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 Humanity

Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded November 5, 2017

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump

00:03:36 - Recognizing Spiritual Maturity

00:06:54 - The Maturation of Awakening

00:12:11 - The Natural State of the Nervous System

00:16:40 - The Ongoingness of Awakening

00:20:56 - The Impact of Awakening on Humanity

00:25:32 - The Passing on of Spiritual Awakening

00:29:16 - The Importance of Integrating Inner Divisions

00:33:49 - Returning to the Human Heartbreak

00:38:11 - The Wound of Aloneness

00:41:46 - Fear of Separation and Oneness

00:46:08 - Breaking Free from Victimhood in Relationships

00:49:53 - The Permeability of Boundaries in Oneness and Love

00:54:38 - Intimacy in Every Moment of Life

00:58:24 - The Energy of the Sexual Act

01:02:28 - The Art of Listening

01:06:08 - The Manifestation of Oneness in the Relative

01:10:21 - Becoming a Servant of Cosmic Intelligence

01:13:57 - The Maturation Process and the realization of no-self

01:18:43 - Integration of the Self and the No-Self

01:22:39 - Navigating the Tricky Inner Terrain

01:26:43 - Opening Spirituality to a Wider Audience

01:30:51 - Concepts and Intrinsic Reality

01:34:01 - The End of Division and the Catalyst for Change

01:38:03 - The Divine Feminine and the Infusion of Love

01:42:19 - Non-violence towards our inner experience

01:47:01 - Tenderness towards Loss

01:51:36 - The Clinging to Loss

01:56:07 - The Illusion of Punishment

01:59:17 - The Power of Direct Experience and Belief

02:02:48 - Conclusion and Thank You