744. Christina Guimond

744. Christina Guimond

From Buddha at the Gas Pump by Rick Archer

December 9, 2025 · 1h 56m · Season 16 · Episode 744

About this episode

Christina Guimond shares her journey of awakening and the dissolution of personal identity through meditation and profound experiences.

Christina Guimond has always been oriented toward the mysterious, even from early childhood. She grew up in a Catholic family in Nova Scotia, Canada, and later settled in Montreal, where she married and raised four children. When her youngest was ten, a long-dormant curiosity about the nature of existence began to take centre stage. On the 8th day of a Vipassana retreat in 2001, Christina had an awakening that deeply shifted her understanding of self and reality. What followed was fourteen years of dedicated daily meditation and numerous silent retreats within the S.N. Goenka Vipassana tradition. In 2015, a 2nd awakening unfolded—this time bringing a deeper dissolution of personal identity. Around this period, she began studying with Gary Weber, with whom she worked closely until he retired from teaching in 2019. Those years were marked by intense transformation, awakening the body, healing the nervous system, working with attachments, belief, and shadow. In 2017, two further openings occurred. The first was a non-medical NDE - a profound experience of God—an overwhelming sense of divine presence and infinite love. A month later came an even more radical realization: the complete…

People in this episode

Host: Rick Archer

Guest: Christina Guimond

Topics covered

  • nonduality
  • awakening
  • meditation
  • identity
  • spiritual transformation

Keywords

  • nonduality
  • awakening
  • meditation
  • identity
  • spirituality
  • Vipassana
  • transformation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: S.N. Goenka Vipassana

Places: Nova Scotia, Montreal

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