27 APR 2024 · Coming to grips with the reality of our physical and the metaphysical world, we search for meaningful clues to existence. If we rely upon sensory perception and extra sensory perceptions to define our existence, it originates with consciousness. Therefore, thoughts are things. Abstraction is universal. 

20 APR 2024 · A solar eclipse, thunderstorms, tornadoes, windswept hair, Mercury retrograde, total upheaval...it must be spring! Idioms abound. The metaphor is obvious. Change does not always equate with friction. A change in perspective, a change of venue can actually be comforting  and very beneficial to a troubled soul. An abrupt, rather whirlwind trip to Michigan and Ohio has altered a point of view that desperately needed alterations! Join us as we explore the pure power of joy as we celebrate a blessed union of souls. Holy Toledo. Holy Shift!

13 APR 2024 · What is the "Christ?" Who is the "Christ?" Who is in this "Christ?" And what are the implications of our answers to these questions? In this episode of Soul School Sojourn, prolific author, speaker, podcaster and former pastor, Keith Giles and I discuss all of these things, and much, much more.  Keith Giles is a former pastor who left the pulpit over a decade ago to follow Jesus. He's been interviewed on CNN with Anderson Cooper, USA Today, Fox News, BuzzFeed and hundreds of other podcasts and radio programs. He's a regular contributor to John Fugelsang's Sirius XM Radio show, "Tell Me Everything", as part of the weekly "God Squad" segment, and he is the founder and co-host of the "Heretic Happy Hour Podcast", and his solo podcast, "Second Cup with Keith." Keith is also the best-selling author of the 7-part "Jesus Un" book series focused on Deconstruction of the Christian faith, and the "Sola" book series focused on embracing the mystery of the Divine. His latest book, "The Quantum Sayings of Jesus: Decoding the Lost Gospel of Thomas" is available now on Amazon. He currently lives in El Paso, TX with his wife Wendy. 

6 APR 2024 · Has humanity transcended the concept of naturalism? Tonight we will explore this theory. Is it antiquated? Incomplete? As the merging of science and spirituality occurs, curious scientists are beginning to delve in utilizing the tools at their disposal to reveal and even reverse previous predispositions on the subject. How to develop empirical evidence to the contrary? Quantum physics -- just the words cause most of us to lapse into a coma. You will be amazed by a recent study and how accessible the concept becomes. Join us for an illuminating hour.

16 MAR 2024 · Even the most devout people do, at times, question their own faith. Essentially, they make a decision to either believe anyway, in spite of the doubtfulness, in defiance of doubt, or choose to abandon their belief system altogether when the doubt becomes pervasive. It is a cerebral exercise rather than the leap of faith based on emotions. It's logical. It makes good sense. The question is, do we want to live our lives full of hope and faith and be wrong in the end, or live a life full of hopelessness and despair and be right? Obviously, we have the choice. We get to decide what mindset moves us to happiness. It's an inside job.

9 MAR 2024 · Jeff Turner and I will enter Eden through the back gate as we navigate a message in the music. "We are stardust. We are golden... and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." (Joni Mitchell) Tonight we will rock the Universe.

2 MAR 2024 · The great Christian mystic, Julian of Norwich, wrote: "First there is the fall, and then the recovery from the fall. Both are the mercy of God." As a species, we praise the rebound of the fallen, but rarely, if ever, the fall that necessitated the rebound. But what if both are manifestations of divine mercy? Without the fall there is no rising, and without a death there can be no resurrection. In our fight to grow, mature, and push past old things that "no longer serve us," we often leave behind whole swaths of our history, and in so doing lose ourselves entirely. The call is not to transcend and abandon our past, but to transcend and to include it. Both the fall and the recovery are gifts, and both are to be received with thanksgiving.

24 FEB 2024 · To everything there is a season. So begins the first hint of spring as we prepare to kiss winter farewell. What is it about the cyclical nature of life that causes us to hibernate during the cold, dark season as spring yanks us out of our den to celebrate the new growth of spring? It lifts our spirits as the frozen tundra thaws and the promise of a single sprig from a daffodil gladens our heart.

17 FEB 2024 · As we grow and learn, some lessons come easily, through experience. Don't touch an open flame. Don't cross a road without looking both ways. Most often, our parents teach us the rules of the road, so to speak. However, the hardest lessons come at the end of a life of a parent and we often become the parent to the ones who gave us life, coming full circle. The test precedes the lesson.

10 FEB 2024 · We often find ourselves feeling stuck between two realities: one which we desperately long to leave, and another we yearn to arrive at. In this experiential “hallway,” we face the phenomenon of liminality, or, the space in-between. We tend to want to evacuate this space as quickly as possible, and move on to bigger and better things, but this space represents the joining and harmonizing of things we often think opposite, and disharmonious with one another. It is in this space, where one world bleeds into another, that we often find ourselves in the throes of deep, profound spiritual experience. And that is because it a space where different experiences of reality contrast with one another, making them visible, tangible, and experiential. Perhaps, then, the liminal, or the in-between , is not something to rush and hurry our way through, but something to pause in the midst of, and feel deeply! And perhaps it is here, in a place we initially longed to leave behind, that we will come to see the world for the deeply enchanted, “haunted” even, thing that it is!