From my earliest memories, God was always at the center of things. After exploring a number of teachers and modalities in the great spiritual garden of late-sixties San Francisco, things really geared up when I learned the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique in Berkeley in 1967. TM’s gifts were unmistakable and I began a thirty-year career of devoted service to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Vedic tradition. This encompassed many years of teaching TM in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and lots of time simply meditating, including seven years in a convent style setting. All this yielded vast personal and spiritual growth which remains fully integrated into my life, a gift that keeps on giving.

Towards the end of this period, I studied and shared several healing modalities, especially Cranio-sacral therapy. This deepened my experience of the body as energy and Light and helped me discover the body’s huge role in lasting and comprehensive healing.

In 1996, my path led me to the indigenous traditions of the West, especially Lakota. I was blessed in countless ways by the great Lakota holy man, wisdom keeper, and Sundance leader Naca Wa-Anata. Through him, I received a personal pipe–a precious and powerful source of inspiration, healing, and transformation–and was able to participate in life-changing Lakota ceremonies, including Sundance, for many years. As a result, I opened to a profound and intimate relationship with the Earth and her healing and nourishing gifts and learned to embrace life on Earth with a grounded joy and openness that I had never known before. Most importantly, I learned to embody and live the boundless consciousness I had merged with through the Vedic teaching and find the same infinite Self everywhere and in everyone.

Through this time, I gradually realized that I was here not only to help people merge with the Infinite in their awareness but also to help them include their bodies in the journey. In simplest terms, this means helping our cellular reality or belief systems shift from identifying as density to self-recognizing as divine Light, or FirstLight, as I call it. We truly are just a dream of Light.

Finally, around 2012, what I now call the path of Grace simply showed up for me, initially while visiting sacred sites in France. In essence, I was made aware that our growth is no longer something we have to work at. God/Divine Love/divine Light is so powerfully present now that all we have to do is open and receive It, and It will take care of all that we need for spiritual and human fulfillment. Since then, many divine gifts have “downloaded” to share with others to support this effortless form of growth. While remaining endlessly Silent and utterly unlocalized, this magical-mystery-tour of a life is a sacred and joyous privilege.

Website: firstlighttransformations.com

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Summary and transcript of this interview.

First BatGap interview with Cynthia.

Interview recorded September 21, 2019.

YouTube Video Chapters:

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

00:04:10 - Shifting from Density to Divine Light

00:07:42 - Mary Magdalene's Message of Love and Support

00:11:44 - The Emergence of First Light

00:16:24 - The Emergence of Different Fields of Potentiality

00:19:21 - Individual Journeys of Spiritual Awakening

00:22:47 - The Shift in Collective Consciousness

00:26:38 - The Infinite Way Home

00:30:03 - The Transition and Turbulence

00:34:15 - Embracing Being and Doing

00:38:47 - Being Established in the Self

00:41:31 - Exploring the Depths of Existence

00:45:18 - Becoming Light: The Path of the Rainbow Body

00:48:31 - Physiological and Spiritual Transformation

00:52:27 - Living Without Belief Systems

00:56:25 - Perceiving the Divine with our Senses

01:00:01 - Expressing the Infiniteness within You

01:03:30 - Breaking Through Doubts and Resistance

01:07:28 - The Shift in Attitude and Opportunities for Evolution

01:10:23 - The Experience of Change and Transformation

01:13:49 - Transmuting Suffering into Bliss

01:17:36 - Seeking Help and Different Approaches to Healing From Mental Illness

01:21:04 - Lady Julian's Visions and God's Love

01:24:16 - Expansion and Cognition of Awareness

01:28:18 - Dissolving Duality and Defensiveness

01:30:44 - Dissolving into the Black Hole

01:34:31 - The Correlation between Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics

01:38:17 - The Limitations of Understanding Reality

01:42:10 - The Humility of Enlightenment

01:45:20 - The Omnipresence of Intelligence

01:47:46 - Lightning Bolts to the Head