148. Mark Landau

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2012

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Mark Landau, Founder of L&F, The Love and Forgiveness Meditation, has written seven books on meditation, healing, evolution, politics, sex, fantasy, and saving our world, one musical play, and many songs. He does healing work and meditation instruction and lives in Santa Fe. You can find out more about Mark Landau at mark-landau.com. Books: A New American Evolution: To Save Our World End the Fight What We Can Do The Love and Forgiveness Meditation I Love You and Forgive You: A True Self-Healing Tool and the Life Around It Archetypes, Election, Evolution And he welcomes friendship on Facebook. Summary and Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 11/22/2012. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Personal Background 00:06:47 - Spiritual Awakening and Cancer Journey 00:12:00 - A Journey with LSD and Spiritual Experiences 00:16:28 - Rediscovering Transcendental Meditation 00:20:16 - Seeing Golden Circles of Light 00:24:25 - The Dynamic Between Gurus and Their Followers 00:28:21 - Amplifying Energy and Adoration 00:31:59 - The Paradoxes of Maharishi 00:35:19 - Maharishi's Paranoia and Depression 00:38:22 - Higher Dimensional Help 00:41:23 - Maharishi's Supernatural Abilities 00:45:22 - The Dilemma of Disillusionment 00:49:49 - The Reality of Guru Abuse 00:54:15 - Using Discernment in the 3D World 00:58:33 - Maharishi's Perspective on Enlightenment 01:02:09 - Exploring Different Spiritual Practices 01:06:10 - The Dangers of Dabbling with Drugs 01:09:57 - The Shadow of Self-Realization 01:15:09 - Healing the Shadow Within 01:20:00 - Popping into Healing and Releasing 01:24:31 - Coming Out of Isolation and Claiming Elderhood 01:29:25 - Healing and Forgiveness 01:34:45 - The Mechanism of the Ego 01:39:07 - The Transformation of my Life 01:42:58 - The Fulcrum of Transformation 01:46:07 - The Technique for Freedom and Fulfillment 01:49:12 - The Healing Power of Love and Forgiveness 01:51:59 - The Power of Love and Forgiveness in Meditation 01:55:13 - Adding Meditation to Your Routine for Inner Peace 01:59:01 - The Power of Love and Forgiveness 02:02:37 - Stay Updated with BATGAP Save Save

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:29.4	My name is Rick Archer, and my guest this time is Mark Landau.
0:35.0	Mark is an old friend of mine.
0:36.5	I first met him in spring of 1971 when I was
0:40.3	teaching a course in Transcendental Meditation in Westport, Connecticut, and Mark came in to learn.
0:46.3	And he immediately impressed me by the fact that before he had even learned, he was asking me how to become a teacher.
0:52.3	And he ended up doing that in fairly short order and went on to become Marshi Maheshiyohi's
0:58.2	personal secretary and I have all kinds of experiences, which we'll be talking about during
1:02.9	this interview.
1:04.0	And recently, Mark has written a nice book, which I just read called I Love You and Forgive
1:09.7	You.
1:10.3	And I'm sure he'll
1:11.7	want to talk a lot about that so welcome mark and thanks for doing this thank you very much my pleasure
1:16.5	yeah so where would you like to start I mean nobody particularly cares about you know whether
1:24.9	you played football or not in high school but in terms of the spiritual implications of your life, you know, the things that you consider to be pivotal or
1:33.5	influential in your spiritual path. Let's start with those.
1:40.2	Well, if I start with those, I have to go back before high school.
1:44.6	Okay.
1:50.4	I remember when I shut down my spirituality.
1:53.9	It was at the age of five.
1:58.5	And my family didn't support it.
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