I have had two readings with Suzanne and have attended many of her workshops. She is one of the most genuine people I know. I am fortunate that I live in the same community as she does. Her readings have brought undeniable evidence and comfort for me and others who I know. If you listen with an open mind, without ego and judgement, you can learn many important things from her.
I had a reading from Suzanne when she was first learning. She was accurate for being "just a beginner" and I learned so much that was very comforting. I imagine her skills have improved--she is the real deal.
My husband, a right brained engineer, finally agreed to attend your lengthy Wolf's Message presentation hosted by our retirement community's Metaphysical Club a couple years ago. Suzanne, you earned his full attention, along with the capacity crowd bursting our ballroom. When it was over he got within earshot and said, "You didn't take a breath," his ultImate compliment to you respecting your preparation, belief, authenticity. Thank you for sharing this awesome interview. In it you you say you haven't come up for air. Maybe you don't need it; simply tapping into spirit's virtual SCUBA. The world needs you. Breathe long and deep.
Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. - ACIM, Lesson 189 Suzanne Giesemann is conveying the same contents that all true teachings point out. There are many forms through which the truth can be shared in the world. Truth will find us once we drop all our beliefs and judgement. Thank you very much, Suzanne, for sharing your form of the Truth!
Thank you for a truly insightful interview. Suzanne confirmed my thoughts about the afterlife, and everything I had been thinking about concerning Spirit. She is the real deal. Love to all!
I have a reading from Suzanne. She is amazing and so loving! She was spot on. She knew things that were so true and she could not have known. Stretch yourself....it is very freeing. I absolutely love her😍
Thank you so much for this interview!! Thank you Suzanne! I felt great direction listening to this interview. My son pasted away recently, and before i knew this, I heard, actually out of the blue my father, who is deceased welcome him, and I knew ( my son resided in a different part of US). I have questioned the personality residing after the body is gone, and that personality is but a human illusion, and I think you spoke to that well in this interview. I see some of the comments, and I know it comes from individual experiences. Thank you Rick, for having this interview, and all the work you do! !!
It's all about following you own passion! We all have our own unique passion and our own unique path to follow. This is to answer Rick's question about the ability to be a Medium.
It's fascinating how many completely different camps there are - mediums who will generally say exactly what Suzanne is about the nature of reality, modern Hermetic alchemists like Mark Stavish or Golden Dawn researchers like John Michael Greer who'll say very different things, and then guys like John Anthony West who'll take yet another direction. Ironically while I feel like the Hermetic/ceremonial tracks are more actionable because they give a roadmap I'v noticed quite a few mediums who can send out energy in ways that I've never gotten off of a Middle Pillar meditation. It makes me think this phenomena is way more complex than anyone knows - including most of the people claiming first-hand experience.
The last question about Free Will: Yes, there is Free Will in every moment. Free will and Destiny go "hand in hand"; like Suzanne said serveral times, it is not This or That, it is This and That. I love how she keeps it simple because in truth it is all very simple and when mankind tries to analyze spiritual wisdom with the human mind all he does is complicate it. :)
The ordinary human existence is already wonderful. Fully experiencing it, paying full attention to it is enough. There is no need to imagine or chase celestial realms, Angels or subtle entities.
Human imagination is extremely powerful. Everybody has an inner experience of it in the night time dreams. Some go too far and too long into imagination. When this imagination leads to something negative some call them hallucinations when it is pleasant some call them visions. Neither really exist beyond imagination.
Life is a miracle. There is no need to chase "extra special" spiritual experiences and miracles. Flowing water is miraculous enough. Shinning sun is miraculous enough. The ordinary Jack and Jill are already wonderful people doing an amazing job and are living an amazing life. The world is already a glorious place. When possible, just open eyes to the miracle that already exists and be thankful for all that is an offer.
My father has been sending pennies to my mother and I since he passed in 2002. After some time, I said "Pennies are nice, Dad, but couldn't you send some silver, too?" It was pretty immediate that I started receiving nickels, dimes and quarters, too!
+Caroline Chang No Caroline. There is no NOW and we are all living in the eternal TIME! Sorry I am just being playful. But I am not sure that this attempt to live in the NOW is necessarily beneficial or even possible in the long run. As Swami Beyondananda quipped "It's impossible for anyone NOT to be in the now!" Hence the Buddhist concept of Impermanence (annica) being one of the three marks of existence, the others being No-self (anatta) and Suffering/Unsatisfactoriness (dukkha). So rather than trying to force the Now we simply see that everything is impermanent.
I have a vivid memory of the other side before birth during and after being born , the hospital , my circumcision too. Yikes! I started to comment several times but a new topic would come up and I wanted to comment on that too. In the end I decided to just listen. anyway great interview.
Nice interview. I don't understand why so many comments are attached to the idea that only the absolute matters. There is something amiss when the non-dualist negates the very platform from which their Awakening is being experienced. Having a transcendent experience does not prove that the relative is meaningless. The vehicle of our transcendence doesn't disappear when we transcend duality. I call this stage "spiritual puberty". To use language to communicate the non-dual is a concession to the relative. To comment about a video undermines ones stance as a fundamental non-dualist. I can't wait till seekers embrace the Who/What inquiry and the Why/How inquiry without making one of them wrong. Mystical practices can be a big distraction that prevent one from realizing the absolute truth and can therefore be considered problematic. But I don't see much difference from the other extreme. One who is stuck in the absence of the absolute and negates the value of the relative world is also distracted. Life has a cure for either condition, suffering. Those stuck in mysticism or the non-dual will feel the fire of truth consume their distraction. I experience the balance between presence and absence making me more Whole. Many of the mystical practices are our tool box for managing energetic balance. That balance raises our vibrational frequency enough to allow us the transcendent experiences that we call non-dual. I am glad you are embracing both the relative and absolute perspective Rick.
Rick: I don't know why I am about to say this, but I have this deep sense that you must let go of the "BUTS" in your life. Not sure if this will mean anything, but it comes in love & light. Dave.
If a person with a mental illness becomes well… is he/she still the same person? What is a person other than a collection of memories, mental tendencies, habits and his/her ways of seeing, interpreting, understanding and expressing things?
Guess we need a perspective that there are inner and outer comfort zones of ongoing earthly personality relationships which some souls need - until a greater unitive perspective is reached... but this was hinted at anyhow.. I gather there are astral planes where souls hang out with family members, religious projections etc while they they prepare to get taught a deeper perspective and move on from earthbound personas...
End of suffering is gained simply by Surrender - Surrender of the Will - Not my will but thy will be done. Nothing else might be needed. Let THAT by whose power "my" cells divide, "my" body digests food, "my" heart beats, "my" blood flows, the air blows, the sun shines and the earth rotates - let that Alone decide each and everything. That Alone Knows. Let that Alone be in Control. I am grateful to be Alive this Moment to experience its Grace. I am Grateful Right Now, Right this Moment to - 1. Exist 2. Be Conscious 3. Be able to breathe. 4. Have air to breathe. 5. Have power to think. 6. Anything more is an added bonus. All by his/her/its power and Grace. If it gave me suffering - I am ready to take it as a great Gift knowing that THAT alone is the True Judge, that Alone has True Power and that Alone knows what should happen and what is Good!
I am fully willing to let THAT Alone decide if I should be free of suffering, Be Liberated or Suffer! THAT Alone knows. I am ready to take whatever it offers as a Gift!
To respond to all the negative concepts. How about shifting your perspective. Yes, this could be considered Siddhis, and not to get attached to them, and yet, here's one more example of reality is so much larger and full of possibilities, then we're programmed to experience.
How does the "soul" and "life after death" theory explains the everyday medical phenomenon of the human body being unconscious under the general anesthesia? Everyday, thousands of human bodies go under general anesthesia for surgeries. The success of the surgery largely rests on the human bodies being truly unconscious.
+TOA (Transmission of Awakening) Well for that matter then how do you explain the body continuing to survive when you are asleep. If awake consciousness is what is required to keep the body alive then how come you don't die when you fall asleep? "Occultists" explain this in terms of there being different parts of "you". When you are dreaming or having an operation the astral part of you is identified with things other than the physical body. As I have said above I don't experience this directly but since so many others who have investigated these matters deeply have reported such I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt rather than those whose entire lives are rapped up with material matters (work, sport, sex, gossip etc. etc.) Three authors (among others) who speak about such matters, are Rudolf Steiner, Douglas Baker ( www.amazon.com/Techniques-Astral-Projection-Douglas-Baker/dp/0906006899 ) and Mouni Sadhu. Take care.
+David Watermeyer Few years ago, sleep ceased to be a mystery to me. Most of the nights, I sleep aware with very little dreaming. Few nights, I have "slept" fully awake - it was a very startling experience. Even without anything strange happening, you can observe that millions of mom world wide are awake enough to hear their newborn's cries and to wake up and take care of them, millions of people worldwide sleep and wake up in night on hearing the alarm clock. They can do so because they can hear and understand. They can do so because they are quite awake. Only time it is really difficult to wake up is when you are in the middle of a thick dream. This way, being lost in a dream is like being lost in an engaging TV show, movie or book. You don't notice other things because all your attention is absorbed by the dream (or a TV show or a book).
This is a new low for Batgap. It is not spirituality - it is merely psychism, which panders to the ego. Spirituality is about freedom, whereas this depends on another. How long will you need crutches in your fear? When will you stand on your own feet? People are afraid of death so they cling to any hope. Maybe it is true, but it is a very low truth. This merely pertains to the astral plane whereas we are seeking Godhood and the freedom of the Absolute, beyond even Divinity. 60 years ago when I was a teenager I studied spiritualism. I saw the limitations and drawbacks of this, and I went into occultism and then into vedanta and then into deeper spirituality. Had I not done so I would still be talking to the stupid dead instead of being free and enlightened. The realm of the dead is full of stupid people and is the place of delusion. There is no ultimate truth there, and certainly no spirituality. The dead are not eternal, immortal beings. What has speaking to the dead have to do with spiritual awakening? Alive or dead we are still trapped by form, still identified with structure, still trapped in a limited area in time and space. This site is supposed to be about spirituality and spiritual awakening. There are many planes beyond the astral plane and many spiritual realms beyond the heaven worlds which are just another form of materialism. Yes, they are beautiful, but it is the beauty of delusion, the life of dream. I have been through the spiritual realms many times but they are not permanent. Enlightenment means to be beyond all states and to stand alone as the singularity of Spirit. We must become free of all authority or we are back to religion and shamanism and others telling us what to do. We have to experience truth for our self, in our own experience and know the livingness of our own inner nature. All religions, all traditions, all beliefs are traps and hold us back from our expansion into infinitude.
+Moonsod "Maybe it is true, but it is a very low truth." So who made you the judge and the one to assign values to truth? Consciousness is all levels expressing and each of us is endowed with human perception to experience those levels and travel about in them, so to speak. You seem to believe your own perception while you refute belief itself as a "trap that holds us back from our expansion". Seems quite contradictory to me. Some still need crutches, until they don't. So what?
+Moonsod What you say is true for the most part, but for some people, and maybe for you when you were younger, realizing that there is more to this life than our obvious physical existence can be a huge breakthrough. People like Suzanne can trigger that realization. I don't agree that "All religions, all traditions, all beliefs are traps and hold us back from our expansion into infinitude". They may be traps for some, but for most, they can be stepping stones.
What's the difference between evidence-based mediums and evidence-based dowsers? Sometimes there's actually water where dowsers say (because there's water in most places if you drill deep enough, LOL).
+GetMeThere1 If dowsers could find water with a degree of predictability and reliability that was statistically, significantly better than chance, then I guess you could call them evidence-based. The stuff Suzanne comes up with is way beyond random chance. Many examples of it and more all the time.
+BuddhaAtTheGasPump Hmm....no. I will have to call you on your "statistical analysis" (lol). First, I think you should give more consideration to your "cynic/skeptic" distinctions and uses. Reports from gypsy fortune tellers (of which mediums are a variation) indeed deserve a cynical, rather than a skeptical, attitude -- because such things have been so FLOODED with fraud and baloney throughout a long history. First of all, they create the illusion of "better than random chance" by quickly dismissing their "readings" which don't work (tuned into the wrong channel, apparently), and developing whatever points that "hit home" with, in their audience. There are plenty of known frauds who can be shown to have been amazingly talented in zeroing in on "facts" where, it's seen, they first get a LOT wrong -- but then dismiss those wrong parts. Then there's outright fraud, in which a pre-interview with the subjects gets information which is then used by the medium. Here, for example, we see this woman expressing her amazement when she mentioned an "engineer, died of cancer" and got a hit -- but she doesn't mention that she got NOTHING when she "felt contact" with a "teacher, died of heart disease" or "truck driver, died of liver disease," etc. Is it really that extraordinary to be introduced to someone whose entire extended family, friends, and acquaintances contains someone who could loosely be called an engineer (an engineer on a train? mechanical engineer?, many quite ordinary jobs put "engineer" in the title -- sometimes for janitors and garbage collectors, lol), and who died of cancer? But maybe she's not a fraud. Maybe she is WONDERFULLY sincere and honest... ...there's a nice example of that in the phenomenon of "facilitated communication" used to help autistic children. It was a big thing awhile back (I think late 80's, early 90's?). Poor kids, they could not speak or even interact in any coherent manner but, when the facilitators got in the picture they could apparently steady the hand of the children and help them to peck away at a keyboard, typing out messages -- mostly about how they loved their parents and enjoyed their lives. Nobody seemed to ask, however, how these kids learned to spell -- never having gone to school or interacted with books; yet this was a university researched and promoted activity -- fully above board and accepted. Finally, a kid typed out with a facilitators help how his parents were abusing him and using him in satanic rituals (this was back when kids were apparently being subject to satanic rituals left and right! Remember all those pre-school children who were being molested and watching murders and satanic rituals? lol). The matter had to be adjudicated -- and someone needed to be able to give a definitive answer about the reality of facilitation: it didn't exist. Children shown objects/scenes views of which were occluded to the facilitator were 100% unable to be communicated through the facilitators. In the end it was reasonably concluded that most of these facilitators were UTTERLY sincere and honest -- and had only deluded themselves into believing that they were facilitating the typing of the kids. A similar phenomenon is stage hypnosis -- you've seen those stage acts, everyone has. Do you know they are entirely false? Hypnosis is (more or less) an actual "thing." Yet there's no way to easily hypnotize groups of people on a stage and get them to act like monkeys, or whatever. Instead, the fact is that the people act as though hypnotized for various social reasons ("I thought everybody ELSE was hypnotized, " or "I didn't want to spoil the show."). The "hypnotists" are fully aware of the phenomenon. No. Let me tell you what's really going on, Rick. You are all too easily beguiled by women! It's so patently obvious in many of your other videos. It's actually cute and charming (and only a little bit sad...). Not surprising though -- wasn't this the complaint of the Beatles regarding the Maharishi; that he was more interested in some of the pretty girls they had brought along than he was in meditating, or something? LOL (disclosure: I began TM in 1971, when it cost only 35 bucks, and set it aside for better substantiated paths in the late 70's or so, right after the "Sidhis" courses -- you'll remember all those doctored photos the TM folks gave to the press, showing people in the lotus position hovering a couple feet off the floor -- ecstatic smiles on their faces. A TM teacher was "on me" to buy a sidhis course for the bargain price of about 5 grand -- until I pressed him to the point of admitting that "well, no, you don't really levitate -- it's more like hopping, LOLOLOL). I'm more interested in your excellent "Buddha at the Gas Pump" series than a "Real Life Ghostbusters" series...
BuddhaAtTheGasPump Well...that's fairly spoken -- please do know that I like you and like your interviews. I know you try to be a reasonable person. But....reading her book would be a waste of my time -- things she has to say (i.e., her personal testimony in a book) could not provide "evidence" that would be useful to me to believe she communicates with "dead souls." In such cases I take to heart the very sensible words of the late Christopher Hitchens: 1) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. 2) Claims made without evidence can be (and usually should be) dismissed without evidence. In this case the only evidence that would mean anything would be a "blind test" using a series of decidedly random people, brought before her singly. AND, with a control, where those same people were tested by a talented "experimenter" in an attempt to see how strong was their tendency to cooperate with FALSE suggestions. Such a test would be difficult to carry out -- and indeed, unless carried out by well-known skeptics, I would in fact be skeptical even of results of such tests. Really, how much truly UNDENIABLY SPECIFIC information could a "dead soul" really have to impart to a living relative, etc.? The only thing that would count (if I imagine myself in that circumstance) would be for her to relate to me the details of personal conversations I had had with the deceased before they died -- involving specific and detailed information. In fact, without a LOT of consideration, I'm not sure I could even come up, extemporaneously, with the contents of such a conversation. One NEVER hears of such "evidence" being presented. Why would a "dead soul" care to regurgitate such things to a medium? Indeed, it's interesting to think how one would go about identifying a friend (like, oh, in certain stories where, say, a person's face had been altered -- and you ask the guy "Remember when we went fishing at the lake and you got such a kick out of that goofy shirt I had on. What was goofy about it?") Anything other than that sort of thing presents problems as evidence -- and especially as evidence regarding "non-randomness." One never hears details of goofy shirts -- and indeed one has to ask why dead souls would be interested in communicating such things. You will remember, I'm sure, that back in the 70s-80s there were actual university departments throughout America specializing in "paranormal psychology." Where did they go? Well, they went away...and they went away because, after a lot of looking, no convincing evidence could ever be found that such phenomena existed. Truly convincing evidence of supernatural human powers (like levitation) or supernatural realms (with dead souls) would...turn the world upside down. They would be PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES EVER MADE. Yet, after hundreds of years of interest in such things, no clear and irrefutable evidence has come forth. IMO the only reason can be that such things simply do not occur in the human experience -- despite widespread "belief" that they do.
+GetMeThere1 A hypothetical question, If two or three people you know and trust implicitly told you they saw a UFO up close with detailed description and you could see the emotional impact in their faces. Would you believe them?
(Scientifically) The entire manifest universe is the expansion of a tiny dot (known as Singularity). The entire universe is still that ONE tiny dot alone and that includes all the galaxies, stars, planets, rocks, stones, plants, creatures and humans. The TIME and SPACE are the body of this still expanding dot (Singularity). The illusion of diversity, distance and division rests on treating the different appearances (Emptiness and Forms) as entirely different things. Funny thing is that (scientifically) about 99.99% of the form is nothing but the Emptiness.
Anyone who believes we can communicate with the "dead" would do well to read the Zen story called "The Ghost and the Beans". Here is one link - endofthegame.net/2012/07/03/zen-story-the-ghost-and-the-beans/.
In my view, Nonduality is a theory that attempts to explain Reality. In this theory, the Creator, the Created, the Creation, the experience, experiencer and experienced are all one and they all arise together. They are made up of Awareness. The (feeling) (or idea) of the split itself is made up of the Awareness. The (feeling) (or thought) of the separation itself is made up of the Awareness. The (thought of) (idea of) (feeling of) suffering too is made up of the Awareness alone as are all thoughts, feelings, emotions, pain, pleasure, imaginations, dreams, ideas and insights.
In my view, the Ultimate Realization is that I (Awareness) alone am the source of all that exists (in my world). I (Awareness) Alone am the power behind all my senses, all my knowledge and their interpretation. I (Awareness) am the source of all (my) thoughts, imaginations, dreams, ideas, emotions, feelings and suffering. What happens when I (Awareness) sleep? When I (Awareness) sleep it all disappears. Can I (Awareness) sleep? Yes. Absolutely. What happens when I (Awareness) sleep? When I (Awareness) sleep - the existence (of my world) stops - it all disappears. I (Awareness) Alone am the Source of all Good and Bad and the source of all Judging. Knowing this ends the Split inside me. I (Awareness) Alone am the Source of all good and evil. Good and bad are my own children, my own creation. Without Me (Awareness) none have any existence. It is My LOVE that Creates and Sustains all my Children - (my) thoughts, imaginations, dreams, ideas, senses, my judging of Good and Bad and my resulting pain, suffering, pleasure and pain. Knowing this, I LOVE all of them. I give all of them SPACE. In Me Alone, all they exist - the Good and the Bad and the judging of them to be Good and Bad. Knowing this, I attempt to escape None of Them. I know I Alone am the Source of All. Without Me, they have No Existence. I don't need to escape My Own Creation. I don't need to escape my own dream, my own imagination, my own Play... I simply sleep, I simply rest, I simply relax... ...and, they all die. Without Me, none have any existence. In my view, in the Hindu Symbolism, this is called Shiva Realization.
Awareness is simply my waking up. Unawareness is simply my sleep. My True Nature is Beyond Awareness and Unawareness, beyond Existing and Non Existing and without all Knowing and Not Knowing. When I sleep, there is No Knowing, No existence, No Time, No Space, No Creation, No Play left. Yet, nothing is Truly destroyed. I, the Source of IT All am beyond all creation and destruction. I, the Source of all ideas, thoughts, theories, speculation and description am beyond all descriptions. I, the Source of all Knowing am beyond all Knowing and Not Knowing. I, the source of birth and death am beyond birth and death. I, the source of all diversity, I, the source of All Numbers, Am neither One Nor two Nor Many.
It is My Play - the Play of Awareness - the Pay of Day and Night, Birth and Death, Creation and Destruction, Up and Down, This and That. I know that a play needs Two Sides. Without the two sides, there is no real play. They appear like enemies only on the surface, in reality, they are the essential parts of the play. Knowing this, I can rest. Knowing this, I can relax. Knowing this, I can let the play continue uninterrupted. Knowing this, I don't even bring my Knowledge into the Play - the knowledge of Me, the Awareness Alone being the source of it All because I know that this True Knowledge with end the grip of the Play (maya) and the Play will no longer appear Real. As long as the creation and destruction, birth and death, day and night, dark and light are in balance, pain and pleasure it is all good. I bring The True Knowledge - Me, the Awareness Alone being the source of it all - it all residing in Me Alone - only when the Play is in danger because the forces of destruction have taken over. In the Hindu Symbolism, this Process of the Arrival of True Knowledge in the Play is called Avatara. Avatara is the realization of the Truth - the Truth of Me, the Awareness alone being the Source and Destination of it All.
The (idea of the) good and the bad exist in Me (Awareness) alone as does the judging of them. The split and the division that is created by the judging too exist in me alone as does the resulting pain, struggle and frustration. Knowing this, I know the Split, the division to be my own creation. Knowing this, I know the samsara to happen inside Me, the Awareness alone. Knowing this, I know the leela, the Play to happen inside me alone. Knowing this, I know Me, the Awareness alone to be the source of all struggles. Knowing this, allows me to rest, allowing all sides exist as my own children, as my own creation sustained by my love of the play (leela) alone. I, the Awareness am the source and destination of all my desires and the the judge and the the ultimate arbitrator of having achieved them. Knowing this, allows me to know Me, the Awareness alone to be the creator and sustainer of all desires and their resulting pain, pleasure, struggle and elation. Knowing this, allows me to rest beyond all desires and beyond the desire of being without desires.
Bashar is also just fascinating, the whole persona, the information and the ET phenomena around it. And it's real as well, I've personal experience that validates the entity, and evidence for physical visitations is concrete as well (www.bestUFOevidence.com) I hope you do a channeled interview with him some time. =)
+AlwaysBeNice I've never seen 'Bashar' provide any information that wasn't out there somewhere already. What I've seen so far seems to just be new age of the self-improvement and co-creation kind, mixed with some ET hoopla to erh.. give his utterances more 'credibility'.. To me, the whole deal comes accross as fakery. Browsing around on his website, it becomes pretty obvious it's all about the cash. A 60 minute private session is $300, and he's booked for the foreseeable future. I don't know.. it all looks so fake. His posture while 'channeling', the lights and ornaments surrounding him on the podium, the message itself, the expensive MP3's and all the other goodies being sold on his website, varying from the Essasani Contact Crystal ($175 a pop) to downloadable MP3 ($25 a pop) or videos ($35), books, CD's, DVD's and on and on it goes. He's probably running a fine business with this whole fraud, and I can't blame him.. there are plenty peeps who buy into it. It reminds me of J.Z Knight and her whole Ramtha deal. Same deal, same message. It's always about 'improving' your life, and to do that you always need something they provide... and you end up having to pay a lot of money for it. Anyway Rick, I loved your most recent 2 shows.. really good stuff! I'll give this one a spin too, though I have a feeling that it's not really up my alley. Gotta keep an open mind though, right?
I don't like his business,model either, it think it's really distorts the whole ordeal. they recently they send out a message saying they would change it to cheaper and a special thing for people that didn't have much money. Though it's not a surprise that esoteric knowledge is not new, God has been God for a long time now though I would say a lot of his specific information is definitely knew and there is a good deal that's actually scientifically verifiable as it's not too rare to have a doctor or scientists come and ask him questions. Perhaps it's an idea if you are interested to listen to some of his older sessions (you could perhaps just download them via a sharing group, perhaps leave a donation if you liked it) and it really shows incredible information from what I've seen. Either way, he has made quite a few specific 'predictions' recently (sensing our direction, not reading the future), one of which is a 100% 'chance' at another major UFO sighting before 2017, which has really happened once in our history so far (the Phoenix Lights in 1997). So time will tell.
AlwaysBeNice Well here's a quote from Bashar/Anka: 'When you change the belief to 'I do deserve to create a reality of effortlessness and ease, and I will be supported,' then that's the reality you will get; the universe will support you 100% in that direction. Because now that's what you believe. All you need to do is be willing to recognize that 100% trust in the direction you prefer will create the reality you desire to support. And another one: 'Know that beyond a shadow of a doubt, if you do find something that excites you, something that you know is 'what' you are, that is because it represents your 'truest' self at the time. It will automatically provide for you with all the abundance you need in whatever form you need it, to allow you to keep on being 'that' you. And there are more. I got these from www.quantumisland.com/Bashar.html Well that sounds pretty enticing doesn't it? You can be anything you like, and as long as you focus on something that excites you, and as long as you truly believe in it, that will come to pass. If that's how you want to spend your life, go ahead and have fun. What it implies to me is this: 1: My life as it is now is not good enough. Something needs to change 2: To change something, I need to do certain things (believe, focus, want it bad enough) 3: I will be happier/more fulfilled when I have created the reality I desire. To me all that is just dream management. Sure, go ahead and create a better dream. It's like the guy who complains that he keeps dreaming of swimming in the ocean, but the waves are too high and every time he almost drowns, and to him that's incredibly frustrating and scary. Then he comes to you and asks how to solve that situation. What would you suggest to him? Dream of a calmer ocean, or just 'wake up and see that the ocean was just a dream-reality in the first place'? Personally, I'm not interested in a 'better dream'. Well I kindof am, but that's not what my spiritual 'quest' is about. For me it's all about what's real, what's truth. And I don't think Anka can help me with that. He may have interesting information, be an incredible fortune teller, have interesting stories and sell you splendid dreams, but I'm gonna walk past his stall. In effect he's selling water by the river, as far as I'm concerned.
i knew she was just a weird lady when she said the spirits are messing with the lights lol sorry but mediums are full of nonsence i cant bair them at all and iam so disappointed batgap has somebody like this on the show.
There is far too much synchronicity to call it mere chance or coincidence or to conclude that the current world view is complete. However, I don’t agree with Suzanne’s interpretation of the events, thoughts and imaginations. I don’t think there is soul. I don’t think that the memories, talents and tendencies survive after death, without brain and body. I don’t there is a ghost of Albert Einstein other than his memories and imaginations in people’s mind.
+TOA (Transmission of Awakening) What about memories from a moment ago? Do they survive? And if so what are they? Just because you don't think there is a soul doesn't necessarily mean there isn't one right? Now though every bit of my being absolutely cries out that this indeed is the case and that the soul (what I would prefer to call consciousness) not only survives death but is in fact behind what makes life possible anyway I admit absolutely that I don't have direct evidence from my own experience. But since there are so many accounts of people - who have stepped out of the humdrum of "everyday" life and put their entire attention into the question of what consciousness is, giving this question their sole attention beyond everything else - saying they have seen that this is indeed the case (that consciousness is not limited to the material body) I give them the benefit of the doubt rather than the millions who passively and unquestioningly identify with the billions of attractions of material life (via sights sounds smells tastes and the memories thereof) and say that this material human-body life is all there is. My point is the same as I have always brought up with you. If you don't exercise your free will fully (regardless of whether you believe in it or not!) and make every effort to really look at things clearly (like the Buddha did) you will simply stay exactly as you are. And though for the time being this may be just fine, in terms of the Buddha's teachings this situation, being subject to conditions, will be certain to change, for better or for worse. If you don't do some form of established meditation or reflection practice I suggest you do. All good things to you TOA. I wish you well. I really do.
+David Watermeyer The matter of memories might not be that much mysterious, special or different. Computer memories are stored in the RAM, hard disk and flash drives. Human memories are stored in the brain and body cells. The study of alzheimer might explain some of it. www.alz.org/braintour/healthy_vs_alzheimers.asp
So where's the evidence that she mentioned so many times? Let me guess: we have to buy her book... Please stop with this kind of nonsense Rick, we're interested in reality, not wishful thinking and fairytales.
Utter BS, sorry JC Teffts interview the week prior was wonderful. Remember there is no self, therefore there is no such thing as a supernatural entity. Stop giving airtime to these charlatans.
The last question about Free Will: Yes, there is Free Will in every moment. Free will and Destiny go "hand in hand"; like Suzanne said serveral times, it is not This or That, it is This and That. I love how she keeps it simple because in truth it is all very simple and when mankind tries to analyze spiritual wisdom with the human mind all he does is complicate it. :)
I have had two readings with Suzanne and have attended many of her workshops. She is one of the most genuine people I know. I am fortunate that I live in the same community as she does. Her readings have brought undeniable evidence and comfort for me and others who I know. If you listen with an open mind, without ego and judgement, you can learn many important things from her.
I have been following Suzanne for over a year now. She never ceases to give and enlighten. Thank you so much Suzanne.
I had a reading from Suzanne when she was first learning. She was accurate for being "just a beginner" and I learned so much that was very comforting. I imagine her skills have improved--she is the real deal.
My husband, a right brained engineer, finally agreed to attend your lengthy Wolf's Message presentation hosted by our retirement community's Metaphysical Club a couple years ago. Suzanne, you earned his full attention, along with the capacity crowd bursting our ballroom. When it was over he got within earshot and said, "You didn't take a breath," his ultImate compliment to you respecting your preparation, belief, authenticity.
Thank you for sharing this awesome interview. In it you you say you haven't come up for air. Maybe you don't need it; simply tapping into spirit's virtual SCUBA. The world needs you. Breathe long and deep.
Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. - ACIM, Lesson 189
Suzanne Giesemann is conveying the same contents that all true teachings point out. There are many forms through which the truth can be shared in the world. Truth will find us once we drop all our beliefs and judgement.
Thank you very much, Suzanne, for sharing your form of the Truth!
I have had the pleasure to hear her speak in person, she felt credible and was so amazing to listen to. Thank you for this interview.
Thank you for a truly insightful interview. Suzanne confirmed my thoughts about the afterlife, and everything I had been thinking about concerning Spirit. She is the real deal. Love to all!
I loved Suzanne's authenticity and sincerity. Her spiritual awakening is inspiring. Thanks for coming out of the closet.
Absolutely incredible! And this why I donate money to BATGAP. It is extraordinary what we can learn. I'm in love with all.
I have a reading from Suzanne. She is amazing and so loving! She was spot on. She knew things that were so true and she could not have known. Stretch yourself....it is very freeing. I absolutely love her😍
Thank you so much for this interview!! Thank you Suzanne! I felt great direction listening to this interview. My son pasted away recently, and before i knew this, I heard, actually out of the blue my father, who is deceased welcome him, and I knew ( my son resided in a different part of US). I have questioned the personality residing after the body is gone, and that personality is but a human illusion, and I think you spoke to that well in this interview. I see some of the comments, and I know it comes from individual experiences. Thank you Rick, for having this interview, and all the work you do! !!
Suzanne, you seem so energized and happy in this video ~ Thank you for the interview and the friendly information.
+JoAnn Melton I'm curious how you and you current husband met and eventually married?
Wonderful interview! Many things confirmed and many things learned! Thank you!
It's all about following you own passion! We all have our own unique passion and our own unique path to follow. This is to answer Rick's question about the ability to be a Medium.
It's fascinating how many completely different camps there are - mediums who will generally say exactly what Suzanne is about the nature of reality, modern Hermetic alchemists like Mark Stavish or Golden Dawn researchers like John Michael Greer who'll say very different things, and then guys like John Anthony West who'll take yet another direction. Ironically while I feel like the Hermetic/ceremonial tracks are more actionable because they give a roadmap I'v noticed quite a few mediums who can send out energy in ways that I've never gotten off of a Middle Pillar meditation. It makes me think this phenomena is way more complex than anyone knows - including most of the people claiming first-hand experience.
The last question about Free Will: Yes, there is Free Will in every moment. Free will and Destiny go "hand in hand"; like Suzanne said serveral times, it is not This or That, it is This and That. I love how she keeps it simple because in truth it is all very simple and when mankind tries to analyze spiritual wisdom with the human mind all he does is complicate it. :)
As usual, great interview questions from Rick. They are the exact questions I had.
Nice interview. I'm glad you did this.
Thank you...
The ordinary human existence is already wonderful. Fully experiencing it, paying full attention to it is enough. There is no need to imagine or chase celestial realms, Angels or subtle entities.
Human imagination is extremely powerful. Everybody has an inner experience of it in the night time dreams. Some go too far and too long into imagination. When this imagination leads to something negative some call them hallucinations when it is pleasant some call them visions. Neither really exist beyond imagination.
Life is a miracle. There is no need to chase "extra special" spiritual experiences and miracles. Flowing water is miraculous enough. Shinning sun is miraculous enough.
The ordinary Jack and Jill are already wonderful people doing an amazing job and are living an amazing life.
The world is already a glorious place.
When possible, just open eyes to the miracle that already exists and be thankful for all that is an offer.
Wow, that was fantastic! thank you
My father has been sending pennies to my mother and I since he passed in 2002. After some time, I said "Pennies are nice, Dad, but couldn't you send some silver, too?" It was pretty immediate that I started receiving nickels, dimes and quarters, too!
There is no TIME and we are living all of our lives in the eternal NOW!
+Caroline Chang No Caroline. There is no NOW and we are all living in the eternal TIME!
Sorry I am just being playful. But I am not sure that this attempt to live in the NOW is necessarily beneficial or even possible in the long run. As Swami Beyondananda quipped "It's impossible for anyone NOT to be in the now!"
Hence the Buddhist concept of Impermanence (annica) being one of the three marks of existence, the others being No-self (anatta) and Suffering/Unsatisfactoriness (dukkha).
So rather than trying to force the Now we simply see that everything is impermanent.
I have a vivid memory of the other side before birth during and after being born , the hospital , my circumcision too. Yikes! I started to comment several times but a new topic would come up and I wanted to comment on that too. In the end I decided to just listen. anyway great interview.
Nice interview.
I don't understand why so many comments are attached to the idea that only the absolute matters. There is something amiss when the non-dualist negates the very platform from which their Awakening is being experienced. Having a transcendent experience does not prove that the relative is meaningless. The vehicle of our transcendence doesn't disappear when we transcend duality. I call this stage "spiritual puberty". To use language to communicate the non-dual is a concession to the relative. To comment about a video undermines ones stance as a fundamental non-dualist.
I can't wait till seekers embrace the Who/What inquiry and the Why/How inquiry without making one of them wrong. Mystical practices can be a big distraction that prevent one from realizing the absolute truth and can therefore be considered problematic. But I don't see much difference from the other extreme. One who is stuck in the absence of the absolute and negates the value of the relative world is also distracted.
Life has a cure for either condition, suffering. Those stuck in mysticism or the non-dual will feel the fire of truth consume their distraction.
I experience the balance between presence and absence making me more Whole. Many of the mystical practices are our tool box for managing energetic balance. That balance raises our vibrational frequency enough to allow us the transcendent experiences that we call non-dual.
I am glad you are embracing both the relative and absolute perspective Rick.
Never have I heard Irene, so vocal.
Rick:
I don't know why I am about to say this, but I have this deep sense that you must let go of the "BUTS" in your life. Not sure if this will mean anything, but it comes in love & light.
Dave.
If a person with a mental illness becomes well… is he/she still the same person?
What is a person other than a collection of memories, mental tendencies, habits and his/her ways of seeing, interpreting, understanding and expressing things?
Guess we need a perspective that there are inner and outer comfort zones of ongoing earthly personality relationships which some souls need - until a greater unitive perspective is reached... but this was hinted at anyhow..
I gather there are astral planes where souls hang out with family members, religious projections etc while they they prepare to get taught a deeper perspective and move on from earthbound personas...
She's great
End of suffering is gained simply by Surrender - Surrender of the Will - Not my will but thy will be done. Nothing else might be needed.
Let THAT by whose power "my" cells divide, "my" body digests food, "my" heart beats, "my" blood flows, the air blows, the sun shines and the earth rotates - let that Alone decide each and everything. That Alone Knows. Let that Alone be in Control.
I am grateful to be Alive this Moment to experience its Grace. I am Grateful Right Now, Right this Moment to -
1. Exist
2. Be Conscious
3. Be able to breathe.
4. Have air to breathe.
5. Have power to think.
6. Anything more is an added bonus.
All by his/her/its power and Grace.
If it gave me suffering - I am ready to take it as a great Gift knowing that THAT alone is the True Judge, that Alone has True Power and that Alone knows what should happen and what is Good!
I am fully willing to let THAT Alone decide if I should be free of suffering, Be Liberated or Suffer! THAT Alone knows. I am ready to take whatever it offers as a Gift!
To respond to all the negative concepts. How about shifting your perspective. Yes, this could be considered Siddhis, and not to get attached to them, and yet, here's one more example of reality is so much larger and full of possibilities, then we're programmed to experience.
I recommend: "The book of Spirits" and " The book of the Mediums" both from Allan Kardec.
Where may we learn to be a medium?
Isn't awareness a precondition for suffering? Is there any suffering without awareness? Does an unconscious human body (mentally) suffer?
The end of existence is the end of suffering at every level.
How does the "soul" and "life after death" theory explains the everyday medical phenomenon of the human body being unconscious under the general anesthesia? Everyday, thousands of human bodies go under general anesthesia for surgeries. The success of the surgery largely rests on the human bodies being truly unconscious.
+TOA (Transmission of Awakening) Well for that matter then how do you explain the body continuing to survive when you are asleep. If awake consciousness is what is required to keep the body alive then how come you don't die when you fall asleep? "Occultists" explain this in terms of there being different parts of "you". When you are dreaming or having an operation the astral part of you is identified with things other than the physical body. As I have said above I don't experience this directly but since so many others who have investigated these matters deeply have reported such I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt rather than those whose entire lives are rapped up with material matters (work, sport, sex, gossip etc. etc.) Three authors (among others) who speak about such matters, are Rudolf Steiner, Douglas Baker ( www.amazon.com/Techniques-Astral-Projection-Douglas-Baker/dp/0906006899 ) and Mouni Sadhu.
Take care.
+David Watermeyer Few years ago, sleep ceased to be a mystery to me. Most of the nights, I sleep aware with very little dreaming. Few nights, I have "slept" fully awake - it was a very startling experience. Even without anything strange happening, you can observe that millions of mom world wide are awake enough to hear their newborn's cries and to wake up and take care of them, millions of people worldwide sleep and wake up in night on hearing the alarm clock. They can do so because they can hear and understand. They can do so because they are quite awake.
Only time it is really difficult to wake up is when you are in the middle of a thick dream. This way, being lost in a dream is like being lost in an engaging TV show, movie or book. You don't notice other things because all your attention is absorbed by the dream (or a TV show or a book).
+TOA (Transmission of Awakening) I have a file of quotes about "witnessing sleep" that I'll send you if you like. Probably too long to paste here.
+BuddhaAtTheGasPump Thanks, Rick! Please do send. Regards.
+TOA (Transmission of Awakening) Please email me.
This is a new low for Batgap. It is not spirituality - it is merely psychism, which panders to the ego. Spirituality is about freedom, whereas this depends on another. How long will you need crutches in your fear? When will you stand on your own feet? People are afraid of death so they cling to any hope. Maybe it is true, but it is a very low truth. This merely pertains to the astral plane whereas we are seeking Godhood and the freedom of the Absolute, beyond even Divinity. 60 years ago when I was a teenager I studied spiritualism. I saw the limitations and drawbacks of this, and I went into occultism and then into vedanta and then into deeper spirituality. Had I not done so I would still be talking to the stupid dead instead of being free and enlightened. The realm of the dead is full of stupid people and is the place of delusion. There is no ultimate truth there, and certainly no spirituality. The dead are not eternal, immortal beings. What has speaking to the dead have to do with spiritual awakening? Alive or dead we are still trapped by form, still identified with structure, still trapped in a limited area in time and space. This site is supposed to be about spirituality and spiritual awakening. There are many planes beyond the astral plane and many spiritual realms beyond the heaven worlds which are just another form of materialism. Yes, they are beautiful, but it is the beauty of delusion, the life of dream. I have been through the spiritual realms many times but they are not permanent. Enlightenment means to be beyond all states and to stand alone as the singularity of Spirit. We must become free of all authority or we are back to religion and shamanism and others telling us what to do. We have to experience truth for our self, in our own experience and know the livingness of our own inner nature. All religions, all traditions, all beliefs are traps and hold us back from our expansion into infinitude.
+Moonsod "Maybe it is true, but it is a very low truth." So who made you the judge and the one to assign values to truth? Consciousness is all levels expressing and each of us is endowed with human perception to experience those levels and travel about in them, so to speak. You seem to believe your own perception while you refute belief itself as a "trap that holds us back from our expansion". Seems quite contradictory to me. Some still need crutches, until they don't. So what?
+Moonsod What you say is true for the most part, but for some people, and maybe for you when you were younger, realizing that there is more to this life than our obvious physical existence can be a huge breakthrough. People like Suzanne can trigger that realization. I don't agree that "All religions, all traditions, all beliefs are traps and hold us back from our expansion into infinitude". They may be traps for some, but for most, they can be stepping stones.
What's the difference between evidence-based mediums and evidence-based dowsers? Sometimes there's actually water where dowsers say (because there's water in most places if you drill deep enough, LOL).
+GetMeThere1 If dowsers could find water with a degree of predictability and reliability that was statistically, significantly better than chance, then I guess you could call them evidence-based. The stuff Suzanne comes up with is way beyond random chance. Many examples of it and more all the time.
+BuddhaAtTheGasPump Hmm....no. I will have to call you on your "statistical analysis" (lol).
First, I think you should give more consideration to your "cynic/skeptic" distinctions and uses. Reports from gypsy fortune tellers (of which mediums are a variation) indeed deserve a cynical, rather than a skeptical, attitude -- because such things have been so FLOODED with fraud and baloney throughout a long history. First of all, they create the illusion of "better than random chance" by quickly dismissing their "readings" which don't work (tuned into the wrong channel, apparently), and developing whatever points that "hit home" with, in their audience. There are plenty of known frauds who can be shown to have been amazingly talented in zeroing in on "facts" where, it's seen, they first get a LOT wrong -- but then dismiss those wrong parts. Then there's outright fraud, in which a pre-interview with the subjects gets information which is then used by the medium. Here, for example, we see this woman expressing her amazement when she mentioned an "engineer, died of cancer" and got a hit -- but she doesn't mention that she got NOTHING when she "felt contact" with a "teacher, died of heart disease" or "truck driver, died of liver disease," etc. Is it really that extraordinary to be introduced to someone whose entire extended family, friends, and acquaintances contains someone who could loosely be called an engineer (an engineer on a train? mechanical engineer?, many quite ordinary jobs put "engineer" in the title -- sometimes for janitors and garbage collectors, lol), and who died of cancer? But maybe she's not a fraud. Maybe she is WONDERFULLY sincere and honest...
...there's a nice example of that in the phenomenon of "facilitated communication" used to help autistic children. It was a big thing awhile back (I think late 80's, early 90's?). Poor kids, they could not speak or even interact in any coherent manner but, when the facilitators got in the picture they could apparently steady the hand of the children and help them to peck away at a keyboard, typing out messages -- mostly about how they loved their parents and enjoyed their lives. Nobody seemed to ask, however, how these kids learned to spell -- never having gone to school or interacted with books; yet this was a university researched and promoted activity -- fully above board and accepted. Finally, a kid typed out with a facilitators help how his parents were abusing him and using him in satanic rituals (this was back when kids were apparently being subject to satanic rituals left and right! Remember all those pre-school children who were being molested and watching murders and satanic rituals? lol). The matter had to be adjudicated -- and someone needed to be able to give a definitive answer about the reality of facilitation: it didn't exist. Children shown objects/scenes views of which were occluded to the facilitator were 100% unable to be communicated through the facilitators. In the end it was reasonably concluded that most of these facilitators were UTTERLY sincere and honest -- and had only deluded themselves into believing that they were facilitating the typing of the kids.
A similar phenomenon is stage hypnosis -- you've seen those stage acts, everyone has. Do you know they are entirely false? Hypnosis is (more or less) an actual "thing." Yet there's no way to easily hypnotize groups of people on a stage and get them to act like monkeys, or whatever. Instead, the fact is that the people act as though hypnotized for various social reasons ("I thought everybody ELSE was hypnotized, " or "I didn't want to spoil the show."). The "hypnotists" are fully aware of the phenomenon.
No. Let me tell you what's really going on, Rick. You are all too easily beguiled by women! It's so patently obvious in many of your other videos. It's actually cute and charming (and only a little bit sad...). Not surprising though -- wasn't this the complaint of the Beatles regarding the Maharishi; that he was more interested in some of the pretty girls they had brought along than he was in meditating, or something? LOL (disclosure: I began TM in 1971, when it cost only 35 bucks, and set it aside for better substantiated paths in the late 70's or so, right after the "Sidhis" courses -- you'll remember all those doctored photos the TM folks gave to the press, showing people in the lotus position hovering a couple feet off the floor -- ecstatic smiles on their faces. A TM teacher was "on me" to buy a sidhis course for the bargain price of about 5 grand -- until I pressed him to the point of admitting that "well, no, you don't really levitate -- it's more like hopping, LOLOLOL).
I'm more interested in your excellent "Buddha at the Gas Pump" series than a "Real Life Ghostbusters" series...
+GetMeThere1 Read her book. Then let's talk.
BuddhaAtTheGasPump Well...that's fairly spoken -- please do know that I like you and like your interviews. I know you try to be a reasonable person. But....reading her book would be a waste of my time -- things she has to say (i.e., her personal testimony in a book) could not provide "evidence" that would be useful to me to believe she communicates with "dead souls."
In such cases I take to heart the very sensible words of the late Christopher Hitchens: 1) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. 2) Claims made without evidence can be (and usually should be) dismissed without evidence.
In this case the only evidence that would mean anything would be a "blind test" using a series of decidedly random people, brought before her singly. AND, with a control, where those same people were tested by a talented "experimenter" in an attempt to see how strong was their tendency to cooperate with FALSE suggestions. Such a test would be difficult to carry out -- and indeed, unless carried out by well-known skeptics, I would in fact be skeptical even of results of such tests.
Really, how much truly UNDENIABLY SPECIFIC information could a "dead soul" really have to impart to a living relative, etc.? The only thing that would count (if I imagine myself in that circumstance) would be for her to relate to me the details of personal conversations I had had with the deceased before they died -- involving specific and detailed information. In fact, without a LOT of consideration, I'm not sure I could even come up, extemporaneously, with the contents of such a conversation. One NEVER hears of such "evidence" being presented. Why would a "dead soul" care to regurgitate such things to a medium?
Indeed, it's interesting to think how one would go about identifying a friend (like, oh, in certain stories where, say, a person's face had been altered -- and you ask the guy "Remember when we went fishing at the lake and you got such a kick out of that goofy shirt I had on. What was goofy about it?") Anything other than that sort of thing presents problems as evidence -- and especially as evidence regarding "non-randomness." One never hears details of goofy shirts -- and indeed one has to ask why dead souls would be interested in communicating such things.
You will remember, I'm sure, that back in the 70s-80s there were actual university departments throughout America specializing in "paranormal psychology." Where did they go? Well, they went away...and they went away because, after a lot of looking, no convincing evidence could ever be found that such phenomena existed. Truly convincing evidence of supernatural human powers (like levitation) or supernatural realms (with dead souls) would...turn the world upside down. They would be PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES EVER MADE. Yet, after hundreds of years of interest in such things, no clear and irrefutable evidence has come forth. IMO the only reason can be that such things simply do not occur in the human experience -- despite widespread "belief" that they do.
+GetMeThere1 A hypothetical question, If two or three people you know and trust implicitly told you they saw a UFO up close with detailed description and you could see the emotional impact in their faces. Would you believe them?
(Scientifically) The entire manifest universe is the expansion of a tiny dot (known as Singularity).
The entire universe is still that ONE tiny dot alone and that includes all the galaxies, stars, planets, rocks, stones, plants, creatures and humans. The TIME and SPACE are the body of this still expanding dot (Singularity).
The illusion of diversity, distance and division rests on treating the different appearances (Emptiness and Forms) as entirely different things. Funny thing is that (scientifically) about 99.99% of the form is nothing but the Emptiness.
Anyone who believes we can communicate with the "dead" would do well to read the Zen story called "The Ghost and the Beans". Here is one link - endofthegame.net/2012/07/03/zen-story-the-ghost-and-the-beans/.
In my view, Nonduality is a theory that attempts to explain Reality. In this theory, the Creator, the Created, the Creation, the experience, experiencer and experienced are all one and they all arise together. They are made up of Awareness.
The (feeling) (or idea) of the split itself is made up of the Awareness. The (feeling) (or thought) of the separation itself is made up of the Awareness. The (thought of) (idea of) (feeling of) suffering too is made up of the Awareness alone as are all thoughts, feelings, emotions, pain, pleasure, imaginations, dreams, ideas and insights.
In my view, the Ultimate Realization is that I (Awareness) alone am the source of all that exists (in my world). I (Awareness) Alone am the power behind all my senses, all my knowledge and their interpretation. I (Awareness) am the source of all (my) thoughts, imaginations, dreams, ideas, emotions, feelings and suffering.
What happens when I (Awareness) sleep?
When I (Awareness) sleep it all disappears.
Can I (Awareness) sleep?
Yes. Absolutely.
What happens when I (Awareness) sleep? When I (Awareness) sleep - the existence (of my world) stops - it all disappears.
I (Awareness) Alone am the Source of all Good and Bad and the source of all Judging. Knowing this ends the Split inside me. I (Awareness) Alone am the Source of all good and evil. Good and bad are my own children, my own creation. Without Me (Awareness) none have any existence.
It is My LOVE that Creates and Sustains all my Children - (my) thoughts, imaginations, dreams, ideas, senses, my judging of Good and Bad and my resulting pain, suffering, pleasure and pain. Knowing this, I LOVE all of them. I give all of them SPACE. In Me Alone, all they exist - the Good and the Bad and the judging of them to be Good and Bad. Knowing this, I attempt to escape None of Them. I know I Alone am the Source of All. Without Me, they have No Existence.
I don't need to escape My Own Creation. I don't need to escape my own dream, my own imagination, my own Play... I simply sleep, I simply rest, I simply relax... ...and, they all die. Without Me, none have any existence.
In my view, in the Hindu Symbolism, this is called Shiva Realization.
Awareness is simply my waking up. Unawareness is simply my sleep. My True Nature is Beyond Awareness and Unawareness, beyond Existing and Non Existing and without all Knowing and Not Knowing.
When I sleep, there is No Knowing, No existence, No Time, No Space, No Creation, No Play left. Yet, nothing is Truly destroyed. I, the Source of IT All am beyond all creation and destruction. I, the Source of all ideas, thoughts, theories, speculation and description am beyond all descriptions. I, the Source of all Knowing am beyond all Knowing and Not Knowing. I, the source of birth and death am beyond birth and death. I, the source of all diversity, I, the source of All Numbers, Am neither One Nor two Nor Many.
It is My Play - the Play of Awareness - the Pay of Day and Night, Birth and Death, Creation and Destruction, Up and Down, This and That.
I know that a play needs Two Sides. Without the two sides, there is no real play. They appear like enemies only on the surface, in reality, they are the essential parts of the play.
Knowing this, I can rest. Knowing this, I can relax. Knowing this, I can let the play continue uninterrupted.
Knowing this, I don't even bring my Knowledge into the Play - the knowledge of Me, the Awareness Alone being the source of it All because I know that this True Knowledge with end the grip of the Play (maya) and the Play will no longer appear Real. As long as the creation and destruction, birth and death, day and night, dark and light are in balance, pain and pleasure it is all good.
I bring The True Knowledge - Me, the Awareness Alone being the source of it all - it all residing in Me Alone - only when the Play is in danger because the forces of destruction have taken over. In the Hindu Symbolism, this Process of the Arrival of True Knowledge in the Play is called Avatara. Avatara is the realization of the Truth - the Truth of Me, the Awareness alone being the Source and Destination of it All.
The (idea of the) good and the bad exist in Me (Awareness) alone as does the judging of them. The split and the division that is created by the judging too exist in me alone as does the resulting pain, struggle and frustration.
Knowing this, I know the Split, the division to be my own creation. Knowing this, I know the samsara to happen inside Me, the Awareness alone. Knowing this, I know the leela, the Play to happen inside me alone. Knowing this, I know Me, the Awareness alone to be the source of all struggles. Knowing this, allows me to rest, allowing all sides exist as my own children, as my own creation sustained by my love of the play (leela) alone.
I, the Awareness am the source and destination of all my desires and the the judge and the the ultimate arbitrator of having achieved them. Knowing this, allows me to know Me, the Awareness alone to be the creator and sustainer of all desires and their resulting pain, pleasure, struggle and elation. Knowing this, allows me to rest beyond all desires and beyond the desire of being without desires.
What a sham. really mediums are pitching illusions. Nothing to it. Hope , belief in some fairy princess story.
Read Kardec!
Bashar is also just fascinating, the whole persona, the information and the ET phenomena around it.
And it's real as well, I've personal experience that validates the entity, and evidence for physical visitations is concrete as well (www.bestUFOevidence.com)
I hope you do a channeled interview with him some time. =)
+AlwaysBeNice I'm told he only does them in person. If that's the case, I'll try to do one if I'm ever in Los Angeles.
+BuddhaAtTheGasPump Exciting! How amazing that would be. Enjoying this interview too btw. :) Thank you Rick.
+AlwaysBeNice I've never seen 'Bashar' provide any information that wasn't out there somewhere already. What I've seen so far seems to just be new age of the self-improvement and co-creation kind, mixed with some ET hoopla to erh.. give his utterances more 'credibility'.. To me, the whole deal comes accross as fakery.
Browsing around on his website, it becomes pretty obvious it's all about the cash. A 60 minute private session is $300, and he's booked for the foreseeable future.
I don't know.. it all looks so fake. His posture while 'channeling', the lights and ornaments surrounding him on the podium, the message itself, the expensive MP3's and all the other goodies being sold on his website, varying from the Essasani Contact Crystal ($175 a pop) to downloadable MP3 ($25 a pop) or videos ($35), books, CD's, DVD's and on and on it goes.
He's probably running a fine business with this whole fraud, and I can't blame him.. there are plenty peeps who buy into it.
It reminds me of J.Z Knight and her whole Ramtha deal. Same deal, same message. It's always about 'improving' your life, and to do that you always need something they provide... and you end up having to pay a lot of money for it.
Anyway Rick, I loved your most recent 2 shows.. really good stuff! I'll give this one a spin too, though I have a feeling that it's not really up my alley. Gotta keep an open mind though, right?
I don't like his business,model either, it think it's really distorts the whole ordeal. they recently they send out a message saying they would change it to cheaper and a special thing for people that didn't have much money.
Though it's not a surprise that esoteric knowledge is not new, God has been God for a long time now though I would say a lot of his specific information is definitely knew and there is a good deal that's actually scientifically verifiable as it's not too rare to have a doctor or scientists come and ask him questions.
Perhaps it's an idea if you are interested to listen to some of his older sessions (you could perhaps just download them via a sharing group, perhaps leave a donation if you liked it) and it really shows incredible information from what I've seen.
Either way, he has made quite a few specific 'predictions' recently (sensing our direction, not reading the future), one of which is a 100% 'chance' at another major UFO sighting before 2017, which has really happened once in our history so far (the Phoenix Lights in 1997). So time will tell.
AlwaysBeNice Well here's a quote from Bashar/Anka: 'When you change the belief to 'I do deserve to create a reality of effortlessness and ease, and I will be supported,' then that's the reality you will get; the universe will support you 100% in that direction. Because now that's what you believe. All you need to do is be willing to recognize that 100% trust in the direction you prefer will create the reality you desire to support.
And another one: 'Know that beyond a shadow of a doubt, if you do find something that excites you, something that you know is 'what' you are, that is because it represents your 'truest' self at the time. It will automatically provide for you with all the abundance you need in whatever form you need it, to allow you to keep on being 'that' you.
And there are more. I got these from www.quantumisland.com/Bashar.html
Well that sounds pretty enticing doesn't it? You can be anything you like, and as long as you focus on something that excites you, and as long as you truly believe in it, that will come to pass.
If that's how you want to spend your life, go ahead and have fun.
What it implies to me is this:
1: My life as it is now is not good enough. Something needs to change
2: To change something, I need to do certain things (believe, focus, want it bad enough)
3: I will be happier/more fulfilled when I have created the reality I desire.
To me all that is just dream management. Sure, go ahead and create a better dream.
It's like the guy who complains that he keeps dreaming of swimming in the ocean, but the waves are too high and every time he almost drowns, and to him that's incredibly frustrating and scary.
Then he comes to you and asks how to solve that situation. What would you suggest to him? Dream of a calmer ocean, or just 'wake up and see that the ocean was just a dream-reality in the first place'?
Personally, I'm not interested in a 'better dream'. Well I kindof am, but that's not what my spiritual 'quest' is about. For me it's all about what's real, what's truth.
And I don't think Anka can help me with that. He may have interesting information, be an incredible fortune teller, have interesting stories and sell you splendid dreams, but I'm gonna walk past his stall.
In effect he's selling water by the river, as far as I'm concerned.
8:18 Really?
Is Russell Brand coming on?
i knew she was just a weird lady when she said the spirits are messing with the lights lol sorry but mediums are full of nonsence i cant bair them at all and iam so disappointed batgap has somebody like this on the show.
There is far too much synchronicity to call it mere chance or coincidence or to conclude that the current world view is complete. However, I don’t agree with Suzanne’s interpretation of the events, thoughts and imaginations.
I don’t think there is soul. I don’t think that the memories, talents and tendencies survive after death, without brain and body. I don’t there is a ghost of Albert Einstein other than his memories and imaginations in people’s mind.
+TOA (Transmission of Awakening) What about memories from a moment ago? Do they survive? And if so what are they?
Just because you don't think there is a soul doesn't necessarily mean there isn't one right?
Now though every bit of my being absolutely cries out that this indeed is the case and that the soul (what I would prefer to call consciousness) not only survives death but is in fact behind what makes life possible anyway I admit absolutely that I don't have direct evidence from my own experience.
But since there are so many accounts of people - who have stepped out of the humdrum of "everyday" life and put their entire attention into the question of what consciousness is, giving this question their sole attention beyond everything else - saying they have seen that this is indeed the case (that consciousness is not limited to the material body) I give them the benefit of the doubt rather than the millions who passively and unquestioningly identify with the billions of attractions of material life (via sights sounds smells tastes and the memories thereof) and say that this material human-body life is all there is.
My point is the same as I have always brought up with you. If you don't exercise your free will fully (regardless of whether you believe in it or not!) and make every effort to really look at things clearly (like the Buddha did) you will simply stay exactly as you are. And though for the time being this may be just fine, in terms of the Buddha's teachings this situation, being subject to conditions, will be certain to change, for better or for worse.
If you don't do some form of established meditation or reflection practice I suggest you do.
All good things to you TOA. I wish you well. I really do.
+David Watermeyer The matter of memories might not be that much mysterious, special or different. Computer memories are stored in the RAM, hard disk and flash drives. Human memories are stored in the brain and body cells.
The study of alzheimer might explain some of it.
www.alz.org/braintour/healthy_vs_alzheimers.asp
I get dimes....
So where's the evidence that she mentioned so many times? Let me guess: we have to buy her book...
Please stop with this kind of nonsense Rick, we're interested in reality, not wishful thinking and fairytales.
Utter BS, sorry JC Teffts interview the week prior was wonderful. Remember there is no self, therefore there is no such thing as a supernatural entity. Stop giving airtime to these charlatans.
The last question about Free Will: Yes, there is Free Will in every moment. Free will and Destiny go "hand in hand"; like Suzanne said serveral times, it is not This or That, it is This and That. I love how she keeps it simple because in truth it is all very simple and when mankind tries to analyze spiritual wisdom with the human mind all he does is complicate it. :)