The Deep End

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...

What truly constitutes health and wholeness? How have our understandings changed and to what end? We take a lively jaunt through a number of ways of looking at health and wholeness and we look at some of the forces that work against a larger view of being health and whole human beings and nations. Blessings

Diversity is baked into all creation… there is no creation without it. Yet the human family has a difficult time embracing human diversity. Why? How is it that fear, greed and intolerance make there way into just about all attempts at multiculturalism? How can we see diversity as an existential evolutionary challenge and learn new ways to embrace our differences? Blessings…

The grand metaphysical question is “why anything at all”? East and West respond differently, especially with regards to the concept of “nothingness”. Redhawk takes his best guess as to why anything at all through the lens of deep end and his own personal experience. Blessings…

Enlightenment means different things to different people both East and West and from person to person. Yet, we can all agree that we are moving toward greater awareness both within and without. What does this road look like and what are some of the challenges that meet us on the way? Blessings

The human family has been asking “the human question” for millennia. We discuss the latest research and look at the many dimensions and complexities inherent in the mere asking of this question. What a trip this human experience is. Blessings!

What is TIME? How can it flow at different rates? Does all time exist simultaneously? If it does what does that mean? We entertain the idea of the Block Universe theory and tease out many of its mysteries. Blessings.

Eternity is not a forever but an always. Is eternal life possible and how does that differ from living forever? We go all the way to the depth of “Nothingness”, beyond all somethings. Blessings

Consciousness is so beyond our understanding. We have “Neural Network Correlations” at 40htz and information theories all the way to quantum understandings… all fall short and merely make the mystery of consciousness more muddy, chaotic and mysterious. 🤪

EveryONE has a faith. What is yours? Is it transformative? Does it help you become a new person with a new understanding and view of the world? Is it active or passive? Whether in a God or gods, reason or the Tao or the cosmos and/or the Self… where do you put your faith and to what end?

What is “hope”? How does it help us live longer and be less anxious? Is there hope for tomorrow or are we doomed? I am hopeful! How bout you? Blessings…

How do we soil our nests in so many ways… from the earth to our communities and relationships.

What is the difference between getting old and growing old?