The Deep End

We have more ways to communicate yet we seem to be losing our ability to hear one another. What the HELL!!! We explore the many ways we have learned to NOT LISTEN to each other. We got some work to do to make us human to each other again. Big sigh. Be well, wonder deep...

"We the People" is not merely a political statement but a spiritual one. The power that is our destiny has been bled off in the name of the monied interests. What has happened to us? How did it happen? Welcome to the conundrum of who we are. Join our discussion... God bless America!

If you are lucky you will get to experience Old Age. What does this time of life bring...Physically, psychologically, spiritually, morally? Old age has gotten a lot of negative talk but what I've learned "Winter is not a failed spring!" Old age is a passage, a transformation into a new a new kind of human being. Blessings

Why is friendship so important? How is it that having friends can help us live longer and being lonely can be as harmful as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day? And, what are the benefits of having friends? Be well.... wonder deep.

How is it that some of the most prophetic voices today are comedians? How do these human beings come to see the world is such a powerful way? What do they see? If sometimes feels like every laugh is a small awakening with some of these modern day jesters. We take a look behind the curtain at some of the forces that the comedian wields. Be well... wonder deep... laugh out loud...

Is it the end of the world? Is that the same apocalypse? How is our world ending, fraying at the edges and rotting from the inside? As one who is hopeful, I am praying for Transformation and not more Fragmentation. So what is this world that is ending? Blessings

How are Christianity's Unknowing, Buddha's No Mind, Jesus' Eyes of a Child, and Rumi's Love have in common? How can we open ourselves to this hidden powers beyond our own thinking? To what advantage? Be well... Wonder Deep....

What is this dream for humanity the flows underneath our lives? What is this dream? From Revelation to the Bodhisattva this dream emerges in just about every spiritual tradition. How can we embody this dream and grow it more fully in our lives? Be well...wonder deep...

How is it that we never physically touch each other or anything yet our deepest meanings come from this "non-touch"? What is this "touch"? How do we grow meaning from it and how is it part of human evolution? Stay in touch my friends

What is the Will? How can we best muster it? ...and to what good end. America and much of the world is at a crossroads of the WILL. Which way to go and why? Are there different levels of the Will? Is there a way to align our own Wills with the intent of life itself? What is that intent? Blessings

What is guilt? How has it helped shape the human family? When did guilt first show itself and when was it first seen as a separate emotion? As well, how has guilt been integral to human evolution? What is the spiritual worth of guilt as an internal moral experience? Blessings...

Human Civilization's have come and gone for thousands of years. Many of our stories derive from the rise and fall of these civilizations. What is a civilization and are we headed for a global civilization? How can we grow a new way of thinking about ourselves in a global civilization? Can we create a global civilization? I pray we can! Blesssings

What is an Idea? Where do they come from? What are the great ideas that changed and created our world? What are the ideas we need now? WHEW! Join us in our discussion about the world of IDEAS. Be well... Wonder deep.

What is wisdom? How is it different from information and data? Is there a wisdom deficit today? How can we understand what's happening to wisdom and can we find a new wisdom to address this loss? America specifically has sacrificed wisdom for impulse... how's that working out. Big SIGH. Blessings.

What is this ability to feel what another feels? Empathy has been called integral to human evolution; as well, it looks to many that we are still developing finer gradations of empathy, making unconscious material and patterns more conscious. What do you think? Blessings

What is EVIL? How have we been taught about it? How has EVIL set up camp among us? Mary Anne Ruddis lays out how we define evil and how it finds fertile ground in the ordinary. We discuss what we can do about it and how we become complicit in growing more of it. May the Holy Presence help us. Blessings

Food is THE Prime Connector in life. Food is where death becomes new life, where the alchemy of relationship transforms sunlight, water and earth into a sacred substance: FOOD. And, to cook using whole ingredients is to participate in a huge chain of becoming. Food is so much more than mere consumption. It is a source of daily communion. Blessings

The three most integral connectors in human life are Family, Friends and Community. Why are they so important? How do they grow health and wholeness or not? Are relationships the true substance that dances between us? Join us at the deep end of relationships. Blessings

Is the human family capable of actually becoming a human family? What is needed for us to become a true global family? What gets in the way? We explore many of the deeper aspects of humanity and begin to understand the how overcoming our own hardwiring is integral to our existential well being. Blessings to planet earth.

Part 2 of Justice for All, the next step of evolution... So what is blocking our forward motion and keeping us from "We Are One" consciousness? We show ten blockades to our moving towards a more fundamental fairness and how we get in our own way. Big SIGH! Blessings...

Is the next step of human evolution Justice for All? How has the human development grown and expanded like some moral circle? As well, how has our own neurological wiring gotten in the way? From survival to power to belonging to justice... consciousness has been doing something amazing. Woohoo... on with the arc of justice!

What is the Spiritual State of the World? How can we sort out what is breaking down from what is spiritually emerging? What are some new ways of talking about this tension between breakdown and hope? Can we get out of this conflict between ideas, worth and belonging? Let me know what you think? Blessings!

The human family has come a long way since the 1927 view of Big Bang creation story. Where are we now? What do we do with the next layer of mystery? Why is there anything at all? Is time real? What next? Blessings ALL...

What is happening to us as "We the People"? My heart is breaking as I watch this great divide separate us from each other. What are the deeper WOUNDS that are the roots of this tragic divide? I would love to hear your view on this. Be well... Wonder deep...

America's Shadow is looming large. What is this shadow? Can one person be a nation's shadow and if so is Trump America's Shadow? Is it possible to see the shadow in others or is that just another form of the shadow's projection? What are we to do with this SHADOW? Love to hear from you... Blessings