Buddha at the Gas Pump

628. Betty Kovacs

12.23.2021 - By Rick ArcherPlay

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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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Interview recorded December 19, 2021.

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YouTube Video 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

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