HeyJaredThe Spiritual Context Podcast
Dedicated to the Ultimate Realization, this podcast features interviews with long-time spiritual practitioners and teachers, focusing on their spiritual biographies, core practices and perspectives, and approaches to integrating spirituality into everyday life.
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Karen Newell: Existential Loneliness to the Reservoir of Love (opens the original)
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During a Sufi heart-rhythm meditation, Karen Newell encountered an existential loneliness so complete that she was inconsolable. Rather than resisting it, she allowed herself to fully experience the loneliness. What emerged was what she calls a “reservoir of support”—an unfailing love that has never left her. Karen is the co-founder of Sacred Acoustics and co-author with Dr. Eben Alexander of Living in a Mindful Universe. In this conversation, we explore healing from “baby wounds,” generating an
Ajahn Dhammasiha: In Search of the Deathless (opens the original)
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Reading the Dhammapada gave Ajahn Dhammasiha the final push to renounce the world and embark on the search for Nibbāna — the Deathless, the Marvellous. Once an atheist in the West Berlin party scene, he had grown increasingly disenchanted with worldly life and traveled to India for PhD research. He abandoned the scholarship and ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk. Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about monastic training in the forest tradition, what it means to have faith in the Buddha's awakening, how
John Butler at 89: "I've Never Been More Alive" (opens the original)
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John Butler has been meditating twice a day for more than sixty years. He was a farmer first. He fell in love with the stillness of wide-open landscapes. Meditation showed him the same wide-open space within. Now, that stillness is all-pervasive. As a young boy, it grieved him that his beloved animals and plants had to die for his sake. In church, he heard that Christ is the Lamb of God, and it made sense to him. He sees Christ now in everything that offers itself up so that life may go on — in
Urmila Devi Dasi: 50 Years of Loving Krishna (Bhakti Yoga) (opens the original)
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Since age four, Urmila Devi Dasi sought to know God. At seventeen, while meditating, she experienced herself dissolving into oneness with God. It terrified her. Pulling back, she plunged into a life of hedonism, which thankfully didn't last long. Over five decades later, she is steeped in her devotion to God as the Supreme Person with whom she has a personal relationship, whose hand she sees in every event of her life, who appears to her as an inexhaustible source of playfulness, love, wisdom, a
Fr. Ron Rolheiser: What It Means to Give Your Life (and Death) Away (opens the original)
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Fr. Ron Rolheiser maps the spiritual journey across three stages: getting your life together, giving your life away, and — the one no one prepares you for — giving your death away. Drawing on monastic wisdom and the mystics, he shows how marriage, the monotony of daily work, and even illness, aging, and death can each become a deep spiritual practice. In this conversation, we talk about how loneliness, restlessness, and helplessness can become gifts to ourselves and loved ones. At seventy-eight,
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