277. Craig Pearson

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2015

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Craig Pearson is Executive Vice-President of Maharishi International University (MIU) in Fairfield, Iowa, and a leader in Consciousness-Based education. He has spoken around the United States on this unique approach to education as well as on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's programs to create world peace. He has held a number of positions at MIU, including Dean of Faculty, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dean of Students, Director of Freshman Composition, and Director of MIU Press. Dr. Pearson holds a Ph.D. in Maharishi Vedic Science from MIU. He is the author of two books, The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time - And How You Can Cultivate Them, available through MIU Press (free chapter available for download) or Amazon. and The Complete Book of Yogic Flying. He is also the co-author, with Brad Moses, of Peace on Earth, a collection of songs about enlightenment and world peace (available on iTunes). For video versions of these songs, see their YouTube channel. He lives on the MIU campus with his wife Melissa and son Soren. Transcript of this interview Interview conducted January 31, 2015. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:23 - Panning for Gold in Unlikely Sources 00:07:42 - Seven States of Consciousness and Higher Spiritual Development 00:12:01 - Description of the Indescribable 00:16:47 - Profound Transformation and Universal Experience 00:22:38 - Wordsworth's Experience at Tintern Abbey 00:26:42 - Rest and Deep Rest 00:30:20 - The Universal Experience 00:33:59 - The Transformative Effects of Meditation 00:38:01 - The Link Between Coherence and Intelligence 00:42:50 - The Benefits of Brain Integration 00:50:14 - Transforming Consciousness for Harmony with the Planet 01:01:36 - Settling the Waves of the Mind 01:13:01 - Cultivation of Mind and Brain 01:26:05 - The Condition in Which I Function 01:38:45 - A Veil Lifted: A Vision of Glory and Universal Love 01:49:10 - Universal Love and Amma's Hugs 01:53:40 - Experiencing the Underlying Silence 01:57:21 - The Experience of Oneness 02:01:14 - Glimpsing the Higher States of Consciousness 02:04:45 - The Importance of Looking Within 02:09:01 - Researching Cosmic Consciousness through Brain Measures 02:12:39 - Understanding the Neurophysiology of Transcending 02:15:48 - Different Techniques and Brain Functioning 02:18:37 - Universality of Meditation Techniques 02:22:01 - Broadening the Possibilities 02:26:14 - The Special Atmosphere of Iowa City 02:29:26 - The Realities of Personal Growth 02:32:48 - Finding the Self Within 02:36:41 - Cultivating Transcendence 02:40:19 - Craig's Page on BatGap

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump.
0:27.6	I'm Rick Archer.
0:28.6	Buddha at the Gas Pump, or Bat Gap, is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awakening people.
0:34.6	To learn more about the show and to possibly support this thing,
0:39.6	because it's made possible through the support of viewers and listeners like you, go to batgap.com.
0:46.1	Today my guest is my old friend Craig Pearson. Craig and I have known each other for probably
0:51.3	40 years or so. Were you on that course in Courchival in the
0:55.5	prolonged 2000? Yes. Okay, so we met in the French Alps. We used to do these long six-month
1:00.4	meditation courses, and we were both on a course with Marishima Heshiogi in the Alps in the
1:07.0	summer of 1975. Did a lot of meditating, a lot of fasting.
1:11.6	It was quite a scene.
1:13.6	Craig is currently, and has been for quite a few years,
1:16.6	the executive vice president of Maharshi University of Management
1:20.6	in Fairfield, Iowa, our fair city, as the car guys would say,
1:25.6	and he's done a number of other things over the years
1:28.3	for the TM movement. He's also a musician. He co-writes beautiful songs with his friend Brad Moses.
1:35.3	I just listened to one of them just the other day. Brad sent me a link.
1:40.3	He lives here on the MUM campus with his wife Melissa and son Soren.
1:45.0	The reason we're having this interview is that Craig recently wrote a book.
1:50.0	I say recently because it probably took you at least a decade to write.
1:55.0	I don't want to say.
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