379. Rick Archer at Berkeley Open Circle Center

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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I was hesitant to put this up because there's more than enough of me on this site, but a few kind friends encouraged me to, so here it is. I gave this talk at the Open Circle Center in Berkeley, California on October 24, 2016. 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 SAND 2015 Interviewed by Fax Gilbert Interviewed by Richard Miller Transcript of this talk YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - My Role in the Spiritual Community 00:03:46 - The Role of Spirituality in the Age of Science 00:06:30 - The Ramifications of Meddling with Nature 00:08:42 - The Potential of a Transcendent Society 00:10:42 - The Possibility of Countless Advanced Civilizations 00:13:03 - Science and Spirituality: Working Hypotheses 00:15:36 - Distorted Teachings of Religion and the Importance of Understanding 00:18:19 - Finding Inner Happiness 00:21:10 - Clarifying the Meaning of Awakening and Spirituality 00:23:31 - The True Nature of Identity and Awareness 00:25:57 - The concept of "awakening" 00:27:43 - Exploring the Unknown Territory 00:29:51 - The Full Nature of Reality 00:32:32 - The Variations of the Spiritual Realm 00:35:06 - Spiritual Enlightenment and Historical Figures 00:37:19 - The Threefold Paradox of Reality 00:39:21 - The Full Range of Creation in Living 00:42:32 - The Predominant Subjective Experience of Christ 00:46:33 - The Endless Evolution of the Self 00:51:04 - The Marvelous Creation and the Divine Intelligence 00:55:25 - The All-Pervading Intelligence 00:58:36 - The Universe's Fine-Tuned Nature 01:01:19 - The Evolution of the Universe and the Awakening of Humanity 01:04:53 - The Awakening of Consciousness 01:08:08 - The Purificatory Mechanism 01:11:13 - The Natural Cycle of Imbalance and Balance 01:13:42 - The Concept of Mistakes 01:17:02 - Sharing a Unified Intelligence as a Species 01:22:51 - Harmonizing with Subtle Realms and Collaborating with Beings 01:26:07 - Embracing Corporations and Politics in Creating Change 01:28:44 - The Unity of All Beings Save

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The I see my picture here along with Adjashanti and Rupert Spira and Pamela Wilson and Ganges and all these people.
0:33.9	And, you know, I feel like I hope you have no illusions that I'm some kind of a spiritual
0:40.0	teacher or luminary or anything like that I don't purport to be but I do feel like I have a role
0:46.3	that I'm well suited for and have spent most of my life preparing for not knowing that I was
0:52.5	preparing for it but I somehow stumbled into it and it has been very fulfilling for me and it seems to be beneficial for a lot of people I was just down at the science and non-duality conference and I couldn't walk ten steps without somebody coming up to me saying, saying, you know, this, your show has had such an effect on my life, you know.
1:16.1	I made all kinds of stories.
1:17.6	Someone, one person said this thing was happening to me.
1:20.3	I had no idea what it was, and I did some searches on the Internet, and I began to find out about this awakening thing, enlightening thing,
1:28.2	and then I started checking out different teachers,
1:30.5	and so it all began to make sense to me,
1:31.9	and I realized I wasn't going crazy,
1:33.6	and things like that,
1:34.6	and other people, you know,
1:35.7	that, well, you connected me by a teacher,
1:37.7	I never would have known about so-and-so,
1:39.8	and so. So I really,
1:42.0	it's very gratifying to have that sort of effect.
1:47.1	I used to be a student of Marashi Maheshiyogi, and he once told me that I was a connector
1:51.8	and a collector.
1:53.4	So I feel like I'm kind of doing that in a way.
1:57.9	And it's funny because at the same time, I feel like I'm not doing it. And I know that sounds like a spiritual cliche, but once in a while I'll be looking at the website or something at all these hundreds of names of people that I've interviewed and I think, how in the heck is this happening? I don't even feel like I'm doing anything. I'm just kind of going along from day to day,
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