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Buddha at the Gas Pump

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer 691 Episodes Oct 4, 2026

Buddha at the Gas Pump is a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with spiritually awakening people. Host Rick Archer interviews a wide range of guests, from teachers and authors to everyday individuals, exploring their spiritual experiences and insights. The show aims to provide a platform for authentic spiritual dialogue and discovery.

Episodes

763. Carmen Acevedo Butcher
763. Carmen Acevedo Butcher Oct 4, 2026 01:43:21 Award-winning translator, author, poet, teacher, and workshop leader, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD, is core faculty and Dean at the Center for Action and Contemplation, founded by Father Richard Rohr. Her translation for Shambhala Publications of the fourteenth-century contemplative classic The Cloud of Unknowing received a 46th Georgia Author of the Year Award. Martin Laird calls her translation o
523. Barbara & Charles Whitfield
523. Barbara & Charles Whitfield Oct 2, 2026 01:53:27 Barbara Whitfield was a researcher at the University of Connecticut Medical School with psychiatry professor Bruce Greyson. Together they researched the after-effects of people who have had a Near-Death Experience. She taught at Rutger's University's Institute for Alcohol and Drug Studies School for 12 years, served on the board and executive board of The International Association for Near-Death S
762. Dave Markowitz
762. Dave Markowitz Sep 15, 2026 01:48:49 Empaths, Empathic Overwhelm, Source Intuition, and the Sacred Work of HealingDave Markowitz explores empaths, empathic overwhelm, and the sacred work of healing ourselves and our world. He shares how trauma, sensitivity, intuition, and our connection with Source can shape the way we experience ourselves and other people.A Source intuitive, bestselling author, healing facilitator, and longtime stud
761. Monica Khosla
761. Monica Khosla Sep 6, 2026 01:43:04 Spiritual Liberation, Memory Reconsolidation, and the End of the Separate SelfMonica Khosla explores spiritual awakening, nonduality, and liberation through the surprising lens of neuroscience and memory reconsolidation. A somatic psychotherapist, she describes a sudden shift during a yoga class in 2009 in which the sense of being a separate self simply fell away.Monica is the author of The First
265. Bart Marshall
265. Bart Marshall Aug 31, 2026 01:50:40 Hello everyone, who knew and loved Bart,This is Renata Gregori, his wife. My beloved husband left this earth plane on July 27, 2026, due to pneumonia and infection - complications from conditions he was dealing with since the end of last year.He was the best man I’ve ever known. He was my teacher, my confidant, my best friend, the love of my life and my touchstone for all that is good and righteo
130. Andrew Cohen
130. Andrew Cohen Aug 26, 2026 01:33:33 Andrew Cohen (1955–2025) was a spiritual teacher and the founder of EnlightenNext, an organization associated with his teaching of “Evolutionary Enlightenment.” He was a student of H. W. L. Poonja and wrote several books, including My Master Is My Self and Evolutionary Enlightenment.I interviewed Andrew in July 2012. Soon afterward, serious accounts emerged from former students describing a harmfu
760. Mark Vicente & Bonnie Piesse
760. Mark Vicente & Bonnie Piesse Aug 26, 2026 01:54:06 Narcissism, Cult Recovery, Spiritual Awakening, and DiscernmentMark Vicente is an author, speaker, and award-winning Writer/Director/Producer from Johannesburg, South Africa. Taking his first photograph at age four, he worked his way up through the ranks of the camera department, shooting a number of anti-apartheid films in the 1980s before relocating to Hollywood.Because of the atrocities in his
12. Michael Baxter
12. Michael Baxter Aug 9, 2026 01:32:02 bax (or baxishta if he’s feeling uppity) does not consider himself fully awakened, but knows for sure that he’s recognized glimpses of the self.  He says this puts him in an awkward position and insists on starting off with this apology,if what i’ve seen is truethen i’m a hypocriteevery time i speak about itno better than the man whohaving awoken briefly from his dreamrushes back to tell his frien
759. Leela Muse
759. Leela Muse Aug 8, 2026 01:51:56 Leela Muse is a nonduality guide whose YouTube work explores the life‑affirming process of spiritual awakening and profoundly unowned, ordinary life. Through contemplative dialogues, she emphasizes the art of noticing, radical honesty, and open curiosity, validating the lived experience of seekers while gently challenging assumptions about what awakening is supposed to look like.Leela joins Buddha
758. Keith Parker
758. Keith Parker Jul 25, 2026 01:54:52 Seeing the Aura - A New Understanding of the Human Energy FieldKeith is a teacher, author and healing practitioner with expertise in the human energy field, contemplative science and the healing arts. Initially, Keith used meditation as a vehicle to understand and refine subtle states of consciousness. Over the following decade he studied movement, breathwork, bodywork, energy work and other dispa
757. Ruben Laukkonen
757. Ruben Laukkonen Jun 24, 2026 01:47:36 Ruben is the director of the Flourishing Intelligence Program (FLIP) at Linacre College, University of Oxford. Ruben is also co-director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, a Senior Researcher within Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, and fellow at Linacre College. Ruben has made significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness, med
756. Karen Shanley
756. Karen Shanley Jun 13, 2026 01:47:14 I didn’t set out to become a spiritual teacher. I was the kid with questions that wouldn’t let go — why are we here, what happens when we die, is this really all there is? At eleven, I had my first spiritual awakening, which introduced me to what I call my Inner Teacher, a wise guiding presence that’s been with me ever since.Those early experiences set me on a long journey across traditions and co

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