708. A Conversation with Rick Archer of “Buddha at the Gas Pump”

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 194 minutes

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Summary

Since we have a gap in the schedule I thought I'd put up a recent video of Yvonne Kason of Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) interviewing me. SAI is a non-profit worldwide network of individuals and groups who are interested in collaborating to raise awareness, network, and share personal experience relating to diverse types of Spiritually Transformative Experiences, to raise global spiritual awareness. From the description on their YouTube channel: "A Conversation with Rick Archer of Buddha at the Gas Pump" was presented to Spiritual Awakenings International on May 18, 2024. Rick Archer shares his personal spiritual journey from childhood, through the turbulent 1960's, his introduction to Transcendental Meditation, to the launch of his popular podcast on spirituality, Buddha at the Gas Pump. Rick shares his spiritual awakening story, starting with his complicated family life, learning to meditate in 1968, and his years as a Transcendental Meditation teacher. He describes his inspiration and motivation to start Buddha at the Gas Pump in 2009. He also shares insights and experiences he’s had while doing this now very popular spiritually focused podcast. Rick also talks about the importance of ethical behavior for spiritual leaders and the Association for Spiritual Integrity, which he helped found. Also, I was interviewed a few months ago by Amertat Cohn of Sunseed. He split it into three parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 And another recent interview by James Plath of the The Institute For Advanced Astonishment. Summary and transcript Interview recorded May 18, 2024

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The We had a gap in the schedule, so I put up a compilation of several interviews of me that had been done recently,
0:35.6	and this is the audio podcast version of that.
0:39.2	The first one is an interview by Yvonne Kaysen of Spiritual Awakening
0:43.8	Awakening's International.
0:46.3	The second is a series of three segments from an interview by Amrott Cohen of Starseed, or Sunseed.
0:56.0	And the third is an interview by James Plath,
1:00.0	who used to be the amazing Randy's protege.
1:04.0	He had a huge philosophical turnabout at one point from being a skeptic to not being a skeptic.
1:09.0	And he has a podcast or YouTube channel called the Institute for Advanced Astonishment.
1:15.0	And I did that one on my phone, partly while driving, partly while walking, and partly
1:19.5	well sitting.
1:20.8	It's all long if you splice it all together, but if you're interested, enjoy.
1:27.0	Music interested enjoy.
1:47.4	I'm Dr. Yvonne Kaysan, the president of Spiritual Awakening's International.
1:52.2	Welcome everybody from around the world, wherever you're joining us from.
1:58.9	We are absolutely delighted at how Spiritual Awakening's International has grown in the four years since we launched.
2:02.6	We're currently in 96 countries around the world.
2:07.5	So please take a moment and enter into the chat where you're joining us from today.
2:14.0	I am joining you from Toronto, Canada. And our speaker today, Rick Archer, is joining us from somewhere in the central time zone in the United States. So welcome everyone wherever you're joining us from somewhere in the central time zone in the United States. So welcome everyone
2:19.0	wherever you're joining us from. Today, it is my great pleasure to introduce Rick
2:26.3	Marcher. Rick is the creator and host of the interview show, Buddha at the gas pump.
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