554. Sally Kempton – 2nd Interview

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sally Kempton is a deeply practiced teacher of meditation and spiritual philosophy, and the author of the books Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti: as well as the audio course Doorways to the Infinite, recently put out by Sounds True. A former swami in the Saraswati order of India, she has been practicing and teaching devotional contemplative tantra for more than 40 years. Her teaching is powerfully sourced in the eastern meditative traditions of yoga and Kashmir Shaivism, yet highly contemporary in her focus on evolutionary practice. She offers a powerful transmission of meditative experience. Books: Meditation for the Love of It Beginning Meditation Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga Shakti Meditations Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation (audio program) Website: sallykempton.com First BatGap interview with Sally Sally Kempton in panel discussion on Kashmir Shaivism Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. This interview was recorded May 15, 2020, as part of an online conference offered by the Science and Nonduality Conference, held May 17-23, entitled Wisdom in Times of Crisis. The conference has finished, but you may sign up to access all of its content. Transcript of this interview. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:02:21 - Awakening Kundalini and Applying Esoteric Wisdom 00:04:05 - Initiations and Retreats in Ancient Cultures 00:05:32 - The Experience of Retreat During Lockdown 00:07:15 - The Power of Retreat and Inner Reflection 00:08:56 - Global Initiation and the Power of Practice 00:10:55 - Awakening and Spiritual Transformation amidst Crisis 00:12:38 - Consequences of our actions 00:14:39 - The Power of a Clarified Mind 00:16:25 - Samskara, Vasanas, and Pragnya 00:18:09 - Karl Marx's Analysis of Capitalism 00:20:12 - The History of Conspiracy Theories and Real Consequences 00:21:46 - The Power of Ritambhara Pragyan 00:24:00 - Discerning Truth from Bullshit 00:25:53 - Hidden Spiritual Realities and Conspiracy Theories 00:27:33 - Clarifying Your Intelligence and Discernment 00:29:35 - Lingering Delusions and Finding Truth 00:31:34 - Seeking truth moment-to-moment 00:33:21 - Maintaining Clarity and Friendships 00:35:02 - Embodied Ascension and God's Will 00:36:34 - Discerning our Callings and Obligations 00:38:30 - Motivation during the pandemic 00:40:04 - The Subtler Levels of Creation 00:41:59 - Tension and Forces in the Universe 00:43:54 - The Non-dual Shaiva Perspective 00:45:55 - Tapping into Grace and Consciousness 00:47:34 - Enriching Positive Forces in Creation 00:49:19 - The Universal Form of Self-Help 00:51:17 - Settling the Mind and Connecting to the Breath 00:53:21 - Taking care of yourself during difficult times 00:54:58 - The Accumulation of Benefits in Meditation 00:56:13 - Wrap Up and Thanks

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump. My name is Rick Archer. Buddha at the gas
0:30.2	pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people. We've done over 550 of them now. And if you'd like to check out
0:41.7	previous ones, please go to batgap.com, B-A-T-G-A-P, and look under the past interviews menu.
0:49.0	This program is made possible through the support of appreciative listeners and viewers. So if you appreciate it and
0:55.6	would like to help support it, there's a PayPal button on every page of the site. The interview
1:00.6	you're about to see was done in the context of a webinar offered in May by the Science and
1:05.7	Non-Duality Conference entitled Wisdom in Times of Crisis. In addition to this interview, there were dozens of others,
1:13.2	interviews and presentations with people like Vandenasheva, Peter Levine, Gabor Matte, Deepak Chopra, Rupert Spira,
1:21.2	and many others. Although the webinar is over now, it is archived online. There's a link to the
1:27.3	archive in the description
1:28.4	beneath this video and on the page for opportunities this unique time is offering us.
1:56.5	My name is Rick Archer. I am the host of the Buddha at the gas pump interview series.
2:03.9	My guest in this hour, this session, is Sally Kempton. Sally teaches tantric non-dual wisdom from
2:12.5	the heart of the Kajemar Shiva tradition. She is a master guide to the experience of awakened Kundalini
2:18.4	and is known for her ability to apply esoteric wisdom
2:21.7	to the issues of our lives.
2:24.9	In preparation for this interview,
2:26.6	I listened to an interview that Sally and I did about six years ago,
2:32.1	and we covered a lot of ground. It was good stuff. So if you
2:36.5	enjoy this and we'd like to hear that, go to batgap.com and go to the past interviews menu and there's
2:42.6	a search page where you can search for just type in the word Sally and it'll come right up.
2:48.0	In that interview that we did six years ago, Sally and I talked a lot about
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