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Buddha at the Gas Pump

564. Scott Kiloby

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7695 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Scott Kiloby is an author and international speaker on mindfulness and addiction recovery. Scott is also the founder and director of the Kiloby Center for Recovery. After twenty years of addiction to drugs and alcohol, Scott began to develop Natural Rest for Addiction which has helped people all over the world confront the root of their addiction, anxiety, and depression. Scott was the COO of MyLife Recovery which held the patent on the naltrexone implant. Scott also developed an app that acts as an interface between pain management doctors and their patients to decrease the likelihood of addiction. The app also protects doctors legally from claims of negligence arising out of opiate overdoses. Originally from southern Indiana, Scott was an attorney for several years before becoming an author. He travels extensively across the United States and in Europe giving talks, seminars, and intensives. Along with his work at the Kiloby Center, Scott is also the director and co-owner of the Natural Rest House, a detox and residential addiction treatment center located in La Quinta, California. In addition to Natural Rest for Addiction: A Radical Approach to Recovery Through Mindfulness and Awareness, Scott is the author of the following books: Living Realization: A Simple, Plain-English Guide to Non-Duality The Unfindable Inquiry: One Simple Tool to Overcome Feelings of Unworthiness and Find Inner Peace Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment Doorway to Total Liberation: Conversations with What Is Love's Quiet Revolution: The End Of The Spiritual Search Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Transcript of this interview. 1st BatGap interview with Scott 2nd BatGap interview with Scott Interview recorded May 15, 2020. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:02:35 - Scott's Background and Work in Addiction Treatment 00:04:32 - The Kiloby Cooperative: Making Work Accessible and Affordable 00:06:13 - The Advantages of Online Addiction Help 00:07:53 - Becoming trauma-informed and shaping child development 00:09:31 - Finding Meaning in Life and Overcoming Trauma 00:11:23 - Clearing Traumatic Memories and Beliefs 00:13:14 - The New Model for Quitting Addiction 00:14:41 - Management and Treatment Options 00:16:01 - Resolving Trauma: The Inquiry Process 00:17:37 - Overcoming Bullying and Trauma 00:19:14 - Developing a Method for Witnessing Thoughts 00:20:43 - Helping People Cope with Fear and Uncertainty 00:22:09 - Coping with Fear of Death and Illness During COVID 00:23:55 - Practical Steps in the Real World for Dealing with Anxiety 00:25:43 - Global Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19 00:27:34 - The Urgency of Climate Change 00:29:37 - Providing Free Support during the Pandemic 00:31:28 - The Kiloby Inquiries and the Work of Undoing Connection 00:33:13 - Helping People Financially 00:35:03 - Living a Fear-Based Life 00:36:34 - Helping People with Fear and Pain 00:38:31 - Embracing and Illuminating the Dark Things 00:40:11 - Skillful Relating to Experience 00:41:44 - Tapping into Inner Resources 00:43:37 - Embracing Non-Duality in the World 00:45:34 - Exploring Alternative Ways of Dealing with Suffering 00:47:24 - Addressing Social Issues in the Wake of COVID 00:49:05 - Addressing Global Problems and Transformative Waves 00:50:43 - A Conversation about Hope and Dreaming

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer.

0:29.6

Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people.

0:36.1

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.

0:48.7

This program is made possible through the support of appreciative listeners and viewers. So if you appreciate it and

0:55.5

would like to help support it, there's a PayPal button on every page of the site.

1:00.4

The interview you're about to see was done in the context of a webinar offered in May by the

1:05.7

Science and Non-Duality Conference entitled Wisdom in Times of Crisis. In addition to this interview, there were dozens

1:12.6

of others, interviews and presentations with people like Vandenasheva, Peter Levine, Gabor Matte,

1:19.3

Deepak Chopra, Rupert Spira, and many others. Although the webinar is over now, it is archived online.

1:26.4

There's a link to the archive in the description

1:28.4

beneath this video and on the page for this interview Crisis online event. The general theme of the event is

1:53.1

exploring and reflecting on the challenges and opportunities that this unique time that we're going

1:59.1

through, the COVID-19 epidemic is offering us.

2:02.5

My name is Rick Archer, and I will be speaking with Scott Killeby today, whom I'll

2:08.7

introduce in a moment. My day job is doing something very similar to this. I do the Buddha

2:14.6

at the gas pump interview show. I've been doing that for about 10 years,

2:18.3

and it consists now of about 550 interviews, which you can find at batcap.com, BAT, GAP,

2:24.9

including two with today's guest, Scott Kilby. So I listened to those this week.

2:31.5

Scott is the co-founder of the first addiction treatment center in the U.S. to use

2:36.7

mindfulness and inquiry as its primary modalities. His work focuses on healing addiction

2:42.6

through resolving trauma. He also works with a number of different issues, including people

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