078. Jan Esmann

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2011

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Jan was born 1960 and grew up in Bury, England. His parents were Danish. In 1967 the family moved to Denmark. Jan’s dad is an engineer and there was no spiritual influence from either parent. Yet Jan showed strong spiritual yearnings since an early age. Jan trained as an artist under the Danish painter Niels Hermann Wamberg; he also studied art restoration at the Royal Academy in order to learn the traditional craft. Jan also studied at the university and acquired an MA in history of modern culture. Today Jan works as a full-time professional artist and also has a software company developing photo retouching plug-ins for Photoshop. After doing Transcendental Meditation and the TM Siddhi Programme for six years, Jan felt the need for a guru and found Gururaj Ananda Yogi whom he stayed with for three years. Then Jan’s Kundalini was so active, that he did not need any other guidance than what the Shakti gave, so he gave up on gurus and meditated by observing the inner Shakti’s workings. Following this, Jan began to be contagious and the Kundalini might spontaneously awaken in those that meditated with him. After some years, Jan met Amma and related to her as a spiritual master for about ten years. But again the Shakti guided Jan to meditate on his own and follow the inner guidance of the Shakti. Today Jan would describe his spirituality as being grabbed by Mother’s grace. The Divine Mother who resides in everybody as Kundalini Shakti and patiently waits to unfold as a vibrating field of love, bliss, and grace. Interview recorded 7/10/2011. Jan's sites: Spirituality Art Software Development Books: Lovebliss: The Essence of Self-Realization Enlightenment 101: From Ignorance to Grace Kundalini Tantra: Song of Liberation Transcript of this interview 2nd interview with Jan YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Jan Esmann and his Spiritual Journey 00:04:59 - Out of Body Experiences and Blissful Samadhis 00:08:13 - The Blue Pearl and the Blue Being 00:11:15 - An Encounter with God 00:14:54 - Saturated with intelligence and consciousness 00:17:30 - The God Consciousness and the Blue Being 00:20:06 - An Interesting Experience on a Meditation Week 00:22:37 - Glimpses of Past Lives 00:25:59 - Past Life Memories 00:28:41 - Pure Being 00:32:23 - The Paradox of Bliss and Meaninglessness 00:35:05 - Meditation and Kundalini Awakening Journey 00:38:17 - A Spiritual Connection with Amma 00:41:03 - Kundalini Awakening Journey 00:43:39 - Work in Meditation 00:46:28 - Shaktipat and Blissful Meditation 00:50:02 - The Bliss Transmission 00:52:41 - Awakening of the Crown Chakra and Self-realization 00:56:47 - Recognition of Pure Being in Others 00:59:32 - The State of Passive Awareness 01:02:24 - Progression of Consciousness: From Cosmic Consciousness to Unity Consciousness 01:05:35 - Understanding, Realization, and Liberation 01:09:15 - The Maturation of Spiritual Teachers 01:12:28 - The Transition from Duality to Unity Consciousness 01:15:40 - Awakening Spiritual Growth 01:18:01 - The Nature of Bliss 01:21:15 - Levels of Awareness vs Levels of Experience 01:25:25 - Kundalini: Unfolding Ignorance into Enlightenment 01:29:15 - Kundalini and Shaktipat 01:32:59 - Expansion of Unity Consciousness 01:35:56 - Interview with a Local Phenomenon in Copenhagen

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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 Jan Espin, who lives in Denmark.
0:33.6	And Jan was recommended to me by my friend Anatole, who recommends a lot of people.
0:43.3	And I've read quite a few pages of information on Jan's site.
0:47.3	And in my opinion, he has a very fascinating story to tell and has had a very sort of fascinating spiritual journey over the last many years.
0:57.7	So welcome, Jan.
0:59.5	Thank you.
1:00.7	Happy to be here.
1:02.1	Yeah.
1:03.0	I read all that stuff from your site that I recommend that you read, and I would recommend that our listeners read that as well.
1:12.9	And people, I get feedback from people sometimes saying, you know, enough for the stories,
1:19.9	it's just mind candy. Why do you have to, why do people have to all tell their stories?
1:23.5	But other people say, I love the stories. You know, I can relate to them. They sort of, you know,
1:28.2	make it seem more like it's possible for me too if it's possible for this guy. And so,
1:34.4	I usually invite guests to, you know, do whichever they feel is most appropriate, either to tell
1:43.2	their story or to just sort of tell their teaching if they have one.
1:46.0	But in your case, since you don't seem averse to telling your story, you've told it in some detail on your website,
1:53.0	and I think it's quite fascinating. If you don't mind, perhaps we can go through it because most people listening to this will not have read your
2:03.0	website and would probably rather hear you tell the story personally than just have to sit there
2:07.0	and read it in print. Yeah, sure, no problem. Great. So start wherever you like. Well, we can do it chronologically.
2:19.3	If that makes sense.
2:20.3	Yeah, in some way it does because I have recollections from very, very early, lying in the crib
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