The Deep End

How are Christianity's Unknowing, Buddha's No Mind, Jesus' Eyes of a Child, and Rumi's Love have in common? How can we open ourselves to this hidden powers beyond our own thinking? To what advantage? Be well... Wonder Deep....

What is this dream for humanity the flows underneath our lives? What is this dream? From Revelation to the Bodhisattva this dream emerges in just about every spiritual tradition. How can we embody this dream and grow it more fully in our lives? Be well...wonder deep...

How is it that we never physically touch each other or anything yet our deepest meanings come from this "non-touch"? What is this "touch"? How do we grow meaning from it and how is it part of human evolution? Stay in touch my friends

What is the Will? How can we best muster it? ...and to what good end. America and much of the world is at a crossroads of the WILL. Which way to go and why? Are there different levels of the Will? Is there a way to align our own Wills with the intent of life itself? What is that intent? Blessings

What is guilt? How has it helped shape the human family? When did guilt first show itself and when was it first seen as a separate emotion? As well, how has guilt been integral to human evolution? What is the spiritual worth of guilt as an internal moral experience? Blessings...

Human Civilization's have come and gone for thousands of years. Many of our stories derive from the rise and fall of these civilizations. What is a civilization and are we headed for a global civilization? How can we grow a new way of thinking about ourselves in a global civilization? Can we create a global civilization? I pray we can! Blesssings

What is an Idea? Where do they come from? What are the great ideas that changed and created our world? What are the ideas we need now? WHEW! Join us in our discussion about the world of IDEAS. Be well... Wonder deep.

What is wisdom? How is it different from information and data? Is there a wisdom deficit today? How can we understand what's happening to wisdom and can we find a new wisdom to address this loss? America specifically has sacrificed wisdom for impulse... how's that working out. Big SIGH. Blessings.

What is this ability to feel what another feels? Empathy has been called integral to human evolution; as well, it looks to many that we are still developing finer gradations of empathy, making unconscious material and patterns more conscious. What do you think? Blessings

What is EVIL? How have we been taught about it? How has EVIL set up camp among us? Mary Anne Ruddis lays out how we define evil and how it finds fertile ground in the ordinary. We discuss what we can do about it and how we become complicit in growing more of it. May the Holy Presence help us. Blessings

Food is THE Prime Connector in life. Food is where death becomes new life, where the alchemy of relationship transforms sunlight, water and earth into a sacred substance: FOOD. And, to cook using whole ingredients is to participate in a huge chain of becoming. Food is so much more than mere consumption. It is a source of daily communion.
Blessings

The three most integral connectors in human life are Family, Friends and Community. Why are they so important? How do they grow health and wholeness or not? Are relationships the true substance that dances between us? Join us at the deep end of relationships. Blessings

Is the human family capable of actually becoming a human family? What is needed for us to become a true global family? What gets in the way? We explore many of the deeper aspects of humanity and begin to understand the how overcoming our own hardwiring is integral to our existential well being. Blessings to planet earth.

Part 2 of Justice for All, the next step of evolution... So what is blocking our forward motion and keeping us from "We Are One" consciousness? We show ten blockades to our moving towards a more fundamental fairness and how we get in our own way. Big SIGH! Blessings...

Is the next step of human evolution Justice for All? How has the human development grown and expanded like some moral circle? As well, how has our own neurological wiring gotten in the way? From survival to power to belonging to justice... consciousness has been doing something amazing. Woohoo... on with the arc of justice!

What is the Spiritual State of the World? How can we sort out what is breaking down from what is spiritually emerging? What are some new ways of talking about this tension between breakdown and hope? Can we get out of this conflict between ideas, worth and belonging? Let me know what you think? Blessings!

The human family has come a long way since the 1927 view of Big Bang creation story. Where are we now? What do we do with the next layer of mystery? Why is there anything at all? Is time real? What next? Blessings ALL...

What is happening to us as "We the People"? My heart is breaking as I watch this great divide separate us from each other. What are the deeper WOUNDS that are the roots of this tragic divide? I would love to hear your view on this. Be well... Wonder deep...

America's Shadow is looming large. What is this shadow? Can one person be a nation's shadow and if so is Trump America's Shadow? Is it possible to see the shadow in others or is that just another form of the shadow's projection? What are we to do with this SHADOW? Love to hear from you... Blessings

What is this great divide that has become America? We address this divide as a psychosocial event to try to understand what is happening to us both within and without. Are we seeing and feeling the collapse of America or the transition of America into renewal? Which side of the divide do you live in? Blessings

Psyche is both the kernel of our souls and the totality of our being. How can we find ways to understand these internal forces that are our very being. We look within and discuss this journey from psyche to divine love. Be well... Wonder deep...

We all must make this journey of life both out and in. Where do the out and in meet? What is that bridge that weaves the inner and outer lives together. How can we best tend to this two part spiritual event that is our life? Blessings

What are these inner walls we build to protect our selves? What is the underlying spiritual aspect of our brick by brick wall building? How can we become more open and vulnerable while still feeling safe? This is one of the front lines in today's world. Blessings

In this time of fake news and misinformation how can we know what is TRUE? We live in a swirl of information with little orientation. We dive into the deep end of how we can sort out the truth from all the noise and grow a clearer sense of personal discernment. Welcome to a pickled America! Blessings

America's Founders based any sense of liberty on VIRTUE. Without virtue a republic cannot stand. What did virtue mean to them and how has it changed over the centuries? What has happened to us that our sense of virtue has frayed and fragmented? Can we regrow a new sense of virtue? Blessings

How can America move forward? Is it possible? How can we find ways to talk about it, look at it historically and learn new approaches to face the radical obstacles that confront us? A hopeful conversation!!
God bless America.

What is White Privilege? Can we turn our White Privilege into Grace? How? Why are we so blind to our own Privilege? Is there anyway out of here? This was a great spiritual reflection on how to turn our lives toward transformation in the middle of White Privilege. Love to hear your thoughts. Blessings...

Why is humor so important, especially in divisive times? How are today's comedians much like jesters of old? In these dark time it is the comedians who are on the front lines on a revolution. Truth is hanging out in a joke and wit is the stuff that can unmask a king. May our hearts be light even as the times grow heavy! Blessings

Psychedelics have changed the human family over and over... will they do it again? What are these "magical" substances? How do they work? What is this experience about and what does it look like from the inside? They changed my life and still do. Whew and wow! Blessings

What is Consciousness? Is it produced by the brain or is the brain a receiver of some greater field of consciousness? We explore these within the context of Dan Brown's new book "Secret of Secrets". What do you think? Be well, wonder deep.

In today's world it is easy to miss how wondrous the human family is. We stop and take a moment to lift up some of the redeeming qualities of who we are as human beings and celebrate them even in the face of all our flaws. Blessing to all!

Welcome to the Season of Light! Just about all religions and cultures celebrate this season and calls the human family back to wisdom, compassion, consciousness and divine presence. Gathering around a fire, an Advent Wreath or displaying a simple candle in your window all invite renewal into our lives. Be well...Wonder deep! Blessings

What is the deep end of community? How is community an exchange of being? Why are our stories and vulnerabilities so important in growing true community? Redhawk, Mary Anne Ruddis and Bob Hays are joined by Edie Rice-Sauer in a delightful frolic through a discussion on community's deep end.

What is the difference between Soul and Mind? How can our thinking about about the differences help in our spiritual evolution? Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob discuss the way we can grow from this inner conversation with ourselves. Blessings...

What is the Soul? What is the Mind? What is the difference between Soul and Mind? How can seeing these two as distinct help our own spiritual inner dialogue? How have different points of view seen these aspects of our being? Be well... wonder deep.

Why are personal stories so important to share? Why do some have trouble sharing their stories? Mary Anne Ruddis, Bob Hays and Redhawk share some of their own stories and how they affected their lives and how sharing them increases our own bandwidth of experience. Share your stories! Wonder deep...

How can we rekindle our dwindling empathy? What are things we can do to reconnect us to each other in a healthy way? Redhawk and his cohorts explore a number of ways we can grow more empathy in our human hearts. Stay vulnerable!

Empathy is on the run! Why is EMPATHY dwindling in our human family? What are the aspects of our society that are dulling our ability to see from another persons feelings and perspective? Redhawk offers a clear diagnosis on the "State of Empathy" in the human family. Be well... Wonder deep...

When is enough enough? How do we notice when enough is enough? How is learning about enough necessary for our spiritual journey? Are we living under a prevailing myth of "endless more"? Do you think we need more of "enough"? Blessings

Suffering is part and parcel of of the human experience. There is no way around it. What do we do with our suffering? Are we headed for a huge wave of suffering and what will we do with it? God help us!!! Be well... Blessings