Podcasts about Dark Night

In this episode, we're overflowing with hype for the Halloween season! Instead of our usual fare of movie deep dives, we decided to start the celebration early by coming together to draft a Genre Exposure-approved Top 10 list of some of our favorite horror flicks that really nail the Fall/Halloween season vibes. While our selections range from the obscure to well-known, we tried to eschew some of the more obvious picks and stick a little more into the weeds, as is the usual purview of our show. Pad out your watchlist for this October with something new, or maybe revisit an old favorite to reevaluate it. But before all that, Jason finally catches up to the Backrooms hype and Dustin weighs in on Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil. And so much more! Part of the Prescribed Films Podcast Network (www.thepfpn.com) What We've Been Watching: -Jason: Transformers: The Movie (1986) & Backrooms (2026) -Dustin: Hope (2026) & Resident Evil (2026) & Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Genre Exposure's Halloween Season Vibes Top 10 10) Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) 9) The Midnight Hour (1985) 8) Pumpkinhead (1988) 7) Primal Rage (1988) 6) Hell House LLC (2015) 5) Satan's Little Helper (2004) 4) Idle Hands (1999) 3) Haunt (2019) 2) Pet Sematary Two (1992) 1) Ghostwatch (1992) Show Notes: -Go check out all the other fine shows on the Prescribed Films Podcast Network -Related Song: Weird Al – Dare To Be Stupid -Related Song: Stan Bush - Dare -Related Song: NRG – Instruments of Destruction -Related Film: Obsession -Related Film: The Wailing -Related Film: The Chaser -Related Film: The Yellow Sea -Related Show: Squid Game Season 2 -Related Film: Resident Evil (2002) -Related Film: Five Nights at Freddy's -Related Film: Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back -Related Film: The Lord of The Rings: Two Towers -Related Film: Jigsaw -Related Film: Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost -Related Song: Michael Jackson - Thriller -Related Film: Evil Dead II -Go check out Unsung Horrors' episode on Primal Rage -Related Song: The Facade Band – Say The Word -Related Film: 28 Days Later -Related Film: Hell House LLC: Lineage -Related Film: Squirm -Related Series: Mystery Science Theater 3000 -Related Film: Just Before Dawn -Related Film: Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker -Related Film: Godzilla Minus Zero -Related Song: The Offspring - Beheaded -Related Film: Heretic -Related Topic: McKamey Manor -Related Film: The Houses October Built -Related Film: Hell Fest -Related Film: Pet Sematary (1989) -Related Film: Pet Sematary (2019) -Related Film: Halloween (1978) -Related Topic: The Enfield Poltergeist -Related Film: The Conjuring 2 -Related Topic: War of the World Radio Stunt -Related Film: Insidious -Related Film: The Blair Witch Project -Related Film: House of 1000 Corpses -Related Film: HauntedWeen -Related Film: The WNUF Halloween Special -Related Film: The WNUF Halloween Special 2: Out There Halloween Mega Tape -Related Film: All Hallows Eve -Related Film: Terrifier -Related Film: Terrifier 2 -Related Film: Tales of Halloween -Related Film: Halloween III: Season of the Witch -Related Film: Night of the Demons (1988) -Circle back for our episode on Night of the Demons -Related Film: Spookies -Related Film: Trick r Treat -Related Film: Trick or Treat -Circle back for our episode on Trick or Treat -Related Film: Murder Party -Circle back for our episode on Murder Party -Related Film: Slaygrounds -Related Film: Sleepy Hollow -Related Film: Lady in White -Circle back for our episode on Lady in White -Related Film: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers -Related Film: Something Wicked This Way Comes -Related Film: Monster House Next Time: Celebrating the Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise

In Silicon Eden, the loss of the immortality project means a collapse of meaning and a gaping hole where a value system used to be. Right now, the only good news is that you will be far from the first to go through this problem.SourcesEliot, T.S. The Waste Land. 1922.Eliot, Valerie, ed. The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts. 1971.ietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. 1882Kierkegaard, Søren The Sickness Unto Death. 1849.Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. 1942.Jung, Carl. "The Stages of Life," in The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Vol. 8).Jaques, Elliott. "Death and the Mid-life Crisis." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 46 (1965): 502–514.Hollis, James. The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife. Inner City Books, 1993.Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. 1973.Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DARKNIGHT | SESSION LIVE Welcome to the real world ! Produit par JÜJÜ sur MAX FM 94.5 entre 2004 et 2005. Aujourd'hui, DARKNIGHT revient en podcast, chaque lundi. Diffusée sur MAX FM 94.5 de septembre 2004 à juillet 2005, DARKNIGHT était une émission visionnaire explorant la transmission des musiques électroniques vers un nouvel espace de curiosité sonore et intellectuelle. Partant du principe que les musiques électroniques ne sont pas réservées aux soirées du week-end, DARKNIGHT ouvrait une fenêtre inédite sur une culture électronique plus réfléchie, sensorielle et intemporelle. Diffusée dans toute la région grenobloise, avec plus de 500 000 auditeurs potentiels, l'émission proposait chaque semaine un programme éclectique et hors du commun, mêlant découvertes musicales, ambiances immersives et voyages sonores. DARKNIGHT | SESSION LIVE Welcome to the real world! Produced by JÜJÜ on MAX FM 94.5 between 2004 and 2005. Today, DARKNIGHT returns as a weekly podcast, every Monday. Broadcast on MAX FM 94.5 from September 2004 to July 2005, DARKNIGHT was a visionary radio show exploring the evolution of electronic music into a new intellectual and sonic space of curiosity. Built on the idea that electronic music is not limited to weekend parties, DARKNIGHT opened a unique window onto a more thoughtful, sensory, and timeless electronic culture. Aired across the Grenoble area, with a potential audience of more than 500,000 listeners, the show delivered an eclectic and unconventional weekly program blending musical discoveries, immersive atmospheres, and sonic journeys.

Midnight in Egypt. A cry no one had ever heard before, and none like it would be heard again. The tenth plague was the worst of them all, and yet in the middle of the judgment, God wrote out a way of escape that anyone could take: a spotless lamb, a doorway, and blood. In this message from the series Is The Old Testament Obsolete?, Pastor Jim Scudder opens Exodus 11 and 12 at Quentin Road Baptist Church on the Feast of Tabernacles weekend and walks through the night of the first Passover. He shows why the lamb lived in the house for four days before it was killed, why no bone could be broken, and how the hyssop, the roasting, and the unleavened bread all point forward to Jesus. Along the way he traces the seven festivals of Israel from Passover to Tabernacles, and explains the Passover Seder traditions of the three matzahs, the four cups, and the empty seat for Elijah. He also takes up a sharp question: if every firstborn died, why didn't Pharaoh? Pastor Scudder lays out the biblical dating of the Exodus and the Pharaoh who fits the evidence. Then he brings it home. Jesus was examined for four days in Jerusalem and no fault was found in Him, and He died at sunset as the Passover lambs were being killed. When the blood is applied by faith, the second death passes over you. Scripture referenced: Isaiah 40:8; 1 Corinthians 5:7; Exodus 11:4-6; Exodus 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Isaiah 12:3; John 7:37-38; Exodus 12:3; Exodus 12:5-15; Exodus 12:21-23; Exodus 12:46; Exodus 6:6-7; Mark 14:24-25; John 1:29

Kara Goodwin welcomes Asara Adams, international speaker and trance channel for Etara, the Pleiadian-Sirian-Arcturian Council of Light. They have a profound spiritual conversation where Asara shares her extraordinary experiences, including a near-death experience and an ET encounter, which have elevated her to a higher consciousness and enabled her to channel Etara.  As a lightworker and starseed, Asara offers insights into humanity's ascension, the emergence of a New Earth, and the transformative power of navigating the dark night.  This spiritual podcast explores the realms of high vibration, where starseeds and like-minded individuals can deepen their understanding of the universe and their place within it. Through her channeling of Etara, Asara provides guidance and support for those seeking to raise their vibration and embody their true nature as spiritual beings.  This is an enlightening and uplifting discussion that will resonate for all on a path of spiritual growth and self-discovery. Subscribe so you don't miss any of the powerful episodes of Soul Elevation: https://www.soulelevationpodcast.com/follow  Connect with Kara:

Four college students head to a cemetery for a little fun and meet Sean: a skull-masked occultist with opium, tarot cards, a jester belt, and enough speeches about the mental plane to make them wish they'd stayed home. Originally released as Scorpio, this Florida shot-on-video nightmare was written by John Brodie, who also cast himself as Sean. Ron Atkins flew in from Las Vegas to shoot it in four days. Jeremiah digs through Atkins's Cutthroat Video catalog, while Matt opens Brodie's actual book on extraterrestrial astrology. Apparently there are wars on the Sun. The movie runs about 53 minutes. We talk about it for nearly four hours. That should give you some idea of what happened. PLUS: What We've Been Watching, our shot-on-video origin stories, and a feature presentation with Matt, C-bear, and Jeremiah. Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

This video podcast is the third in a series of three posts about the Hidden Hold of Horrors Golden Thread in the work of author Rowling-Galbraith. A Golden Thread is a plot point, scene, or character type that recurs repeatedly through an author's stories, a commonality that is evident only when looking at the writer's writings viewed as a whole. The ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' repeated scene is of a location underground, be it a cave, a cellar, a tunnel, a tomb, or a basement pool, in which a frightening confrontation, a Near Death Experience, flat out murder, or transformative revelation occurs.The first post in this series was Nick Jeffery's exploration and explanation of Rowling's Church Cottage childhood home in Tutshill and its remarkable cellar beneath a covered access port, what has been mistakenly referred to as a “trapdoor.” In The Hidden Cellar Beneath J. K. Rowling's Childhood Home, Nick shares why a building in West England on the border with Wales from the mid 19th Century that was built as a Church of England school would have a substantial brick and cement vaulted basement and what this room, originally a cistern to prevent cholera outbreaks, was probably like during Rowling's childhood.[Golden Thread Image: Wovex.com; Ladder to Cellar Under Access Port: Pinterest]The second post was one I sent out yesterday in which I shared Nick's and my off-the-top-of-our-heads catalog of everything subterranean, frightening, and damp in Rowling's oeuvre, that is, her seven Harry Potter novels, eight Cormoran Strike mysteries, the Cursed Child ‘collaborative' play script, her Beedle the Bard fairy tale collection and Ickabog “political fairy tale,” the three Fantastic Beasts screenplays, her border-line autobiographical Casual Vacancy, and the Dante-meets-Dickens Christmas Pig classic. Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap DoorHogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The morning after posting it, readers are already adding scenes Nick and I overlooked and I am kicking myself for not including the “deepest dungeon” in ‘The Warlock's Hairy Heart' and “the trapdoor beneath the rug” concealing the tunnel beneath Poem and Pretense's sanctuary from the Loss Adjustors, a tunnel reached via a ladder. ‘The Tunnel' takes them “to the bottom of the mountain” where Compass joins them for their flight to the City of the Missed across the Wastes of the Unlamented, Pig's story turn and meaning-in-the-middle. As Nick and I note in the conversation above, a comprehensive list will require a repeated reading of Rowling's complete writings. Please add the ones you think of that we missed in your comments below, especially for Cursed Child, the only book for which Nick and I drew a complete Golden Thread blank.Those first two posts cover half of the four subjects Nick and I tackle in this Golden Thread conversation; the Ten Questions guiding that discussion with the relevant links and notes from our answers can be found below. What I want to write out here briefly are some notes about Golden Threads in general, their place in a Lake and Shed bifurcated critical environment, and then the importance of the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' Golden Thread specifically for understanding Rowling's work, its inspiration and intentional artistry, and for seeing what will happen in the remaining Strike novels. Not to mention the meaning of Hallmarked Man's fictional silver oligarch Murdoch's name!{Lake image source; Golden Thread image source; Shed image source]Are ‘Golden Threads' Evidence of ‘Lake' Inspiration or ‘Shed' Intentional Artistry?Since the time of our first Hogwarts Professor Substack posts and podcasts, Nick and I have described what we are trying to advance here in the niche field of Rowling Studies is Fourth Generation work. For a discussion of the four generations of Rowling scholarship, listen to On Reading ‘On Writing.' where we discussed the evolution of reader approaches to Rowling-Galbraith texts and how each generation, while typical of a specific time period, continues into the other generations (most of Strike-Ellacott fandom, for example, is reading that series as the ‘Shippers and speculators did the Hogwarts Saga during Potter Mania, the first generation of Rowling Studies).What distinguishes Fourth Generation thinking is, in essence, (1) the incorporation of biographical material in understanding the inspiration of Rowling's work (per her implicit instruction since the late 2019 Lake and Shed metaphor interview), (2) the creation of a gauge to measure the success or failure of her work out of the intention evident in her choices of literary tools, her Shed artistry, and (3) shifting the critical focus from the latest work and the book-next-in-queue to the oeuvre as a whole, everything she's written. The bumper-sticker version of that?Lake — Shed — Golden Threads. Lake? Rowling describes the source of her stories' inspiration as the ‘Lake' of her unconscious mind, her personal issues, the events of her life, her reading and education. This is the work of Fourth Generation specialists who sift through what is known about Rowling's life in pursuit of clues to the source material of her stories.Shed? Again, Rowling's bipolar metaphor for her creative process has a marker, her ‘Shed,' that represents the alocal place ‘where' she deploys her traditional tools to craft archetypal story out of her very personal Lake inspiration. These tools — I focus on seven — have a specific quality, both antiquarian and profoundly effective in producing the effect Rowling desires on her reading audience.And, at last, the Golden Threads, which are not explicitly Lake or Shed findings, but, as noted above, “a plot point, scene, or character type that recurs repeatedly through an author's stories, a commonality that is evident only when looking at the writer's writings viewed as a whole.” Examples?In two episodes of The Kanreki Series last July (here and here), Nick and I discussed fourteen Golden Threads in Rowling's work: The Bad Dad, Writing about Writing, Violence against Women, the Evils of Fleet Street, Mother Love, Ghosts, Pregnancy Traps, the Lost Child with Grieving Steward, Evil Government, Occult tropes, the Embedded Author, the Search for the Real, Embedded Texts, and Shadow Doppelgangers. ‘Blood' makes fifteen (see here, here, and here for that) and my post yesterday about the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' is sixteen.As Nick and I explain in the conversation above, most of these Golden Threads have a Lake element or point of origin, e.g., the Cholera Cistern cellar beneath Church Cottage. Understanding why Rowling returns to them again and again in reinventive ways in her work, though, requires more than a psycho-biographical connection. This is obviously the case with all the underground terrors to be found in Rowling's stories.[Basement Image from WallPaperAccess.com]How are We to Understand the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' Golden Thread? What does it mean?As I listed at the end of yesterday's post and the conversation with Nick above, Rowling's childhood home with its hidden depths beneath the floorboards and neighboring graveyard and attendant ghosts is only one part of the explanation for the Hidden Hold Golden Thread. It's a wonderful point of origin and launching pad for inspiration, certainly, but restricting the interpretation of her usage of this meme to nightmares and flights of fancy she had as a child about the sublimely subliminal spaces around her is, for lack of a better word, lazy. Her use of these spaces again and again reflects, I'm sure, to a certain degree her psychological Default Setting from childhood memories of the ‘Wet Nightmare Place' under the dining room table and next door. But Rowling's mind was shaped as much by her bibliography, the books she read and loved, as by her biography, the exterior circumstances of her life. Her reading is the bridge linking her Lake and Shed creative process and it plays an outsized role in her Golden Threads as well. Granting that the first inspiration of her unconscious mind may just have been childhood fears and fantasies, knowing that Rowling has read Homer, Virgil, and Dante and studied Greek mythology from her time at Wyedean Comprehensive through UExeter means that a Trip to the Underworld to speak to the dead is a touchstone of myth and epic. There's a word for this commonplace, katabasis, the going-down-and-coming-back. Odysseus visits Tiresias, Aeneas his father Anchises, Dante with Virgil tours the Inferno's multiple levels — and Psyche is sent by Venus into Hades on the last of her purgative trials.· Rowling, having entered into these stories, knows they are delivery vehicles for the cathartic transformative change to be found in consultation with the dead and in thinking about death.Joseph Campbell famously argued in Hero with a Thousand Faces that per James Joyce, ethnographers, and comparative mythology experts this descent into the nether worlds and return was an essential aspect of the “monomyth” or Ur story underlying all story and myth. Campbell's more important contribution was arguing that this was not an abstract historical or literary assertion but one fundamentally important in every human being's life and psycho-spiritual development.The Journey to the Underworld from this perspective is that it represents the conscious entry into the Unconscious Mind, the Hidden ‘Depths' of the Person Behind the Persona-Mask. Rowling has said that, if the writing dream had not worked out, she would have studied to become a psychologist. It is a touchstone belief of Fourth Generation Rowling Studies that, even though the writing gig did work out, that Rowling-Galbraith still became a psychologist in the sense of a person working to help her client-readers experience meaning (logos) more profoundly in their souls (psyche).Every time we descend into the depths with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, with Cormoran and Robin, or with Jack Jones, we jump into a shared psychological crucible for our alchemical dissolution, purification, and reintegration. In this Golden Thread, we can see the Shed tools of literary alchemy, mythology, psychomachia, Christian symbolism, chiastic writing, and cathartic shock all at work.And, though speculating about the novel-on-the-near-horizon isn't a signature quality of Fourth Generation reading, I would be remiss not to point out that Rowling-Galbraith has left pointers in Hallmarked Man and throughout the Strike series that Robin Ellacott is on a ‘Heroine's Journey' — and overdue for a trip to Hades.Pointers to Trips Underground to Come in the Cormoran Strike Series' Remaining BooksSubscribers to Hogwarts Professor are familiar with Rowling-Galbraith's use of the Cupid and Psyche Myth as a template for the Strike-Ellacott series, a use the author highlighted in a tweet after the publication of Strike 8. That myth is about the Soul's trials to be worthy of Divine Love, Psyche being the Greek word for Soul and Cupid or Eros for love (Anteros for True Love). Psyche's great trial is her descent into Hell at Venus' command to receive from Persephone a gift for the Goddess of Beauty. As infernal as Robin Ellacott's sufferings have been, Serious Strikers have been anticipating that she will at last ‘go there' for real in Strike 9.Iris T. M. wrote in The Rowling Library Magazine, Issue #99 (March 2025), her belief that Robin's story arc conformed, intentionally or not on the author's part, with ‘The Heroine's Journey.' See ‘Robin's Heroine's Journey: How J. K. Rowling's Robin Ellacott from the Strike Series Follows the Classic Path of Self-Discovery' in that archived issue of TRL (and say a prayer for the return of The Rowling Library in 2027!). Iris mentions psychotherapist Maureen Murdock as the original advocate of a ‘Heroine's Journey' distinct from a Campbell-esque ‘Hero's Journey,' but uses the ‘Aletis' archetype of Jody Gentian Bower as her framework for tracing Robin's story arc. It's a brilliant exegesis and well worth reading in full.It misses the mark, however, in at least three important respects.First, it makes no mention of the Cupid and Psyche myth, which conforms to every ‘Heroine's Journey' marker and is Rowling's only admitted mythological template for the series;Second, it was written before the publication of Hallmarked Man so Iris T. M. could not have seen that Rowling-Galbraith gave a historical character, a 19th Century Freemason, silver millionaire, and author of Secrets of the Craft (see Ed Shardlow's discussion of his importance here), the name Alexander Hughson Murdock. Taking that as a pointer to Maureen Murdock and her groundbreaking The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness, we're obliged, I think, to look at the stages Dr Murdock assigns to this transformative odyssey.Last, that look reveals a stage that Iris, Bower, or both neglect, namely, ‘Initiation and Descent to the Goddess' after ‘Awakening to Feelings of Spiritual Aridity/Death.' Iris following Bower looks for a ‘Dark Night of the Soul' and attendant “descent into the underworld,” which she ties to Robin's being buried alive at the UHC's Chapman Farm in Running Grave. She argues that after this experience “two key stages remain in the Aletis Journey: Self discovery and integration—where she fully embraces her skills and authenticity—and the Establishment of a new home, where she builds a life that reflects her true self and her desires.”A Murdock reading, in contrast, suggests that Robin's descent into hell has not yet begun or is not yet over.Heroine Journey's Cycle image source; Maureen Murdock image sourceMurdock's ten stage Heroine's Journey looks like this per HeroineJourneys.com with my notes in [Brackets}:* HEROINE SEPARATES FROM THE FEMININE. The “feminine” is often a mother/mentor figure or a societally prescribed feminine/marginalized/outsider role. [Robin's decision to pursue her vocation to be a private detective despite her fiancee's and family's disapproval, especially Linda's]* IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MASCULINE & GATHERING OF ALLIES. The heroine embraces a new way of life. This often involves choosing a path that is different than the heroine's prescribed societal role, gearing up to “fight” an organization/role/group that is limiting the heroine's life options, or entering some masculine/dominant-identity defined sphere. [Her move from secretary to detective to partner at the Agency]* ROAD/TRIALS AND MEETING OGRES & DRAGONS. The heroine encounters trials and meets people who try to dissuade the heroine from pursuing their chosen path, or who try to destroy the heroine. [Insert list here of those who try to convince Robin to leave the Agency or to kill her.]* EXPERIENCING THE BOON OF SUCCESS. The heroine overcomes the obstacles in their way. (This is typically where the hero's journey ends.) [Partner status and respect of Strike and the Met as a First Tier detective]* HEROINE AWAKENS TO FEELINGS OF SPIRITUAL ARIDITY/DEATH. The heroine's new way of life (attempting the masculine/dominant identity) is too limited. Their success in this new way of life is either temporary, illusory, shallow, or requires a betrayal of self over time. [Robin's growing awareness that her vocation as a detective is in an undefined but certain way in conflict with her life as a woman and the roles of wife, daughter, and mother]* INITIATION & DESCENT TO THE GODDESS. The heroine faces a crisis of some sort in which the new way of life is insufficient, and the heroine falls into despair. All of the masculine/dominant-group strategies have failed them. [Strike 9! Robin breaks down but conferring with the Goddess-Crone, her Jungian psychoanalyst, she learns how imbalanced her life has become; she makes decisions a la those of Psyche in Hades per the Crone's instructions]* HEROINE URGENTLY YEARNS TO RECONNECT WITH THE FEMININE. The heroine wants to, but is unable to return to their initial limited state/position. [Ditto]* HEROINE HEALS THE MOTHER/DAUGHTER SPLIT. The heroine reclaims some of their initial values, skills, or attributes (or those of others like them) but now views these traits from a new perspective. [I suspect this healing will be akin to Strike's Chapel ‘conversation' with the late Charlotte Campbell; for reasons to be discussed, I think Linda Ellacott dies in Strike 9 which precipitates Robin's mental crisis]* HEROINE HEALS THE WOUNDED MASCULINE WITHIN. The heroine makes peace with the “masculine” approach to the world as it applies to them. [Strikes 9 and 10]* HEROINE INTEGRATES THE MASCULINE & FEMININE. In order to face the world/future with a new understanding of themselves and the world/life, the heroine integrates the “masculine” and “feminine” qualities/perspectives. This permits the heroine to see through binaries and to interact with a complex world that includes the heroine but is also larger than their personal lifetime or their geographical/cultural milieu. [The Alchemical Hermaphrodite or Rebis, Strike 10]I think there are two more Golden Threads to be explored in Rowling's work that are rooted in Tutshill's Church Cottage and Rowling's life there, both of which I began to pull in the conversation with Nick above, namely, the Nightmare Upstairs Room and the Neglected Dead Mother. But those will have to wait for another day!Hats off in salute to Iris T. M. for her work with Robin's ‘Heroine's Journey' (and Strike's in TRL Issue #100)! Writing as she was before Hallmarked Man and not being familiar with Rowling's Shed tools and how they work together, she still revealed the psychological template Rowling is deliberately following, it seems, if the Murdoch name drop is any indication.The Hidden Hold of Horrors, then, is an especially rich Lake-Shed-and-Golden-Thread story point in Rowling's work. Stay tuned for more of the same with respect to Mums and Upstairs Nightmares!The Ten Questions with Notes and Links1. Good day, Nick! What can you tell me about the trap door basement in Rowling's childhood home, Church Cottage in Tutshill?* The Hidden Cellar Beneath J. K. Rowling's Childhood Home2. So, it's bigger than I once thought. Are you asking for the reasons I think you're asking?* Golden Thread discussion above3. So, yes, that Ironbridge cellar and my recent revisits to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with its gauntlet run beneath a trapdoor, made me wonder: is the nightmare basement a Rowling Golden Thread? It's not as if all of them have been identified; you just came up with the Crimson Golden Thread this year --* See here, here, and here for that.4. How many Golden Threads have we discussed, John? Why do we care again?* Golden Thread 1: Kanreki (Bad Dad, Writing about Writing, Violence against Women, the Evils of Fleet Street, Mother Love, Ghosts, Pregnancy Traps, the Lost Child with Grieving Steward)* Golden Thread 2: Kanreki (Evil Government, Occult tropes, the Embedded Author, the Search for the Real, Embedded Texts, and Shadow Doppelgangers)* Lost Child Golden Thread: Kanreki Finale* See Golden Thread discussion above.5. So it's a Big Deal, really. Care to join me in reviewing Rowling's work to see what's lurking in her basements? (Harry Potter back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door6. How about the Stand-Alones, John: Casual Vacancy, the Ickabog, The Christmas Pig? And the collaboration exercises, Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts (back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door7. And Cormoran Strike? (back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door* Nick: “And the Dell, of course, in Lethal White's Chiswell House, where the remains of the Shetland pony are dug up in the pink blanket.”8. Okay, that was fun -- and we have sufficient evidence to say that Rowling thinks of the spaces downstairs as wet, scary, even horrible. So what? Tell me this isn't just a Lake inspiration bit; what is this very deliberate artist choosing to do with the basement image? Do we have any bibliographic pointers?* Discussion Above in text.9. What about the psychological piece here? Rowling has said she'd have been a psychologist if the writing gig hadn't worked out. Is her ‘underground' piece of Harry's Journey everywhere our moving into the subconscious of depth psychology?* Joseph Campbell ‘Hero's Journey,' Joyce scholar, Jung disciple, monomyth advocate – myth not only historical but important as individual psychological template;* Maureen Murdock ‘Heroine's Journey,' Jungian psychotherapist, writing for therapiss and patients not writers on Campbell model, “Initiation and Descent to the Goddess”* Victoria Lynn Schmidt ‘Heroine's Journey for Writers'* Iris T. M: The Heroine's Journeys of Robin Ellacott (TRL #99) and of Cormoran Strike (TRL #100)10. Do you think we'll be going underground in the last two Cormoran Strike novels? * YES, we will!Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

In a world overwhelmed with external noise, economic instability, rumors of wars, and digital revolutions, it is easy to become captive to worldly anxieties and opinions. While charity compels us to do good within our state in life, our ultimate destiny is interior and eternal. The hardest and scariest spiritual threshold is not external turmoil, but turning away from the world, the flesh, and the insidious grip of our own egocentrisms—our insistence on what we think is right and what we want. By surrendering our self-will, the indwelling life of God grows within us, bearing the mature fruits of charity and preparing us for the unimaginable gift of eternal communion with God in heaven.The Midnight Compass: Stop treating the Dark Night like a mood disorder. You don't need another devotional; you need a map for the void. Get the biweekly field guide featuring exact translations and the "Reflect-Pray-Act" micro-disciplines to turn your daily silence into presence and encounter. https://midnightcarmelite.com/compass

DARKNIGHT | SESSION LIVE Welcome to the real world ! Produit par JÜJÜ sur MAX FM 94.5 entre 2004 et 2005. Aujourd'hui, DARKNIGHT revient en podcast, chaque lundi. Diffusée sur MAX FM 94.5 de septembre 2004 à juillet 2005, DARKNIGHT était une émission visionnaire explorant la transmission des musiques électroniques vers un nouvel espace de curiosité sonore et intellectuelle. Partant du principe que les musiques électroniques ne sont pas réservées aux soirées du week-end, DARKNIGHT ouvrait une fenêtre inédite sur une culture électronique plus réfléchie, sensorielle et intemporelle. Diffusée dans toute la région grenobloise, avec plus de 500 000 auditeurs potentiels, l'émission proposait chaque semaine un programme éclectique et hors du commun, mêlant découvertes musicales, ambiances immersives et voyages sonores. DARKNIGHT | SESSION LIVE Welcome to the real world! Produced by JÜJÜ on MAX FM 94.5 between 2004 and 2005. Today, DARKNIGHT returns as a weekly podcast, every Monday. Broadcast on MAX FM 94.5 from September 2004 to July 2005, DARKNIGHT was a visionary radio show exploring the evolution of electronic music into a new intellectual and sonic space of curiosity. Built on the idea that electronic music is not limited to weekend parties, DARKNIGHT opened a unique window onto a more thoughtful, sensory, and timeless electronic culture. Aired across the Grenoble area, with a potential audience of more than 500,000 listeners, the show delivered an eclectic and unconventional weekly program blending musical discoveries, immersive atmospheres, and sonic journeys.

Surrendering to difficult times is often the only path forward. Learn how to navigate your own dark night when success feels empty.Even after achieving major personal success, like winning an Emmy, it is possible to feel completely disconnected from your source. This discussion focuses on the reality of hitting a plateau and the necessity of surrendering to difficult times to find your way back to yourself. It is for anyone currently questioning their path despite having achieved what they once thought they wanted.Kindly LISTEN here: https://mirrortalkpodcast.com/fearless-living-with-rhonda-britten/ We explore the mental shift required to move through a dark night of the soul. By accepting that your current state of feeling disconnected is temporary, you can begin to process the weight of your experiences. This conversation offers a perspective on how to integrate high-level achievement with inner peace, proving that overcoming challenges often requires letting go rather than pushing harder.Get ALETHEIA COMPANION on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/aletheia-companion/id6781547449 Subscribe for weekly personal growth breakdowns and comment below with your thoughts on how you handle moments of burnout.

DARKNIGHT | SESSION LIVE Welcome to the real world ! Produit par JÜJÜ sur MAX FM 94.5 entre 2004 et 2005. Aujourd'hui, DARKNIGHT revient en podcast, chaque lundi. Diffusée sur MAX FM 94.5 de septembre 2004 à juillet 2005, DARKNIGHT était une émission visionnaire explorant la transmission des musiques électroniques vers un nouvel espace de curiosité sonore et intellectuelle. Partant du principe que les musiques électroniques ne sont pas réservées aux soirées du week-end, DARKNIGHT ouvrait une fenêtre inédite sur une culture électronique plus réfléchie, sensorielle et intemporelle. Diffusée dans toute la région grenobloise, avec plus de 500 000 auditeurs potentiels, l'émission proposait chaque semaine un programme éclectique et hors du commun, mêlant découvertes musicales, ambiances immersives et voyages sonores. DARKNIGHT | SESSION LIVE Welcome to the real world! Produced by JÜJÜ on MAX FM 94.5 between 2004 and 2005. Today, DARKNIGHT returns as a weekly podcast, every Monday. Broadcast on MAX FM 94.5 from September 2004 to July 2005, DARKNIGHT was a visionary radio show exploring the evolution of electronic music into a new intellectual and sonic space of curiosity. Built on the idea that electronic music is not limited to weekend parties, DARKNIGHT opened a unique window onto a more thoughtful, sensory, and timeless electronic culture. Aired across the Grenoble area, with a potential audience of more than 500,000 listeners, the show delivered an eclectic and unconventional weekly program blending musical discoveries, immersive atmospheres, and sonic journeys.

"A dark night of the soul is not the end of your life. It's the end of your life as you know it." What happens when the life you worked so hard to create no longer feels like your life? There are seasons when the old answers stop working. What once gave you meaning feels empty. The person you used to be no longer fits, yet you have no idea who you're becoming. You're caught between what was and what's next; and that space can feel terrifying. In this episode of SoulTalk, Kute Blackson explores the dark night of the soul not as something to fix or escape, but as a profound invitation to let go. He shares why some seasons of loss, confusion, and uncertainty are not asking you to rebuild your old life, but to surrender the identity that created it. And why the void you're so desperate to escape may be the very space where something deeper and more authentic is being born. Perhaps the question isn't, "When will my old life come back?" Perhaps it's, "Who is life asking me to become now?" TIMESTAMPS (00:05:12) — Are you losing your life or your old identity? (00:06:12) — What is the dark night of the soul, really? (00:10:45) — The first crack: when your old life stops feeling right. (00:12:59) — The collapse: when old strategies stop working. (00:15:37) — The void: who are you when you no longer know? (00:19:16) — Surrender: stop fighting what is. (00:20:53) — The return: meeting life as someone new. (00:24:47) — How to move through the dark night without losing yourself. SOME QUESTIONS KUTE ASKS What if you're not losing your life, but an identity you've outgrown? Who are you without the things that used to define you? Can you sit in the unknown without rushing for an answer? What is this phase asking you to learn? What is life revealing to you through this loss? Who is life asking you to become now? IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN How to recognize a true dark night of the soul. Why what once fulfilled you may suddenly feel empty. What happens when your old identity stops working. Why the void may be creating space for something new. How surrender changes your relationship with uncertainty. Why alignment can dismantle the life you've outgrown. How to move through transformation without numbing yourself. Get in Touch: Create a life that is a masterpiece. Join the transformational journey: www.boundlessblissbali.com Email: kuteblackson@kuteblackson.com Website: www.kuteblackson.com  

In this episode, we slide back into the comfortable world of yakuza flicks with Dustin's pick as we once more discuss the beloved film star Joe Shishido. So join us as we check out Takashi Nomura's A Colt Is My Passport from 1967. Jason celebrates the film's composition while Dustin charts its importance in the scope of Shishido's career at Nikkatsu. But before all that, we dish on some recent watches as a new documentary sends Jason back to a much-maligned Exorcist sequel and Dustin casts a wide net with some new releases, streaming surprises, and a few recent blu-ray pickups. And so much more! Part of the Prescribed Films Podcast Network (www.thepfpn.com) What We've Been Watching: -Jason: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) & The Other Lamb (2019) & The Americans (2013-2018) -Dustin: Insidious: Out of the Further (2026) & Cyclops (1987) & Videophobia (2019) & Backrooms (2026) & In the Grip of Terror (2025) & Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) & City Hunter (1993) & Hot Spring Shark Attack (2024) & Buffet Infinity (2025) Show Notes: -A Colt Is My Passport Trailer -Go check out all the other fine shows on the Prescribed Films Podcast Network -Related Film: Boorman and the Devil -Related Film: The Exorcist -Related Film: The Exorcist III -Related Film: The Exorcist: Believer -Related Film: Amityville II: The Possession -Related Film: A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge -Related Film: Exorcist: The Beginning -Related Film: Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist -Related Film: Deliverance -Related Film: Zardoz -Related Film: Excalibur -Related Film: The Tailor of Panama -Related Film: Hereditary -Related Film: The Church -Related Film: The Sacrament -Related Film: Zombie Lake -Related Film: Insidious -Related Film: Insidious: The Red Door -Related Film: Bad Dreams -Related Film: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors -Related Film: Tales from the Crypt (1972) -Related Film: The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) -Related Fiction: Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft -Related Film: Darkman -Related Anime: City Hunter -Related Film: Jaws -Related Film: Godzilla -Related Film: Hot Spring Shark Attack 2: Great Kyushu Showdown -Related Film: Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi Series -Related Series: Tim & Eric -Related Film: Too Many Cooks -Related Film: Adult Swim Yule Log -Related Film: Buddy -Related Topic: Nikkatsu Corporation -Related Topic: Aura Farming -Related Film: Shin Godzilla -Related Film: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! -Related Film: Youth of Beast -Related Film: Dirty Harry -Related Film: Rusty Knife -Related Films: Criterion's Nikkatsu Noir -Related Film: Cruel Gun Story -Related Topic: New Wave Video -Related Film: The Raid -Related Topic: Criterion Channel -Related Topic: L'Etrange Film Festival -Related Film: Tokyo Drifter -Related Film: Branded to Kill Next Time: Our Favorite Halloween Season Films

Our recent Soul Ties podcast sparked a number of fascinating questions from viewers and listeners. In this podcast, John and Allen respond to as many as possible—including where this topic is addressed in Scripture, whether we can have a soul tie with our spouse, what unhealthy attachment looks like, how to break a soul tie on behalf of another, and if it's possible to have a soul tie with an activity, celebrity, fictional character, or even a person who has died.Show Notes: The earlier Soul Ties podcast is Episode 886: Soul Ties—What They Are & How to Break Them (July 26, 2026).  Listen to the Pause App here. Find out more about the Blue Letter Bible resource at blueletterbible.org. The books referenced are Becoming Attached by Robert Karen, A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis, Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross.Keywords: Soul ties, attachment styles, prayer, Christianity, relationships_______________________________________________There is more.Got a question you want answered on the podcast? Ask us at Questions@WildatHeart.orgSupport the mission or find more on our website:WildAtHeart.org  or on our app.Apple: Wild At Heart AppAndroid: Wild At Heart AppWatch on YouTubeThe stock music used in the Wild at Heart podcast is titled “When Laid to Rest” by Patrick Rundblad and available here.More pauses available in the One Minute Pause app for Apple iOS and Android.Apple: One Minute Pause AppAndroid: One Minute Pause App

The Age of Disclosure documentary is a thought-provoking documentary that explores previously classified accounts of UAP and UFO sightings, and their connection to advanced extra terrestrial life.  As I've been watching this documentary, I've experienced mixed feelings. I'm glad some truth is being shed on this topic, but I don't agree with the narrative and the agenda behind the film. Disclosure is not just about revealing the existence of extraterrestrials, but also embracing our own spiritual awakening and the role of et contact in humanity's ascension.  Many people who identify as starseeds will find this documentary resonates on some levels, as it validates the existence of life outside of Earth - something that has been deliberately hidden and ridiculed for decades.  Those who are newer to the ET phenomenon and how it relates to spiritual awakening might want to wait to watch this documentary. The narrative of ETs being an existential threat is not helpful or accurate, and you might do your awakening a disservice to take the messaging in this documentary to heart. For those who are more experienced on the topic, you might get some validation and enjoy seeing the footage, while also observing the techniques of swaying opinion and disempowering viewers. Dark Night of the Soul livestream: https://www.soulelevationpodcast.com/setbacks-dark-night

In this episode of Midnight Carmelite, we confront the modern existential dread and pervasive cultural anxiety surrounding artificial intelligence . We diagnose why contemporary secular culture is so deeply rattled by automated reasoning: having spent centuries since the Enlightenment reducing the human person to a biological "thinking machine" whose dignity is tied to speed, efficiency, and economic output, society now panics at the prospect of being rendered obsolete by silicon.Key Topics Discussed:The root of modern AI anxiety: the Enlightenment reduction of man to a calculating machine.The distinction between real knowing (intellectus) and high-speed statistical prediction (discursive arrangement).Why optimization and logical guardrails (e.g., the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack) do not constitute will, discernment, or ethics.Why the lack of voluntas means an AI can never desire, choose, or love.1 Corinthians 13: St. Paul's description of total discursive knowledge without charity as a "noisy gong or clanging cymbal."St. John of the Cross on faith as the proximate means of union with God through the blinding of the intellect.The machine produces the copy; only the human person can offer the sacrifice.The Midnight Compass: Stop treating the Dark Night like a mood disorder. You don't need another devotional; you need a map for the void. Get the biweekly field guide featuring exact translations and the "Reflect-Pray-Act" micro-disciplines to turn your daily silence into presence and encounter. https://midnightcarmelite.com/compass

If it feels like your old life is falling apart, you're not broken – you might be going through a dark night of the soul. Malika unpacks the intense, disorienting signs of this spiritual and emotional reckoning, and explains why the collapse can often mark the start of something more authentic. Some may emerge from this journey with a deeper faith, while others may become non-religious, spiritual, or stop believing in God or the Divine altogether. This episode is for anyone feeling exhausted, disconnected, lost, or caught between versions of themselves. Malika walks through key moments that signal this phase – the urge to escape, the breakdown of old spiritual practices, shadow material surfacing, and the unsettling identity crisis that comes when the person you once were no longer feels like you.You'll discover:*Why “finding a way out” usually makes the process harder*How to recognize shadow work when trauma, shame, anger, and repressed memories surface*What ego dissolution really means, especially when spiritual beliefs have inflated the sense of being “chosen” or “above it all”*How the divine can feel absent while still being present in your breath, nervous system, and body*Why compassion, surrender, and listening to your body matter more than forcing an exit*How healing actually happens in spirals, not straight linesMalika also gets deeply practical, sharing what helps her survive the process: internal family systems, parts work, meditation, radical self-compassion, and the reminder that some days are meant to be messy. She makes a powerful case against toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing, arguing that anger, grief, confusion, and even questioning the divine are all part of the journey.00:00 Welcome to the Aligned Life Podcast00:37 Why I'm sharing this while I'm still in it01:10 What is the Dark Night of the Soul?03:48 Spirituality, belief, and the human journey07:31 10 signs you may be experiencing a Dark Night of the Soul21:27 How to move through the Dark Night of the Soul36:46 Closing encouragement: you are not alone39:48 Podcast outroConnect with me: LinkTree

Have you experienced the dark night of the soul? I know I have. It can happen to any spiritual seeker: the feeling of being disconnected from Source or God or your own soul, and questioning everything on your spiritual awakening journey.  It's a hard thing to go through, and it seems to be a rite of passage that all must face. In this episode of Soul Elevation with Kara Goodwin, we explore why faith gets tested, why connection fluctuates in our dynamic energetic environment, and how setbacks are often the doorway to deeper embodiment. If you've experienced a dry season, felt spiritually disconnected, or wondered if you've lost your path, know that you are not alone. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL HEAR: What the dark night of the soul really is and why it's (unfortunately) a normal part of the spiritual journey - Why feeling disconnected from Source doesn't mean you're doing it wrong - How setbacks, ego death, and shadow work initiate deeper spiritual growth - Grounded practices to keep moving forward when faith feels thin and energy feels flat Be sure to check out my most recent episode, featuring Rupert Isaacson. He shares openly about his near death experience and what he learned from it, as well as fascinating insights about shamanism, deep spiritual and energetic healing, the secret nature of reality, and so much more. This is the type of content that can lift your spirits and widen your aperture to see beyond the shadow that might be cast upon you if you are in a dark night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpcV709NTeU ABOUT SOUL ELEVATION: Soul Elevation: Guiding Your Ascension with Kara Goodwin is a podcast for seekers awakening to higher consciousness. We explore energy healing, spiritual awakening, ascension, past life regression, shamanic wisdom, and the cosmic transformations unfolding on Earth. Subscribe so you don't miss any of the powerful episodes of Soul Elevation: https://www.youtube.com/@soulelevationpodcast?sub_confirmation=1  Listen or Apple or Spotify: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soul-elevation-guiding-your-ascension-to-new-heights/id1442136034  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Rld3E6a4hWwySD73aBkbe?si=89d00821258844b3 

Spiritual pride is sneakier than obvious sin - and it can hide inside your prayers, your Bible reading, your theology, and even your humility. Tim Holloway breaks down John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul to show why God's humbling seasons are not punishment, but formation.If you've ever felt spiritually “mature,” looked down on other Christians, or wondered why correction feels so painful, this conversation will challenge you. Tim traces the danger of tribalism, self-righteousness, and false humility, then shows how God uses testing to move you beyond a comfort-first faith into something deeper.You'll discover: why “nurturing” faith is good, but not meant to be the final stage how spiritual disciplines become dangerous when they turn into badges of honor why comparison, correction, and religious performance reveal hidden pride how false humility can sound holy while actually contradicting what God says about you what true humility looks like when your identity is rooted in God's view, not public approval Tim also connects the chapter's themes to practical examples from church culture, morality, and the way believers use scripture, worship, and service either as instruments of love or weapons of superiority. Along the way, he points to the deeper goal of spiritual growth: not looking impressive, but becoming more loving.If you need a reset from religious performance, this episode will expose the subtle ways pride distorts faith and invite you back to a spirituality that is measured by love, not status. Essential listening if you want a more honest, grounded, and transformative walk with God. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Spiritual pride is sneakier than obvious sin - and it can hide inside your prayers, your Bible reading, your theology, and even your humility. Tim Holloway breaks down John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul to show why God's humbling seasons are not punishment, but formation.If you've ever felt spiritually “mature,” looked down on other Christians, or wondered why correction feels so painful, this conversation will challenge you. Tim traces the danger of tribalism, self-righteousness, and false humility, then shows how God uses testing to move you beyond a comfort-first faith into something deeper.You'll discover: why “nurturing” faith is good, but not meant to be the final stage how spiritual disciplines become dangerous when they turn into badges of honor why comparison, correction, and religious performance reveal hidden pride how false humility can sound holy while actually contradicting what God says about you what true humility looks like when your identity is rooted in God's view, not public approval Tim also connects the chapter's themes to practical examples from church culture, morality, and the way believers use scripture, worship, and service either as instruments of love or weapons of superiority. Along the way, he points to the deeper goal of spiritual growth: not looking impressive, but becoming more loving.If you need a reset from religious performance, this episode will expose the subtle ways pride distorts faith and invite you back to a spirituality that is measured by love, not status. Essential listening if you want a more honest, grounded, and transformative walk with God. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carl Jung's Active Imagination: Talk to Your Shadow Self and End Self-Sabotage Discover Carl Jung's active imagination—a powerful self-improvement mindset technique for remarkable success: how to dialogue with your shadow self and dismantle unconscious self-sabotage. Tracy breaks down Jung's Black Books method as a direct negotiation with shame, doubt, and rage, transforming these hidden patterns into authentic success habits. Learn the neuroscience-backed inner dialogue framework entrepreneurs use to rewire imposter syndrome and activate real, sustainable achievement—no therapy required. https://YourSuccessDNA.com Sponsor - https://DarkHorseEntreprenuer.com Tracy explains Carl Jung's “active imagination” as a direct method for confronting the unconscious and negotiating with the shadow self through literal inner dialogue, developed during Jung's intense period after splitting with Freud (1913–1918) and recorded in his Black Books and later the Red Book. It reframes shame, doubt, rage, and sabotage as protective survival mechanisms and outlines Jung's inner map of characters (persona, shadow, anima/animus, and the Self). The host describes a simple but challenging protocol—set an intention, wait for an image or figure to appear, speak to it, and listen without controlling—illustrated by cases like a business “wolf,” a greedy shadow, and a screaming painted woman that transform through conversation. The episode emphasizes integrity, responsibility, and a practical prompt: complete the sentence, “The part of me that sabotages me is trying to protect me from…,” and invites listeners to a newsletter for deeper work. 00:00 Meet Active Imagination 01:15 Jung's Dark Night 03:02 Shadow Self Explained 04:23 How The Technique Works 06:01 The Wolf Story 08:28 Shadow Integration Pivot 09:53 Jung's Three Layers 12:06 Why It Stays Rare 13:42 Results And Responsibility 16:15 Whiskered Wisdom 18:11 One Sentence Exercise 19:03 Final Recap And Sendoff Carl Jung, active imagination, Jungian methods, Shadow self integration, Shadow work, shadow self, personal development, Self-sabotage, psychology, Jungian psychology, individuation, anima, animus, the Red Book, self sabotage, Overcoming self sabotage, entrepreneur mindset, success mindset, business tips, self help, Manifestation, growth mindset, self improvement mindset, peak productivity, growth mindset, self improvement, personal development, success habits, startup grind, habit mastery, mindset hack, productivity tips, achieving success habits, authentic success habits, entrepreneurial self care, entrepreneurial success habits, habits for success, habits improvement, mindset habits, mindset success, productivity improvement, self improvement habits, self improvement mindset, success mindset habits, remarkable success, self-improvement mindset, authentic success habits, mindset success, self improvement habits Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Don't Waste The Struggle James 1:2-4 “Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.” I love how God works. Sometimes, I just laugh at how he orchestrates everything and how He just knows what we need to hear. It's like He keeps telling you something in a bunch of different ways until we get it. If you have been listening to this podcast for any amount of time, you probably know how much I love talking about healing. I love praying for people for healing. I believe with my whole being that God can heal everyone, and I will pray with anyone who will let me for God to heal them. As you can probably imagine, not everyone I pray with for healing is healed. This confuses me as I don't understand why this is. I know that God's ways are higher than our ways and that God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts. I know that God knows infinitely more than we do and that He sees the whole picture when we only see a tiny part of the picture. I know that He knows the future and that He knows what He is doing. I know all of this, and yet I still don't understand why some people have healed on this side of heaven, and some are not. I don't understand why some people are healed instantly, and some take months or years. God and I chat about this often, and He keeps trying to explain it to me, and I don't seem to be getting it. The theme for mentoring one month was the dark night of the soul. If you are unfamiliar with this, the "Dark Night of the Soul" refers to a spiritual crisis or period of deep inner struggle and desolation, where a person feels distant from God or disconnected from their sense of purpose and meaning. It often involves intense feelings of doubt, confusion, and loss, but is ultimately seen as a necessary stage in spiritual growth or transformation. The term originates from the writings of the 16th-century mystic St. John of the Cross, who described it as a painful yet purifying experience that leads to a closer union with God. I had heard of this before. However, I did not know much about it. However, this is what a few people in mentoring wanted me to cover, so I did some research and learned a lot about it. Then, I decided to get an audiobook by Thomas Moore called “Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals.” In this book, Thomas Moore talks about how we are always trying to end difficult times quickly. If we are sick, we want to be healed immediately. If we are struggling emotionally, we want the struggle to end quickly. If we are uncomfortable in any way, we want to do whatever we need to do to get comfortable as quickly as we can. Thomas said in his book that we are doing ourselves a disservice when we do this. Instead of trying to escape our misery, what if we approached it with curiosity? What if we tried to understand it and what it was trying to teach us? This seemed to stand out to me because I was just talking to a friend the other day about how I just wanted her trouble to end. She was saying that she could see how she would be so much stronger when she was on the other side of this, and I was just thinking, God, can you stop these bad dreams now? Why wait? Why keep struggling? Now, to be clear, although God could stop these bad dreams now, He hasn't chosen to do so. It is not as if she hasn't prayed for them to stop. It's not as if plenty of people haven't prayed for them to stop. So, it got me thinking maybe Thomas Moore is on to something here. Maybe I am just in a rush to have God heal these people because then they will be more comfortable or out of pain or misery, and yet God knows that the uncomfortable feelings that they feel now are nothing compared to the glory they will feel if they just hold out a little longer. I have been talking to the Lord for a long time now to try to understand why He does what He does, especially with regard to healing. When I heard this explanation from Thomas Moore, I felt like the Lord was talking directly to me. Then I went to a meeting at Encounter last night where about 16 of my graduating class got together. We try to do this once a month. The topic for last night was a renewal of the mind. We all asked Jesus to show us one place where He would like to renew our minds. This is what I felt like I heard the Lord say, “I would like to renew your mind around healing. Not every person needs to be healed. Sometimes, I do work within the illness I will highlight those I want to be prayed over.” Next, I asked Jesus how He wanted me to think about this mindset. This is what I thought I heard, “I want you to think like I do, I want you to know I have my own ways of thinking and reasons for healing that have nothing to do with your ability to pray over people. You are not doing anything wrong, and you are not the reason they are not healed. Then, I turned to James in the Bible to look for a verse, as I recently heard someone recommend James as a great place to start if you are new to reading the Bible. I thought I would check it out and see why James was a good place to start. Then, the very first line I read confirmed what God has been telling me lately. I know that was a roundabout way of explaining how I got to this verse and why I thought it was special, but that is what I felt led to share. I think what this verse is telling us and what God has been trying to tell me is that we can learn from the hard times we are going through. God doesn't make us sick. He doesn't hurt us or break our hearts. He doesn't make us lose our jobs or lose our loved ones. God is not the cause of our pain, and yet He can use our pain for our good. He can use this difficult time you are going through to form you into a stronger, more resilient person. I know suffering is uncomfortable. I know life can throw some pretty crappy things at us, and we just want to escape all of it. We want to be comfortable and skate through life with minimal issues. I get this, and it makes sense. What I feel the Lord is trying to teach me is that God knows how long we need to be in something before it has sufficiently changed us. If we leave a situation too early, we may not have reaped the full benefit from it. Do you know what is even worse than having to go through years of agony? Having to go through years of agony and not reaping any benefits from it. God knows what we need. He knows our future, He knows our past, He knows our innermost being. He knows how much we can handle, and He knows the perfect time to take us out of the fire so we are pure gold with no more impurities. He has also made it clear to me that this doesn't mean we need to stop asking for the healing or the relief of the situation. He tells us over and over again in the Bible to be persistent and that He rewards persistence. What He is telling us is that while we are waiting on His perfect timing, we don't have to be frustrated and discouraged. As this verse says, we can “consider it a sheer gift” when life's challenges come upon us. It is giving us a chance to grow more into the person God is calling us to be. Our challenges help us to become more mature in our faith. I pray that the Lord continues to renew my mind in this area. I pray He shows me how to be patient in the wait. I pray He shows me how to approach my struggles with curiosity and allows me to have the strength to sit in my struggles without trying to wish them away before they are done doing good work in me. I pray He gives you a renewal of mind also! Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless each person listening to this episode today. Lord, you are amazing, and we find it so hard to understand how you work sometimes. We don't understand why you do the things you do, and so we are asking for a renewal of the mind, Lord. Renew our minds and help us think more like you think. Help us to understand a bit more about how you work and why you do the things you do. Help us to see our struggles as building blocks to becoming the person you made us to be. Give us the strength to hold out when we feel like we can't hold out any longer. Be with us, Lord, every step of the way! We ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus's holy name, Amen. Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I would like to invite each one of you into my mentoring community. This is a new month, and the topic this month is “Created for a Purpose: Discovering God's Plan for Your Life. Week 1 — You Were Created on Purpose, Week 2 — What Is My Purpose?, Week 3 — What Happens When Life Doesn't Go According to Plan? and Week 4 — Walking in God's Plan One Step at a Time. Is this the month you give mentoring a try? Is this the month where you decide to grow closer to the Lord with a small community of individuals who also want to grow closer to the Lord? There is a link in the show notes. Or you can go to my website, walkboldlywithjesus.com, and click on the mentoring tab. I hope you will join us! I look forward to meeting you here again tomorrow. Remember Jesus loves you just as you are, and so do I! Have a blessed day! Today's Word from the Lord was received in February 2026 by a member of my Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group. If you have any questions about the prayer group, these words, or how to join us for a meeting, please email CatholicCharismaticPrayerGroup@gmail.com. Today's Word from the Lord is, “Tomorrow's a new place. A place you've never been or will ever be again. Each carries me. Join me! Feel the joyful vibrations, the holy and the Divine.” www.findingtruenorthcoaching.comCLICK HERE TO DONATECLICK HERE to sign up for Mentoring CLICK HERE to sign up for Daily "Word from the Lord" emailsCLICK HERE to sign up for my newsletter & receive a free audio training about inviting Jesus into your daily lifeCLICK HERE to buy my book Total Trust in God's Safe Embrace

On this episode of This vs. That, we talk with Peter Beck about lament versus despair and his deeply personal experience with PTSD. Drawing from his book, The Dark Night of the Soul, Peter shares how trauma reshaped his life, challenged his understanding of strength, and brought him face-to-face with seasons when he knew God was present but struggled to feel His nearness. We talk about the biblical difference between lament and despair, why suffering isn't something we can simply think or pray our way out of, and how Scripture gives us language for walking faithfully through darkness.We also discuss the role of counseling and medication alongside confidence in the sufficiency of Scripture, the difficulty of admitting when we need help, and how friends, family, churches, and counselors can meaningfully walk alongside those experiencing trauma, depression, or thoughts of self-harm. Through Peter's honest story, we consider what it means to acknowledge weakness, receive help as an expression of God's common grace, and hold onto hope even when the darkness doesn't immediately lift.

In this episode of Midnight Carmelite, we explore the nature of human desire and how it shapes our attention and actions. From material goals to social ambitions, our desires can easily fragment our hearts and subject us to endless pursuits. Referencing St. John of the Cross and Jesus's teachings on poverty of spirit, we discuss how desiring God alone unifies the heart and rightly orders all other needs, freeing us to truly love Him.The Midnight Compass: Stop treating the Dark Night like a mood disorder. You don't need another devotional; you need a map for the void. Get the biweekly field guide featuring exact translations and the "Reflect-Pray-Act" micro-disciplines to turn your daily silence into presence and encounter. https://midnightcarmelite.com/compass

Two years ago I went through what I can only describe as a dark night of the soul. Divorce, financial loss, estrangement, war in the countries I am from, and the slow drifting of family. And recently — something has shifted. A profound sense of aliveness has returned to me that I had not felt in a very long time. In this episode I want to talk honestly about how I got here, because for those of you with complex trauma and dysfunctional family dynamics, this is not a story of one day everything was fine. It is a story of layers dying, of shame being felt all the way through, of co-regulation, somatic resources, and the moment I decided I would not allow my childhood to rob me of my life. I also share what I have been doing practically — dancing, nature, breath, sound and movement — and why aliveness is not something you can force, but something you come back to through the body. WORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"The point of being alive is to feel aliveness. If I don't feel alive, what is the point of going through everything we go through?" — Marina"I will not allow my childhood dysfunction to rob me of my legacy. I will not allow anything in my life to rob me of my life." — Marina"On the surface, so many overachievers look really good. But on the inside there is very deep pain — and they don't feel like they can just pause and take in life." — Marina"Feeling the pain from a place of safety means you have enough capacity and space in your body to be with painful things — and know it is okay." — Marina"You deserve to feel good. You deserve the lightness. You deserve to feel great on this planet merely because you exist." — Marinasomatic healing, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, complex trauma, dark night of the soul, shame healing, inner child work, emotional regulation, self trust, burnout recovery, survival mode, people pleasing, perfectionism and trauma, aliveness and joy, co-regulation, disconfirming experiences, embodiment, deep within podcast, Marina Triner, somatic coaching 

After two years since his last podcast, Champ shares his story of returning back to California to be with his mother during her passing, and the Buddhist dharma methods he learned from masters that allowed him to see all things in peace and equanimity. If you enjoyed this show, please show support by visiting GreatAwakeningMap.co and purchasing Champ's posters and t-shirts or make a donation. Thank you for your love and support. Instagram @DzogchenYogi @5D_Awakening_Consciousness PayPal: greatawakeningmap@gmail.comGreat Awakening Map, Buddhism, Dharma, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Meditation, Nondual Mind, Enlightenment, Consciousness, Metaphysics, David Wilcock, Dark Night of the Soul, Cancer, UFO, Rainbow Body of Light, Happiness, Joy, Peace

Our sons worked for many years on a Native American reservation. And it was one of the few places on that dark reservation. Dark because so few people had been reached for Christ and so few had any Christmas decorations up. But I was always impressed with that one village church where they had a lot of lights outlining all their church buildings, and there was a cross covered with lights on top of the church's steeple. It was pretty impressive. One Christmas I had a chance to visit there and I got to see the lights of the church and that cross. And, man, the cross really stands out against the darkness. And I met Rose. She's a Native woman who attends that church. Those lights are an important part of her story actually. She said, "I have struggled with alcohol for many years. And one night, during the Christmas season, I hit bottom. I was in the pit. I wandered outside and there it was – the cross all lit up in front of me. I came to where the cross was," she said, "and with the help of the pastor's wife, I finally found hope that night." I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Light in Your Dark Night." As that Native woman discovered that night when it was especially dark for her, the shape of hope is the cross of Jesus. For her, and maybe for you right now. In our word for today from the Word of God in Ephesians 2:12, the Bible describes in eight little words how so many people feel. It talks about being (here we go!) "without hope and without God in the world." "Without hope" describes the feeling that things are always going to be like they've always been, I'm never going to change, my life is never going to change, I'll always come up empty, I'll always come up lonely, I'm always going to come up confused, I'm always going to come up feeling worthless. The habits, the failures, the weaknesses that have always brought me down, they're always going to bring me down. Rose, the woman I met at that reservation church, said it was like being "in the pit." And the Bible suggests that the ultimate reason we are "without hope" is because we are "without God." That doesn't mean you don't believe in God or even know a lot about God. It means you don't have the personal love relationship with God that you were made for. We're without God because we've chosen to turn our backs on Him and run our own lives instead of letting Him run them. So the One who has all the meaning, all the love, and all the answers we've looked for our whole life is on the other side of a wall, and that wall is called sin. Thankfully, this "without hope" statement in the Bible is followed by that hopeful word "but." "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near." Wow! Now, how does that happen? "Through the blood of Christ" it says. So we find ourselves at the same place Rose found herself that night she found hope - at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ. Why is this shedding of His blood on the cross so important? Because, as the Bible says, "Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9:22). Sin has a death penalty, and a death penalty can only be paid by someone dying. And Jesus did so you don't have to. When you put your total trust in Jesus to be your personal Savior from your personal sin, you're forgiven of every sin. You're guaranteed heaven when you die. You receive His power to change what you've never been able to change. It doesn't have to be the way it's always been. Hope is born when you follow the light of God to the cross of Jesus. And that's where He's leading you this very day. It's what our website's all about, and that's why I want to ask you to go there. Let this be your hope destination today - ANewStory.com. Hope is in the shape of a cross. And hope is born for you when you come to that cross and you say these two words that change everything, "For me. It was for me."

What do you do when you find yourself in the pit?In this reflection on Psalm 30, John Ortberg explores one of the Bible's most powerful metaphors for suffering: the pit, the depths, the darkness, Sheol.Sometimes the pit is grief.Sometimes it's depression, failure, anxiety, physical pain, a broken relationship, a dream that has died, or something completely beyond our control.And sometimes the night lasts much longer than we ever imagined.John shares personally about a season when the pain didn't go away the next day...or the next. One thought became especially important:It will not always be this way.That doesn't mean circumstances will immediately improve. It doesn't even mean things can't get worse. It means that even in the darkness, God can still be found.Psalm 30 says, “Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”We don't know how long the night will last.But the night doesn't get the last word.In this episode:Psalm 30 and the biblical image of "the pit"What to do when suffering overwhelms youWhy "joy comes in the morning" isn't a formula or timelineFinding God in darknessPsalm 139 and finding God in SheolHow to keep going when circumstances don't improveWhy we can't lift ourselves out of every pitMourning and dancing existing togetherHope when the night feels endlessScriptures:Psalm 30 • Psalm 139:8 • Genesis 37 • Jeremiah 38 • Daniel 6 • Revelation 21:4#Psalm30 #JohnOrtberg #Psalms #Suffering #Hope #Prayer #SpiritualFormation #ChristianFaith #BibleStudy #Grief

God woke me up in the middle of the night with this message loud and clear for two different collectives to receive... If you've done the work, you'll be walking out of this season into glory… (and if you're resisting, buckle up cause things are about to get TENSE)

Have you ever wished you were never born? Overcome by suffering, Job cursed the day of his birth. Today, Derek Thomas reflects on this passage, teaching that there is hope for us even when we come to the brink of despair. Request Derek Thomas' video teaching series on the book of Job with your donation. You'll receive the DVD, plus digital access to all 12 messages and the study guide: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/   Live outside the U.S. and Canada? Request the digital teaching series and study guide with your donation: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/global   Meet Today's Teacher:   Derek Thomas is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

"The real journey begins when the life you knew no longer has the answers." What if feeling lost, confused, or broken isn't a sign that your life is falling apart, but the beginning of your real journey? In this profound episode of SoulTalk, Kute Blackson sits down with bestselling author and pilgrimage expert Phil Cousineau to explore the timeless wisdom hidden inside Homer's Odyssey and why this ancient story speaks so powerfully to the struggles we face today. Phil reveals that the journey home is not simply about finding your way back to a place. It is about finding your way back to yourself. Drawing from The Odyssey, Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, mythology, pilgrimage, and his new book The Wisdom of the Odyssey, Phil explores what happens when the identity that once carried us through life no longer works.  He explains why the "dark night of the soul" can be a necessary passage toward transformation, why we sometimes need to surrender the illusion that we can do everything alone, and how reconnecting with the deepest parts of ourselves can reveal the strength we thought we had lost. This is a conversation about suffering, courage, humility, healing, purpose, and love and ultimately about one of life's most important questions: Have you lost your way, or are you finally being called home?   Timestamps (00:02:16) — How Phil's journey with Joseph Campbell shaped his understanding of The Odyssey. (00:04:18) — Why feeling lost may be the beginning of your real journey. (00:07:22) — Why you were never meant to figure everything out alone. (00:12:14) — The Dark Night of the Soul and why you can't skip the darkness. (00:16:22) — How to hear the inner voice that can guide you home. (00:21:03) — The three stages that turn darkness into transformation. (00:35:39) — Why telling your story may be the healing you need. (00:47:04) — How to stop losing yourself and finally find your way home. Some Questions I Ask: What do you do when you feel completely lost in life? How do you trust the journey when everything is falling apart? Is suffering necessary for real transformation? How do you navigate the Dark Night of the Soul? Why does doing the right thing sometimes feel like losing? How do you find your way back to your true self? In This Episode You'll Learn: Why feeling lost may be where your real journey begins. How to navigate the Dark Night of the Soul. Why suffering can become a doorway to transformation. How to hear your inner voice when life gets noisy. Why telling your story can set something inside you free. How to find your way home to your true self Get in Touch: Phil Cousineau https://www.philcousineau.net Create a life that is a masterpiece. Join the transformational journey: www.boundlessblissbali.com Email: kuteblackson@kuteblackson.com Website: www.kuteblackson.com  

The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T.S. Eliot. Dark Night (Penguin Classics) gathers all of John's poetry, together with a selection of his prose. The book's translator, poet Martha Sprackland, joined LRB contributing editor James Butler for a discussion of the life and work of John of the Cross, and his abiding influence. You can buy a copy of Dark Night from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Midnight Carmelite, we explore the deep connection between prayer, the intellect, and will. Drawing on the wisdom of St. John of the Cross and a famous illustration by Bishop Fulton Sheen, we uncover how intellectual knowledge naturally leads to love and how love, in turn, begets a profound "love knowledge" that surpasses all concepts. We discuss why God sometimes withdraws spiritual consolations and how true prayer is found not in feelings or inspirations but in the silent, refocusing act of the will choosing to love God for who He is.The Midnight Compass: Stop treating the Dark Night like a mood disorder. You don't need another devotional; you need a map for the void. Get the biweekly field guide featuring exact translations and the "Reflect-Pray-Act" micro-disciplines to turn your daily silence into presence and encounter. https://midnightcarmelite.com/compass

Today we explore wisdom. Not the "don't put tomatoes in a fruit salad" kind. Serious business wisdom.It turns out, the wise tend to converge on understanding the world in a similar way.In the 20th century, philosophical titans saw this convergence. They look back to the original seers of wisdom and see in them parallels that run so deep, that upon deep contemplation of these philosophies, they found a "highest common factor," including among:Epicteus, Marcus Aurelius, and the StoicsPlato, and various Neoplatonists such as PlotinusSpinoza, SchopenhauerPossibly Hegel, Wittgenstein, though they are famously difficult to interpretJiddu KrishnamurtiLao Tzu, who authored the Tao Te ChingALso Chuang Tzu and Lieh TzuJewish philosophers such as Philo of AlexandriaSufi mystics of Islam, most famously Jalal al-Din RumiJesus of NazarethSt. PaulMeister Eckhart, the mystic Christian St. Jon of the CrossHinduism:The Sages of the UpanishadsAdi Shankara's The Crest-Jewel of WisdomThe Bhagavad GitaThe BuddhaParticularly Zen masters who followedVarious SutrasThe Bardo ThodolIt is the Perennial Philosophy. I call it the One Wisdom. Huxley called it the “Highest Common Factor” of universal truth.SOURCESCamus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. 1942.Huxley, Aldous. The Perennial Philosophy. Harper & Row, 1945.John of the Cross, St. Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma).Jung, C. G. Letters, Volume 1: 1906–1950. Princeton University Press.Kahan, Dan. Identity-protective cognition research (cross-referenced, this project).Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liuzu Tan Jing).Polanyi, Michael. Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. University of Chicago Press, 1958.Polanyi, Michael. The Tacit Dimension. Doubleday, 1966.Tolle, Eckhart. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. Dutton, 2005.Tao Te Ching (Laozi).Watts, Alan. Become What You Are. Shambhala, 1995 (essays, 1930s–1950s).Watts, Alan. Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek. Sounds True, 2017.Watts, Alan. The Wisdom of Insecurity. Pantheon, 1951.Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. 1921.Wright, Robert. Why Buddhism Is True. Simon & Schuster, 2017.Xiangyan Zhixian — traditional Chan/Zen biographical account (Tang dynasty, c. 820–898).Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), "On the Equality of Things" ("Discussion on Making All Things Equal").Bible. Job 42:5–6; Luke 15:11–32 (KJV).Bhagavad Gita, 2.47.Ovid. Metamorphoses.McGilchrist, Iain. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press, 2009.Miles Kington. Quoted in The Independent (UK), Mar 28, 2003. Joseph Campbell. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon, 1949 — "Freedom to Live," Stage 17. Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. New World Library, 1997 Ramana Maharshi, quoted in Ram Dass, "Dying Is Absolutely Safe"Alan Watts, Become Who You Are. Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. Dalai Lama & Paul Ekman, Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion. Times Books, 2008Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the MountErnest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection. BantamByron Katie, Loving What Is. Harmony, 2002. Diana Chapman & Jim Dethmer (with Kaley Klemp), The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. 2014.Epictetus, Discourses / Enchiridion.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.Plato, RepublicPlotinus, The Enneads.Spinoza, EthicsSchopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation.Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit. Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known Philo of Alexandria, On the Creation of the World. 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1:25, 3:19 — "the wisdom of the world is foolishness"John 14:6 — "I am the way, the truth, and the life." John 8:12 — "I am the light of the world."Galatians 2:20 or 2 Corinthians 5:17 -- "in Christ" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The dark night of the soul is not God abandoning you - it's God growing you up. Tim Holloway unpacks why spiritual dryness, doubt, and deconstruction can actually be the mercy that moves you from emotional faith into mature, steady love.If you have ever wondered why prayer feels flat, worship feels distant, or your once-vibrant faith now feels like it is being stripped down, this episode puts words to the experience. Tim traces the dark night through Scripture and spiritual formation, showing how crisis exposes immaturity, reveals what is really ruling your heart, and forces you to confront the competing voices of fear, pride, lust, anger, and approval-seeking.You'll discover: Why spiritual growth happens in stages, not as an instant leap How Hebrews, Corinthians, and Peter all point to the same maturity pattern Why self-control is really about mastery, temperance, and authority How good spiritual practices can become dangerous when they replace relationship Why God sometimes removes the training wheels so your faith can finally walk Tim also makes a sharp case against the trap of “cultural Christianity” and the modern habit of chasing experiences, fixes, and emotional highs instead of seeking the Lord Himself. He reframes the dark night as a proving ground where God expands your capacity, rebuilds your inner life, and teaches you to carry what He wants to entrust to you.This is a needed listen if you feel stuck in spiritual infancy, are wrestling with doubt, or suspect your faith has become more about the tools than the treasure. Tim closes by pointing to the kind of love that does not depend on a feeling spike - the kind that keeps choosing God when the emotions settle. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The dark night of the soul is not God abandoning you - it's God growing you up. Tim Holloway unpacks why spiritual dryness, doubt, and deconstruction can actually be the mercy that moves you from emotional faith into mature, steady love.If you have ever wondered why prayer feels flat, worship feels distant, or your once-vibrant faith now feels like it is being stripped down, this episode puts words to the experience. Tim traces the dark night through Scripture and spiritual formation, showing how crisis exposes immaturity, reveals what is really ruling your heart, and forces you to confront the competing voices of fear, pride, lust, anger, and approval-seeking.You'll discover: Why spiritual growth happens in stages, not as an instant leap How Hebrews, Corinthians, and Peter all point to the same maturity pattern Why self-control is really about mastery, temperance, and authority How good spiritual practices can become dangerous when they replace relationship Why God sometimes removes the training wheels so your faith can finally walk Tim also makes a sharp case against the trap of “cultural Christianity” and the modern habit of chasing experiences, fixes, and emotional highs instead of seeking the Lord Himself. He reframes the dark night as a proving ground where God expands your capacity, rebuilds your inner life, and teaches you to carry what He wants to entrust to you.This is a needed listen if you feel stuck in spiritual infancy, are wrestling with doubt, or suspect your faith has become more about the tools than the treasure. Tim closes by pointing to the kind of love that does not depend on a feeling spike - the kind that keeps choosing God when the emotions settle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamie Smith is a Reformed philosopher — one of the first to put a Catholic mystic in the title of a book and then proceed to argue that it was the contemplative tradition that brought him back to a flourishing form of faith on the far side of a series of nerdy dead ends. Make Your Home in the Luminous Dark is his most personal and, I would argue, most beautiful book. It began the day, more than a decade ago, when Jamie was in the depths of a severe depression his analytical philosophical training could not think its way out of, and his wife came home from a garage sale with a battered used copy of The Dark Night of the Soul and told him he should read it. What that began — St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, Merton — is what this book bears witness to. It is a book about the mystics saving Jamie's faith. It is also a Reformed philosopher's argument that the cultural liturgies project he is best known for needs a prior undoing before its formative work can do anything at all. As I told Jamie in the hour, this is a book that made me feel uncomfortable about how much I enjoyed it. We covered the apophatic/cataphatic distinction with the twist Jamie puts on it, the way certainty is still Cartesian even when it calls itself pious, the trad-wife/manosphere as snorting modernity while claiming to have escaped it, Charles Taylor's Cosmic Connections as the real sequel to A Secular Age, and what to do when Distraction Inc. has fully occupied the inner room. The platform is the plantation. Come sit with this one and check out the book. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube About our guest Dr. James K.A. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He earned his PhD at Villanova University under John D. Caputo. He served as editor of Comment magazine (2013–2018) and as editor-in-chief of Imagejournal (2019–2024). His new book is Make Your Home in the Luminous Dark. His previous books include the Cultural Liturgies trilogy — Desiring the Kingdom, Imagining the Kingdom, and Awaiting the King — as well as You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit, How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor, On the Road with Saint Augustine, How to Inhabit Time, and his early philosophical work Speech and Theology. He writes at Quid Amo on Substack. ⁠JOIN OUR OPEN ONLINE CLASS: The Empire Christ Couldn't Keep⁠⁠ Ever notice how Christian nationalism gets talked about like it's some bizarre new glitch in the faith? It isn't — it's a 2,000-year-old arrangement wearing new clothes, and once you see how the pattern works, you can also spot the Christ who keeps slipping free of it. Join theologian Joerg Rieger and Tripp Fuller for The Christ Empire Couldn't Keep, a free six-week online class tracing the holy alliances, imperial creeds, and stubborn resistance that have shaped Christianity from Paul to the present. You'll get six lectures from Joerg, six live Q&As, weekly readings from his book Christ and Empire, and a community of fellow troublemakers thinking it through together. It's free to join, every session is recorded, and it kicks off Thursday, August 27. Grab your spot at ⁠⁠HomebrewedClasses.com.⁠⁠ This podcast is a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Homebrewed Christianity ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠production. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Homebrewed Christianity⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theology Nerd Throwdown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Rise of Bonhoeffer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack - Process This!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get instant access to over 50 classes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.TheologyClass.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow the podcast, drop a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, send ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠feedback/questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or become a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠member of the HBC Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s show, we finish our 6 Foundations of Prayer series with Humility and Purification with Msgr. Thomas Richter. Humility (2:04) God's Blessings (3:52) Holy Desire (8:20) The Little Way (15:40) Break 1 Purification (25:08) Dark Night and Spiritual Desolation (29:20) Break 2 Rich Young Man (42:29) And Giving the Lord Permission (46:59)

Join Pastor Candy Christmas from Regeneration Nashville as she delves into 'The Dark Night of the Soul.' Drawing from Psalm 139, Pastor Candy offers encouragement and insights on finding God's presence in times of darkness and solitude. This spiritual discussion emphasizes the transformative power of such periods and how they can lead to deeper intimacy with God. Discover stories of faith and perseverance through biblical references and personal anecdotes, providing hope and reassurance for those experiencing their own night seasons.

BB28 Thursday Eviction Ep Recap, Week 3 Also available on YouTube. Big Brother 28 has the house on edge as tensions spike following a tough eviction night and growing controversy around certain players' social media history. Rob Cesternino, Taran Armstrong, Mike Bloom, and Kirsten MacInnis, guide listeners through this week's eviction fallout, eviction number 3, and what it means for the shifting alliances and possible resistance in the house. This episode dives deep into Kamu's problematic behavior both inside and outside the house, and the difficult eviction of Jason, who leaves as a celebrated fan favorite after a bruising house campaign against him. The HoH competition, dubbed “Videotape Tumble,” sees Mallory clutch a close win, shifting the focus from Jason's likely continued isolation to whether Mallory, Lyric, and Melody (the “Giggle Girls”) can turn the tide against the dominant alliance, often referred to as “the Toolshed.” The recap covers why a resistance failed to form, most notably how Drew and Barrett talk about flipping, but never pull the trigger, and explores the emotional toll of the week, especially for Jason. Mike notes that Mallory staying may be better for the underdog alliance's chances than if Jason had remained as an isolated target. Taran and Rob Cesternino break down the failed vote flip, showing how Taylor's indecision and Drew/Barrett's reluctance leave the Toolshed in power. Kirsten highlights the sharp, heartfelt exit speech Jason gave and the positive fan response he gets upon leaving. The hosts discuss the close and well-produced Blockbuster competition, the lack of DR shoutouts, and whether props like Angela's “evil eye” necklace really shift the house's energy. With Mallory's win giving a glimmer of hope to the outsiders, will the younger houseguests and the “Giggle Girls” finally band together to challenge the core alliance next week? Find out how the shifting sands could change in the next eviction by listening to the full episode. 00:00 Dark Night in the Big Brother House 06:24 Kamu's Social Media Controversy Emerges 12:58 Jason's Exit and Speech Reflections 17:27 Hope for a Mallory Blockbuster Shift 27:47 Anticipating Next HOH Competition 31:01 Blockbuster Competition: Videotape Tumble 36:29 Eviction Votes and Standout Shoutouts 49:31 Jason Seizes the Tea Party Moment 57:04 Jason's Identity and Reality Icons 1:03:09 Drag Queens Bring Big Brother Drama Never miss a minute of RHAP's extensive Big Brother coverage! LISTEN: Subscribe to the Big Brother podcast feed WATCH:  Watch and subscribe to the podcast on YouTube SUPPORT:  Become a RHAP Patron for bonus content, access to Facebook and Discord groups plus more great perks!

BB28 Thursday Eviction Ep Recap, Week 3 Also available on YouTube. Big Brother 28 has the house on edge as tensions spike following a tough eviction night and growing controversy around certain players' social media history. Rob Cesternino, Taran Armstrong, Mike Bloom, and Kirsten MacInnis, guide listeners through this week's eviction fallout, eviction number 3, and what it means for the shifting alliances and possible resistance in the house. This episode dives deep into Kamu's problematic behavior both inside and outside the house, and the difficult eviction of Jason, who leaves as a celebrated fan favorite after a bruising house campaign against him. The HoH competition, dubbed “Videotape Tumble,” sees Mallory clutch a close win, shifting the focus from Jason's likely continued isolation to whether Mallory, Lyric, and Melody (the “Giggle Girls”) can turn the tide against the dominant alliance, often referred to as “the Toolshed.” The recap covers why a resistance failed to form, most notably how Drew and Barrett talk about flipping, but never pull the trigger, and explores the emotional toll of the week, especially for Jason. Mike notes that Mallory staying may be better for the underdog alliance's chances than if Jason had remained as an isolated target. Taran and Rob Cesternino break down the failed vote flip, showing how Taylor's indecision and Drew/Barrett's reluctance leave the Toolshed in power. Kirsten highlights the sharp, heartfelt exit speech Jason gave and the positive fan response he gets upon leaving. The hosts discuss the close and well-produced Blockbuster competition, the lack of DR shoutouts, and whether props like Angela's “evil eye” necklace really shift the house's energy. With Mallory's win giving a glimmer of hope to the outsiders, will the younger houseguests and the “Giggle Girls” finally band together to challenge the core alliance next week? Find out how the shifting sands could change in the next eviction by listening to the full episode. 00:00 Dark Night in the Big Brother House 06:24 Kamu's Social Media Controversy Emerges 12:58 Jason's Exit and Speech Reflections 17:27 Hope for a Mallory Blockbuster Shift 27:47 Anticipating Next HOH Competition 31:01 Blockbuster Competition: Videotape Tumble 36:29 Eviction Votes and Standout Shoutouts 49:31 Jason Seizes the Tea Party Moment 57:04 Jason's Identity and Reality Icons 1:03:09 Drag Queens Bring Big Brother Drama Never miss a minute of RHAP's extensive Big Brother coverage! LISTEN: Subscribe to the Big Brother podcast feed WATCH:  Watch and subscribe to the podcast on YouTube SUPPORT:  Become a RHAP Patron for bonus content, access to Facebook and Discord groups plus more great perks!

The Dark Night of the Soul isn't just about struggle—it's a divine invitation to strip away false identities and attach securely to God. What if the most profound growth happens not through knowledge, but through surrender and inner transformation? If you've ever felt lost in the chaos of life, overwhelmed by superficial success or spiritual frustration, this episode is your necessary wake-up call.Tim Holloway dives into the profound insights of St. John's Dark Night of the Soul, revealing that the path to true maturity isn't paved with intellectualism or external achievements. Instead, it's marked by the stripping away of everything that falsely defines us—money, success, relational roles—to reveal the one thing that never changes: our union with God. Drawing from personal experience and Scripture, he explains the critical difference between knowing about God and truly knowing Him through intimate, embodied relationship.You'll discover: Why spiritual growth starts with detachment, not accumulation of knowledge The distinction between knowledge and wisdom—and why most believers miss the deeper part of the journey How God uses the dark night as a divine reset, stripping away attachments to false idols like career, success, and even religious identity The importance of inner surrender and practical steps to anchor yourself in your true identity as God's child How to tell when your attachments are hindering your spiritual progress—and what to do about it This episode isn't just theory—it's a guide to experiencing transformation that affects your actions, your mindset, and your entire identity. Whether you're navigating personal crises or seeking authentic spiritual depth, understanding the purpose of the dark night can turn suffering into a powerful gateway to wholeness.Prepare to confront the illusions of self-sufficiency and false loves, and embrace the true journey of resurrection—dying to the old you so that Christ's life can flourish within. Hit play if you're ready to see your spiritual walk from a radically new perspective, rooted in surrender, embodiment, and divine union.Guests: Tim Holloway is a passionate Christian, author, and speaker who specializes in spiritual-depth teaching and inner transformation. His insights challenge and elevate believers toward authentic maturity and union with Christ.This episode is essential listening for anyone craving genuine spiritual growth—one that leads to inner peace, fullness, and a life fully aligned with God's true purpose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dark Night of the Soul isn't just about struggle—it's a divine invitation to strip away false identities and attach securely to God. What if the most profound growth happens not through knowledge, but through surrender and inner transformation? If you've ever felt lost in the chaos of life, overwhelmed by superficial success or spiritual frustration, this episode is your necessary wake-up call.Tim Holloway dives into the profound insights of St. John's Dark Night of the Soul, revealing that the path to true maturity isn't paved with intellectualism or external achievements. Instead, it's marked by the stripping away of everything that falsely defines us—money, success, relational roles—to reveal the one thing that never changes: our union with God. Drawing from personal experience and Scripture, he explains the critical difference between knowing about God and truly knowing Him through intimate, embodied relationship.You'll discover: Why spiritual growth starts with detachment, not accumulation of knowledge The distinction between knowledge and wisdom—and why most believers miss the deeper part of the journey How God uses the dark night as a divine reset, stripping away attachments to false idols like career, success, and even religious identity The importance of inner surrender and practical steps to anchor yourself in your true identity as God's child How to tell when your attachments are hindering your spiritual progress—and what to do about it This episode isn't just theory—it's a guide to experiencing transformation that affects your actions, your mindset, and your entire identity. Whether you're navigating personal crises or seeking authentic spiritual depth, understanding the purpose of the dark night can turn suffering into a powerful gateway to wholeness.Prepare to confront the illusions of self-sufficiency and false loves, and embrace the true journey of resurrection—dying to the old you so that Christ's life can flourish within. Hit play if you're ready to see your spiritual walk from a radically new perspective, rooted in surrender, embodiment, and divine union.Guests: Tim Holloway is a passionate Christian, author, and speaker who specializes in spiritual-depth teaching and inner transformation. His insights challenge and elevate believers toward authentic maturity and union with Christ.This episode is essential listening for anyone craving genuine spiritual growth—one that leads to inner peace, fullness, and a life fully aligned with God's true purpose. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There comes a time for many players where the game changes in such a way that it moves away from what they loved most about it. I talk about this phenomenon and detail my own personal "dark night of the soul" experience.

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“A comprehensive guide to healing that incorporates psychological, physical, and spiritual practices for overall wellness.”—Kirkus Reviews• Explains how to connect with your Soul for inner guidance, peace, and an opportunity to reach your highest potential• Offers integrative psychological, spiritual, and mind-body practices to help you reduce stress and your reactive behaviors, and reconnect with your higher consciousness• Reveals your Soul's purpose through proven methodology and shows how to cultivate gratitude, compassion, and happiness by living an authentic lifeExploring the intersection of spirituality and neuroscience—utilizing both to optimize spiritual and mental health—psychiatrist and neuroscientist Helen Lavretsky shows that the evolution of the Soul is the purpose of life. Drawing on the latest research and examples from her clinical practice, Lavretsky helps you know and embody your Soul—a union that provides inner guidance, peace, balance, happiness, and an opportunity to reach your highest potential.Lavretsky aims to put the psyche (soul) back into psychology using a proven methodology to enable you to control reactive behavior and reconnect with higher consciousness. She gives guidance on how to navigate challenges and spiritual emergencies, such as the Dark Night of the Soul, with enhanced intuitive abilities and clarity.With clinical examples and more than 20 practical exercises, Lavretsky shows how you can incorporate the neuroscience of spiritual awakening to transform negative thoughts and feelings into a sense of excitement and curiosity. This will increase your ability to reduce stress, regulate negative emotions, improve your brain health, and cultivate gratitude, compassion, and a consistent sense of serenity and well-being by living a truly authentic life.Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, is an integrative and geriatric psychiatrist, neuro-scientist, and a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. She directs clinical and research programs in integrative mental health and serves as a director of research for the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative. She lives in Los Angeles.https://drhelenlavretsky.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

BB28 Premiere Recap Big Brother 28 kicks off with chaos and confusion as Rob Cesternino hosts this premiere Recap alongside Taran Armstrong, welcoming guests Melissa Deni and Pooya. The house is left in shock after a wild twist involving dinosaurs, time travel, and a reality TV legend meeting a bizarre fate, setting a tense and unpredictable mood right from the jump. The panel digs into the BB28 premiere's headline moment: Rachel Reilly's dramatic exit, chased by a faux velociraptor and thrown into a volcano, leaving fans and houseguests stunned and scrambling for answers. Melissa and Pooya debate the impact of the time-travel twist, wondering whether the “house time machine” could undo Rachel's departure or play into future buybacks. Only the three returning icons, Angela, Rick Devens, and a soon-to-be-revealed third, compete for the first HoH, forcing the BB28 newbies into immediate deal-making as they battle for safety. The group highlights misplays from early strategizers like Jason and LaTrice, who signal their intent to go after previous players right in front of the power-holders. Comic relief breaks out with the high-velocity slime challenge and themed comp sets, while social dynamics begin to take shape as showmances, alliances, and floaters navigate day-one confusion. Rachel Reilly's shocking “death by volcano” prompts speculation about whether a time machine twist could bring her back into the game. Only returning icons compete for HoH, putting pressure on newbies to form alliances fast or risk becoming early targets. Jason and LaTrice draw heat by targeting returnees before the HoH comp, raising questions about trust and early house dynamics. Notable personalities, including a mustachioed Rome, quirky Mallory, and Melissa's take on the over-the-top slime challenge, add humor and strategy, with live feed updates set to reveal more soon. Julie Chen's stone-faced delivery brings laughs as she sells the campy twists, anchoring a night of unpredictable BB action. Alliances are forming, trust is breaking, and houseguests are on edge as the BB28 game explodes out of the gate. Will the time machine rewrite history and bring Rachel back? Can the newbies withstand the icon advantage, or will early missteps cost them dearly? Don't miss the full premiere breakdown as Rob, Taran, Melissa, and Pooya unpack every BB28 twist, alliance, and social play from this unforgettable first night! 00:00 Dark Night for Big Brother 02:56 Big Brother House Gets Time Machine 05:13 Rachel’s Shocking Exit Explained 08:02 Dinosaur Volcanos and Rachel’s Fate 12:10 Reality TV Icons Enter Big Brother 14:18 Three Player HOH Format Begins 17:04 Newbies Target Returning Houseguests Early 20:46 Survivor's Rick Devens Comes to Big Brother 26:01 Enzo and Meow Meow Industries Time Machine 29:02 Cast Rundown: First Impressions 36:01 Social Dynamics and Early Alliances 41:06 Survivor-Style Challenge Rocks Premiere 46:01 Rick Devens' Strategy and Challenges 53:03 Angela's Big Brother 28 Reception 1:01:46 Mullets, Crypto Bros, and Modern Cast 1:12:21 Big Brother Unlocked and Live Feeds Never miss a minute of RHAP's extensive Big Brother coverage! LISTEN! Subscribe to the Big Brother podcast feed WATCH!  Watch and subscribe to the podcast on YouTube SUPPORT!  Become a RHAP Patron for bonus content, access to Facebook and Discord groups plus more great perks!

BB28 Premiere Recap Big Brother 28 kicks off with chaos and confusion as Rob Cesternino hosts this premiere Recap alongside Taran Armstrong, welcoming guests Melissa Deni and Pooya. The house is left in shock after a wild twist involving dinosaurs, time travel, and a reality TV legend meeting a bizarre fate, setting a tense and unpredictable mood right from the jump. The panel digs into the BB28 premiere's headline moment: Rachel Reilly's dramatic exit, chased by a faux velociraptor and thrown into a volcano, leaving fans and houseguests stunned and scrambling for answers. Melissa and Pooya debate the impact of the time-travel twist, wondering whether the “house time machine” could undo Rachel's departure or play into future buybacks. Only the three returning icons, Angela, Rick Devens, and a soon-to-be-revealed third, compete for the first HoH, forcing the BB28 newbies into immediate deal-making as they battle for safety. The group highlights misplays from early strategizers like Jason and LaTrice, who signal their intent to go after previous players right in front of the power-holders. Comic relief breaks out with the high-velocity slime challenge and themed comp sets, while social dynamics begin to take shape as showmances, alliances, and floaters navigate day-one confusion. Rachel Reilly's shocking “death by volcano” prompts speculation about whether a time machine twist could bring her back into the game. Only returning icons compete for HoH, putting pressure on newbies to form alliances fast or risk becoming early targets. Jason and LaTrice draw heat by targeting returnees before the HoH comp, raising questions about trust and early house dynamics. Notable personalities, including a mustachioed Rome, quirky Mallory, and Melissa's take on the over-the-top slime challenge, add humor and strategy, with live feed updates set to reveal more soon. Julie Chen's stone-faced delivery brings laughs as she sells the campy twists, anchoring a night of unpredictable BB action. Alliances are forming, trust is breaking, and houseguests are on edge as the BB28 game explodes out of the gate. Will the time machine rewrite history and bring Rachel back? Can the newbies withstand the icon advantage, or will early missteps cost them dearly? Don't miss the full premiere breakdown as Rob, Taran, Melissa, and Pooya unpack every BB28 twist, alliance, and social play from this unforgettable first night! 00:00 Dark Night for Big Brother 02:56 Big Brother House Gets Time Machine 05:13 Rachel’s Shocking Exit Explained 08:02 Dinosaur Volcanos and Rachel’s Fate 12:10 Reality TV Icons Enter Big Brother 14:18 Three Player HOH Format Begins 17:04 Newbies Target Returning Houseguests Early 20:46 Survivor's Rick Devens Comes to Big Brother 26:01 Enzo and Meow Meow Industries Time Machine 29:02 Cast Rundown: First Impressions 36:01 Social Dynamics and Early Alliances 41:06 Survivor-Style Challenge Rocks Premiere 46:01 Rick Devens' Strategy and Challenges 53:03 Angela's Big Brother 28 Reception 1:01:46 Mullets, Crypto Bros, and Modern Cast 1:12:21 Big Brother Unlocked and Live Feeds Never miss a minute of RHAP's extensive Big Brother coverage! LISTEN! Subscribe to the Big Brother podcast feed WATCH!  Watch and subscribe to the podcast on YouTube SUPPORT!  Become a RHAP Patron for bonus content, access to Facebook and Discord groups plus more great perks!

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