Category: inner work
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Enduring through horror requires clear meaning
I doubt there is a person alive who does not want happiness, fulfilment, and a deep sense of meaning for their lives. To be human is to desire a life with purpose. Sadly we look in the wrong places. We imagine a meaningful life is devoid of suffering. That is a big mistake.Victor Frankl (1905-1997)…
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Facing and embracing our Demons
Embracing our deepest fears is often our salvation.
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Radical Christ 17 – Compassion Takes Guts
Ram Dass spoke eloquently of developing a spiritual practice that enables you to keep your heart open in hell. Mahayana Buddhists have the notion of Bodhisattvas, enlightened being who after countless rebirths are ready to enter into the bliss of Nirvana, but who vow not to cross over until they have assisted all sentient beings,…
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Radical Christ – 14 INTEGRATION Practice – “Self-enquiry”
Accompanying the Radical Christ Journey – Peter offers a series of Integration Practices to help move Information, through integration, to personal transformation.In the first practice we travel to India and the little town of Tiruvanamallaihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiruvannamalaithe home of Ramana Maharshi who taught the Advaita method of “Self Enquiry”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-enquiry_(Ramana_Maharshi) Simply investigating “Who am I?” can bring us…
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Radical Christ – The Only Commandment
“Love God and Love your neighbour” is for Jews and Christians the Greatest Commandment.This Video Explores the Radical New Ethic proposed by Erich Neumann in his Book Depth Psychology and the New Ethic. (1990)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Neumann_(psychologist) Using ancient Rabinnic Midrash methods in Hebrew Translations Neumann came up with an amazing insight into what neighbour can also be…
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Radical Christ – Saviours and Scapegoats
Early on in the narrative of Jesus’ ministry, the crowd want to make him King. Both occasions are after he has miraculously fed them (John 6:12-15) and extravagantly made wine from water. (John 2:23-25). In a publicist’s nightmare, on both occasions Jesus withdraws from the projection and idolization, “because he knew what was in people’s…
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The Radical Christ – The Parables of Jesus and Life
The Parables were stories Jesus told about God. Could the Gospels be Parables the Church told about Jesus? Dominic Crossan thinks so.What if all our lives are parables we are telling the world and ourselves about LIFE?What is the parable that you are living? Podcast of this episode
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The Radical Christ 4- Pivotal Life Stages for Jesus and for Us
Jesus as the proto-typical (arche-typal) human life has in the stages of his life the experience and the cure for every human condition.
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The Radical Christ 3 – Jesus, a Map for Every Human Life
In this third foundational video for The Radical Christ series, Peter examines the role of Archetypes in Mythology, and explains why Jesus is the most accessible Archetypal Map for Western minds You can schedule one on one Skype or Zoom sessions with Peter by emailing peterwoods.pe@gmail.com
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The Radical Christ 2 – I AM Conscious, that I AM
The Radical Christ a map for unfolding human consciousness
The Listening Hermit 