744. Christina Guimond – True Nonduality: The Falling Away of Identity

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Christina Guimond has always been oriented toward the mysterious, even from early childhood. She grew up in a Catholic family in Nova Scotia, Canada, and later settled in Montreal, where she married and raised four children. When her youngest was ten, a long-dormant curiosity about the nature of existence began to take centre stage. On the 8th day of a Vipassana retreat in 2001, Christina had an awakening that deeply shifted her understanding of self and reality. What followed was fourteen years of dedicated daily meditation and numerous silent retreats within the S.N. Goenka Vipassana tradition. In 2015, a 2nd awakening unfolded—this time bringing a deeper dissolution of personal identity. Around this period, she began studying with Gary Weber, with whom she worked closely until he retired from teaching in 2019. Those years were marked by intense transformation, awakening the body, healing the nervous system, working with attachments, belief, and shadow. In 2017, two further openings occurred. The first was a non-medical NDE - a profound experience of God—an overwhelming sense of divine presence and infinite love. A month later came an even more radical realization: the complete disappearance of self and world into a primal void. It was an encounter with absolute emptiness—an unconditioned reality beneath all phenomena. In that vast nothingness, only an indescribably sublime, subtle awareness was present. Nothing was manifest, yet it was clear this “nothing” held the potential for everything—a living, dynamic void, like a field of infinite possibilities before form appears. In 2022, Christina began working with Angelo Dilullo, M.D., whose guidance led to the final falling away of the remaining identity structure. What remains is a natural, effortless functioning—life living itself. The integration of that realization continues to unfold. Following the invitation and suggestion of Angelo Dilullo, she has been teaching and guiding others through the awakening. Website: christinaguimond.com Mentioned during the interview: Interview with Angelo Dilullo PAPAJI - Consciousness Alone Is Kevin Shanilec's method for working with reactivity. A Heart Blown Open: The Life & Practice of Zen Master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi by Keith Martin-Smith Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Interview recorded December 6, 2025

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0:00.0	I ended up having this experience of really being confronted with my death,
0:04.1	like as if my death was happening right there, even though they had told me beforehand,
0:09.0	don't worry, you might feel like you're dying, but you won't die.
0:11.8	It sure feels to me like I'm dying here.
0:24.4	Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer.
0:30.7	Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people.
0:38.3	We've done well over 700 of them now. And if this is new to you and you'd like to check out previous ones, go to batgap.com,
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1:17.1	more people will get to see it. My guest today is Christina Grimand, probably I'll call her Chris
1:22.6	during the interview. She lives in Montreal, and I'm going to let her introduce herself a little bit in a minute.
1:30.5	I recently listened to a nice interview she did with Angelo Delulo, which was very autobiographical.
1:37.5	She just went through her whole spiritual journey chronologically in that interview. It was so
1:43.0	well presented that I didn't want to have her
1:45.4	just replicate that in this interview. So what we're going to do in this interview is talk about
1:49.7	a number of points that Christina has suggested, such as shadow work after awakening, the nervous
1:57.0	system in awakening, trauma, something called TRE and the awakening process,
2:02.3	the importance of silence and solitude, the widespread confusion around the term non-duality,
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