While expanding his education and eventually working at a number or companies as an HF engineer, Dan's first love was always spiritual exploration. In 2011, after a number of years of trial and error refining the process of self inquiry into deep self investigation, there came an undeniable recognition that he was not a separate self. Simply no one at all. There was only the selfless THIS, "aware existence". This became his permanent condition.

Soon after, (from a certain perspective), Dan left a successful corporate position and his old life, following an intuited impulse to be in a more free, natural and creative circumstance. He now lives with his wife Victoria in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, loving nature, exploring various forms of artistic expression and guiding others to awakening.

Website: deepselfinvestigation.com

Book: Deep Self Investigation: A Modern Guide to Awakening

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Interview recorded July 19, 2025

Savita is a spiritual teacher, mentor, embodiment facilitator and healer.

She experienced a profound shift in consciousness after great tragedy, followed by years of further spiritual openings, mystical experiences and her own deep healing.

She meets people with generosity, humour and grounded practicality. Providing a safe space for them to open to their own divine light and inner wisdom.

Website: savita.com.au

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Interview recorded July 6, 2025

Former barrister turned philosopher and writer, Aedamar Kirrane experienced a spontaneous mystical awakening that began in 2015 and continues to unfold. Unable to find any support or understanding within her own Christian tradition she embarked on a deep enquiry to understand the inner dynamics and telos of awakening. She came to believe in life as an original blessing rather than the doctrine of original sin that she thinks has destroyed our sense of ourselves as sacred beings.

Her spiritual autobiography is Light on Fire: Waking Up to Divine Love, published 2021. Through ongoing reflection and curiosity she has developed her own threefold mystical cosmology that understands creation in the pattern of exodus and return; that recognises all of life as sacred, described through the concept of panentheism; and that the purpose of human life is deification or the return to our divine state while still in human form.

All this is set within the context of the Great Awakening we are living through now, of which the human experience is a micro version. She has come to recognise that spontaneity is characteristic of the human experience of an evolutionary shift in consciousness. Aedamar's awakening is mediated through her mystical and spiritual writing and she recognises sacred writing as its own spiritual path that she calls The Via Scriptoria.

Aedamar's visions are published on aedamarkirrane.com. She blogs at The New Scriptorium.

Aedamar will be opening a wisdom school called "The Mystical Birth of the True Self" in September. It will be a nine month programme to support awakening to our inner divinity. If you would like to be notified when it is formally announced please visit her website to sign up for her newsletter or sign up here.

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Interview recorded June 21, 2025

Jurgen Ziewe is not a teacher in the traditional sense, but a witness—one who has journeyed beyond the boundaries of self into the vast stillness of unity consciousness. For over five decades, his life has unfolded as an ongoing exploration of multidimensional reality, shaped by a profound meditation practice and spontaneous Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs) that opened the doorway to a deeper truth.

A moment of unexpected clarity during an ordinary breakfast catalyzed Jurgen’s first direct experience beyond the body—an event that would transform his life and initiate hundreds of journeys into higher realms. What he discovered was not theory, but a living presence—structured, luminous, and more real than waking life.

Rather than building an identity around these experiences, Jurgen surrendered ever more deeply into stillness. His work, including the acclaimed books Multidimensional Man, Vistas of Infinity, and The Ten Minute Moment, offers not just insight but transmission—a quiet resonance that awakens something remembered but long forgotten.

Audiences often speak of his presence as calming, expansive, and strangely familiar. His seminars and talks evoke deep shifts—not through persuasion, but through the palpable stillness from which he speaks.

A renowned illustrator by profession, Jurgen now brings his inner visions to life using cutting-edge virtual reality and AI, offering immersive glimpses into realities beyond the senses.

He offers no dogma, only a clear, ego-free reflection of the vast peace and joy available when the self dissolves into unity. His life is not a performance, but a quiet act of service—a transmission from stillness to stillness.

Books:

Multidimensional Man (2008)

Vistas of Infinity (2015),

The Ten Minute Moment

Explorations in Consciousness: A New Approach to Out-of-Body Experiences

The Phase: Shattering the Illusion of Reality

New Territories

Elysium Unveiled: A Visual Odyssey of Life Eternal

Websites:

multidimensionalman.com

Some of Jurgen’s “multidimensional” artwork

Virtual reality videos

Celestial-Song – Angel of the Earth – A new virtual reality project between Jurgen and composer Craig Pruess

Jurgen’s commercial art

Videos:

About Elysium Unveiled - A Visual Journey through Life Eternal

A video of the final chapter of Jurgen's book “Multidimensional Man” "which illustrates better than the words in my book the entry into Unity consciousness during an Out-of-body experience."

"A spontaneous entry into unity consciousness after I recovered from a cancer operation in 2011"

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First BatGap interview with Jurgen

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Interview recorded June 7, 2025

Diarmuid O'Murchu, a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, is a social psychologist whose early working life had been in social ministry, predominantly in London, UK. In more recent years he has worked as a workshop leader and group facilitator, conducting programmes on Adult Faith Development across several countries. He is a widely read author, with many of his books listed on this webpage. Now as a retired missionary, he lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Books:

When the Disciple Comes of Age: Christian Identity in the Twenty-first Century

Doing Theology in an Evolutionary Way

Divine Radiance in Human Evolution

Ecological Spirituality

Website: diarmuidomurchu.com

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Interview recorded May 17, 2025

Julie Seido Nelson is a transmitted teacher (Sensei) in the Maezumi Roshi Zen lineage. Her home Zen community is the Greater Boston Zen Center, a sangha which has experienced three major upheavals due to teacher arrogance and abuses of power over the last several years. She is also a teacher at the Great Plains Zen Center in Monroe, Wisconsin, and has written for Buddhist audiences in Tricycle magazine and on her blog.

Having begun Zen practice in 2004, she has found it to be of immense value. She is deeply saddened when people, either in addition to or instead of realizing the benefits, suffer great harm.

When not reflecting writing about Zen, she sometimes writes and give talks based on her pre-retirement academic work as a feminist and ecological economist. She enjoys visiting her two children and two grandchildren and enjoying the New England outdoors.

Books:

Practicing Safe Zen: Navigating the Pitfalls on the Road to Liberation (Monkfish, 2025)

Amazon

Indie Pubs

Economics for Humans (University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed. 2018)

Website: julieanelson.com

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Interview recorded May 11, 2025

Stephan Martin is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics, and consciousness studies at colleges, universities, and learning centers across the US for over thirty years. He is currently Director of the Deeptime Leadership Program at the Deeptime Network, where he helps develop and facilitate transformative and innovative leadership programs that support a flourishing future that works for all. Steve is active in leading workshops, lectures, and experiences that bring insights and wisdom from the cosmos down to Earth and everyday life. His first book Cosmic Conversations is a multidisciplinary approach to exploring the universe through the lenses of science, spirituality and culture, and his second book Living a Cosmic Life helps people navigate crisis and change from a cosmic evolutionary perspective. You can find more about him at: cosmicconversations.org and dtnetwork.org.

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Interview recorded April 25, 2025

Mary Mueller Shutan is a spiritual healer, teacher, and author. She is the author of

The Spiritual Awakening Guide: Kundalini, Psychic Abilities, and the Conditioned Layers of Reality

Managing Psychic Abilities: A Real World Guide for the Highly Sensitive Person

Shadow Work for the Soul: Seeing Beauty in the Dark

The Body Deva: Working with the Spiritual Consciousness of the Body

Working with Kundalini: An Experiential Guide to the Process of Awakening

The Shamanic Workbook series, and

The Complete Cord Course: Working with Cords through Energy Work and Shamanic Healing

She combines her extensive education with her personal meditative practices and direct revelation of the spirit world. She has been serving her community as a spiritual healer and teacher since 2004.

Website: maryshutan.com

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Full interview, edited for readability

Interview recorded April 5, 2025

Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D. is the chief scientist involved in The Telepathy Tapes, a podcast about non-speaking autistic children who are extraordinarily telepathic.

"In a world that often dismisses the extraordinary as mere fantasy, The Telepathy Tapes dares to explore the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism—individuals who have long been misunderstood and underestimated. These silent communicators possess gifts that defy conventional understanding, from telepathy to otherworldly perceptions, challenging the limits of what we believe to be real. For years, their parents and teachers have quietly witnessed these remarkable abilities, knowing that the time to share their truth would eventually come. But now, as the evidence mounts, the time has come to reveal what has been hidden in plain sight.

This groundbreaking series challenges everything we think we know about communication and the human mind, inviting viewers to step into a reality where the impossible is not only possible but happening every day. Through emotional stories and undeniable evidence, The Telepathy Tapes offers a fresh perspective on the profound connections that exist beyond words. Traveling with neuroscientist Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, witnessing mind-boggling telepathy tests and forging deeply intimate relationships with families around the globe, host Ky Dickens invites you to contemplate the world through the eyes of those who speak without words. Prepare to be captivated, challenged, and ultimately transformed as the series shines a light on the untold capabilities of those who have been underestimated for far too long."

Dr. Powell is a Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist, therapist, neuroscientist, and public speaker. She develops multidisciplinary theories towards understanding psychological anomalies, such as savant skills and verified accounts of spacetime navigation. Her current research focuses on controlled testing of autistic savants and children reported to be telepathic and/or precognitive by their caregivers.

Dr. Powell has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, a member of a think tank on human consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and Director of Research for the John E. Mack Institute. Her investigation into the neurocorrelates of ESP is discussed in her 2008 book The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, and in Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew about Psychical Experiences.

Dr. Powell is also an expert on PTSD and created the psychiatry program for Survivors of Torture, International in San Diego, California. She was the principal author of IONS The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming and a contributing author to Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections on Atonement, the 2014 Campus Book of the Year at Indiana University. She is also a participant in the #NeverAlone movement for suicide prevention launched by Deepak Chopra.

Website: drdianehennacy.com

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

First BatGap interview with Dr. Powell

Summary and transcript of this interview

Interview recorded March 23, 2025

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 Fascinating Anecdote of Precognition  

 00:03:15 The Rise of the Telepathy Tapes Podcast

 00:05:48 Impact of Telepathy Tapes on Community

 00:08:39 Telepathy and Consciousness in Pre-Verbal Babies

 00:12:29 Psychic Communication in Babies and Autistic Children

 00:16:12 Non-Verbal Communication in Animals  

 00:19:28 Unique Traffic Culture in Iran  

 00:22:49 Exploring Telepathy among Children  

 00:25:35 The Phenomenon of Psychic Fields in Lucid Dreaming  

 00:28:15 Elon Musk's Patent on Telepathy and Its Implications

 00:31:36 Paradigm Shifts and Materialism

 00:35:31 The Role of Consciousness in Physics and Reality Co-Creation

 00:38:40 Remote Viewing and Military Research  

 00:42:25 Social Benefits of the Hill

Dr. Neil Schuitevoerder, a clinical and organizational psychologist, has been doing spiritual practices for 50 years. He's no longer interested in his ego's story, so here's the story of his soul's evolution: He had early instruction in how to use a pendulum, which led to the opening of his intuitive knowing, which has continued to expand into higher stages. His intense meditation practices in his 20s led to illness, and he was guided to return to a householder life as husband and father. He continued practices in mystical Judaism, then turned to Vedanta, kundalini, and other Hindu practices. With a kundalini master, and with the Diamond Approach technique of Inquiry, he opened the higher chakras and began to experience states of unity and nonduality, first with a near object, such as a tree, then with a far object, such as the galaxy. Slowly, the dualities of self/other, near/far, past/future, dissolved, and his knowing expanded to include the distant past, his past lives, his rebirth in this lifetime, and his ability to travel in subtle bodies to the subtle planes, including conversing with the deceased. His mind emptied out, then his body became empty, containing the whole galaxy, a nondual body. Then his astral body emptied out, and he no longer "traveled" but was united with the subtle mental and causal planes, all within him. The state of bliss is always accessible. The local identity of Neil remains when he functions in the world, as he lives in dual and nondual levels of awareness simultaneously.

Neil's has a podcast with his wife, Connie Zweig, about his ongoing awakening and what it's like to live in the world in advanced levels of consciousness -- Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Nonduality. It posts on Apple, Spotify, and all platforms.

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

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Interview recorded March 15, 2025

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 Different Levels of Perception

 00:02:35 Soul's Evolution and Spiritual Practices

 00:06:23 Journey of Consciousness and Skepticism  

 00:10:27 Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences

 00:13:59 Exploring Consciousness and Cosmic Manifestation

 00:17:19 Extraordinary Abilities in Blind Individuals  

 00:21:08 Understanding Freedom and Non-Attachment

 00:25:32 The Importance of Moral Development in Spiritual Growth  

 00:30:46 Exploring Multidimensional Consciousness  

 00:34:03 Exploring the Buddhic Plane and Astral Projection

 00:38:55 Understanding Subtle Body Layers and Incarnation Process

 00:42:07 Exploring Reincarnation and Astral Realms  

 00:46:36 Exploring the Universe and Spiritual Liberation  

 00:51:36 The Nature of True Governance according to Lao Tzu

 00:54:01 The Role of Ego in Daily Life

 00:57:52 Understanding the Reduction of Thoughts and Ego  

 01:02:11 Understanding A.H. Almas's Protocol  

 01:06:05 Telepathic Abilities and Humanity's Shift  

 01:11:09 The Coexistence of Creation and Destruction Forces

 01:15:21 The Cosmic Perspective: Our Place in the Universe

 01:19:38 Energy Healing and Silent Therapy

 01:23:35 Do Microbes Have Souls and Their Evolutionary Journey

 01:27:50 Chakras and the Evolution of Consciousness

 01:31:00 Understanding Chakras and Energy Centers  

 01:34:55 Exploring Spiritual Evolution and Incarnation

 01:38:52 Understanding Shadow Material and Spiritual Bypassing  

 01:43:09 The Importance of Spiritual Community and Marriage

 01:47:18 Embracing Pain Through Meditation

 01:51:31 Exploring the Connection Between Consciousness and the Body-Heart

 01:55:45 Exploring the Concept of the Vajra Body

 01:58:30 Upcoming Interview with Diane Hennessey Powell on Telepathy Tapes