Harri Aalto - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Discussion Group Invitation

I've been hosting consciousness discussion groups for several years and invite you to join. Learn more on my Facebook (  / authorharriaalto  ) or website (https://www.harriaalto.com/).

These groups uniquely blend people experiencing realized states with seekers at various stages, accelerating everyone's growth. I've observed that simply discussing these experiences creates immediate positive shifts in participants' awareness.

What makes our groups effective is the multi-perspective discussions that foster rich exchanges between participants.

Participant Feedback:

"The discussions have gradually opened me into both a felt sense and ever-deepening understanding of the eternal oneness." —RL

"I feel more awake, alive and curious... increased power and stability in my Presence." —JB

"I now appreciate that self-realization is not only natural and simple, but I have had this experience for quite some time and just didn't know it." —WH

My family moved to Canada from Finland when I was five. I clearly remember an experience that started developing from this time, where I could see an unmoving a sphere, or bubble, of comfortable light, or consciousness, that surrounded my body. If I moved my hand outside this safety net it looked somehow darker and I would draw it back to safety. In this space, I always felt that I could do no wrong since I was just flowing along without making any effort.

As I grew older this experience expanded and remained abstract for many years. I, of course, thought nothing of it, even though it was obviously a very basic aspect of my existence. When I was about eight or nine years old, I started experiencing what can only be described as a mixture of intense energy and over-whelming happiness. Every day I would have to leave the house and run/walk around the block for several hours until it was manageable again.

I would have long, grand insights that I felt completely unable to express out loud, along with apparently extended physical abilities, foresight, and streams of vision that I could not explain. The school I was attending at the time insisted that I demonstrate these physical abilities on stage; no one, including me, could understand how I could jump so high. People felt that I was in the air just a little too long for my own good.

I noticed in high school that I never actually fell asleep at night, and that nights and days just blended together uninterruptedly. This went on for years. When I would wake up in the morning I felt like I was falling asleep and when going to sleep at night I would seem to wake up.

When I was a young adult I started TM, then my personal experience really took off. I started first intuiting‑—then hearing, and seeing—the subtle fabrics of the quietest levels of my own consciousness: pure abstract knowingness, from within its own nature, revealed its unified, wonderful structure of wholeness.

Interview recorded 3/22/2014

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Harri Aalto
00:04:42 - The Concept of Self-Realization
00:08:43 - The Ground State of Silence
00:13:04 - The Witness State during Sleep
00:17:42 - The Relationship Between Consciousness and the Body
00:21:07 - Liveliness in Pure Consciousness
00:25:43 - The Layers of Oneness
00:29:41 - Dynamism within the Silence
00:33:58 - The Unfoldment of Consciousness
00:38:37 - The Ever-expanding Consciousness
00:42:53 - The Nature of Consciousness and God
00:47:36 - The Ineffable Experience of Oneness and Everythingness
00:51:44 - Living the Experience of Nonduality
00:56:14 - The Hum of Consciousness
01:00:09 - The Teachable Moment
01:03:35 - The Enjoyment of Putting Attention on Something
01:07:21 - Words and Self-Realization
01:11:00 - The Presence of Experience and Consciousness
01:15:24 - The Journey towards Realization
01:17:59 - The Evolution of Consciousness
01:22:05 - Exploring the Layers of Individuality
01:25:43 - The Omniexistence of the Absolute and the Individual
01:29:33 - The Nature of Bliss and Awakening
01:33:09 - The Coexistence of Heaven and Earth
01:37:22 - The Connection Between Intellect, Heart, and Mind
01:41:04 - Harri's Experience of Awakening the Chakras
01:45:22 - The importance of the human body in the spiritual path
01:49:22 - Certainty in Knowledge
01:52:08 - Introducing Harri Aalto and Future Plans
01:55:49 - Updates and Information about BATGAP