Have You Ever Wondered?
Podcasts that address life’s issues and how we face them. These podcasts offer specific tools for self-improvement to deal with the emotional challenges life deals us, and offers perspectives from various cultures and traditions, from history, and the study of human behavior, as well as the testimony of personal experience. Encouraging critical and associative thinking, they also are intended to help the listener discover their own interconnectedness with others, and to expand their sense of self to embrace the power of consciousness itself.
Episodes
11 episodes
Episode 11— Cancel Culture and the Problem With Being Politically Correct
This episode discusses the current and historical pressures for people to present themselves as being politically correct in their communications, presuming that this is evidence of being socially responsible and considerate of others. But it a...
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Episode 11
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33:50
Episode 10— Is Being “Woke” the same as Being Spiritually Awake?
This episode explores the difference between worldly and spiritual awareness, and between our awakening social consciousness and the radical transformation that ensues from true spiritual awakening. What are the key elements, dynamics, symptoms...
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Episode 10
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37:27
Episode 09— Karma, What it is and How it Works
This episode explores the so-called Law of Karma— the inescapable cycle of cause and effect, and how it is both shaped by our past actions and may determine our future ones. It addresses common misperceptions and misuse of the word, and examine...
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Episode 9
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32:02
Mysticism and the Struggle between Orthodoxy and Heresy.
This episode examines mysticism as an experiential mode of learning that ultimately can harmonize the orthodox penchant for structure with the heretical inclination to transcend rules and regulations, for the greater good. If orthodoxy and here...
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Episode 8
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37:25
Episode 07— Why the Dynamic Between Heresy and Orthodoxy Matters
This episode begins a two-part deep dive into the phenomenology of our notions of heresy and orthodoxy as being far more than a matter of religious history or interest. The tension between our instincts for freedom and transcendence on the one ...
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Episode 7
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48:29
Episode 06 —Sects, Cults, Religions, and the Power of Manipulation
This episode explores the various ways in which our thirst for agreement is not only driven by our desire for security and comfort, but by our fear of things, beliefs, and peoples we don’t understand. The sect or cult creates a sort of bubble o...
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Episode 6
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45:39
Episode 05— NOT RECOGNIZING ANOTHER'S FAITH DENIES THE PRESENCE OF GOD
This episode explores the widespread and but irrational tendency of people of faith to claim belief in a universal deity, but exclude that deity from all but their own tradition and preferences, and condemn those whose faith expresses itself in...
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Episode 5
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27:02
Episode 04— Exceptionalism and Cultural Competence
Americans are particularly fond of promoting a notion of our national exceptionalism. Clearly, America can legitimately claim a lot of achievements and contributions to human society, but Americans can also be stunningly insensitive to and igno...
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Episode 4
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22:30
Episode 03— Dealing With Grief and Loss
Grief and loss are universal experiences that everyone will have at some point in their lives. They can be overwhelming and paralyzing. But the occasions that provoke our grief and sense of loss can also be transformed into some of our greatest...
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Episode 3
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21:52
Episode 02: Coping in the Time of Covid— Or Any Other
This episode looks at frequent patterns of our response to stress, and why they don’t work. It also offers insights into what causes our stress, and what we can do to resolve it. It explores specific transcultural practices that focus our breat...
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Episode 2
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36:27
Episode 01— Identity Crisis— Who Am I Really?
This episode explores the fundamental question of who we are, and who we’re not.It addresses the problem of our attachment to limitations, our tendency to label ourselves and others, and identify with those labels, and how to free oursel...
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Episode 1
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31:24