063. Thomas Gates

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2011

⏱️ 119 minutes

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From http://thomasgates.com/bio: Thomas was born in Texas in 1950 and grew up in the rural countryside not far from Dallas. He spent much of his childhood playing in the woods, observing the stars, the sky, the trees, the animals, the changing of seasons, and the effortless flow of nature’s way. As a result, he quietly sensed that there must be one simple and powerful essence sustaining all this incredibly diverse creation. Meditation Then, shortly before his twenty-second birthday, Thomas learned a unique and simple meditation technique that quickly confirmed his sense of what had been occurring in nature all along. It enlivened the experience of that deep, underlying silence–the silence that permeates and sustains the whole field of existence. Emergency This peace and happiness lasted about one week when Thomas suddenly found himself being rushed to the hospital with a severe case of appendicitis. The doctors told him not to worry. It would just be a routine surgical procedure and that he would be home in three days. Little did he know that his life was about to be altered forever. Thus began the prelude to an amazing journey that took him all the way through and beyond the “light” to the underlying, eternal source of our existence and all creation. Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 1/30/2011 Audio below and as a Podcast. Video unavailable.

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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 Thomas Gates. I am taping this in his home, a few blocks away from my home, in Fairfield, Iowa.
0:40.3	And Thomas has a very interesting story, which I actually only heard from a conversation
0:48.3	we had in the supermarket one day, and maybe I read something in the paper or something,
0:52.3	about you having had a near-death
0:54.5	experience which resulted in a spiritual awakening and the dawning of healing abilities.
1:01.6	And so we have plenty of time in this interview and I'd like to hear the whole story
1:07.0	in as much detail as you can dredge up.
1:09.0	Yeah, sure, yeah. And let's go at it.
1:12.6	So is that where we would want to start is with your near-death experience?
1:17.6	Yeah, well, yeah, actually I can tell you a little background on me, basically, that I never was anyone who thought about that stuff about, I didn't even know
1:30.6	what near death experience was when I had it.
1:33.0	I only found that out what maybe five years later when I first told someone about my experience.
1:39.8	I didn't say anything to anyone about it because I didn't think there was any reason to talk about it.
1:48.0	And then one day somebody, it came up, something came up.
1:52.0	Actually, what it came up, I was on this course.
1:56.0	And someone...
1:58.0	Meditation course?
1:59.0	Yeah, it was a meditation course and it was one of the early courses that they
2:02.6	had over at Marishi University.
2:06.6	And I happened to go into the wrong building and there was a lecture going on.
2:12.6	And I thought, what is this?
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