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🗓️ 1 February 2011
⏱️ 91 minutes
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0:00.0 | The |
0:07.0 | The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer and my guest this week is Phil Goldberg. Phil's an old friend of mine. We go back 40 years, which is probably two-thirds of our life. |
0:40.7 | We were both from the East Coast, he from New York, I from Connecticut, and we were |
0:44.7 | on the same course in 1970 becoming teachers of Transcendental Meditation. |
0:50.8 | Phil has been a writer most of his adult life and written a number of books. |
0:56.0 | We're going to talk about a couple of them today, but in particular American Veda, |
1:00.0 | which is his most recent book, From Emerson and The Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, |
1:05.0 | How Indian Spirituality Change the West. |
1:08.0 | And I started out this show, I was just sort of interviewing people here in Fairfield, Iowa, |
1:14.6 | who said they had had a spiritual awakening. |
1:17.6 | And then I kind of went to Skype and started interviewing people around the world, |
1:22.6 | many of whom are teachers of some sort. |
1:26.6 | You know, they've made teaching their gig as spiritual teachers. |
1:32.4 | And some people sort of complained about that. |
1:34.0 | She said, what about the regular people? |
1:35.2 | I liked it when you just did regular people. |
1:37.1 | And then there's also a third category developing, which is people who aren't necessarily |
1:42.1 | spiritual teachers nor claim to have had a spiritual |
1:44.6 | awakening who are interesting to talk to and who shed light on the theme of this show, which is |
1:53.5 | ordinary people who've had a spiritual awakening. |
1:57.2 | So, Phil's book. |
1:58.7 | You'll run out of them after a while. |
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