386: How Every Exhausting Detour Leads Us Back to God

Series Title: Exploring Mormonism's Immortality Projects [Episode I of IV]

Today Val & Nathan kick off a four-part series that you will not want to miss if you want to make more sense of your Mormon experience working really hard to be worthy to return to God.  

This series will walk you through why humans & their churches create elaborate paths, plans, and rules to help us get back to God and why this very compulsion is both necessary and unnecessary.  Unnecessary because God consciousness is already within us so there is ultimately no need to create complex steps and stages to "earn" heaven.  Necessary because the exhaustion of over-functioning & trying to earn heaven is how we finally allow our false selves to die and come to rest in the Unity that was always ours from the beginning. 

Listen in for the next four Fridays as Val & Nathan walk you through the necessary process of walking the false path to finally arrive at the true path...

Timestamps:

00:00 – Opening Reflections & Series Introduction
00:37 – Vulnerability and the Challenge of Teaching Truth
02:09 – Framing the Journey: Growth and Consciousness
05:52 – The Great Chain of Being
07:29 – From Beasts to Gods: Ken Wilber’s Perspective
09:14 – Anxiety, Fear, and the Human Condition
11:41 – Remembering Our Wholeness
14:37 – The Illusion of Otherness
16:27 – The Birth of the False Self
19:39 – Boundaries, Separation, and the Ego
22:54 – Divine Intuition and the Trap of Ego
25:23 – The Fear of Letting Go
28:16 – The Atman Project: Immortality and Illusion
32:06 – Failing Forward: Returning to True Nature
36:15 – Transcend and Include: Compassion for the Journey
37:55 – Looking Ahead: Faith, Systems, and the Next Steps
45:55 – Closing Gratitude and Farewell