Ignas met F.J. Seligson in the small Buddhist monastery of South Korea during the two weeks retreat led by lama Glenn H. Mullin in August, 2019. The conversation occurred outside in the tea area during the break for lunch after the meal.
This conversation with the Buddhist monk and teacher of Roshi sect occurred in early 2018, when he kindly agreed to have some tea with Ignas in the house of Mr. Darius Šarauskas near Kaunas, Lithuania.
The spiritual master, an author of multiple commentaries and original texts, visits Vilnius every year to give teachings of the Buddhist philosophy. Geshe Tinley is a devote disciple of HH Dalai Lama XIV.
The professor from Berklee College of Music in Boston came to speak at the annual conference of mythologists in Vilnius. She also gave several classes to local students and kindly agreed to talk for a record. The conversation occurred at a busy pizzeria in the Old Town of Lithuanian capital.
Ignas met Christoph Schäfer, an elementary particle physicist, visiting CERN in 2014. Three years later, in 2017, they met in Lithuanian seaside, where Christoph was on vacation. The conversation took place on warm midnight in August in a noisy resort bar.
Joanne Harris released her most famous novel, “Chocolat” in 1999. She arrived at the Literary Festival in Vilnius in November 2018. The conversation took place at the Old Town Hotel, “Shakespeare”.
Writer and literary researcher Professor Hans-Ulrich Treichel arrived to Vilnius International Book Fair to meet readers of his novel “Pražuvėlis”. We talked in his hotel room in February 2019.
Ignas heard of Kaz after my friend Eleonora Jonušienė invited him to Lithuania to speak at a conference of animators. Later Ignas read his comic books “Underworld”, “Sidetrack City”. They talked in outdoor café in Vilnius Old Town in September 2018.
Ignas spoke with Vytautas Landsbergis on November 28th, 2018 in Vilnius, for the final chapter “The Absolute Truth” of the documentary “Three”. This interview was video recorded. The text initially appeared in Lithuanian language on the blog “Maratono laukas” on March 2nd, 2019.
Ignas met and talked to Jonny Benjamin in November 2018, where he and his savior and fellow man Neil Laybourn came to attend a suicide prevention conference.