"We are brought up these days unnatural creatures some of us desperately trying to be natural. Come back to what’s natural." John Butler Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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I think unhappiness is one of the great spurs to moving in the right direction. And many people who don't do it are just not sufficiently unhappy in this world. Therefore, the more the more miserable we are living in this world, it is probably a blessing in disguise. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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What of man can stand before the Great Calling? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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The resurrection as symbolic of light overcoming darkness, with reflections on Jesus’s descent into hell and the redemptive hope of his return. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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What is purity? Or, what is impurity? The primary impurity is the Idea of separation. Me. To the pure all things are pure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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I am not so keen on this idea of spiritual bypassing. Hasn't all we experienced served its purpose in its time and place? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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"After nearly a year’s immersion in the wide open spaces of Australia and the wonder of a long sea voyage it was very hard to come back. In fact, I don’t think I ever have come back to what you might call conventional life.“ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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In this intimate portrait of his life as a farmer, traveller and spiritual journeyman, with reference to his upcoming new books, John Butler takes us on a journey of a life spanning the English Fens to the Russian tragedy of Revolution and its aftermath - all teaching us how to "bear an unbearable world." It includes clips from the newly available 1975 BBC documentary 'Three Acres at Bicker Fen'. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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If you have been on a retreat with John Butler, you will know that he hosts impromptu chats after breakfast each morning. In this, the first at Cliff College, he addresses:

making the world a better place

what are thoughts?

sin as absence from the presence of God

what man is/is not

thinking is mindache

judge not

what am I here for?

the humility of failure Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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John discusses being called ""Mr Nothing"", organic farmer and his discomfort with the title ""mystic,"" although he acknowledges its embrace of the unknowable Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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