Arjuna Ardagh is an awakening coach, writer and public speaker, who also trains others to become facilitators of awakening. He is the author of seven books, including the 2005 #1 National Bestseller The Translucent Revolution, which was featured in “O” magazine. His new book Better than Sex is the complete introduction to Awakening Coaching. His novel The Last Laugh will be republished by Hay House in spring 2013. He is also the creator of several online courses, including Living Awakening, and The Deeper Love. Ardagh has been a keynote speaker at conferences all over the world, including the International Conference on Business and Consciousness, the “No Mind” Festival,” the Whole Life Expo (in 5 cities), the Integral Spiritual Experience Conference, and the Omega Institute annual conference. He has appeared on TV, on the radio and in print media in seventeen countries. He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council.
Arjuna was educated in England, at Kings School, Canterbury, and later at Cambridge University, where he earned a master's degree in literature. Since the age of 14, he has had a passionate interest in spiritual awakening, and he began to practice mediation and yoga at that time. In his late teens, he trained as a meditation teacher. After graduating from Cambridge, Ardagh devoted himself completely to the call he felt inside, and studied and lived with a number of great spiritual teachers, both in Asia and the United States. In 1991 Arjuna met his teacher, H.W.L.Poonja, a retired army officer in Lucknow India, with whom he passed through a radical shift in consciousness.
Arjuna Ardagh is the creator of several online courses. Through high-definition video interviews with 40 remarkable people, Living Awakening shows us how states of inner awakening can become the stable foundation of enlivening and giving the Unique Gift each person was born to share. Arjuna and his wife, Chameli Ardagh, have created The Deeper Love, which teaches singles and couples how to integrate awakening consciousness into intimate relationships.
Arjuna and Chameli live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, with their two teenage sons.
You can find out more about Arjuna Ardagh at arjunaardagh.com.
Other books and media:
Radical Brilliance: The Anatomy of How and Why People Have Original Life-Changing Ideas
Leap Before You Look
Relaxing into Clear Seeing
Awakening into Oneness
Awareness Meditation
Let Yourself Go - 6 CD series from Sounds True
The Mystery of 2012
Summary and transcript of this interview
Interview recorded 11/3/2012
YouTube Video Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction and Personal Background
00:04:27 - Finding Solace in Meditation and Seeking Answers
00:08:23 - Discovering Bhagwan Rajneesh in India
00:12:00 - Meeting the Old Man
00:15:47 - Going Mad with Endless Thoughts
00:18:49 - The Recognition of Infinite Consciousness
00:21:47 - The Tricky Part of Doing Concepts
00:24:55 - Financial Challenges and Life Lessons
00:27:44 - Stress and its Relationship to Awakening
00:31:54 - The Relationship between Awakening and Dealing with the World,
00:36:13 - The Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship
00:40:11 - The Experience of Transmission and Presence
00:43:07 - Projecting onto Others
00:46:54 - The Theater of Awakening
00:50:23 - The Coaching Relationship
00:53:32 - Coaching for Full Potential
00:57:33 - Facilitating Awakening Online
01:01:12 - The Importance of the Student's Disposition
01:05:40 - The Attitude of a Beginner
01:09:54 - The Model of Leaving Responsibilities Behind
01:13:11 - The Antidote to Stress and the Call to Life
01:17:07 - Fully Giving Your Gift and Finding Fulfillment
01:21:48 - The Attention Turned Inward
01:25:13 - The End of Seeking and the Recognition of Spaciousness
01:28:17 - The Nature of Unfoldment
01:32:14 - The Beauty of the Coaching Relationship
01:35:28 - Levels of Spiritual Maturity
01:37:58 - Awakening and Human Integrity
01:40:47 - Evolutionary invitation for everybody
01:43:56 - The Democratization of Awakening and the Evolutionary Meme
01:47:23 - Available as an Audio Podcast