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In this episode, we are talking about the Ethereum Merge with Dmitry Buterin. He is the father of Vitalik Buterin- who created Ethereum. The Ethereum merge is a HUGE event that's going to impact everything from NFTs to Cryptocurrencies to Web3 to the Metaverse. Some people say it is the biggest event in crypto, while others say that the switch from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake is a bit like trying to change the engine on an aeroplane while it is in flight. In this episode, we'll talk about Ethereum and why it's important. We'll also discuss the Ethereum merge and what you need to do if you're holding any Ether or NFTs. Dima is a deep thinker but also an easygoing personality. We discuss mental health best practices as well as some other topics like psychedelics that will get you thinking! The 3 things you will learn:  The difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin. What the Ethereum Merge is and why it matters. Psychedelics and Mental Health: friend or foe? RESOURCES DISCUSSED: New Scientists | https://www.newscientist.com/ (Website) Scientific American | https://www.scientificamerican.com/ (Website) Bitcoin Magazine | https://bitcoinmagazine.com/ (Website) Evil Teddy Bear Club | https://evilteddybearclub.com/ (Website) Pudgy Penguins | https://pudgypenguins.com/ (Website) Lazy Lions | https://www.lazylionsnft.com/ (Website) MoonCats | https://mooncat.community/ (Website) CryptoPunks | https://cryptopunks.app/ (Website) Bored Ape Yacht Club | https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/ (Website) Bankless | http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ (Website) Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Proof-Stake-Ethereum-Philosophy-Blockchains/dp/0008562792/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1662995226&refinements=p_27%3AVitalik+Buterin&s=books&sr=1-1 (Amazon) Out of the Ether by Matthew Leising | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Ether-Amazing-Ethereum-Destroyed/dp/1119602939 (Amazon) The Infinite Machine by Camilla Russo | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Machine-Crypto-Hackers-Building-Internet/dp/B07XHNWH13/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QZK1QYHB1S2Q&keywords=the+infinite+machine+by+Camilla+russo&qid=1663073970&s=books&sprefix=the+infinite+machine+by+camilla+russo%2Cstripbooks%2C116&sr=1-1 (Amazon) The Cryptopians by Laura Shin | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cryptopians-Idealism-Greed-Making-Cryptocurrency/dp/1541763017 (Amazon) How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan  | https://michaelpollan.com/books/how-to-change-your-mind-uk/ (Website) Waking Up by Sam Harris | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waking-Up-Searching-Spirituality-Religion/dp/1784160024 (Amazon) Dismantled by Bruce Sanguin | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dismantled-Psychedelics-Broke-Clergyman-Together-ebook/dp/B07GTBBY84 (Amazon) Adventure through the mind | https://www.jameswjesso.com/podcast/ (Website) Gate to Ukraine | https://gate.org/ (Website) PEOPLE: Howard Kingston | https://twitter.com/howardvk (Twitter) Dmitry Buterin | https://twitter.com/BlockGeekDima?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Twitter) P.S. Whenever you are ready, here are 3 ways we can help you become a Metaverse Expert Follow Howard on Twitter for daily tips: https://twitter.com/howardvk (https://twitter.com/howardvk) Be sure to subscribe so that you never miss an episode! https://frontierofthemetaverse.com/listen (https://frontierofthemetaverse.com/listen)  Subscribe to our Newsletter for weekly insights: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/howardvk (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/howardvk) 

Bruce Sanguin, BA, M.Div., RMFT, is the author of seven books, his latest being Dismantled: How Love and Psychedelics Broke a Clergyman Apart and Put Him Back Together. This amazing book describes his healing journey with psychedelic medicine. Today, we've re-released our conversation with him found in one of last month's episodes “Trauma Lives in the Body, Too: Opening Up With Psychedelics”. Tune in for some amazing pearls of wisdom about how expectations can obstruct truth and authenticity in the healing experience: Episode notes Intro (0:00 – 1:45) What He Currently Does (1:46 – 2:47) Healing As a Long Process (2:48 – 5:16) His Experiences and His Book (5:17 – 9:04) Navigating Expectations as a Therapist (9:05 – 10:26) His Psychedelic Journey (10:27 – 16:25) Feeling Love in the Body (16:26 – 18:28) The Clergyman's Perspective (18:29 – 21:43) Dr. Walling's Christian Background (21:44 – 23:36) Spirituality in His Present Work (23:37 – 31:27) Potential Pitfalls of This Work (31:29 – 37:22) Coming Full Circle (37:23 – 40:38) End (40:39 – 41:59) https://www.brucesanguin.ca

Modern medicine has constructed an arbitrary barrier between the mind and the body. We are not segmented beings; our bodies carry us through all the experiences in our lives — the pleasures and the traumas. We'll be taking a deep dive into the latter and how psychedelics integrate into somatic experiences along with our three insightful guests. Intro (0:00 – 2:20) Our First Guest: Kelly Street (2:21 – 11:23) A Bit About Her The Body's Integration Into The Healing Journey What Yoga Contributed To This Journey Enter Psychedelic Therapy Our Second Guest: Dr. Jeff Sawyer (11:24 – 21:50) A Bit About Dr. Sawyer The Impact of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy How Do You Unlock The Body? How Does Your Relationship With Your Body Change? Our Third Guest: Bruce Sanguin (21:51 – 33:13) A Bit About Mr. Sanguin And His Journey Psychedelic vs. Relational Therapy (In His Experience) Disassembly Reconstruction Dr. Sawyer on Dissociation (33:14 – 36:52) Mr. Sanguin on Psychedelics' Spiritual Influence (36:53 – 39:50) End (39:51 – 40:56) Bruce Sanguin, BA, M.Div., RMFT Bruce is a psychotherapist living in Victoria BC Canada. He is the author of seven books. His latest Dismantled: How Love and Psychedelics Broke a Clergyman Apart and Put Him Back Together describes his healing journey with psychedelic medicine. brucesanguin.ca. Kelly Street is passionate about the power of the mind-body connection for healing. She loves to learn and teach others how to bring that connection from the yoga mat and healing work into everyday life by adding daily practices, mantras, and body awareness. She is a yoga teacher, business coach, and the owner of Happy Rebel, a mindset-based product company. More recently, she is a student of Clinical Psychology, having realized her next life purpose is to learn and teach whole-body healing. Dr. Jeff Sawyer MD is the co-founder and CEO of The Remedy MN Ketamine TMS and brings decades of psychiatry experience to the practice, including work with patients at organizations such as Minnesota Alternatives, Alltyr Clinic, and more. He studied psychology at Brown University before moving on to S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook School of Medicine for his M.D., Hennepin County Medical Center for Family Medicine training, and psychiatric training at Mayo Clinic. He is board-certified in Adult and Addiction Psychiatry with previous board certification in Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine.

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WHAT DOES THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE OFFER US IN SO FAR AS THE MEANING OF BEING IN RELATIONSHIP? That is the question we are exploring for this episode of The Psychedelic Café. Our Guests are: Mel Cassidy, Bruce Sanguin, Miriam Elise, and Adam Wilder --LINKS-- For links to Jeronimo's work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to https://bit.ly/PsyCafe3 ***Full Topics Breakdown Below*** --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST —   ► Patreon: https://patreon.com/jameswjesso ► Donations: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS ► Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ ► More options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support/ This episode's Sponsor: https://www.jameswjesso.com/coffee Use promo code JESSO to get 10% off your order and give 5% to psychedelic research. ► Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter   *** Extra BIG thanks to my patrons on Patreon for helping keep this podcast alive! Especially, Andreas D, Clea S, Joe A, Ian C, David WB, Yvette FC, Ann-Madeleine, Dima B, Eliz C, & Chuck W ************** Episode Breakdown The importance of relationships on the path of personal betterment through psychedelics The role of psychedelics in dissolving dysfunctional social paradigms of codependency Wounded in relationship, healed in relationship (and where psychedelics fit into the process) Learning to love oneself through peyote The similarities between kundalini sexual awakenings and psychedelic awakenings The power of accessing authenticity Psychedelic work is not about “me” and simply learning about oneself with psychedelics doesn’t equate to being healed Integration happens in relationship Love as the bridge to the other An invitation to return to an a priori relational reality Learning how to love better and let love in better Being inauthentic people for unconscious efforts to get old attachment needs met Healing ourselves to go beyond the wounded pattern of trying to fulfill needs and step into celebrating being together Learning to be ok with putting up boundaries even if people won’t like you for it Psychedelics helping us being ok with feeling shame and feel loved simultaneously The fallacy of self-sovereignty and connection being polar opposites The relationship between oneness and personal boundaries Ayahuasca and accessing profound eroticism within oneself Psychedelics helping us let go the shame of embodying our sexuality Do psychedelics make us polyamorous? Deconstructing the shame we hold for our natural sexual tendencies “Psychedelic erotic confusion” Is it an addiction to falling in love that feeds polyamory? Polyfuckary vs polyamory The power of psychedelics to bring us into our individual embodied sovereignty The will to grieve as a skill that helps us sustain healthy relationships Learning to be intimate with the unknown   ************** --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST —   ► Patreon: https://patreon.com/jameswjesso ► Donations: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS ► Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ ► More options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support/ ► Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter --- BOOKS — Decomposing The Shadow: https://www.jameswjesso.com/decomposing-the-shadow/ The True Light Of Darkness: https://www.jameswjesso.com/true-light-darkness/   --- LINKS — Website: https://www.jameswjesso.com/ Speaking Tour: https://www.jameswjesso.com/events/ Podcast: https://www.jameswjesso.com/podcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jameswjesso Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jameswjesso

Worship Together Online “The Unforgiving Servant,” Jesus MAFA, Cameroon, 1973 Matthew 18:21-35Sermon: “What to do with Your Forgiveness”Preacher: Rev. Ryan Slifka“Then,” begins today's passage. “Then Peter came to Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” And Jesus replied, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.”Today's passage begins with Jesus' teachings on forgiveness. Peter—his right hand disciple—knows forgiveness is important. But it's gotta have a limit. “Okay… I get forgiving once, twice, three, maybe up to seven times,” he says. “But when does the gravy train run out of grace?” Jesus here says seventy-seven, but the point isn't the exact number, to set a higher limit on forgiveness. It's a figure of speech. The point is—as one scholar puts it—that “the kind of forgiveness called for is beyond all calculation.”[i] The point is to keep forgiving. And to quit counting. Regardless of the nature or number of offenses against you.Forgiveness is so good, Jesus says, you just gotta keep doing it. So forgive like it's going out of style.Forgiveness is good, Jesus says. And yet, right after this teaching Jesus also warns that there are consequences to un-forgiveness. He tells a parable to show that an inability to forgive has some pretty dire consequences. There's a King, Jesus says. One who wanted to collect everything owed to him. One of his servants was given the contract for collecting ten thousand talents in taxes.[ii] Which is an insane amount—a single talent being 15 year's wage for a labourer. King Herod himself, the King of the Jews at the time, only raked in about 900 talents. So it's an insane amount of money. A whole empire's GDP.We don't know why it is, whether incompetence, fraud, bad economy, but this guy just can't pay up. So the king locks him away, and threatens to sell him and his family as slaves and his possessions. So the guy does what any of us would do. He begs for mercy, asks to be released and promises to pay up.The surprising thing, though, is that the King just lets him go. No need to repay. Just freedom. Just forgiveness. If you know anything about ancient kings you know they just don't do stuff like that. It's kind and charitable to the max. But this is a real bizarre, unexpected thing to do. No sooner is this guy scott-free, though, that the shock of this gracious act wears off. Next thing we know he's knocking on some guys door, grabbing him by the throat insisting the guy pays his debt. This debt though, is only 100 denarii, like four months wages for a single worker. The guy begs for mercy, promising to pay back the debt—just as the servant did with the King. But instead of forgiving, or accepting an installment plan, he has him tossed in jail. It's nothing, compared to the debt the king forgave him. But nope—no forgiveness. You're in the slammer.The irony of this guy's lack of mercy, of course, isn't lost on us. And it isn't lost on his fellow servants either. They report him straight to the king. And so the king has him hauled in, and he lays into him. “You wicked slave!” he says. “I forgave you all that debt because you begged me to. First chance you had to do the same and you blew it.”And so the king hands him over, it says, to be TORTURED, until his debt's finally paid. You wouldn't forgive as you were forgiven. And so here are the consequences.And just in case we listeners didn't quite get the point, Jesus states for us the obvious. As the King did in the parable, he says, “So my heavenly Father will also do to everyone one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”According to Jesus forgiveness is good. So good it's worth doing at least seventy-seven times. But he also says that an unwillingness to forgive will land us where the unforgiving servant ends up in this parable. And that place ain't pretty.This isn't exactly one of Jesus' most seeker-friendly teachings, granted. But it's also more than simply a threat aimed at getting us to be more forgiving. It gets at the fundamental nature and necessity of forgiveness according to Christian teaching. Let me explain.First, we have the starting point in all Christian teaching: the infinite mercy and forgiveness of God.Jesus teaches his disciples in response to Peter's question an infinite forgiveness. And then in the parable he tells we learn this servant with this impossible, unpayable debt, is let off the hook. And it's for absolutely no reason, other than the gracious decision on behalf of the King. The servant does nothing to deserve it. And he really does nothing to earn it—doesn't have to work it off, doesn't have to even promise he won't get into debt again. All he does is receive it. According to this parable, this is how God is when it comes to us. Now, this may or may not surprise you, but we're all sinners. There's no human being on this planet who has ever lived a blameless life free of brokenness. This world has piled up a debt on us that none of us began, and none of us can atone for or ever eradicate through sheer will. Many of us have come to know this through the hard knock school of experience. Like the Canadian folk singer Sarah Harmer says, “Why do they call it the past when nothing's passed?”[iii] The past—whether our individual transgressions, or the hurts and pains of history—are ultimately beyond our repairing.But the central good news of Christianity is that, in fact, history has been healed. And the past has indeed passed. In the cross of Christ, God has thrown his own body into the brutal machinery of history. All that accumulated debt we could never crawl out from under's been shaken free for good. As was the case with the servant, there's nothing we had to do, or could do to earn it. Don't have to work it off, don't have to promise never to go into debt again, cuz it's been paid, written off by the King of Creation. Out of nothing but her own infinite love and mercy. The Good News always begins with God's infinite forgiveness. Meaning that you are, in fact, forgiven. Any sin you've committed. Anything you've done or have failed to do. No matter how many times—whether seven or seventy-seven. Any way you've fallen short, any way you haven't lived up, you are forgiven. Full stop. The account is at zero. No conditions or fine print. You are forgiven.Like this parable, the Good News always begins with the infinite, unconditional mercy, and forgiveness of God. You'll have noticed, though, that the parable doesn't quite end there, though. There's a bit of an irony here in the fact that Jesus teaches his disciples to forgive seventy-seven times, and that the King in the parable doesn't even make it past once. The second time he warms up the torture chamber. Kind of a “do as I say, not as I do” kinda thing. It seems like a bit of a contradiction. But it's absolutely consistent with how forgiveness works. The late great Anglican theologian, Robert Capon frames it in terms of death and resurrection:“None of our debts,” Capon says. “None of our sins, none of our trespasses, none of our errors—will ever be an obstacle to the grace that raises the dead. […] But if we refuse to die—and in particular, if we insist on binding others' debts upon them in the name of our own right to life—we will, by not letting grace have its way through us, cut ourselves off from the joy of ever knowing grace in us.”[iv]Forgiveness is infinite. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. It's absolutely true. No conditions. It's where it always begins again and again and again. But in this parable, Jesus teaches us that in order to be received, forgiveness must also be given away. It's like a stream that goes stagnant unless it flows outward. It's like getting a new bike on Christmas morning, sit in the corner and gather dust. Where the servant drops the ball isn't in just committing another offense. It's in the fact that he doesn't pass the same gift he's been given on. Grace comes to us on its way to someone else.[v]We'll never actually know the saving joy of forgiveness, unless we let it truly sink in. We can never be free of our sins until we're able to forgive as Christ forgives. Forgiveness ends only when and where we let it.So, I realize this is the second sermon on forgiveness in two weeks. In my defense, I didn't choose the texts that came up in the schedule. But I don't think the theme is accidental, either. Not only because it's the central message of Christianity. But because the only way out of the pain and hurt in the lives we live. And the only chance our hurt and hurting world's got in mending, is in forgiveness. So remember—you are forgiven. May you be given the grace to go and do likewise.AMEN. [i] M. Eugene Boring, “The Gospel of Matthew,” in The New Interpreter's Bible Commentary, vol. 8, ed. Leander Keck (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995), 380.[ii] The reading below mostly draws on the contextual reading of this parable. See Bernard Brandon Scott, Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999), 267-280.[iii] Sarah Harmer, “Around this Corner,” You Were Here. Universal Music, 2000.[iv] Robert Farrar Capon, Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), 199.[v] Bill Easum, I believe quoted somewhere in Bruce Sanguin, The Emerging Church: A Model for Change & a Map for Renewal (Copperhouse, 2008).

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Episode #292 of Drunk Ex-Pastors features our interview with former pastor and current psychedelics apologist Bruce Sanguin. We discuss the healing effects of mushrooms, psilocybin, and LSD, as well as the well-known propaganda and War-on-Drugs rhetoric surrounding these medicines (as Sanguin calls them). Bruce opens up about his own childhood trauma and explains how his guided therapy sessions using psychedelics have brought about true health and healing.

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Bruce Sanguin, author of The Emerging Church: a model for change and a map for renewal and a United Church minister and a pioneer of evolutionary spirituality, talks with Jeff Carreira about Jeff's book ‘The ... Read More

This episode of the podcast narrows in on the manner in which early childhood experiences inform, often unconsciously, our adult perceptions, behavior, and self-identity. Our guest, author and former Christian minister Bruce Sanguin, takes us into and through a (common) legacy of early childhood wounds, the relational context through which they are inflicted and later reiterated, as well as the role psychedelic therapy plays in healing those childhood wounds.  Bruce is not an armchair advocate for this work, but a man that has learned from his own healing with psychedelic medicines. Along with a structural discussion on his model for healing childhood wounds and the potential of psychedelic therapy to help the process along, he shares his personal story of how his childhood wounds led him to the Church, how healing them required leaving that church behind, and how psychedelics help him learn to love again. **Full episode breakdown below** --LINKS-- For links to Bruce's work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to Https://bit.ly/ATTMind98   --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST —  Patreon: https://patreon.com/jameswjesso Donations: https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support/   --- BOOKS —    Decomposing The Shadow: https://www.jameswjesso.com/decomposing-the-shadow/ The True Light Of Darkness: https://www.jameswjesso.com/true-light-darkness/   _______________________ EPISODE BREAKDOWN How our early life explains set us up for our perceptions of reality and self in adulthood Core Unconscious Beliefs (CUBs) how they form our personality Personality vs Authentic Self What is happening when we become “triggered” the traumatic origins of existentialism How our CUBs and CABs guide us into toxic relationships We are wounded in relationships; we heal in relationship Enter psychedelic therapy Healing with Ayahuasca Healing with LSD/MDMA (candy flip) psychotherapy What psychedelics do in the therapy The (attachment) role of the therapist in psychedelic therapy Getting trapped in the spiritual ego Sanguin’s journey into and out of the Church How the church helps reaffirm childhood trauma What is God, both before and after psychedelics.    --- OTHER LINKS —    Website: https://www.jameswjesso.com/ **Speaking Tour**: https://www.jameswjesso.com/events/ Podcast: https://www.jameswjesso.com/podcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jameswjesso Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jameswjesso   --- PRODUCTS —    Art: https://www.jameswjesso.com/product-category/art/ Teeshirts: https://www.jameswjesso.com/product-category/clothing/ Lectures: https://www.jameswjesso.com/product/psychedelics-ritualistic-suffering-and-the-meaning-of-life-lecture/

“The realm of the invisible and the ancestral realm opened up to me, and the fundamental principles of reality were suddenly obvious to me, just about the nature of reality itself and the big picture, and I felt more connected to source—whatever term you want to use, god, goddess, the great mystery—than I ever did in my years as a clergyman,” says Bruce Sanguin, who for 30 years practiced as a minister in a progressive church, preaching every Sunday and living life as a true clergyman before realizing that there was still something missing, some sort of personal unrest, something preventing him from expressing deep love. Separated from his life and duties as a clergyman, he didn't hesitate to go when a friend invited him to an ayahuasca ceremony. Soon after, he found himself immersed in the world of psychedelic psychotherapy, undergoing at least a dozen sessions under the influence of MDMA and LSD, each session lasting four to five hours. “I was taken into dimensions and domains that ordinary consciousness doesn't make available,” he says, explaining how it was in this space that he not only achieved a more profound gratitude for life than ever before, but also identified, and dismantled the core unconscious beliefs that were for so many years holding him back from being his truest and best self. Sanguin delivers an enlightening and inspiring message about overcoming past trauma, learning to love truly and deeply, finding peace, and practicing empathy.

No one likes to say anything about this but doesn't family often feel like a cult? It's hard to escape it since you are born into it. Then the ongoing message that family comes first and always and over everything else can get a little overboard. Do parents really own us? Setting boundaries with family can sometimes feel more like an escape tactic and if you dare say anything delicate about the family 'secrets' you will be shamed to death but probably still not be allowed to leave... How can we explore this without freaking out and begin to heal the skeletons in the closet? How can we transform the way we love instead of adoring or require adoration from our kids?  Are they really born to serve and honor us or are they here to be our teachers and companions on this incarnation journey?  If we can notice, acknowledge and heal the intergenerational dysfunctional blueprint that "family" says is a must, perhaps we can renew the way we see relationships in general and maybe just maybe, have an actual family gathering where no one gets too drunk because they can't deal, too anxious, or triggered into a 20 yr old argument for Pete's sake! This episode of Tales of Recovery is inspired by Chapter 7 of Bruce Sanguin's book Dismantled. In it, he states that the moment humans shifted from village life to nuclear family, trouble started.  Elder Malidoma Some writes about village life in Burkino Faso. Still today, every child has multiple mothers and fathers. The boundaries between families are more porous. Everything is on public display. In the age of nuclear family, generational trauma and the violence of parents against their children are hidden from public view.  If somebody wanted to create an institution in which emotional, physical and sexual abuse could thrive, the family as we know it in the West would fit the bill.    In effect, they hate us in practice and love us in theory and induce us to believe them when they define hate as love. The consequent mystification, confusion, and conflict continue to devastate marriages, families and each generation of children.  - R. D. Laing 

In episode #241 of Drunk Ex-Pastors we talk a bit about Bruce Sanguin’s book, Dismantled, discussing the issue of psychedelics and spirituality (prompting an aside about whether Jason has ever really had any true childhood trauma). We take calls from listeners about healthcare and whether minimum wage laws are a good thing, and then turn to our biebers, which are admittedly incredibly “first world” (going on Caribbean cruises can be very challenging).           

In this episode of CLR, we speak with Bruce Sanguin, a psychotherapist and author and internationally renowned speaker in the field of evolutionary spirituality. Bruce is the author of 7 acclaimed books related to evolving spirituality. His latest is Dismantled: How Love and Psychedelics Broke A Clergyman Apart and Put Him Back Together. (Fall, 2018) […] The post “Opening Your Beautiful Heart: The Work of Integration and the Perils of Spiritual Bypassing” appeared first on Conscious Living Radio.

"Turning our face toward Jerusalem: The Lenten practice of assuming radical responsibility for life." When Jesus hears that his mentor, John the Baptist, has been arrested, he doesn't turn away. In fact, the Gospels tell us that this is the precise moment when he "turns his face toward Jerusalem." He steps up and assumes even more radical responsibility for the emergence of the Kingdom of God—the divine realm on earth. We'll explore what this means from the perspective of evolutionary Christianity. 

Hosted by Michael Dowd, these conversations with leading Christian theologians, clergy, and scientists were recorded during the Christian season of Advent in 2010. Ten of the 38 hour-long episodes have been excerpted here for an hour-long podcast. Speakers are: Denis Lamoureux, Joan Chittister, Bruce Sanguin, Kenneth Miller, Gail Worcelo, Ross Hostetter, Brian McLaren, Philip Clayton, Gretta Vosper, and John Shelby Spong. The entire series can be accessed at EvolutionaryChristianity.com. Subsets of the series (an Evangelical subset and a Catholic subset) will be sampled in the following two podcasts.

In this episode guest Bruce Sanguin discusses his book, The Emerging Church: A Model for Change and a Map for Renewal, as an important practical guide for both ministers and spiritual seekers who are desiring to shift their culture toward a progressive form of Christianity. The book is peppered with insights from leading-edge science, including the science of emergence, chaos theory, quantum physics, field theory, spiral dynamics and evolutionary science. Tune in for a vision of Evolutionary Christianity and what is emerging.

Was Jesus the one and only son of God or was he simply one of history's many significant spiritual leaders? Was he a miracle worker who walked on water and rose from the dead, or are these stories about his life simply metaphors imbued with timeless spiritual and moral truths? In this interview, my guest Bruce Sanguin, a leader in the Evolutionary Christianity movement, joins Rev. Kelly Isola to talk about how he's applying cutting-edge models of human development to explain why Jesus means so many different things to so many different people.

Rev. Kelly's guest for this episode week is Bruce Sanguin, minister of United Church of Canada and author of If Darwin Prayed: Prayers for Evolutionary Mystics. These are new prayers for a new age. They spark the spiritual imagination back to life and re-orient us to a mystical unity with the universe, Spirit, and all of creation. Emerging out of the conversation between the science of evolution and spirituality, these Christian prayers continually surprise with their earthy wisdom and a profound celebration of life. Listen in for a 21st-century look at centuries-old sacred traditions.

Bruce Sanguin serves Canadian Memorial United Church of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he leads his congregation in a progressive form of Christianity in their mission of "exploring the Christian tradition through an evolutionary model." Rev. Sanguin meshes his evolutionary perspective with Integral Spirituality (following Ken Wilber) and with Spiral Dynamics (following Don Beck). His three books are: Summoning the Whirlwind: Unconventional Sermons for a Relevant Christian Faith (2006);  Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos: An Ecological Christianity (2007) and; The Emerging Church: A Model for Change and a Map for Renewal (2008). He is the coauthor of a curriculum, "Experiencing Ecological Christianity" (2008).    Theme song "Holy Now" courtesy of Peter Mayer.