Rupert Sheldrake and Marc Andrus Podcast
1) Holy Days and Festivals
Many traditions include holy days or ‘holidays’ as days of festivity to celebrate and many traditional festivals revolve around the cycles of creation including solar and lunar cycles, harvests, death...Show More
2) Vision Quests
Many cultures have rites of passage, especially for people entering adulthood. Among many Native American communities boys often underwent a vision quest by going out into the wilderness alone and fa...Show More
3) The Healing Power of Animals
Many people who keep pets have experienced their ability to comfort and heal. There is now a pet therapy movement where people take dogs and cats into hospices and children’s hospitals, and the human...Show More
4) Reconnecting With Religious Roots
Our ancestors’ lives from birth to death were shaped and structured by spiritual traditions but today many people are no longer connected to religious festivals or practices. This loss of religious f...Show More
5) Blessings
What is a blessing? Is it just wishing someone well, or is there more to it? What's going on in a blessing?
6) Is Christianity a victim of its own success?
European civilisation has been shaped in many ways by its Christian heritage. In the Middle Ages the Church started schools, universities and hospitals, and set up systems for caring for the sick and ...Show More
7) Christian Evolution
Christianity as a continuously developing process.
8) Ancestors and Pilgrimages
A dialogue on praying for ancestors and on pilgrimage. Recorded at Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC; August, 2016.
9) Detoxifying Christianity
For many people, Christianity is like a toxic brand. Why is this so and what can be done about it? Recorded at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; September, 2015.
10) All Souls Day
All Souls Day — the day of the dead — falls on November 2, and is particularly spectacular in Mexico. Hallowe'en, or All Hallows' Eve, is the eve of the festival of the dead, which starts with All Sai...Show More