32. Cynthia Lane – TM Nun, Kundalini, Non-Doing & First Light Transformations
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Rick Archer
4.7 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2010
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Cynthia Lane went from rebellious, depressed college student in 1960s San Francisco to TM teacher, non-sectarian nun, Lakota sun dancer, and craniosacral healer — and along the way stabilized a state she describes as pure transparency, where "on no level is anybody home" and the body is in her rather than the other way around. In this wide-ranging conversation, Cynthia traces her decades-long journey through witnessing, ecstatic expansion on year-long TM courses in Switzerland, the Soma experience, the dark night of the soul, and her current healing work she calls First Light Transformations — helping people move out of their heads and into the heart as a portal for their own divine impulse.
Cynthia Lane is a long-time TM teacher and former staff member at Maharishi International University, a practitioner of craniosacral therapy, acupressure, and Western astrology, and a Lakota pipe carrier and sun dancer now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Interview recorded 8/4/2010.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction and Background
00:04:22 - A Journey of Wisdom and Transformation
00:07:31 - A Shift in Perspective
00:10:16 - Traveling with Maharishi to Austria and the British Isles
00:13:26 - The Inner Reality of Non-doing
00:16:49 - The Experience of Being Everywhere
00:20:31 - The Devata and the Senses
00:23:14 - The Self as a Universal Spirit
00:25:33 - The Experience of Witnessing
00:27:24 - Coming Back to the United States and Teaching
00:30:33 - Difficulties and Challenges
00:32:44 - Embracing Non-Linear Paths
00:35:53 - The Professor's Change of Mind
00:38:32 - Confronting Deep Emotions on Mother Divine
00:40:53 - The Fear Phase
00:43:41 - Rediscovering Myself
00:48:22 - Embracing Uncertainty
00:52:04 - Transition to a Personal Life
00:54:48 - Embracing Change and New Teachings
00:57:52 - Everything Just Is
01:00:41 - First Light Transformations
01:03:39 - Living the Infinitely Inspired Version of Yourself
01:07:19 - The Importance of Integration and the Native American Path
01:10:44 - Clearing Belief Systems and Receiving a Pipe
01:13:48 - Teacher in Des Moines
01:15:36 - Surrendering to God's Gifts
01:18:00 - The Nature of Preferences and Opinions
01:20:59 - Being Present in Life
01:24:32 - Living in the Infinite
01:27:31 - Finding Inspiration in Life's Moments
01:30:00 - How to Subscribe to the RSS Feed
Transcript
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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 Cynthia Lane. I first met Cynthia when we sat next to each other at the Amherst SCI course or whatever it was with Maharshi and Maharshi Mashiogi in 1971, Amherst, Massachusetts. |
| 0:45.3 | And Cynthia was glowing and giggling as she is now. |
| 0:49.3 | And she told me that she had just come back from Majorca Spain Spain, where she had been doing long meditations for six months. |
| 0:57.0 | And I thought, whoa, six months, you must be at least in cosmic consciousness or something. |
| 1:02.0 | And so that was my first recollection of Cynthia. |
| 1:06.0 | And we've kind of known each other ever since and lived in the same town for years here and there, although these days you live in New Mexico, not here? |
| 1:13.6 | Santa Fe, which we'd probably move to if we could afford it. |
| 1:17.6 | Maybe you should... |
| 1:21.6 | Ask about that. |
| 1:23.6 | So, the theme of these shows, as those who have watched some of them already know, is that we have a discussion with somebody who has had a spiritual awakening. |
| 1:36.3 | And we don't mean that in a religious sense or in the sense of, you know, the adoption of some new set of beliefs or change in attitude, although |
| 1:47.0 | those things might come about as a result of what we're referring to, but rather we mean |
| 1:52.0 | something more fundamental than that, something which traditionally has been termed self-realization |
| 1:59.0 | or enlightenment or higher states of consciousness and all sorts |
| 2:03.6 | of terms like that. We tend to avoid the word enlightenment in these interviews because to me |
| 2:09.6 | it has too much of a sort of a superlative static connotation. And in my experience, everyone |
| 2:16.6 | is still progressing and evolving and opening to new levels of clarity and so on. |
| 2:23.3 | And so we kind of want to avoid the notion that anybody, unless anyone likes to, would like to claim this, |
| 2:31.3 | that anybody has sort of reached the penultimate degree of human |
| 2:36.9 | evolution. Although I did have one guy who wanted to be interviewed who said that he can guarantee |
| 2:42.0 | me that he is more enlightened than anybody I have interviewed or could conceivably interview. So |
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