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Conscious Living, Conscious Dying with RamDev Dale Borglum - EP 377 (opens the original)
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Dale Borglum, executive director of the Living/Dying Project and decades-long meditation teacher, joins the Spiritual Forum to discuss the interrelationship of conscious dying and conscious living. He shares his journey from studying math at Berkeley and Stanford to collaborating with Ram Das, Steven Levine and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, eventually leading to the creation of the Dying Center he currently leads in Santa Fe. Dale discusses how denial of death shapes nearly every aspect of our culture,
A Case for Vegan God with Kameron Waters - EP 376 (opens the original)
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Kameron Waters joins the Spiritual Forum to discuss his journey from hunter/fisherman steeped in Bible Belt Christianity to co-creator of the documentary Christspiracy (aka What Would Jesus Do?). He describes how a Daniel fast and intense study of the Bible sparked questions about food, animal souls, and the deeper message of Jesus. He discusses contested scriptures such as Genesis 9 and makes the case that Jesus opposed animal sacrifice and embodied nonviolence toward all creatures - not as a s
When the Night Does Not Break with Dick S Forbes - EP 375 (opens the original)
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No matter your faith tradition, no one escapes suffering and sometimes the dark nights seem to go on forever. Dick Forbes joins The Spiritual Forum to discuss how suffering and dark seasons can lead to deeper communion with God. He shares his faith journey and speaks candidly about 17 years of estrangement from two of his children and how he learned to release what he cannot fix and find God’s presence even in silence. Finally, he discusses the nature of God and how answered prayer often shows u
The Wisdom of the Odyssey with Phil Cousineau - EP 374 (opens the original)
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NOTE: Phil's video quality is less than optimum at first but improves significantly at 12 minutes Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film The Odyssey has grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide. There’s no better time to have a conversation about it. Phil Cousineau joins the Spiritual Forum to discuss his book The Wisdom of the Odyssey and why Homer’s 3,000-year-old epic remains a living “sacred story” about love, war, and the lifelong spiritual search for home and return to self. The Odyssey is our st
The Road from Shame to Forgiveness with Cheryl Wilder - EP 373 (opens the original)
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Cheryl Wilder joins the Spiritual Forum to share her decades-long reckoning after a drunk driving crash at age 20 that left her friend permanently brain-injured. She describes how shame (“I am wrong”) shaped her life and how her refusal to run from accountability ultimately led her on a healing journey that included mindfulness, Taoist teachings, journaling and poetry writing – all of which led her toward moral repair and self-forgiveness. Near the end, Cheryl shares her current involvement in c
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