32. Cynthia Lane

While watching this interview, feel free to pause and engage one-on-one with the BatGapBot - https://batgap.com/batgap-spiritual-ai-bot/. This interactive companion is here to answer your questions and go deeper into the topics, offering insights and personalized dialogue along the way.Also see http://batgap.com/cynthia-lane/Cynthia Lane went from rebellious, depressed college student in 1960s San Francisco to TM teacher, non-sectarian nun, Lakota sun dancer, and craniosacral healer — and along the way stabilized a state she describes as pure transparency, where "on no level is anybody home" and the body is in her rather than the other way around. In this wide-ranging conversation, Cynthia traces her decades-long journey through witnessing, ecstatic expansion on year-long TM courses in Switzerland, the Soma experience, the dark night of the soul, and her current healing work she calls First Light Transformations — helping people move out of their heads and into the heart as a portal for their own divine impulse.Cynthia Lane is a long-time TM teacher and former staff member at Maharishi International University, a practitioner of craniosacral therapy, acupressure, and Western astrology, and a Lakota pipe carrier and sun dancer now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Subscribe to Buddha at the Gas Pump for weekly conversations with spiritually awakening people from all walks of life — and if this interview moved you, please like and share it.If you're new to Buddha at the Gas Pump, please consider making a donation via the PayPal button on every page of our website at https://batgap.com.Interview recorded 8/4/2010.Chapters:00:00:00 - Introduction and Background00:04:22 - A Journey of Wisdom and Transformation00:07:31 - A Shift in Perspective00:10:16 - Traveling with Maharishi to Austria and the British Isles00:13:26 - The Inner Reality of Non-doing00:16:49 - The Experience of Being Everywhere00:20:31 - The Devata and the Senses00:23:14 - The Self as a Universal Spirit00:25:33 - The Experience of Witnessing00:27:24 - Coming Back to the United States and Teaching00:30:33 - Difficulties and Challenges00:32:44 - Embracing Non-Linear Paths00:35:53 - The Professor's Change of Mind00:38:32 - Confronting Deep Emotions on Mother Divine00:40:53 - The Fear Phase00:43:41 - Rediscovering Myself00:48:22 - Embracing Uncertainty00:52:04 - Transition to a Personal Life00:54:48 - Embracing Change and New Teachings00:57:52 - Everything Just Is01:00:41 - First Light Transformations01:03:39 - Living the Infinitely Inspired Version of Yourself01:07:19 - The Importance of Integration and the Native American Path01:10:44 - Clearing Belief Systems and Receiving a Pipe01:13:48 - Teacher in Des Moines01:15:36 - Surrendering to God's Gifts01:18:00 - The Nature of Preferences and Opinions01:20:59 - Being Present in Life01:24:32 - Living in the Infinite01:27:31 - Finding Inspiration in Life's Moments01:30:00 - How to Subscribe to the RSS Feed