety of people might just make |
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