Hints And Guesses

Back to the origins of the podcast with Paul Moore!  Hope you enjoy another unscripted conversation, from racism, to meditation, to the nature of how the ego changes. 

What do we stand to learn from 2020?  What sort of spiritual stance is needed in 2021?  These questions keep turing over in my heart and mind.  Part of the answer seems to require some curiosity and clarity about mass movements, how they work, their intoxicating power, how the individual gets swallowed and dehumanized, and what to do about it.  I'll be turing to some Jung and T.S. Eliot for a few hints and guesses.  Enjoy.

Check out my interview with the eco-depth psychologist Bill Plotkin! We discuss his new book, The Journey of Soul Initiation, and the challenges of growing into a true adult.  I'm so grateful for his books and the time I've spent in wild places with him and other Animas Valley Institute guides.  Enjoy!

The Forum is a place for conversations with inspiring people. Ryan Meeks is a friend, guide, and a former Mega Church pastor (just like me)!  We talk about what threads we started following later in life, and what the current edge of our sense of calling and spirituality is right now.  I hope you here a hint or guess for your own story.  I'll occasionally be dropping these conversations as part of a project I'm calling the The Forum.  Enjoy!    

Join me in starting off the New Year with some needed self examination.  Enjoy (perhaps)! 

The final advent reflection, based on the traditional scripture readings.  Merry Christmas and happy Solstice. 

Episode 3 in my short Advent series.  What the nature of the Messianic kingdom that Jesus embodied?  Enjoy!

Check out the next episode in my advent series.  Enjoy! 

Here's the first in a series of Advent reflections based on the traditional Advent readings from the Christian calendar.  I hope you hear some ancient wisdom, a hint, a clue, a guess, that's a little light during the darkest time of year.  Enjoy! 

Understanding why we scapegoat and how to stop it.  A viable and generative future depends upon it.  Enjoy!

One week from the election here in the States, let's talk about the wounded king, the Fisher King, and what brings vitality and new life to the individual and the culture.  Enjoy!

What does the prophetic consciousness have to teach us, right now, in all this madness? Enjoy!

Lets' talk about mentors, Telemachus, slapping the master, apprenticeship, Rabbi Zusha, and a few personal stories.  Enjoy!

So excited to release this podcast about the Christ symbol, and my new audio book called A Grain of Wheat: The Christ Symbol now available on my website.  Enjoy! 

"We are here to awaken from the illusion of separateness," says Thich Naht Hahn.  In a culture hell bent on separateness, canceling, disassociation, shaming, and division, no wonder we are having such a hard time.  In this episode, I'd like to begin a conversation about the Third Way, a way that emerges between the poles.  I hope you hear something that helps.  Thanks for all your support. Enjoy

Crisis means "turning point," an opportunity, as much as a struggle.  This week I discuss practical ways of unplugging from the machine, finding some deeper source, which is needed now more than ever.  "What if you gain the whole world and forfeit your soul?" How do we return to what matters in an age that is deciding for us, what to think, what to buy, what to protest, what to post, what to care about, what to promote, what flag we should fly, and who we should be.  Time for a Sabbath from all this nonsense.    

Feeling heartbroken and troubled, now is the time to listen, to the caged bird, to voices from the edge.  I hope you hear some hints and guesses.  

What are the fantasies we'd like to maintain so our worldview doesn't have to change?  Plus, change your batteries!  Thanks for listening.  Stay safe, stay smart, be courageous.  

Just holding the question, "what really matters," seems to be more important right now than quick answers.   This week is about that question, as well as the gifts of silence, severance and solitude.  I also turn to some voices of wisdom, Merton, Berry and Rilke, who have lived through a few things, and still their words ring true. This time period is nothing short of a global invitation to change, but how and when and at what cost all seem to be unanswered.  I hope you hear a few hints and guesses which inspire and challenge.  Stay safe, stay smart, be courageous.  

Collision of opposites, Corona, survival dance, sacred dance, abandonment, overwhelm, extrovert, introvert and the possibilities of a greater consciousness.  What a world we live in!  Stay safe and smart and courageous.