Amoda Maa is a contemporary spiritual teacher, author, and speaker. After years of spiritual seeking, meditation, and immersion in psychospiritual practices, an experience of the dark night of the soul led her to a profound inner awakening. Then, after a long period of integration, she began speaking from silence in small gatherings. Today she offers meetings and retreats, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, attracting spiritual seekers and people looking for peace and fulfillment in an increasingly chaotic world. Her teachings are free of religion and tradition, and she brings to them a deep understanding of the human journey, born out of her own experience. She is the author of Radical Awakening (originally released as How to Find God in Everything) and Change Your Life, Change Your World: Ten Spiritual Lessons for a New Way of Being and Living. Both books were written shortly after her awakening and before she began to speak in public. Her new book Embodied Enlightenment — written 15 years after her awakening — is based on the many conversations at the cutting edge of spiritual inquiry in her meetings with people from all around the world, and addresses many of the questions relevant to today’s seeker. It has been acclaimed as “a beautiful and precious gift to an emerging new humanity.” Amoda lives with her husband and beloved, Kavi, in New Mexico. Website: amodamaa.com Previous BatGap interviews with Amoda: First Interview Amoda Maa in panel discussion: Birthing Radiant Being into Our Humanity Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group. Transcript of this interview Interview recorded November 5, 2017 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:03:36 - Recognizing Spiritual Maturity 00:06:54 - The Maturation of Awakening 00:12:11 - The Natural State of the Nervous System 00:16:40 - The Ongoingness of Awakening 00:20:56 - The Impact of Awakening on Humanity 00:25:32 - The Passing on of Spiritual Awakening 00:29:16 - The Importance of Integrating Inner Divisions 00:33:49 - Returning to the Human Heartbreak 00:38:11 - The Wound of Aloneness 00:41:46 - Fear of Separation and Oneness 00:46:08 - Breaking Free from Victimhood in Relationships 00:49:53 - The Permeability of Boundaries in Oneness and Love 00:54:38 - Intimacy in Every Moment of Life 00:58:24 - The Energy of the Sexual Act 01:02:28 - The Art of Listening 01:06:08 - The Manifestation of Oneness in the Relative 01:10:21 - Becoming a Servant of Cosmic Intelligence 01:13:57 - The Maturation Process and the realization of no-self 01:18:43 - Integration of the Self and the No-Self 01:22:39 - Navigating the Tricky Inner Terrain 01:26:43 - Opening Spirituality to a Wider Audience 01:30:51 - Concepts and Intrinsic Reality 01:34:01 - The End of Division and the Catalyst for Change 01:38:03 - The Divine Feminine and the Infusion of Love 01:42:19 - Non-violence towards our inner experience 01:47:01 - Tenderness towards Loss 01:51:36 - The Clinging to Loss 01:56:07 - The Illusion of Punishment 01:59:17 - The Power of Direct Experience and Belief 02:02:48 - Conclusion and Thank You