Pursuing a deeper connection with God and becoming greater people because of it.
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What if salvation wasn't something you earned through religious loyalty but something you awakened to? What if being "saved" had nothing to do with belonging to a religion—but everything to do with becoming your truest, most liberated self?
Opportunities are all around us—some whisper softly, while others boldly demand our attention. But how often do we ignore them, fearing change and clinging to our comfort zones? In this powerful episode, we break down what it truly means to recognize and embrace opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Learn how shifting your mindset can turn everyday challenges into transformational moments. Discover why seizing the right opportunities is the key to unlocking your highest potential. Ready to step into the next level of your journey? Tune in now and start creating the life you were meant to live!
Asking yourself this question, you've come up with answers that originate from religion or that are religious in nature. Things come to mind like, God wants you to go to church, to pray more, or to forgive and forget and be nice to those people that are cruel, hateful, and intolerable. You have been told that what God wants is for you to live the life of a good Christian. To be a woman or man of God. To read the Bible and model your life after it. To be more like Jesus, or King David, Elijah, Moses, etc. I believe what your religion is telling you God wants from you is incorrect.
Us this affirmation daily to enter into your day with intention. Speak words of power over yourself and into universe to open yourself up for powerful experiences that lead to you being your best possible self.
Taking God outside religion is the only way too make God relevant and useful on a universal level. In this episode we discuss knowing God according to what God does in a religious capacity handicaps God.
This is where we do the work of discovering God, Self, and Enlightenment outside religion. This podcast is for people that think church is whack yet desire to have a relationship with God that affirms them for who they are authentically.
Discover the divine outside the church and within self. Khaaliq Thomas guides you on a journey of spiritual exploration, personal empowerment, and finding God in the beauty of daily life.
What do you when you don't feel the presence of God in your life as strongly as you used to?
2024 is coming and change is on our minds.Where is the inspiration for change coming from? Is God wanting you to change? Who benefits from this change; you or God? Understanding change from a perspective that is self empowering is essential to your becoming.
We tend to understand truth as a constant, unchanging, unbreakable guide we must adhere to but what if that is wrong. What if truth has free forming characteristics? Can we accept truth as more than the forms on the wall society gives us? Do you have enough courage to climb out of your cave into the mysterious realms of discovery and enlightenment?
We produce the personal worlds we live in according to our beliefs and perceptions. It is true that in order to change what we see we must change the way we think. But the way we think is directly connected to how we see ourselves, the power we believe in have. Therefore changing the way we think of ourselves give the ability to change the way we think resulting in a transformation in what we see in out personal world. Use this affirmation to develop a deeper sense of awareness of the powerful being you are and what you are capable of.
Jesus is not the only way to God and religion is not the only language, method, and passage to connect to the ultimate power that governs all life. You as an individualized aspect of the Absolute have the ability to connect to the Absolute. Consciously connecting to God doesn't demand accepting a savior it requires you to be aware of the power to save yourself.
When we consider the objective of religion is to transform the individual into the ideal person we realize that in the process of that transformation the individual losses their uniqueness in order to belong to the community of believers and being accepted into a deep and meaningful relationship with God. One believer must become like the community in order to truly belong to those that are accepted by God, therefore all believers of a religious community exhibit a common method of showing up in the world. They all share the same method of thinking, acting, dressing, perception, hearing, feeling and believing as they have been told this is what God desires. The individual must lose the religious idea of the God approved human and take up the task of finding ones self according to ones own standards and discover God , Self, and Enlightenment outside religion.
Religious ultimate truth give us a concept of who and what God is, but is that image of God accurate? God is not an object that can be directly observed like the Las Vegas strip yet and still ultimate truths are formed about God. How does this construction of God, this creation of the Divine rob the individual of the opportunity to identify God on an empirical basis?
The mainstream philosophy of manifestation says that we can create the life of our dreams and have whatever we want. Is this plausible? What happens when we do believe and do the visualization and have the emotion and energy wrapped around the life we want to manifest but it doesn't happen? Let's explore another philosophy of what manifestation is and how to obtain those experiences that lead to helping us reach our full potential.
Starting your day with intention is a strategic way to take advantage off the opportunities for advancement that await you today. This meditative affirmation prepares you for today and beyond by equipping you with the mindset to be the best version of yourself. Practice this affirmative for the week at the start of each day.
Religion teaches that becoming more like its founders is the way in which an authentic relationship with God is established. The goal is to be more like the religious guide (Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Buddha, etc.) and less like yourself. But being more like your religious figure suggests we as individuals seeking to have a deep and meaningful relationship with God lack the natural characteristics and attributes to establish a connection with God ourselves. Let's explore the possibility of connecting with God by being more like ourselves and not a particular religious figure.
We look at religion as a source of informing throughout the lifespan of the believer. Religion is a device that assigns identity to both God and humanity according to its own criteria but is religion a reliable source?
We get stuck in the idea and routine of trying to fit in, trying to be accepted and think this is where our power comes from; belonging. Our real power does not come from belonging to a group but by accepting who and what we are and expressing that uniqueness every possible moment we are alive on this planet.
Ultimate Truth, according to religion gives us a very rigid and immutable set of guidelines in with to live our lives according to. This singular system wishes to inform, define, instruct, and assign direction, purpose, and identity to humanity as a whole not taking into account the value of individuality. This episode we discuss how Ultimate Truth is a life giving source for the individual self expression instead of an oppressive chock hold on uniqueness for the sake of conformity.
It is a common notion that God changes mind, but I believe if this is an accurate description of God it is a handicap with severe consequences.
It's a new year and people are inspired to better themselves. Many times taking on this challenge leads to change but no real transformation. In this episode we discuss personal transformation, how do we recognize when opportunities for it are in front of us.
There is a cosmic intelligence that seems informs leading us along our lives path but how do we tap into it more often?
Our specific culture gives us an idea of who God is but what if that idea is limited? What if there was a way to discover God beyond the single image, word, and identification of a social construct? Why not discover God for yourself.
Consider ultimate truth to be something that is experienced and not something that is exclusive to a religious concept.
Where do the ideas, images and concepts we use to identify ourselves come from? We regularly use cultural concepts and ideas to establish ourselves as individuals amongst our peers, social circles, in our relationships, religions, and society at large. The questions is are these ideas and concepts of identity pushed on us by society honest and authentic to who we are as individuals?
Is becoming more like Jesus or any religious or spiritual figure and less like yourself a soul nourishing spiritual exercise.? What do we stand to gain in attempting to become more like Jesus, The Buddha, Moses, Abraham, Prophet Muhammad, Confucius, Lao Tzu? And in what ways is this spiritual practice of less of me more of you preventing us from showing up as our whole self in our relationship with God, in our spiritual communities and in loving and accepting ourselves and others for who they are?
Let's explore the idea of a good life. What does it mean? How do you define it? How can one adhesive it?
Why you should stop trying to make God happy
In part 1 of this 2 part discussion we explore the question, if God can be made to be happy, sad, joyful and angry due to the actions of humankind what does that say about the God? Do we make God emotionally unstable? Are humans in control of the emotional wellbeing God? Do we have the power to take God from a state of joy and place God in a state of grief? Is so, what does this mean that God can be pulled in and out of various emotional states and made to be joyful or dissatisfied according to the actions of humankind?
As we evolve as unique persons in the human experience our ideas and understanding of God evolves. We outgrow one idea of God and take on another that makes accommodations for the people we are becoming through the cycle of life.
Is becoming more like Jesus or any religious or spiritual figure and less like yourself a soul nourishing spiritual exercise.? What do we stand to gain in attempting to become more like Jesus, The Buddha, Moses, Abraham, Prophet Muhammad, Confucius, Lao Tzu? And in what ways is this spiritual practice of less of me more of you preventing us from showing up as our whole self in our relationship with God, in our spiritual communities and in loving and accepting ourselves and others for who they are?
Religion is wrong when it suggests a meaningful relationship with God requires us to become God's kind of person. Religion says we must change, be born again, be renewed, become something other than what we are now. The most meaningful connection with God is made when who and what you are is embraced.
What would it look if those fulfilling The Great Commission were focused on being Christian instead of making Christians? If I have my own ideas of God, salvation, and spirituality, what can the Great Commission offer that has any value? The Great Commission should be more than a global conversion project but an opportunity to be enlightened by others in order to come to a deeper understanding of love of God, self, and neighbor.
Is one salvation experience enough? If salvation is a solution to the human problem reconnecting us to our spiritual identity there seems to be a need for additional liberations from future problems awaiting us as we experience life as spiritual beings throughout eternity. If we as spiritual beings retain the freedom to decide, interpret knowledge, and understand experiences we will always be subject to misinterpretation, therefore needing direction, guidance, counsel, and liberation.
Does performing good deeds result in the satisfaction of God and subsequent good blessings and a higher quality of life? If this is accepted as true it creates serious problems for both God and mankind.
Making sense of God is done through religion, spirituality, or self exploration but are these tools enough? How do we venture beyond these tools in order to gain a more fulfilling understanding of God?
Religion tells us to forgive and forget, to turn the other cheek and to let go and move on. But forgive and forget lacks the attention to love, compassion, and healing that the victim of hurtful experiences and damaging relationships need. A more loving forgiveness tactic is needed for the healing of the victim, disconnection from the hurt and reconnection to their spiritual center.
What is Ultimate Truth and what is its nature and function. How can we understand Ultimate Truth as a way to help connect religious claims of truth instead of them rejecting each other?
The relationship between God and mankind is commonly understood to be of a master / slave context. I discuss how this understanding is counterproductive in mankind establishing a unique and authentic relationship with God.
Exploring the vastness of God and the diverse ways in which different religions worship, relate to and understand God and spiritual phenomenon, I was no longer willing nor able to call myself a Christian. This episode is my story on the questions that peeked my curiosity and ultimately caused me to leave Christianity.
The idea that God rejects, abhors and condemns men and women of the LGBTQ community has been promoted and force-fed to the world, but this idea comes from a misguided theology. Why is homosexuality even an option if God created mankind to be heterosexual, is being gay a choice and what really happened in Sodom and Gomorrah.
As the spiritually curious, we have all at some point pondered the seemingly elusive question WHO AM I? This episode offers direction in answering that question.
Why do we believe we are made in the image of God? What does it actually mean physically and spiritually to be made in the image of God? Since God has infinite power, unlimited attributes, and is unable to be fully conceived, is it even possible for there to be a physical likeness of what is beyond all understanding?
What is the genesis of inspiration? Why do inspiring ideas exist? How can we encounter them more often?
Manifestation teachers tells us we can have the life of our dream when focusing on positive thought energy, but this is not entirely truthful. There are a multitude of factors that result in a manifestion being realized and positive thought energy is not the greatest. Discovering what manifestation is and is not will help you … Continue reading Manifestation, What it is and What it is Not. How to Manifest by Tapping into the Flow of Universal Energy →
It’s time to rethink what we understand success to be, and how to obtain it.
It’s time to rethink what prayer is and how it is conducted. Why are some prayers unanswered and how can we have a more powerful prayer life?
Who is God outside of what religion has informed us? Can we receive Gods Word, guidance, and revelation outside of scripture? Can the ideas, and concepts of God be understood without religious language and iconography?
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