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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:04:09 - The Search for Meaning and Belief
00:07:58 - The Ancient Wisdom of Shamanism
00:12:11 - Uncovering Ancient Wisdom
00:16:28 - Suppression of the Sacred Feminine
00:20:47 - Living with the Tao and the Awakening
00:24:48 - The Distorted Story of the Tree
00:28:47 - The Hidden Tradition of Christianity and the Gnostic Experience
00:33:03 - The Church's Resistance to Scientific Exploration
00:37:30 - A Journey of Search and Freedom
00:41:36 - The Power of the Feminine and the Importance of Listening
00:45:05 - Plans Being Made for Us
00:49:13 - The Hidden Tradition within the Church
00:53:25 - The Dangers of Manipulating Human Nature
00:57:18 - Unfolding our Full Inner Potential
01:01:09 - The Wholeness of Mind Experience
01:05:14 - Ancient Wisdom and Indigenous Cultures
01:09:43 - The Deep Spiritual River
01:14:00 - A Father's Vision
01:18:04 - Decaying and Transforming Darkness into Light
01:22:15 - The Earth's Longing for Love
01:26:36 - Interactions with Higher Forms of Life
01:30:31 - Integration of Cosmic Consciousness
01:34:56 - The Relevance of Connecting to Vast Intelligence
01:39:30 - The Power of Creativity and Love
01:43:41 - True Stories and Organizing Principles
01:47:33 - The Wisdom of Integration
01:51:59 - Finding Purpose Despite Circumstances
01:55:45 - Finding Fulfillment and Inner Peace on the Spiritual Path
01:59:24 - The Power of Lighting a Candle

Sumerian Cylinder Seal from Joseph Campbell’s The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, Copyright © 2017, 2021 Joseph Campbell Foundation (jcf.org). Used with permission.

Garden of Immortality from Joseph Campbell’s The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, Copyright © 2017, 2021 Joseph Campbell Foundation (jcf.org). Used with permission.

Dr. Betty J. Kovacs’ understanding of consciousness and spirituality is based on both scholarly research and symbolic, visionary experience.  In fact, she has written two books concerning these subjects.  Her first book is about her family’s profound visionary experiences surrounding multiple deaths in their family.  Her second book relates to our ancestors’ experience of a vaster consciousness, Cosmic/Christ Consciousness.

Within a three-year period, Dr. Kovacs experienced the deaths of her mother, her son, and her husband in separate automobile accidents.  While she had studied shamanism before her son’s accident, she and her husband actually experienced their son’s consciousness after his death for an extended period of time.  These experiences completely changed their lives.  Her first book, The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life, is about these altered states of consciousness.  After her retirement, she began an intensified period of research into our ancestors’ experience of a vaster consciousness, Cosmic/Christ Consciousness, which she relates in her new book, Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of the Nautilus Silver Book Award and The Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize.

Dr. Kovacs’ extensive research tracked the existence of a shamanic-mystic-scientist culture from at least 40,000 BCE.  Our ancestors had developed symbolic language and various shamanic techniques to trigger altered states of consciousness.  Some of these ancestors achieved great skill as visionaries, mystics, and scientists, while others, it is not known how many, achieved the ability to experience Cosmic Consciousness.

Their Gift, the blueprint for our evolution, is the knowledge that we are all immortal, divine, and creative.  This blueprint is revealed in the heart wisdom of the mystic and the new science of quantum physics.

Unfortunately, in the West, this sacred tradition was suppressed by both Church and State and lost to mainline culture, but it survived underground in the Hermetic arts, Alchemy, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and Mystic Christianity.  This powerful tradition emerged four times in European history in an effort to integrate this larger consciousness into mainline culture.

Each time the tradition emerged, the culture experienced a renaissance, as in the High Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment, and the German and English Romantic Period.  Each of these attempts was suppressed.

The consistent suppression of this ancient wisdom is the root cause of our current planetary crisis.  And it can only be healed through the consciousness of the heart that births a just and feeling world.  This same tradition, on which our survival now depends, has once again emerged today—and it can change the world.

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