She was in the National Cathedral, surrounded by moon rocks and ancient stones from around the world, and all she could say was that the lighting was not right for her pictures. Most of us are her. The meaning crisis is not about emptiness out there somewhere; it is about distraction from what is already here. In this episode, Charlie and Brian walk the Four Paths through the meaning crisis and find that the kin-dom Creation Spirituality has been pointing to all along is not deferred. It is here. And simcha and a simple bracha are the practices that break the whole machine.
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Viriditas. The greening power. Hildegard knew it. The forest knows it. Creation’s Paths: A Creation Spirituality Primer is for everyone who has ever felt the divine moving through roots and rain and refused to call that feeling anything less than holy.
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Chapters:
0:00 She Never Saw the Moon Rock
6:57 The Lost Art of Savor
14:01 The Kin-dom Is Already Here
16:15 FOMO Is Not the Via Negativa
18:07 The Broken Shell Hiding the Spark
24:14 Let It Melt
28:24 Simcha Is the Root of Justice
29:45 Flooding the Zone
36:07 Simcha Bites Back
37:12 Practice: Say a Bracha
