299. Joan Shivarpita Harrigan

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2015

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Bri. Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, Ph.D. is the spiritual director of Patanjali Kundalini Yoga-Care (PKYC-USA). Shiva has practiced, studied, and taught Raja yoga and Advaita Vedanta for more than thirty years. She has been tutored as the designated successor for America in the Kundalini Vidya lineage founded by Gomatagiri Maharaj, learning the oral commentary teachings of Traditional Kundalini Science from her spiritual mentor, Swami Chandrasekharanand Saraswati. A retired psychologist, she has been a brahmacharini (novice) in the Shankaracharya Vedic monastic order since 1987. She is the author of Kundalini Vidya The Science of Spiritual Transformation: A comprehensive system for understanding and guiding spiritual development and Stories of Spiritual Transformation: The Fulfillment of Kundalini Process - Modern Seekers, Ancient Teachings. Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care is a spiritual guidance service for qualified spiritual seekers. Based on Traditional Kundalini Science (Kundalini Vidya), it supports serious aspirants in advancing their spiritual progress by providing individualized spiritual practices designed for their particular needs. The specialty of PKYC is to assess the kind of spiritual process that seekers have, to assist them in reaching a stable higher level, and to support them in their continued spiritual advancement by providing ongoing spiritual education, consultations, recommendations, and guidance so they can progress more skillfully and dedicatedly. This helps the divine within make efficient, untroubled, and speedy progress toward Liberation, awareness of oneness with the One. Transcript of this interview. Interview recorded 7/12/2015 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to interview with Joana Harrigan 00:04:31 - Kundalini-vidya and Stories of spiritual transformation 00:09:55 - The mystery of intelligence and its role in the universe 00:15:54 - The only source and pitfalls of spiritual materialism 00:21:24 - Views of the Kundalini: An Esoteric View 00:26:16 - Removal of desire and imprints 00:31:07 - Sattvic Mind Development 00:36:34 - Kundalini process and awakening 00:42:09 - Magical ways and Kundalini awakening 00:46:33 - Kundalini-vidya and acceleration of spiritual development 00:51:52 - Interventions for minds 00:56:51 - Cultural relativity and subtle states of consciousness 01:01:47 - Kundalini - Name and meaning 01:06:44 - Life calling and responsibility 01:11:32 - Your genetic strain and vegetarianism 01:17:13 - Emptying and uniting with the One 01:21:46 - Macros: Full Moon Experience 01:27:06 - A thoughtful person and a pious person 01:31:46 - The path of development 01:36:45 - Discovery of yoga and spiritual life 01:41:45 - Spiritual intervention and Kundalini process 01:47:09 - Contexts, trajectories and bringing spiritual practice to people 01:51:40 - The relationship between higher states of consciousness and moral behavior 01:57:11 - Karmic path and levels of awareness 02:01:34 - States of consciousness: waking state, dreaming state and deep sleep state 02:06:02 - Karma purification process 02:11:01 - Seeing angels and other beings 02:16:05 - Low Tamasic Vibration 02:20:37 - Pressure on the top of the head and spiritual obstacles 02:24:52 - Spiritual motivation and living in harmony 02:28:57 - Apple fix and donation button

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump.
0:27.6	My name is Rick Archer.
0:28.6	Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awake or awakening people.
0:34.6	There have been nearly 300 of them now.
0:36.6	If you'd like to check out the
0:38.5	archives, go to batgap.com, look under past interviews, and you'll see them categorized
0:43.3	in about five different ways. We also rely on the support of people who appreciate the show
0:48.1	in order to be able to put all the time and attention we do into it. So if you feel like
0:52.2	donating, there's a button on the right hand side of the page. So my guest this week is Joan Harrigan, and her spiritual name is
1:01.9	Shiva Pita. And I'm really excited about this interview. I met Joan briefly about six, seven
1:09.1	years ago before I even started this show, but I don't
1:11.3	think she remembers me from then.
1:12.7	But she did you?
1:14.7	She came to a meeting we had in Fairfield that we had this weekly satsong thing going.
1:19.7	And she has a center down in Tennessee called the Patangeli Kunalini Yoga Care Center.
1:27.1	A lot of my friends have gone there at least half a dozen, I think maybe seven or eight that
1:30.3	I know of and probably more.
1:32.3	And we'll be explaining during the course of the interview what that center does and what Joan does.
1:37.3	But I've been reading her books in preparation for this as usual, and I'm just really impressed
1:42.3	with the depth and breadth of her knowledge and the background
1:47.3	through which she acquired that knowledge. And as I think you'll see in the course of this conversation,
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