Podcast
Hints and Guesses
Hosted by Kent Dobson · EN
Conversations about Spirituality, Religion, Doubt, Sacred Texts, Nature, Soul, Love, Death, God and all the Good Stuff
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Hell is Endless Autobiography
Apr 30, 202501:01:21Tap to summarizeIn an age obsessed with "knowing oneself," how do we not get stuck in endless autobiography and self-absorption? At its best, a healthy spiritual and religious life helps free us from the cul-de-sac of narcissistic feedback. In the episode, we'll look at a story from Saint Antony, a paragraph from C.S. Lewis about hell, and I'll outline the four foundations of a spiritual life from the book Journey Into Emptiness by Robert Jingen Gunn (a book about Dogen, Merton and Jung). See below for the link I promised in the episode about the Cree mountains of human development. Enjoy! https://decolonialfutures.net/portfolio/fourmountains/#:~:text=Each%20mountain%20represents%20a%20stage,one%20mountain%20to%20the%20other. https://www.patreon.com/c/kentdobson
Transcribe →What Really Matters?
Apr 17, 2020Tap to summarizeJust 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.
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