Hidden Wisdom

Meghan is joined by Reed Doxey to discuss his experiences detecting and dismissing evil spirits. Topics include: 

- The Nature of Spiritual Battles
- Root Causes of Some Illness
- The Enemy of Our Souls
- Emotional Connection
- Applying the Atonement for Healing 

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Continuing our exercise on seeking the truth of difficult topics, including that of polygamy, Meghan is now joined by historian Cheryl Bruno. Topics include:

- What are the "Hidden Things," in the Scriptures?
- The Journey of Understanding the Nature of God
- The Danger of Saying ‘We Have Enough’
- Opening our Hearts and Minds to Receive Truth from the Lord
- The Origin of the Relief Society, and Stepping Into the Priestesshood

Cheryl L. Bruno has lived in fourteen of the United States and now resides in the magnificent Monterey Bay area of California. She is an independent researcher in Mormon studies and co-author of Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration (Greg Kofford Books, 2022), as well as a forthcoming biography on William Marks. Her wide interests have led her to publish scholarly articles, personal essays, poetry, and even a deck of Mormon-themed tarot cards. She has raised eight children and reigns over twenty grandchildren.

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Come, Follow Me Lesson #14 with Jocelyn Pedersen:

Why are there so many unnamed prophets in the Book of Mormon? Who are they?! How do we follow a prophet, and is that the same thing as sustaining the general authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?  There's so much more here to explore and the wonderful thing is, as we dig deeper, we find a beautiful well of water springing up unto everlasting life!

Join us as we also discuss:
- How to potentially help loved ones who are wavering or who have left the church to the gospel of Jesus Christ once more
- What to do when we disagree with something we hear over the pulpit
- How to exercise greater faith in Christ and truly sustain church leaders

Follow along with the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iGVBymUUYasRTgXoX7MBW4NEzNrJ3CATMolnnfNni6s/edit?usp=sharing

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Meghan is joined by author Heather Linchenko as they discuss her recent book, "'I Meant Well' and Other Words That Kill Relationships." Topics include:

- The Implicit Commandment
- Prioritizing Love Over Tradition
- The "Fight Cycle"
- Contending Righteously
- Redefining Zion
-The Evolution of Our Transformation

Heather Linchenko was raised in a Christian home in Idaho, the eighth of ten children. She served as a missionary in Belgium and France and was privileged to work for several years as the executive assistant to Stephen R. Covey, author of the best-selling book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. She married a man who grew up as one of two siblings in an atheist home in communist Russia. As she and her husband raised their five children, their polar opposite backgrounds necessitated a break from convention and tradition, emboldening Heather to break ground on a garden of fresh ideas. Her greatest passion is helping others create a culture of laughter, learning, and openness in the home.

She mutinied against today’s broken approach to teaching math to young children by creating a truly new and compelling times tables product/program (for kids as young as 5 or 6) that creates in them a flexible, math-ready brain and a belief that they are smart [MathHacked.com]. She loves to see young kids thrive on the addictive feeling of success.

She has authored three books: Letters from Kazakhstan, which details her family’s 1998 adventures in post-Soviet Kazakhstan; Mom! You’re Working Too Hard, which teaches parents and teachers how to educate children in a way everyone loves (no resistance!); and [hot off the press] “I Meant Well' And Other Words That Kill Relationships, wherein she shares a wealth of knowledge on how to make bad relationships good and good relationships vibrant. As time permits, she enjoys mentoring others through their relationship conundrums.              

She has developed a one-day intensive training called “Expand Your Influence” wherein she trains busy executives how—through the development of specific mental and verbal relationship skills—to fast-track their way to greater personal and business success. One of her greatest compliments is to have been referred to as “the relationship scientist.”

Her central guiding quote is: “From the closed-mindedness that won’t accept new truth; from the laziness that will accept half-truth; From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth; Good Lord, deliver me” (Kenyan Prayer).

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Join Jocelyn for our Come, Follow Me episode covering the entire book of Jacob!

Why does Jacob throw the Olive Tree Allegory in the middle of a sermon on pride, polygamy, and antichrists? Because it's not an allegory! It's a parable. And your understanding goes only as deep as your willingness to learn.

In this week's special lecture on the Book of Jacob in the Book of Mormon we'll explore the themes Jacob is tying together to give us a critical message for our day, themes like:

The balance between female and male
True Love vs Whoredoms
Zion vs Elitism
Christ vs Anti-Christ
and the Temple vs Secret Combinations

Watch the Lesson on YouTube.

Follow along with the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iGVBymUUYasRTgXoX7MBW4NEzNrJ3CATMolnnfNni6s/edit?usp=sharing

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Meghan is joined for this impactful conversation by author David (Dave) Butler, as the two discuss what happened anciently to Mother in Heaven. Topics include:

- Temple worship in the Book of Mormon
- Identifying the Tree of Life
- Removing Heavenly Mother from the ancient temple
- Counterfeit Goddesses, vs. the true Goddess
- The Allegory of the Vineyard in Jacob 5 as a type for Her

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Dave Butler is not an academic. He has been a lawyer, a consultant, a corporate trainer, and a registered investment banking representative. He is now a Consulting Editor for Baen Books and part-owner of a business that designs bespoke elearning.

Dave also writes fiction, principally science fiction and fantasy and principally for adults. His eighteenth novel was published in January 2024. His books have won the Dragon Award, the Whitney Award, and the Association for Mormon Letters Award for Novel. In early 2021, Dave co-curated “A Desolating Sickness,” a literary response to the Covid pandemic that was displayed in BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library. This semester (Winter 2024) for the second time, his novel The Cunning Man (co-written with Aaron Michael Ritchey), which in July 2022 made the AML’s list of 100 Works of Significant Mormon Literature, is being taught in a Mormon Lit class on BYU campus.

Dave takes the position that the Book of Mormon is an ancient document, and also that the Book of Mormon is a work of temple literature. The Nephite prophets were members of an esoteric lineage that wrote for an audience that they expected to possess eyes to see and ears to hear, and the intended way to understand the meaning of their writings is to read through the lens of our own temple experience. He embodied his early thoughts in this vein in a pair of short books, Plain and Precious Things and The Goodness and the Mysteries, both self-published under the pen name D. John Butler.

Dave is currently hard at work on his third book on this subject, entitled In the Language of Adam. He hopes to bring this book out in Spring 2024.

Dave plays guitar and banjo whenever he can, and hangs out in Utah with his wife, their children, and the family dog.

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Meghan is joined by author and motivational speaker, Dennis Deaton, to discuss key psychological practices for "mind management". Topics Include:

- Faith as a condition and a state of mind
- Agency and controlling thoughts
- Faith as spiritual matter
- Choosing to see God as He is, a loving generous Father
- The voices in our head

Dennis R Deaton is co-founder of Quma Learning Systems and a nationally-known leadership trainer, motivational speaker and award-winning author. His book, Ownership Spirit: the One Grand Key that Changes Everything Else, was the 2009 National Best Books Award Winner in the Business Motivational category.

Brother Deaton has held numerous leadership positions in the Church including Elder's Quorum President, Bishop and Counselor in a Stake Presidency. He currently serves as patriarch in his stake and a temple worker in the Gilbert, Arizona temple.

He has taught numerous Adult Education courses for the Church Education System, and was a regular speaker at BYU Campus Education Week for 22 years. He received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Utah, and his doctorate, Cum Laude, from Washington University in St. Louis.

Dennis' latest book, Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought: Defeating Fear, Doubt and Discouragement, is his capstone work, and has already received widespread praise for its life-changing message on drawing on the power of Jesus Christ in our daily thoughts. 

Dennis has been described as, "A man with something to say, and the gift to say it." 

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Meghan is joined by author and founder of "Leading Saints," Kurt Francom to discuss his book, "Is God Disappointed In Me?". Topics include: 

- Shame as an attack on identity
- Measuring Worth
- Behaviors vs. State of our Heart
- Identity and the Nature of God
-The 2 Most Powerful Words in Any Language

Kurt Francom is the founder and executive director of Leading Saints, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Latter-day Saints be better prepared to lead. The Leading Saints podcast is one of the premier Latter-day Saints podcasts reaching 500,000 downloads each month and a lifetime reach of 20 million total downloads. 

Kurt graduated from the University of Utah in 2008 with a degree in Business Marketing. He ran a web development company for 5 years before focusing on Leading Saints full-time in 2016. Kurt currently lives in American Fork, Utah with his lovely wife, Alanna. They are blessed to have three children and a dog. 

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Come Follow Me, Lesson #12 with Jocelyn Pedersen:
~Why has President Russell M. Nelson asked us (especially women) to study the "doctrine of Christ" at least 15x now?
~What deception is he concerned about and is it the same thing Nephi was worried about?
~What does this have to do with temples?
~What were they trying to tell us in the World Wide Relief Society Devotional?

Follow along with the syllabus!

Watch the lesson on YouTube. 

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Meghan is joined by Todd McLauchlin of Shattering Triangles for this special bonus episode! Register to hear Todd speak at the upcoming Isaiah Institute Conference, "A Day of Reckoning," on March 30th, 2024. 

Topics for this episode include: 
- Natural, Earthly and Heavenly Hierarchies as Masculine Structure
- Covenant as Light, Truth, Law, Spirit - Feminine Creation
- The Principle of a Probation
- Sacred Spaces to Initiate Covenant - Wombs, Temples, Garments
-  Balancing Masculine+Feminine - Structure + Creative Power
- Fruits of Unbalanced Masculine/Feminine

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