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Buddha at the Gas Pump

679. Mark Gober and Doug Scott on the Spiritual Implications of UFOs

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Mark Gober is the author of "An End to Upside Down Thinking" (2018), which won the IPPY award for best science book of the year. He is also the author of "An End to Upside Down Living" (2020), "An End to Upside Down Liberty" (2021), "An End to Upside Down Contact" (2022), and "An End to the Upside Down Reset" (2023); and he is the host of the podcast series "Where Is My Mind?" (2019). Additionally, he serves on the boards of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment. Previously, Gober was a partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM’s Strategy 300: The World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize–winning “Prospect Theory” and was elected a captain of Princeton’s Division I tennis team. Previous BatGap interview with Mark Doug Scott, LCSW, works as a mental health counselor in his private practice in Dallas, Texas.  After graduating from college in 1997, he served as an international volunteer for two years in Bluefields, Nicaragua. This intense experience changed his life and he returned to the US to pursue graduate studies in clinical social work and pastoral ministry at Boston College. The nexus of spirituality and psychology have always intrigued Doug since childhood and he brings this sensibility to his counseling practice. Doug grew up Catholic and was always drawn to the mystical lineage within this belief system.  He had experiences with Jesus, Mary, and angels at an early age. He was also secretly attracted to all things paranormal and would spend many hours reading topics such as reincarnation, ufology, OBE’s, NDE’s, ghosts, ESP, pyramids, and other areas. One evening in 2013, he felt a presence that invited him to listen to a Buddhist chant, which came as a surprise since, at that time, he had not explored other faith systems. He was guided to listen to Om Mani Padme Hum and as the chant unfolded, Doug saw a golden dew overshadow him and activate him in a way that was new.  This marked the next chapter in Doug’s life. A few months later, Doug was led to the Law of One material and immediately saw that it provided the clearest, most undistorted, exploration of the Perennial Philosophy that he’d ever come across. It also cast a wide net to include all of the paranormal things that intrigued him and made it possible for him to put all of the different threads in his life together in one seamless garment. Since 2015, Doug has written a blog (cosmicchrist.net) that explores the synthesis of the Law of One material with mystical Christianity and psychology.  He sees his vocation in this lifetime as a bridge-builder between conventional concepts and cosmic metaphysics to help people who seek clarity, normalization, and validation for their own journeys. Previous BatGap interview with Doug Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded March 26, 2023. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:05:40 - From Curiosity to Writing Books on Consciousness 00:08:51 - Past Lives on Other Planets 00:13:10 - Childhood Encounter with UFOs 00:20:09 - Compelling UFO Sightings Throughout History 00:25:56 - The UFO Phenomenon and Spiritual Seeking 00:31:36 - The Agenda of Beings in the Spirit World 00:36:09 - The Evolution of Alien Abduction Experiences 00:39:32 - Alien Intervention at Nuclear Sites and Their Agenda 00:45:03 - Polarity and Progression in Higher Densities 00:52:06 - Causality and Mutual Influence in Higher Realms 00:59:05 - The Veil of Forgetting and the Choice of Path 01:05:03 - Speculation on Alien Species and Agendas

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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

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series of interviews with spiritually awakening people and about spiritual topics.

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We've done nearly 700 of them now.

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Our topic today is going to be the spiritual implications of UFOs. I have two guests.

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One is Mark Gober, who has recently written a book on that topic, and another is Doug Scott,

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who has a long-term interest in that topic, and both of them have been on

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Bat Gap before and are friends of mine. This topic has interested me for a long time since

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maybe 1980, it first dawned on me that there's something to it, and I've read a lot of books

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and watched a lot of documentaries and so on.

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What we're not going to do today is spend a whole lot of time just trying to convince

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people that UFOs are real or that aliens have visited Earth and stuff like that.

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We'll cover it, but there are so many documents.

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I just watched the six part, one hour per episode series on the National Geographic

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channel on this subject, and it's very well done. And there are probably hundreds of books,

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and there have been dozens of documentaries, and there's all this footage coming out from the Navy

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