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By Meghan FarnerReligion & Spirituality Christianity Spirituality

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March 10The Yoga of Christ: The Hidden Wisdom of Jesus, Part 1 with Phil McLemore
In this episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner sits down with spiritual teacher and former military chaplain Phil McLemore to explore the profound idea that Jesus’ teachings reflect the same principles found in the ancient yoga traditions. This conversation examines meditation, divine nature, Christ consciousness, and the difference between a “deficiency model” and a “wholeness model” of spiritual growth.
You’ll learn:
Why yoga is far more than physical postures
The difference between religion about Christ and union with Christ
What “Christ consciousness” really means
Why Jesus may have practiced deep contemplative prayer or meditation
The four classic yogic paths and how Jesus embodied them
How spiritual rebirth differs from guilt-based repentance
This conversation invites listeners to rediscover a mystical dimension of Christianity that focuses less on shame and more on awakening to the divine nature within.
If you’re interested in Christian mysticism, meditation, Christ consciousness, and spiritual awakening within a Christ-centered framework, this episode will expand your perspective.
Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction to the episode and Phil McLemore
02:40 – Why this conversation is about “The Yoga of Christ”
03:45 – Phil’s spiritual crisis and health journey
05:30 – Discovering meditation and yoga for healing
07:00 – The identity crisis: Christian or yogi?
08:20 – A prophetic blessing that shaped Phil’s path
10:40 – The dilemma of two different views of Jesus
13:10 – Authentic Christianity as relationship with the living Christ
15:30 – Repentance as transformation of mind and heart
17:00 – Seeking truth across spiritual traditions
18:30 – The insight: “Take my yoke” and the meaning of yoga
21:00 – Christ consciousness and spiritual rebirth
23:30 – Two models of salvation: deficiency vs wholeness
26:30 – Why shame-based spirituality struggles to transform people
28:00 – The pearl of great price and our divine nature
30:00 – Rediscovering the lost mysticism of Christianity
33:00 – The question: What is the yoga of Jesus?
34:30 – The four classical paths of yoga explained
35:00 – Bhakti Yoga: the path of love and devotion
36:20 – Karma Yoga: the path of selfless service
37:30 – Jnana Yoga: the path of wisdom and knowledge
38:30 – Raja Yoga: the path of meditation
39:30 – Why Jesus embodied all four yogic paths
41:00 – Did Jesus practice meditation?
42:30 – Communion with God and the practice of non-attachment
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45 min
March 06 Covenant Structures | House of Learning | Lesson 8
In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore three major covenant structures found throughout scripture — the Sinai covenant, the Davidic covenant, and the Abrahamic covenant — and how all three operate within what is called the “new and everlasting covenant.”

This lesson reveals how God mercifully extends covenant relationships to humanity through multiple structures: collective covenants with nations and communities, intercessory covenants through proxy saviors, and personal covenants with individuals and their posterity. Together, these patterns reveal a divine system designed to bless, gather, protect, and spiritually mature God’s children across generations.

You’ll learn:

✨ What the Sinai covenant teaches about collective covenant responsibility
✨ How the Davidic covenant reveals intercession, proxy leadership, and spiritual stewardship
✨ Why Jesus Christ is the ultimate intercessor and covenant mediator
✨ How the Abrahamic covenant demonstrates personal covenant relationship and divine promise
✨ Why God honors covenant across time, nations, and generations
✨ How covenant structures support spiritual ascension and becoming
✨ What the “new and everlasting covenant” truly means

This episode also explores biblical examples including Moses, David, Hezekiah, Abraham, Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon covenant tradition, and how covenant structures may continue to unfold in modern spiritual development.

If you’ve ever wondered how covenants operate beyond individual belief, how intercession functions spiritually, or how God organizes collective spiritual growth, this lesson offers deep insight and spiritual coherence.

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⚠️ This content reflects personal spiritual study and interpretation. Viewers are encouraged to seek personal revelation, honor sacred covenants, and engage with discernment.

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23 min
March 03The Mystery of Jacob's Ladder: A Pattern of Awakening, Atonement, and Resurrection
In this episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner unpacks one of the most mysterious visions in scripture: Jacob’s Ladder (Genesis 28).
Far from a story about life after death, Jacob’s Ladder is revealed as a living blueprint for spiritual embodiment — the pattern of descending into matter and reascending into divine awareness while still in the flesh.
Drawing connections across ancient traditions, Kabbalah, alchemy, astrology, Gnostic cosmology, Egyptian initiation, and Christian mysticism, Meghan explores:
The seven (and eighth) rungs of spiritual ascent
The process of overcoming the natural man
Shame, pride, attachment, fear, and spiritual authority
Emotional regulation and embodied wisdom
Personal sovereignty vs. outsourcing authority
Integration of heaven and earth within the self
Mary Magdalene’s ascent vision as a parallel ladder
What it means to encounter Christ within
This episode reframes Jacob’s declaration — “This is the gate of heaven” — as an inward revelation: the temple is you.
If you are studying the Old Testament, exploring esoteric Christianity, or walking the path of spiritual initiation, this episode offers a grounded yet expansive lens on the ladder that exists within your own anatomy, psychology, and soul.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction & app announcements
04:22 Genesis 28: Jacob’s vision
07:13 The ladder across ancient traditions
09:15 The law of correspondence (“as above, so below”)
10:58 Descension into matter & reascension
12:42 The cyclical, chiastic nature of the ladder
The Seven Rungs
18:27 Rung 1 – From shame to purification
22:47 Rung 2 – From intellectual pride to embodied wisdom
25:55 Rung 3 – Attachment to emotional regulation
30:02 Rung 4 – Fear to courage (center of the chiasm)
34:24 Rung 5 – Aggression to clarity & truth
37:57 Rung 6 – External authority to spiritual sovereignty
39:59 Rung 7 – Integration & joy
41:51 Rung 8 – Encountering Christ
44:58 Mary Magdalene’s ascent vision
55:41 “The house of God is within you”
57:19 Invitation into spiritual education
Resources:
The Ascent Vision of Mary Magdalene
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59 min
February 27 A Relationship with God | House of Learning | Lesson 7
In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore covenants not as legal contracts or religious checklists, but as sacred relationships of love, union, and spiritual transformation with God.
This lesson reframes covenant as an invitation into intimate relationship — the merging of identity, loyalty, and purpose between God and the soul. Drawing from biblical symbolism, ancient covenant patterns, and temple theology, the discussion reveals why covenant is ultimately relational rather than transactional.
You’ll learn:
✨ Why covenant means relationship, not merely agreement
✨ How ancient covenants symbolized the merging of identity and unity of heart
✨ Why pride and spiritual superiority undermine covenant consciousness
✨ The three components of covenant: initiation, obligations, and blessings
✨ How Christ is revealed in scripture as the Bridegroom
✨ The spiritual meaning of sacred marriage symbolism
✨ The Hebrew concept of hesed (covenant love and loving-kindness)
✨ How covenant deepens personal intimacy with God
This episode also explores how covenant relationships evolve through spiritual growth, how divine mercy supports the learning process, and why God’s desire is union rather than compliance. Viewers are invited to reconsider their relationship with Christ as one of devotion, trust, love, and becoming.
If you’ve ever felt that faith has become overly transactional, rigid, or institutional, this lesson offers a healing and expansive vision of covenant as sacred relationship and divine intimacy.
🌿 This episode is part of a 17-week course releasing weekly on YouTube.
🌿 For guided reflection, journaling tools, deeper study resources, and community conversation, explore the Hidden Wisdom app (link below).
⚠️ This content reflects personal spiritual study and interpretation. Viewers are encouraged to seek personal revelation, honor sacred covenants, and engage with discernment.
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18 min
February 24Conscious Motherhood and Divine Feminine Awakening, with Shayna Persad
In this heartfelt and expansive episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner is joined by Shayna Persad, yoga teacher, womb healer, astrologer, and creator of Healing with Shayna, for a powerful conversation on conscious motherhood as a path of spiritual awakening.
Shayna shares her journey from a Catholic upbringing into divine feminine embodiment, womb wisdom, and conscious parenting—exploring how children act as mirrors for unhealed wounds, nervous system dysregulation, and inherited patterns. Together, Meghan and Shayna unpack the difference between conscious parenting and permissive parenting, the role of boundaries, and why many “good” children are actually responding to trauma rather than safety.
This episode weaves together spirituality, psychology, astrology, and motherhood to reframe parenting not as control or hierarchy, but as partnership, guidance, and soul-level remembrance. They also explore how our views of parenting shape our views of God, authority, and agency—and why healing the “bad mom” wound is essential for feminine wholeness.
00:00 | Introduction to Shayna Persad & conscious motherhood
01:05 | Shayna’s spiritual roots: Catholicism, angels, and the divine feminine
05:55 | Yoga, Bali, and awakening into feminine spirituality
08:10 | Bridging religion and spirituality
12:30 | Astrology and surrender vs control
15:20 | Growing up without feminine models
16:40 | Healing the mother wound through motherhood
19:30 | What conscious motherhood really means
21:35 | Children as mirrors for inner healing
23:10 | Why “good” children may not feel safe
25:25 | Parenting, God, and rethinking authority
29:10 | Healing isn’t linear
31:20 | Working with triggers in daily parenting
32:50 | Journaling, meditation, and nervous system regulation
35:45 | Children sharing the mother’s energetic field
37:00 | Using astrology to understand your child
40:35 | How awareness heals trauma
43:40 | Healing comes from within, not outside authority
47:30 | Conscious vs permissive parenting
49:30 | Modeling behavior over control
50:45 | Acceptance and allowing children to be who they are
53:20 | The “bad mom” wound
55:25 | Why good moms question themselves
56:35 | Repair, apology, and conscious parenting in practice
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59 min
February 20 Understanding Saving Ordinances | House of Learning | Lesson 6
In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore what “saving ordinances” truly mean — and challenge the common assumption that symbolic rituals are salvific in and of themselves.

This lesson reframes temple ordinances not as spiritual hall passes or automatic guarantees of salvation, but as symbolic invitations into real spiritual transformation, covenant relationship, and lived discipleship through the grace of Jesus Christ.

Using a well-known quote from Brigham Young as a starting point, the discussion unpacks why memorizing signs, tokens, or participating in ceremonies alone cannot save a person — and how those symbols instead point toward deeper spiritual realities that must be experienced, embodied, and received through grace.

You’ll learn:

✨ Why ordinances are a means, not an end
✨ How symbols represent real spiritual experiences and gifts of grace
✨ The danger of reducing temple worship to performance or compliance
✨ Why God is interested in who we are becoming, not just what we are doing
✨ How ancient Israel struggled with the same misunderstanding
✨ How the Book of Mormon functions as a temple text
✨ What it means to “see beyond the symbol” into spiritual reality

This episode invites viewers to move beyond surface-level religious participation into conscious spiritual growth, discernment, and personal transformation in Christ.

If you’ve ever wondered whether ordinances alone can save you, how grace actually works, or how temple symbolism connects to lived spiritual experience, this lesson provides clarity and depth.

🌿 This episode is part of a 17-week course releasing weekly on YouTube.
🌿 For guided reflection, journaling tools, deeper study resources, and community conversation, explore the Hidden Wisdom app (link below).

⚠️ This content reflects personal spiritual study and interpretation. Viewers are encouraged to seek personal revelation, honor sacred covenants, and engage with discernment.
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16 min
February 17Sarah the High Priestess: The Melchizedek Mystery of the Lost Divine Feminine, with Michelle Wiener
In this expansive episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner is joined by theologian and author Michelle Wiener to explore the hidden feminine thread within the Abrahamic tradition.
Drawing from Michelle’s book Return to Mamre: Recovering the Melchizedek Mysteries Beneath the Sacred Groves, this conversation reframes Abraham and Sarah not merely as patriarch and matriarch, but as participants in a sacred matrimonial priesthood order — a divine pairing of priest and priestess rooted in ancient sacred groves, temple imagery, and cosmic symbolism.
Together, they explore:
Sarah as possible high priestess
The Mamre Order as a template for Melchizedek priesthood
Henotheism vs. monotheism and the divine council
The role of Heavenly Mother in healing Abrahamic division
Astrology, archetypes, and the constellations as priesthood patterns
The mother/daughter (virgin/“harlot”) archetype in scripture
The sacred feminine as key to reconciliation among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
This episode invites listeners into deeper discernment, symbolic literacy, and spiritual maturity — reclaiming a balanced priesthood of partnership rather than hierarchy.
If you’ve ever wondered whether the sacred feminine was truly erased from scripture — and how to recover her — this conversation will expand your lens.
00:00 Introduction + Michelle’s academic background
04:00 Southern Baptist roots & fear-based theology
08:40 Discovering the mystical & divine feminine
15:30 Introducing Return to Mamre
16:20 Abraham & Sarah’s journey to Mamre
20:00 Was Sarah initiated alongside Abraham?
23:00 Sacred groves, Asherah, and priestesshood
29:00 Bread, libations, and feminine temple ritual
34:00 Monotheism, henotheism, and the divine council
38:30 The “Most High God and Goddess”
45:00 Avoiding goddess conflation & discernment
50:15 Astrology, archetypes, and the Maseroth
55:30 The maiden–mother–crone pattern in the stars
1:02:00 Sarah & Hagar: mother/daughter archetypes
1:07:00 Solar vs lunar symbolism & degrees of glory
1:10:00 Healing Abrahamic division through the feminine
1:11:30 Final reflections on sacred partnership
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1 hr 13 min
February 15The Laws of Self-Love + Loving Others: Agape, the Pearl, + What Jesus Would Do | Sacrament Addresses by Meghan + Mckay Farner
In this special bonus episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan and McKay Farner share the talks they delivered in sacrament meeting on the greatest commandment: to "love thy neighbor as thyself."
Meghan explores the often-overlooked doctrine of self-love through the lens of agape—the unconditional love that God is. She unpacks false beliefs (“unbelief”) that keep us stuck in shame and natural-man identity, reframing repentance as healing rather than punishment. Drawing from Mosiah 3:19, Doctrine & Covenants 93, Moroni 7, and the teachings of President David O. McKay, she invites listeners to see themselves as the “pearl of great price”—already worthy of divine love.
McKay then shares a powerful mission story that forever changed his understanding of loving your neighbor. Through personal experience—including stepping away from church activity—he reflects on charity without ulterior motive and what it truly means to love as Christ loves.
Together, these talks offer a message of hope, grace, and spiritual maturity:
You cannot hate yourself into holiness.
You cannot give a gift you have not received.
And love is not kindness with a destination attached.
00:00 Introduction & purpose of the message
00:33 The Great Commandment (Matthew 22)
01:19 Agape: the unconditional love God is
02:35 False beliefs (“unbelief”) about self-love
04:24 Natural man vs. true eternal identity
07:23 Repentance as healing, not punishment
09:26 Shame, fear, and perfect love
10:16 Rest, worthiness, and grace
11:50 Meditation as communion with God
12:42 The pearl of great price
13:52 McKay’s mission story begins
15:47 What love is not
17:13 “Love is not kindness with a destination attached”
20:10 Charity defined (Moroni 7)
22:27 Princess & sacrificial love
23:40 “Greater love hath no man…”
24:16 Stepping away from church activity
24:48 “It’s what Jesus would do.”
25:02 Final testimony & invitation
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26 min
February 13 Defining Ordinances | House of Learning | Lesson 5
In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore what ordinances truly are, why they matter spiritually, and how they function as the bridge between human effort and the saving power of Jesus Christ’s Atonement.
This lesson introduces a transformational framework for understanding ordinances as having three essential components: a physical action, a symbolic spiritual teaching, and a real spiritual manifestation or gift of grace. Using baptism as a primary example, the discussion reveals how ordinances are not merely symbolic rituals, but divinely designed pathways for spiritual rebirth, covenant relationship, and inner transformation.
You’ll learn:
✨ Why ordinances are the means by which we access the power of Christ’s Atonement
✨ The three essential components of every saving ordinance
✨ How baptism teaches death, rebirth, surrender, and resurrection
✨ What baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost truly represents
✨ Why ordinances are incomplete without spiritual manifestation
✨ How temple ordinances mirror these same spiritual patterns
✨ The meaning of signs, tokens, and covenant exchange
This episode invites viewers to move beyond automatic or surface-level participation in ordinances and toward lived spiritual experience, discernment, and conscious covenant relationship.
If you’ve ever wondered why ordinances matter, how they actually change us, or how temple rituals connect to real spiritual growth, this lesson provides essential clarity and spiritual depth.
🌿 This episode is part of a 17-week course releasing weekly on YouTube.
🌿 For guided reflection, journaling tools, deeper study resources, and community conversation, explore the Hidden Wisdom app (link below).
⚠️ This content reflects personal spiritual study and interpretation. Viewers are encouraged to seek personal revelation, honor sacred covenants, and engage with discernment.
Learn more at: https://meghanfarner.com
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15 min
February 10Meditation as Atonement: Union with God Through Stillness and Awareness, with Phil McLemore
In this expansive episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner is joined by returning guest Phil McLemore for a deep, practical teaching on meditation as the highest form of prayer. Phil presents meditation as an ancient practice of awareness, union with God, and transformation.
Together, they explore the difference between mindfulness and transcendental (yoga) meditation, why stillness is essential for spiritual perception, and how meditation aligns with Jesus’ own teachings on prayer, the inner kingdom, and becoming “one” with God. Phil offers step-by-step guidance on posture, breath, mantra, handling distractions, and receiving meditation as a feminine, receptive flow of grace rather than a forced effort.
This episode also addresses common fears around meditation, ego resistance, spiritual ego, emotional release, and discernment—grounding the practice firmly in Christ-centered theology, embodiment, and character transformation. For anyone seeking a deeper experience of God, inner healing, and true at-one-ment, this episode serves as both teaching and invitation.
00:00 | Introduction & why meditation matters for spiritual growth
03:00 | Phil’s background & discovering meditation through pain
06:10 | Meditation as prayer, not self-improvement
07:20 | God in the present moment & spiritual awareness
09:00 | Mindfulness vs transcendental (God-centered) meditation
12:50 | Jesus’ model of prayer & the Aramaic meaning of “pray”
16:30 | Awareness of awareness & inner stillness
19:00 | Yoga, atonement, and union with God
23:00 | Still mind, pure heart, and scriptural foundations
29:40 | Preparing for meditation: time, place, posture
34:00 | Harmonizing the body & devotional intent
43:10 | “Don’t pray to God—pray in God”
46:20 | Breath as the gateway to Spirit
52:35 | Diaphragmatic breathing & nervous system safety
56:00 | Mantra meditation & examples (“Be Still,” “Peace, Be Still”)
01:05:30 | Handling intrusive thoughts & ego resistance
01:11:50 | Concentration vs meditation: receiving grace
01:15:40 | Oneness, transformation, and Christ-consciousness
01:23:30 | Obstacles, emotional release, and patience
01:31:30 | Discernment, symbolism, and avoiding spiritual ego
01:33:30 | Character transformation as the true fruit
01:37:15 | Closing reflections & invitation to practice
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1 hr 39 min

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