429. Amoda Maa–2nd Interview - a podcast by Rick Archer

Amoda Maa is a contemporary spiritual teacher, author, and speaker. After years of spiritual seeking, meditation, and immersion in psychospiritual practices, an experience of the dark night of the soul led her to a profound inner awakening. Then, after a long period of integration, she began speaking from silence in small gatherings. Today she offers meetings and retreats, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, attracting spiritual seekers and people looking for peace and fulfillment in an increasingly chaotic world. Her teachings are free of religion and tradition, and she brings to them a deep understanding of the human journey, born out of her own experience.

She is the author of Radical Awakening (originally released as How to Find God in Everything) and Change Your Life, Change Your World: Ten Spiritual Lessons for a New Way of Being and Living. Both books were written shortly after her awakening and before she began to speak in public.Her new book Embodied Enlightenment — written 15 years after her awakening — is based on the many conversations at the cutting edge of spiritual inquiry in her meetings with people from all around the world, and addresses many of the questions relevant to today’s seeker. It has been acclaimed as “a beautiful and precious gift to an emerging new humanity.”

Amoda lives with her husband and beloved, Kavi, in New Mexico.Website: amodamaa.com

Previous BatGap interviews with Amoda:First Interview
Amoda Maa in panel discussion: Birthing Radiant Being into Our HumanityDiscussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interviewInterview recorded November 5, 2017

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.Chapters:


00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump00:03:36 - Recognizing Spiritual Maturity
00:06:54 - The Maturation of Awakening00:12:11 - The Natural State of the Nervous System
00:16:40 - The Ongoingness of Awakening00:20:56 - The Impact of Awakening on Humanity
00:25:32 - The Passing on of Spiritual Awakening00:29:16 - The Importance of Integrating Inner Divisions
00:33:49 - Returning to the Human Heartbreak00:38:11 - The Wound of Aloneness
00:41:46 - Fear of Separation and Oneness00:46:08 - Breaking Free from Victimhood in Relationships
00:49:53 - The Permeability of Boundaries in Oneness and Love00:54:38 - Intimacy in Every Moment of Life
00:58:24 - The Energy of the Sexual Act01:02:28 - The Art of Listening
01:06:08 - The Manifestation of Oneness in the Relative01:10:21 - Becoming a Servant of Cosmic Intelligence
01:13:57 - The Maturation Process and the realization of no-self01:18:43 - Integration of the Self and the No-Self
01:22:39 - Navigating the Tricky Inner Terrain01:26:43 - Opening Spirituality to a Wider Audience
01:30:51 - Concepts and Intrinsic Reality01:34:01 - The End of Division and the Catalyst for Change
01:38:03 - The Divine Feminine and the Infusion of Love01:42:19 - Non-violence towards our inner experience
01:47:01 - Tenderness towards Loss01:51:36 - The Clinging to Loss
01:56:07 - The Illusion of Punishment01:59:17 - The Power of Direct Experience and Belief
02:02:48 - Conclusion and Thank You

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