The Deep End

So many say they are spiritual an not religious, then they go on and use religious language to talk about their spirituality. Most people don't recognize that the religious roots of the language they use to talk about their own spiritual state of affairs. What are some of the religious words that have made their way into our language and culture and how have they helped us with our own traditions? [email protected]

So many Superheros in a world without a myth...or wait, maybe not. How do todays Superheros fit within Joseph Campbell's convergent understanding of myth. We explore the split in the human soul with the rise of reason and rationality and shed light on how we live in a time of a new emergent myth. [email protected]

There is a method to our madness... the "monkey mind" is more than our internal awareness jumping all around; it show us a pattern in the nature of human consciousness and how what goes on in our souls shows us who we are by revealing a pattern of thinking that is as ancient as the oldest myths. [email protected]

What are you reaching for? ...and why, to what end? ...and from what/who? "One's reach must exceed their grasp or what's a heaven for." (Browning) [email protected]

Is peace on earth possible? Can you imagine an earth at peace? What gets in the way of our being at peace with ourselves and with each other? Redhawk, Bob and Mary Anne open up about their visions of peace and what they find as impediments to this Peace. [email protected]

Three processes - Semi-permiability, Differentiation & Complexification - interact giving rise higher orders of existence from Being, to Life, to Consciousness. What are these processes? How do they interact and is there no end to the countless iterations that they produce?

What is empathy? What role does it play in our lives and why is it important? Redhawk, Mary Anne and Bob open up about how integral this semi-permiability of life is for our everyday living and for evolution itself. [email protected]

Life as Dance is a great way to move through the many layers of wonder and mystery. Dancing the Sacred life is what most of us really want. How can we best orient ourselves so that everyday is a new dance of wonder, of truth, love and justice? [email protected]

Redhawk and his co-hosts, Mary Anne and Bob, got to the Deep End from different paths. Is everyONE destined to be a "deep ender" or do we find our meaning in different things and paths? From The Bible to the many Hindu texts in the east we learn that from Eat, Drink and be Merry to power and money to dying on the cross... all are ways of finding meaning for different folks, and place it within the metaphysic that Redhawk has been laying out from the Deep End. [email protected]

What is beyond compromise and how do we identify it? We explore the deeper pattern that reveals itself in scripture, in psychology, in sociology and in science. What is this "pattern"? How can all of us begin to not just see it but participate fully in it. [email protected]