653. Clare Goldsberry

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Clare Goldsberry has been a life-long student of religion and spiritual traditions. Having been reared Protestant Christian, her goal was to study for the ministry after completing her BA in Journalism at Arizona State University. However, a few semesters into those studies in a cooperative study program with Claremont School of Theology (Claremont, CA), she was called away into the study of Buddhism. For the past 27 years, she has been engaged in the practice of Buddhism, as well as the study of Hinduism, Gnosticism, Theosophy, philosophy (from the ancients to modern philosophers), and modern Christian religions. She has even added the study of Quantum physics to the mix after noticing that modern quantum ideas parallel those of Buddhism as the science of mind. She has always followed her inner voice, as it is that call that is the true call on her path. She teaches classes on all of those topics and tries to encourage people to follow their inner light/voice and not to be led astray. The questions are always more important than the answers, as she tells her students. Website: claregoldsberry.com Books: The Illusion of Life and Death: Mind, Consciousness, and Eternal Being The Teacher Within: Finding and Living Your Personal Truth: Finding and Living Your Personal Truth A Stranger in Zion Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and Transcript of this interview Interview recorded July 2, 2022 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Clare Goldsberry 00:03:41 - Learning from Brent's Illness 00:07:51 - Remembering Death 00:11:30 - The Mystery of Different Opportunities 00:15:21 - The Meaning and Purpose of Karma 00:19:23 - The Intelligence of the Universe 00:23:24 - Guardian Angels and Grace in Life 00:27:06 - The Search for Answers Outside Oneself 00:30:31 - Believing in Leaders and Having All the Answers 00:34:24 - Excommunicated from the Church 00:38:01 - The Importance of Discernment in Beliefs and Truth 00:41:34 - Reincarnation in the Judeo-Christian Tradition 00:45:24 - Making Choices in Life 00:49:14 - Embracing the Twists and Turns in Life 00:52:56 - The Chinese Farmer Story and Embracing All Perspectives 00:56:12 - Why We Don't Know How to Die 01:00:00 - Attachment and the Fear of Death 01:03:21 - Reincarnation and Beliefs in India 01:07:27 - Quantum Physics and Creating Reality 01:10:46 - Making a Difference in Your Practice 01:14:13 - The Possibility of Transcending Suffering 01:17:47 - Non-attachment and Letting Go 01:21:34 - Grief to Growth and Finding Meaning 01:25:02 - A Shift in the World 01:28:42 - The Buddha's Awakening 01:32:25 - The Dying Process and Embracing Death 01:36:14 - Loving without Attachment 01:40:04 - Letting Go of Attachments and Embracing Fulfillment 01:43:42 - Living Life on Your Own Terms for the Time You Have 01:47:12 - Reflections on Aging and Death 01:50:03 - Farewell in Phoenix

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer. Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people. We've done over 650 of them now.
0:40.3	If this is new to you and you'd like to check out some of the previous ones,
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0:54.8	So if you appreciate it and would like to help support it, there are PayPal buttons on the website, and there's also a page explaining some alternatives to PayPal.
1:05.4	My guest today is Claire Goldsbury.
1:09.1	Claire has been a lifelong student of religion and spiritual traditions.
1:13.5	Having been reared Protestant Christian, her goal was to study for the ministry after completing
1:18.6	her BA and journalism at Arizona State University. However, a few semesters into those studies in a
1:24.5	cooperative study program with Claremont School of Theology,
1:33.9	she was called away into the study of Buddhism. For the past 27 years, she's been engaged in the practice of Buddhism, as well as the study of Hinduism, Gnosticism, theology, from the ancients to
1:40.3	modern philosophers, and modern Christian religions. She has even added the study of quantum physics
1:46.5	to the mix after noticing that modern quantum ideas parallel those of Buddhism as the science of mind.
1:53.5	She has also followed her inner voice as it is that call that is the true call on her path.
2:03.9	She teaches classes in all of those topics and tries to encourage people to follow their own inner light, their own inner voice, and not to be led astray.
2:10.5	The questions are always more important than the answers as she tells her students. So welcome,
2:15.8	Claire. Thank you, Rick. Thank you for having me. Yeah. And I think
2:20.9	mostly today we're going to be talking about death because you wrote a book about it. But we could
2:27.2	also veer off in other topics if people have other questions or if, you know, you have some
2:32.5	thoughts that come to mind of other things you'd like to discuss
2:35.5	as we go along. And last week we was also about actually not last week is about near death
2:42.2	experiences. I interviewed Penny Sartori. So I guess Batgap is in a little mini-goth phase or something
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