Onow william james wrote, among other things, an essay called the will to believe. He talked about an idea that essentially was like you just said, we make a ision and act of will to believe,. And then we judge that by the fruits of its results. So i'll tell you a story. For many years of my pastoring, i considered myself a christian agnostic. Basically that i was culturally a christian and certainly a christian past by training and practice. But it was a pretty surface faith. After reading martin luther, which i had never done before - he blew me away.
John Mabry is a United Church of Christ pastor and is the Director of the Spiritual Direction Program at Chaplaincy Institute. He is the lead singer of 2 bands in the Bay area and is the author of many novels and books on theology, spirituality, and spiritual guidance.
In this episode, Eric and John discuss his book, Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding
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In This Interview, John Mabry and I Discuss Shamanism, Spirituality, and …
- His book, Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding
- How life is messy for everyone and how we’re not seeing everyone’s entire picture
- His Shamanic journey experience of finding wisdom and healing
- The upper, middle, and lower worlds as part of a shamanic journey
- His spirit animal, the panther
- How practice and training our imagination can form relationships with spiritual realities
- The importance of leaving room for mystery
- How our culture reinforces that only what can be measured and explained is real
- Using the word trust rather than believe
- His morning practice of imaginative prayer
- His exploration into the different spiritual traditions and finding where his heart lives
John Mabry Links:
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