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Friends,
As you probably know by now, even though I wasn’t raised with any religion, I am an esoteric christian. But as you also likely know, I don’t offer any of this christian stuff to listeners in any interest in converting anyone. Instead, I do it to engage with the philosophical questions that come to use through spiritual truth, which can illuminate our world.

By “philosophical question,” I mean “philosophy” in the sense of Giles Deleuze & Felix Guattari – that is, a question that brings with it a new concepts.

For instance, I start the episode with a passage from John 16:33 in the Bible, where Christ says to his disciples

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

I, you, we all, are looking into the face of a world that seems to be encroaching with its agonies and seizing each moment of our time with its frustrations. The problems of the world seem insurmountable. So I have been sitting with this verse and asking myself, what would it mean to be in touch with having overcome the world?

What would it mean if there was no trouble, if I could be of good cheer, with my heart. Not out of dismissing the problems, of course, but by finding in me the imagination of them having been already overcome, which leads me into right action and purified feelings and intentional thinking?

It brings me to a strange truth – which I mention on the show:

I use this verse, and the ensuing insight, as a springboard to talk with Rev. Jonah Evans & Rev. Patrick Kennedy, co-directors of The Seminary of the Christian Community in North America and the co-hosts of one of my favorite podcasts – the esoteric christianity podcast The Light In Every Thing.

Jonah and Patrick have both been on the show before. Jonah most recently on AEWCH 251, when we asked, “What is spiritual work?” and Patrick most recently on AEWCH 221, when we discussed whether or not esoteric christianity is a religion.

Since those episodes, both Jonah and Patrick have taken on new roles in The Christian Community (the religious movement renewed by collaboration with Rudolf Steiner). Patrick is part of the Circle of Seven, which is an international role in central leadership of the christian community for the world. Jonah serves as the North American Lenker, a role in which he coordinates with congregations.

Over the years, I’ve had many amazing spiritual conversations with them both; marked by their honesty, their openness, and their striving to live up to the everyday offerings of the spiritual world.

They practice a spirituality that is not in any way anti-intellectual or mere mystification of spiritual dogma, but instead, a profoundly articulated understanding of religious life that gets its strength not just from belief but from understanding.

I support their patreon, and I hope you’l consider supporting it as well.

This episode should be helpful, I think, to anyone feeling overwhelmed. I hope it is for you.

With love,
CH