Buddha at the Gas Pump

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762. Dave Markowitz

#30 trending · Philosophy

Empaths, Empathic Overwhelm, Source Intuition, and the Sacred Work of HealingDave Markowitz explores empaths, empathic overwhelm, and the sacred work of healing ourselves

Sep 15
1 h 48 min

761. Monica Khosla

Spiritual Liberation, Memory Reconsolidation, and the End of the Separate SelfMonica Khosla explores spiritual awakening, nonduality, and liberation through the surprisin

Sep 6
1 h 43 min

265. Bart Marshall

Hello everyone, who knew and loved Bart, This is Renata Gregori, his wife. My beloved husband left this earth plane on July 27, 2026, due to pneumonia and infection - co

Aug 31
1 h 50 min

541. Houman Emami

Houman Z. Emami, a native of Iran (ancient Persia), has a bright academic career in Philosophy and Religion, Holism and Consciousness, with earlier careers in Computer Sc

Aug 31
2 h 14 min

130. Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen (1955–2025) was a spiritual teacher and the founder of EnlightenNext, an organization associated with his teaching of “Evolutionary Enlightenment.” He was a

Aug 26
1 h 33 min

760. Mark Vicente & Bonnie Piesse

Narcissism, Cult Recovery, Spiritual Awakening, and DiscernmentMark Vicente is an author, speaker, and award-winning Writer/Director/Producer from Johannesburg, South Afr

Aug 26
1 h 54 min

12. Michael Baxter

bax (or baxishta if he’s feeling uppity) does not consider himself fully awakened, but knows for sure that he’s recognized glimpses of the self. He says this puts him in

Aug 9
1 h 32 min

759. Leela Muse

Leela Muse is a nonduality guide whose YouTube work explores the life‑affirming process of spiritual awakening and profoundly unowned, ordinary life. Through contemplativ

Aug 8
1 h 51 min

758. Keith Parker

Seeing the Aura - A New Understanding of the Human Energy FieldKeith is a teacher, author and healing practitioner with expertise in the human energy field, contemplative

Jul 25
1 h 54 min

757. Ruben Laukkonen

Ruben is the director of the Flourishing Intelligence Program (FLIP) at Linacre College, University of Oxford. Ruben is also co-director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and

Jun 24
1 h 47 min

756. Karen Shanley

I didn’t set out to become a spiritual teacher. I was the kid with questions that wouldn’t let go — why are we here, what happens when we die, is this really all there is

Jun 13
1 h 47 min

755. Jonathan Ashford

Jonathan lived the definition of material excess, twenty-five years climbing the corporate ladder in marketing and technology as a C-level executive, accumulating possess

May 23
2 h 14 min

754. Julia Mossbridge

Teaching AI to love, the physics of unconditional love, and telepathy with non-speaking autistic people all come together in this lively Buddha at the Gas Pump conversati

May 8
1 h 57 min

753. Tammy Lee Anderson

Tammy Lee Anderson shares how three profound near-death experiences opened her to unconditional love, spiritual awakening, and a life of service as a psychotherapist, hea

Apr 25
1 h 59 min

752. Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is a public intellectual; he is the creator, writer, host of Closer To Truth, the long-running PBS/public television series and leading digital resou

Apr 10
2 h 12 min

751. Kogen Czarnik

From my teenage years I had an unquenchable thirst to see beyond the veils that growing up had created in my mind. I tried different avenues of exploration, and soon foun

Mar 27
2 h 01 min

750. Purnima Sinha

Purnima Sinha is a spiritual director and coach whose life has been shaped by meditation, near‑death experiences, and a deep commitment to seva (selfless service). Raised

Mar 14
1 h 49 min

467. Steve McIntosh

Steve McIntosh is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and author of three books on spiritual evolution: The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience

Aug 20 2018
2 h 11 min

316. Robert Thurman

Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U

Dec 1 2015
53 min

263. T Jonathon Proctor

T Jonathon Proctor is the creator of Being Real—Being Embodied. He works with individuals and groups to balance and integrate the “ascending” currents of awakening and th

Nov 9 2014
1 h 00 min

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I really appreciate many things about this podcast, but find myself drifting away from it for extended periods of time because of the amount that Rick inserts himself in the interviews. I wish he would simply ask his guests questions rather than constantly injecting his perspectives, autobiography and knowledge base into every interview. I can hear how off putting it is to some of his guests… particularly women. If you want to teach Rick, go teach. In this format, everyone is better served if you lean back and let your guests shine.

Podfan1000 · Jul 2025

Rick’s podcast inspires me every day - the contents have meaning for my growth and inner peace. His style is talking with people and not lecturing.

Ashish Goel, a devotee · Jul 2024

I wish I knew about this podcast when it first started or even within the first couple of years, but I am so grateful I have found it now. I have been listening for several months and I am up to the 2013 episodes because I listen to them from the beginning. Rick is an amazing interviewer, he has beautiful respect for all of his interviewees. Some of them he knows, some of them are his friends. And some are well know spiritual leaders and teachers. He does do diligence with his research before he interviews someone so he gets an idea of their personality, and their beliefs, and their teachings. You always learn something. Even when I think this content is not for me this particular episode, I listen anyway, and it always turns out that I learn something useful. I'm not awake 24/7 yet but I definitely have a very strong intellectual understanding and I know that my life has improved greatly since coming across this continent, and starting to do meditation practices. I highly recommended for everyone. Especially those who think they don'thave anything left to learn, because we are always learning. It's never ending. 😉

Sahja · Jul 2023

I listen to batgap while I paint in my studio. The interviews give me a recharge of belief in the kindness of people, which I think shows in the paintings. Thank you, Rick!

Hi Bus Driver · Mar 2023

Poor audio quality mars this particular episode (741). I guess I need to read the transcript. Normally this is not a problem and I really enjoy the podcast.

T-marco · Nov 2025

I keep listening to this podcast, but it’s so hit or miss. So many spiritual grifters are given a voice. In one latest episode the person wrote nooks that seemed plagiarized from older sources like Manly Hall and claims to run an NGO, but the website for it lauds or publishes no concrete recent activities and is just filled with well-crafted statements about goals and such. I’ve had years of looking at works like those by this person and now try to vet more carefully before giving them money. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing—all light and love and God/Higher Power, and vapor ware.

Wasafanbut · Jul 2023

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