Interview with Rick Archer of Buddha at the Gas Pump!

That's right, we've swapped roles and just like the night that Johnny Carson was a guest on Letterman, Rick was kind enough to agree to an interview. He brings a tremendous wealth of knowledge to the topic of spirituality and awakening. check it out!
Buddha at the Gas Pump: shorturl.at/aM358
BATGAP TH-cam Channel: / @batgap
Main Points touched on in this conversation:
- Rick's spiritual history. The TM program.
- The importance of integration and stabilization on the spiritual path.
- The value of spiritual development in unfolding our full potential.
- About Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi)
- The masculine and feminine aspects of spirituality.
- Compassion, kindness, generosity, and such qualities as expressions of holistic spiritual development.
- The Association for Spiritual Integrity and the importance of ethics on the spiritual path.
- What is the best spiritual practice?
- Are there any detrimental practices? (Psychedelics? Neo-Advaita?) Harmful teachers?
- The qualifications for being a spiritual teacher and the importance of discerning between qualified and unqualified teachers.
- The importance of humility and genuineness in teachers.
- We all have different roles to play. Awakened people aren’t necessarily teachers and don’t necessarily use spiritual terminology.
- The relevance of channeling, mediumship, etc. to spirituality.
- Different dimensions of reality.
- “God” as an unbounded self-interacting ocean of consciousness.
- We are characters with some improvisational latitude in the Divine Play. The playwright has our best interest in mind.
- Staying aligned with the Divine “stream”.
- Trusting your instincts.
- Global problems are symptomatic of the quality of collective consciousness, which is trending toward awakening, perhaps as a response to the dire nature of these problems.
- The cumulative nature of spiritual practice.
- Recommended books.
- The importance of where you put your attention.
- The complimentary relationship between knowledge and experience.
- The importance of taking the first step on the spiritual path, and one thing will lead to the next.