Spiritual Unfoldment With John Butler

What is purity? Or, what is impurity? The primary impurity is the Idea of separation. Me. To the pure all things are pure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I am not so keen on this idea of spiritual bypassing. Hasn't all we experienced served its purpose in its time and place? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The resurrection as symbolic of light overcoming darkness, with reflections on Jesus’s descent into hell and the redemptive hope of his return. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

John advocates losing interest in thinking itself — likening thoughts to a heartbeat: unnoticed unless you focus on them. John’s reflections on personal suffering, compassion for animals, and bearing others' burdens echo the Christian understanding of redemptive suffering. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal...

In this conversation Phil tries to trip John up on non-duality - not two. How does this apply to Creator and creature, or the relationship between Jesus and believer? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In these two pocket-sized, companion volumes of 180 pages each, John presents the dawning of Oneself – our One complete existence, in all considered separate or lost today. His clear sighted, simple words, written directly from experience, encourage us to seriously receive those spiritual ‘Treasures in Heaven’ which bring enlightenment to worldly life and accompany the soul beyond the grave … Host...

John takes us through what happened naturally as he grew out of each stage of life into another Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this intimate portrait of his life as a farmer, traveller and spiritual journeyman, with reference to his upcoming new books, John Butler takes us on a journey of a life spanning the English Fens to the Russian tragedy of Revolution and its aftermath - all teaching us how to "bear an unbearable world." It includes clips from the newly available 1975 BBC documentary 'Three Acres at Bicker Fen'....

YouTube viewer Rowan Daly asks John Butler, "If there are so many people alive right now, then how does what we do as individuals matter?" John answers from his own experience as a young man who wanted to "Make the world a better place". Through long periods of loneliness and failure, he's continued to meditate and eventually find "Infinite completion." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. Se...

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John discusses being called ""Mr Nothing"", organic farmer and his discomfort with the title ""mystic,"" although he acknowledges its embrace of the unknowable Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What is an angel? Something that does the will of God without question? Anything that accepts and fulfils the will of God? What is not angelic? Me. I’ve sung my song and been taken to ... completion. Just This. It comes to This! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

"In this impromptu chat, the second at Cliff College, John addresses: differences between Eastern and Western Christianity origins of 'The Jesus Prayer' on Russia - ""These people are my people"" in the real world there is no death when present we are 'in love' and free from fear why love affairs go wrong in the real world there is only one time - eternity pure and impure, divine and demonic medit...

Ben from Nomad Season chats to John in Chakra about the nomad life they share. "I never really felt I belonged in this world. I had my years in a motor caravan – not always happy ones – but I remember them with affection. I am a nomad in my heart." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There is knowing beyond the mind. The mind isn't that big. Go beyond conceptions of the mind. Real knowledge is revealed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Many viewers have asked for a 'John Butler guide to meditation'. Here it is. You may be surprised at the simplicity of this 'common sense' guide when there are so many alternative methods trumpeted about. Here, step by step, John talks you through the meditation practice he learned when he was a young man and has been practising for 60 years. This simple practice has gradually revealed to John wha...

One of the principal questions that human beings have wrestled with since time began - why do we suffer? Why do bad things happen to good people? John, too, wrestles with the answers. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

If you have been on a retreat with John Butler, you will know that he hosts impromptu chats after breakfast each morning. In this, the first at Cliff College, he addresses: making the world a better place what are thoughts? sin as absence from the presence of God what man is/is not thinking is mindache judge not what am I here for? the humility of failure Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

Depression afflicts many of us at some stage in our life. John is no exception. In this video he reflects on his own experience of depression and whether, in fact, depression can be our teacher. Being half-Russian also gives John a deeper insight into the nature of depression - not only at a personal level but maybe as part of a national psyche. He tells us how he unexpectedly started a degree in...

"In this impromptu chat at a Cliff College retreat John reflects on: what is God? the real teacher is Presence what is substantial? to make whole be whole the body is crystallised Spirit what is Jesus? everything is perfect as it is in Truth nothing matters; in Ignorance everything matters the sunshine of unconditional love the Prodigal Son Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm...

Whence comes this longing for the stars? Even the stars aren't big enough. It's a longing for the infinite beyond. I did see it. That's what changed my life. I knew that's what I wanted and nothing in this world could match it. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

"After nearly a year’s immersion in the wide open spaces of Australia and the wonder of a long sea voyage it was very hard to come back. In fact, I don’t think I ever have come back to what you might call conventional life.“ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jesus said "the kingdom is within you." What does that mean? How can we experience the kingdom of God for ourselves? In this conversation with Phil Shankland in Bakewell parish church John Butler - organic farmer and mystic - reflects on what 50 years of meditation has taught him about seeking first the kingdom of God. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for infor...

In a world increasingly fascinated by 'fake news', corrupt politicians and compromised priests we ask John Butler "Who can you trust?" Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.