Way Collective Podcast

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/17/25, entitled Processing Our God-Talk. In this episode, we explored the nuances of how we talk about God, the apophatic and cataphatic traditions, theopoetics, and how metaphor and metaphysic interweave as we explore the divine. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/10/25, entitled An Introduction to Processing God. In this episode, Tim shares about how his questions of God shifted through his cancer experience, the two different registers people speak in when talking about God, and how we are invited to widen our horizons and cross thresholds in our lives toward more loving versions of God....

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/27/25, entitled Jesus as a Jewish Mystic. In this episode, Tim shares about how seeing Jesus as a mystic in his own Jewish tradition opens up an entirely different understanding of Christian spirituality rooted in inherent belovedness and oneness with God. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/20/25, entitled On the Beginningless and Endless Rest of God. In this episode, Tim shares about how rest isn't something we accrue like vacation, but rather a sustaining reality at the center of our becoming lives, and how even our wounds can be held from this unwounded place of rest. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/13/25, entitled Mindfulness as a Contemplative Practice. In this episode, Tracy explores mindfulness both as a modern research backed-way to reduce stress, and a timeless contemplative practice. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/06/25, entitled Finding Friends by Defining Enemies. In this episode, Damon Garcia explores the importance of understanding the difference between loving the enemies we make and those who are oppressing us, and much more! Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/30/25, entitled On Nonduality and Nonviolence. In this episode, we talk about how nonduality and nonviolence are a summary of the contemplative life, and how, when we can live into these postures in the small moments of our lives, they begin to transform everything around us. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/23/25, entitled Being Neighbors in an Isolating Time. In this episode, we use the research from Kurt Gray's recent book Outraged, to talk about the nature of our outrage culture and our divisions, and how we can overcome them and bridge with those with whom we differ. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/16/25, entitled A Moral Response for Our Time. In this episode, we talk about recent ICE activity, and frame a moral response from within the contemplative Christian tradition that upholds love as the highest law. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/09/25 in our series: Cracking the Code: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI. In this episode, we talk about how the spiritual journey invites us more fully into our humanity, and how the story of Jacob wrestling with God teaches us that our wrestling, wounding and surrender are blessed. Also, we are still including 3 questions at...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/02/25 in our series: Cracking the Code: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI. In this episode, we talk about bracing ourselves for these technological changes, AIs impact on the environment and future job markets, and continue to reflect on our humanity in the age of AI. Also, we are still including 3 questions at the end of the po...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/25/25 in our series: Cracking the Code: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI. In this episode, we talk about what makes us human in contrast to artificial intelligence, and how creativity and mystery can keep us grounded as AI continues to evolve. Also, we are still including 3 questions at the end of the podcast for contemplation...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/18/25 beginning our new series: Cracking the Code: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI. In this episode, our new Co-Curator, Tracy Johansson, gives us an introduction into AI, and begins asking core questions about how to use rapidly increasing technology to supplement our spiritual lives. Also, we are still including 3 questions...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/04/25 focusing on the theme of transformation. In this episode, we summarize the series by talking about how the theme behind each weekly theme has been a widening embrace of life, and how, when our inner space of embrace expands, we can hold more of life's joys and aches. Also, we are still including 3 questions at the end of th...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/28/25 focusing on the theme of transformation. In this episode, we talk about how our personal transformation journeys, and how everything we encounter in our inner lives is an invitation for inclusion and integration. Also, we are beginning to include 3 questions in the podcast for contemplation and conversation -- one on the se...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/21/25 focusing on the theme of transformation. In this episode, we talk about how the journey of transformation is actually about "becoming what we already are," which is love -- and how the contours of this love helps us to see that love in everyone and everywhere when we can hold it non dually and say yes to the whole of life. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/14/25 focusing on the theme of transformation. In this episode, we talk about how embracing our complexity can transform us. We contrast the true self and false self, and uplift how our trans and nonbinary siblings help us move deeper into our true identity. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/07/25 focusing on the theme of transformation. In this episode, Ethan opens up a beautiful conversation about reflecting on one's own identity and belonging through sharing about his story, and the people and land to which he belongs in his own journey of becoming more fully himself. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/30/25 focusing on the theme of transformation. In this episode, we talk about how Christ is another word for the force of creative transformation in the universe, and how we can employ that language if we want, while also being multilingual in the language of the soul.

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering downtown at Third Window Brewing focusing on the theme of transformation. In this episode, we talk about "the peace of passage," and how learning to embrace (and not resist) change is at the heart of the journey of transformation. 

This is the recording from our 2025 Easter Meditation, entitled The Soil of Resurrection -- Christ Consciousness, Awakening to Love, and Easter's Mystical Invitation. In this episode, Tim reflects on the nature of resurrection as inner awakening to love, to see Christ both in oneself and others, and how the path of surrender and awe in our everyday lives can lead us to seeing the world anew. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the final week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about how we can love people without the need for them to mirror ourselves back to us, and practiced holding space for the dignity of others with whom we disagree. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the fourth week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. Our friend Rev. Dr. David Moore joined us for a conversation on nonduality as it relates to race and justice work in our divisive times here in Santa Barbara and beyond. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the third week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about how to overcome the dualism of the sacred and the secular, accessing a place of inner peace and forgiveness that moves us beyond throwing stones at each other. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the second week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about the prayer of the heart, and how we can move beyond our dualistic thinking through transformative life experiences and contemplative practices.