The Deep End

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

What is this great divide that has become America? We address this divide as a psychosocial event to try to understand what is happening to us both within and without. Are we seeing and feeling the collapse of America or the transition of America into renewal? Which side of the divide do you live in? Blessings

Psyche is both the kernel of our souls and the totality of our being. How can we find ways to understand these internal forces that are our very being. We look within and discuss this journey from psyche to divine love. Be well... Wonder deep...

We all must make this journey of life both out and in. Where do the out and in meet? What is that bridge that weaves the inner and outer lives together. How can we best tend to this two part spiritual event that is our life? Blessings

What are these inner walls we build to protect our selves? What is the underlying spiritual aspect of our brick by brick wall building? How can we become more open and vulnerable while still feeling safe? This is one of the front lines in today's world. Blessings

In this time of fake news and misinformation how can we know what is TRUE? We live in a swirl of information with little orientation. We dive into the deep end of how we can sort out the truth from all the noise and grow a clearer sense of personal discernment. Welcome to a pickled America! Blessings

America's Founders based any sense of liberty on VIRTUE. Without virtue a republic cannot stand. What did virtue mean to them and how has it changed over the centuries? What has happened to us that our sense of virtue has frayed and fragmented? Can we regrow a new sense of virtue? Blessings

How can America move forward? Is it possible? How can we find ways to talk about it, look at it historically and learn new approaches to face the radical obstacles that confront us? A hopeful conversation!! God bless America.

What is White Privilege? Can we turn our White Privilege into Grace? How? Why are we so blind to our own Privilege? Is there anyway out of here? This was a great spiritual reflection on how to turn our lives toward transformation in the middle of White Privilege. Love to hear your thoughts. Blessings...

Why is humor so important, especially in divisive times? How are today's comedians much like jesters of old? In these dark time it is the comedians who are on the front lines on a revolution. Truth is hanging out in a joke and wit is the stuff that can unmask a king. May our hearts be light even as the times grow heavy! Blessings

Psychedelics have changed the human family over and over... will they do it again? What are these "magical" substances? How do they work? What is this experience about and what does it look like from the inside? They changed my life and still do. Whew and wow! Blessings

What is Consciousness? Is it produced by the brain or is the brain a receiver of some greater field of consciousness? We explore these within the context of Dan Brown's new book "Secret of Secrets". What do you think? Be well, wonder deep.

In today's world it is easy to miss how wondrous the human family is. We stop and take a moment to lift up some of the redeeming qualities of who we are as human beings and celebrate them even in the face of all our flaws. Blessing to all!

Welcome to the Season of Light! Just about all religions and cultures celebrate this season and calls the human family back to wisdom, compassion, consciousness and divine presence. Gathering around a fire, an Advent Wreath or displaying a simple candle in your window all invite renewal into our lives. Be well...Wonder deep! Blessings