The Listening Hermit
is listening to make sense of it all
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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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A Radical Christ 10- Miracles: Signs, Wonders, Power
In this episode we continue to explore the public ministry of Jesus as part of his whole life which left us an orienting map for our own journey.What we regard as the miracles of Jesus life were not intended to be the extraordinary and illogical events we have come to believe miracles to be.Instead these…
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Radical Christ 9 The Wilderness-Ravenous Hunger and Test
Last episode we explored the wonderful Baptism of Jesus, the dove, the voice, “You are my agapeitos” (beloved child). Why, Jesus could have been the proto Trust (fund) Kid! How then does the same Spirit, (can you still see the dove?) “offer him up” to the Wilderness where the Devil and the Ravens rule? This…
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A Radical Christ 8 – Jesus at the Jordan river
Moving into the second phase of Jesus’ life, the public ministry once more through the lens of it being an archetypal map for ours, Peter considers the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan.The Jordan is a pivotal symbol in the Abrahamic faiths, and water is a universal religious symbol for humankind. This episode explores those…
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A Radical Christ- 7 – Phase One –Three Glimpses of Jesus’ Childhood
Concluding the Preparation Phase of Jesus life map, this video looks at three moments before Jesus begins his public ministry: The deaths of all the children younger than two years, in and around Bethlehem caused by Herod’s paranoia at the news that a king had been born there. How did that story impact Jesus’understanding of…
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A Radical Christ- 6 – Phase One – Incarnation vs Excarnation
In the sixth talk on “A Radical Christ”, Peter examines the Incarnation of Jesus and how this symbolises the return of divinity to indwelling humankind.From the dawn of consciousness humans have projected their consciousness outwards further and further from access. A kind of EX-carnation. Less and less embodied and more and more intellectual and philosophical.In…
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Radical Christ Session 5 – Phase 1 -Annunciation (or simply an Announcement)
Getting into lock down with Jesus. Yes, of course he didn’t have to deal with the Corona Virus COVID-19, but he experienced his context and time and the challenges then, which offer us critical reference points for our own healing, and dare I say “survival”? In this first episode relating to the Preparatory Phase of…
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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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