Alastair Ballentyne

The Big Soup

Religion EN ↓ 13 episodes

Greetings traveller, sit down and let me get you a bowl of The Big Soup where we dip the ladle into life’s simmering cauldron of ideas, concepts and conversations. This isn’t about sugar coating the challenges we face awakening and seeking an aligned life in a weird spacetime, where cretins pose as croutons. This is about savouring the nuances of life’s flavours and exploring their textures. Why ‘The Big Soup’? Life is the big soup, everything is an ingredient but not all flavours are meant to go together! Your base broth may be different, but sometimes you’ve got people insistent on throwing...

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Alastair Ballentyne

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Religion

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Latest episode

Oct 7, 2025

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Episodes

(Dr Love edition 3): Games in communication and dating are small vibes 07.10.2025

Games in communication and dating are small vibes In this third and final part of the Dr Love trilogy, we continue our journey through the list of shame of terrible dating and relationship. Communication advice scraped from social media. There are many reasons that we can end up in a situation where games are being played but the worst thing is when that is the vibe of the connection from the begi...

(Dr Love Edition 2): Commodified communication in relationships 22.09.2025

In this weeks episode of the big soup Dr love returns by popular demand to continue unpacking some gloriously heinous and daft dating advice found across social media. As we continue our journey through the list of shame, this week the topics discussed all point to the idea of treating people as commodities being a very bad thing. Of course you don’t need to listen to this podcast to tell you that...

(Dr Love edition) Improving communication in connection 17.09.2025

In this episode of the big soup we are taking a little look at some of the wild and weird takes around communication and relationships from social media. We are living in very disconnected times and we are creating so many unnecessary rules for ourselves when it comes to connecting with other people and also communicating our needs. Everyone is different, every relationship is different. Not one p...

The Great Spiritual Reset - Revisting Saturn & Neptune in Pisces with the Pisces Full Moon Eclipse 08.09.2025

Welcome back to episode 10 of the biggest soup where we are exploring what I am referring to as ‘The Great Spiritual Reset’. At the time of recording, we were on the day of the Pisces full moon eclipse. This eclipse is returning as to themes particularly of the Saturn and Pisces transit as it is currently retrograde in the sign of Pisces for those of you following tropical zodiac (which I do due t...

Finding home & hope in an uncertain world 13.08.2025

In this episode of The Big Soup, I share my journey around finding a sense of home within myself while moving through the human experience. Home to me had to become a feeling rather than a place after I had lost that place, then spent many years trying to fill that void with relationships, circles and connections. When I came back home to me, that allowed me to create a solid foundation within whi...

Bring back the love 07.08.2025

In this episode we explore why we need to bring back and lead with love in our lives/society. There’s so many things in our world that thrive because of the absence of love while capitalising on our insecurities, frustrations and sense of inadequacies. When we start to create a more positive relationship with ourselves, that expands outwardly in all directs while giving us a solid and healthy plat...

The unfolding and cyclical nature of healing 28.07.2025

In this Episode of The Big Soup we explore healing as an ongoing, ever unfolding process. This is important because when you take a one and done approach to healing, you can put yourself under unnecessary pressure, because you are an ever unfolding collection of ideas filtered through the lens of your experience. I share some examples from my own life so far and some points I felt to be resonate r...

'Street Spirituality', bringing it back to earth 21.07.2025

In episode six of the big soup we are exploring something that I like to call ‘Street spirituality’. Street spirituality is all about developing your own sense of personal spiritual expression through your journey of life. It’s very important to recognise that having a practice that is rooted in reality, and allows you to be grounded within yourself as you move through the world, allows that spark...

Navigating the shadows of Futurephobia 14.07.2025

This week in the Big Soup we are exploring Futurephobia and some of the shadows it casts over our society as we seek to carve paths and lay foundations for an as yet unwritten, unknown and undefined future. Futurephobic ideologies seek to restrict, contain and control free expression of self in the world that exists outside of the 'protected group', or shall we say: what is considered desirable, a...

Why we need spirituality in 2025 and beyond 07.07.2025

In this episode of The Big Soup we discussed why spirituality is essential in 2025 and beyond. Spirituality is the glue that holds our world together and we are having so many problems because we have become unstuck. This week we take a look specifically at how this has affected relationship dynamics And pushing people towards transactional connection which is inherently lacking in humanity. As ev...

Plastic or Gold? 30.06.2025

In this episode we explore some ideas and concepts around a plastic society that keeps us from connecting with the gold of our human spirit. Society has long taught us to covet and aspire to things that are plastic, but with the world getting ‘hotter’, plastic will melt in the heat. We are already seeing this in a shift away from ideologies, values and traditional perspectives that no longer serve...

'Why you? Why not you!' 22.06.2025

In this episode of the Big Soup we explore the age old question of 'why me' that can slow us down and sometimes stop us when it comes time to step up into a higher calling in this life. I share some stories from my journey that lead to me taking on the responsibilities of being a spirituality practitioner in response to things I was seeing in the world and communities around me. While this episode...

Setting the scene 15.06.2025

Welcome to the first episode of the big soup where we set the scene for what we will explore in this ongoing journey through the human experience as seen through a spiritually informed lens. Everything is connected, and spirituality is the glue that connects all things in life. So many problems in our world and society stem from a spiritual deficit, the rabid championing of individualism and colle...

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