#78 | Betty Kovacs | Merchants of Light

Dr. Betty Kovacs, author of Merchants of Light and The Miracle of Death, on consciousness, myth and what lies beyond life. Betty Kovacs first earned her doctorate at University of California, Irvine, in Comparative Literature and Theory of Symbolic/Mythic Language. She served many years as Chair and Program Chair on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. Dr. Kovacs is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of the Nautilus Silver Book Award and The Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. She has also written The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life. To learn more about Betty: https://kamlak.com/ Chapters 0:00 Welcome Betty Kovacs 2:30 An idyllic childhood working the land 5:07 Parking the phone 7:40 Sent out to play 10:15 A profound difference 12:47 Pearl Harbor and the war economy 15:17 Choosing a church 17:53 A businessman father 20:31 Students among refugees 23:04 The fiction that the brain is superior 25:40 Her husband's escape from Hungary 28:11 The one person she could talk to 30:46 Ryan filming in Bodh Gaya 33:21 You must become the Christ 35:55 Why he had to die 38:29 A destructive story we gave our children 41:05 We couldn't build a pyramid today 43:37 People sensed something 46:11 Until I left 48:46 Experiences of presence after death 51:17 Guided through grief 53:56 Left brain, right brain and the heart 56:27 The organ of the soul 59:01 Shaman mystic traditions and the feminine 1:01:38 Traditions pushed underground 1:04:12 Mediums and sensitives 1:06:46 Generations of left-brain dominance 1:09:21 Ecstasy and the quantum field 1:11:58 Political theory and power 1:14:29 We don't have to be like this 1:17:06 Finding gifts in suffering 1:19:39 A powerful consciousness 1:22:17 Kept on ice 1:24:48 Happy to be alive 1:27:18 Severed science 1:29:54 Her first book 1:32:24 Bringing her husband home from Hungary 1:34:55 We've waited for you 1:37:29 You silly woman 1:40:00 At one with nature and Extreme Treks 1:42:34 No elders in our culture 1:45:07 Sixteen years writing Merchants of Light 1:47:42 A university teacher's experiences 1:50:20 Dear friends 1:52:55 Sharing experiences 1:55:26 Young people who are interested 1:58:01 Who owns the media 2:00:36 What we have lost 2:03:09 Enthralled by different ideas 2:05:46 Not fearing death 2:08:16 Scholars rediscovering lost cultures 2:10:47 Her website and webinars 2:13:17 Nothing there to know The Ryan Pyle Podcast is ad-free by choice. If you enjoy these conversations, you can buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ryanpyle Ryan's TV series are streaming around the world. Follow the Podcast X: https://x.com/RyanPylePodcast Facebook:   / ryanpylepodcast   Follow Ryan Pyle YouTube:    / @ryanjpyle   Instagram:   / ryanpyle   X: https://x.com/RyanPyle Facebook:   / ryanpyle   https://www.ryanpyle.com