In this in-depth conversation on Buddha at the Gas Pump, Leanne Whitney explores the nature of pure consciousness with host Rick Archer, drawing together Patanjali’s yoga, Jung’s depth psychology, and her own lived experience of a pure consciousness event. She speaks to the relationship between consciousness and thought, the role of the body and nervous system on the contemplative path, and what it means to distinguish awareness itself from the stories the mind tells. A depth psychologist and author of Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali, she brings scholarly depth and personal testimony to the question of what we most fundamentally are.