187. Eric Isen

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2013

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Eric Isen has undergraduate degrees from Harvard University, the University of Paris, France and a Masters Degree in Spiritual Development from Maharishi European Research University. He spent 35 years as a Vedic Monk in the Transcendental Meditation Movement and has been totally focused on spiritual growth for himself and the world for over 45 years. He is an Ayurvedic Practitioner and medical intuitive by profession and has been passionately involved in the Oneness Movement since 2005. He was initiated as a Oneness Meditator in the Oneness Temple in May of 2012. In December 2012, through the Divine Grace of Sri AmmaBhagavan, Eric was blessed with Awakening. Websites: ayurvedicintuitive.com Livestream Facebook Transcript of this interview. Interview conducted 8/10/2013 BatGap’s intention is to inspire and inform. We are not in a position to endorse any of our guests’ teachings, practices, healings, etc. We encourage you to discriminate carefully and make your own decisions before signing up for any retreats, sessions, or healings. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to the Interview with Eric Isen 00:05:09 - Adventures and Peak Experiences 00:09:34 - The Story of the Incarnations of Vishnu 00:13:45 - Transformation through Divine Blessing 00:17:49 - The Limitations of the System in Maharishi's Group 00:21:51 - Breaking Boundaries Through the TM Movement 00:25:36 - Spiritual Growth through Subtraction 00:29:48 - Blessing of Triggered Emotions 00:34:09 - Completing Experiences with Awareness 00:38:19 - Facing Yourself in the Oneness Movement 00:41:57 - Facing and Dissolving Fear 00:46:14 - The Passageway of Grief and Sorrow 00:50:01 - Awakening and the Process of Growth 00:54:32 - Divine Encounter and Missed Opportunity 00:58:55 - Awakening and Divine Grace 01:03:11 - Overcoming Fear During Oneness Meditation 01:07:13 - Selection of Oneness Meditators 01:11:18 - Settling into the Senses 01:14:57 - Avatars and Divine Realms 01:19:10 - Embracing Bliss and Awakening Experiences 01:23:10 - The Devotion to Lakshman Joo 01:27:32 - Thyroid health and dietary recommendations 01:32:20 - The Layers of Manifestation 01:36:28 - Healing abilities and the shift from personhood 01:40:26 - The Experiential Aspect of Awakening 01:44:13 - Living the Awakening in Spiritual Movements 01:48:00 - Awakening at Different Stages of Development 01:51:43 - Distinguishing Perception Levels 01:55:41 - The Mega Gatherings at Amma's Place 01:59:46 - State of the Industry Update and Oneness Meditation 02:03:27 - Namaste Everybody

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0:00.0	I'm Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer, and my guest this week is my old friend Eric Eisen. Welcome Eric. Thank you. Eric and I have kind of known each other, first at least saw each other in the summer of 1970 in Poland, Spring, Maine at a course that Marjie Mahesh Yogi was conducting. And Eric was a filmmaker at that time. He was shooting a documentary called The Main Purpose. Marci liked puns.
0:56.0	And he went on to become a filmmaker in the TM movement,
1:01.0	and Eric and I taught together on all sorts of projects and teaching teams in various places,
1:07.0	Detroit, Chicago, Boston, and various overseas adventures. So these days, Eric is a
1:16.5	on oneness meditation or oneness teacher. He'll explain the details, but I just wanted to give
1:21.6	you a real quick overview of our connection, and then we will retrace our steps and go into lots of details.
1:30.7	And I think you're going to find this interesting because Eric is an interesting guy.
1:36.4	I saw you give a presentation the other night, and you briefly recapped your spiritual odyssey
1:41.5	back to the days of when you were a Harvard student and you first saw a
1:45.3	picture, poster of Marishi up on some campus building. So let's take it from there and then see
1:51.0	where we go. All right. Life story in a capsule here. I was a Harvard student undergraduate and had just
2:00.0	been becoming interested in conversations with people
2:03.6	about God and spirituality.
2:06.6	It's just starting to have some interest.
2:09.6	I really hadn't pursued it in any direction, but I felt drawn to it.
2:13.6	And I saw a poster with this Indian master who was coming to speak at Harvard.
2:20.3	And I thought, well, that's cool. Let's go check this out.
2:23.3	I went to hear him and I kind of the minute he walked through the door, I kind of fell in love with him.
2:30.3	I just don't remember when he walked through the door, my mind just kept going over and over and over.
2:36.0	That's the real thing. That's the real thing.
2:40.0	And I could just sort of feel this very powerful energy of his consciousness and awareness.
2:46.0	And he gave a great talk which was centered all about his Transcendental Meditation technique.
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