699. Brad Laughlin & Anna Breytenbach

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Brad Laughlin is the author of Living with Enlightenment—A Journey of Love, which is about his 25-year life-partnership with Leslie Temple-Thurston, a teacher of enlightenment, and the profound spiritual transformation he experienced. With Leslie, he is co-author of two books, The Marriage of Spirit—Enlightened Living in Today’s World and Returning to Oneness—The Seven Keys of Ascension. Brad is dedicated to finding innovative ways of helping people to awaken spiritually and to find love, joy and inspiration during these times of great change. Using ancient Truth teachings, yogic practices and spiritual psychology, he offers simple yet powerful practices for dissolving old, limiting ego structures that keep us trapped in negativity, pain and fear. Brad’s transformative events are based on the principles of integration and unity consciousness, which help us to know our own inner Divinity—who we truly are. Brad and Leslie are co-founders of the nonprofits, CoreLight.org and Seeds of Light.org, CoreLight’s humanitarian arm, serving marginalized communities and AIDS orphans in South Africa. Brad has a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. He is an American by birth, considers himself a global citizen and lives in both South Africa and the United States. Anna Breytenbach is an internationally acclaimed professional interspecies communicator with over 20 years’ experience. Native to South Africa and currently based in Europe, she mentors and consults globally. Her focus is exclusively with wild places and beings, facilitating peaceful interventions and greater understanding. This includes predator research, wilderness protection, anti-poaching assistance, reforestation initiatives, wildlife management and rehabilitation. She is currently taking a sabbatical from her usual teaching and public appearances to write a book. Anna’s passion is raising awareness and advancing the relationships among human and nonhuman animals, on both the personal and spiritual levels. Her work is the subject of the documentary movie "The Animal Communicator”, watched by tens of millions of people (and a few of their pets), available on YouTube. Anna's website: The Animal Communicator | AnimalSpirit YouTube Channel Anna's first BatGap interview Brad and Anna’s online course is For the Love of Animals—A Call to the Heart Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded January 28, 2024 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:03:56 - Introduction and Background 00:07:26 - From Cheetah Handler to Animal Communicator and Author 00:11:55 - Following Your Inner Calling 00:16:10 - Holding Space for Elephants 00:20:35 - Collective Consciousness and Communication 00:23:42 - The Collective Expressions of Consciousness and Earth Energies 00:27:34 - The Joy of Whales Breaching 00:31:16 - Rediscovering the Intelligence of Nature 00:34:08 - The Importance of Functioning with Intelligence in Society 00:38:08 - The Intelligence of Stones and Non-Moving Beings 00:42:05 - Cruelty to Vegetables and Choosing Love for Animals 00:47:06 - An Evergreen Online Course on Interspecies Communication 00:51:36 - Valuing Different Paths in Life 00:56:41 - Profound Mystical Experiences and the Search for Answers 01:01:07 - The Ball of Light and Healing Energy 01:05:42 - Transitioning into a Higher State 01:11:02 - Pure Joy and Presence 01:16:50 - Quantum Entanglement and Communication 01:19:46 - Perception and the Importance of Clearing Ego Noise 01:24:03 - Rethinking Human Love for Animals 01:27:32 - Animals' Compassion and Journey to Loving Humans 01:31:00 - Communicating with Plants and the Tragedy of the Rabbits 01:33:40 - The Oak Trees' Compassion and Rabbit Friendships 01:36:49 - The Sensitivity of an Enlightened Being

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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
0:30.7	series of conversations with spiritually awakening people. We've done, this is number 699. We're almost at 700. If this is new to you
0:40.9	and you'd like to check out previous ones, go to batgap.com, VAT, GAP, and look under the past
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1:16.0	Also, another way to support it, we have a number of volunteers who do different things,
1:22.2	one of which is proofreading transcripts of the interviews. And it's a work in progress. We've done about half of them,
1:29.0	I think, maybe more, but there's still more to do. So if you'd like to help with that, just get in touch.
1:35.1	My guest today are Brad Lachlan and Anna Breitenbach. I interviewed Anna about four years ago,
1:43.6	and it became one of my most popular interviews. It's gotten over 200,000 views. And Brad, I have not interviewed, but I did interview his wife, Leslie Temple Thurston, in I think 2010, the fall of 2010. So I hadn't even been doing Bat Gap for a year yet at that point. And I listened to both
2:03.0	interviews in the past week. And as usual, I've forgotten everything we had talked about, but I
2:08.5	really enjoyed listening to them again. And I also read a couple of books that Brad has written
2:13.5	and listened to also a video that Brad and Anna just made recently about something they're
2:19.1	going to be doing, which they're going to talk about in today's interview. That's why I have the
2:23.8	both of them on together, because they're going to be doing something together. I'll keep you in
2:27.2	suspense for a few minutes until they explain what it is. So sometimes I just wing these interviews
2:32.9	and whatever comes up. Other times, I have all kinds of notes. And in this case, I just wing these interviews and whatever comes up.
2:34.3	Other times I have all kinds of notes.
2:37.1	And in this case, I just felt like asking Brad and Anna to write out some notes to make sure
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