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Nonduality, Psychedelics, & Jesus Christ — Part II · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, hello everybody, what's up?
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm going to read and probably riff
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  SPEAKER_00: about this article I wrote called Non-Duality,
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  SPEAKER_00: Psychedelics,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Jesus Christ Returning to Christ While Remaining an Appreciator of Non-Duality
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  SPEAKER_00: and Plant Medicine, which I have not heard of too many people exploring.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the article goes, Hey all,
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt to share some follow-up reflections on this video I published a few weeks ago
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  SPEAKER_00: about my story of returning to Christianity.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't watched that video, can recommend it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's probably one of the deeper personal stories I've shared,
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  SPEAKER_00: really deeply connecting my personal story with my spiritual journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exploring many earthly wisdom streams and ultimately deeply returning to
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  SPEAKER_00: and reintegrating my upbringing as a Catholic and connection to Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen any testimonial testimony videos where people return to Christ
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  SPEAKER_00: from non-duality slash new age slash psychedelics while still retaining their
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  SPEAKER_00: appreciation for non-duality, psychedelics, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I've seen basically no videos like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: In many testimonies,
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  SPEAKER_00: it seems to be a very black and white matter
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  SPEAKER_00: of rejecting all prior non-Christian spiritual exploration as, quote, demonic.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, it hasn't shown up that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: At times, it can be tempting to reject the
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything non-Christian, because many modern Christians seem to encourage this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This seems connected to the egregore of Christianity, which I've written about there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zen Christianity However,
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  SPEAKER_00: as I've sincerely and deeply examined my ongoing experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel I find Christ within Zen,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ himself said he came to fulfill the prophets who came before him,
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  SPEAKER_00: none of whom were Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therein he acknowledged that truth is not limited to Christianity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I read a lot of Christian mystical literature and find deep preciousness there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet I also sometimes feel a distinct need to crack open some Tony Parsons
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  SPEAKER_00: or Peter Brown or Joan Tollefson,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially when I'm feeling overly fixed or stuck within the world of form.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, the minimalist nature of non-duality messages
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  SPEAKER_00: can be cold water refreshing in the way they strip everything away, leaving only bare presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is akin to apophatic contemplation,
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  SPEAKER_00: apophatic poetry,
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  SPEAKER_00: a total emptying of the cup, making space for something fresh to come in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vastness, light, silence, simplicity, unknown love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also still find a certain amount of intermittent plant medicine
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  SPEAKER_00: for example cannabis or mushrooms can be valuable on my path for resensitizing me
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  SPEAKER_00: to deeper currents of life opening new revelations helping me clear or process
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  SPEAKER_00: an energetic backlog of stuck emotions or opening dimensions of my intuition
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  SPEAKER_00: that I usually have less access to I do see that there can be many stumbling blocks
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  SPEAKER_00: with non duality
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  SPEAKER_00: A person can fall into solipsism, nihilism, relativism, moral relativism.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there can be many stumbling blocks with psychedelics,
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  SPEAKER_00: such as destabilization, inflation, grandiosity, spiritual narcissism, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet there are also many potential stumbling blocks within Christianity,
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  SPEAKER_00: such as excess shame, repression, self-flagellation, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems like every spiritual approach will always have its shadows and dangers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every approach to life seems to have failure modes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Divinity works in mysterious ways,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I don't believe I am called to close myself off to
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  SPEAKER_00: the myriad non-Christian ways,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christian or non-Christian ways,
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  SPEAKER_00: divinity may want to show up within my life and experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I seem to be guided to trust aliveness and joy to trust my body heart
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  SPEAKER_00: and inner child if reading non-christian authors is bringing me a sense
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  SPEAKER_00: of simple freedom peace presence flow and delight I'd rather trust my innate knowing
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  SPEAKER_00: that there is truth there as Jesus said come to me all you who are weary
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  SPEAKER_00: and burdened and I will give you rest
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe the truth has been discovered to varying degrees
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  SPEAKER_00: within all authentic wisdom traditions and streams.
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  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate how Christianity invites me to focus on fatherhood, husbandhood,
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  SPEAKER_00: Family, service, devotion, faith, incarnation, charity, love, and relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: This feels deeply important, as a lot of spirituality can become escapist and disembodied.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet I also find within Christ's message much that resonates with sages
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  SPEAKER_00: of other traditions and streams.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it makes sense to me that we all need to find the flavors and vocabularies
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  SPEAKER_00: that really click for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ told us that the kingdom is within us.
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  SPEAKER_00: That suggests it is always and innately present.
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  SPEAKER_00: We each need to find the personal access points that work for us,
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  SPEAKER_00: and there are many innovative approaches to this
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  SPEAKER_00: that could probably benefit many Christians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, there are risks,
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  SPEAKER_00: but there are also risks inherent in focusing all of one's energy
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  SPEAKER_00: within Christianity to the exclusion of all else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Either way, discernment is paramount.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Relief of Letting It All Go Recently I'm discovering I'm receiving deep relief
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  SPEAKER_00: and freedom through a repeated,
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  SPEAKER_00: total letting go of all identities,
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  SPEAKER_00: including even cherished identities such as that of being Jordan Bates,
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  SPEAKER_00: being Christian, being a dad, a husband, an embodied person, and so on.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fuller revelation of perfection.
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  SPEAKER_00: A sense of all-enveloping silence and wholeness then dawns,
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  SPEAKER_00: and there is a primordial knowingness that nothing is missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: All is well, whole, and free.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mind can easily debate this kind of revelation by pointing to all the ills
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  SPEAKER_00: of our earth and its inhabitants.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the mind it will always be incomprehensible.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not at all wishing to dismiss or negate the abhorrent cruelties of this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remain fully in favor of ending all wars and all forms of needless violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: I pray for us to set the children free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet in the midst of everything seemingly wrong with the world there is a possibility
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  SPEAKER_00: of discovering an all-pervading unifying perfection that is not dependent upon
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  SPEAKER_00: the occurrences of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: This perfection is our home and is with us now.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fall of mankind essentially refers to our forgetting of this innate wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: From wholeness, love and peace flow naturally.
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  SPEAKER_00: From wholeness, love and peace flow naturally.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you discover directly that we are all one body
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  SPEAKER_00: Deliberately harming another is revealed as folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wholeness is always there, whispering to us and beckoning us to come home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mankind seems to be invited to rediscover this wholeness and to live from it,
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  SPEAKER_00: lest we decimate ourselves through the non-sane use of gargantuan techno-power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just to re-read one line up here to say one more thing about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet in the midst of everything seemingly wrong with the world,
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  SPEAKER_00: there is a possibility of discovering an all-pervading unifying perfection
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  SPEAKER_00: that is not dependent upon the occurrences of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: This perfection is our home and is with us now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would say it's also possible to see the events of the world, including everything
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  SPEAKER_00: that seems wrong or bad as also being part of that perfection.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a subtle dance to be able to do this,
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  SPEAKER_00: to be able to see everything as inherently harmonized innately with the logos,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the intelligence of all that is, and to be able to hold that
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  SPEAKER_00: Part of what's happening is also a deep forgetfulness of that logos,
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  SPEAKER_00: and therefore that is what leads to the fall or these great deviations from
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  SPEAKER_00: the pure loving logos that we are all finding our way home to.
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  SPEAKER_00: So once again, mankind seems to be invited to rediscover this wholeness and to live from it,
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  SPEAKER_00: lest we decimate ourselves through the non-sane use of gargantuan techno power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet whether or not we rediscover this wholeness,
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  SPEAKER_00: the wholeness is there anyway,
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  SPEAKER_00: the perfection is there anyway,
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  SPEAKER_00: like a most ungraspable song, murmuring through our bodies and hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is always with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we can have the courage to stop everything, be still,
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  SPEAKER_00: This subtle song can become resounding, all-encompassing, and self-evident.
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  SPEAKER_00: One need not attempt to package it up within a philosophy,
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  SPEAKER_00: belief system, ontology, religion, or metaphysics.
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  SPEAKER_00: In doing so we will always lose the great majority of its living reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: The map simply cannot contain the territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you try to know what it is, you miss it.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you allow yourself to simply melt and feel and bask in its living radiance,
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  SPEAKER_00: your cup runneth over.
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  SPEAKER_00: On roles and identities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Having shared all this,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's important to clarify that I'm still a dad,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still a husband, I'm still a Christian, I'm still Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't really like the word identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, I see that there are sacred roles in this world that have chosen me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finding the space to let it all go does not render me less effective in these various roles.
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  SPEAKER_00: To the contrary,
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel far more light, alive,
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  SPEAKER_00: rejuvenated and spacious when I return to my worldly roles after communing
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  SPEAKER_00: with all dissolving wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regular deep dissolutions into wholeness seem to make wholeness more accessible
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  SPEAKER_00: in daily life, like a secret bass note humming beneath and within the entire dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Bass Note of Love I love fatherhood,
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  SPEAKER_00: family life, relationality, old churches, and devotional hymns.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also love wild aliveness, childlike joy, spontaneous creativity, and boundless freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I hold my worldly roles with care and lightness,
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  SPEAKER_00: I seem to show up at my best and enjoy the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lightness comes from remaining deeply in touch with the all-present dimension
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  SPEAKER_00: of my being that is entirely beyond all roles and forms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Weightless, simple freedom now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Call me Wonka Bombadil, the Christ-loving rainbow dragon, why don't you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I am some kind of Zen Christian, wild Christian, Tao Christian, non-dual Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there are dimensions of my being where I am none of these,
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  SPEAKER_00: where I am no longer a Christian at all, where I am no longer a Christian at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: In some rarefied realms of freedom, no definable identity can survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: All forms of grasping become an impediment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Relief of Being No One
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  SPEAKER_00: To be honest,
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  SPEAKER_00: in this moment of writing, I don't really feel like identifying as anything at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be a great relief to be no one.
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  SPEAKER_00: We place so much pressure on ourselves to achieve,
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  SPEAKER_00: to become,
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  SPEAKER_00: to prove, to succeed, to accumulate, to be somebody in this strange world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's unbelievably helpful to remember that in any given moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: there is always the option to let all that go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing to do, no one to be,
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  SPEAKER_00: Nowhere to go, nothing to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Simply this here and now, as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ironically, when we do let it all go and give ourselves full permission to be nothing,
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  SPEAKER_00: That's often when we tap into a bottomless wellspring of aliveness and inspiration
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  SPEAKER_00: that allows us to share our real medicine with this world in far more authentic,
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  SPEAKER_00: uplifting and jubilant ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: We return to our native frequency and allow life to dance us for the good of all.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're far more able to celebrate life and show others how to truly celebrate life
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  SPEAKER_00: when all pressure is removed from the equation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Celebrate life!
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah!
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  SPEAKER_00: We're alive, dude!
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  SPEAKER_00: My cells are actually vibrating right now, y'all.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're actually here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Concluding this journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I hope this slice of my journey has been in some way helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, where the heck am I going to end up, man?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that remains to be seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: About the only thing I can say for sure is,
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  SPEAKER_00: It will be what it will be Things will be exactly as they will be It is
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  SPEAKER_00: as it is Things are as they are For now,
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  SPEAKER_00: that feels good enough for little old me Love,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan Well, that feels largely complete
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  SPEAKER_00: on its own.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps there's a couple more things I could say about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, someone might ask, you know, so how does Christ fit into all this?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would say Christ is a mystery, a mystery of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel that
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  SPEAKER_00: the mystery inherent in Christ God and Christianity is something that can be
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  SPEAKER_00: under emphasized by Christians but if you go deep into
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  SPEAKER_00: the Christian mystical tradition there is an unbelievable reverence for
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  SPEAKER_00: the unknowability of God the inexhaustibility of God the transcendent dimension
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  SPEAKER_00: of God who is Christ who is spirit really the Christian
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  SPEAKER_00: the Christian story the Christian mythopoetic emanation of the literal incarnation
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  SPEAKER_00: of the logos of the inherent intelligence of all that is in and
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  SPEAKER_00: as Jesus Christ being crucified and resurrected the way in
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  SPEAKER_00: which these mysteries contain and point to and are suggestive of
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  SPEAKER_00: and poetically evoke
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  SPEAKER_00: Unbelievably deep mysteries within the spiritual life within the life of the spirit
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  SPEAKER_00: and not as a mere metaphor not as a mere myth from the Christian view
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  SPEAKER_00: creation is real this is really God's creation although it is contingent upon
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  SPEAKER_00: the being of God God is seen as the first mover the great the great mystery the
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  SPEAKER_00: the great primordial mystery prior to all else creation is seen as a real emanation
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  SPEAKER_00: a real song of God and therefore
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ is seen as having really and truly walked this earth
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  SPEAKER_00: and I I've experienced weeping revelations inexplicable weeping revelations
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  SPEAKER_00: where I felt like my heart was just breaking open of the spirit of Jesus Christ
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  SPEAKER_00: the living presence of Jesus Christ the profound sense
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  SPEAKER_00: that he truly did walk this earth walked among us
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  SPEAKER_00: and is still with us now and in a profound and deep mysterious inexpressible sense
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  SPEAKER_00: that he truly did die for our sins in a sense he he died because of our ignorance
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  SPEAKER_00: because of our tendency to miss the mark out of our own free will to forget
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  SPEAKER_00: the true loving logos we we literally
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  SPEAKER_00: greeted the living logos with a crucifixion with a torture device and
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  SPEAKER_00: that illuminates the deep ignorance of humanity but that crucifixion his willingness
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  SPEAKER_00: to surrender on that depth and to then be resurrected is seen as having sent
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  SPEAKER_00: a shockwave of love through human history that
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  SPEAKER_00: altered the course of our evolution and emanated new spiritual possibilities
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  SPEAKER_00: or made it made it easier for people to access the deepest spiritual revelations.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's one mystical way of understanding the Christ mystery, the mystery of the incarnation.
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  SPEAKER_00: and again though I want to keep emphasizing the word mystery
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  SPEAKER_00: for me Christ I experienced Christ as an all-pervading mystery of love
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  SPEAKER_00: and ever-present liberating power of love
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  SPEAKER_00: and ever-present personal relational friend of love as well as
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  SPEAKER_00: a super personal presence of love beyond all categories beyond all descriptions
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  SPEAKER_00: Experience Christ as a sense of innate wholeness and completion and perfection
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  SPEAKER_00: and harmony within this cosmic dance,
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  SPEAKER_00: this radiant creation of the mystery of divinity,
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  SPEAKER_00: the mystery of whatever the source,
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  SPEAKER_00: the waterfall from which all of this springs into being is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call that God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call that Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it feels to me like it is
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  SPEAKER_00: It is simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is ever-present.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is completion now.
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  SPEAKER_00: There can be a profound sense of this is wholeness now.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to wait to receive God in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can receive God in Christ through my heart now,
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  SPEAKER_00: through the simple freedom of just listening to the sound of the rain
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  SPEAKER_00: and welcoming this moment as it is, as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so Christ to me is a profoundly, profoundly deep mystery.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, that's where I currently find myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I find myself a lover of Christ and
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  SPEAKER_00: A Catholic Catholicos means universal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually,
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  SPEAKER_00: interestingly,
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  SPEAKER_00: when you go deeper into the more mystical meaning and understanding of Christianity,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can discover this universal resonance pointing to something present in all times
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  SPEAKER_00: and places,
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  SPEAKER_00: which other traditions have also pointed to, the true light of pure wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: and so yeah for me there's not a contradiction between loving Jesus Christ being
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  SPEAKER_00: a Catholic and also appreciating non-duality being some kind
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  SPEAKER_00: of non-dual Christian also being a shamanic individual
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  SPEAKER_00: who utilizes plant medicine I find Christ within plant medicine within that world
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  SPEAKER_00: his presence seems to be like that of the greatest shaman in a sense when you call
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  SPEAKER_00: upon Christ in medicine ceremony his presence seems
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  SPEAKER_00: to confer profound protection his name seems to bind
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  SPEAKER_00: Unclean spirits or demonic entities parasitic entities in a way
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  SPEAKER_00: that I haven't experienced with any other name
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  SPEAKER_00: or presence I often visualize myself holding forth a crucifix which is shining white
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  SPEAKER_00: or golden light when I'm in that those subtle shamanic realms interfacing
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  SPEAKER_00: with those dimensions of reality Christ is with me Christ is
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  SPEAKER_00: who I call upon and who I relate to as my truest lineage holder in those spaces and
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  SPEAKER_00: in the healing work that I do healing work is so relational and
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  SPEAKER_00: so it's incredibly incredibly valuable to have that personal emanation of God God as
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  SPEAKER_00: a person to be related to while also still realizing that the mystery is far
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  SPEAKER_00: beyond what can be encompassed or contained by any form or any
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  SPEAKER_00: living language, any real expression.
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  SPEAKER_00: From this view,
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  SPEAKER_00: all of creation is seen as a kind of living language,
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  SPEAKER_00: a real and living mythopoetic emanation sung forth from the heart of God,
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  SPEAKER_00: where everything is both real and everything also points beyond itself toward
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  SPEAKER_00: a mystery beyond all comprehension that is beckoning us home,
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  SPEAKER_00: that is beckoning us to remember the truth that it is
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  SPEAKER_00: Trustworthy that it is inherently whole and loving and unified and that we are
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  SPEAKER_00: that you are that while also being a child of that while also being a child of
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  SPEAKER_00: that our father who art
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  SPEAKER_00: in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is
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  SPEAKER_00: in heaven
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  SPEAKER_00: Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever amen for the kingdom
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: the power and the glory are yours now and forever amen giving the glory unto
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: the heavenly mother the heavenly father the heavenly spirit
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: Deep wisdom there in Christianity to do that prevents egoic inflation of
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: the human being,
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: especially the Western psyche,
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: seems really built to have that relational bhakti devotional relationship to
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: the greater All-Father, to use a term from J.R.R.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: Tolkien's world building, the All-Father, Iluvatar, the one who sings the world into being.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: the father the great mystery the profound profound indivisible
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: and relational mystery transcendent and incarnational imminent yeah
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: so these are these are deep mysteries to contemplate that gives a sense of
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: where I presently find myself so thank you for listening and
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: Much love in all directions.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: Peace everybody.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: May the road rise to meet you.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: May the wind be at your back.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: May the sunshine warm upon your face.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: May the rains fall softly on your fields and until we meet again.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: May you keep safe in the gentle loving arms of God.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: Aho.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: Namaste.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: Peace everybody.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: Peace and love.