Hints and Guesses

Kent Dobson•kentdobson.podbean.com

Religion & Spirituality

Spirituality

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Conversations about Spirituality, Religion, Doubt, Sacred Texts, Nature, Soul, Love, Death, God and all the Good Stuff

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Episodes

Step Away From the Enneagram Part 1

Know thyself! The gifts and limits of the enneagram, from my experience. Enjoy.

Jul 17, 2019•59 min•Ep. 34

Co-creation and the Feminine Imagination

This week, woman's soccer, Exodus, liberation, co-creating a better world and the gift of the sacred feminine imagination. Enjoy!

Jul 02, 2019•54 min•Ep. 33

We've Lost the Plot 6: Being Worked by Parables

Through the analogy of dreams and how they work on the ego, I argue that parables, because they're archetypal and symbolic, are meant to disrupt, disrobe and dismantle the ego - who we think we are in the world. This week, in my ongoing series on the Bible, I explore how parables can work on us. They're not just clever stories with moral lessons that need to be deciphered or interpreted correctly. Listening on this deeper level does not mean you need to believe the stories, or hold certain views...

Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 32

I Don't Recall (Memory and Imagination)

Stuff I've been pondering - the soul's code and her aims, raising kids, our post truth culture, the underworld pool of memory, "what to remember when waking" (David Whyte), the un-lived life, "concealment of Being" (Heidegger), and the relationship between the past and a new imagination for the future. Enjoy!

May 29, 2019•56 min•Ep. 31

We've Lost the Plot 5: Magdalene and the Meaning of Resurrection

Episode 5 in losing the plot, my Biblical series. I'm following the last podcast on Holy Week with a few musings on resurrection. Did Jesus really resurrect? What's the meaning intended by such a radical and complex image? Reflecting on the experiences of Paul and Mary Magdalene, some important patterns emerge that take us beyond the debates about belief and history. Enjoy!

Apr 25, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 30

We've Lost the Plot 4: Holy Week (Sell Your Cloak, Buy a Sword)

Back with another musing on the Biblical stories. This episode is about Holy Week, the last week of Jesus life, the Sacred Fool, eating the Divine, and one of the more troubling and enigmatic teachings of Jesus to buy a sword. Plus, Peter needs to eat his shadow in order to grow up. Enjoy!

Apr 16, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 29

The Soul Does Not Care About Your Safe Space

This episode is about our cultural and "spiritual" obsession with safety, the human ego, translative and transformative religion, and whether or not the deeper path of soul and/or God is really all that safe. Enjoy!

Mar 27, 2019•47 min•Ep. 28

We've Lost the Plot 3: Markets, Weapons, and Babel

Still losing the plot! This week we work backwards from The Tower of Babel to Cain, a few of the darker stories in the entire Hebrew Bible. These ancient stories keep provoking, challenging, inspiring, alluring, much to my surprise. What do you think? Does the Bible still matter?

Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 27

We've Lost the Plot 2: Vortex, Twitter and Creation

To my own surprise, I keep returning to the Bible, a book that allures and repulses, inspires and confronts. The archetypes, stories, symbols and metaphors are like a bridge between the transcendent and nameless, and the ordinary and mundane. This week, the polar vortex, Trump tweets, and the Creation story make an appearance in the ways we've lost the plot. Enjoy!

Feb 07, 2019•42 min•Ep. 26

We've Lost the Plot: Recovering the Great Stories

To my own surprise, I keep returning to the Bible, a book that allures and repulses, inspires and confronts. The archetypes, stories, symbols and metaphors are like a bridge between the transcendent and nameless, and the ordinary and mundane. I don't think the Biblical narrative has runs its course when it comes to meaning. In fact, the way we misunderstood, dismissed, derided and ignored the great stories has contributed to more narcissism and nihilism and loss of meaning. We've lost the plot. ...

Jan 24, 2019•49 min•Ep. 25

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