Radical Humanity

Episode 52 | Beatitudes Part VI: Blessed Are Those Who Are Genuine (The Pure in Heart)


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The Sixth Affirmation in the beatitude series, where Jesus gives eight odd blessing statements that maps a transformative journey of rupturing dependency on others and the external world in order to feel secure and satisfied, to a vibrant and passionate embrace of life lived from within, opening us up to enjoy this mysterious existence in freedom, compassion, joy, authenticity and aliveness. Here, I journey into understanding this “pure at heart” phrase, discovering it to mean a state of genuineness; where one lives out of the core of one’s self, finding and trusting their genuine voice and expressing such in undiluted honesty and truth. I talk about ceremonial cleansing rituals, why shame and judgment are the oppressors that cause us to feel “dirty”, where these “forces” originate, how our disorders are vital communicative agents of truth and what Jesus might indicate when he talks about “seeing God”.

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Radical HumanityBy Benjamin Hoover, LMFT