This episode of High Church includes thoughts on: 

Getting exactly what you need, we gotta talk about God, telling the Truth, we’re all wanting to be caught, turn yourself in, compulsivity, liberation, the dance and play of life, maya, characters and roles, therapy, okay with not being okay, padding your resume, embellishing, fake it ‘till you make it, I don’t have the sauce, nowhere to bottom out, rising to the top, getting real, can’t trick truth, “I’m gonna tell you the truth”, the real truth, perfect allyship, method acting, failing DEI exams, pretty woke, imposter syndrome, bible college, homeschool, entrance exams, reverse cowboy, the perpetual test, unibrow phobia, the code has been cracked, good reminders, spirituality, your abode, the need for interesting things, beyond persona, caught not taught, what’s looking?, eyes of the heart, come inside, never leave, $300 jeans $5 shirts, t shirts plus, OC Lords, Easter, baptism, you must die to be reborn, can you be IT, lay down your beliefs, no baggage, that brand new feeling, in trouble for telling the truth, being the truth, don’t force it, peak curiosity, Kabir, Love Poems from God, ‘maybe it will become chic’, if you really want to know the truth, the Guest, baptism of fire, rock bottom, you never forget HOME

 

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Special guest Ron Cecil!, half-baked, shortcuts to sleep, Gabor Mate, trauma, ADHD, Scattered Minds, stretching, Iron John, masculinity, evangelical fear of the other, Harry Potter, Wild at Heart, Mythology, missing community, where it is right, big numbers, 500 thousand idiots, Carlton Pearson, Pilgrim’s Progress, Rob Mill, splitting yourself, internships, professional spirituality debacle, No More Mr. Nice Guy, evangelical street cred, the rebound of the ego, intellectual superiority, John the Revelator, mushrooms, working in ministry, the subconscious, self-sabotage, Irish Catholic basketball leagues, accountability partners, goodness, Christian values, morality, pole positions, reformation, original goodness, drawing lines, Belfast movie, one right answer, ever-present goodness, God looking for God, friends with Change, taking care of your brain, stillness spirituality, doing less, accessing God, from Bindu to Ojas, another one

 

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Iron John

No More Mr. Nice Guy by Dr. Robert Glover

Special guest Ron Cecil!, podcast host, simultaneous heretics, the Work, “mens work”, San Quentin, accepting yourself, different prisons, hiding who you are, parts of ourselves, cutting for sign, looking for Me, how Love might change a situation, Brianna Noble, the full spectrum, snorting your own urine, what a man is, shame, acceptance, radical responsibility, shadow, “I don’t know”, willing to be with what is, father’s day cards, Genesis P-Orridge, Psychic TV, We, saying sorry to yourself, 3rd person speech, Internal Family Systems, all the different Rons, dog walking and cannabis, tower of cool, need for affirmation, rewriting painful memories, reality, chewing with the other side of your mouth, inaccessible to ourselves, feeling safe, breathwork, redlining, anger, “I forgive you for ______”, something has to go, busyness, can’t do it all, doing nothing, snapshots of gratitude, kratom, behind the waterfall, the space between stars, love, Eugene Peterson, divorce, parties in England, “God is here”, it’s already asking, spiritual teachers, vulnerability, self-initiation, saying yes, Adyashanti, satsang, burning the place down

 

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Adyashanti excerpt from The Impact of Awakening

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This episode of High Church includes thoughts on: 

I never want this to end, pro-covid, palm springs, loops in our lives, deconstructing the looker, everything feels like death, Ram Dass, anchorless Christianity, High Church proper, sacrament, ego inflation, mind on top of mind, the revolution will not be televised, making a “one” a “two”, God is all there is, the darkened path, rationalizing belief, cold exposure, breathing, your body is a temple, spiritual materialism, realization, photocopies of bliss, the garden of eden, birth and death are real, but they do not happen to YOU, covid industry, stillness wins, multi-tasking, the most helpful fiction, single-mindedness, jnana yoga, different gates, Ram Ram Ram, Trump “considering the matter”, lying to ourselves, the glove’s on the wrong foot… so to speak, EloHIM, EloME, make friends with change, dissolving, shadow-banned, buried in the algorithm

 

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Ram Dass Reading 1 

Ram Dass Reading 2

This episode of High Church includes thoughts on: 

The Father doesn’t know the time, perpetual tardiness, possibility, the best thing that could happen, behaving, plant medicines, river of life, the Work, virtues, shoulds, parenting influencers, Rob Bell, Dave Chapelle, ride or die, TristON, connection, Meta/Metta, loving-kindness meditation, a dream within a dream, Inception, dreaming down another level, a second ego, waking higher, tickling ears, deleting people, "if they’re wrong I don't wanna be right", missions trips to New Mexico, hoarders, Navajo spirituality, Rupert Spira, Being Myself, ego, story making, gardening, treasures in heaven, sleep training, kid leashes, Succession, Alan Watts, The Perfect Waste of Time, meditation album, The Gift, Hafiz, Bring the Man to Me

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Being Myself by Rupert Spira

The Gift by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

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This episode of High Church includes thoughts on: 

Special guest Kirsten Perkins, vibration, hearing yourself talk, pastors, the me part of me, talking about nothing, Seinfeld, Kirsten doesn’t listen to the podcast, should-ing, church guilt, spiritual coats, waiting periods, liminal space, rivers and currents and streams, where am I going?, she’s lost her way, egoic Brandon, whopper thoughts, sold out for Christ, goals are dumb, promo codes, DM for collab, work voice, drifter, letting go, the fear of ending, foreboding joy, Taylor Swift, pastor performance, Aspergers, narcissism, honesty

 

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Special guest Lisa Sun, podcast personas, mansplaining, putting on a self, cannabis, pugnacious behavior, bickering, marriage, longing for authenticity, “mm, good point”, learned behaviors, six foot bongs, watching yourself brush your teeth, the “real” you, awakening experiences you, your oldest habit, holding onto thoughts, the Big Death, a really funny show, Christ, the eucharist, union, remember the Awareness, doing sex, what quitting means for your life, losing and finding, just a matter of when, nothing to say, free enough to be annoying, purity cultures, control, Lisa did not check out, the perfect closing

 

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Special guest Sean Haworth, evangelical church, leaving church, reconnecting, running, youth camping trips, eco-theology, the Green Knight, homeschool, too many skills, working at a church, paying attention to your body, curiosity, questions, scratching the teaching itch, preaching to yourself, flow, God beyond church, endings, an amazing death, divorce, chanting, narrowing of thought, 100 mile ultra, the ups and downs, presence, remember be here now, what it takes to free us, gratitude, cooler lids, closure, your path to run, the five-pointed-star, a date with Death, the sash, attachment, empty handed, hoping against hope, why is goodness not enough?, pain is inevitable, suffering is optional, buy the ticket, take the ride, meaning, obscurity, becoming nobody

 

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Love to you all, 

Brandon and River

This episode of High Church includes thoughts on: 

Parenting, children are gurus, Ram Dass, Maharaji, Scenes from a Marriage, bypass, Being where you’re not, attachment to a persona, “i”, pinching yourself awake, Previous-ness, “mine”, responding from a role, materialism, every thought captive, Noah Gundersen, Babel, forgetting, reaching the Divine, the not-self, we’re always telling the truth, stillness doesn’t begin once action ceases, returning to stillness, resistance, Seinfeld, going “out”, get in the fight, compressing the infinite, contrast, infinite spaciousness, emptiness, Range Rovers for gurus, madden on ps3, rationing snacks, it’s about me, mind chatter, people watching people,  conversations with a false self all day, keeping score, points,  Nisargadatta Maharaj, One Essence, What God smells like, Kirtan, Interstellar, Prior Canvas Reflection

 

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This episode of High Church includes thoughts on: 

Leaf blowers, neighbors, “John”, go-bags, garage sales, wifi networks, “N0Prn4Me”, taking yourself seriously, “Who Dies?”, 5 stages of grief, hospice, conscious living, who we think we are, seeing things as we are, molten reality, immediacy, the is-ness-of-the-erupting-volcano, “life is not about you”, perspective, if you’re on time you’re late, it is about YOU, experiencing the Center, the Big Bang, ouroboros of desire, false personas, what IS, accepting Reality, George Floyd, the stuff with Florida, forgetting again, perception, real but not true, changing the Perceiver, shoshin, stickiness, question who _____, Christian culture, current events, bible and the newspaper, you’re the molten, being heat itself, perpetual previousness, dying before you die, the yoga of life, each moment is the sermon of the day, stillness does all the work, the matrix, Trinity pinning you to the wall, Knowing, can you be with it?, grace, curiosity and surrender, blank calendars, a reflection/benediction for the week