The Deep End

Is Eternal Life the same or different from an afterlife? How is it different? What do mystics and contemplatives say about Eternal Life? What does Einstein say about it? How can we learn to identify with our deepest roots of being and not just with our cosmic address? Eternal Life is here and now; how can we even talk about it? Blessings!

We are full of meanings, swirling around a center that is YOU. How can we “see” our own intent of being by becoming aware of the weather patterns of meaning within us? What is the axis of your myriad meanings and how do they inform your life? Be well… wonder deep…

A confession and apologetic regarding my own following of Jesus and what that means today. As well, we explore the implications of a Comic Christ and a mystic’s understanding of Jesus as an avatar. How can we incarnate the love, compassion and justice that is embodied in Jesus’ life? You tell me! Redhawkthedeepend@gmail.com

So many say we need to step out of our comfort zone. Why? How does staying in our comfort zone stunt our growth? How does stepping out of our comfort zone facilitate our growth as a human beings. What is your comfort zone? How do you step out of it. Blessings🙏🏾

The word Dominion has two different meaning. Which meaning will the human family subscribe to: control over or stewardship with? We look at how our views of “dominion” affect the way we live and govern; and, how our understanding of “dominion” has existential consequences. Be well… wonder deep…

Is there a way to understand all the many memes, movies, politics, war and music within a larger context? We explore some new ways of seeing using our understandings of the Noosphere, Ethos and the Pop Mind to show that ideas themselves create weather patterns in this layer of consciousness that is the noosphere. We explore some of those current weather patterns of ethos and pop mind. Blessings

Everything is energy. The universe is one giant conversion machine, turning energy into everything. The amazing thing is so are we . Human beings are literally consuming energy (sunlight) in one of it varied forms and using that energy to Be and Do. As well, our minds are doing the same thing, converting energy into digestible bits, such as symbols, language, stories and dance; allowing us to acce...

Can the human family evolve beyond our ability to destroy ourselves? How does our spiritual sensibility play into this and how can we look at our spirituality as rooted in our own neurology? What is a new spiritual metric? Is there a new religion on the rise? Join us in our journey of reflection. Be well… Wonder deep…

In Netflix’ documentary “Life on Our Planet” with Morgan Freeman, 3 rules of life are discerned - Evolution, Competition, and Constant change. How are they helpful in telling life’s story and how can they be integrated into our human story that they might facilitate more life, health and wholeness? Be well… Wonder deep! 🙏🏾

What is grace? How can we receive it and what does it do to us when we do? What does grace open us to? We will look at the “gift of grace” and how it can become an intentional practice which creates more of itself. As well, we will share 10 things we can do to be more intentional in our “grace journey”. Many blessings…

How is it that people see things so differently? Those differences are rooted within a context of spiritual understandings; and when we see what those deeper underlying understandings are, it can help us grow more compassion towards those who are different from us. What are the stages of spiritual development and how does understanding them help us heal what comes between us? Blessings

Sex and gender are distinct ways of understanding our sexuality. What is the difference between sex and gender? Diverse expressions of sexual identity seem new to many of us but they go back many thousands of years. How can we better accept the many differences and what are those differences? We may be able to see, up close, the evolution of expanding norms among the human family. Blessings

In my mind spirituality and religion are BOTH integral to a healthy and whole life. Yet, the human family has relegated them to be mutually excluded narrowing the definition of each. Spirituality tends to deal with the experience of NOW, and Religion seeks to place that experience within a context of continuity and meaning, whether an institution or not. …two sides of a single coin! Wonder deep…...

Studies have shown that AWE is a lost art for many adults, especially Americans. It turns out however, that AWE is necessary for a healthy and whole life. Can we “microdose mindfulness” in such a way that we can engender more AWE in our lives and why should we? We had an awesome conversation on AWE! Be well… Wonder deep… Blessings

Where did the belief in an afterlife come from? The belief predates all religions and may be one of the root thoughts that gave rise to religion. How did dreams and the early humans experience of animism play into the rising belief in an afterlife. What a trip this life of wonder is! Blessings

Our ability to form predictive models is unique to human beings. Our expectations in life, and from day to day, are being written by our experiences from the past and the present. How can we live healthy and balanced lives as our expectations, and our ability to prepare for them, walks hand in hand with uncertainty? What a trip this life is!!

Gratitude is a uniquely human affair. Why is it so important for us to be thankful - individually and collectively? What are rhetorical benefits of gratitude and what gets in the way? I’m thankful for this podcast, my cohosts and our listeners. Be well… Wonder deep🙏🏾

We get serious about humor. Humor, Humility, Human… all have the same root: Humus, which means “of the Earth”. What is this thing called humor and why is it so important to human consciousness? Mary Anne Ruddis, Bob Hays and Redhawk take a jaunt through the nature of humor and how it can both lift up and offer healing to some of our darkest times… and that’s no joke.

What are the threads that are weaving this division among us? How can we talk about it? Is there any way to heal our division? Redhawk shares a song he wrote that deals with his own feelings about today’s wedge-full America that adds a modicum of hope to our national picture.

We look at the radical misinterpretations made about the Garden of Eden and offer another way of seeing this ancient story. We delight in our early ancestors attempt to understand how this self awareness came upon us and allowed us to become a different species. What a trip!! Blessings

Nature is reckless, wasteful, extravagant and excessive and yet she is also economical… as nothing, in the end, goes to waste. We celebrate our experience of this magnificent relationship with nature and the fact that we are not separate but another expression of that magnificence. Be well… Wonder deep…

From the forming of the first armies to feeling safe in you own home and skin, security has been central to our journey as human beings. Will we find true and lasting security as a result of our wars or as a result of a new context where our vulnerabilities are a source of a greater strength? Mary Anne Ruddis, Bob Hays and Redhawk jump into the deep end on this one. Blessings

Much of our inner work is centered around tracking our mental associations and seeing how we are connected to our past, our feelings and our thoughts. We are invited to engage our inner world as the fabric of our being and to learn to be honest with our mental associations. No thought lives alone but is part and parcel of a huge interdependent happening that is our soul, our mind. If we do our inn...

An essential process in all evolution and development is semi-permeability. In human terms this is called empathy. What is this opening that allows us to feel what another is feeling? Can empathy help save the human family? How is it that so many have different capacities with regard to empathy and what impedes the spread of an empathic community? Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob get into it. Blessings.

What is the language that nature? Is it a binary language of yes/no, up/down, right/left or a quantum language of every direction at once? We explore the growing mystery that borders on magic of a quantum universe that weaves everything and every energy together as ONE. It seems we have come to the mystics imperative that all things are interconnected and we are ONE. Science is catching up… Blessi...