736. Michael Bradford – Gopi Krishna and Kundalini Research

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Michael Bradford has been involved in research into Kundalini and consciousness for more than 45 years. In 1977 he traveled to India where he spent six years serving as a volunteer for the Central Institute for Kundalini Research, founded and directed by the late Pandit Gopi Krishna, the noted authority on Kundalini. Michael has been a board member of the Institute for Consciousness Research (I.C.R.) since it was founded in the 1990’s, and has been Director of Publications during this time. In 2015, he also became a board member of the Emerging Sciences Foundation (E.S.F.). He was also a founding member of the Kundalini Research Network (K.R.N.) and served as joint coordinator for the organization from 1993 to 1995. In 2014, Michael retired from a career in the IT consulting field, and since then he has been working to make Gopi Krishna’s theories more widely known, and to encourage research into Kundalini and consciousness. Michael can be contacted at [email protected] Books: Consciousness: The New Paradigm by Michael Bradford Gopi Krishna-A biography: Kundalini, Consciousness and Our Evolution to Enlightenment by Teri Degler Living with Kundalini - the Autobiography of Gopi Krishna by Gopi Krishna Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Interview recorded August 16, 2025

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0:00.0	For one thing, he could perceive prana in his own body,
0:03.7	moving around and he said it was super intelligent.
0:06.9	It knew everything about every cell in his body.
0:09.9	It would go into an organ that was not working properly, fix it, and then withdraw.
0:15.3	He said he would wake up in the middle of the night,
0:17.0	and there would be a storm of activity going on inside of himself.
0:20.9	And he felt like a helpless victim.
0:29.5	Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump.
0:31.9	My name is Rick Archer.
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