Soul Size Questions
Soul Size Questions focus on some of the big topics that many people today across generations are talking about. Sacred Art of Living podcasts explore issues about the things that give meaning and hope to life. We especially look forward to exploring how the worlds of science, psychology and spirituality interrelate.
Episodes
6 days ago
6 days ago
Persons who have spent years attending to persons at the end of life share amazing patterns and experiences about death and dying. While the medical and physical dimensions require attention, towards the end of life and ‘when the veil is parting,’ soul work, no matter what a person believes, often becomes the most profound dimension in the final transition. Dr. Dieter shares years of what he and other hospice workers have observed about the end of life. Rather than focusing on the medicalization of death, most dying persons report remarkable visions and experiences that transcend fear offer comfort to families and friends.
Friday Nov 08, 2024
What is a Good Death: Part Three Walking Each Other Home Kevin Dieter MD
Friday Nov 08, 2024
Friday Nov 08, 2024
When we consider the question, What is the best possible death? We can draw from the wisdom of our ancestors who developed remarkable practices about supporting persons in their suffering. Dr. Dieter shares insights from the Celtic Tradition that believed ‘leaning into suffering’ is ironically the key to transforming existential suffering. The Celts invented the term, BAS SONA (a happy death) to describe how the art of living and dying are truly one and the same.
Friday Nov 01, 2024
Friday Nov 01, 2024
Our culture has begun to break down some barriers of fear about the end of life. The part that continues to be missing in mainstream medicine is the dimension of soul. Dr. Dieter shares how his medical practice was enhanced by the sacred art of dying. His experience offers a way to pay attention to how soul pain can be better recognized and addressed.
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
What is a Good Death: Part One Facing Our Fears With Kevin Dieter MD
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
FACING OUR FEARS:
In our culture talking about a good death seems like an oxymoron. Like, what could possibly be good about dying? Kevin Dieter has spent much of his life working in hospice where that question cannot be sidestepped. Dr. Dieter experiences and real life stories are compelling and inspiring. In this podcast series we look forward to four intimate and powerful conversations about something that everyone of us will eventually have to deal with.
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Looking into the Well of Our Experience - Jack Kennedy
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Authentic Spiritual Direction ultimately will lead us into compassionate right action for others. Jack Kennedy concludes his series on Spiritual Discernment by challenging us to consider how our spiritual practices and beliefs get translated into practical ways of being in the world with others. How we are fully human is the only starting point for supporting others in search of the Divine. Ultimately, trusting rather than denying our naked experiences is the basis of spiritual direction that can transform life’s deepest challenges.
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Living into Mystery - Discernment in Practice Part 3
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Discernment is another word for deciding. It is our human endeavor for decision making. The Spiritual Exercises offer a trustworthy set of ‘rules’ that we can trust when facing life’s most important realities. This talk is an invitation to get our spiritual world larger!
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Living into Mystery - Discernment in Practice Part 2
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Spiritual Director, Jack Kennedy, explores a distinction from the Spiritual Exercises between whether we believe that we are part of God’s Plan vs. participants in a Divine Project. In the Ignatian tradition, it is a relief to discover that ‘we are being momently being created’ and that our deepest hopes should be the anchor of how we make important decisions.
Friday Sep 06, 2024
The Divine Desiring in me
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Spiritual Director, Jack Kennedy, brings real life and belief together in this insightful episode. Most religious people have not been taught to trust that their deepest longings have a sacred source. Through the wisdom of The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, Kennedy offers a liberating shift of perspectives about trusting our own deepest feelings and desires. This episode was recorded at an interfaith training series for prospective spiritual directors.
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Discernment in Practice Part 1
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius are a classic tradition offering insight into life’s most important decisions. Regardless of our spiritual history, the ‘exercises’ offer remarkably insightful ‘rules’ for decision-making.
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Creative Non-Action - Jack Kennedy
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Spiritual Director, Jack Kennedy, explores how spiritual direction can be a powerful way to being healing to out wider world. Whether or not the listener intends to be involved in the formal work of spiritual direction Jack’s lifetime of experience invites us all to re-imagine ways of supporting the spiritual journey regardless of our path or tradition.
Why Soul Size Questions?
Soul Size Questions focus on some of the big topics that many people today across generations are talking about. Sacred Art of Living podcasts explore issues about the things that give meaning and hope to life. We especially look forward to exploring how the worlds of science, psychology and spirituality interrelate.