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Buddha at the Gas Pump

Buddha at the Gas Pump

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 Conversations with spiritually awakening people.Copyright © by Rick Archer, 2010-2025 Philosophie Sciences sociales Spiritualité
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    • 748. Robert Ganung – Where the Rivers Meet: A Journey Through World Spirituality

      748. Robert Ganung – Where the Rivers Meet: A Journey Through World Spirituality
      Feb 11 2026
      Dr. Robert Ganung, chaplain and teacher at Taft School, joins Rick to explore how deep contemplative practice can ground a life of service, justice, and education. Drawing from Celtic Christianity, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the civil rights tradition, Robert shares how daily meditation, interspiritual study, and a sense of the sacred in all beings inform his work with students and his view of a world in crisis yet ripe for awakening. They discuss non-duality and interconnection, inner practice as fuel for action, the impact of mystical experiences, near-death research, and living with love and courage amid social and planetary upheaval. The Rev. Dr. Robert Ganung is an ordained minister, educator, and school chaplain whose life and work have been shaped by a deep engagement with both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. He holds a doctorate from the Boston University School of Theology, where his dissertation explored how the mindfulness and meditation practices taught by the Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh can enrich and nourish the spiritual lives of Christians. That work grew out of years of personal practice and study, including retreats with Thich Nhat Hanh in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as a lifelong interest in contemplative spirituality. For more than four decades, Dr. Ganung has served at the intersection of education, ministry, and social justice. He is currently Chaplain at The Taft School in Connecticut, where he also teaches philosophy, ethics, world religions, and global studies, and where he has brought an extraordinary range of voices into the community—among them Cornel West, Bill McKibben, Ibram X. Kendi, Angela Davis, Tibetan monks, and many others addressing spirituality, human rights, environmental justice, and the moral challenges of our time. Earlier in his career, he served as chaplain and teacher at Milton Academy, Punahou School in Hawai‘i, and Cardigan Mountain School. During these years, he also served as a minister in the United Methodist and United Church of Christ congregations in New England and Hawai‘i. Dr. Ganung’s spiritual formation has been deeply influenced by the Christian mystical tradition—figures such as Howard Thurman, Bede Griffiths, Richard Rohr, & John O’Donohue—as well as by Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, and interfaith dialogue. Introduced to Hindu philosophy and Sufism as an undergraduate philosophy major at Boston University, he later engaged Siddha Yoga and Advaita teachings, while continuing to explore how contemplative practice leads naturally toward nonviolence, compassion, and justice in the world. Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group, Interview recorded February 7, 2026
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      1 h et 58 min
    • 747. Maggie Gilewicz – The Messy & Blissless Parts of the Awakening Process

      747. Maggie Gilewicz – The Messy & Blissless Parts of the Awakening Process
      Jan 28 2026
       Maggie Gilewicz supports those navigating the journey of awakening. Her work is devoted to humanizing awakening by bringing honesty, nuance and emotional depth to a path often clouded by spiritual idealism and bypassing. Through her one-on-one sessions, astrology and YouTube channel, Humanzing Awakening, she offers a space where the personal and impersonal aspects of human experience are explored with honesty, curiosity and compassion. She holds a PhD in sociology and an MA in political science. She's a lover of simplicity, learning and laughter. Maggie offers a candid, often humorous portrait of awakening as a messy, deeply human journey rather than a clean escape into transcendence. She and Rick explore how growing up in an alcoholic family, a teenage glimpse of “Peace with a capital P,” and years in academia prepared the ground for a powerful perceptual shift that came not through formal practice, but through intense inquiry into the nature of thought. That shift opened into several years of profound equanimity and a sense of inherent wholeness, and then into multiple “dark nights” of depression, fear, and trauma surfacing that gradually forced her out of spiritual bypass and into fully embodied feeling. Maggie describes later emptiness and “no‑doer” realizations, energetic/Kundalini‑like phenomena, and the slow integration of shadow, relationship, and ordinary life. Throughout, she emphasizes that awakening is an innate capacity available to ordinary people, and that its true fruition is not leaving our humanity behind but discovering a deeper, kinder way of being human. Book: Awakening to be Human Website: drmaggieg.com YouTube Channel Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Transcript of this interview Interview recorded January 17, 2026 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00 – “I thought I’d explode”: intense experience and opening  00:28 – Rick’s intro: ordinary people, extraordinary awakenings  02:28 – Who is Maggie? Sociology, coaching, astrology, and her book  04:44 – Humanizing awakening vs. transcendent escape  08:49 – Awakening as innate capacity, not a special club  13:26 – Suffering, crisis, and what actually starts the search  18:27 – Feeling like a “stranger in a strange land” as a child  23:44 – Alcoholism in the family and teenage glimpse of capital‑P Peace  31:04 – Academic life, self‑help, and the first big perceptual shift  35:39 – Lunch in Arizona: seeing life without thought  42:03 – Living in equanimity while life stays challenging  44:50 – When peace cracks: depression, terror, and dark nights  50:56 – “It’s all just thought”: insight, bypass, and its limits  56:40 – Multiple dark nights and the exhaustion of mental strategies  1:04:10 – Innocence of everyone and dropping the “broken” self‑image  1:11:20 – Insight vs. intellectual understanding  1:18:40 – Solar plexus knot, existential angst, and deeper unwinding  1:24:04 – Emptiness, non‑separation, and the body as formless  1:29:07 – No‑doer, cleaning the house, and life happening by itself  1:35:00 – Energetic/Kundalini‑like phenomena and somatic release  1:41:30 – Relationship, triggers, and the necessity of shadow work  1:47:50 – Trauma, nervous system sensitivity, and honoring the body  1:53:10 – Is awakening compatible with being fully human?  1:58:20 – “Nobody here,” ahamkara, and functioning without a solid “me”  2:03:00 – Common myths about awakening (special people, perfect conditions, no more problems)  2:09:30 – Final reflections: ordinary life, AI, collective crisis, and a more human awakening
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      2 h et 12 min
    • 746. George Thompson – Taoism, Planet & People: Inspiring Change

      746. George Thompson – Taoism, Planet & People: Inspiring Change
      Jan 14 2026
       George Thompson is a filmmaker, teacher, and founder of Balance is Possible!— a 15-person team on a mission to inspire balance for people and planet. His films and teachings have touched over 25 million people and he is supported by renowned changemakers including Dr. Jane Goodall, Louie Schwartzberg, Tara Brach, Stephen Fry and many more. Drawing from years of deep study in the Wudang Mountains of China, George blends ancient wisdom with modern science, translating it into fun, practical tools for overcoming the challenges of modern life. Once plagued by anxiety and a sense of disconnection, George’s journey led him from pain to purpose. With playful kindness, George helps people to do the same: to awaken their potential. Website: Balance is Possible! YouTube Channel Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Interview recorded January 6, 2026.
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      1 h et 16 min
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