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Michal Tolk — Cries in the Wilderness Michal Tolk , author of Cries in the Wilderness and convener of the Incarnate course, joins Jacob Kishere on SENSESPACE podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about mystical Christianity, somatic healing, church community, the sacred structure of intimacy, and the relationship between men and women. Jesus & the Body as Doorway The conversation opens with Mich...

The UAP phenomenon has been intruding into the fringes of our collective awareness in a pronounced way over the past several years. What was once definitively branded as loony talk has shifted amid waves of official disclosure, Pentagon acknowledgments, and sworn testimony before the U.S. Congress. In 2020, the Department of Defense confirmed the authenticity of several Navy videos, including foot...

A patient, deep and measured dialogue with Prof. Matthew David Segall in which we further the ongoing effort to think and imagine the evolution of Christianity ‘beyond itself’ in relation to myriad challenges and potentials both past and present. We explore: * Christian revival and ‘Christendom’ thinking * Walking a path of sacred pluralism * Christianity as both colonial and liberatory * The powe...

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As we enter the second year of the Resonant Man, we’re offering a limited number of men an opportunity to experience our weekly men’s circle for a month. Our intention is to give men who are seriously considering joining the initiative time to experience the work and the field we’ve been cultivating before deciding whether to commit further as paid members. Spaces will be allocated on a first come...

I brought together two friends from the ‘Integrating Christianity: Fellowship & Dialogue’ community that I’ve been fostering out of the Perspectiva Realisation Festival where Matthew and I were speakers this summer. I had a strong intuition to bring together Jonathan and Stephen for the first time on SENSESPACE to share in their affinity for the walk of wisdom, the richness of Tokien’s Lord of The...

Several months ago I had the wonderful opportunity to give a presentation to Ligare: A Christian Psychedelic Society . Now released on SENSESPACE, the dialogue shares my path from Christian upbringing to deep atheism and how early encounters with psychedelics catalysed the journey I am still on today. The talk brings listeners alongside in my pilgrimage through philosophy, healing and the direct e...

Listen on Spotify: In March 2025 I journeyed to Nihue Rao in Iquitos Peru for my most significant ‘diet’ with the Plant Medicine of Ayahuasca to date. The retreat was held by Maestro Remi Delaune, and his Shipibo teacher Maestro Ricardo Amaringo. I first experienced Remi’s works at ‘Kumankaya’ the remarkable healing center he and his wife Ashley built in the jungle of México. As a curandero he bri...

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I was recently interviewed by Mark Vernon, author of A Secret History of Christianity , for the Realisation Festival Podcast—an initiative to engage the community around this annual festival of soul and ideas. We explored my journey through Dialogos, psychedelics, healing, and the liminal web, ending with a pertinent moment on Christianity, which is included in the clip above. What I’m distilling...

This half year of lockdown has been one of great interior growth (and challenge). It really feels that in these 8 months in Berlin I have experienced a transformation at the level of soul and orientation. Fitness however, in the sense of breaking a sweat, has suffered. Although I’ve kept up a short yoga routine most days, the real fitness has been neglected. Gyms were closed and it’s been cold out...

It was a day to remember and it remains one as I take this moment to reflect. It felt a long path had led here and yet, in the ecstatic nowness of it, I was not dwelling on that path. Layered up to an expeditionary degree in jumper, coat and gloves with boots donned I had set out into the deep Berlin winter night. It has been snowing for a few days now continuously; the world has been transformed...

The walk of becoming, the journey in time that begins with the first delicate emergence of creative potential, is a long one. We do not become the artist overnight. I’m not sure if we ever become it . Perhaps it is an aspiration, an ideal, an archetype that we call upon and embody. Something which we are only in being and becoming. To create art is a healing process. To transform struggle and suff...