Kent Dobson
Kent Dobson

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Conversations about Spirituality, Religion, Doubt, Sacred Texts, Nature, Soul, Love, Death and all the Good Stuff

  • When the World Breaks: Jason Adam Miller
    I hope you'll appreciate this conversation with Jason Adam Miller about his new book on Jesus' most paradoxical and misunderstood words at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. I loved this book, When the World Breaks. I've not read anything so...
  • Eat This Scroll: The Journey
    Here's another shorter podcast in my series Eat This Scroll, where I turn to poems, prayer, passages that have been important to me. I hope you'll hear your own hints and guesses. This week, we turn to Mary Oliver's classic, The Journey. Enjoy!
  • When We Are Lost
    I'd like to explore the possibilities, the postures, and the terrain, of feeling lost, a certain kind of lostness. Rather than being prescriptive, I hope to just describe a little of what it's like, and a few hints and guesses from the poets and mys...
  • Eat This Scroll 2: Church in the East
    Here's another shorter mediation on Rilke's passage about leaving home, about following a calling, the cost and terrible possibilities hidden in walking toward the East, toward a church forgotten, a sacred place ignored. Enjoy.
  • Eat This Scroll 1: Coleman's Bed
    For my 100th episode, I'm introducing a new dimension of the podcast, shorter mediations based on poems, passages, and prayers. Thanks for all your support, can't believe I've made 100 episodes. I hope you'll hear some hints and guesses in this Dav...
  • The Dream: A Bridge Between Worlds
    In this episode, we turn our attention again to the language of dreams, particularly the ways in which the dream experience seeks to have an effect on the dreamer. This is really part 2 of a podcast series on dreams, the first episode being called T...
  • The Language of Dreams
    On the longest night of the year, I'd like to explore dreams, dreamwork and surrendering to the intelligence of the dream. "We have forgotten the age old fact that God speaks primarily through dreams and visions" (C.G. Jung). Enjoy!
  • Are You Alive? A Conversation with Eloise Skinner
    Eloise Skinner's new book is called, But Are You Alive? How to Design a Life Worth Living. In this conversation about her book, we discuss existential therapy, ancient practices, work life, monastic possibilities, and questions of meaning. You can ...
  • Complex Moral Minefields: Israel and Palestine
    Here's the second conversation with my wife Mandy about Israel, about the troubling questions we think this conflict raises, the hyper-charged language being used, a bit of historical context, the cultural climate of oppressor and victim, plus a few ...
  • Living in Israel, a Conversation
    Here are a few thoughts and reflections about out life in Israel with my wife, Mandy. We thought we'd share a few personal reflections about out time there, what we learned, and a bit of what we find troubling, plus a few things we've found helpful....
  • Soul as Relationship
    "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in other to avoid facing their own souls" (C.G. Jung). Here's the most recent way I've been thinking about Soul, along with some very personal stories. You can check my previous podcasts, What is Soul...
  • The Father Wound: Part 2
    This is a further exploration of the unique ways the masculine, or the unhealthy patriarchal world, wounds the son and the daughter. We'll explore the nature of these wounds using two ancient myths, one about a rat, and the other about the handless ...
  • The Father Wound: Part 1
    This episode is an investigation of the father wound. I'll be exploring our own wounded fathers, the kind of wounds the masculine receives, and the shape of our own wounds as sons and daughters in a "time of no father," to quote Robert Bly. I'm int...
  • Blessing in the Dust
    Some personal reflections on public/private life tensions, moving to another state, thresholds spaces, and a few other things going on in my life. Thanks for all your support. The title is a reference to a poem by Jan Richardson called A Blessing i...
  • The Mythic Masculine: Ian MacKenzie
    Check out my conversation with Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker and creator of The Mythic Masculine Podcast. We're experiencing a current renaissance in men's work right now, which is so important for the health and healing of our culture. Ian has been exp...
  • Listening as Prayer
    "I do not know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention...how to kneel" (Mary Oliver). What do you think about prayer now, with the unraveling of religious categories, and traditional practices? Does prayer still have a place in the...
  • Wild Yoga: A Conversation with Rebecca Wildbear
    Here's my conversation with Rebecca Wildbear about her new book Wild Yoga. She's a guide with Animas Valley Institute, she also teaches Wild Yoga, and other soul-oriented offerings. We discuss the art and craft of listening, the nature of prayer, a...
  • Are We Ready for Psychedelics?
    Psychedelics is the hottest topic in spiritual and therapeutic circles. Are we ready? What are the dangers and opportunities? Ryan Meeks and I have been wrestling with these questions for the last few years. This podcast is an unscripted conversa...
  • Rituals: Meaning and the Too-Muchness of Mystery
    Here's a conversation about rituals in the modern world with my friends at Eastlake Community Church, outside of Seattle. We talk about meaning in Target, our human craving for transcendence, the Starbucks holiday cup, the Vatican, and wonder togethe...
  • Radiant Center: Divine Child and the Soul
    Turning to the archetypal patterns of Advent, the birth of the Soul, the Christ, and the forces that try to cut us off from our radiant center, our possibilities, our creative incarnation. Special thanks to Jordan Gilliam for the original soundscape...