Contemplative Currents Podcast

Episode Summary: In this episode, we explore the transformative power of presence—how truly seeing each moment allows us to recognize the divine in all things. Life’s circumstances, whether joyful or challenging, are not separate from the sacred but expressions of it. When we cultivate stillness and open our eyes, we begin to perceive reality not as fixed and solid, but as a fluid Mystery unfoldin...

🕊️ Episode Summary In this episode, I explore the nature of surrender as a shift in perception, a turning toward the source of all seeing. Inspired by a post from Philip Atter, I examine how modern coaching and therapy often focus on changing thoughts, whereas a deeper transformation, if you will, arises from embodying the source from which thoughts emerge. Looks like a lot of words that mean noth...

What if the weight of responsibility we feel in adulthood is just a box of our investment in a future or a past that we would rather control. What if being cared for isn’t something we have to earn, but something already happening—something we simply need to see? In this episode, I explore how our attachment to future thinking and past burdens keeps us from experiencing the effortless care that li...

Episode Summary: In this episode, I explore what remains after deconstructing religion—what prayer, practice, and communion look like beyond traditional frameworks. Deconstruction often leads to throwing out everything, but I’ve discovered that some essential elements still hold deep meaning when reframed. Key Themes Discussed: * The Aftermath of Deconstruction: How the journey of questioning and...

Episode Summary: In this episode, we explore the difference between surrender and quitting. Surrender is not about giving up; it is a recognition of our non-separateness from life itself. The act of surrender is not an act or something we do—it is something we see. True surrender includes both action and inaction, revealing that all movement, all decisions, and even the refusal to quit are not per...

Episode Summary: In this episode, I explore a radical yet deeply liberating perspective on relationships: that every relationship—whether romantic, professional, or even adversarial—is ultimately a reflection of the self. Inspired by a conversation with my friend, (let’s call her “Laurie” for the sake of anonymity), who was experiencing a complicated situationship, we unravel the truth that there...

This is a commentary of a future Substack post with the same title. Ridding one’s self of themselves involves relinquishing past stories, projections of the future, a total surrendering to The Mystery. I also talk here about how this is a constant journey letting go, a constant state of allowing, a constant state of surrendering. We go further in this surrendering by dropping even the notion of a...

In finding ourselves in a place where we feel lost and cut off, we search for home. When we are dilligent enough and sincere in our search, we find that we never left home. The question 'who am I?' does feel like a passphrase that goes beyond an intellectual quest for answers. It goes so beyond the question that when we find the answer, we are shocked. Our shock may be because the clues were there...

When we can see the ‘impersonality’ in the display of the Universe, it becomes easily seen that nothing you could ever do(or are doing) is separate from what the Universe is doing. So much so there’s a great cracking of the mirror of that illusion of agency. Outrageous statements! Just purely outrageous! I know. Well, I intended for it to be— particularly the subtitle of this short essay(A trust i...

Despite the changing times, we cannot stay focused(except for rhetorical purposes) on whether they are good times or bad times, we cannot focus on whether they are challenging times or times of opportunity. A sweet sweet sweet spot to bring ourselves to is that spacious space that is witness to all of the changing times. It’s challenging at first to not be able to place one’s hands on an object. B...

Dear Lover, This is written on the fragile parchment paper of your heart. It’s a letter from me to you, written in ink that dreams of permanence but knows its fate is to dissolve into the fibers of what is already whole. What can the etching of ink ever do beside attempt to stain(in ignorance) the whiteness of what’s ever so pure, pristine, untouched and eternal? Please remember this for as long a...

On this episode(a read out of the essay of the same article), we examine thinking, thoughts and the thinker through this contemplative piece. This is the ultimate magic: the discovery that the thinker was never there, and that what remains—this infinite, silent awareness—was always waiting to be seen. Nothing to be achieved or grasped. It is the simple truth hidden in plain sight, as close as your...

In this episode, we talk about the parable of the Blind Men and Elephant where a group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Somehow this ends up being a fight between the blind men. Perhaps if the blind men stepped outside their own perspective to feel into others’ perspectives, they may notic...

Is it the chicken, or is it the egg? The question itself dissolves as we step back and see the cycle for what it truly is: an infinite loop where neither is first nor last, where both are essential and interdependent. Perhaps the egg didn't come first, neither did the chicken. Let's explore this with a contemplative exercise at the end also! Oh. My. Gosh! No wonder Jesus said, “The last shall be f...

This is not a typical pilot episode. However, I set the stage here for what’s to come. In this episode I introduce what the podcast will be about, it’s once-a-week frequency and who this podcast is for. So, of course, if you’re interested in exploring the completeness that we are at the core, we have a few interesting explorations for you. At this moment, I expect to bring attention to what’s clea...