The Deep End

Life as Dance is a great way to move through the many layers of wonder and mystery. Dancing the Sacred life is what most of us really want. How can we best orient ourselves so that everyday is a new dance of wonder, of truth, love and justice? Redhawkthedeekend@gmail.com

Redhawk and his co-hosts, Mary Anne and Bob, got to the Deep End from different paths. Is everyONE destined to be a "deep ender" or do we find our meaning in different things and paths? From The Bible to the many Hindu texts in the east we learn that from Eat, Drink and be Merry to power and money to dying on the cross... all are ways of finding meaning for different folks, and place it within the...

What is beyond compromise and how do we identify it? We explore the deeper pattern that reveals itself in scripture, in psychology, in sociology and in science. What is this "pattern"? How can all of us begin to not just see it but participate fully in it. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Spirituality and Religion are two words that are difficult to define... unless, you go back to their original meanings. What are those meanings? How is it that spiritualityreligion are two sides of a single coin and we keep separating them? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

The Bible is a conumdrum. If read as a whole what is it saying? What is the plot? What is it really saying from front to back. Redhawk says that all interpretations and theologies are at best, best guesses. In this podcast we explore the overall meaning and the end game of the bible as a whole, especially as it fits into the metaphysic that Redhawk has developed.

War has been with us since the beginning. Armed conflict is part of Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Many think there is no way to escape this part of our human nature. Yet, if we don't escape it we will self-destruct. War... what is it good for! redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Food, Sex and... Curiosity. Curiosity arousal is not often addressed yet it is precisely this that has been the growing edge of humankind. What is this "DRIVE" that pushes us into new realities, new technologies, new ways of understanding ourselves as a human people? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

"Everything's changed but the way we think." (Einstein) Yet, we seemed to be trapped in a way of thinking that has it's roots in the past. Complexity, Power, Slow Creep, Global Economics and continual radical change have created a new world that is reaching for a new way to think. How can we be part of this change of thinking when the new way of thinking is still unthinkable?

To be connected to the Great Mother is to be connected to the mystery of being. Today we live in a world of artificial mediation, where the great architectural feats are no longer temples but financial institutions. We have become bereft of meaning and rootedness and relocated ourselves in an artificial environment and given power to institutions with divine claims. What next?

Life is change, yet today there seems to be so much change that it is difficult to face it all much less tend to it. How can we talk about the many dimensions of change that are demanding our attention, demanding a way to accommodate them? redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

What is Authority? Where does it come from? Where do you give your authority and why? Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob explore the importance of this concept within the metaphysic of truth, love and justice. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

Belief and knowledge seems to be dancing at the growing edge of my faith journey. How can I attend these inner movements in a conscious way? We revisit "faith" and see that it is, perhaps, the backdrop of change and the context of meaning that defines how we orient ourselves in this great Sea of mystery. redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

What is Reality? is the question that is at the root of The Deep End. It is the question that gave birth to The Deep End. Join Mary Anne, Bob and Redhawk as they seek to peel back the many layers and dimension that are integral to our uncovering more of this mystery of being.

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