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Buddha at the Gas Pump

509. Georgi Y. Johnson

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7695 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Born in Sheffield, England, Georgi has led a life of charm, intoxication, collision and perpetual re-awakening. Having experienced her parent’s divorce and later her father’s death to alcoholism, Georgi was a born seeker for a stable home that was somehow prior to the broken home that she knew.  As a teenager, she attended evening classes at the School of Philosophy in Belgium, that offered a ‘sanitized’ version of Vedanta. While it gave a lot, the experience became oppressive, and when she left to Oxford University, she instead delved into Jungian psychology and the application of psychoanalytic and feminist literary theory. When she was 20, Georgi arrived in Jerusalem, in search of a midway point between the mysticism of the east and the decay of the west. She experienced a part of the earth that is charged with bliss. Yet it was also a country where it seemed that nobody belonged. In this, she found a sense of belonging (in the field of not belonging). Georgi’s life in Israel would include a compulsion for conflict. She worked as an investigative journalist exposing lies told about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Later, she would undergo a high-conflict divorce in which she was condemned by rabbinical courts as a fake convert, a home-breaker and a naughty woman. All this served to re-awaken her deeper purpose: the exploration of the mysteries of consciousness. After she met the love her life - spiritual teacher Bart ten Berge - this passion would express through escalating processes of liberation.Today, she is deeply fulfilled in sharing this journey with others through workshops, and one-on-one mentorship. A free spirit, citizen of the world and a poet, Georgi is presently pioneering Nondual Therapy, which she sees as part of a paradigm shift in the evolution of psychology. Books: Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening Stillness of the Wind: A Collection of Nondual Poetry I Am Here: Opening the Windows to Life and Beauty Website: perception.inner-growth.org Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview. Interview recorded July 6, 2019 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Importance of Donations in Supporting BATGAP 00:04:47 - The Value of Individual Responsibility and Volunteer Work 00:08:37 - A Jacob's Ladder of Light 00:12:30 - The Connection Through Meditation and Mantras 00:17:09 - Forbidden Mantras and Spiritual Contemplation 00:21:19 - Surrendering to Genius 00:26:10 - Mystical experiences and the power of sound 00:30:11 - The Death of the Author and the Fluidity of Texts 00:34:28 - The Negative Effects of Trusting Outer Authority 00:38:58 - Cannabis and Coffee-induced Psychosis 00:42:16 - From Anxiety to Apocalyptic Depression 00:46:42 - Finding Healing and Service 00:50:53 - Overcoming Anxiety and Finding Joy 00:55:05 - Closing of the Heart 01:00:00 - Visitations from Enlightened Beings 01:03:01 - The Cone of Non-Duality 01:07:34 - The Paradox of Existence and Nonexistence 01:12:37 - Qualities of Awakening: Love, Peace, Joy 01:17:21 - The Peace Within Conflict 01:22:26 - The Spoiled Nature of Humanity 01:26:14 - The Impulse to Incarnate in a State of Nondual Quality 01:31:16 - The Innocence and Guilt of Humanity 01:35:35 - The Non-Dual Nature of Inheritance and Purpose 01:39:53 - Embracing Natural Empathy and Unity with Others 01:44:16 - Different Experiences of Enlightenment Based on Nervous System 01:49:14 - The Sensitivity of the Nervous System 01:53:17 - The Vision of Two Figures 01:58:06 - The Tragic Effects of Psychiatric Drugs 02:02:49 - The Mind as a Receiver 02:07:57 - Embracing Diversity and Non-Conformity 02:11:43 - Conclusion and Donation Reminder

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump. My name is Rick Archer.

0:29.5

Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awakening people.

0:34.7

And I've done over 500 of them now. And if this is new to you and you'd like to

0:39.3

check out previous ones, please go to batgap.com and look under the previous interview, or past

0:46.0

interviews menu, where you'll see all the previous ones organized in different ways. This program is

0:51.2

made possible by the support of appreciative listeners and viewers. So if you appreciate it and would like to support it, there's a PayPal button on every page of the site and also a donation page, which explains other ways to support it if you don't want to use PayPal.

1:04.0

And we really appreciate those who have supported it and are supporting it.

1:08.7

We literally mean we couldn't be doing this if it weren't supported. I have to be doing something else. I still have a little bit of a cold, so I'm sounding a little bit froggy, but not as bad as I was last week. So my guest today is Georgie Y. Johnson. Welcome Georgie. Georgie was born in Sheffield, England, and as she puts it, she has led a life of charm,

1:30.3

intoxication, collision, and perpetual reawakening.

1:35.3

So she's going to elaborate on what all those things mean.

1:38.3

She's in Israel at the moment, which is her primary place of residence now. So Georgie sent me a page of

1:46.9

biographical information, but I think it would be kind of boring if I just read it. So I think

1:52.0

I'll just let Georgie say it and we'll get acquainted with who she is and proceed from there.

1:58.1

So Georgie, where would you like to start? Hi, Rick. Hi. You know, I want to say

2:04.9

something before I begin talking about myself. You know, Rick says, you say Rick every week to people

2:11.1

about donating if they can, if it's possible that you're doing this just based on donations.

2:15.5

I also want to add my voice to that. It's really,

2:17.8

really, really important to donate to things like Boudreau to gas pump and other online channels,

2:24.0

because what's being offered there is like a whole online education in everything that's needed

2:30.7

and on things which you can't really put a price on what Rick does

2:34.3

unconditionally to us contributing when you know we will go and spend money you know in a shop

2:40.4

like nothing on a dress or on a you know we would invest in our marketers in our tobacco companies

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