321. Rick Archer at the Science and Nonduality Conference, 2015

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 December 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Science and Spirituality: Potential Allies in Discovering Truth My talk was accompanied by a multimedia presentation, which has been edited into this video. There were technical issues: the official camera wasn't there, so a friend recorded this on her camcorder and the sound quality isn't ideal. I ran out of time and had to cut some things that I added to this video, etc. But hopefully, you'll enjoy the content. I put a lot of thought into this over several months. Talk recorded 10/23/2015 at the Science and Nonduality Conference. Summary and Transcript of this talk. Other talks by or interviews of Rick on BatGap: SAND 2019 - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of Consciousness 2018 SAND Conference Q&A and Interview by Shakti Caterina Maggi SAND 2017: "The Ethics of Enlightenment" Talk at Berkeley Open Circle Center Interviewed by Fax Gilbert Interviewed by Richard Miller YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Talk at the Science and Non-Duality Conference 00:02:06 - Reuniting with an old friend 00:04:15 - The Divine Human Experience 00:05:31 - The Journey to Enlightenment 00:07:27 - Science and Spirituality: Exploring the Ultimate Reality 00:08:35 - The Distortion of Spiritual Messages 00:09:20 - Belief and Experience in Religion 00:11:04 - Exploring the Unified Field with the Human Nervous System 00:12:39 - The Shekinah: God's Indwelling Presence in Everything 00:14:00 - The True Nature of Consciousness 00:15:48 - The Self-Interaction of the Absolute 00:17:23 - The Omnipresence of Intelligence in the Body 00:18:19 - The Fourth Element 00:20:19 - Navigating the Asteroid Field 00:22:13 - The Big Bang and Continuous Creation 00:23:55 - Fear and the Concept of Consciousness 00:25:31 - Devatas and Consciousness 00:27:19 - The Consciousness of Everything 00:27:54 - The Power of Repetition 00:30:16 - The Mind: An Important Part of Our Life 00:31:59 - The Infinite Nature of Consciousness 00:33:39 - The Blinking Lights of Galaxies 00:35:52 - The Vastness of the Universe 00:37:51 - The Vastness of the Universe and Our Perspective 00:39:34 - The Expression of Infinite Intelligence 00:42:10 - Partial Knowledge and Harm 00:43:41 - The Light that Shines in Our Hearts 00:47:10 - Brahman and the Conquest of the Universe 00:49:17 - The Beauty of Devotion 00:51:23 - Everything is a Miracle & Everything is Holy 00:55:17 - Applause

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The This is a talk that I gave at the Science and Non-Nuality Conference in San Jose, California in September 2015.
0:33.6	I put a lot of thought into the talk, and it was something I had to read rather than speak
0:39.6	out extemporaneously because there was so many details and so many quotes and I thought you might
0:44.2	enjoy it. It wasn't recorded very professionally. At the last minute a friend brought in her camcorder
0:50.4	and as you can see sometimes I'm off camera and I was also pressed for time because I only had 45 minutes and I really needed at least an hour if not more.
1:00.0	So I had to cut some things out.
1:02.0	I'm going to add those things in this rendition of the talk and it'll be obvious that I'm sitting here and not at the conference, but it makes the thing more complete.
1:11.9	And I want to express gratitude to my friend Ralph Preston, who has done all the video post-production
1:16.3	for BatGap ever since the beginning.
1:19.1	And he hasn't done so yet at this moment, but I'm sure he's going to spend a lot of time
1:24.3	putting in all the graphics that I wanted the audience to see during my talk.
1:29.4	So thanks for watching.
1:30.7	And if it jumps to me sitting here in my yellow shirt instead of at the conference, you now know why.
1:36.1	Thanks.
1:37.2	I met Rick in 1980 at the TM Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1:45.0	And then, you know, things took on, in my life, changed very rapidly after that.
1:50.0	I met Maharshi, Maheshiyu, and it's a long story that I won't come to today.
1:57.0	But then Rick was at that time teaching meditation.
2:00.0	He wasn't my instructor, but he was close to the family.
2:03.6	Then we had a big conference in India, and he stayed at our home,
2:07.6	and we got to be very close with my parents.
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