701. Kimberly Lafferty

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Kimberley Theresa Lafferty is a seasoned teacher-practitioner specializing in constructive adult developmental psychology and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. She completed over 12 years of intensive Indo Tibetan study including the required retreats. She leads both open and advanced adult educational cohorts aligning developmental psychology and Buddhist theory. Kimberley co-leads, with Terri O’Fallon, the penultimate Minds I year-long developmental course of Stages International. She is an active Board member for the Association for Spiritual Integrity. Kimberley is also a householder as a wife and mother, living in a remote valley of the North Cascades of North America which deeply impacts her worldview and practice. Website: The Confluence Experience | Making sense of what doesn't make sense Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and Transcript of this interview Interview recorded February 10, 2024 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Welcome 00:03:33 - Finding Peace in the Forest 00:06:27 - A Blissful Awakening 00:11:15 - Deep Inner Resources and Spiritual Experiences 00:15:10 - Connecting with our Ultimate Selves 00:18:26 - The Wave and Ocean Metaphor 00:23:24 - Diving into Indo-Tibetan Buddhism 00:27:59 - Tantric Retreats and Solitary Meditation 00:32:26 - Experiences on the Retreats with Vajrayogini 00:35:33 - The Red Lady and the Retreat 00:40:01 - The Lesson of Treating Practice Seriously 00:44:18 - The Precious Gift of Tibetan Buddhism 00:47:58 - Spirituality and Integration 00:51:02 - Understanding the Intersection of Waking Up and Identity Change 00:55:31 - The Evolution of Perception and Consciousness 01:00:08 - Supporting Spiritual Teachers 01:03:59 - Shadow Work and Holistic Development 01:07:16 - The Integration of Wisdom and Compassion 01:10:57 - Waves of Human Becoming and Non-Duality in Daily Life 01:14:06 - Anomalous Experiences: Exploring the Extraordinary 01:18:57 - Anomalous Experiences and Meaning Making 01:23:49 - Anomalous Experiences and the Search for Answers 01:28:03 - The Cautionary Use of Psychedelics and the Self 01:32:01 - The Need for Spiritual Integrity among Teachers 01:35:58 - The Preciousness of a Spiritual Life 01:39:58 - Realizing Inner Bliss 01:43:44 - Experiencing Fulfillment in Tantra 01:47:41 - Finding Your Path in Spiritual Practice 01:52:16 - The Role of Spiritual Psychotherapists 01:56:28 - Strengthening Ourselves Psychologically and Spiritually 02:00:00 - Continuing the Conversation with Kimberly

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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
0:30.8	series of conversations with spiritually awakening people. We've done just over 700 of them now,
0:37.8	and if this is new to you,
0:39.3	and you'd like to check out previous ones,
0:41.4	go to batgap.com,
0:43.0	BAT, G-A-P,
0:44.5	and look under the past interviews menu.
0:47.5	While you're there at the site,
0:49.2	poke around a little bit.
0:50.8	We have a relatively new thing
0:52.5	that I've been working a lot on this year, a Batgap AI chatbot
0:56.6	that has over 40,000 documents loaded into it now, and you can ask it all kinds of questions and
1:02.2	have interesting philosophical conversations with it. It'll even tell you how to cook brown rice,
1:06.7	but it'll also give you some spiritual tips at the end of that.
1:14.6	All of this is made possible through the support of appreciative listeners and viewers.
1:16.8	So if you appreciate it, I'd like to help support it.
1:22.5	There are PayPal buttons on every page of the site and a page offering alternatives to PayPal.
1:27.0	Also, we have a team of volunteers who are doing various things. So if you'd like to help in some
1:28.9	way, get in touch. My guest today is my friend Kimberly Theresa Lafferty. Like many of my good friends,
1:36.3	I've never met her in person, this way it is these days. I met her through the Association for
1:41.7	Spiritual Integrity, which Jack O'Keefe and Craig
1:45.0	Holiday and I founded about five years ago. Kimberly is now on the board of directors of the ASI,
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