Hints and Guesses

Rituals: Meaning and the Too-Muchness of Mystery

Here's a conversation about rituals in the modern world with my friends at Eastlake Community Church, outside of Seattle. We talk about meaning in Target, our human craving for transcendence, the Starbucks holiday cup, the Vatican, and wonder together whether or not new rituals can be created and how much of what's still available might help us.  Special thanks to Jordan Gilliam for the original soundscape, In This Together.  Find him on Instagram @jordan_tyrone78.  

Radiant Center: Divine Child and the Soul

Turning to the archetypal patterns of Advent, the birth of the Soul, the Christ, and the forces that try to cut us off from our radiant center, our possibilities, our creative incarnation.  Special thanks to Jordan Gilliam for the original soundscape, In This Together.  Find him on Instagram @jordan_tyrone78.  The main quote, and a few of the ideas used in this episode, comes from Trauma and the Soul, A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and its Interruption, by Donald Kalsched.  Enjoy!

Sacred Feminine Sacred Masculine

Here are a few ideas, images, stories, hints and guesses, about the Feminine and Masculine, as sacred, as archetypal realities, as something we all carry in the psyche, and as something to be honor and respected.  Enjoy!

We All Worship Something

This episode is about the religious instinct, our proclivity to worship, the fact that we bow down to something, and what might happen if we consent to the inner compass which seeks ultimate meaning.

”There is no such thing” as God

Merton, Nietzsche, Buber and a few thoughts on the opportunities when we no longer know what we mean by God.   

The Cult of Identity and the ”True Self”

I'd like to turn to Thomas Merton's writings on the True Self.  I find his mystical understanding of identity to be counter-cultural, challenging and ultimately hopeful.  I hope you hear a hint or guess from Merton, as I am, for your own descent beneath the ego's demands and stances.  Enjoy!

Thank God I’m Not Like Other People

Some reflections and an unorthodox reading of an old parable of Jesus.  Enjoy!

Approaching Deconstruction, Dark Night and Emptiness

What is deconstruction? Or the Dark Night for that matter?  And what is it that we are being invited into, during certain seasons of life? These are only hints and guesses.  

Ancient Compost: The Trees are on Fire

This week is about the sacred, the holy ordinary, trees lit from within, Annie Dillard, Moses, and a few suggested practices for deepening our quality of attention.  Enjoy!

Ancient Compost: Pilgrimage and the Absence of God

A podcast about the golden calf, the absence of God, the center which has no center, and the nutrients left in the compost heap of our spiritual ancestors.