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Please enjoy this archive of video and audio interviews with Leslie Temple-Thurston and Brad Laughlin. These discussions with our friends on the spiritual path offer timeless wisdom and essential tools for transformation and a life of joy.

Interviews with Leslie

  • Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator/explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher, author of over 30 books and architect of Sacred Activism. 

    In this discussion, Andrew interviews Leslie about one of their mutual passions—felines. They focus especially on: domestic cats, big/wild cats and the White Lions of Timbavati. Leslie shares her experience of lions and their ability to hold a samadhi state which helps to balance and stabilize our world. She shares insights about the mystical nature of lions and other wild animals and how they live in the animal dreamtime, which anyone can connect with telepathically.

    The White Lions are star beings, ascended spiritual masters who have incarnated to support humanity during the current times. They are our teachers and work with humanity inwardly and in our dreams, acting as a bridge to reconnect humans with nature. For more information about the white lions, please visit The Global White Lion Protection Trust, an organization which Andrew, Leslie and CoreLight have supported for many years.

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Video - October 26, 2010

  • Buddha at the Gas Pump (BatGap Non-Profit), Conversations with “Ordinary” Awakening People, is a podcast by Rick and Irene Archer, which began in 2009 and was one of the first spiritual interview shows on the internet. They have subsequently interviewed several hundred spiritual teachers and guides from around the world. 

    Leslie was one of their first interviewees (in 2010). Their discussion covers a broad spectrum of deep wisdom and compassionate guidance about spiritual awakening in a changing world, the role of guides and teachers on our spiritual journey, meditation and transcendence. Leslie also speaks of her intuitive art and the humanitarian projects (Sacred Activism) in which she is involved.

    See the interview on YouTube

    You may also appreciate Brad’s interview with BatGap here.

What is Enlightenment? A Conversation with Lucia René and Leslie Temple-Thurston

Audio

A Fireside Chat, with Zany Mystic and Leslie Temple-Thurston

Audio

  • Enjoy this recording of Leslie’s conversation with host Lance White, AKA Zany Mystic, from the BBS internet radio.

    Some of the topics explored include:

    • Thoughts about 2012

    • Enlightenment

    • Dissolving the ego

    • Unity consciousness (samadhi)

    • Living from intuition and with an open heart

Interviews with Brad

  • Dr Marj Britts and Brad Laughlin explore “Returning to Joy” and discuss the delight of his coming to Kansas City to share his new MiindYoga practices before returning to South Africa.

Conversations with Marj: Called by Love Institute, with Dr Marj Britts

Video - August 20, 2025

  • Brad was blessed to be interviewed a second time by his and Leslie's wise, luminous, longtime friend and colleague, Dr Marj Britt, on her podcast, Conversations with Marj. The recording is now available on YouTube.

    Marj asked Brad more about his journey since Leslie retired several years ago. He shared a surprising story about a bigger vision he was givenlong ago regarding serving Spirit in a deeper way, which has been unfolding like a trail of breadcrumbs over the past few decades and is coming to fruition now.

    The meandering and fascinating tale began when Brad first met Leslie in the early 1990s. Along the way, there have been many miraculous signs, synchronicities and downloads, including a recent, extraordinary act of divine grace which is allowing the vision to birth into form.

    Brad’s hope and prayer is that the story offers inspiration andguidance to anyone wanting to manifest a bigger vision in life. As with the first conversation with Marj in June, this dialogue felt especially sacred and unusual.

Conversations with Marj: Called by Love Institute, with Dr Marj Britts

Video - June 25, 2025

  • Brad was blessed to be interviewed by his and Leslie Temple-Thurston's wise, luminous, longtime friend and colleague, Dr Marj Britt, on her podcast, Conversations with Marj. The recording is now available on YouTube.

    Marj asked Brad insightful questions about the various stages of his life's journey and the spiritual lessons he has learned along the way.

    They spoke extensively about Brad’s life partnership with Leslie and the many gifts and awakenings he received from their journey of love. It was an especially sacred and unusual conversation.

  • Brad was interviewed for the Alfavedic podcast. With their expertise in the fields of medicine, farming and next-level decentralized technology, Alfa Vedic's founders and team are doing extraordinary work in the world, including creating an off-grid organic farm and community in Northern California.

    The discussion included several of CoreLight’s primary teachings, such as: 

    • How to change the world by changing yourself

    • How each of us can make a difference when we cease to look "outside"

    • How we are all midwives of a New Paradigm of the Heart

    • How putting our love into action is critical in these times of great change

    They also asked Brad to share the inspiring story of CoreLight's humanitarian arm, Seeds of Light, which for 25 years has served marginalized communities in rural South Africa, including orphans and vulnerable children.

    Brad also shared the story of when Leslie and he first traveled together to South Africa in 1994 for the election of Nelson Mandela and had life-changing spiritual experiences that led them to live there and put their love into action there.

  • Brad was interviewed for the Live-Learn-Love podcast with delightful, UK-based host, Catherine Edwards, who describes their conversation as "… a soul-deep exploration of the most revolutionary force we all haveaccess to: the wisdom of the heart… Brad shares practical insights, powerful stories, and a clear call to return to unity, love, and the witness within. This is an episode for anyone ready to live with more clarity, connection, and courage."

    Topics include:

    • How victim-perpetrator consciousness keeps us trappedWhy fear, anger, and division are tools of control

    • How reconnecting to ancient wisdom, interspecies communication, and heart-centered living is the path to personal and collective liberation

    • The rise of the divine feminine — in all of us — and why it’s essential for the New Earth

    More about Catherine here: https://www.catherineedwards.life/

  • In this life-changing episode, spiritual teacher and author Brad Laughlin reveals a simple yet powerful practice to transform your challenges into opportunities for healing and growth.

    Drawing from his and Leslie Temple-Thurston’s acclaimed book The Marriage of Spirit: Enlightened Living in Today’s World, Brad introduces the polarity work exercise - a practical method for shifting perspectives, breaking free from old patterns, and unlocking deep inner peace.

    Through a heartfelt, real-life example shared during the episode, we explore how reframing a loss into its opposite gain can immediately bring clarity, gratitude, and healing.

    Whether you’re navigating grief, stuck in a repetitive pattern, or simply seeking a deeper connection with yourself, this episode is packed with wisdom and actionable steps to help you move forward.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • How to Use Polarity Work to Heal Identify and write out the charged words tied to your emotions. Discover their opposites to shift your perspective and break negative cycles. Offer the list to the universe or your higher self to invite healing and grace.

    • A Step-by-Step Live Example Witness the transformation of "loss" into "gain" through real-life reflection.

    • See how recognizing gains like love, companionship, and healing creates an instant emotional shift.

    • The Magic of Going Beyond the Mind - Learn why this method is more powerful than traditional therapy.

    • Understand how polarity work taps into higher consciousness to create lasting change.

    • Why Integration Brings Peace

    Discover how uniting polarities—like loss and gain—leads to inner wholeness and fulfillment.

    Memorable quotes from Brad Laughlin:

    “Every loss contains a gain. Polarity work shows us how to find it and heal.”

    “Making the unconscious conscious is the first step to true transformation.”

    “This is more than a mental exercise, it’s a path to deep healing and grace.”

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Video - February 11, 2024

  • Buddha at the Gas Pump (BatGap Non-Profit), Conversations with “Ordinary” Awakening People, is one of the first spiritual interview shows on the internet. Since 2009, hosts Rick and Irene Archer have interviewed several hundred spiritual teachers and guides from around the world. They invited Brad to be on their show, and because Brad co-teaches an online course, For the Love of Animals, with internationally acclaimed professional interspecies communicator, Anna Breytenbach, and since Anna’s previous interview with BatGap is one of their top-five most-watched interviews, they asked Brad if he’d like to include Anna.

    In this interview Anna and Brad share their passion for raising awareness and advancing the relationships among human and nonhuman animals—on both personal and spiritual levels. 

    If this topic calls you, please visit CoreLight’s Interspecies Communication page and learn about Anna and Brad’s online course, For the Love of Animals, which is a guide to deepening clarity, love and communication with the natural world. 

    See the interview on YouTube.

    You may also appreciate Leslie’s and Anna’s BatGap interviews. 

  • Yasmeen Turayhi, host of Gateways to Awakening, interviewed Brad on the subjects below. Click here to listen to the full podcast. Topics include:

    • How to live as an enlightened being in today’s world

    • What Spiritual Training exactly is

    • Why so many people have trouble with detachment

    • How to work through polarity, move towards oneness and become a Witness, or an “observer” of our lives

    • What the 8 Keys are and how they can help you live a life of integration and wellness

    • The Triangles and Squares processes that can help you move through your triggers, so you don’t have to keep re-experiencing them

The Journey from Money to Love, with Solané Verraine

Audio

  • During this time of the Great Shift, we are happy to offer you a free audio recording of an interview with Brad Laughlin by Solané Verraine. Thank you to Solané for this recording. The interview includes topics such as:

    • The shift from the Age of Patriarchy to a new paradigm of heart-centered consciousness, and what money looks like in these two eras

    • What enlightened models of a new economy may look like

    • How the shift from the old to the new begins within, and how to accomplish that

    • The need to deal with the “shadow of money” and what that is

    • How Money is Love

    • Laws of “Authentic Abundance”