The Deep End

What is "community"? What constitutes "genuine community"? How do we get through all the differences that divide us and create a true community, not just of ourselves and friends but for America and the World? Redhawk, Mary Anne & Bob go all the way in reaching for genuine community.

Cognition and Emotions give us two ways of taking the world into our being. What are the mechanisms that create these? How can we discern a world of hope and light and move towards it by using our many brains to see, feel, touch and become a part of this magnificent event that is our being, life and consciousness. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob are joined by the Director for Ethics Providence and St. Joseph's Healthcare system, Rev. Dr. Andi Chatburn, MD. We wrestle a bit over how decisions are made and to what end in our healthcare systems today and then place that struggle within our emerging Metaphysic of Justice. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Why is it so hard to accept new ideas? What is going on in us that makes it so difficult? In #100 we look at the way the humankind takes in new ideas and either makes them part of oneself or rejects them... or gets stuck in "cognitive dissonance" and ends up twisting the world to fit their unchangeable position. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Humans have been in a constant state of waking since the moment of self consciousness. At every junction however, it seems we are just waking to a deeper and deeper mystery. What is this waking? What did the Buddha say? Is there only conundrum... forever? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Do we have "Free Will" or do we live in a totally "deterministic" universe? If we do have "free will" where does it come from, how does it happen. We explore the underside of the issue of "free will" by showing how the quantum, non-deterministic side of things is accessible to consciousness and life in general. It's still a mystery and source of great confusion. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

In Ethics 2 we look at what is happening today from healthcare to global climate change and how the arc from our inner values moves into morality and then coded in ethics and then through policy into law. What is RIGHT and what is WRONG? ...by what measure and who says? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Science fiction is consciousness is critically processing iterations of the future to morally and ethically explore possible consequences and more clearly define what it means to be a human being... in short, to have a Soul. Join us in our romp through this delightful and challenging genre of literature, movies and TV. redhawkthedeepend2gmail.com

Ethics is one of THE Core Issues for the human family. Tomorrow is now upon us and genetics will give us one of the first real views of the great complexity of the issues that face us. Join Rev. Redhawk, Mary Anne and Dr. Bob in a discussion on how the field of genetics is allowing us to actually change the course of evolution. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

The Gospel of Thomas presents us with some interesting challenges of sorting out the cultic gnostics from the mystics. Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob explore how gnosticism from Plato all the way up to today can inform us about how ideas and metaphysics and religion interact to give us the understandings we all partake of today. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

How do we ground our spirituality in the REAL? How do we live a sacred life based on experience not on belief? Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob explore the challenges and the joy in the process of putting our spiritual sensibility in accord with what is true and real and leads to growth, healing and a greater tomorrow. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

America is a dance between Liberty and Equality. The two have had intimate moments where they give birth to a precious child called Justice; and conflicting moments that created the Civil War and social confusion. Join Redhawk and Bob as they identify some of the more important steps in this profound dance that is We the People. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Mystics have known from the inside out what scientist are now seeking to discover from the outside in. Mystics and scientists seem to have more in common than not. What is it both are searching for Is there an answer, a final ultimate reality that can be appropriated? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bod reiterate why they are doing this podcast and to what end. Einstein said, "Everything has changed except the way we think." In order to change the way we think we must find new ways of talking about the complexity and depth of our being earthly creatures. Love to hear what you think. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

We have each created a necessary fiction called the Self... a social self. How important this is for the organism to survive in a social world of interconnected relationships. Yet, we are stuck between this social self (false self?) and our own wholeness of being by a huge zone of neurosis. How do we navigate such a place in our own consciousness? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

From the ancient Oracles to the prophets to Jesus and Mohammad... all spoke for the gods or God. What was going on? From Edgar Cayce to Jane Roberts and Neale Donald Walsh to A Course in Miracles to the Oujija Board something is happening... What? Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob explore this phenomenon of channeling thorough our history and today.

Rev. Redhawk and Dr. Bob review the intent, content and context for The Deep End Podcast. "Everything has changed except the way we think." (A Einstein) We re-look at the foundation for our changed thinking base on what we can know and explore honestly. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

How has reductionism served us and how have we reached its upper limit? How can we talk about holism when there is no final resolution and thus no final "whole" thing? Are reductionism and holism at odds with each other or in a dance? Join Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob as they explore the two. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Like some cowboy on the trail of an outlaw so is the human race on the trail of truth. Sometimes we lose the rail and have to backtrack in order to re-find it. Join Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob in their conversation about this trail and how we keeps sight of it in our own personal lives. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

The questions just keep piling up! Redhawk and Mary Anne respond to a few off the top of the pile from how to experience past lives to whether scripture is still being written. Join us in our romp through this wonder land of wonder where questions bubble up and responses create a whole new world. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

We are ENERGY! From our earliest times humans have recognized this. One of the lodes ways of understanding ourselves as ENERGY is through the Vedantic teaching of the Chakras. Chakras are the 7 energy centers in the spinal cord and offer us a way to talk about how we transform translate and manage our energy systems and create more holistic and healing states of being. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob raise up a metaphor that helps us understand what is happening to the human family and the planet earth in this time of so much coming home to roost: Childhood's End! Join us as we explore the many ways that the human family is following the same developmental stages as an individual from infant to adulthood. redhawkthedeepened@gmail.com

What is Chaos? How does it work? Is it something we can avoid? ...or is it part and parcel of being, life and consciousness? Redhawk and Bob go into some of the ways chaos works in the world, in our weather and in our thoughts and how it is integral to creativity and a new tomorrow. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

The Unending Conversation has been here since the first question. You are in it and are part of it. To be intentionally involved in this "conversation" is life itself and Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob hope you are able to delight in this conversation as it comes to you and not be distracted by all the everyday stuff. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

What is INTUITION? How does it work and where did it come from. Should we trust these alussive feelings or dismiss them. Is intuition something we learn or something inherent in the human experience. How is intuition a spiritual faculty of our consciousness? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com