605. Chelan Harkin

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Chelan Harkin has been channeling ecstatic poetry for years and has now published two books in the past seven months, Susceptible to Light and Let Us Dance!: The Stumble and Whirl With The Beloved. Her publishing journey has been mystical and transformational and filled with "prayer experiments" gone right. Chelan has regularly been compared to the great mystic poets, Rumi, Hafiz, and Rilke. She lives in a geographically spectacular region of Washington State, The Columbia Gorge, with her husband and two small children. In her poetry and in her life, Chelan continually invites the fumbling, suffering parts of our nature and our divinity to meet for tea in the heart, to have a great laugh, and share a big hug. Website: chelanharkin.com Facebook page Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and Transcript of this interview. Interview recorded July 3, 2021 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:59 - Connecting with Hafez: Inspiring Poetry and Publishing Success 00:09:55 - The Spontaneous Poem 00:14:14 - The Feeling of a Coming Poem 00:17:55 - Unleashing Our Inner Genius 00:21:48 - The Birth of Creativity 00:26:12 - Healing through Hypnotherapy 00:30:33 - Reframing and Reclaiming "I'm Too Much" 00:35:15 - Inspiration from Night Walks 00:39:32 - The Humility of Relationships 00:43:15 - The Worst Thing We Ever Did 00:47:36 - Opening Up to Vulnerability 00:52:09 - The Strength in Sensitivity 00:56:56 - The Essence of Infinity and Connection 01:01:11 - A Serendipitous Connection with Daniel 01:05:35 - Summoning Poetry with Hafez 01:09:32 - Chelan's Spiritual Upbringing 01:13:31 - A Sacred Experience in Bahala's Prison Cell 01:17:04 - Chelan's Aneurysm Journey 01:20:33 - The Impact of Diet and Social Media on Channeling Abilities 01:24:39 - The Thirst for Intellectual Knowledge 01:28:52 - The Potency of Embodied Spirituality 01:33:28 - The Power of Prayer 01:37:34 - Finding Joy in Work 01:41:18 - The God Who Made the Octopus 01:45:28 - The Cosmic Wallop and Cosmic Timing 01:49:19 - Discovering the Poet Within 01:52:33 - The Power of Language 01:56:21 - Living an Authentic Truth 01:59:41 - Openness to Opportunities 02:03:11 - Farewell and Good Wishes

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer.
0:30.0	Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people.
0:35.8	We've done over 600 of them now. And if this is new to you and
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1:07.0	My guest today is Shalan Harkin. Welcome, Shalan.
1:11.6	Thanks, Rick. We had a Senator Tom Harkin in Iowa for years. Any relation?
1:16.6	Not that I know of. He was really nice.
1:19.6	I first heard about Shalan from Mary Reid, who has been on Bat Gap several years ago.
1:25.6	She sent an email and she said, I saw on the Bat Gap
1:28.6	website that you have hundreds of suggestions for guests, so I'm just checking to see if the
1:32.4	intuitive poet Shalanne Harkin is in your cue. She's causing a major stir right now in spiritual
1:38.1	circles with the recent release of her first book, susceptible to light. She's frequently compared to Hafez, Rumi, and Rilke,
1:47.9	so much so that Daniel Ladinsky,
1:50.1	renowned author of seven books on the great mystic poets,
1:53.6	reached out to her personally and has generously endorsed her book.
1:57.1	Her second book is due to be published next month,
2:00.2	just five months after her first, and that's now because Her second book is due to be published next month, just five months after her first.
2:02.5	And that's now because her second book, Let Us Dance, is coming out today, isn't it?
2:08.7	Yep. This morning. This morning. It became available. Yeah. Good timing. And that wasn't actually
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