Who better to start this series off, than a person who has played a pivotal role in my moving from procrastination to Podcast, Rick Archer. For more than 5 years, many of the conversations I have listened to at Buddha at the Gas Pump have formed the basis of further exploration and inspiration along my spiritual journey. Rick’s mix of “ordinary” spiritually awakening people is truly inspiring. Rick is a long time spiritual practitioner and learned Transcendental Meditation at the age of 18 and has taught it for 25 years.

• Rick shares his backstory.
• How he started learning about Transcendental Meditation.
• Navigating his past and talking about rewiring.
• Advice for people who are having or going through awakenings.
• His experience during covid.
• RIck shares his journey with Buddha at the Gas Pump.
• The common threads he has seen in over 654 episodes of the BatGap
• The best learnings he wants to share from the 654 episodes of BatGap.
• What one piece of advice for following your purpose, trying to step across that line, and moving into the flow state.
• Rick describes the word enlightenment.

Buddha at the Gas Pump Website

“It can be kind of intense to deal with deep emotional stuff, deep memories, you can get kind of crazy and muddy, and you just have to kind of stay on a routine and ideally, have some kind of a buddy program where people keep an eye on each other.”

“There is such a thing as Dharma, and which is that activity which for which you are ideally suited, and which will bring you the greatest fulfillment, and also enable you to have the greatest beneficial influence.”

“It's always good to have the attitude of a beginner. Because it kind of keeps you humble, keeps you open to new possibilities, you know, where the next horizon might be for you.”